'Horrified': MSNBC host claims Trump has set off frantic 'whispering in the GOP cloakroom'

A clip of Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) brutally dismantling the notion that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a man to be trusted, as Donald Trump has claimed, is indicative of how the majority of GOP lawmakers are privately appalled at Trump's Russia cheerleading.

That is according to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, who claimed GOP lawmakers are "whispering" in the GOP cloakroom about the president's seeming betrayal of the people of Ukraine.

As an incensed Tillis told his Senate colleagues, “I’m a Republican. I support President Trump and I believe that most of his policies on national security are right. I believe things are pretty good. But what I’m telling you, whoever believes that there is any space for Vladimir Putin and the future of a stable globe, better go to Ukraine, they better go to Europe, they better invest the time to understand that this man is a cancer and the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime.”

ALSO READ: 'Gotta be kidding': Jim Jordan scrambles as he's confronted over Musk 'double standard'

"That is Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina on the Senate floor yesterday, actually saying the quiet part out loud: voicing the concerns of the Senate floor that most of his fellow Republicans are whispering in the GOP cloakroom and what America's closest allies are voicing across western democracies that stood by the United States of America in our fight against Nazism and Soviet communism," Scarborough commented.

Turning to his panel, he stated, "I just think we shouldn't let what Thom Tillis said go by without a comment off the top. What Senator Tillis said publicly is what almost every Republican senator is saying privately. What almost every Republican House member is saying privately, that's on the Armed Services Committee or the Foreign Affairs Committee."

"They are horrified by what they're hearing, and now we're going to be reporting that the G-7 has scrubbed their official communique to take out Russia as the aggressor in a war that Vladimir Putin clearly started," he added.

You can watch below or at the link:

- YouTubeyoutu.be