humiliated by bob corker. by being accurately described by bob corker. the collective public quotes about president trump by senator corker are the worst things ever said about a president by a senator in the same party. they are now actually the worst things ever said by a senator about a president, world war iii. world war iii. there is nothing worse that you could say about a president than that he's setting the country on the path to world war iii. there is nothing worse that a president could do. donald trump is the slowest student ever to occupy the presidency and so it is taking him a long time to discover that he doesn't actually have any power over senators like bob corker but tonight the president might finally be learning, learning that lesson in the most painful way possible. by having to sit there in the white house humiliated by senator corker and being unable to attack senator corker with a tweet because he has finally discovered that bob corker has more power over him than he has over bob corker. and what the country and the world has a r

that bothered bob corker. bob corker continues to say leave it to the professors, whether it's north korea or tax reform, leave it to the professionals to deal with. then you have this bigger question of what does it mean for the republican party. i've talked to strategists who have worked with corker. they thought last time around he may have had this emotional response to the president. it may not have been thought out. today, he's been thinking about this. he even said he's thought about everything he's saying out loud. this is calculated. this is unhinged. and it also puts a lot of pressure on his fellow republicans to come out against trump or to stand by him. >> again, senator bob corker made not one, not two, but three appearances on network shows, cable show, stopping at any camera that was there in the halls. 15 seconds here, really quickly what we've seen unfold this morning, is it going to have do you think a measurable impact on tax reform legislation? >> i think it does. i think the danger is what

he can't afford to lose bob corker's support. and right now, it's hard to see that he's going to get it this way, hallie. >> what i want to do is get our folks here to cue up some of the bob corker sound we just heard. because i do think it is worth replaying and making sure we underscore how critical this is. but i think you bring up what is sort of the point of all this, right? i want to bring in jonathan and amber here, which is this is not just another day, another day in the republican food fight. in two people going at each other, a republican president going after a republican senator, this matters to people because of the policy, like taxes, like health care, policies in which the gop if they want to get something done, if they want to get a legislative win, need every single senator on board on the republican side. and that would include bob corker, presumably. >> two reasons this is important, one is, corker is a crucial vote on tax reform. he's one of the few fiscal hawks left. one of the few people who still really ca

senator bob corker. the republican chair of the senate foreign relations committee is his target and corker is not holding back, telling the new york times that thid

president has do -- bob corker has set the u.s. way back. now we move forward. and breaking news this afternoon that another principle contest chose today, this day to announce his retirement from the u.s. senate. arizona senator jeff flake last hour issuing a chilling and emotional warning about the new normal from the ftop of our government, invoking the questions senators often ask privately, what will we tell our children about what we did during these times. >> none of the current politics should ever be regarded as normal. none of us should ever lapse into thinking that is just the way things are now. when the next generation asks us, why didn't you do something? why didn't you speak up? what are we going to say? mr. president, i rise today to say enough, because politics can make us silent when we should speak and silence can equal complicity, i have children and grandchildren to answer to. so mr. president, i will not be complicit or silent. >> let's get to all of this with our reporters and guests, our own casey hunt, kimb

when you call bob corker, liddle bob corker, he's leaving the senate but there another 14 months, the way you negotiate this deal has ramifications after the deal is struck. another aspect of the president's deal making called the mad man theory of international relations, henry kissinger said of richard knicks son unpredictable it would leave the vietnamese and others wondering what he might do. might launch a nuclear weapon and might cause them to strike a better deal. the president likes to use unpredictability in all aspects of his negotiation, again is there a value in unpredict snblts. >> i mean there absolutely is a value but in the long run in the scheme of things, it's not an effective strategy. i mean you put it down to a practical -- to simplify the situation, every time my wife and i get into a conflict, if i threaten to walk out of the relationship or to sue her family, that's not going to help us come to good solutions to the problems that we might have. i think in the international arena, the same basic concept holds true. constantly threatening does not allow people to

this latest feud with bob corker. if they haven't jumped off the wagon by now, i kind of think they're in it through 2018. >> well, again, they want to get something done, what this means, though, to getting something done, when these are the relationships that are playing out on the hill, that's where the conversation goes. because mya will tell you and we'll have you back on, tax reform, it's so easy, that's why they haven't done it in three decades. great to see you guys. >> thanks, kate. >> thank you so much. >> all right. coming up from us, we could hear from president trump any moment now at an awards ceremony in the oval office ahead of the lunch on capitol hill. we're going to bring you that as soon as it happens. plus this, a new timeline is emerging on the ambush that killed four americans in niger. many questions remaining, including why it took -- why was there an hour lapse before the u.s. soldiers called in for air support. what could that mean? details ahead. i had frequent heartburn, but my doctor reco

bob corker who helped with the bad iran deal is now fighting tax cuts. and senator corker is incompetent head of foreign relations committee and look how poorly the u.s. has done. he doesn't have a clue as the world was laughing and taking advantage of people like little bob corker have set the u.s. way back. corker calling trump an utterly untruthful president, # alert the daycare staff and then delivered blistering criticism of president trump hours before the luncheon. >> i think the standing up in front of the american people and stating untruths that everybody knows to be untrue, attempted bullying that he does which everybody sees through. just dividing of our country, the name calling is something that is i think debasing to our country. you would think he would aspire to be the president of the united states and act like a president of the united states, but that's just not going to be the case. >> well, as we wait for the president to leave capitol hill let's get to our team of reporters who are covering every angle of the story. joining me from

three inches shorter than bob corker. and of course donald trump has no idea how tall james madison was or anything else about james madison other than he might be the guy who madison avenue is named after. which of course he is. multiple reports indicate that president trump was fuming about bob corker for days after the senator said this about secretary of state rex tillerson. >> i think secretary tillerson, secretary mattis, and chief of staff kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos. >> senator corker said that right after rex tillerson was reported to have referred to the president as a moron in a meeting of senior administration staff at the pentagon. the president talked about being called a moron in an interview published by forbes today. the questioner said there are reports out today over the last couple of days about you calling him a moron privately. has he talked, reached out to you than? do you believe that? do you believe that he said that? trump said, "well, we may -- we may have to

i think what bob corker said is important and you will hear more republicans. >> bob corker, the only reason why bob corker said this, is because bob corker could not win a re-election and the people of tennessee -- >> but -- >> have walked away from supporting him. let me finish. >> i'm saying -- >> i'm saying the fact -- >> are his ideas worthy. >> bob corker is upset and he is walking a away from the u.s. senate -- >> we're out of time. >> is what bob corker said correct. it -- >> i would say no. >> talk about his ideas. >> thank you. you'll be back. we appreciate it. breaking news this morning. >> all right. american woman, this is important, an american woman and her canadian husband and three children have been freed after five years in taliban custody. >> to barbara starr who joins us at the pentagon with more. free finally the three little kids and their parents. >> indeed, this news breaking overnight and good news to report. let's emphasize that for a change. very good news to report. this american woman caitlan coleman, her canadian husband joshua boyle, and three small chi

if donald trump is taking a fight with bob corker and bob corker is not backing down, that down in flames. could be a concern. donald trump has picked fights with mitch mcconnell, john mccain, but this is the first time somebody has been giving it as good as he has gotten. laura: the white house revived that with the nfl. would happen to the vice president being drawn in? anthony: the vice president flew to his hometown indianapolis, indiana, showed up to a football game and stood for the national anthem and walked out because some members of the san francisco 49ers that were protesting for years knelt. there has been criticism that this is a long way and a lot of money to spend to make a statement. donald trump tweeted out his praise of mike pence saying he asked him to do this. and and some nfl players are upset but i think donald trump supporters, this is another example of mike pence and donald trump on the same playbook of standing up for patriotism and the american flag. laura: let's turn now to the fate of the dreamers. young people were brought here illegally as children, they got

and that provoked bob corker to say this this morning on cbs. let's listen do it. >> i would let the tax writing committees do their work. i think both the house and senate has done a lot of preliminary work, and stay out of taking things off the table and really negotiating against the process before it even begins. >> jonathan, donald trump directly interpreted that as a criticism of him. >> yeah. so, the range on what this tax bill does to the deficit ranges from 1.5 trillion with a t, to 2.2 trillion. we're talking real money, and this decision on the 401(k)s brings it up closer to 2 trillion because it's hundreds of billions of dollars that they're talking about. so, i don't actually think it's that hard of an idea logical test for jeff flake. he's been a deficit hawk. this is an enormously irresponsible bill for any principled republican. yes, he likes tax cuts, but this is an insane bill if you care at all about the solvency of the united states, which jeff flake does. so, i actually think the odds are a little higher than he will join mc

world war ii, in bob corker's words. i guess the question is, does that coalition hold if the world that donald trump promised doesn't come to pass? >> i think there's certainly people in donald trump's corner, certainly after charlottesville, that are going to stay there forever no matter what. if there's a tape that comes out tomorrow of him and vladimir putin talking about colluding, there are people that will stay stay in his camp. it's important to make the distinction. donald trump was framed as someone unfiltered and who was authentic and not reckless. that's what happened yesterday when you saw senator flake essentially say, no, it's not just outrageous behavior. it's not just out of the box tweets. it's reckless behavior that impacts foreign policy and domestic policy. regardless of whether or not the coal cisiition is going to stay him if he says offensive things, we need to think in terms of national security issues. more senators in the republican party need moral courage and stand up and be patriots because

everything that bob corker said is true. is there anybody out there that does not believe that part of john kelly's job is being a highly decorated four star baby-sitter. is there anybody out who doesn't think that donald trump makes up things otherwise known as lying, blatant lying. he did it about bob corker. so we have got a president of the united states who acts be crazy. it's crazy to be staging and to be giving more flames to an nfl protest fabricated staged debate and stunt when you've got 3.5 million puerto ricans still living in perilous conditions and who have no water and electricity when you have got 58 families mourning the death of their loved ones in the most -- the biggest mass shooting in u.s. history. and he is spending time on that. that is crazy. it is insane. it is indefensible. and somebody has got to say it. if it took bob corker resigning and not running again for him to say it, well, thank god. maybe more of them should retire. >> robby, i want to get your take on. this is what michael -- how he's i

and bob corker says, that's not true. so why does the president insist on repeating these misstatements? >> i wasn't in that meeting. but on the issue of iran, senator corker did work with the obama administration to change it to a 60-vote threshold to disapprove as opposed to the 60-votes to approve the treaty. so i think that the president's criticisms there are fair. nonetheless, we also, i think that senator corker recognizes some of the problems with that initial deal. and we think that as we look forward to making changes to his committee, that he'll have to be a large part of that. >> i have two tax questions, do you talk to the president about the things that aren't untrue? >> hallie, i'm rejecting your premise that he's not being truthful here. i talk to the president about communications but not accepting your premise. >> agree. we'll agree to disagree on this when it comes to the fact-checking because i want to get you on a couple things on taxes, number one, kevin brady is talking this morning, very important

the president is not finished with bob corker. a different showdown could be on tap as tillerson meeting with president trump. let's go to the white house. the president, this morning, taking to twitter to make his feelings known about bob corker again. >> it's the latest volley in the back and forthwith senator bob corker of tennessee, and it goes all the way back to the violence in charlottesville, virginia, after the president responded to the violence there involving a white nationalists and neo-nazis, all the way through last weekend where there was a back and forth between the president and senator corker, and now this today, this tweet this morning reads, failing "new york times" set little bob corker up by recording his conversation to be made to look with a fool, and that's what i am dealing with. and the little bob corker reminiscent of what he said about marco rubio. we have been told the president is not through with corker. in some ways that's an attempt by the administration and the president's allies to show strengt

because bob corker is saying plenty. telling "the new york times" that the president could put the country on the path to world war iii. calling on his senators to say what they say privately publicly. but will they? will this trigger new reaction from the foreign house committee itself? >>> and down pennsylvania avenue with democrats already upset about this apparent demand for a border wall, tied to a plan to help so-called dreamers in this country, one source telling us that wish list might be a non-starter. >>> and burying underneath it all, the deadly crisis gripping this country, the opioid epidemic simmering still more than eight weeks after the president said he would declare a national emergency. so far he has not. talk versus action again as we talk with kate snow in our ongoing special series on the opioid crisis and the devastating effects on kids. kids whose parents are hooked on heroin. >>> first, we want to start with the big political headline of the day involving kristen welker at the white house with ne

a person of course republican senator bob corker. now former white house strategist steve bannon calling for him to step down. >> establishment globalist click on capitol hill have to go. if we need anymore proof about what they think you heard it tonight. if bob corker has any honor, any decency, he should resign immediately. >> ban non demanding that senator corker resign for his open skepticism of president trump's fitness to lead. that expressed in an interview with the "new york times." we now have audio. let's listen. >> i do worry that -- sometimes i feel like he's on a reality show of some kind. and you got to realize that we could be heading towards world war iii with the kind of comments he's making. >> sources also telling cnn the president is lashing out at corker in part over frustration that his legislative agenda is stalled in congress. the president needs senatorers like corker to get that passed. he has been supportive of his agenda. one source tells cnn corker has more allies in the senate than the president. there

he said the comments from bob corker are unhelpful. i want to bring in the man behind that breath-taking interview. >> reporter: no question, senator corker has been enormously frustrated with this president for saying what corker says are untruths about him, specifically about constantly saying, john, that he should not -- he would not have run for re-election, and he didn't run for re-election because the president told him he would not endorse him. that's something corker said is so untrue. he would not say liar, but he essentially called the president of the united states a liar, he said on four separate occasions he told him he would endorse him, and even urging him to reconsider a run for re-election. corker has been enormously frustrated at the way the president has consistently gone after him in an untruthful way. on top of that, he's concerned about the president's actions and undercutting the people in trump's administration who corker does respect, like secretary of state, rex tillerson, and general james mattis, as well as

donald trump repeatedly says bob corker, bob corker who gave us the iran deal. and as i said, bob corker actually what does he do, he actually wrote an opinion piece in the "washington post" in august of 2015 saying the iran deal is a bad deal. it will make iran resur jant in the middle east and it will be a serious problem and since congress must reject the iran deal and send it back to obama. >> joe, from this tweets that you're just reading from the tweets of the past week taking on a war widow is further evidence of the sad, sad fact that the president of the united states is not a complete man. he is not a whole individual. whole individual. he has a gam gap p in him. that gap is without truth. it's without credibility. it's without empathy. that's the sad fact of our lives. >> what do preachers then, a lot of preachers are lined up behind donald trump. that's a lie. what i just showed was a lie. we could literally spend a three hour show five days a week showing you something that donald trump knowingly and willingly lied about and then put up a document t

i think the fourth tweet today about bob corker by donald trump and it says, quote, bob corker gave us the iran deal, that's about it. we need health care, tax cuts, reform, we need people to get the job done. trump is very upset with bob corker in particular he's upset with the public criticism that the senator from tennessee has given in donald trump's direction. one of them came from during the summer over august and then there was one just this week. let's listen to them both. >> i think secretary tillerson, secretary mattis and chief of staff kelly are those people that helped separate our country from chaos. the president has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. >> and if it's anything we know about donald trump, when he feels that he is underattacked, he responds and he responds in a big way. when bob corker announced that he was deciding not to run for re-election this week, that's what set the president off claiming that he was begging donald trump for his endorsement and when the pres

with bob corker. that's a fact. if he thought he could win re-election, he would have went for re-election. there were a lot of conservatives going to go against him. he was in significant stroubl because he has been a fraud compared to what he said to the voters he was going to do. the president to call him out -- >> the president alienating himself or potentially further alienating himself within the gop leadership if he's going to say these disparaging things about bob corker. he needs members on the hill to get perhaps tax reform done. >> again, when -- >> he needs bob corker's vote. >> when donald trump is playednitis on capitol hill, starting when he met with a a lot of the leadership and started after he was inaugurated in january, they not helped him out at all in the senate. that's just a fact. they put -- they've been fake about it. they've said, oh, we're going to whip votes for you. mitch mcconnell, bob corker, we're going to work with you on these issues. they have not helped out this pre

so every vote, including that of senator bob corker matters. we'll watch for reaction as they come out of lunch in a few minutes presumably from now. trish: connell, thank you very much. we're watching for reaction. for analysis the founder and publisher of "bullseye brief" newsletter, adam johnson. we have dave nelson with us right now. there is a market just barely off the highs of the session, adam johnson. what are you attributing all this upside to? >> earnings and employment. the two es. it has been the story. still the story. that takes us to 24,000. tax reform gets us to 25,000. that is the story. trish: wow, 25 on tax reform? >> that is only another five or 6% from here. we can get that. tax reform, will add five, 6%, possibly 8% to earnings in the s&p 500. that is not just the first year they pass it, but every year. you should pay up for it. trish: adam johnson rightly called 23,000 this market, days after the president was elected. >> yes. trish: you were on that, 23,000 is possible this year. you're saying 25,000 if tax cuts get th

from what bob corker said? because we still haven't heard anybody rebuke bob corker in the united states senate publicly and say, no, no, no, what he's saying about the president leading us towards world war iii was correct. >> i don't think bob corker was talking in hyperbole, i think he was raising a red flag he knows is shared by a lot of his fellow senators. we reached out to a.p. colleagues, to every republican senator to ask, do you share corker's concerns and do you think that the president is fit for office? we only got responses from a very small handful. there's pretty much silence and avoidance from other republican office holders this week, even though we know and they know that this is the kind of conversation that happens behind the scenes ain't links back to carole's reporting, it's about the uncertainty. it's about the question when the president throws out something in a meeting like should we increase our nuclear capacity tenfold? is he saying that serious will i? is that actually what he want

corker. >> now you bring up bob corker, david. let me get to something today. obviously, flake wasn't the only gop senator to take a stand against the president. corker also did, in a different way. but here he is. >> i don't know why he lowers himself to such a low, low standard and debases our country in the way he does, but he does. >> so david, will more republicans speak out now? >> i don't know. we'll see. looking in the responses to senator flake's speech, to what senator corker said earlier today, speaker paul ryan tried to just chalk this up as a twitter spat between corker and the president. not actually addressing the unbelievable claims and indictment of trump's character that corker was making while walking the halls of congress there. and after senator flake's speech, both mcconnell and ryan praised flake for being the committed conservative that tims talks about that he is, but there was no indication that they were actually, you know, listening to his words or acting on them in some way. >> no, i mean, let me, to y

instead, what was bob corker saying at the time? bob corker was saying we've got to listen to this voice of the people. i don't like these people coming out saying we shouldn't support trump because of his character. i think a lot of republicans hear this from bob corker and think, why now? the other thing i'll say about this in the practical political situation, republicans need to pass tax reform. they believe it's extremely important for them to go into the 2018 elections with some kind of legislative win. with bob corker throwing that in flux with this, they're looking at what he's doing and they're saying, it's not just that you're not running for re-election so you're sort of standing out and saying what you want, you're throwing the rest of us who want to run for re-election under the bus. >> you know, i think you're right about bob corker changing. he argues that he was hoping that after the president got him the job that he would -- he would rise to the occasion and in his view he hasn't. >> right. >> i think it is importan

bob corker versus donald trump. it is completely out there in the open, but you look at the other senators, too, that find themselves in that position, whether it's john mccain or jeff flake or lisa murkowski at times, heller at times, you can go down the list. two things are really significant. one, people really do believe this guy may be setting himself up to be, the not named, but in reality, an independent president a. guy that's completely plane up, his voting coalition. that's the second most significant thing, willie, how does he get 50 votes on tax reform? how does he get 50 votes on infrastructure? right now, nobody even inside the white house knows, because these wars actually upend his majority, his governing mo jaert. >> that's the frustration we heard from mitch mcconnell's office yesterday, they are trying to get things done this certainly doesn't help. with us to talk about it all, president on the foreign relations, author of the book a world in disarray. national political reporter carol lee, senio

they are not happy with this bob corker stuff. corker is somebody who has been wheeling and dealing with the white house for a while. i think one of the original sins, the most recent sins that the president was prodding him to support and go down to alabama and campaign for luther strange. this isn't good for the president at all and the position where he is already weakened. i think we are starting to deal with a situation in which people in the white house are hunkering down and realizing the president is going to do what he wants to do and yet again they have to do damage control. >> do they see anything getting done in the next three, four, seven years? >> look, the one thing the president said which undeniably true -- corker in the interview and we posted the audio on our website, corker requests that this be taped and on the record. what the president said is untrue in corker's own words. what the president said that was true is that there in a segment of the population a desire to have something done with the tax code. so

with bob corker, it's a tad different. he was supportive of the president. he had designs on maybe becoming a cabinet member or a vice president. i think people like corker, however, were somewhat conned into believing that there would end up being a pivot, that trump would morph into someone that they could support, that they could manipulate, that they could cajole into doing what they wanted or supporting their agenda, but, you know, you ask jeff flake, jake, if all of that behavior is counterproductive to trump's agenda or flake's agenda. this is the agenda. as much as any legislation is the republican/trump agenda, for trump, getting people like jeff flake and bob corker out is a huge part of the agenda. steve bannon told us that early. trump told us that early. and we're just seeing that come to fruition now. >> and kirsten, a lot of republicans who are in the administration, who are on capitol hill, they think, as i think bob corker thought at one point, that the best thing they can do is try to steer president trump in the right direction. to be ball

he lied about bob corker begging him for an endorsement and when he said bob corker begged to be secretary of state. corker said in realtime he couldn't do it. even when you talked about the iran deal, he said the only thing bob corker gave us was the iran deal. bob corker voted against the iran deal. if you're a senator and you see misinformation go out constantly, again, at what point do you say enough is enough? this man is not connected with reality? >> well, it is interesting. does there become a cascade effect where others feel liberated to speak the way senator corker has? we said repeatedly again, senator corker is not running for reelection. this is 52 republican senators. you lose one, two, and sudden lu you're no longer the governing party. this is a dangerous situation for the president, because you can't afford to lose bob corker. katty mentioned corker is an important player even on tax reform. he's troubled by the idea of adding hundreds of billions of dollars to the budget. even tax reform, it comes outside of this president's reach. and so this is a big situation. that's w

you have an establishment class candidate in bob corker -- a class senator in bob corker that's held himself above the fray and conducted himself by what most republicans think they republican senator should act like. there are republicans like me that quite frankly, we're sick of the same old, same old and we wanted someone to go in there and substantially change what was happening in washington and donald trump has done that and more and he's continued to fight the system. it's two different thoughts there. i wish they were talking about tax reform today, but you know, is there a possibility that maybe senator corker is thinking about running in 2020? >> yeah, we don't know. we can't predict the future, but it's a good point. i want to hit pause on this corker-trump conversation because we also have new video coming in. it's columbus day. folks are playing golf and the president is playing golf with of all people someone who has criticized the president and someone who doesn't mince his words and that being fellow south carolinian lindsay graham. what do you make of these pictures?

. >> bob corker. >> bob corker is a jelly doughnut? >> chris jansing -- >> rocky top, baby. >> -- right now. >> thank you, joe, thank you, mika. i am chris jansing in for stephanie ruhle this morning. looking for answers. the chairman of the joint chiefs in a rare appearance trying to respond to growing questions and escalating criticism for the lack of answers about the deaths of four soldiers in niger. >> we owe them more information. >> and this new reporting from nbc news, that the deadly ambush was likely set up by isis sympathizers. >>> lunch date. the president makes the trip to capitol hill today, meeting with senate republicans to push his tax plan. >> i do look at these things as more of a photo op. they're not really about substance. >> and president trump's personal lawyer meets with investigators on the hill after their initial meeting a month ago was abruptly canceled. but let's begin today with the emerging theory about what led to that deadly ambush in west africa. three officials briefed on the matter tell nbc it appea

people like bob corker. president trump deploying an old nickname at the last frenemy. >> if bob corker has any honor, any decency, he should resign immediately. >>> and from the political firestorm to the out-of-control wildfires in california wine country out west, this morning we found out somebody else has died, meaning at least 11 people have been killed so far. 1500 homes and businesses destroyed. we're live in santa rosa. >>> then back here on the east coast, more on the country's opioid crisis and the heartbreaking story of this 14-year-old girl who has seen enough pain for a lifetime. you do not want to miss the story of this remarkable young woman sharing her story with us. >>> but i want to start with the world of politics and plenty to discuss on this tuesday morning. i want to start with my colleague, kristen welker, over at the white house. kristen, take your pick. i guess let's start with iq tests. >> reporter: where to begin, right, hallie? there's so much to talk about today. right, the iq t

but bob corker has been pushing back. bannon is operating as a free agent and he is talk about the same senators and while people have been trying to guide donald trump back to a more mainstream position, he still has a lot of anti—establishment rebel. he doesn't see himself as part of republican party, he is happy to aim his fire at whoever draws his ire at that particular time. i am sure he will carry on doing it and we will keep on talking about it. thank you. thank you. now those whose lives could be changed by what permits may or may not be available to people who came into the us as children illegally, well their wait goes on. the bbc has been speaking to some of them. well their wait goes on. the bbc has been speaking to some of themm brea ks been speaking to some of themm breaks my heart and it breaks me mentally. i remember being little, knowing that, not knowing what was going to happen. ijust that, not knowing what was going to happen. i just knew that, not knowing what was going to happen. ijust knew we were

bob corker is viewed with respect in this down. buts a conservative guy talk to both sides of the aisle and seems intent on an open line of communication with donald trump. he was considered for vice president and more seriously for secretary of state. he kept open a line of communications and what is troubling him now is what he sees in this conversation and meetings he is having at the white house with rex tillerson causing him to feel like he has to take it up a notch and callout donald trump for what he sees as irresponsible behavior. spareot many votes to when it comes to policy goals like tax reform, with bob corker already a no on taxes and talking about how he would not vote for a reform bill if they added one penny to the deficit. how much does this change the calculus? >> politics is all about relationships. bob corker has been on the record saying, if the tax reform plan increases the deficit, i will be a no vote. he could be talked to, donald trump, if they had a good relationship, he could convince them to see it diffe

corker now the president has for a long time been criticizing bob corker because he essentially has been criticizing the president's tax reform plan as essential what happened is that bob corker went on the national news chat shows this morning and basically said he doesn't believe the president is acting in a manner which reflects the united states well and here's some of what he had to say. i think people look i think there were many people i was one of those that hope that you know he would rise to the occasion as president and you know spiral to to lead our nation instead of dividing it and you know it's obvious his is political model and governing model is to divide. and he is not risen occasion and now the president we know watches television news quite regularly and responded within minutes in fact by my count there were five different social media tweets reactor's of the comments of bob corker in the span of about two hours suggesting that corporate retiree because he couldn't get reelected without tough support couldn't even get reelected to the position of as the president

senator bob corker didn't hold back, saying president trump has difficulty telling the truth, isn't a good role model for children and is debasing america. here he is on cbs. i've got to know the president in a very unique way over the course of the last year. and i guess like all americans i would have hoped he would rise to the occasion and bring out the best in our nation, charlie. hopefully what presidents do is to try and bring the country together, to unify around common goals and not to unify around common goals and not to debase our country, if you will. that has not happened and i'm beginning to believe that it will not happen and i think that's what president bush, president obama have been concerned about as it seems to been concerned about as it seems to be the governing model of the white house to purposefully divide. it happened after the virginia incident. it is to consolidate the base, not to bring out the better angels of the people in the country. it isa angels of the people in the country. it is a great nation. without us doing that, it not only affects us and futur

i was thinking maybe with bob corker, senator corker having his own facts. this really is more than a dust-up of words here. to hear it from the inside, bob corker is trying to send a message. >> yeah. the reason why this is dangerous for the white house, bob corker is not just some rank and file capitol hill lawmaker. he is widely respected by his colleagues on capitol hill. when he says something, it means something. people listen. he did not minutes words in terms of his day care remarks and other things. he told "the new york times." so you -- what you saw today is the white house hit back hard. the question, as you guys have discussed what does this mean for tax reform and moving legislation forward? given that corker is an important vote and given that senate republicans have such a slim majority right now. >> shepard: what are we hearing from corker and his people regarding what he plans to do next? his the chairman of a powerful committee. he has the power, if he chooses to, have hearings that could expose what he says are these issues with the presi

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people of tennessee and up to bob corker. obviously, you heard on shawn hanty's show, steve bannon, formerly inside the white house, advocating for the president, saying senator corker should resign. and that he's going to go after senator mitch mcconnell, trying to get him down from senate majority leader and to what he said were all the establishment republicans up for re-election. that's interesting, dana. lot of these senators say they are already working for the trump agenda. steve bannon saying that he wanted to make sure that the senate doesn't have to deal with an filibuster in the big votes that failed including healthcare. it did not matter because they were already on reconciliation. it was not 60, it was 50 plus one and they didn't get to that number. >> dana: yeah. in fact, one of the senators that talked ab primaries was senator barosso from wyoming. he's voted with president trump 95% of the time. seems like he'll spend extra money on those races when he could use them to spend hopefully if you're president tru

. >> the president's bitter feud with bob corker. >> i don't agree with bob corker it's world war iii. >> everybody in washington, d.c., has said for a very long time the very things that bob corker finally said. >> if bob corker has any honor, any decency, he should resign imtdly. >> the truth is the president will not get his major things done without bob corker. >> valued member of the republican senate. key player on the budget. >> president set to host rex tillerson as well as james mattis at the white house. >> now he's comparing his iq with that of his secretary of state rex tillerson. >> new details about wienstein's final hours before being ousted before his company. reportedly writing, i am desperate for your help. do not let me be fired. >> let me take a leave of absence and get into therapy and counseling whether it be in a facility or somewhere else. allow me to resurrect myself with a second chance. sources close to the company tell nbc news that it is moving to take harvey wienstein's name off his television program. >> one powerful woman appears to be coming to his def

if we we re bob corker and donald trump? if we were to get excited about every row between the executive and politicians, we would be spun up all the time, i suppose. i don't know they are paying a lot of attention to it. you are, presumably? certainly, we are always concerned, particularly with regard to foreign policy and how that might be impacted. congressman, how do you think it might affect the president's ability to get things done? it is important on two aspects. we cannot keep making this about personalities. 0n either side of these types of spats. when we go around poking one another in the eye, we want to poke the other eye and it will accelerate beyond. we have to focus on the policy. i think the president, he has a good, strategic vision for the things he wa nts to strategic vision for the things he wants to do. unfortunately, unlike times in the past, when he can choose to do business with a corporation or not and then move onto another corporation, the only thing he has to work with is, in this case, republica

donald trump now branding bob corker liddle bob corker and hitting at the senator again this morning. nia -- >> it's like a -- >> can i say it's a lame nickname. >> okay. >> i'm going to let doug go at this. >> nia not little. nia is quite tall. i will just throw that out there. nia is tall. why she finds this ridiculous. what -- with what's so intriguing about this back and forth is i haven't seen yet and maybe it will come, i haven't seen yet that a single republican come out to condemn what corker said in this interview. what does that mean? >> well, what bob corker said publicly is exactly what so many members of congress and in the senate, whether they're moderate or conservative, are saying every day. i remember on inning into gration day, i had -- inauguration day i had a congressman say to me, this is not going to end well so i'm going to focus on my committee and subcommittee. we should remember of those critical of corker and i understand if you want to be critical, those saying he should resign, bob corker like every senator and member of congress took an oath to protect an

people like bob corker. president trump deploying an old nickname at the last frenemy. >> if bob corker has any honor, any decency, he should resign immediately. >>> and from the political firestorm to the out-of-control wildfires in california wine country out west, this morning we found out somebody else has died, meaning at least 11 people have been killed so far. 1500 homes and businesses destroyed. we're live in santa rosa. >>> then back here on the east coast, more on the country's opioid crisis and the heartbreaking story of this 14-year-old girl w