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.
Senator bob corker says the president is debasing the president. i want to get some reaction from capitol hill. senator how are you hearing about how this came about? there was no question there were pulling down in arizona for months now. they recognize his path way, not just against the well funded and well liked democratic challenge but also in his primary it was going to be different. they weren t sure it was a path for it but there was also the personal. anderson, i think anybody that have been paying attention the last couple of months have seen the seeds of this sewn from the senator week after week. he wrote a book about this. he declined to endorse president trump, spoke about this repeatedly on air and the senator floor. there were significant problems he had with the republican problem.
From flake today, people say look, if you really believe what he s saying, is the conclusion well, i m going to step aside and give up or should the conclusion be i m going to fight and run and if i go down swinging i m going to go down swinging. i asked him that question, why not fight for it. he s facing a very conservative trump-like character name dr. ward who has said a lot of trump-like kind of things. he called for the senator to retire once he announced his brain diagnosis. he s held speeches on chemtrails. the republican voters of arizona won t judge too well and he said basically yes. let s play that. i think the fever will break,