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Loyalty is still viewed as a very important characteristic here at the white house, and those people running for office will be loyal. but these votes are so important. tax reform is one thing republicans are still clinging onto tonight. there s still not an exact path as to how they will happen. maggy, have you seen a day like this? no, think about how many times we ve said that over the course of the last three years. this is staggering. one of the take-aways you have two senators bob corker and jeff flake saying i can t take anymore of this and i m not running for re-election. basically you have two people who are freed to buck the president as hard as possible in as raw terms as possible because they re not at risk anymore. the question then becomes when there be a ground swell of others behind them. ....
There is no evidence of that so far. he be been against trump for a long time. corker has been a much slower and deliberate burn. their language today was very, very different. corker essentially called the president unfit for office. flake clearly did. whether that then leads to new criticism or rising criticism remains to be seen. what you saw from paul ryan does not suggest there are a lot of people who are going to follow them into the breach. david, people may say this on capitol hill privately, but to maggy s point, unless they plan to leave office, it doesn t seem like you re going to hear a lot of people standing up like this. i think we probably won t see others standing up, anderson. we now have two additional republican senators who have broken sharply with the president, cries from the heart, just a moral indignation of what ....
It is is almost intellectually dishonest. he said something. he got in trouble for it. he s going to keep fighting just like roy comb told him to. you re saying i m being intellectually dishonest. maggy, you couldn t be intellectually dishonest if you tried. i m sawing the idea that he is a contrarian. maybe he is just taking the other side. that s not who he is. no, i think we re saying the same thing. when somebody tells him i m saying what you said. when somebody tells him he is wrong, he immediately says what about xyz, his default position was some form of what aboutism. that is the one he is expressing. whether he has thought about it or the reasons why he is saying it, when you re president at theened of the day, it doesn t matter. months and months his aides ....
Priebus was against this, was not in favor of this, you know, abrupt firing because he was concerned whattled do the legislative agenda. now, he does not have the juice necessarily to enforce or to stop the president. i m told he didn t even go that far. but initially he was resistant to this. but others sort of allowed this to go forward. there s no one i have heard min my reporting we ll see how this plays out, we re still early in this that told the president not to do this. stunning. maggy, we ve heard so much about what president trump thought of comey. you have new reports about what he thought of comey and what comey thought of the president. and we ve heard whuf jeff said played out in those rooms. comey felt the president was ....
All the democrats love that even the democrats voted to confirm him. he s a former obama u.s. at or near. even before that, he s a career guy. but it s not very often that trump appointees, nominees get bipartisan votes sw that s what happens. and the question has been quietly among people who knew him, when is he going to speak up. also, maggy, what was so disengen ws about it is i believe that rob rosenstein believed the letter he wrote. donald trump doesn t agree with one word of it. he couldn t care less. his only objection to how comey dealt with hillary clinton the washington post story ....