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Is more behind the president than these two individuals. >> he is high spirits after flake's announcement, and an ally also celebrating, steve bannon added another scalp to his collection as another establishment domino falls. >> reporter: both senators are scheduled to leave the capital january of 2019, and the white house needs them to get anything important that is partisan passed. >> thank you very much. moments ago we spoke with senator jeff flake about the president's new tweet and senator flake's reasons for speaking out now. is the only reason you dropped out of the race is you had z...

Trump. they heralded it as a significant speech ever. how can anybody support what donald trump is doing? flake is right. but for most voters and that's where the party is, they thought flake was wrong and the evidence of that is he probably couldn't win in a race in arizona and that's why he is getting out. >> melissa: you know, i struggle with those favorable numbers because i feel like -- i think a lot of our audience probably feels still burned by the polls from the last election and there are those who say all those things are meant to influence not to reflect what's going on. do you real...

Back. >> here is senator jeff flake today on the senate floor. >> i rise today with no small measure of regret. regret because of the state of our disunion. regret because of the disrepair and destructiveness of our politics. regret because of the indecency of our discourse. regret because of the coarseness of our leadership. regret for the compromise of our moral authority. and by our, i mean all of our complicity in this alarming and dangerous state of affairs. it is time for our complicity and our accommodation of the unacceptable to end. >> so strong words, sarah, including regret, disunio...

Not passing trump's agenda, not at donald trump himself. >> yeah. >> i mean, i just think -- and steven, i appreciate you coming back around on this, but what you said at the outset was to suggest that these two men are saying what they're saying because their poll numbers are low as opposed to them having an honest belief that this president is a danger to democracy. and is a danger to truth. and that i think discredits them. i mean, they're your friends -- >> one quick thing, i wasn't saying that they're saying it, what i'm saying is they're not running for reflection because their numbers a...

Washington post that said one person close to the campaign and the dnc were not informed by the law firm or fusion gps -- of fusion gps's role. so let's move on, talk about your agenda. senators flake and corker, two leading republicans, harshly condemning president trump today. you personally know senator flake after helping fund his run for congress and for senate. what do you make of these comments. >> by the way, i'm also friends with senator corker as well. known him a long time as well. and, look, i thought their comments were unfortunate. i've gotta tell you this, i've looked at both of...