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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Lets eignite the fight over statues. You know everything. Read the book. Bobby ken by. Thats it for our broadcast. Brian williams and everyone here will be back. Thank you from all much us. Good night. Tonight on all in. This morning the president launched into a argument with Chuck Schumer. In the wake of an atrocity. Why was he so quick to go the political route and point fingers at Chuck Schumer . President trump attacks democrats and the american Justice System. What we have right now is a joke. And its a laughing stock. Tonight, how the trump response changes depending on the attacker. I dont want to go quicker and just make a statement for the sake of making a political statement. Then, new reporting that a panicked president is blaming his soninlaw. Come here, jared. New questions about what Jeff Sessions knew about russian collusion. Im not aware that anyone else did. What the president knew about it . Nobody that i knew of. And what Robert Mueller will find in the president s
General. Here is the president campaigning for Luther Strange in september by telling Republican Voters they could vote for the other guy. And by the way, both good men. Both good men. And you know what . And i told luther, i have to say this, if his opponent wins, im going to be here campaigning like hell for him. Donald trumps endorsement did not help Luther Strange who lost in the primary to Steve Bannons chosen candidate roy moore and roy moore accused of sexually assaulting a girl when she was 14 years old and trying to date other girls while they were still in high school and roy moore was a 32yearold assistant district attorney. Republican senator Richard Shelby withdrew his support of the republican ticket and voted for someone else, the republican the Senate Republican Political Action committee stopped funding roy moores campaign. Mitch mcconnell, leader of the
senate, said an Ethics Investigation of roy moore would begin immediately if he was elected to the senate. What did
Alert the day care staff. He recently called the white house an adult day care center. I didnt make any of this up. Kasie hunt joins us live now. So the president is heading to capitol hill in the next hour for what is supposed to be a, quote, unity lunch with gop senators focusing on the tax cut plan. How awkward might this get . Reporter i have to tell you, ali, ive been roaming the halls of capitol hill for some years now. I havent seen anything like this before where you have the powerful head of a very Important Committee at a time when not only do we have americans deployed overseas but are potentially face iing at th least the possibility of war with north korea and you have the president and head of that Committee Trading Insults back and forth on twitter and of course for the tv cameras. Those words that Senator Corker
Senator Corker gave voice to a lot of peoples expectations that this will be more of a photo op than anything for the president of the United States. Because i
Says, President Trumps vision of soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the boulevards of washington is moving closer to reality in the pentagon and white house, where Officials Say they have begun to plan a Grand Military Parade later this year showcasing the might of Americas Armed forces. Trump has long mused publicly and privately about wanting such a parade, but a January 18th Meeting between trump and top generals in the pentagons tank, a room reserved for topsecret discussions, marked a Tipping Point according to two officials briefed on the planning. So theres where we begin. Lets bring in our leadoff panel on a tuesday night. Phillip rucker. White house bureau chief for the Washington Post. Shannon pettypiece for bloomberg news. And the Pool Reporter on duty at the white house today. So, todd, id like to begin with you. Talk about the president s demeanor, the kind of Bluster Index compared to other days
youve spent on the beat and the mood around him in the west wing. It wa