President trump just got a blistering salvo from another republican senator, arizonas jeff flake, who slammed the president on the senate floor while announcing he wont run for reelection in 2018. Flake, a trump critic who has been attacked repeatedly by the president , said reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior from the top of our government is dangerous to a democracy. He accused the president of the United States of undermining americas norms and values. And that came after the president went to capitol hill to talk tax reform with Senate Republicans over lunch. But there may have been cases of indigestion as the meal was proceeded today by a breathtaking war of words between the president and senator bob corker, who will also not run again in 2018. After corker urged the white house to leave tax reform to the professionals, the president lashed out on twitter, claiming falsely that corker helped president obama with the iran
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Why . Because information is powerful. Thats our closing thought for you. And that does it for the beat. I also want to say a big thank you to Ayman Mohyeldin and Chris Jansing for anchoring all last week. I will be back here at 6 00 p. M. Eastern tomorrow. Hardball with Chris Matthews starts right now. Big bad wolf. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews back in washington. Well, the president spent the weekend defending his mental stability. And look, ive been away for two weeks and ucome back to that kind of news. And perhaps more telling, his defense of his military or mental stability only raised more questions about, you guessed it, his mental stability. And then there is the new hope of the resistance. Like other heroic figures, she goes by one name and one name
president. On saturday, President Trump tweeted, actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being really smart. I went from a very successful businessman to top tv st
The latest news from Around The World. Reporter trump jr. Testified he never told his father about the meeting. When asked, did you inform your father about the meeting or prior to the meeting . Trump jr. Responded, no, i was not. When he was later asked why he didnt share news . I wouldnt tell him anything until i knew what was myself. Last year he testified before two congressional meetings. A source familiar tells cnn, he did not testify trump had any advance only in of the meeting. Now his attorney Rudy Guiliani is attacking the credible. Man is a liar a proven liar. There is no way you will bring down the president of the United States on the Testimony Uncorroborated of a proven liar. I germany tee you, this guy is a proven liar. Reporter when just a few weeks ago, guiliani seemed to have plenty of faith in cons truthfulness. If he believes its in his reporter no, theyre not. But i think in this sort of lexicon of international diplomacy, which mr. Putin who is usually a sticker
Decision, we are told, to draw down troops in afghanistan leaving Afghan Forces that the u. S. Had promised to support to the hands of the taliban and isis in afghanistan had to be two issues that were troubling jim mast t jim mattis significantly. His Code Of Ethics is you do not walk away from your friends on the battlefield. Mattis tonight simply may have run out of runway room ahead of him that he felt he could use in dealing with the president. He had been sidelined. He had been his advice on these matters had been rejected clearly. And mattis had had a strategy that simply wasnt working. He was trying to keep a low Public Profile and never say anything that would be contradictory to the president of the United States. He knew that this would infuriate trump. He knows that President Trump doesnt like to see other people
out there in public speaking. That it is all reserved for the president. So mattis over the last two years had had a strategy. You dont see him on camera holding p
Moments and 2 30 the Department Of Justice and Jeff Sessions and others at that point. You mentioned Kirstjen Nielsen and she will have commentary in the next hour, too. Sandra we look forward to that. Thats it from americas newsroom. , right now. Melissa fox news alert, President Trump will address the investigation into the mail bombs just moments from now. As fox news confirms, a man has been arrested in florida and connection to the devices, to cope more devices were found today. One in New York City. Addressed to former james clapper, and went to florida, addressed to senator cory booker. Catherine herridges live in washington, d. C. , right now with more as we watch the van of the suspect thats what youre seeing on your screen, they are it is being taken away to be examined. We wait for the president. You see that above us on the screen. Catherine, what you have . Thanks, melissa. They are very fluid moving quickly this morning. About an hour ago we confirmed through fox news tha