'You heard this?' CNN host intrigued by reporter's revelation about GOP senators

CNN's Audie Cornish perked up her ears at a comment made by one of her panelists about what she's hearing from Republican senators.

King Charles III visited Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, and the "CNN This Morning" host asked her panelists about the stakes of that diplomatic stop as President Donald Trump attacks Britain and other allies during his war against Iran.

"We areliving in the age of, I call itedgelord diplomacy," Cornish said. "Like, I, as areporter, finding things out on Twitter – yeah, the Iranianleadership post, theirpropaganda is all modern andonline in a way that sucks. Soit was actually very weird tosee this moment that is definedby restraint."

That's exactly what Republican lawmakers were hoping to see from the president, according to Eleanor Mueller, White House economic policy reporter for Semafor.

"Yeah, we saw Trump opt outof a lot of things in the lastcouple of days that he normallydoes," Mueller said. "He did not, for example,while the king was here, bringreporters into the Oval Officeto field questions on everytopic imaginable like he usuallydoes, and so clearly, he'swalking a very careful line forhim as far as mending thisrelationship with the UK, and that's what we heard from Republican senators all week,that they want, you know, thenumber one thing they said theyhoped would come out of this wasan improved relationship."

That caught the host's attention.

"From Republican senators, youheard this?" Cornish interjected. "Oh, no – say more. What arethey? Because obviously thisrelationship has been damagedwith [Prime Minister] Keir Starmer's response tothe president's requests when itcomes to the war on Iran."

Mueller explained that GOP senators are concerned about a number of things Trump has done in recent months.

"Exactly, and there's evenmore than that," she said. "You know,there's Trump's attacks onNATO. There's theadministration's accusationsthat the British government iscensoring conservative voices, and I was speaking to Sen. [Susan] Collins yesterday as she wasgetting in an elevator, she wasasked, what do you want to seeout of Trump's visit with theking, and she said, you know,mended bridges, improvedrelationships, and so we'll seewhether or not the camaraderiethat we've watched in the last24 hours actually lasts beyondthis."

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