Rep. Charlie Dent:

Well, it certainly seems that he's trying to remake the party, I think, in the image of himself or maybe Steve Bannon, and I don't think that is in our party's interest.

I mean, the party shouldn't be about a man or an individual. It should be about a set of principles and ideals and ideas. That's what we should be about.

And I do get concerned when I hear now — we used to have a litmus test, it seemed, for a long time. The battle in the Republican Party, there was a litmus test over — between the purists and the pragmatists. You know, were you pure enough?

And I was always in the pragmatic camp, and so you would be defined as a RINO, Republican in name only, if you weren't pure enough on all the issues, if you weren't doctrinaire enough.

But now that has all shifted. That paradigm has shifted. The new litmus test seems to be loyalty to the president, to a person. And that is troubling to me.

And, Jeff Flake, by the way, is a very conservative member of the Senate, very conservative. So, really, his issues were not ideological. It was about his loyalty to the president. And I think that's unfortunate.

We, as members of Congress, are elected by our constituents. Our job is to work with the president, not for the president. We are a separate branch of government, separate but equal. And I'm very concerned, you know, that there's too much talk here of separation of parties and not enough talk of separation of powers.