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I never Trump, Republican Senator says, never more.

Hello again, I'm Aranalny, and this is To the Put.

Yesterday on the Senate floor, Arizona Republican Jeff Flake called President Trump's

behavior reckless, outrageous, and undignified. I rise today to say enough. Apparently it's not

about issues. Flake has voted the president's line, but he told his colleagues Trump is

undermining our democratic norms and ideals. So, Flake won't run for a second term next year.

Will other Republicans just say no, like Bob Corker of Tennessee?

Or has the GOP become Trump's party?

Later on today's talking point, President Xi Jinping is now a historical powerhouse.

What will President Trump need to know when he heads for China?

First, here's the news.

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Program Fund. Hello again, we're on only back with To The Poet. Two Republican senators,

Corker of Tennessee, and now Flake of Arizona, say they won't run for re-election next year.

It's all about what they call President

Trump's outrageous and dangerous behavior. Is the president losing his party? Or are the dissidents

conceding he's running the show? On today's talking point, the Communist Party Congress has just

made President Xi Jinping China's most powerful leader in a generation. What will President Trump need to know when he goes there, goes there, rather, next week? I'll talk with Max Baucus, who's the former U.S. Senator who became Barack Obama's ambassador to China.

First, this news update. Late last night, Vice President Mike Pence broke a tie vote in the Senate, which set a measure to President Trump

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