republican for 17 years. can you tell us what it was that made you pivot, switch parties? i left in the late 1990s, and i can tell you when i was a republican we had republicans that believed in environmental stewardship, they believed in a woman s right to choose and they believed in voting rights and they believed in bringing down the deficit. we have a republican party that does not embrace those issues in a way that i believe most americans do. yeah. well, they say that the party has changed irrevocably. we had rick tyler on my broadcast and he said it doesn t look anything like it. it looks like the party of trump. he believes it was decimated never to return again. it was quite profound what he was saying yesterday. i want to take a look at this in regard to michael cohen. here s one of the questions that you asked at that wednesday hearing. here it is. president trump doing negotiations throughout the campaign regarding the trump tower in moscow, was he directly involved i
clean with thumarecon people. the white house is defending president trump calling omarosa a dog. you tweeted this today. local man praoubs he s not racist by calling black woman who called him a racist a dog. we know what he s saying when me tosult my colleagues and if it s dog whistling is what he s doing. it s wrong and what is really surprising because senator jeff blake tweeted calling a woman a dog is wrong. no republicans spoke up. and i actually called on jeff flake. time come over and switch parties. you should think about who you want your colleagues to be.
he knows what he s doing. senator jeff flake tweeted out today, calling a woman a dog is wrong and other republicans should speak up. too silence. no republicans spoke up. don, i called on jeff flake, time to come over and switch parties. if your colleagues don t think it is wrong to call an african-american woman a dog, you should think who you would your colleague to be. what did he say? he has not responded. actions speak louder than tweets, don, we got a big open ten on our side. congressman, thank you for your time is there a secret tape of donald trump using n word while he was on the apprentice. omarosa dlclaims that she heardt but offers no proofs. we ll dig into the feedbacacts,.
white house and met with her at trump tower. did you ever consider taking him up on his offer to switch parties? no. reporter: why not? it was a joke. he probably didn t think it was. we agree on so much, why don t you switch parties? the one thing that i just think that you have to be who you are and at the end of the day, i m an fdr republican or democrat. i m an fdr democrat. reporter: across the country heitkamp is one of five democratic senators facing re-election in deep red states that trump carried in double digits. because she s going where all other democrats are not, embracing trump. i don t think either party has all the right answers. that s why i voted over half the time with president trump. reporter: she down played the president s visit to fargo. at the end of the day, he s going to maybe say some mean things about me. that s okay. reporter: for senate republicans, it couldn t come
i ve got advice for the growing number of republicans who are choosing not to seek re-election. the senators like jeff flake of arizona, bob corker of tennessee have announced they won t run next year. in the house, republicans charlie dent, iliana ros-lehtinen, they ve announced retirement and last wednesday, joe strauss, the speaker of the texas house of representatives and a bush family friend said he will not run again. what do they all have in common? they re regarded as establishment republicans, not the type aligned with this president. what an office-holder should do when they can t be renominated, is an extraordinarily different question. most retire. to me, no glory attaches to that. some switch parties.