donald trump wants for himself. he s governing by the politics of perception because he that s why he tweets things out that aren t true and repeats them over and over again. perception is reality, and you keep repeating things, people believe them and he knows that the base judges him specifically not necessarily what else is going on. all he cares about is how he looks. just look at the tweets he sent out today. minus the ones going, the petulant by the senators. he tweeted how wonderful the senate lunch was today because he received many standing ovations. you cannot govern with success for the entire american for the united states of america when you re just worried about yourself. but he didn t tweet about flake, he tweeted about corker. are you surprised that he no, i think we ll see that eventually. all right. you said that was number one, what was number two? number two is you have to remember that for, for members
is more behind the president than these two individuals. he is high spirits after flake s announcement, and an ally also celebrating, steve bannon added another scalp to his collection as another establishment domino falls. reporter: both senators are scheduled to leave the capital january of 2019, and the white house needs them to get anything important that is partisan passed. thank you very much. moments ago we spoke with senator jeff flake about the president s new tweet and senator flake s reasons for speaking out now. is the only reason you dropped out of the race is you had zero chance of being elected? it s difficult to be re-elected in the republican party right now, and in arizona in particular, it doesn t matter the policies that you adopted,
trump. they heralded it as a significant speech ever. how can anybody support what donald trump is doing? flake is right. but for most voters and that s where the party is, they thought flake was wrong and the evidence of that is he probably couldn t win in a race in arizona and that s why he is getting out. melissa: you know, i struggle with those favorable numbers because i feel like i think a lot of our audience probably feels still burned by the polls from the last election and there are those who say all those things are meant to influence not to reflect what s going on. do you really believe in the favorables as they are said today? i believe in the trends. whether he started at 45 and down to 39, the trend of all the polls is he is going in the wrong direction. presidents enhance their ability in that policy the more popular they are. one of the facts of the trump presidency. he has been very popular with his base with 35% of the country. a president wants to grow that. yo
back. here is senator jeff flake today on the senate floor. i rise today with no small measure of regret. regret because of the state of our disunion. regret because of the disrepair and destructiveness of our politics. regret because of the indecency of our discourse. regret because of the coarseness of our leadership. regret for the compromise of our moral authority. and by our, i mean all of our complicity in this alarming and dangerous state of affairs. it is time for our complicity and our accommodation of the unacceptable to end. so strong words, sarah, including regret, disunion, and complicity. is the senator wrong? no. he s 100% right. and those of us who try to warn america about this and try to warn the party that this is what you were going to get if you
not passing trump s agenda, not at donald trump himself. yeah. i mean, i just think and steven, i appreciate you coming back around on this, but what you said at the outset was to suggest that these two men are saying what they re saying because their poll numbers are low as opposed to them having an honest belief that this president is a danger to democracy. and is a danger to truth. and that i think discredits them. i mean, they re your friends one quick thing, i wasn t saying that they re saying it, what i m saying is they re not running for reflection because their numbers are bad. i didn t say this is some kind of personal corker has a chance of winning. he did. but his numbers that jeff was way under water. he was going to have a very brutal primary and then a brutal general election. a lot of, you know, people who would run the senatorial committee are kind of happy.