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

and he tweeted further senator corker is the incompetent head of the foreign relations committee and look how poorly the u.s. has done he doesn't have a clue as the entire world was laughing in taking advantage of us people like little bob corker have set the us way back now we move. our lives put in our washington correspondent carolina jim oid carolyn it's good to see you well the the feud between the senator and the u.s. president and certainly kept you busy today talk to me about the impact of corker's criticism today i mean will it make a difference in the trump white house in the long term. well probably the world impact has just started because it is now another republican senator you name to name him jeff flake who has announced that he's not going to run again for senate in the midterm elections and next year in november and that means he has nothing to lose just as corker who is also retiring from senate so also flake from very clear very hard words against the president of the united states he said we should not normalize donald trump's behavior you can excuse one thing or

the foreign relations committee chairman bob corker, who suggests the president is running his administration like a reality show. corker says the white house has become an adult daycare center and warns the president's recklessness could lead, and i'm quoting him now, to world war iii. corker, who tells "the new york times," that most other republican senators share his concerns can speak freely since he's not running for re-election. the president has tweeted that corker, quote, didn't have the guts to run. a white house official says the president isn't finished with corker. >>> and as tensions rise with north korea, the president warns ominously that only one thing will work with kim jong-un's regime, and defense secretary james mattis is now telling the u.s. army to, quote, stand ready in case diplomacy does not succeed in heading off the north korean threat. the army chief of staff wasrns there are no risk-free options. i'll speak with senator richard blumenthal of the armed services and judiciary committees. our corespondents, specialists and guests, they're all standing by with full c

he's a member of the foreign relations and judiciary committee. senator, thanks vep for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> the former director of national intelligence, james clapper, tells cnn that north korea could easily, his word, easily construe the president's comments ats a declaration or a threat of war. how concerning is that? >> well, i'm concerned, wolf, that at this time that we are in a rising possibility of confrontation with north korea that the president is distracted by a twitter war with one of the most important republican leaders in the senate, the chairman of the foreign relations committee. and last week a disagreement with his secretary of state. i would like to instead see the president focused on pursuing diplomatic solution to the conflict with north korea. and i think this is an important time for the president to show a steady hand rather than to be firing off tweets at all hours of the day. >> is it true as senator corker suggested, that president trump's tweets actually did he railed some of these back channel negotia

the president tweeting out several times against the top republican lawmaker on the foreign relations committee, including this tweet, quote, bob corker, who helped president o, president obama, give us the bad iran deal and couldn't get elected dog catcher in tennessee is now fighting tax cuts. corker dropped out of the race in tennessee when i refused to endorse him and now is only negative on anything trump. look at his record, closed quote. the senator fired right back against trump on twitter saying, quote, same untruths from an utterly untruthful president #alertthedaycarecenter. he then elaborated in an extensive interview with cnn's manu raju. >> you didn't run for re-election because you couldn't get his endorsement. is that accurate? >> no, it's into the accurate. you know, nothing that he said in his tweets today were true or accurate. he knows it. people around him know it. i would hope the staff over there would figure out ways of controlling him when they know that everything he said today was absolutely untrue. >> do you regret supporting him in the election? >> let's just put it

relations committee. i apologise for the problem with the line earlier. i was asking you to explain how important bob corker is in the scheme of things? the foreignte is the committee in the senate is the committee that helps frame foreign policy for the united states. when the committee works closely with the president when it did recently, and it worked on a sanctions package on north korea, iran and russia, it can be very effective. when they are working at cross purposes, the message that comes out from the united states is, is that the united states is not affected and it hurts everyone , states is not affected and it hurts everyone, it is a lose lose. i was just looking at the uncontrolled wildfires in my home state of california, this twitter what should not be a wildfire. we need a twitter armour “— not be a wildfire. we need a twitter armour —— armistice here and put the people of america first. you work a ranking democrat and while you were in congress you served under democratic and republican presidents. have you ever seen a president publicly take on a member of their own party or even the opposing party in this way and belittling th

so given some recent speeches given by colleagues of mine on the foreign relations committees, given ouncements by members of the armed services and intelligence committees who are republicans, it is my hope that we'll find a consensus around taking some strong steps and then soon thereafter that the trump administration will follow the law. >> well, what are those strong steps if the trump administration continues to delay, delay, delay? >> well, as you know, the senate has the power of the purse and the power of confirmation. so we can have consequences for the administration, both in the budget and appropriations process and in our willingness to take up and confirm folks who they want for senior positions in the administration. >> as you know, one of the president's most frequent critics, republican senator jeff flake of arizona, announced yesterday he wouldn't be seeking re-election. some of the president's allies are celebrating the departure of senator flake. they believe it signals a big change in the direction of the republican party. you wrote an op-ed for "the new york time

when the head of our national intelligence and the chairman -- republican chairman of the foreign relations committee tell us that the president is unstable and our system where one man has his hands on the nuclear weapons, i'm asking the five president who is have 32 years in the oval office with their hands on the nuclear weapon, very steady hands for all 32 years. i'm asking them to alert the country to the seriousness of our current situation. >> good to talk to you. >> al, we miss you in chicago. >> bill there on tuesday, actually. bill there next week. good to see you. maybe i'll see you there. >> thanks. >> newton minow, former head of

and he tweeted further senator corker is the incompetent head of the foreign relations committee and look how poorly the u.s. has done he doesn't have a clue as the entire world was laughing in taking advantage of us people like little bob corker have set the us way back now we move. our lives pull in our washington correspondent carolina jim moret carolyn it's good to see you well the the feud between the senator and the u.s. president certainly kept you busy today talk to me about the impact of corker's criticism today i mean will it make a difference in the trump white house in the long term. well probably the will the impact has to start a brand because it is now another republican senator you name to name him jeff flake who has announced that he's not going to run again for senate in the midterm elections next year in november and that means he has nothing to lose just as corker who is also retiring from senate so also flake from very clear very hard words against the president of the united states he said we should not normalize donald trump's behavior you can excuse one thing

it's just the chairman of the foreign relations committee, somebody who is seen as a bipartisan straight shooter, and somebody who's known trump for some time and has a personal relationship with him. if he's offering this sort of assessment in public, i think the alarm bells go off. host: the president just a moment ago tweeting on north korea, let me just share it with you exactly what he said, along of lines of what he's been tweeting earlier, our country has been unsuccessfully dealing with north korea for 25 years, giving billions of dollars and getting nothing. policy didn't work. by all accounts, including what he said late last week, it's the calm before the storm, he is at least signaling the possibility of a military strike towards north korea. is that a fair assessment? guest: i think this is a fair assessment, and this is something he's been signaling for some time, this point -- the feeling that the diplomatic policy has not been working with north korea for 25 years is a talking point that he's been hitting on repeatedly, including just on saturday. and so i think, you know

he said senator corker is the incompetent head of the foreign relations committee and look at how poorly the u.s. has done. he doesn't have a clue as the entire world was laughing and taking advantage of us. people like little bob corker have set the u.s. way back.

so as chair of the foreign relatio relations committee he will have a lot to say. and we care about that and then the basic fitness. when he said adult day care or world war iii. they -- we would be well advised to take this seriously but sayi saying it is a chaotic white house and this could have an effect on foreign policy and the'll rigsship -- the relationship with our allies and this is incredibly serious. >> it makes you wonder what was in the president's mind fighting with him. why spark it. and corker -- >> and corker said some things to set the president off, matt lewis. >> and bob corker talking about secretary of state rex tillerson said we need tillerson in there because -- along with kelly and mattis, they are preventing the chaos. in other words, donald trump is a child -- >> totally. >> and not running things. i think trump -- >> it didn't come out of the blue. >> that he counter punches always. >> it didn't come out of the blue. eugene, let's get you in here on daca. so these were -- i think a month ago when the president and nancy pelosi and chuck

corker: the foreign relations committee will come to order. two housekeeping issues, if i could. we have a number of people in the audience, some of whom like to express themselves. we thank you for being here. in the past when there have been interruptions, on occasion, i've been able to have people arrested but we stopped that. so please don't do anything that causes you to have to be escorted out of the room because then the process continues with being arrested, it's fairly unpleasant, i'd hate to see you go through that. secondly, we have a vote, we have two votes today, which is unfortunate. what we've talked about doing is adjourning the hearing at about seven minutes to 6:00, everybody rushing down and voting on the tail end of the first vote and the second vote, there'll be noo speaking before the second about. if we can keep going, general mattis, secretary mattis has a meeting he would like to attend and i know others wants to complete the work in an appropriate way. with that, i'd like to thank tillerson and mattis are being -- for being with us today to share the adm

new political dynamic you think of smart politics to attack the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee i mean mitch i have never seen a president do this before in my lifetime in this manner. no i don't it honestly you know the fact that corker is not running i call him a free range politician that means he can roam around and do what everyone's to do and say we want to say from his heart i think this chap would always use a very fragile majority the senate which hasn't worked out too well for the president not only among foreign relations which he shares a comedian who said if they ever go back to health care if they ever have a tax package plus senators in the back of their mind know that trump deals with alternate realities when he doesn't like an answer he simply creates another one that's part of the show business reality show thing i think it's it plays to the base again and remember trump is made it and successfully i have to say he has made him more self more popular than any of the republicans in congress this way he can get into this kind of engagement corkers being honest he

>> bob corker. >> the foreign relations committee. this is far from done, folks. the white house meanwhile unveiled its wish list for a deal to protect young undocumented grirjts so-called dre dreamers. tough border and security measures the white house says it wants include provisions that would make it harder for unaccompanied minors to enter the country illegally. money for the president's border wall. action targeting visitors overstaying their visas, and expediting removal of undocumented immigrants here illegally. >> president trump announced he planned to end the dreamer era program but give congress a six-month window to act. democratic house leader nancy pelosi, senate leader chuck schumer reached a tentative framework on a dreamers deal last month. a democratic staffer says the key to whether that deal survives will be how hard the white house pushes on this wish list you. hear some democrats say this is essentially holding dreamers hostage to the president's other restrictionist immigration agenda. >> stopped short of a veto threat. should be interestin

a powerful person on the senate foreign relations committee he's going to use that as a vehicle of sort to go after the president over his policy and his decisions and his tweets. corker really has not let back. after he talked to me he did talk to other reporters too. i was in that gaggle. he reiterated a lot of same things he said to me. i tried to ask him if he thought the president should be removed from office. he would not answer that question. and he also would not answer the question, the notable question, earlier in my interview when i asked him does he trust the president with access to the nuclear codes. he would not say if he did trust the president on that issue as well. but remarkable to hear a sitting united states senator from the same party as the president, saying that he does not believe the president is a role model to children. that is a stunning statement, believing that the president has debased this country, and something that we'll see other republican senators join in. he is retiring, giving him more freedom to speak out, where he is particularly incensed at th

you're the top democrat on the foreign relations committee. the former president jimmy carter has now publicly offered to travel to north korea to negotiate directly with kim jong-un. should the white house take him up on that offer? >> well, we need a surge in diplomacy and we've talked about this before. i think we need to open up lines of communication. there is a path forward where we can achieve our objective of a non-nuclear korean peninsula and that the kim jong-un regime can get the type of assurances they want that the united states will respect the current 38th parallel in korea. there are ways we can talk back and forth about the use of a military threat, and i hope the president would take advantage of every opportunity to do that. >> well, should he take advantage of jimmy carter's offer? >> i know that's one opportunity. i know that secretary tillerson has looked for other avenues of communication with north korea. i think using a former president who has i think a global reputation for pursuing peace would be a helpful step. >>

on the path to world war three such is the risk says the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee but 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 announcing last week he wasn't going to run for the senate again he felt bold enough to see this i think. secretary tell arson sectarian madness and. chief of staff kelly. are. those people that help separate our country from chaos that kind of seems to upset president trump he took to twitter to claim that corker begged him to back him in a 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 past 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 am hoping and that more senators w

he's a key member of the foreign relations committee. senator, thanks for joining us. first of all, do you support the compromise worked out by lamar alexander and patty murray? >> yes, i do. i think that it is a fair compromise. i congratulate senator alexander and senator murray for their brilliant work to solve a problem that could have led to the collapse of insurance markets all across the country. could have led to a loss of coverage for cancer and diabetes, for addiction coverage all across the country, so i think they've come to a wise sensible and bipartisan resolution of the issue. >> would they have been able to reach this compromise without president trump's halting those subsidies last friday? >> i think in many ways that was the precipitating moment because the president was basically saying that he did not care if the insurance markets collapsed. he did not care if the premiums rose by 8%, 15%, 20% or more all across the united states of america. so i think that's really what focused the attention then of patty murray, lamar alexander and many others on

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

the retiring chairman of the senate foreign relations committee sounds off on the president. and what he says is a pact to world war iii. >>> plus, protesting anthem protests. how vice president pence's dramatic departure from this week's colts game is fueling controversy. >> it's the height of hypocrisy to say they can take their action but that the vice president of the united states doesn't van equal right. >>> and hitting the wall on a daca deal. how president trump's latest demands to build a southern wall could tear down a bipartisan push to protect so-called dreamers. >>> this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> good evening and welcome to "mtp daily." i'm katie tur in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to what is very influential republican is comparing to a reality tv show. that's right. a republican, and not just any republican. one who was in president trump's corner. 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 ap

chairman of the foreign relations committee. he holds the key to things like the iran deal and changes the president wants to make. securing confirmation to nominees for high-level posts such as the state department, potentially rex tillerson will be replaced, corker will have a say in that. he's also a crucial vote on tax reform. he's laying down some stiff red lines on things like it cannot add to the deficit. without corker's vote, it's hard to see how the president gets this through. he's been tweeting about how he's not happy with corker on health care, taxes, the iran deal. he'll be senator for the next 15 months. if the. the wants to get an aden again da through, he'll probably need senator corker. >> i want to read another snippet from the interview with the "times." he concerns me, this is senator corker on the president of the united states. he concerns me. he would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation. also, i know for a fact that every single day at the white house, it's a white house of trying to contai

it is inconceivable that a chairman of the senate foreign relations committee would be having this kind of discourse or criticism against a president of his own party. i mentioned in my piece that 50 plus years ago, jay william fulbright who was the democratic chairman of the committee launched a serious critique of his president's party lyndon johnson's catastrophic policies in vietnam. but that was done with great deliberation and there wasn't something wrong with johnson that he was unfit, that he was temperamentally erratic. it was the policy. so that is something we haven't seen before. >> mark meadows' comment, evan, was sort of amazing to me. meadows is basically saying -- i mean, if you disagree with bob corker, you would say something to the following. that's outages. what a slanderous thing to say about the president of the united states, who is obviously a judicious and competent chief executive of this nation. no instead he said well, you're just saying that because you don't have to run again. which seems like a giant self-own. >> that's exactly right. the strange thing, ch

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 a

senator ed marquis is joining us, he's a democrat on the foreign relations committee. is there evidence now, do you think this is hard evidence of collusion? >> i think in the papadopoulos case, it's clear that he was trying to, through an intermediary, get information that russian officials may have had on hillary clinton. and if that's the case, then what we have here is some contact between someone inside of the trump campaign with a russian who said that he had information on hillary. so that is evidence that collusion was being attempted, at least by papadopoulos. and i think that his lying about it is clearly the center of attention, which mueller and others are now focussing upon. >> you know, he -- papadopoulos was first told about russia and so-called dirt on hillary clinton in the form of thousands of e-mails, that was in april of 2016, long before most americans knew of any hacked e-mails or the russian effort to undermine hillary clinton and help the trump campaign. so how concerning is that? >> i think it's very concern. again, i believe it's the reason wh

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

this is the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. as you pointed out, they are about to meet over tax reform. bob corker as in recent weeks really picked up his criticism of president trump, even indicating in one interview that he's concerned he could be putting the napgs on the path to world war iii. he doubled down on the comments during an interview with the "today" show earlier today. but now in these exchanges, taking it even further. saying that he regrets voting for president trump. and saying that he has problems with the truth. go ahead, hallie. >> i want to come back to you here because the president is tweeting about bob corker before the comments we just watched live here on this air. but what is going to happen in a couple minutes? house speaker paul ryan faces reporters. and he's like, this is the last thing i want to be talking about. he wants to be talking taxes. he does not want to have to be answering questions about a top republican senator going after the president after the united stat states. kasie hunt, you've

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

he's the chair of the senate foreign relations committee. he was an early trump supporter. don't you think his comments merit -- again, we're just asking your reaction and you're providing that reaction, so we appreciate that. caller: well, i have providing it, and i think that you have taken -- and you have an agenda, and it's obvious watching your face as i talk to you. host: well, what is the agenda? i just want to know what our agenda is. caller: to hurt the president of the united states. you don't think he belongs there. and you take the first thing in the morning with rucker. rucker comes out with 25 pieces of dirt, and you just, well, what -- what's next? you just can't kiss his ass enough. host: ok, we'll stop at that point. we have no agenda, and i can guarantee you, we had the same criticism when president obama and bush and clinton and reagan were in the white house as well. but ben, we're looking for your reaction, and you provided that. you asked about senator corker. this is just part of an in-depth profile interview available on our website at c-span.org. he

the chairman of the foreign relations committee tweeting this earlier. the failing "new york times" set little bob corker up and that's what i am dealing with. he has a new nickname. shouldn't we expect more on the the white house briefing? >> we will. this is something perhaps more extraordinary than the feud with the secretary of state. senator bob corker with the republican and the chairman of the foreign relations committee has been fighting back. he has been responding very aggressively as we have seen throughout the weekend. i do believe that sarah sanders is coming up in this hour will be asked about this because it impacts the president's agenda going forward. tax reform and other confirmations before that committee. as we are talking earlier about the secretary of state, should they replace him at some point? the committee that decides is bob corker's. and he is in his position until the end of next year. that's why all of these fights online and other places actually have consequences. a senior white house official i talked to earlier said he h

corker is the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. if he wants to, he can hold hearings to expose the president in whatever way he sees fit. he can become an enemy of the white house. the question is will he and to what end. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill with more. what about it? >> shep, that's what makes a lot of these republicans uncomfortable that they'll be asked to take a side in this squabble. some will call it a distraction. others worry about the impact on the legislative priorities going forward if this feud continues. mitch mcconnell defended bob corker calling him a value member of the senate republican caucus. mcconnell said that corker is on the budget committee and will be a particularly important player as they move the budget to the floor next week. corker is a major player on critical issues like north korea, iran and other hot spots around the world. a key member of the president's team down played this dispute. >> i enjoy working with senator corker. it will be fun to work with him now that he's announced he

as the foreign relations committee has told the new york times that trump threats to other countries could set the us on the path to world war three with interview comes off the president attacked head on twitter of a has refusal to run for another term. north korea's leader kim jong un has described the nation's nuclear weapons program as a powerful deterrent he also said relations with the u.s. a complicated earlier in a tweet us president all trump said that quote only one thing would work in dealing with pyongyang trump didn't specify what that one thing was but his previously threatened to totally destroy north korea but trump is also accused of wrong or fond of north korea's regime on the two thousand and fifty nuclear deal iran has agreed to limit its nuclear program and return for relieving economic sanctions there are reports trump may decertify the deal i believe they're funding north korea i believe they're trading with north korea i believe they're doing things with korea that is totally inappropriate that doesn't pertain to the deal but in my opinion it does because it's

not likely to continue a great deal longer you've got senator corker the chairman of the foreign relations committee he announced in light of everything that's going on he's not going to run for reelection. senator menendez the former chair of the foreign relations committee and a war hawk he's the one who introduced the resolution to attack syria the one that fortunately failed he's now under indictment for corruption and tied ups and and we've got others senator jeff flake who's on armed services is likely to lose his allies from then in twenty eighteen to kelly ward who is very much a. she's very much opposed intensely opposed to regime change in the middle east and to normalizing relations with russia and that sort of things so i think would want him no one knows exactly how it will all play out but i think for ordinary americans this this the results of this election were uplifting and they they just suggested that. the american people are beginning to exert genuine influence over their government which they did not do before. not show up today this hour join me again in about thirty five minut

his chair of the senate foreign relations committee say he has a front row seat at us foreign policykorea and the persian gulf and afghanistan and he is expressing frustration at the donald trump is a pricking a fight in criticising secretary of state rex tillerson, his tweeting about north korea and eu herd earlier bob corker said he was counting on people like rex tillerson and matters to be the grown—ups. donald trump then on sunday started directing fire back at bob corker because donald trump does not like being criticised and ans is any criticism with his own attack. now you have these back and forth between a senior member and chairman of the committee and the president of the committee and the president of the committee and the president of the united states it is pretty remarkable. more analysis from anthony on our website. let's take a look at some of the day's other news: in the united states, at least one person has died and at least two have been seriously injured in wildfires which are spreading through california's wine region. the governor has declared a state of emer

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 chairman of the powerful foreign relations committee. as mr. trump escalates his public feud with the senator. >> and the war between corker and trump could dash any chances the president may have to get his much promised tax reform plan passed. one trump loyalist saying bluntly, quote, his presidency could be doomed. for more we go to nbc's tracie potts for us this morning. tracy, good morning. >> reporter: frances, phil, good morning, everyone. the key here, the most important thing about this twitter feud is the fact it could have an impact on policy on your wallet, on taxes, on the budget that republicans want to get started on next week. in the washington post, one polster describes it as a slow-motion break up with the republican party that the president seems to be speeding up according to that. that's patrick, veteran polster who has worked with steve bannon. now, speaking of bannon, former white house chief strategist, he has said that he wants to target many republicans in this upcoming election, but is specifically talking about this

put it this way, i would not do it again. butted to senator bob corker / (r) chairman, foreign relations committeeuch a low, low standard, and debases our country in a way that he does, but he does. senator bob corker / (r) chairman, foreign relations committee: i've seen almost no evolution in an upward way, he's almost devolving. (tweets) in a series of tweets trump accuses corker -- who is retiring - of attempting to block the gop efforts on tax cuts... and calling him a 'lightweight'.nonetheless the two men attended lunch with other republican senators... a meeting intended to make progress on the presidents tax plan.senate republicans can only afford to lose two votes ... if all democrats vote against the plan. sen. mitch mcconnell/-r- majority leader: tax reform is what we are all about. if there's anything that unifies republicans, it's tax reform. // we're going to concenatrate on what our agenda is, and not all these other distractions that you all may be interested in. house speaker paul ryan telling both men to cool it ... insisting the g-o-p goal of getting tax reform passed this year

he's a key member of the senate foreign relations committee. senator, thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you, wolf. >> let's go through several of these issues. first of all, the north korean foreign minister today said that president trump has lit the wick of war and is basically -- he accused the president of being insane. how concerned are you about how the kim jong-un regime is interpreting president trump's words? >> obviously we should all be very concerned. we're having an exchange of rhetoric, which is dangerous, it's reckless, it's escalate ore and it's moving us towards a situation where there could be an accidental war that gets triggered, potentially by kim, who has a paranoia about our desire to potentially decapitate his regime. and the more that president trump escalates his rhetoric, what we're seeing is a corresponding increase from the north koreans, and, unfortunately, it's just making this situation more and more dangerous as each day goes by. >> your colleague, chris murphy, the senator from connecticut, believes that

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

still going after the secretary of state and the republican chairman of the foreign relations committee. questioning one's iq and mocking the other's height. president trump and secretary of state rex tillerson breaking bread today at the white house. a week after their long-simmering feud broke into the open. the president insisted he had confidence in his secretary of state. brushing aside suggestions he tried to undernimine him. >> i different undercut anybody. thank you very much, everybody. >> reporter: no cameras were allowed in the private dining room just off the oval office where the president, his top diplomat and defense secretary james mattis sat for lunch. the face-to-face meeting didn't answer one of the biggest questions in washington, how long will tillerson hang on as secretary of state? cnn has learned the president was furious after reports surfaced last week tillerson described him as a moron this summer. in a "forbes" magazine cover story out today, the president had this to say about the derogatory remark. i think it's fake news. but if he did that, i guess we'll h

you're chairman of the foreign relations committee. b corker, republican, other side of the aisle, but foreign relations committee in general usually is a very collegial body compared to other committees. i know there's tighter personal relationships there. were you surprised senator corker went as ballistic back at the president as he did? >> well, i'll say this. i deeply respect chairman corker. he is my friend and my colleague. we've traveled together. we've legislated together. they is a conservative republican. we have different policy views, but he is a truly hard-working, smart, engaging capable senator and has served as a terrific chairman of our committee, and the president launched this attack on him, his character and his willingness to stand up and fight for re-election. i was struck at how appointed chairman corker's response was. i don't think that it advances our national security. or our foreign policy interests to have the president of the united states and the chairman of any of our committees whether it's armed servic