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The impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful backward looking people. in the case of the republican party, those things also threaten to turn us into a fearful backward looking minority party. we were not made great as a country by indulging in or even exalting our worst impulses, turning against ourselves, glorifying in the things that divide us. >> today steve bannon greeted jeff flake's retirement announcement with this headline, "winning: flake out." a breitbart editor quoted him as our movement will defeat you in primaries or force you to retire. the day of es...

>> can't go over there for votes. >> and conservatives, 85% of whom like president trump. they feel like flake is blocking trump's agenda, though it's really more some other republican senators who are blocking that agenda. so he is left with no constituency. and there is nobody out there who wants this thing where it's low taxes and spending and cut government, but also liberal immigration and free trade and also be nice to each other and dignified and don't do the sort of stuff donald trump does there is no constituency for that. so that's why he can't win an election. >> daniel dale, the pr...

How many more childish insults do we need to see hurled at a hostile foreign power before we acknowledge the senseless danger of it? this summer, jeff flake wrote a book entitled "conscience of a conservative: a rejection of destructive politics and a return to principle." that book foreshadowed jeff flake's retirement announcement today. because for most of us, it was very hard to read senator flake's thoughtful book and imagine him successfully running for reelection in a party overrun by trumpism. the last signs of jeff flake's op-ed piece that will be in "the washington post" tomorrow are ...

Republicans to keep the pressure on republican leadership, because that's how we get to the tipping point. the reality is the indictment today was yes on donald trump, but more so on flake's republican colleagues who have been complicit in going along and empowering a president who continues to create danger nor country. >> evan, we had democratic senators come out today and say they have heard from their republican colleagues in the senate exactly the same kinds of things that bob corker and jeff flake say, but those senators haven't dared say them publicly. is that your experience, that actu...

1954, the senate censured joe mccarthy. it wasn't even close. >> you never would have predicted that six months earlier. >> never. so at a certain point, politicians do reflect on what the principles this country was founded on are. and they realize they're in politics for something more important than the next election. >> david jolly, talk about that for a moment. we talk about tipping points in various activities and various arenas. but often in the congress, it doesn't look like a tipping point when it happens. it looks like a stampede. >> sure. well, because all of the sudden it becomes p...