court fight, it s not clear trump s team would win that fit. it coo protract the entire mueller investigation which mueller wouldn t and certainly trump wouldn t want it either. i wouldn t put it past trump to say no to a subpoena and test it. then he has to deal with it month after month. whs sitting down, he doesn t have to do that. he might as well go after the supreme court. thank you eric swalwell and greg bauer and phillip bump and kate republican senator bob corker of tennessee says his party is like a cult when it comes to falling in line behind president trump. the number one sin in today s republic party is crossing donald trump. plus, trump is bragging there s no more nuclear threat from north korea telling everyone here at home they can sleep well tonight. does he believe his own hype after giving so much to north korea for so little in return? and the hardball roundtable takes on the republicans
a senior republican senator is now calling his own party cultish. for their blind loyalty to president trump and fear of upsetti upsetting him. here was senator bob corker of tennessee earlier today. look, we re in a strange place. i meant s almost you know, it s becoming a cultish thing, isn t it? and it s not a good place for any party to end up with a cult-like situation. corker s scathing attack comes a day after he criticized fellow republicans for not supporting legislation to prevent trump from imposing tariffs on some of our closest allies. let s watch. a lot of them would vote for it if it came to vote. but no, no, no, gosh, we might poke the bear is the language i ve been hearing in the hallways. we might poke the bear. the president might get upset
white hocerevious campaign experience been feed into the next one and mueller was trying to parlay that into getting trump to talk about the peace plan he got from ukraine. you re so sophisticated. outgoing republican senator, i love this phrase, outgoing, they start talking when they re outgoing, they become outgoing. bob corker calling out his fellow republicans as being like a cult, like jonestown or something under president trump. let s watch. we have a lot of people who are willing to do the things that they feel are right for our country. we have some who are fearful of upsetting the president. agwould mostly be around the leadership. but it s not a good place for us to be. corker said part of the cultish behavior comes from concerns over getting re-elected. south carolina congressman mark sanfo lost his primary last night after poking the bear ublicans republicans don t want the tweet i got last
the president s sheer sheaf is. they believe in higher taxes, bigger government, fewer jobs and that s the proble it s not is the job of washington to fix it. we are the party of president dnld jump trump. there it is. no doubt about it. if you look the primaries, but also the popularity ratings, trump has about 90% approval rating with the republicans. pretty high. the only guys taking on the president right now are michael flynn, probably manafort and probably cohen. thing they will. thank you feehery for being in t barrel one more time. as i mentioned earlier, virginia is one of the five states to hold a primary last night. the state is expected to host one of the most closely watched congressional races in the country. last n fer wexton beat t five othtes for the right to take on barbara comstock. comstock is viewed as one of the country s most vulnerable house
before trump, he talked about steel. you just told me anything trump wants he gets. right now, is he extremely popular. he s extremely popular. where is the principle and i ll do anything the boss tells me to do. there s no principal there. during his concession speech, congressman sanford who is looking pretty good defended his past positions like down in buenos aires. let s watch. there s been too much made of are you for one personality or against it. what we re about as a nation is not being for or against one personality. again, we re a nation of laws and not menace the founding fathers said. i stand by that belief though in this case it may have had had significant electoral consequence. lost the primaries. sanford s opponent kate arrington backed rubio during the presidential election. last night she declared the republican party of trump while attacking democrats who stand in