Opinions | If Republicans won’t risk defeat to tell the truth, Trump will own their party Norman Ornstein When Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), once mocked by President Donald Trump as “Liddle’ Bob Corker,” retired in 2018, Trump loyalist Marsha Blackburn succeeded him. When Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) retired, he gave a farewell speech making clear that he didn’t want to be “complicit” in the Trump agenda but declined to defend his seat in a primary. On Monday, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) announced that he, too, would not seek another term, noting, “We live in an increasingly polarized country where members of both parties are being pushed further to the right and further to the left.”
gretchen carlson, of fox news has is write it down, document it all, especially if it s at work. tell someone else, so that you have a record, so that when you do eventually take it forward, you have that evidence, as well. but lauren, you re brave. thank you. thank you, guys. all right, ahead for us, politics. house republican leaders are set to speak any moment. we re monitoring that. will they talk about this ongoing feud between republican senator bob corker and the president? we re on it. and mr. president, you are better than this. one of the commander in chief s best friends, those are his words to the president, about his rhetoric and his policies. plus, eminem speaking out in really fierce terms against the president of the united states overnight. will the president react?
and i think most people really don t care what two politicians think about each other. so i hope we can move on. so there s a chance we could hear more on this from the president today, as he welcomes the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau here at the white house. and then later this evening, heads to harrisburg, pennsylvania, to tout his administration s plan for tax reform. but we ll be waiting the see, john and poppy, we ll keep you updated if he says anything else. please do, kaitlan collins of the white house, thank you. let s discuss. there s a lot to talk about with republican congresswoman, diane black. it is nice to have you, congresswoman. let s start with the fight that is escalating by the hour, between the president and the junior senator from your state. he called him liddle bob. corker shot back saying the white house is an adult day care center. what say you? nice to see you. i don t want to talk about this nonsense being said bafferck an forth. i want to g
there. what you missed is he was commenting on the feud between the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, bob corker, and the president. he says he thinks that senator corker and the president ought to work it out. get along. get along. thal find some way to do that. now, the speaker prefers heavy metal, but rap music is in the news today. is that true? that is 100% true. i believe you. fact. he may listen to eminem as well. eminem, very much in the news this morning, for sort of a freestyle takedown he did of the president that aired on the b.e.t. awards last night. when he tack attacks the nfl so we focus on that instead of talking about puerto rico and gun reform from nevada all of these horrible tragedies and this border would rather cause a twitter storm with the packers this is part of what is clearly a multi-front culture war right now, taking place also on the football field. the president wrote this morning, it is about time that roger go
but it s also, frankly an abandonment of really serious work on the part of the president, to solve the bigger issues. there is no way in hell that for any other president, the nfl would be on the top ten list of problems in the white house. just no way. and this is the first time it s happened. we re going to have more of this. but i think it s part it s a game. it s a political game. it s a series of stunts to distract us. when, you know, this week, within 24 hours, it looks like, he s going to decertify iran and start us on a path that s going to be very controversial. we still haven t solved the north korea problem. he promises tax reductions or tax reform. where s the bill? he s dismantling the environmental regulations. he s got all these other things going on that are really serious for the way we live. and these other things that are just like, come on, guys. just like he ought to make it up with bob corker and get moving and deal with the serious