Let me be clear. This is not about any effort to constrain the inherent powers of the President with respect to diplomacy.
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Corker emphasizes the importance of presidential powers in diplomacy.
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I just don't like the President's comments made us look as a nation more like a pushover. And I was disappointed in that. I just don't know what it is about the President that continues to deny that that occurred.
I believe that America's leadership around the world has made the world safer for Americans, and made the world a better place. And when I see that leadership diminishing and us trying to break apart alliances that we created, it troubles me.
We're in a strange place. I mean, it's almost, you know, been -- it's becoming a cultish thing, isn't it? It's not a good place for any party to end up with a cult-like situation as it relates to a president that happens to be of -- purportedly of the same party.
I love seeing this bipartisanship, because I cut my teeth on the first OPIC reauthorization as a House staffer in 1974.





