Senator Jeff Flake

The New Washington

The New York Times

News, Politics

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Republican from Arizona is one of the latest people to draw fire from President Trump on social media and in his campaign-style rally speeches. Mr. Flake, who is mounting a reelection campaign, spoke with Carl Hulse about surviving Mr. Trump’s criticism and writing his new book, “Conscience of a Conservative,” which argues that the right has given into the “politics of anger.”

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarrow.
0:03.0	This is the new Washington.
0:05.0	Today, Senator Jeff League.
0:07.0	It sounded pretty tense.
0:10.0	It was a bit tense.
0:11.0	He started out saying that I've been critical of the other and I have been frankly.
0:15.7	Do you support Donald Trump for president?
0:18.4	No, I said that I think Republicans do need to distance themselves from Donald Trump.
0:22.8	We've given into nativism, protectionism.
0:27.4	It doesn't make sense obviously to have a 2,500 mile wall.
0:31.5	The fact that we look at each other, other Americans, as the enemy.
0:39.0	And it's really troublesome.
0:41.0	The party has lost its way. The party has lost its way. Hello.
0:53.4	Senator, hey, it's Carl.
0:55.0	Yeah, hey, Carl.
0:56.4	How are you?
0:58.4	Doing well.
0:59.4	How are you?
1:00.4	Good.
1:01.4	We're checking out some of the technical aspects of this elaborate hook up here.
1:05.2	Carl Holtz, who did you talk to this week?
1:07.7	Jeff Flake, the junior Republican senator from Arizona, really one of the most interesting guys in
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