with the shoe on the other.

>> if i have been critical, it's not because i relish criticizing the behavior of the president of the united states. if i have been critical it is because i believed it is my obligation to do so. i have children and grandchildren to answer to. and so i will not be complicit or silent. >> senator flake's speech came shortly after president trump visited the capital. trump allied led to his accomplishments since taking office and asked for senate republicans to push through a major tax reform package. the piece was responded with

three standing ovations. there's little peace in the republican party tonight. not between senator john mccain and trump, or bob corker and tru trump. corker began the day escalating his fight with president trump, a man he previously warned might be leading us toward world war iii. after corker appeared on warnings criticize iing the president, trump responded by mocking him on twitter. corker fired back. let's watch. >> is the president of the united states a liar? >> the president has great difficulty with the truth. >> do you regret supporting him in the election? >> let's just put it this way. i would not do that again. >> is he a role model to children in the united states? >> absolutely not. it's obvious his political model and governing model is to divide. and he has not risen to the occasion. the worst of it is going to be just wto hold the base.

>> you think the president is debasing the nation? >> i don't think it's any question. just the way he conducts himself and e he goes to such a low level. >> those are not new york accent ises you're hearing. it's a southern guy going after the president. a spokesman for the president said he dismissed the criticism from corker and flake. she called their words petty. let's watch. >> i think that the people both in tennessee and arizona supported this president and i don't think that their numbers are in the favor of either of those senators and their states. so i think this is probably the right decision. i certainly think history is going to look at this president as somebody that helped defeat isis, built an economy stronger than it's been in several decades, brought unemployment to a 16-year e low, i think those are the things that people actually care about. not some petty comments from

senator corker and senator flake. >> amazing how you can take credit for something without having doing anything. susan page is the washington bureau chief. peter baker is chief white house correspondent for "the new york times." peter, tell e me right now. do you think this is a tipping point? i'm looking at three senators, senator mccain, flake and corker, all stating the objection they have with the president. basically a divorce proceeding. this person is not going to change. and the way they are now is unacceptable in the office of the presidency. we're not going to say anything else until he leaves. >> it's pretty interesting. this is the third interesting speech we have heard from a major republican in the last week. you have president bush, senator mccain, senator flake today. all saying similar things. about the direction of their own party and the country under president trump. the tipping point it's hard to

know. they face another election in the future. and that's an important point. that the other gave him standing ovations. while a lot of them gave jeff flake some nice words, few of them were willing to say the things that he said because poesz of them plan to run again for reelection. that's the party right now. how willing is the party to voice what it thinks, at a time they are being threatened with primary challenges back home. >> it seems to me fellow colleagues, the republican party has two. you can be a sycophant and act like you're a member of the cabinet. people bowing to the president, the members of the senate felt they needed to do. mitch mcconnell does act more and more like a toty. i respect him, but he's a toty. he walks around next to the president like he's serving him. and then now the other way is to walk.

remember one of the toughest lines i ever heard was napoleon said the only victory in love is to walk away. if you love the republican party, it seems like that what what you do. you quit. it's so ironic and sick. >> i get that, but there's a third option. you stand and fight. >> who is doing that? >> this is my point. no one is doing that right now without the exit standing right next. >> they are all walking. >> we will see here from this point going forward whether or not there is that space for them to do that. how much do you value reelection. is is it the most important thing in your life or is it really about your country and your party and the service that's required to govern the nation. if that's not your standard, then, yeah, take the exit or just go their and link the boot.

>> which puts most senators in a bind. they have to either support the guy or walk. it seems like -- you say there's a third kois but they haven't exercised that yet. >> it's still there. >> they are not doing either thing. they are neither standing up to criticize trump, but they are also not standing up to criticize corker a eer and flak. >> it was interesting today when flake gave that dramatic and powerful speech today right afterwards mitch mcconnell said that was a very fine speech by a fine man. >> no one is saying you shouldn't have said that. no one is saying stop with the criticism of trump. that's not encouraging, but it seems to me this is unbelievable. this is remarkable. have you ever seen anything like this. not only where you have a war between a president and the senators from his own party, but where the rest of the party is standing on the sidelines doing their best to stare at the grounds hoping no one notices they are there. >> he didn't think he could win another election. let's watch what he said. >> i don't see a path forward

for a traditional republican like me, conservative like me in the current republican party. the path to victory in the republican primary these days is to agree with the president, not just his policies, but the behavior as well. not to speak out. and i can't do that. i don't think that we as a party should do that. if we do, we'll learn soon enough that resentment is not a governing philosophy. >> maybe not, but let me tell you. one thing that strikes me is when somebody speaks in a ghoulish fashion. when someone like kelly in arizona talks about how john mccain should step aside, give up the seat so she can have it because he's in ill health. most people would say that's indecent conversation in public. but today it seems to be okay in the republican party in the states where they are very red. is this okay now in a republican

conversation to say i think that guy has a terminal disease. he should get out of the way so i can have his seat fast. it doesn't seem to hurt her standing in arizona in the republican quarters. >> there's no question that the kinds of things we have heard this year from the white house and last year on the campaign trail, we never would have heard in previous campaigns. . or certainly without political consequences. so i think this is a different atmosphere, a different environment and era in which at least for some politicians, that kind of sort of blunt talk, democracy in times talk is if not rewarded, certainly tolerated and accepted and sometimes cheered on for people looking for fighters. this is a president who will fight back and voters wanted him because they wanted him to be strong and not weak. that's the way they see things. >> susan, what do you think of that? i listened to flake's speech today. what impressed me was he was so

concerned about language, coarseness. treating everybody as your fellow member of the senate like they were the head of north korea. even that's kind of strange. it's all bullying and e getting up at 6:30 in the morning and polluting the atmosphere with personal assault on somebody you're fighting with that day. >> what strikes me is it was not ideologic ideological. there was no debate over the vietnam war or the divide over the civil rights struggle. it was over character, tone, tactics and so this party is being ripped apart just over those things. not over what the party stands for. >> he criticized a number of networks including nbc. >> left to his own day vices, do you think the president is a threat to national security? >> i think that there are people around him that work in an effort to contain him.

when you kneecap your secretary of state, whose diplomacy you have to depend upon to really bring china to the table to do the things that need to be done, when you kneecap that effort, you really move our country into a binary choice, which could lead to a world war. >> president trump attacked corker in a series of tweets this morning. trump said he couldn't get elected dogcatcher in tennessee. he said e he dropped out of the race when he refused to endorse him and now only negative on anything trump. he called him a lightweight and the head of the foreign relations committee. people like liddle bob corker set the u.s. back. the president sitting on his phone typing it out. it's one thing to have a slur on the schoolyard, but to take your time that you have been elected to be president, i'm taller than him. he's president.

>> he's president with time on his hands. because that's the only way you can explain that behavior. >> he is taller than corker. he had a right to call him little. >> he's taller, but the fact of the matter i think still remains with what now our senate leaders and house leaders e prepare to do as they deal with big issues that you mentioned before with the budget and daca and all these other things stand iing between now and the end of the year. my. bet and what i'm hearing is there's going to be a lot of capitulation towards this president. the folks that came to washington to shut down the government because we spend too much and need to get our defi t deficits under control will probably pass a budget with a $1.5 trillion hole in it. i don't know how we egoback to those voters and say to them, oh, i just spent a trillion and a half dollars that your kids and grand kids are going to have to pay for. work it out, tokes.

tell me how you have that conversation. >> how do they go along with that? >> because their concern is is that they are going to get primaried by bannon and pressure from the president. >> thank you. this is a dramatic day. i think it might be near a tipping point. i am very impressed with what flake had to say today. more on the show tonight. he did almost say it here. he didn't want to be caught by his republican primary voters out in arizona talking on a show like mine against his own party. but he has now elevated himself to exactly that point. he went after the party today. thank you always. coming up, nine months into the trump presidency and nothing is changing. that was the message from flake. this guy ain't going to change. trump is sticking with the schoolyard bully act. that's ahead. plus trump versus the republicans, today's spat with bob corker is the latest in a

string of battles with his own political party. we have the low lights of that coming up. and raising arizona. jeff flake's historic speech today could open the door for democrats in a state that have wanted to one. we'll be back with their chances now that flake is calling it quits. let me finish with trump watch. it's important tonight. this is "hardball," where the action is. i rode shotgun in lee and i looked for bombs. stop short. i don't see nothin' man. you don't see it, he feels it. you are my hammer out there. don't let these young guys see you fold. ♪ i'm only human, i make mistakes ♪ ♪ i'm only human, that's all it takes ♪ ♪ to put the blame on me i'm alive because of you. i'm not a hero. we're brothers, we look after each other. thank you for your service. rated r. big thinking in the finger lakes is pushing the new new york forward.

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long for president trump's behavior to change. i'm doin joined by david johnston. thank you for joining us. this is a very important night to have you on. i'm glad we do. can you tell us if trump ever changes? because e we don't like the way he's been behaving, this schoolyard bully he's been for all these months now. >> no, and why would donald change. his whole life of misbehavior, swindling people, evading law enforcement, look where it's gotten him. his perspective, this is pretty good. it's unfortunate that we don't have more republicans. where are other elders of the party saying this has to stop. >> they are in the tall grass. >>. >> why do all the people that had to deal with him beforehand. i can't tell you the number of

people who never paid his bills. he would sue them until they gave up. he just always was aggressive. never paid bills. was not honorable in business and yet he's rich as hell. i want to know how. why do people do business with a guy that won't pay his bill. s? >> because he would move on to the next party. you're seeing in washington now donald and e he talked about this in the art of the dole. he would cheat you and cheat someone else and then you won't do business with him. he finds another sucker. there's a sucker born every minute. and now he's in a position where he can't change the other people in office. so he's trying to get rid of those people, especially the principle people in his own party. he's trying to promote the most craven politicians around. the people who will do what a.m. row is a said. everyone will bend their knee to donald. >> let me ask you about this problem. it's not like putting a building up. he can always walk away from a dole and say it's not good enough. i'm not going to sign. now he needs 50 vote s s to get

anything passed. which means he needs all but two u.s. senators from the republican party. he has just pe,ed on three of them. the math is pretty simple. he doesn't have 50 anymore. no democrat is going to leapfrog those three republicans to join him. so what's going on here? how could he get a tax bill if he doesn't have his 50 votes? >> i don't think he can. i think you will see the people on the right who are fiscal hawks find that they are unable to swallow a $1.5 trillion hole. larly if the distribution tables come out. there's one study showing iningo to 1%. and if you're in the middle clags, you'll save $8 a week under the trump plan. >> i don't think it's going to save the average guy. thank you. you're a profit, sir. up next the republican president versus his own party.

today was the latest chapter in the tortured relationship between donald trump and his fellow gopars. we'll look at the low lights, next. this is "hardball," where the action is.

absolutely. spectacular things for ts american people. we can't dpet started and whether it's health care or immigration, so many different things. >> they gave republicans control of the white house. but nine months into. the president's term, they have zero legislative accomplishments in terms of bills passed and the party is dominated by fighting. let's take a look at this situation. >> our new president has not

been in this line of work before. i think it's how quick ly it happened in the democrat process. >> what happened in my opinion is unacceptable. people have been talking about repeal and replace for seven years. i was not impressed. >> whether or not we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. we are his kwul equal. >> we can't be a governing majority much longer it we continue down this path. >> nobody wants me to talk about your other senator whose weak on porders, weak on crime. so i won't talk about him. nobody wants me to talk about him. nobody knows who the hell he is. >> today, scathing criticism by

senator flake and corker. here's senator flake. >> there's an undeniable potency to an appeal by misunderstanding our problems and giving into the impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful back ward looking feem people. in the case of the republican party, those things also threaten to turn us into a fearful back ward looking minority party. >> for more i'm joined by brett stevens with the new york sometimes. and matt slab, chairman of the conservative union. i want you to go over this. it seems to me we're getting a pretty impressive set. it's a small set of republicans. saying they don't like this president. they don't like his character.

he's bring us down. it's koz mim. they want him out of there. >> usually these fights are more quiet. >> you have people who are very grass roots and evangelical. i would say they are still back era of the majority, meaning i want prayer in school. where these people fit together or do they fit together and how do you put together a majority to get anything done on the economic issues that trump has to win on? >> let's take the tax bill, first of all. most people are fairly confident that flake and corker will vote for the tax bill. i agree with you getting to a fistfight with them puts more questions about where they will vote. despite the deficit that's going to result.

i think we actually pay for too much of this tax bill. we have seen eight to ten years and i'd like them to see their economic ross pekts. >> i want the president to continue to freeze regulations they passed 12 of these through congress. cut taxes and make it possible for america. >> we know there are a lot of people out there that just don't want to be with trump. i would put john mccain on that list. they don't want to be the 50th republican for trump. they don't want that role in history. they would be mavericks because they don't like him. >> you have to ask yourself what trump's comments about mccain in 2015, 2016 meant for his vote on health care. the president lives to alienate

and belittle members of his own party. that has legislative consequences. on the other hand, failure may be in a sense at the heart of the president's strategy. because i'm not quite sure he's interested in governing the united states so much as he's interested in taking the reigns of cultural and ideological reigns of the republican party, much like steve bannon is. he once described himself as a le nonist and gain control of the left. it's gaining control of the right by purging the republican party of its best and most decent elements as a first order of business. >> let me suggest something. he's into circuses. i do believe the circuses part. i accept that. if he can't deliver a tax cut this year, then all the market stuff, all the dow jones is all based upon the expectations he will cut taxes.

especially the corporate rate. if he can't, can he take that readjustment where it goes down and the unemployment rate goes up and the bad stuff happens between now and the next election? will his people still love him? >> there's two pieces to get the economy rolling as far as republicans are concerned. stop the regulatory state that obama went hog wild over and cut taxes so bad people have economic prospects again. as far as the idea that trump is purging people, you have to remember jeff flake is at 18% amongst republicans in arizona. susan collins wouldn't b have won the primary for governor in maine. john mccain would have trouble if he were to run again. they have political problems in their own state. >> i would say that would cut to their advantage. conservatives want a fighting president. these senators don't realize that's what they want. >> back to you on that question.

you really think this republican president can survive politically through 2020 and get potentially get reelected if he doesn't deliver on the economy. deliver not just sale along on expectations, but actually deliver. >> this is not a president who operates according to normal political rules of delivering legislative successes that translate into better policies. this is a president who as mccain and flake and others have pointed out lives by scapegoating. what we know just historically is that's a very successful form of politics. if you can continue to say the reason i didn't get health care was the republicans were weak, they failed to deliver, the reason i didn't get the border wall was the same reason. they be just as effective among his base. >> i know it works in the short

run. can you build a political career on demagogue ri. >> i think you're only looking at politics in the american sense. think in turkey and think of argentina. it's been very successful. trump is taking us out of normal american politics. if he doesn't get results on these key issues, it's a problem for them politically. the legislative branch is a separate and equal branch of dpoft. he promised the people of arizona he would be for repeal and replace. >> republican corporate leaders want one thing. lower corporate taxes. it feeds the stock. >> they don't need the cash. they need more cash to give to the stockholders to keep everybody happy. thank you. i think you're too much the party guy. up next, the senator retiring at the end of his term. do democrats stand a a chance to win that state seat in arizona. i don't think that's the most

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flake told the arizona republic, which first broke the news that there may not be a place for the republican like me in the current climate or the current republican party. that's strong stuff. it's clear this was a decision that the senator wrestled with for some time. despite this summer, flake seemed apprehensive. here's senator flake on this show "hardball" while he was promoting the book. watch him hold back when i tried to deliver when he said in the book. >> what do you owe donald trump in terms of loyalty? >> i'm a republican. the president is a republican. >> is he a republican? >> he's the president of the united states. >> you're not answering my question. >> the president of the united states from whatever party is usually the leader of that party. >> do you accept him as the leader? >> e yes, but that doesn't mean that i agree with everything he does. >> is trump a demagogue.

>> i think all of us as times demagogue and he does some of it too. >> he was tiptoeing there. broke the story of flake's decision and the paper today and the reporter with "the washington post" formally with the republic. we have two experts here in arizona. let me go to dan about this thing. why is he quitting the senate at the end of his term? >> thanks for having me on. he doesn't want to quit. he still loves the senate and the institution, but he just sees no path for him to get reelected in the current spell, as he put it. hen doesn't think the spell is going to last forever in the gop. he doesn't think it's going to break by next year. he locked at the numbers in the polls and found the path getting narrower and narrower. >> can he join the line and line up behind trump? would that have gotten him reelected? >> he said that was kind of the

path he would have had to take. he could have had to compromise on immigration. he doesn't want to embrace those poll i sis that trumps a pouss. he took a long look at it. probably back when he was talking to you in that clip, he probably thought he could finesse it, but it wasn't going to happen. >> he wrote the book. he said from you're sitting, read the book. hen wasn't willing to say it on this show. because look what he said on "hardball." he trash ed our president on "hardball." >> back then he wasn't doing as poorly as now with voters. i believe three times as many people don't support him as do. so he doesn't have as much to

risk. >> flake faced a tough fight against republican opponent kelly ward. a poll last month showed that among republican primary voters, ward led flake by 27%. a hypothetical general election matchup. can a democrat win a will recall general out there if she's the nominee? >> a democrat can win statewide. it doesn't happen very often. but if a democrat runs kind of conservatively, runs to the right, runs as a centrist, a democrat can win. janet napolitano won as governor. >> senator is hide harder. even utah elected a governor. when it comes to the senate, it's ideological. you think arizona is liberal enough to pick a democrat of any kind. >> it's been 1988 was the last

time a democrat won a senate seat in arizona. >> i remember him. >> i just bumped into him at some event. >> so since then, it hasn't happened. i think it can happen. they are formidable that she raises a lot of money. and she has a centrist record. in the house she's been voting centristly. i think she's a great around 50% of the time she votes with trump which is a high percentage. >> we will see. thank you for your expertise. the arizona republican. up next, republican senators may be e fed up with the president, but trump's face is holding strong. what did they make of today's news? still running 4 out of 5 republicans backing trump. they are with him. solid. you're watching "hardball." david. what's going on? oh hey! ♪ that's it? yeah.

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welcome back to "hardball." the press secretary says president trump has more support than republican senators bob corker and jeff flake and john mccain. who broke sharply with the president this week. the latest poll shows the president's job approval at 80 rs. steve bannon cam page d for the challenger last week. here's what he had to say. >> the last couple days mitch has been saying this big thing. you got to win. winners make policy. losers go home. mitch, note to self. big luther string and bobby corker are both going home. these people, mitch, it's 2-0. they hold you in total and complete contempt. they think that you are a group of morons. >> flake now makes that three.

a source close to bannon said his reaction to flake's retirement today was simply, quote, another day, another scalp. that's steve bannon. i'm joined by the "hardball" roundtable. let me start with jennifer on this. republican voters are sticking with trump. some of these leaders who have come to respect are not. they seem to be offended by his coarseness and bad language and bullying. all the character flaws that our parents and the nuns and everybody tried to talk out of growing up. they seemed to like it. >> sure. i mean i think there are voters out there still looking for a vehicle for their anger. trump is that vehicle. he's doing a good job doing that. but really when you see people like mccain and corker and flake go after trump, it's really sort of a reaction to the fact that trump has effectively done is

driven a wedge between the trump republicans in the establishment by constantly calling republicans out. he's made their lives much more difficult than they have to be. >> some are not down far enough. they are all laying down for them. like he was. >> reportedly three standing ovations at that senate lunch today. the danger you hear steve bannon say he makes three scalps. the danger for president trump is if this is a tipping point and more republican senators align themselves with bob corker and jeff flake, then the president can can find himself being a president without a pardon. it's a really dangerous thing in these polarized times for trump because he then would be irrelevant. >> who to follow up on jeff's point. who has shown to say i'm sticking. i'm going to run for reelection and take on trump and the

republicans. anybody? >> mccain is somebody i realize is very ill. but he is somebody who has decided to go all in. trump also faces something to your point about being sort of a president without a party. he might soon be a president without a pagety. because the senators he's taking on are going to be in play now. that we're not in play before. >> back to my point, which i keep try ing ing to get to. able big part of trump is the anticultural stuff. he's really good at it. at what point does he have to deliver the bread? that makes enough republicans happy and zips up the economy enough that the market stays up, unemployment stays down and he looks. >> the trump mo is he has put

that on senate republicans. what he's saying is if i fail, if i don't deliver these things, it's not my fault, it's their fault. >> you think that will sell with republican voters. >> it's so far selling. that's the wedge he's driven and creating in the party. >> how do you vote against mitch mch if you're a republican and live in a different state. you root for trump. >> exactly. i mean it's funny that until this cycle not. many people really knew who mcconnell was. in a lot of the senate polls, mcdonnell konl's numbers are upside down and by a lot. >> i don't think the trump agenda is as much a policy as it is remaking the republican party in the image of donald trump. we're seeing that happen realtime. >> i also think when you look at the agenda, i think tax cuts is bigger than donald trump. this is something that every wing of this party really wants.

and i think to e me the amount of pressure to get that done is insurmountable and will happen. >> what do you think of the image of steve bannon? he makes trump seem like a nice guy. he's bullying scalps. he walks around thuggish and he definitely want thes the looks and acts that way. . voters like that. >> so far republican primary voters seem to like it. the anger, he's able to sell. so he seems like sit iting at t main bar seat daring anybody to challenge. >> he was the scalps may become useless. if he puts seats in play that shouldn't be in play because he's collected these scalp. s, what good are they? >> interesting use of the term scalps. the roundtable is sticking with us. these three will give me some scoops. we'll be right back.

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have hearts. okay, go ahead. >> there was a story in "the washington post" about a small montana company until up until now got a contract on puerto rico, now they were calling into an investigation for the spending. >> you know more about puerto rico than the president does. >> you know what, if the senate race becomes competitive then it becomes possible for the democrats to take the majority. however, that means they need to hold all of their own seats. that is not impossible. last time the party did that was in 2014. >> okay, thank you, we'll have jennifer back again to tell us who is going to win next year in all of the races. when we return tonight, let's finish with the trump watch. he will definitely not like tonight. you're watching "hardball." how do you chase what you love

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trump watch tuesday october 24th, 2017, quote, we have fooled ourselves for long enough that a pivot to governing is right around the corner, a return to civility, by now we all know better than that. with those words today, senator jeff flake, a republican of arizona, now said he cannot see green in a party dominated by trump. i knew when i was hearing the senator's words it was from an echo, another time, with an

epiphany, when walter concrite voiced that what we faced in those years we would see again, we have been too long with the opposition to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds, for it seems now more certain than ever the bloody experience of vietnam is to end in a stalemate, a stalemate is a perfect term for the country, position, trump dominates the republican party but nothing is getting done, we awake with nothing changing, like ground hog day, we learned that trump has marked the day with another tweet, at another fellow republican or minority or a woman. but the senator announced in his

speech, the moral authority as the entire world is routinely threatened by the level of thought that goes into 140 characters. and it's not going to change. senator john mccain has seen it, senator corker has seen it, u.s. senator flake now has seen it. we have the man in the white house controlling the levers of power, including the nuclear power that the intelligent lawmakers do not see fit to be there. and that's "hardball" for now, thank you for joining us. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on "all in". >> i think the basement of our nation will be what he will be remembered most for. >> republicans lighting up their own party's president. >> i have children and grandchildren to answer to. and so mr. president, i will not be complicit