charge of america's foreign policy from the legislative branch, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, is going to work with the person who is in charge of our foreign policy, the executive branch, the president of the united states. over the next 14 months with some very serious challenges facing us and they're clearly not on the same page, and by bob corker's telling today, he doesn't think they're capable of getting on the same page. >> and, by the way, rex tillerson probably won't be around for as long as bob corker's going to be around. >> you know, bianna, i want to point out, rex tillerson reportedly calling the president of the united states a moron over the summer. it follows former president george w. bush without mentioning the president by name a very serious critique of the president by the former president, republican as well. senator john mccain also bitterly critical. none of this is happening in a vacuum. >> none of this is happening in a vacuum at home and you have to remember that all of our allies and adversaries abroad are watching what's happening here as well. s

other news on capitol hill tennessee senator bob corker who is the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee is sounding the alarm about president trump corker tells the new york times in an interview that the president is leading us to world war three corker also said the white house is an adult daycare center they've gone back and forth from return fire on twitter claiming that corker didn't have the guts to run for reelection in tennessee and wanted to be the secretary of state in the trumpet ministration what corker is saying might have a lot more impact if he was running for reelection you could make might make that judgment. he has nothing to lose but maybe an old score to settle whatever that might be for more on this let's go to our panel tonight mitch caesar former florida democratic chair is with us and also sean steele former california g.o.p. chair with us gentlemen good to have you with us i don't i don't know what the upside of this is we've got so many hot spots around the world this rainy a nuclear deal the issue with north korea the back and forth there and now the president

i am proud of the record of our senate foreign relations committee. senator shaheen serves on that committee. 98-2ve been able to pass major deals on north korea and iran. we have been able to handle the iran agreement by bipartisan process. all of that was under senator corker's leadership. his reputation here is excellent as a serious legislator who knows how to work to get things done, and is a principled individual. sen. schumer: president trump always like to point fingers of blame. one day it is senator mcconnell, when they senator corker, one day the democrats. yacht to look in the mirror. is not getting anything -- he ought to look at the mirror. the reason he is not getting anything done is because he spends all his time attacking people and not any time solving problems. >> [inaudible] sen. schumer: we haven't seen the bill. they haven't asked us to make it better. thaton't put down a bill focuses on the wealthy, raises taxes on the middle-class, blows a hole in the deficit, and cuts medicare and medicaid, and then say, tinker at the edges an

on the path to world war three such is the risk says the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee that he says i know for a fact that every single day at the white house it's a situation of trying to contain him it's not the first time bob corker has spoken out against the president after noting last week he wasn't going to run for the senate again he felt bold enough to say this i think. secretary tellers and secretary mabus and. chief of staff kelly. are. those people that help separate our country from chaos that candor seems to upset president trump he took to twitter to claim that corker begged him to back him in the senate race but he refused that he asked to be secretary of state and was rejected and then you know expected corker to be a negative voice corker decided not to let that pass remember this is an open exchange from two senior republicans he responded it's a shame the white house has become an adult daycare center someone obviously missed their shift this morning he then followed up with the interview with the new york times i'm hoping that more senators will real

retiring republican senator bob corker, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, spoke to the "new york times" this weekend saying president trump is acting "like he's doing the apprentice or something." he may have a point. senator corker is certainly not the first to point to the plot twists and cliffhangers that come out of the trump white house and compare them to reality tv. just look at what's been happening over the past few days. this public fight with a respected senator. we'll dig deeper into that in a moment. the undermining of a critical cabinet member responsible for sensitive dealings with north korea, and iran. more on that ahead. and an abrupt change in the president's deal with chuck and mention that. we'll explains that, too. plus, what sure seems like a made-for-tv moment orchestrated by the president when vice president pence walked out of the indianapolis colts game after players from the san francisco 49ers knelt during the national anthem. but it's the feud with corker which could mean the most headaches for the white house. they need every single vot

regard to time constraints, can anyone hazard to guess how many in this body right here, senate foreign relations committee were in the senate was passed?1 aumf not one. not one member of this panel was the 2001 aumfwhen was pastore the 2002 for that thematter. seven of us run the house at that time and vote about it but not one has had the opportunity to weigh in on it 16 years later. i would argue that the concern about giving our adversaries notice that if we have to vote it may be an issue, but it is overwhelming in a big way by not having congress by -- by endt having us and not having us have skin and game, simply allowing us to criticize the administration, republican or democrat if we do not like what they are doing because we have not weighed in. have not set our peas. we have not voted on this. aboutsay that any concern having to come back, we have a five-year sunset on ours. years. that is pretty long. but congress needs to weigh in. sure that oure adversaries and our allies, and most importantly our troops know that we speak with one voice. so i hope that as we go along we relativeabout the imp

this is a top republican, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee saying this about theresident of the united states. what is the most damning accusation that bob corker is making here. anthony: i think the tweet earlier in the day about the adult day care center got the biggest headlines but if you look at the new york times interview coming says donald trump lies in his tweets regularly and everyone knows it. everyone in congress knows what they are dealing with, that he is a big distraction. he is the one giving voice to it. concern is that bob corker is saying what a lot of people feel. he does not have to run for your reelection last year so he feels a little liberated. what about the political implications for the president right now as he is relying on bob corker or not? anthony: this is a very narrow margin in the senate. we have 52 republican senators. you can only afford to lose two and still pass any piece of legislation as we saw with health care. bob corker or not? that wentthree and down in flames. if donald trump is taking a fight with bob corker and bob c

secretary tillerson would join secretary mattis on capitol hill taking questions from the senate foreign relations committee. we will have live coverage on eastern. 5:00 coming up tonight on c-span, the president awards the medal of honor to an army combat medic of the vietnam war. the chairman of the joint chiefs of that updates us on niger. combating violent extremism as well. the c-span buses traveling across the country on our 50 capital store. we recently stopped in frankfort kentucky, asking people what the most important issue is in their state. one of the more important issues that is going on in kentucky right now is public pensions. legislators are getting ready to call a special session to try to fund our pensions. it is important to all the public-sector workers and all of their families. includes firefighters, police officers, state workers, and various other members who have joined us and our partnering with us. it's very important and our coalition is trying to write and make sure that the legislators do the right thing and find a funding source for our pension. issues inthe biggest this stat

folks, this is the powerful chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and the president of theates in this very public feud. the trouble between the senator and the president has been brewing for weeks, underscored by this remark from corker last week. >> i think secretary tillerson, secretary mattis, and chief of staff kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos. >> this all on the heels of corker three weeks ago questioning the president's stability and competence. after he assigned blame for the violence of charlottesville last summer to both sides, senator corker's vote will be critical for many of the president's legislative goals including tax reform and foreign policy challenges like the iran nuclear deal. and for some context, i think we should point out this is a guy is w.h.o. is on the short list for vp and pulled himself out of the rung. then he was on the short list for secretary of state as well before obviously rex tillerson. >> and he pulled his name out of the running because he was concerned by the president's comments. >> this is his own v

mr corker, who chairs the senate foreign relations committee, shot back calling the white house an "adult" and that "someone obviously missed their shift". later in the day, during an interview with the new york times, senator corker went on to accuse donald trump of treating the presidency like "a reality show" with actions that could put the us on the path to world war three. our north american correspondent anthony zurcher told us more. exactly. we see what donald trump and macro to picking a fight and donald trump has it fights with lots of republicans but this is the first time one of his fellow republicans has really pushed back. bob corker essentially calling donald trump alaia in his interview with the new york times. donald trump called bob alaia a coward, saying he did not have the guts to run for re—election. donald trump annoying any senator, re—election. donald trump annoying any senator, even one re—election. donald trump annoying any senator, even one that will be gonein any senator, even one that will be gone in little over a year is dangerous if you want to get his agenda

mr corker, who chairs the senate foreign relations committee, shot back, calling the white house an adultare centre and that someone obviously missed their shift. later in the day, during an interview with the new york times, senator corker went on to accuse donald trump of treating the presidency like a reality show with actions that could put the us on the path to world war iii. our north american correspondent anthony zurcher told us more. we see donald trump and bob corker picking a fight here and donald trump has picked fights with lots of republicans in the past but this is the first time one of his fellow republicans has really pushed back. bob corker essentially calling donald trump a liar in his interview with the new york times, after donald trump called bob corker essentially a coward, saying he did not have guts for declining to run for re—election. the senate is very narrowly divided in the us. there's only a two—seat majority for republicans. donald trump annoying any senator, even one who is going to be gone in little over a year, that is dangerous if he wants to get his ag

the republican chair of the senate foreign relations committee is his target and corker is not holding back, telling the new york times that the president is treating his office like a reality show and the president's threats against other countries could put the u.s. on the path to world war ii. it is a stunning public spat escalating after the president went after corker on sunday on twitter. write tag corker only decided not to seek re-election after the president refused to endorse him. and corker responded that the white house has been an adult day care center and corker's spokesperson tells cnn the president's claims that they were not going to endorse corker, they are not true. they say the president urged corker to run again and offered his endorsement. and a list of immigration priorities to strike a deal with d.r.e.a.m.ers. and topping that list, funding for a border wall on the southern border and a crack down on sanctuary cities. but to the public spat between two republicans. joe jones is at the white house with more on this feud. joe? >> reporter: poppy, it is extraordina

is pretty unprecedented for a senate foreign relations chair of the same party to question. >> as errol lewis pointed out he needs corker and the senate relations committee to approve key positions, ambassadorships that are still vacant. let's move on to the vice president walking out of the colts and niners game after some of the 49ers knelt during the national anthem. america is divided on whether players should kneel during the national anthem north but something else significant happened over the weekend and that is more white see prem sist rallies and protests in charlottesville and the president has tweeted twice applauding his vice president for walking out of the game because of the kneeling and the white house said nothing, not a single tweet, about what we saw in charlottesville over the weekend. >> yeah. i mean i think it's telling and part of a longer pattern that we've seen over the last few weeks where this white house is much more concerned with prying open this culture war wedge that is created by some of these issues and really leaning into it. creating a whole new news cycle around the nfl. i mean, frankly, poppy, there are probably as

that blasting corker who likes to remind ourselves is the republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. >> dickerson: ramesh, blasting him saying, this from the president, senator bob corkelers see, i said no, and he dropped out. do you want to antagonize your senate foreign relations committee with five and a half months to go in job? >> well that will certainly teach corker's ability to raise his fitness for offer. >> it is no another strategic play by the president. i think it is a pure frustration move that he saw senator corker saying critical things and he does what he does, which is lash back regardless of whether it serves any particular interest. >> dickerson: jeffrey, two things that i would like to get your view on, the president said that there is just one thing to do in north korea, presumably meaning military. how do you read that and then secondarily there is also reports that the president would decertify iran in terms of the nuclear agreement with iran. >> right. so these are both linked these are inextricably linked, one would think that when you are in a nuclear conf

about what else is going on, certainly this feud with bob corker, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committeedviser today who said the president is going to keep going on this. he's going to go after senator corker again he believes to continue this weekend feud here. you know, there is some handwringing inside the white house because the reality is the president needs these republicans. there is not that wide of a majority. he wants tax reform done. he can't have many defections, in fact, any defections here. that's the long-term effects, the worry among republican advisers the president picking these fights. >> on that note, i was told the whole thing apparently started as a restart of this was what corker said last week about the people around president trump, kind of keeping the country from chaos. the question, of course, was why did it take him four or five days to send the tweet? which he did randomly yesterday morning. i was told that people around him were begging him, at least up until yesterday, successfully, please, don't respond to corker. it's not good for anything. and he -- th

the senate foreign relations committee is looking into it, and people on both sides of the aisle want to know the facts. >> let's talk about that for a moment. the niger issue and congresswoman wilson has made the point, too, what we want to know is what happened to the troops there. you would be one of the leaders that would get the briefings from the white house about it. senator mccain indicated he doesn't feel congress is getting enough information in a timely manner from the white house about what went wrong in that operation. do you feel you are being properly informed by the white house? >> we have not been so far, but notice has been served so we will see what they do. >> it's ironic that with benghazi your colleagues on the other side of the aisle, the tr tray gaudy's of the world wanted a hearing. >> i think they would do it, the services committee, and the foreign affairs committee that has jurisdiction over the scope of the authorization of the use of force. i don't see any need for them to go into what they did in benghazi because that was politically motivated and this s

what you have is the chair of the senate foreign relations committee saying that a president of his own party is so reckless and volatile that he's a threat to the security of the nation and the world. i am unaware of a precedent for that. william fulbright criticized lyndon johnson on vietnam, but we have not seen something like that -- >> let's be clear -- >> there needs to be a way to debate and grapple with that comment. >> let's be clear about bob corker for a second. i do a radio show every day in tennessee and known bob corker for years before he was a politician. if anyone is becoming unhinged right now it's bob corker for the fact he's trying to rewrite history about his time in the senate and stand up to donald trump because he was going to lose re-election. the people of it tennessee cannot -- let me just finish, the people of tennessee rejected bob corker. they don't like him. they think he's been a fraud, a rhino republican in name only, and that's the only reason why bob corker is not running for re-election he knew he was going to get beat badly in tennessee. if you come

the same issue senator bob corker, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, was gettingconcerns about president trump's erratic behavior with "the new york times." saying i know for a fact every single day at the white house it's a situation of trying to contain him. cnn's jim acosta joins me now live from the white house. the president responded today to senator corker's comments that the u.s. is heading on a path to world war iii because of his reckless comments and tweets. what did he have to so i? >> reporter: that's right, jake. date started off with the president responding to senator bob corker's critical comments by making fun of the senator's height. the white house went further were sarah sanders quieting pat moynihan, saying you're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. this from a white house that once talked about alternative facts. >> it's an honor to have dr. kissinger with us. >> reporter: just as president trump was asked once again to express his confidence in secretary of state rex tillerson. >> do you still have confidence in secretary

back and forth with a powerful us republican senator bob corker who is chair of the senate foreign relations committee and is set to retire launched a remarkable attack on the weekends on twitter he said that it's a shame the white house has become quite an adult day care center trying to claim senator corker had begged him for an endorsement ahead of a congressional election in his state of tennessee then in an interview with the new york times called to accuse trump of tracing the presidency like a reality t.v. show and making direct threats that could stand a country into a world war three. at least twelve people have drowned after a boat carrying wreckage of refugees from mammal to bangladesh capsized said of those who died were children it is the third such accidents since people started fleeing violence and. sixty people drowned twenty boats capsized last month. has more from cox's bazar in bangladesh. with news that yet another boat full of refugees capsized while it was attempting to cross from me and more to bangladesh comes another reminder of the magnitude of this refugee crisis and the fac

, back and forth between the president of the united states and the chairman of the senate foreign relations committeenator corker says the debasement of our nation is what he will be remembered for, says he would not support the president again, the president responded calling senator corker liddle bob corker and said the senator could not get elected dog catcher in tennessee. seems like a good basis to hammer out a tax deal. joining me is daniel, director and founder of the harvard international program. thanks so much for being with us. i want to start with the back and forth today. where in your syllabus do you cover the utility of insults, calling people liddle bob corker, how does that help in a negotiation? >> how does it help? well, typically, an insult leads to another insult. it invites an escalation, a conflict of tension. at the end of the day it really depends what is your purpose in a negotiation. if it's to enlist somebody else's support, then insult probably isn't the best strategy forward. >> in other words, probably not covered specifically in the forward of your syllabus or book in

to now see critical voices like the chairman of the armed services committee, senator mccain, the sheryl of the senate foreign relationscorker. and now my friend and colleague on the foreign relations committee jeff flake. passing as leading voices here in the senate in the next couple of years, that's very concerning to me because i think they have been central to leadership in my time at least in the senate on this important bipartisan issue of our leadership role in the world. >> do you believe, senator, that more republicans are prepared to publicly speak out against the president the way senators jeff flake and bob corker have? >> we'll have to see. it is my hope and expectation that many republicans will as time unfolds here act on their concerns about president trump's sometimes erratic and frankly unconventional behavior. he said as a candidate that he would be unpredictable and unconventional in foreign affairs and he has certainly delivered on that. but in terms of the response we've gotten from our allies who are deeply concerned and our adversaries who are i think emboldened by this behavior, i think it's i

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just moments from now the senate foreign relations committee will hear from secretary of state rex tillerson secretary jim mattis. lawmakers want to know whether they need a new war authorization or a umf, and why it took two days to recover the body of sargent ladavid johnson after the ambush. late last week the pentagon said he was never left behind. >> what are reporters getting wrong on the niger ambush? >> i think the thing that they got wrong was that we abandoned one of our soldiers. as the chairman said, there was always someone looking for sargent johnson. >> u.s. officials have said american, french or nigerian forces were always looking for sargent johnson amid fears he had been taken captive. his body was discovered by niger forces and a u.s. drone was sent overhead minutes after the attack and it was unarmed. u.s. forces in africa have long complain about the lack of eras es." the hunt for isis in al qaeda is spreading to more countries this year the u.s. military dropped bombs in six different countries libya, syria, iraq, yemen and afghanistan. a new aumf or war authorization

well, it was because of what senator corker as chairman of the foreign relations committee was able to do. he worked with republicans and democrats to pass this iran review act which passed overwhelmingly in the senate 98-1 and in the house 400-25. this bill was the bill that gave congress the ability to actually weigh in on the iran deal which otherwise the obama administration may have very well gone unilaterally and passed this motion by itself. and so, of course, when we look at this claim from the president, the reality is that this is simply a false claim. senator corker was one of the most vocal opponents of the iran deal and he worked with both republicans and democrats to oppose it. wolf? >> yeah, they needed 60 votes, this resolution of disapproval against the iran deal. they got 58 so that was shy, but even if they would have gotten 60, the president would have vetoed that resolution of disapproval that they would have needed a 2/3 vote to override that veto. corker was opposed to the deal from the beginning, but they simply didn't have the votes, right? >> exactly. that's e

of president donald trump in an interview with the new york times the chair of the senate foreign relations committee said trump is treating the presidency like a reality t.v. show and making reckless threats that could steer the u.s. into world war three the rate of return to refugees fleeing ongoing violence and myanmar has again and crazed following the law in recent days almost five hundred and twenty thousand have now crossed into vonda bish the nation's military crackdown began six weeks ago on sunday at least twelve died when their boat capsized in the waters off bangor they she. has more from young gone. well people of course have been fleeing violence in the north of the country in rack and state but what we're hearing now from the united nations office for humanitarian affairs as well as from residents of hmong door which is the epicenter of the conflict is that people are leaving because simply they're going hungry there is a lack of food aid people who are on a subsistence existence already and now now face restrictions on their movements they can't access the market they can't go to thei

of president donald trump in an interview with the new york times the chair of the senate foreign relations committee said trump is treating the presidency like a reality t.v. show and making reckless threats that could steer the country into world war three officials in the u.s. state of california say ten people have been killed and fast moving wildfires about twenty thousand people have been told to leave their homes in the northern one producing region and evacuation orders are being expanded as another blaze spreads through orange county in the selfe more than one thousand six hundred people are facing mass trials in nigeria accused of being members of the rebel group boko haram the trials are being held behind closed doors at a military facility right school so they're worried about the lack of transparency the u.n. security council has banned member nations from allowing for north korean leg ships to dock the vessels were used to transport prohibited goods to the country the comes as pyongyang marks the seventy second anniversary of the founding of the ruling workers' party there are concerned

set to announce his iran strategy and will need the buy-in of corker, chairman of the senate foreign relations committeeith "the new york times," corker said mr. trump acts like he is on a reality show. >> we could be heading towards world war iii with the comments he is making. >> corker added the president urged him not to retire. the senator has criticized mr. trump before. particularly after he equivocated on white supremacist violence in charlottesville. >> the president has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the confidence that he needs to demonstrate. >>> overseas, u.s. backed fighters are waiting to make the final assault on raqqa. after months of fight, raqqa is all but destroyed. with gunmen holding out amid the rubble. holly williams reports from syria. >> reporter: the body of five soldiers rot in the desert heat killed a week ago according to militia men. one still wearing a suicide belt. the stench of death is everywhere in raqqa and so is fear. this is how you get to the front line. at break neck speed, to avoid isis snipers. there is the thud of u.s. coalition air

the senate foreign relations committee chairman a republican says president. world war three zero. we're taking. on this edition of public. welcome to politicking on larry king there's been an escalating war of words and tweets between president don trump and republican senator bob corker of tennessee who was once seen as a trump ally on sunday senator corker said in an interview that the president was treating the oval office like a reality show and claimed that mr trump's reckless threats toward other countries could set the united states on the path to world war three for his part the president responded a series of angry tweets leaving many lawmakers in the g.o.p. wondering which side to support let's talk about what this means for republicans for the president's agenda and for the country joining us is wayne allen root conservative commentator and bestselling author who is the libertarian party vice presidential nominee in two thousand and eight he joins us from las vegas and robin byre all democratic strategist former obama campaign regional field director and a us army range

>> i want to strengthen the deal and work with allies but i want to see what the senate foreign relations committees cardin oppose the agreement that the obama administration negotiated come up with for legislation and we have a window to do that. >> speaking of senator corker, he called the white house a, quote, adult daycare center this week. he warned that the president's recklessness could set the nation, quote, on the path to world war iii. he said his concerns are shared by nearly every republican in the united states senate. is he right? >> well, first let me say that i have enormous respect for senator corker. his office is just down the hall from mine. we're friends, and he is a very valuable leader of the senate foreign relations committee. the president has surrounded himself with very good and experienced members of his national security team and i think what the president needs to realize is that his words really matter. when he makes an off-the-hand comment like the calm before the storm, as he did recently, both are enemies and allies analyze that comment to figure out what it means.

while corker served as chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. and this story is getting a longer legs by the hour we're going to go down to our washington correspondent for more good evening to you carlino another republican senator has joined in the criticism of trump tell us about that. exactly brant we are already seeing some of the consequences apparently for donald trump and now another republican senate are deflate has announced that he's not going to run again for senate in the midterm elections in november next year that means he has nothing to lose just like corker was also retiring from senate also flake from very clear and hard words against the president of the united states 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 a dangerous to the country as we know also senator john mccain will retire from senate because of health reasons and in the past he also has criticized the president donald trump mccain say donald trump is poorly informed and impulsive also

think to describe what is going on between the chairman -- the republican chair of the senate foreign relation committee, and i am unaware of a senate foreign relations committee questioning the basic competence of the president of their own party and saying by temperament they are so reckless and volatile, they are a threat to the nation and the world, and that's being lost in lindsay graham saying stop the war of words. the focus needs to be on assessing that basic judgment and whether other republicans privately agree with what he said. >> but this did not open the flood gates as some people predicted it might. if people feel this way in the halls of congress but they are not saying it, and they are hoping, fingers crossed, the agenda will happen, tax cuts and et cetera, and that's what we are waiting for? >> i tend to think the first nine months of the administration, trump will just green light everything. i think it's more decision making. it's not a coincidence that the one senator willing to hit at the real questions, stability and competent tensce, and the o person willing to do that in the sen

he is the chair of the senate foreign relations committee, which oversees not only the state department, but key policy matters for presidents, and he said this last wednesday on capitol hill. senator corker: i think secretary tillerson, secretary mattis, and chief of staff kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos. i support him very much, and i don't know what he may have said after the briefing. i watched from -- i mean, look, i see what's happening here. i deal with people throughout the administration. from my perspective, he's in an incredibly frustrating place where, as i watch, ok, and i can watch very closely on many occasions, i mean, he ends up being being support knife way that i would hope the secretary of state would be supported. that's just from my vantage point. but i've never, you know, i have no knowledge of the comments or anything else. i think he's in a very trying situation, trying to solve many of the world's problems a lot of times without the kind of support and help that i'd like to see him have. host: the comments of senator corker, who

corker was one of the most vocal critics of this deal as chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. he said ", the deal leaves the united states vulnerable and more able to work its will in the middle east." that is exactly what senator corker as chairman of the foreign relations committee worked to do once that deal was sent to congress, senator corker joined with 50 -- was one of 54 republicans, four democrats joining with them to try and push a resolution forward that would have rejected the iran deal outright. that was senator corker's bill but it fell two votes shy of the filibuster. that was not the beginning of corker's opposition to the iran deal and worked before that to actually strengthen crossing' oversight over this deal. this was the iran nuclear review act which i think we can pull up on the screen. this was the overwhelming vote in the senate and the house. 98-1 in the senate and 400-25 in the house. without this bill, they would have been able to skirt congressional oversight. that's what the obama administration wanted to do initially. president obama initially op

thank you for mom, >> dana: james mattis and rex tillerson both testified before the senate foreign relations committeentagon investigates two separate events that led to the death of u.s. troops overseas. national security correspondent jennifer griffin. >> in the wake of the ambush when some lawmakers said for the first time, there were 800 u.s. troops in this african country, there is concern on capitol hill that the troops hunting al qaeda and isis are relying on an old officer i visitation today at 5:00 p.m., the senate foreign relations committee will meet with both of them on the issue. lawmakers want to know whether they need a new war authorization, au ms, why took two days to recover the body of johnson after the ambush. pentagon said, he was never left behind. >> reporters are getting wrong on the niger ambush? >> what they got wrong, that we abandon one of our soldiers. as the chairman said, there's someone always looking for him. >> french and nigerian forces were looking for johnson. before taking captive, his body was discovered by nigerian forces, a u.s. drove mike dunn was sent over. i

this is the senate foreign relations committee, a hearing to review the authorization of e use of military force from 2000 and 2001 and the hearing should get under way shortly. senator cardin in the room, senator corker as well, the chairman of the committee.

much more this hour with our guests, including the top democrat on the senate foreign relations committee, senator ben cardin. and former defense secretary and former cia director leon panetta. our correspondents and special lifts are also standing by. let's begin with the major announcements by president trump on the iran nuclear deal and the obamacare subsidies. our senior white house correspondent jim acosta has the very latest. jim, these are both issues the president campaigned on. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. president trump spent the day chipping away at barack obama's legacy by going after two of the former president's signature achivements. obamacare and the iran nuclear de deal. president trump claiming he, in fact, loves the people on the island. today, president trump turned his campaign rhetoric into action, threatening to unravel the iran nuclear deal. but only after he kicks the issue to congress, giving lawmakers a chance to toughen the agreement. if congress fails to act, he warns, he may scrap the deal. >> well, i may do that. i may do that. the deal is terrible. so

whispering about it for months in private conversations, but now the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, senator bob corker has finally come out and said it. the president of the united states, leader of corker's own party, is a danger to this country. in an interview, corker told "the new york times" the president's behavior could get sexual abuse world war iii. >> sometimes i feel like he's on a reality show of some kind, you know, when he's talking about big foreign policy issues. and, you know, he doesn't realize that, you know, that we could be heading towards world war iii with the kind of comments that he is making. >> the risk is so severe, according to corker, that senior advisers have to try and protect the president from himself. corker telling "the times" i know for a fact that every single day at the white house it's a situation of trying to contain him. most significantly, corker says he is far from the only republican lawmaker to question the president's fitness for office. quote, look, except for a few people, the vast majority of our caucus understands what we're dealin

while corker served as chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. a glee it is all right let's go to our washington correspondent now carolina jim noyes she is following you know this is the latest installment in this saga of spads if you will lead i mean is this is this just a spat between the president and mr corker that trunk can brush off or will they'll be political consequences for the president. well brant a corker is a chairman of the committee of her enough heirs in the senate that means he of course has also an influence on donald trump's plans on foreign affairs and on his plans and u.s. policies although corker can't of course completely change terms to citizens about foreign affairs but the senate has already shown in the past said it can act independently of the president for example talking about russia it was the senate that decided about imposing sanctions against russia even though donald trump didn't support this measure so we might see some changes also in that way maybe talking about the iran deal also important when talking abo

this news comes from the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, senator bob corker. senator corker shocked washington yesterday by saying what virtually everyone in washington was thinking which is always, always the best way to shock washington. by saying something that everyone is thinking. but not saying. and when bob corker said it, he said he was speaking for most of the republicans in the senate, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, is the most careful republican public speaker in washington, one of the smartest republicans in washington if not the smartest and so all of washington knew that bob corker carefully chose his words when he said we could be heading toward world war iii thanks to president trump. here's some of the audio of senator bob corker's interview with "the new york times." >> you got to realize that, you know, that we could be heading towards world war iii with the kind of comment that is he's making. it, you know, it -- it very much feels to me like he thinks as president he's on a reality television show. >> right. >> of

president doing what he is prone to do, erupting on twitter, bashing the head of the senate foreign relations committee. the senator responding two-fold. on sunday he tweets this. it's a shame the white house has become an adult day care center. someone obviously missed their shift this morning. and then in an extended phone interview with the new york tooimdz, he continued with this. president trump was always treating his office like a reality show with reckless threats toward other countries that could set the nation on the path to world war iii. again, it's from the head of the senate foreign relations committee. we start with two reports. nbc's chief whout correspondent hallie jackson and garrett haake is on capitol hill for us. hallie, let's start with you. any sense the white house is at all concerned about setting yet another gop bridge aflame? >> reporter: not from president trump, craig. i think he's made that clear by what he's talking about online, on twitter. a real reversal from the president's prior attitude back in 2016 and even earlier this year towards senator corker. burning bridges,

the senate foreign relations committee share told the new york times that president trump acts quote,r something. corker said mr. trump's rhetoric could lead to world war iii. bannon said senate republicans need to back the president. >> mcconnell and corker and the entire click establishment globalist click on capitol hill have to go. we need any more proof about what they think you heard it tonight. >> bannon said he wants every gop senate incumbent except ted cruz to face a primary challenge. >> newt gingrich was one of donald trump's most outspoken surrogates in the presidential election and continues to be a strong supporter. he's also the author of a new book called vengeance. welcome. >> good morning. >> what is going on here? the president is lashing out against him when he needs his vote in the senate. >> they'd be a lot better off to get together for lunch and get over it. trump automatically hits back at anybody. it's just an instinctive, goes back to his new york days and it seems to be virtually uncontrollable and he thought that corker had said something that offended hi

and at the very least, does the president think that senator corker should step down as head of the foreign relations committee, especially since senator corker told cnn today, and i quote, that he wants to investigate some of the things that he is purposefully breaking down, he being president trump. >> look, i think that's a decision for leader mcconnell in terms of who has those chairmanships. that's not something for the president to determine. >> doesn't think that he should step down or resign? >> i haven't spoken to him specifically about that. in terms of the chairmanships, that would be up to leader mcconnell. john? >> thank you, sarah. two questions. there are -- there is currently a contested primary for senator corker's seat. congresswoman blackburn facing former congressman fincher, and it's almost inevitable there will be a contested primary in arizona. dr. ward not going to be left to get the nomination. will the president take any role in the nomination process? . >> as i've said many times before from the podium, i'm not going to weigh into any political races and whether or not the president