bob corker today. he said, quote, the failing "new york times" set liddle bob corker up by recording his conversation. was made to sound a fool and

little marco, liddle bob corker. donald trump, if you are bald, if you are short, you're not worthy. you're not equal. there's something wrong with you. maybe bob corker would have been secretary of state. that's been suggested or reported, had he been a couple of inches taller. you can discriminate -- by the way, you can discriminate against short people in this country and pretty much get away with it. you can't say -- you can't talk about people being fat. you can't talk about people -- age is discrimination. you can talk about people being short and little marco -- >> it's interesting that the president does zpero in on what he perceives as somebody's weakness whether it's a disability or a height or whatever it is, and i mean he goes for that, which as a candidate is one thing. again, as president, it's interesting. >> yeah, and what did we all learn in junior high and high school? it's that the person who is the biggest bully is the person who is the most insecure and that they are trying to prove something. we

when you call bob corker, liddle bob corker, he's leaving the senate but there another 14 months, thete this deal has ramifications after the deal is struck. another aspect of the president's deal making called the mad man theory of international relations, henry kissinger said of richard knicks son unpredictable it would leave the vietnamese and others wondering what he might do. might launch a nuclear weapon and might cause them to strike a better deal. the president likes to use unpredictability in all aspects of his negotiation, again is there a value in unpredict snblts. >> i mean there absolutely is a value but in the long run in the scheme of things, it's not an effective strategy. i mean you put it down to a practical -- to simplify the situation, every time my wife and i get into a conflict, if i threaten to walk out of the relationship or to sue her family, that's not going to help us come to good solutions to the problems that we might have. i think in the international arena, the same basic concept holds true. constantly threatening does not allow people to feel comfortabl

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the president also escalated his feud with senator bob corker, calling him liddle bob corker, that follows his criticism that the president could set the country on a path to world war iii. >>> we have new information in the movements of the las vegas shooter. sources tell abc news that he had access to a service aelevatr at the mandalay bay hotel, and it's believed that could be one reason he went there. it reveals a change in the timeline that reveals staff knew about the active shooter six minutes before the rampage started. >> you have that human factor, where it they end up logging into computer and they may call dispatch at the same time he may have already started firing. >> reporte >> we have new images of items being removed from the home he shared with his girlfriend. authorities have searched the property twice. >>> on capitol hill, bipartisan legislation was introduced to ban the bump stock devices used in the shooting. it bans the use and sale and similar devices that allow you to make a semi-automatic fire like a fully automatic weapon. meanwhile, a gun control group is suing

surprise, surprise, resorting to insults on twitter claiming the failing new york times set liddle' bob corkerresident that claim by the president is utterly false. senator corker encouraged the times to record the interview and senator corker told the new york times he was recording the interview as well. it was a mutual agreement for an important interview, one that the president didn't like. >>> nfl commissioner roger goodell wants players to stand for the national anthem. he sent a letter calling for an end to the controversial protests. he writes, it's a barrier to having honest conversations and making real progress on the underlying issues. we need to move past this controversy and we want to do that together with our players. >> goodell says he wants a uniform approach for all 32 teams and the league has a plan that could be enacted during next week's nfl annual football fall meetings. meanwhile the white house is defending mike pence's taxpayer funded trip to indianapolis to the colts game last weekend. remember that pence quickly left when some players kneeled during the anthem. the

pretty clear yesterday when this fight reached the nicknaming stage, as the president deemed bob corker "liddleob corker" in an apparent reference to his sthort st short stature. that came days after bob corker had an interview with "the new york times," where he said he was alarmed he was turning the white house into a set for the prae apprentice, and worried that his comments could set the world on the path to world war iii. but this isn't the first time we've seen the president get into an argument with a member of his own party. he's done the same with senator john mccain of arizona, senator rand paul of kentucky, and also senator graham who he recently said he was publicity seeking and even once added that he didn't think he could win if he ran for dog catcher in south carolina. but those two men have apparently smoothed things over. they hung out on monday and played a round of golf. so we're seeing how even though the president does tend to get in these fights with members of his own party, sometimes they tend to fix things. but senator lindsey graham actually weighed in on this latest f

donald trump now branding bob corker liddle bob corker and hitting at the senator again this morning. nia -- >> it's like a -- >> can i say it's a lame nickname. >> okay. >> i'm going to let doug go at this. >> nia not little. nia is quite tall. i will just throw that out there. nia is tall. why she finds this ridiculous. what -- with what's so intriguing about this back and forth is i haven't seen yet and maybe it will come, i haven't seen yet that a single republican come out to condemn what corker said in this interview. what does that mean? >> well, what bob corker said publicly is exactly what so many members of congress and in the senate, whether they're moderate or conservative, are saying every day. i remember on inning into gration day, i had -- inauguration day i had a congressman say to me, this is not going to end well so i'm going to focus on my committee and subcommittee. we should remember of those critical of corker and i understand if you want to be critical, those saying he should resign, bob corker like every senator and member of congress took an oath to protect an

trump want to the last word, referring to the center as 'liddle bob corker. r countries are taking advantage of the u.s. while corker was on the senate foreign relations committee. this story is getting longer legs by the hour. we go now to our washington correspondent. good evening to you. another republican senator has joined in the criticism of trump. tell us about that. guest: exactly. we are already seeing some of the consequences for donald trump. now another republican senator has announced he will not run again for senate in the midterm elections in november next year. that means he has nothing to lose, just like corker who was also retiring. he said very clear and hard words against the president. he said one must be unafraid to speak out loud because the future of the country depends on it. and donald trump's conduct is dangerous to the country. as we know, also senator john mccain will retire from senate because of health reasons. in the past he has also recites the president. mccain has said donald trump is poorly informed and impulsive. also asked

bob corker. here's white house correspondent margaret brennan. >> reporter: in an early-morning tweet, president trump referred to the tennessee republican as "liddle bob corker and was said made to sound a fool boy a "new york times" reporter who recorded the conversation. >> yeah, i am. >> reporter: in that interview, corker said mr. trump may be headed towards world war iii. today, white house spokespublish sarah sanders weighed in. >> senator corker is certainly entitled to his own opinion, but he's not entitled to his own facts. >> reporter: she then repeated the erroneous claim that coark supported the iran nuclear deal. >> we have concerns. >> reporter: even though he voted against it. >> he may have voted again the deal ultimately, but he not only allowed the deal to happen. he gave it credibility. >> reporter: the iran deal is also a source of tension with secretary of state rex tillerson. last week, it was revealed that tillerson called the president a moron in a private meeting. >> i guarantee you, my i.q. is much higher than theirs, all right. >> reporter: during the campaign, the president often bragged about his intelligence. regardin

the failing "the new york times" sent liddle bob corker up by recording his conversation. a fool and that's what i am dealing with. donny made fun of bobby for being short. i'm not reporting things my 6-year-old saw on the playground today. i'm sharing news from the white house. >>> donald trump met with top military officials and said he wanted a nearly tenfold increase in the nuclear arsenal. a tenfold increase? excuse me why i onefold into the fetal position. >> tenfold. trump would have gone higher than tenfold but he ran out of fingers to count on. >> i want it made more by this many. this many right >> good morning it is 4:30 a.m., friday, the 13th. tam is off, jeanette reyes joins us. >> here's what we're following for you this morning. >>> carson wentz and the eagles come up big in a huge game bumping them to the top of the nfc. >>> parts in the school district are waiting the results of mold testing. schools have been closed all week. >>> 20 major fires are burning across northern california and they are not expected to die down soon. >> will the

bob corker today. he said, quote, the failing "new york times" set liddle bob corker up by recording his conversation. was made to sound a fool and that's what i am dealing with. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders also went after senator bob corker, giving a misleading account of corker's role. then she took a shot at republicans in congress in general. >> two of the president's allies has suggested that senator corker resign. does the president think senator corker should resign? >> i think that's a decision for senator corker and the people of tennessee, not for us to decide. >> the president also said this weekend that senator corker was largely responsible for the iran deal which the president has hinted that he wants to renegotiate. that was a deal that was negotiated by barack obama's administration. why does the president think that that was largely bob corker's fault? >> senator corker worked with nancy pelosi and the obama administration to pave the way for that legislation and basically rolled out the red carpet for the iran deal. those are pretty factual. >> what do you say to critics wh

the president also escalated his feud with senator bob corker, calling him liddle bob corker, that followsd war iii. mr. trump insists the spat would not affect his efforts to pass tax reform. >>> we have new information in the movements of the las vegas shooter. sources tell abc news that he had access to a service elevator at the mandalay bay hotel, and it's believed that could be one reason he went there. the news comes amid a change in the timeline that revealed staff at the hotel knew about an active shooter six minutes before the rampage started. now there are some questions as to whether the hotel could have done more the to stop him. >> you have that human factor, where it goes to a person and they end up logging into computer and they may call dispatch at the same time he may have already started firing. >> we have some new video overnight of items being removed from the home the shooter shared with his girlfriend. authorities have searched the property twice since the massacre. >>> on capitol hill, bipartisan legislation was introduced to ban the bump stock devices used in the la

let's pull up a tweet he tweeted just before 9:00 a.m. " the failing new york times set liddle bob corker up. he was made to sound a fool, and that is what i'm dealing with." the audio recording of the interview with senator bob corker, who is not running for reelection -- i'm hearing behind the scenes that this was not just about personality differences, but senator corker temperatures the foreign relations committee, disappointed in foreign policy decisions by the administration. vonnie: the president played golf with lindsey graham yesterday and is siding with potential senators who could do him some good. can he may be write corker out of the equation? are carefully watching where all of this goes with regards to tax reform, the health-care debate in which officials have told me for months they are trying to correct course on the strategy shift that they have tried to do, but the health care debate still somewhat good indicator, because people like senator rand paul, senator bob corker, senator john mccain, lisa murkowski, susan collins, they can only afford to really lose 2 people, 2

bob corker reaches a boiling point. president trump tweeted this about senator corker earlier today. "the failing @nytimes set liddleb corker up by recording his conversation. was made to sound a fool, and that's what i am dealing with!" since congress can't get its act together on health care, i will be using the power of the pen to give great health care to many people fast." meanwhile, steve bannon speaking with sean hannity last night said trump will win. it's because there is no magic wand that will drain the swamp. there is no magic wand that will blow up the establishment. i hate to tell people you're going to have to work but the grit and determination of the american men and women, we are going to win. >> kimberly: earlier today, sarah huckabee sanders continued support for the president. >> i don't think he has alienated anyone. i think congress has alienated themselves by not actually getting the job done that the people of this country elected them to do. >> kimberly: kennedy, what do you make of this feud? >> kennedy: if you are going to respond to the president and tried to play by his rules, you bette

bob corker. in an audio recording, corker warned president trump's rhetoric could lead the nation down a dangerous road. the president tweeted: "the failing @nytimes set liddle' bob corker up by recording his conversation. was made to sound a fool, and that's what i am dealing with!" corker says his aides were recording the conversation and that he wanted "the new york times" to record it as well. asked about corker saying he could be headed down the path to world war iii, president trump deflected. >> we were on the wrong path before. we are on the right path. >> sarah sanders with a little more direct. >> senator corker is entitled to his own opinion. but he's not entitled to its own facts. the fact is this president has been an incredibly strong leader on foreign policy and national security. >> the president appeared to take a shot at his secretary of state. asked about allegations rex tillerson referred to the president as a "moron," president trump said "i think it's fake news. if he did that i guess we will have to compare i.q. tests i can tell you who's going to win." the president denied the comment was meant to undercut tillerson. >> i didn't under

bob corker. the president back to name calling referred to bob corker as liddle bob corker, with two ds. and rex tillerson, openly challenging the secretary of state to an iq test after the report that tillerson called the president a moron. the president telling forbes magazine i think it's fake news but if he did that i guess we will have to compare iq tests and i can tell you who is going to win. >> did you undercut the secretary of state today with the iq comment. >> no, i didn't undercut anybody. i don't believe in undercutting anybody. thank you very much. >> you see him there with henry kissinger. sarah huckabee sanders forced to answer questions about the feud. we have got it all for you. garrett haake is in south carolina with lindsey graham someone who also feuded with the president from time to time. so, sarah huckabee sanders made it seem like everything is fine between the president and the secretary of state. to hear him tell the story, he never unt cuts anybody and he is not fighting with anyone. why this disconnect. >> also, rex tillerson is really, really smart. the disc

. >> this latest tweet against bob corker calling him liddle', not a word, doesn't need an apostrophe, but let's get to the point of this. he's now recycling nicknames. is this something the white house thinks is effective. >> you know, i don't think we can ascribe some strategy to trump's tweets. we've been trying to do that for a couple of years. i don't think it's there other than it's what he uses to go after people and he's going to continue to do that. he was not ready to let up with bob corker, but you know, i'm -- i'm not the person who's going to say we should say oh, the white house meant to do this with trump's tweets. i think he just tweeted it. >> i think you're right. what's so interesting to me there are some who are close to the president, and they think this works. when the president is throwing insults, his base likes it. it makes him look strong and in command, but you make a good point about the secretary of state. if he's supposed to be the face of american diplomacy around the world and the president is undermining him or questioning his intellect, how can he be

people like liddle' bob corker have set the u.s. way back. now we move forward!", now america is moving forward, just like thelma and louise. ( cheers and applause ) yeah! just holding hands, just holding hands. and, jim, can i see part of that tweet again. l-i-d-d-l-e and then an apostrophe? that's not how apostrophes work. something's got to be missing, other than brain cells. in fact. ( cheers and applause ) you can't use apost fees like-- here's my guess-- my guess is the president is a great lakes philosopher. i love the works of apost fees. he's better than parenthesis. i love play-doh. and a side of tzatziki. absolutely." now, trump came over for a lunch today-- he went over the senate today. he went over to the senate today. but corker didn't think much would get done. >> i do look at these things as more of a, you know, photo op. they're not really about substance. but, you know, more power to him. >> stephen: no, less power! ( cheers and applause ) you already made him the most powerful man in the world because you helped get him elected! but you know wh

. >> he talked about bob corker, of course, but the president tweeting about bob corker. quote, the failing any times set liddleby recording his conversation. was made to sound a fool and that's what i am dealing with. the president will have to confirm any number of people coming up, and can he remain until the tax cut? >> bob corker will remain senator corker through 2019. we have all the way through this year and into next year, and he is going to be a key vote on tax reform. bob corker said he's not going to vote for anything that he thinks increases the deficit. that's going to be a very tough challenge to meet. he's also head of the foreign relations committee. there are a lot of things that will come before that committee that will be important to donald trump. and donald trump, you know, shouldn't be the arbiter or he shouldn't be the cause of a rift between members of his own party. the art of the deal may be a great book to read if you're a real estate developer in new york, but it has no application to the art of politics. the art of politics is actually finding out what other people -- and getting t

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 hal

. >> bob corker tweeting about the foreign relations committee yesterday, quote, the failing "the new york times" said liddlob corker up by recording his conversation, was made to sound a fool and that's what i'm dealing with. but "the new york times" then posted corker saying his staff was recording the conversation, quote, and i hope you are, too. and white house correspondent peter baker writing in labels corker, liddle, the president was evidently returning to a theme. he considered corker for secretary of state during the transition after last year's election but was reported to have told associates that mr. corker at 5'7" was too short to be the top diplomat. they brushed off the comment at times that trump's aggressive rhetoric kol lecould leeds to w war iii. >> was senator corker right in saying we are on the path to world war iii? >> we were on a path before. we were on a path to a very big problem, a problem like this world has never seen, we're on the right path now, believe me. >> senator corker is certainly entitled to his own opinion but he's not entitled to his own facts. the fact is, this pr

let's put it on your screen, just moments ago, the failing "the new york times" said liddle bob corker up by recording his conversation. was made to sound corker, like marco or lying ted cruz seems reference to his height. bob corker is critical important element of the senate right now f the president is to pass some of the key agenda items, among them tax reform, whatever the future iran nuclear deal will look like with the president expected to dessert phi. corker will be key player on that as well. and steve knee, whatphanie, alm senators, none of them defend can the president. >> i need my panel to win on all of this. i'm joined by my panel a former democratic senator. a group that is so important right now. a bipartisan group dedicated to problem solving in d.c. i have to start with you, it's been a few days now since our original reporting. well, we know what that was rex tillerson calling the president a moron. now here we are the throw wo of having lunch. what's going to go down? >> it's hard to imagine it will take place without the elephant in the room rex tillerson over the

he can be trusted with the nuclear triad with this mature response: "the failing @nytimes set liddle bob corkerding his conversation. was made to sound a fool, and that's what i am dealing with!" what you're dealing with is a crippling case of narcissistic personality disorder. ( cheers and applause ) that's-- two things, that and this. allegedly. i'm not a doctor. this is not the first time that trump has criticized corker's height with the liddle. last year, corker was in the running to be in trump's cabinet, but trump thought corker was too short to be secretary of state. he even made him stand next to the sign, "you must be this tall to call the president a moron." >> jon: wow! >> stephen: and today, and today, we learned that corker might be on to something because according to politico, white house aides use delays and distraction to manage trump. chief of staff john kelly "has tried to limit bad decisions by blocking information from the president's desk." and sometimes, staffers would even distract him with a visual aid "like charts on how farmers might feel about ending the north ameri

the president coming out today with a tweet, the failing "new york times" set liddle bob corker up by recording his conversation. was made to sound a fool, and that's what i am dealing with. just to be clear, though, corker told "the new york times" his aides were recording the conversation and they should also. here he is. >> we're recording it. i hope you are too. >> so the president was wrong there. but obviously, using the word liddle, two ds as he did with marco rubio. what is the point of these childish nicknames and things? or david, does he not see it as childish? >> well, i think the president sees it as a effective, and i don't think he cares whether it's childish or not and doesn't care what a lot of people think about it. from his point of view, and we have seen it with past presidents, what worked for him to get them elected president will assume it's going to keep working for them until it doesn't. i think he's taking what was very effective in the primary and general election and using it in his view to govern. i think the problem for him, if he's worried about tax refo

let's start with liddle bob kosher, paging marco rubio who may have to say something about that name being taken already. bob corker knew he was on therd wrote. he acknowledge in the transcript being on the record. you heard garrett talk about the reaction from republicans like lindsey graham. this isn't helpful for the president. >> corker knew what he was doing. he was sort of approaching this point earlier, he sent out the tweet about the adult day care center, the white house being like an adult day care center. and it's also something that as heidi and i have discussed, a lot of senators, a lot of republican senators feel. they have similar sentiments. the interesting thing is that he went on the record to express that. he knew he was going on the record. and he knew that there would be a fallout like the one that we're seeing right now. or he had to know that. >> and newt gingrich is acknowledging that none of this is potentially useful for the president when it comes to his legislative agenda. he was out this morning talking about it. here's what he had to say. >> the truth is the president will not get his

he call him incompetent, lightweight, mocking him as liddle bob corker and saying he couldn't be electedog catcher in his home state of tennessee. corker responded, same untruths from an unerly untruthful president, #alert the day-care center. >> the president's former top strategist steve bannon declared war on the republican establishment that mccain, bush, corker and flake represent on bannon's side right now, they look like they are win, at least they think they are oning because corker mccain bush and flake now have wul one thing in common, none of them are running in 2018 and many of them may not be in the united states senate after that. one of them joins me now, senator jeff flake. senator, wow, what a day. let me ask you this, why did you decide to announce your decision today. >> as soon as we decide as a family, why wait. things like this tend to leak out. and so we decided to go forward. but this has been a tough decision to make. i'm not leaving because i'm sour on the institution. i love the senate. i love the people here. this is a good place to be. it's a wonderful job to

the president tweeting out that the failing "new york times" set up liddle bob corker by recording his conversation. was made to sound a fool and that's what i'm dealing with! >> i don't think he has alienated anyone. i think congress alienated themselves by not getting job done that the people of this country elected them to do. reporter: david, people i spoke with here at white house and capitol hill, do not feel this back and forth with bob corker will not have any impact bottom line on tax reform but as one republican told me, probably doesn't help. david? melissa: right. david: full speed ahead on tax reform. that is what we say here. blake, thank you very much. melissa: let's bring in today's panel for reaction. liz peek from the "fiscal times" and jason rotman from lido isle investors. liz, does it make you nervous when they talk about adjustments? what is going on? >> this is early negotiation. the framework is there but a lot of details have yet to be penciled in. i think there will be changes. the gop has done a good job, white house has done a good job messaging the tax bill

tweeting, "the failing 'new york times' set liddle bob corker up by recording his conversation.ade to sound a fool and that's what i am dealing with." that's what i'm dealing with? hey, man, you're the leader of the free world. stop talking like a stressed out burger king manager. [ laughter and applause ] i got two guys out today, i'm working the drive-thru myself, plus the mouse is back so, yeah, that's what i'm dealing with. [ cheers and applause ] now, corker's warning about trump is urgent and necessary but the most revealing thing he said was not about trump it was actually about the republican party as a whole. corker told the "the new york times" that the people around trump as well as his fellow republican senators know and agree that trump is unfit for office. corker told the times, "i know for a fact that every single day at the white house it's a situation of trying to contain him. the vast majority of our caucus understands what we're dealing with here. of course they understand the volatility that we're dealing with and the tremendous amount of work that it takes b

people like liddle bob corker have set the u.s. way back. now we move forward, e. tonight senator flake begins the piece remembering the famous words of joseph welch when he reached the breaking point in a senate hearing with republican senator joseph mccarthy who was the donald trump of his day. >> you've done enough. have you no sense of decency, sir? at long last, have you left no sense of decency? >> jeff flake quoted joseph welch approvingly saying those words in an op-ed piece where jeff flake asks how many more disgraceful public feuds with gold star families can we witness in silence before we ourselves are disgraced? how many more childish insults do we need to see hurled at a hostile foreign power before we acknowledge the senseless danger of it? this summer, jeff flake wrote a book entitled "conscience of a conservative: a rejection of destructive politics and a return to principle." that book foreshadowed jeff flake's retirement announcement today. because for most of us, it was very hard to read senator flake's thoughtful book and imagine him successfu

people like liddle bob corker have set the u.s. way back. now we move forward. that coming minutes after senator corker let loose in a frank discussion with reporters at capitol hill. >> at the beginning of the administration, you supported the president. do you regret that now? >> well, what do you think? at this point, with what we're dealing with like i think most americans and, you know, i've got a job as a senator to do the best that i can to check that, to check against that. and when he's right, of course, i think, you know, some people think that, you know, we carry out our personal feelings on policy. but that's just not what most of us, anyway, do. we do things based on what we think is good for the country. so it's -- you know, it's a sad part from my perspective. but i think the worst it's going to be, just the pull of the base, if you will. that'll be a contribution that hurts our nation most. >> you think the president's debasing the nation? >> that's the case in just the way he conducts himself and goes to such a low level. i do. but look. the rest

people like liddle bob corker have sent the u.s. way back. now we move forward. the press secretary sarah sanders did an interview on the north lawn of the white house earlier this morning and she was asked if she thinks this feud between the president and a very prominent member of his own party would affect that lunch today. here's what she had to say about that. >> i think if bob corker is suggesting leaving it to the professionals, and he's referring to himself, we've left it to him long enough, and he's been ineffective and now i think we need to, you know, let the president take the lead on this front, working with leader mcconnell and others, that really want to see some productive change. >> reporter: now kate, it's hard not to see how this feud won't overshadow this lunch today, a lunch many republicans were hoping would be focused on getting some progress on tax reform because this is a party that's desperate for a legislative achievement, but it looks like right now the focus will be on the tension between the president and bob corker. >> don't know ho

the man who called the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee today liddle bob corker. that is what pathological lying looks like. i don't believe in undercutting people, on the day when he publicly undercuts people. there is not a person in the world who does not know that donald trump is lying when he says "i do not believe in undercutting people." and donald trump knows that you know he's lying, but he cannot stop himself. you have never seen that before in a president. you've never seen a president who publicly proves he's telling a lie on the very same day he's telling that lie. and that is why senator corker believes this president does not have the stability or the competence. those are his words, stability or competence to fulfill the duties of the presidency. and as a result, we are on the path to world war iii. >> mr. president, is senator corker right that you're putting the u.s. on the path to world war iii? >> we were on the wrong path before. all you have to do is take a look. if you look over the last 25 years through numerous administrations, we were on

people like liddle bob corker have set the u.s. way back. now we move forward. it is likely, kristen, that the ding we just heard on your phone was your alert going on with the second part of the tweet here. which is obviously and very clear right now is that the president and bob corker and this escalating feud has turned into the headline of the day, the story of the day. and it continues from there. >> reporter: that's right. and the white house would argue the president is a counterpuncher. this is what we heard on the campaign trail repeatedly. but you talked to garrett about the frustrations behind the scenes that republicans have and expressed privately about this president and this chief among them. the fact that he engages in these twitter feuds. the fact that right now instead of preparing for his intelligence briefing, his very busy day, that he's clearly monitoring what senator bob corker has to say about him. and he's engaging with him. and, of course, there are so many different issues that are really looming large here at the white house. not only

today, he talked about -- chris buskirk, he talked about senator corker being -- he called him liddle bob corker said he couldn't win an election for dog catcher. is this the kind of thing that a president should be doing in relating to members of congress, especially members of his own party? >> well, you know, maybe -- i know i probably am a minority when i say that, but number one, look at the practical results, donald trump did win the presidency, even though everybody said stay off twitter, don't do it, and he didn't and kept winning. so there's the practical aspect. the other thing, it strikes me ironic someone like senator corker would take to twitter to criticize the president for his intemperate use of twitter. the irony doesn't strike senator corker. if he starts a twitter battle with the president, he knows he'll get a response so this seems contrived and provoked to me. >> woodruff: brian, who should be restrained here? should the president feel free to write whatever he wants, which is what's been happening, or would restraint make sense? i mean, how do you see that as somebody who'

. >> sarah, president he have referred to the liddle, bob corker again. i'm wondering if the white house continues to work or continues to plan to work with senator corker's team to -- a law that gives oversight to the iran accord you already don't like? are you working with him to change that law? are you still willing to? >> we're certainly willing to work with anybody that wants to come and put forth real solutions to be part of those solutions and not part of the problem. charlie? >> specifically on iran, you are? >> we'll be happy to work with all parties bettering the american people. if he wants to be part of that we would certainly be happy to talk about it. charlie? >> former secretary of state hillary clinton just issued a statement condemning reported behavior of one of her prominent hollywood donors harvey weinstein. the president said he wasn't surprised by the news. that he had known harvey weinstein for some time. my question is, does the president have reaction to clinton's statement and secondly, does he have a, his own reaction on how mu

the president saying failing "new york times" set liddle bob corker up. the "new york times" very clear that senator corker was well aware and on board with having that conversation taped. but all of this the back drop to the briefing today. we should say that the president pressed on whether alienating corker might derail efforts to get tax reform passed. the president disputed that and said he believes that americans want tax reform so ultimately he thinks he can get it done. >> you're on capitol hill. you are in charleston, south carolina which is inveeable to be honest. you have been talking to lindsey graham. lindsey graham hasn't always been a big fan of the president but today it seems like he is trying to smooth over the tensions between the president and congress. >> i think that is right. lindsey graham struggles empreliminae emblematic but recognize that he remains the president of the united states and the leader of their party and someone who needs to be on the team if they are going to get things done. i interviewed senator graham and he sai

trump continued his feud with bob corker of tennessee tweeting with the foreign relations chairman at the end of our show. he wrote, quote the failing "new york times" set liddle bob corker up by recording his conversation. was made to sound a fool, and that's what i'm dealing with. the "new york times" reporter then posted the audio of corker saying his staff was reporting the conversation and quote i hope you are too and without correspondent peter baker writes, if labeling mr. remarker liddle, the president was evidently returning to a emthat. he considered mr. corker after last year's election reportedlied to associates mr. corker at 5' 7" was too short to be the nation's top diplomat. yesterday they brushed off corker's comments that trump's aggressive rhetoric could lead to world war iii. >> mr. president, is senator corker right to claiming you are on the path to world war iii? >> we were on the wrong path before. all you have to do is look f. you look at the past 25 years through numerous organizations, we were on a path to a very big problem a. problem like this world has never seen. we're on the right path right now, believe me. >> senator corker is