Page 34 - Senator Flake News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Of washington. the caveat is flake's not getting out of washington until 2018. when trump moves forward, he now has bob corker as well as senator flake who can speak freely about their concerns. >> the president made a witt to republicans on capitol hill. what did the white house say about that? >> the white house has been quick to point out while there may be critics of the president, that is certainly not his relationship with everyone on capitol hill. they talked about how things went smoothly and the president is trying to move forward with tax reform. this is obviously the biggest legisla...

Able to hold white house officials accountable from the press secretary up to the chief of staff when they are willing to come on camera and say things that are pals. >> this is not in her defense but a statement of reality. it is hard. it is hard sometimes to do that job including when you have to say this. >> you said before senator flake and senator corker's comments were petty. what exactly of senator flake's speech did you find to be petty? >> i thought his attacks and a lot of comments that he made, i don't have a readout in front of me. as i was watching it, i noticed a lot of language ...

Statement about where we are as a country. who we are as a country. who we want to lead us. will this go down as a great statement about common decency and democracy or will it be will blip in the radar? >> i think depends how the story turns out. i think that senator flake's, mccain's, president bush 43's voice, senator corker's voice are making a point. articulating a largely, a widely shared but largely unexpressed opinion. and one of the things that we have to watch and those who want to be active about it have to resist for and fight for, is, is there -- will events take place, will thing...

Made that impassioned speech yesterday, announcing he won't be running for re-election. saying when he first came to know senator flake, he thought he was a democrat. also went on to say that he was confident senator flake and senator corker also a senator who's not running again, said that he's confident they're going to be voting for the tax cuts. president trump boarding air force one there, headed to dallas, texas. the president going to be there for a campaign event this evening, but before that going to get a briefing on the hurricane relief effort in texas. we see the staffers there boa...

Because it's -- we all can't be as eloquent as senator flake. >> i will say, though, that there are plenty of republican lawmakers in the house and the senate who are up for re-election next year who are afraid to speak up because they're afraid they can be challenged in republican primary or be attacked by the president. as you know, when he's attacked, he strikes back. we did hear -- go ahead >> we like what the president's doing. i support what the president is doing. his big agenda items, i'm all for that. and i think most republicans are, too. at least the voting public is, so i don't -- ...