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Republicans have a very modest margin over democrats in the senate. they need it revoked and they've now got at least two more, flake and corker joining john mccain and susan collins and ben sass who can't be counted on for their vote. that makes the politics of this make it harder to get their agenda through. i can understand why the president is happy. he now is able to put a real trump supporter probably into arizona, but i think the stakes are higher than simply the politics. they have a lot to do with the direction of the country, what the legacy of the trump year is going to be and impli...

The campaign trail was all of the sudden going to change? and met mother or father size in front of their eyes? >> well look, i had a lot of my republican friends tell me that they thought that yes, donald trump was problematic, but they would still be able to get things done. i don't think that folks really understood the extent to which donald trump would go to just be absolutely unfit for the office. the republicans who are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. i think now we are seeing that it is beyond reproach. and that there are folks willing to speak up and say so, folks also n...

The occasion. and then you have a lot of these republicans who swallow hard and in my opinion, compromise their integrity in order to try to get some things passed. and one of the first things that i said the day after donald trump got elected, i wrote for cnn.com, i said yeah, bishd jumping for joy as a republican now, we have all three branches, but at what cost? and jeff flake really articulated that in a way that was eloquent and spot on. >> bob corker as well. >> bob corker as well. i've got to get scott in before we have to get to a break. listen, to tara's point, republicans control the...

House yesterday, and breitbart reflected this, good riddance, we don't need them. >> members of congress do that at their peril. there comes a point of national interests, we have never had a situation in which members of both parties, but particularly the president's own party, in private, believe the president is unstable, unfit, generals at the top of the command are saying the same thing, and top of the intelligence community, they are worried about this president's stability. >> and -- >> will they be like corker, mccain, flake, others? are they willing to say in public, hey, we want to p...

That before, this is something new. i did not feel i could move ahead and run a campaign i could be proud of so that's why i am retiring. >> so let's see where republicans are in this state of play. we have republican senator, rob portman of ohio, a member of the finance and foreign relations committee. thank you for being on the show. do you agree with your colleagues, flake and corker, and do you stand with them and against what the president has said and done? >> they are friends of mine, and i respect them, and my focus is how to get things done. just as i worked with president obama, and ...