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Presidency. that's what these people are saying, both in private and now mccain, flake, and corker have said in public, the romper room. this is not just a partisan attack on the president of the united states. this goes to the heart of whether the president of the united states is a danger to our values and the country and our place in the world. he is an aberrant president and human being, and that's what these individuals -- if you listen to what flake said very carefully, it's about aberrant. >> the president just tweeted about jeff flake moments ago. i will read it. jeff flake with 18% ap...

Administration. what is the bottom line? let's get it to political analyst, karl bernstein. does this matter? >> it matters to the president and to the country, and republicans in private, great numbers of them, on capitol hill have been saying they believe this president is unstable and unfit to be the president of the united states. this discussion has been going on below loud level among republicans for months now. >> isn't that the key term. he's still doing well with his party. >> the question is, will other republicans, as have corker, mccain, flake, come forward and say the national int...

And the flagrant disregard for truth and decency. >> undignified behavior has become excused as telling it like it is when it's really outrageous and undignified. >> we were not made great by egg saulting our worst impulses. glorifying in the things that divide us, and calling fake things true and true things fake. >> mitch mcconnell praising flake but punting when asked how he's going to response? >> what i have an obligation to do is to try and achieve the greatest cohesion i can among 52 republicans to try and achieve for the american people the agenda that we set out to achieve. >> flake s...

Such as republicans such as yourself. being a business man, commander in chief businessman, he was talking to reporters today and saying, listen, there was a whole standing ovation behind closed doors in capitol hill yesterday during this tax lunch. and that it's a unified front here in the republican party. but, bob, look at just in the last week you have seen bush 43, senators flake, corker, mccain, criticize beyond the president's policies, criticizing his very core of being, his character. how is that party unity? >> well, when you look at it, you are talking about a handful of individuals...

If they were to say wake up tomorrow and decide, we're going to block vote against everything, the three of us, for the rest of the time we're here, well that would have a practice kl effect of stopping donald trump, but here to for, they've all, other than mccain on health care have gone along with the republican and/or trump agenda. if flake and corker and mccain vote for tax reform and tax cuts. the effects of their speeches will be more limited because the policy agenda marches forward. so ultimately, what do i think average republican voters want? they want promises kept and they want act...