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GOP Senator Says These Trump Admin Officials Are Saving the Nation

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Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker told reporters Wednesday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, and White House chief of staff John Kelly “are those people that help separate our country from chaos.”

Sen. Corker, who was considered for Tillerson’s role, has recently grown critical of the administration. He said in August that Trump “has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful.”

The Tennessee senator’s comments Wednesday came after a question about an NBC report that Tillerson disparaged Trump in private and wanted to resign. Corker wouldn’t comment on the report. (Read more from “GOP Senator Says These Trump Admin Officials Are Saving the Nation” HERE)

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Ted Cruz Part II, Republican Takes On Republican (+video)

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picture - Cruz debateSen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) got into a tense back-and-forth on the Senate floor Thursday over the Texas Republican’s 21-hour anti-Obamacare speech and the House-passed bill that defunds President Obama’s health care overhaul.

Corker accused Cruz of being “confused” and argued Senate Republicans should vote in favor of cloture on the bill sent over from the House because it defunds Obamacare. However, Cruz was quick to remind his colleague that a vote in favor of cloture is a vote in “favor of granting the majority leader [Harry Reid] the ability to fund Obamacare.”

Corker also asked Cruz why he voted for a motion to proceed on the House-passed continuing resolution after he spent 21 hours “filibustering” the bill. He told Cruz, “y’all have sent out released, emails and you want everybody to be able to watch,” but added that the so-called filibuster was not in the best interests of the country or conservative policy.

Cruz seemingly went into “prosecutor”-mode, questioning Corker on every point.

Watch the tense debate below:

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