Are rolling up our sleeves in the tax bill and not focus on all the other things going on because we think it s important for the prosperity of america. that s what i think you re going to see republicans do in the days and week ahead. the problem to that though, is everything get reduced to, as ryan described it petty bickering. what we saw today was unusual. you saw bob corker the sequence of efforts was he went on television and criticized the president, the president was watching television and took to twitter. he has basically been making cheer he considers the president to be beyond the bounds of normalcy. that is not a petty dispute. when ryan or sarah sanders describes it that way it presence that the two side are fighting. that s not what this is. thank you guys very much.
Here s what paul ryan said today. all this stuff you see on a daily basis on twitter this and that, forget about it. let s focus on helping people and improving people s lives. this is what we re focused on. let s be honest though what s happening with the president of the united states when senator corker warn about him. this is not some twitter this and that. this is the president of the united states saying untrue things continually, daily untruths, false statements, misstatements of fact, lies, call them whatever you want. it happens with regularity that they start to seem normal, it s anything but. the president s words and behavior have consequences. the leaders of other countries are well aware president says things that aren t true. is it the back and forth between the president and senator corker today. just a few hours ago senator jeff flag announced he would not
A fearful back ward looking people. those thing also threaten to turn us into a fearful back ward looking minority party. joining me now two republicans, jason miller, former senior adviser to the trump campaign, and amanda. amanda what does this mean for the republican party? well, i think the president is making the department in his own image. if you look at the people who really support trump, the steve bannon s of the world, they re happy with what s going on. if you think about it, they have a reason to be. they re going to repeal jeff flake and bob corker and replace them with very arden trump supporting republicans in the form of marsha blackburn and kelly ward. these are republicans that should be able to win their states in tennessee and arizona.
Will they have difficulties, probably, especially kelly ward. but trump is getting republicans who will support him to the edge of reason rather than jeff flake and bop corker, which is worrisome but he is driving people who won t go to the limit for him and replacing them driving those people out of the party and getting people who will. so, trump s happy. jason, the president has reason to be happy, no? i think amanda make good points, but to i guess put my take on it. what s really important to point out here is senator flake is down by more than 20 points in a republican primary in arizona and down by 20 plus points in the democratic component for the general next year. so all the rhetoric and attacking president trump, senator flake was going to lose his own primary, and le made comments today aside from the attacks on the president where
To accomplish. the administration is bigger than a president. they re going to work in the national security circle. john mccain is doing a lot of that work to try to make sure the administration of this government is well-positioned in ways there is something big happens in asia. or that we have to continue this fight against isis. we need people of those stature of that interest of that knowledge base continuing to work through that. what you hope happens is the republicans in both the house and the senate start to lead up. they stay out of pettiness and start to lead up to the white house about the kind of things we can accomplish, the republicans and congress to get done. i think you saw, i know everybody was giving ryan the hard time for it. what we re trying to say is we