MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Tuesday pointed out that it would only take two Republican senators to end President Donald Trump's presidency from a legislative standpoint.
During a panel discussion on MSNBC's Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough argued that Republicans would eventually have to take their party back from Trump.
"Continuing to let the hijacker take control of the cockpit, I understand people saying, 'We have to do it,'" Scarborough remarked. "No, you don't. You really don't. We ran Newt Gingrich out of town when he stopped representing conservative principles."
"They can tell him no," he continued. "The thing that bothers me is -- we're on Sesame Street. Today's number is two. If only two Republican senators stood up and two Republican senators went to Donald Trump and said, 'I understand you don't have any discipline. I understand that nobody has ever held you to account. Well, that's fine. You don't what you want to do. But we're just here to tell you, like Barry Goldwater told Richard Nixon in 1974: It's over.'"
Scarborough suggested that the president should be offered an ultimatum.
"Either you behave in a responsible way or you lose our two votes and you no longer have a majority in the Senate," he said.
The MSNBC host volunteered the names of retiring Sens. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Bob Corker (R-TN), but panelist Richard Haass argued that Republicans would not change their stripes regardless of Trump's behavior.
"Only after November, assuming these trends hold and [the election is] a debacle for Republicans, then some people in the Republican Party may say, 'Hey, if this party has any future, we've got to wrestle it back,'" Haass explained. "But I would be really surprised if that were to happen after the last 14-15 months."
"There is no courage," Scarborough agreed. "One day they stand up to him, the next they go golfing with him, the next he's their best friend."
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