But first heres van have a williamsson on the american system. Welcome, good afternoon an thank you so much all of you for being here today. And im really my name is e. J. A fellow senior here atbookings and im really happy to be here for two basic reasons. One, this is a great book. And two, vanessa is an awesome person. And im just so happy that vanessa what about a year ago joined us here at the brookings institution, and then prompghtly produced this great book. You know, been here for a short time and through the short intro of vanessa but something that says a lot about her which is vanessa has coauthored the first, the first one is called the tea party an and the renation of conservatism and vanessa shows this book is a strong conviction. But in her Tea Party Book and her convictions are quite different from those of tearkt tea Party Activist she shows capacity of understanding of poonl she profoundly disagrees with and we need that gift of empathy at this moment in our politics
surfacing today about the future of current secretary of state rex tillerson. these have been questions that have been asked for several days. plus we have president trump engaging in a fresh social media battle with republican senator bob corker. trump tweeted just about an hour ago, about bob corker, saying he gave us the iran deem, that s about it. we feed health care, tax cuts, reform, people that can get their job done. joining me right now national political reporter at bloomberg msnbc political analyst david corn and mother jones and national security analyst evelynn barkus. great to have you with us. the bob corker twitter fight, why would trump pick today to do that? is this all based on the corker interview he says mattis, kelly and tillerson are the only people we have that keep us avoiding chaos? it certainly could be, thomas, it s lard to do justice how extraordinary this is. here you have a prominent republican senator comparing the republican president of the united st