Not defense or country. Charlie in a tweet, present trump called corker a htweight trait we live a lightweight. We live in a land of ideals. We are custodians of ideals. We have done great good in the world. That leadership has had its cost, but we have become powerful and wealthy. We have a moral obligation and we would bring more shame on ourselves if we dont. Charlie and former president george w. Bush said this nationalismeen resort to nativism. We see a fading confidence in the International Market and trade. Charlie all of this comes as President Trump met with republicans to discuss his tax reform agenda. Joining me now from the washington post, robert costa. As you have seen these people, especially jeff flake, announcing he will not run again, knowing he would not have the support of the president. Costa what a moment, two senators, corker and lake decided not to run for reelection this year. For the political establishment, for their own party and for the country. The latter
enormously important different spending than students, reciting the poll tax. the difference is most people don t care the tax affected every family. students these are middle class people. people are very eloquently talking about the future of their own education and brothers and sisters education and do you think fundamentally what universities have to offer for educational change as a result of this? absolutely. today marks a very profound shift and the parliament was given little time to discuss this profound move which we are going to have because of the nature of the cuts, because the nature of the state funding for all sorts of subjects, the humanities being taken to task social sciences, and as a result of that, the cost in total laid upon the graduates, and david wrote some interesting books and had interesting thoughts about his generation, the baby boom generation effectively stealing the money from the younger generation. we thought it was a critique. we now
i have chosen not to seek reelection this year. let me be clear to you. i didn t decide not to run for the senate because i m despondent about the state of affairs here. it s just not the case. these are difficult and troubling times, however, but i didn t decide not to run and choose to criticize this institution, although there s plenty to be critical of. i just don t want to add to the burdens of this institution. this institution is too important to the future of this country. and i could talk, by the way, for hours about the joys of serving here with individuals. you know, i was thinking about the late ted kennedy when i was jotting a few notes standing at his desk back in that row over these years. i think and no one will mind me saying this i think he s the best legislator i ve ever seen in terms of getting things done. but ted kennedy, full of passi passion. and on certain days when he was agitated and full-throated, you could hear him out on the street fighting a