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The desert he loved, in the country he served and in all our hearts. amen. >> please be seated. governor ducey, governor brewer, governor simington, governor napolitano, representative colby, senator schlatz, senator heller, senator flake, cindy mccain and all members of the mccain family and friends. john mccain believed in america. he believed in its people, its
Three-way race here in arizona among republican companies who have raced to embrace president trump really at the expense of the legacy of john mccain. and of course of senator flake who they are replacing. of course the central figure in all of these races, in arizona and then in florida, is president trump. in that florida race, the critical primary we're watching is the one on the republican side for governor. that's between desantos who got the endorsement from president trump and putnam who has been a longtime congressman. a political blue blood if you will. he's lined up all the endorsem...
Gone as full out as senator flake or corker or senator john mccain. >> i want to go back to the president's news conference impromptu news conference yesterday. here he's going to explain the at he made about the trump tower meeting with the russians. >> did you dictate the statement of donald trump? >> let's not talk about it. >> it is irrelevant. it is a statement to "the new york times." >> just clear it out. >> in other words, he defending and sending incomplete statement because it was made to a news organization and not to a judge, ozzie, what's your reaction to that? >> lying to the med...
Almost never bow out like this especially when their own party is in power. and these days they do. congressman charlie dent did. jeff flake and bob corker are leaving. corker chairs a committee, and he is giving it up. >> we are if a strange place. becoming a cultish thing. not a good place for any party to end up with a cult like situation as it is to a president that happens to be of reportedly of the same party. >> cult like situation he calls it. reportedly of the same party says. senator flake was blunter, quote, if you want to win a primary, you can't deviate from the script.
This year, rather than even trying to run for re-election, and his voting record even since he has announced his retirement doesn't reflect any meaningful effort by him at all in his capacity as a u.s. senator to try to stop what the president is trying to do with the government, so -- very stern and stirring words today from this republican senator, matched with a pattern of behavior on his part that doesn't quite square with the seriousness of the alarm that he is sounding. but going forward, these remarks by senator flake, i think, are strong enough that they may inflect the news cycle, at ...