The country. Why this is more than just a president ial twitter spat. What this fight with corker could mean for things like taxes, Health Occasion iran, and a relationship with a party and their president. World war iii . President trump warning only one thing will work with north korea. What is that thing . Is the president pushing, poking, prodding north korea forward a military confrontation . And tinseltown titan toppled. Harvey weinstein ousted from his company days after those bombshell Sexual Harassment allegations against him. Why some now say this is bigger than weinstein. Was there a coverup. Well get to those stories in a moment. We start with the biggest public rift today in the Republican Party and ma wha it means for a party that desperately needs unity if its going to pass an already divisive bigticket agenda. This time its the president versus top republican, once considered a possible vp or secretary of state. Tennessees bob corker, the relationship has frayed throughout this year, leading to this weekend when the president doing what he is prone to do, erupting on twitter, bashing the head of the Senate Foreign relations committee. The senator responding twofold. On sunday he tweets this. Its a shame the white house has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning. And then in an extended phone interview with the new york tooimdz, he continued with this. President trump was always treating his office like a reality show with reckless threats toward other countries that could set the nation on the path to world war iii. Again, its from the head of the Senate Foreign relations committee. We start with two reports. Nbcs chief whout correspondent Hallie Jackson and Garrett Haake is on capitol hill for us. Hallie, lets start with you. Any sense the white house is at all concerned about setting yet another gop bridge aflame . Reporter not from President Trump, craig. I think hes made that clear by what hes talking about online, on twitter. A real reversal from the president s prior attitude back in 2016 and even earlier this year towards senator corker. Burning bridges, that is nothing President Trump has ever been afraid of. Setting aside whether thats legislatively smart for him to do. Whether from a strategy perspective thats something he would want to be doing. I will tell you that privately, theres not a lot of push back when you talk to white house officials acknowledging its not great for tax reform. But the strategy so far has been, turn the fire on corker, instead. Point to, for example, what he did on the iran deal when that was happening under president obama. Tried to drive a wedge between the base, Donald Trumps base and senator corker and make this a political issue, essentially. The white house, according to public statements that top advisers have made even today, seems to think thats the way to get around this corker issue. Theres a lot here, though. When you look at what the president said online about bob corker that was part of the impetus for this. Senator bob corker begged me to endorse him for reelection in tennessee. He dropped out saying he couldnt win without my endorsement he also wanted to be secretary of state, i said no thanks. Hence, i would fully expect corker to be negative voice and stand in the way of our great agenda. A lot to unpack in that series of tweets. Lets start with President Trump begging bob corker to run. Bob corker saying, nope thats not what happened. Instead, the president called him and asked him to reconsider not running and even said he would endorse him. Youre hearing two very different stories. One from the president and one from bob corker about how that conversation unfolded. You have corker himself talking to the New York Times saying some of what the president tweets is not true. Everybody knows it. Which is to say a sharp rebuke from a senator is not to put it in play in english. You also have the idea that bob cork, as the president says, is largely responsible for the horrendous iran deal. And talking about wanting to be secretary state. Bob corker did sort of have a little vp audition, you could say, and was in the mix as somebody rumored to be secretary of state when you think about the context of this relationship, craig. I remember back in april of 2016 during the campaign when President Trump gave his first major Foreign Policy speech. Bob corker was among the first senators to come out and publicly praise thencandidate trump, now President Trump, at the time. That carried some weight because hes head of the powerful Foreign Relations committee. Its been, needless to say, a roller coaster for these two. Youre already hearing some push back over on the hill from a lot of this, craig. Lets go to the hill now. Garrett haake, senate out all week. The house out for today. I understand the trump cork feud is quite the hot topic, nonetheless. What are you hearing . Reporter it is the hot topic because its been bubbling up for so long, craig. When the New York Times story posted last night, first you heard nothing, then pushback from folks in the white house taking aim at corker. This afternoon we started to hearing from some of the president s allies on the house side of the hill taking their shots at corker. Mark meadows, chairman of the conservative freedom caucus, whos aligned himself with the president , essentially said, yeah its easy to be bold when you know youre not coming back, as corker said hes not going to run for reelection next year. What youre not hearing is criticism of corker from anyone in the senate. Democrats and republicans for the most part really like bob corker. They think hes smart. They think hes careful. They think he makes an effort to work across party lines. Republicans sort of across the spectrum do respect hes also someone who has tried to work with President Trump, including campaigning for him back in 2016. Heres some of what corker had to say about President Trump when he was candidate trump. Listen closely. I want to explain why i think its so interesting on the back side of this. His instincts on Foreign Policy are, obviously, very, very good. The rallies that i have back home arent quite like this. Pretty good. Pretty cool, yeah. This is unbelievable, isnt it . The fact that hes challenging some of the status quo, it is causing these countries to think a little differently about the u. S. Reporter you hear that language there. Its unbelievable. Hes challenging the status quo. Its not quite like this. Bob corker is a very measured speaker in his compliments and in his attacks. I think thats why youre seeing republicans who may disagree with him, maybe even holding their fire because they know the criticism from him does not come likely. I think there are a lot of Senate Republicans who are very glad they are not in d. C. This week. They do not want to get asked to pick a side in this fight. Hallie, before we let her get out of here, we understand the president may be reversing yet another obamaera rule. This time one related to clean power plants. What can you tell us about that . Clean power plan put in place under president obama. This is according to what the head of the epa scott pruitt said in kentucky today according to the the Associated Press saying the war on coal, as he phrased it, is over. Basically this week, tomorrow the expectation is he will announce a new rule that undoes what president obama thenpresident obama had put in place during his administration. Its a significant move. The Trump Administration has long tauted the fact it has rolled back a lot of obamaera regulations put in place. This is one of the talking points youll often hear from white house officials, even President Trump, when they talk about even though they havent had a major legislative win with the collapse of health care several times over the summer and early fall. This is something pruitt in particular has been fighting for since he was back in oklahoma, is the attorney general there. It came up during his confirmation hearing when he was named as President Trumps pick to leej this agency from those on the left who were concerned that this very thing would happen. That essentially the Trump Administration would work to roll back some environmental protections that the Obama Administration put in place. The Trump Administration, pruitt today, framed this as an economic issue, talking about the importance of coal issues in this country as well. Thank you. National political reporter for bloomberg, alan gomez covers immigration policy for usa today, and kirk is a political strategist also a former spokesman for breitbart. He also runs quite the Country Music website as well. The question is if corker believes the president of the United States is a danger, what will he do next . Craig, i think senator corker is giving voice to what a number of his colleagues feel in the senate, republican and democrat. The thing ive heard from several members privately about this is they worry theres a disconnect between the sort of tillerson, mattis, yell wing in the white house when it comes to Foreign Policy, who they view as meticulous, thoughtful and wanting to make these difficult tradeoffs. And President Trump tweeting habits they see as disconnected from that and a lot more dangerous. A lot of members feel the way senator corker is speaking now, now that hes politically liberated. As a political strategy, its hard to see what the possible end game could be for President Trump to alienate him. Corker is one of the most important members of congress for the agenda. Chairman of the Foreign Relations committee. He holds the key to things like the iran deal and changes the president wants to make. Securing confirmation to nominees for highlevel posts such as the state department, potentially Rex Tillerson will be replaced, corker will have a say in that. Hes also a crucial vote on tax reform. Hes laying down some stiff red lines on things like it cannot add to the deficit. Without corkers vote, its hard to see how the president gets this through. Hes been tweeting about how hes not happy with corker on health care, taxes, the iran deal. Hell be senator for the next 15 months. If the. The wants to get an aden again da through, hell probably need senator corker. I want to read another snippet from the interview with the times. He concerns me, this is senator corker on the president of the United States. He concerns me. He would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation. Also, i know for a fact that every single day at the white house, its a white house of trying to contain him. I dont know why the president tweets out the things that are not true. You know he does it. Everyone knows he does it. But he does. Whats going to be the reaction from corkers fellow republicans in the Upper Chamber . I can tell you, no ones beating down the door here at msnbc to go on tv and talk about it. Well, theyre thankful theyre not in washington this week. They hope by the time they return Something Else will have captivated everyones attention and they wont have to answer questions about this. I think the reality is trump loves nothing more than when hes in a fight. Doesnt matter who its against, democrat, republican, the media. Hes never more comfortable than when he has an adversary. He sees how his agenda hasnt moved, obamacare is the law of the land, tax reform has stalled, immigration, daca, the wall. I think hes setting himself up to say, its not my fault, its the republicans fault and we need to make big changes in the next election to bring in the republicans i need into office so theyll advance the agenda he ran on. A lot of these republicans in the senate dont want to speak up because theyll face a lot of pressure from the right. Steve bannon is ratcheting up to take on every single senator running next year. Theyre caught between a rock and a hard place because they either have to alienate their base and face political consequences or speak out against the sitting president. Those are not good options if youre a sitting senator. Lets talk immigration for a moment. The white house last night putting out its demands, if you will, for a daca fix. Certain to gain zero democratic votes. Heres the list in part. Construction of a southern border wall. Amend the law to allow removal of, quote, unaccompanied allen children. Block some grants for sanctuary cities. Hire 10,000 more i. C. E. Offers. End extendedfamily chain migration. Youve written about this. You assert this dashs hopes of a compromise all together. Why do you think that and not that it just might be an opening negotiating tactic . It would be an opening negotiating tactic if this is what they put out several months ago. The president has already been negotiating with chuck schumer, nancy pelosi. Last month they met for dinner and they thought they had come to sort of a deal. Yes, they would get protections for the d. R. E. A. M. Ers, the young undocumented immigrants brought to the country as immigrants, in exchange for some things republicans want, increase enforcement of immigration but short of the border wall. They thought they reached a sweet spot. Thought everything was rolling along pretty well and, boom, the administration comes out with this 18point plan that is a laundry list of every single sort of hard line Immigration Enforcement proposal that theyve talked about over the last couple of years. Theyve thrown the kitchen sink in with this. Theres a complete overhaul of the Legal Immigration system as to how many people can enter the country. Everything is in there. Its hard for them as they thought they were negotiating, moving along, getting to a place where they can reach a compromise. All of a sudden the white house says, were going to start with everything again. Meanwhile, a bit of irony yesterday. The white house is involved in criticism they blame the nfl players. Vice president pence left because, quote, the action disrespects soldiers. President trump tweeting before the game the two talked about doing that. Meanwhile, our guy on the ground there, vaughn hilliard, one of our producers traveling with the Vice President said, quote, a staffer told the pool that Vice President may depart the game early. Was this not political grandstanding . Of course it was political grandstanding. Its an egregious waste of taxpayer dlrz to fly out the Vice President , with the security taking a Vice President to an event like that so he can leave early and make a political statement. Remember, this comes after a week in which President Trump is being debated whether hes a moron or not by his own cabinet. Every time Something Like that happens in the news cycle, he pictures this culture war. He goes back to what worked for him, when he tried to distract away from the Alabama Senate race. He went back to the nfl. Theres nothing going on in the legislative front, so he needs to throw them some type of red meat to sew them hes fighting for the values and thats why hes doing this. Before we get out of here, a report that surfaced before the broadcast began. This report similar to a lot of other reports weve heard, a lot of hot seats in the white house. Rex tillerson, obviously, but gary cohn, steve mnuchin, if tax reform goes nowhere. Theres question about how long john kelly wants to be at the center of this circus. What are you hearing about a possible mass exdouse . Krashgs i think weve all heard rumors for a while that gary cohn is mainly sticking around for tax reform. He pretty much confirmed that after charolettesville when he had this up and down relationship with the president. He was said to be on the outs. He gave a press conference to reporters talking about the plan they put out saying, this is why im here. This is a once in lifetime opportunity to do something for peoples economic pocketbooks. Think about this for a minute. The Trump Administration already doesnt have a health and Human Services secretary. They already dont have a department of Homeland Security sect. They have two other secretaries for the use of private jets. Now Rex Tillerson possibly may be at some point in the foreseeable future being replaced. Its extraordinary how addition you know, what kind of chaos there could be if you have this mass exdouse. Especially john kelly, seen at least making efforts to control the kind of information thats brought to the president , compared to his predecessor. That would be an extraordinary thing if we see this. Thanks to all of you for being with me on a monday afternoon. Thank you. President trump once again ominously hinting at military action against north korea. Why some are now suggesting the commander in chief may be deliberately pushing the rogue regime to the brink. And the president s lawyers seem to have abandoned that scorched earth strategy in