Washington (CNN) GOP Sen. Jeff Flake gave some of his harshest criticism of President Donald Trump to date in a commencement speech Wednesday to Harvard Law students, where he shared his concerns for the integrity of politics in the United States. First, the good news: Your national leadership is ... not good," he said at the commencement Wednesday. He later continued: "Now, you might reasonably ask, where is the good news in that? In a rare convergence, the good news and bad news are the same: Our leadership is not good, but it probably can't get much worse." In an interview with CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Flake said his speech was about standing up and reclaiming "our constitutional prerogative."

Source: CNN May 23, 2018 21:59 UTC