retirement of jeff flake, one of the most respected sort of most principled men in the republican party that you and i once knew. great to be with you, nicole. first i think when you consider jeff flake s remarkable speech today, it was a reminder and an assertion boldly of reaganism. and i think what s inscribed on ron reagan s tomb, which is that i know in my heart that man is good, that in the end what is right will always triumph over what is wrong, and there is words and purpose in every human life of that s reaganism. quite the opposite of trumpism. and i think it is a mistake to cover these disputations between bob corker and jeff flake and donald trump as feuds. jeff flake and bob cork remember making an emphatic point about
today to have charlie sikes on board. kimberly, take us inside this dramatic and extraordinary day on capitol hill. reporter: it really, nicole, i was just listening to your open and feeling as though this has been many days all packed into one. but really with the same theme, and i think the question that underlies all of this is, is the republican party truly splitting in two at this point? and is there room in what is president trump s republican party for people like jeff flake and bob corker. and i think there is without a doubt a sense of sadness, i think, on the part of at least the members of the senate that i have spoken to who have come out, both on the democratic and on the republican side for the most part about jeff flake s decision to retire. now there are not a lot of them that have wanted to necessarily stand and back bob corker up in his feud with the president. i even actually put this
what does the white house and the president continue to say that senator bob corker helped president obama on the iran deal when the facts clearly say that s not true? actually the facts do say that it s true. it was senator corker that wrote the legislation that legitimized the iran nuclear deal. despite lacking the votes to ratify the flawed i ran deal in the senate, corker s bell rolled out the red carpet for the obama administration gaining congressional approval without the necessary vote. may not have voted for it, but he helped make it happen. but he didn t vote for it. if you look through it as i said many times before, i wouldn t use the washington post as my source. the white house is not telling the truth on this. why does actually does he continue to say he voted against it but he put it in motion. he rolled out the red carpet and made it possible for it to move forward that is a fact and that