Jeff Flake: “You mentioned that 99 percent of revenue goes straight to salaries for civil servants.”

If you just dismiss all of that and just talk politics, at some point here soon, Republicans are going to have to decide whether or not they want to be tethered to the president politically.

Ankara has had at least a transactional relationship with Russia on a number of issues.

Yes, that subset of a subset of Republican voters that vote in every primary, they're clearly with the former President and that is reflected in the polling.

The Republican Party may believe or elected officials may believe that this will give them some short term benefit.