by senator corker. and what i think is going to be remembered as an historic speech by jeff flake, who now is liberated. look, the republican party has not changed, has not turned on donald trump and you really won t see that until people who still are running for re-election are going to be around. you are seeing this drip, drip, drip, the willingness now to come out and say the things in public that everyone is saying in private, but eli s point is i think important. irony is dead. irony has been beaten to death with hammers in this administration. also, you know, what was your favorite part of unity day in the capitol today. this was the unity lunch and think what in fact happened during this news cycle. and i think he s also absolutely right that every senator knows that this is a president who demands absolute loyalty but has no loyalty in return. but i do think that now you have bob corker who is unshackled. you have the unchaining of jeff
moving forward on healthcare, what path do you see? there are ways we can approach it next year. we can also do it under reconciliation if we write the budget that way next year. you re right. as for now we re unable to. democrats coming forward working with us, i just don t see it on this issue right now. that s why i think it was important to pass something and then draw democrats to the table. believe me, this would have been just the start. there are many parts of this healthcare system that we would have had to fix with a bipartisan majority and a bipartisan vote but it is a shame we couldn t get started at least. shannon: i want to ask you about the supreme court. you re getting involved urging the court trying to take up a case based out of a ruling by the ninth circuit. they don t think it s okay for there to be a blanket policy that criminal defendants come to court in shackles. people are innocent until proven guilty in this country and knee should be able to come in unsh
face of it. now he s unshackled. he s liberated. can he do and operate however he wants. remember, this is not a person who is meant to serve at the pleasure of anybody. he ran breitbart like a dictator. he is a dictatorial type of figure so it makes sense it didn t work well when he had to report to a chief of staff and run his ideas by people before he could do them. he likes to operate freely. now can he and that s bad news for those remaining at the white house, bad news for congressional leadership, leaders like paul ryan, mitch mcconnell. it will make life a lot more difficult for the white house because now steve has no limitations, nothing holding him back. kurt, you know, you made the point that it s not clear that bannon ever really left. we were talking about this, never left breitbart which is an ethical question, whether he was still technically there. were you surprised he gave an interview to the weekly standard which he said the trump presidency that we fought for
new york. now for this to happen, i can t imagine that the president is happy about jeff sessions saying this about his hometown. he s very territorial and possessive of new york city. it happens to be a very sensitive moment in the city. they lost yesterday a new york city firefighter, 14-year veteran, father of a young daughter. and today both police and fire kind of came together for a procession. there s a funeral next week. so just a sensitive period. eli, we have to reduce this to politics, however. whatever jeff sessions is up to, he has been among the activist cabinet members for the base. he has been. i was thinking of the exact moment between donald trump and ted cruz had in the debate. that was a powerful moment for trump. i think the administration could point to immigration more and say this is a huge success, border apprehensions are way down, we re i.c.e. has been unshackled, criminal undocumented immigrants are being deported at higher rates, these are all the thi
war to be secretary of state. so does raise the question whether donald trump believes in any of this stuff. the second question is what qualifies rudy giuliani to be secretary of state? okay, attorney general maybe. he has been in law enforcement. he has never been a diplomat. he was a mayor. yes, he did rally the country and the city to some degree after 9/11. that s not foreign policy. he has now been a security consultant dealing with terrorism, i guess, homeland security. is there anything in his record that actually shows that he has dealt with the issues that you have to deal with as secretary of state, especially when you have a president who is as ill informed as donald trump and desperately needs somebody who has that background? margaret? peter raises a fair point that republicans are raising now, too. national review is saying this much. head of national review tweeted the same thing today. as paul says this is a fight on the republican side about who will be the best r