>> i can't speak for paul ryan. when he talked about the moralquiv indication or ambiguity, he was suggesting something else. i think the president is somebody who should listen to his advisers and have his words filtered so that his proper meaning gets across. if for example, he was saying not that there was anybody good in the nazi or kkk march, there isn't, but that there are some people who don't want to see george washington's statue pulled down, don't want to see franklin roosevelt's statue butted or abraham lincoln's at that time to you pulled down or vandalized as happened in chicago, those are not bad people. he may not have the communicated all that effectively. he should have people working with him so he gives a speech like he did tonight about afghanistan where it's pretty clear what he means to say. i disagree with those who think what the president is trying to say is there is some good nazis abd some good klansmen, just i don't think he thinks there are good al qaeda or taliban. he needs to be cleare

one thing i notice about the paul ryan, the very well done town hall that cnn did with paul ryan, people were having a civil debate. there's not enough of that in this country. have you people pulling down statues. >> cliff, it sounds like the president of the united states should be listening to your advice because he's the one, i mean, he's a big part of the divide, the separation. he may say that he wants people to come together but his words reflect something else. >> and don. >> i agree he did not do this. i respond to don. don, if you're saying he did a bad job on tuesday, particularly on tuesday when he was impromptu and said whatever popped into his mind, i totally agree with you. >> i didn't by the way, think as an american, i didn't think it was necessary for him to bring that into the afghanistan speech tonight, as well. i didn't think he should have brought charlottesville into that. if he wanted to speak about his comments, he should have spoken to the nation about charlottesville and not muddled it by putting it into a speech about afghanistan. that's what i thought as an a

speaker paul ryan is. >> charlie sykes, you know paul ryan well, and i want to get to what he's up to here. i'm trying to think of previous speakers of the house doing events like this and i can count them on one hand. i don't think i use all my fingers. and most speakers of the house nver did events like this. he's got three kids at home as you know in wisconsin he presumably wants to spend as much time with as he possibly can and he's out in doing a campaign-like event. >> lawrence, you're really messing with me, aren't you? because, of course, i would love to see paul ryan step up as the anti-trump. i would love to see him be able to break and say, here is the alternative vision. i don't see that happening in part because jonathan capehart is absolutely right, paul ryan is going to have to prove the republicans govern, which means he's going to have to do the heavy lifting, going to have to do the dirty work, you know, obviously knowing that donald trump will throw him under the bus whenever possible. but the contrast is rather dramatic. on this issue of tax reform, which is basica

speaker paul ryan is. >> charlie sykes, you know paul ryan well, and i want to get to what he's up to here. i'm trying to think of previous speakers of the house doing events like this and i can count them on one hand. i don't think i use all my fingers. and most speakers of the house never did events like this. he's got three kids at home as yuan you know in wisconsin he presumably wants to spend as much time with as he possibly can and he's out in doing a campaign-like event. >> lawrence, you're really messing with me, aren't you? because, of course, i would love to see paul ryan step up as the anti-trump. i would love to see him be able to break and say, here is the alternative vision. i don't see that happening in part because jonathan capehart is absolutely right, paul ryan is going to have to prove the republicans govern, which means he's going to have to do the heavy lifting, going to have to do the dirty work, you know, obviously knowing that donald trump will throw him under the bus whenever possible. but the contrast is rather dramatic. on this issue of tax reform, which is

so this is something that paul ryan is going to have to address directly. he already took some preemptive action in putting out a statement today a little bit stronger than what he has said before, condemning, of course, white supremacy and bigotry and terrorism. but he does not mention the president by name. you can bet that is something that is going to be at the forefront of the questions people have. another issue, nancy pelosi as well as senator cory booker asking when he returns to washington in two weeks to consider taking down the confederate statues inside the capitol building. that is also something worrying and pressing at least the democrats and some republicans as well. and then really the business of trying to unite the party to get something done. we saw the failure of repeal and replace obamacare. before the recess, they'll be coming back and looking at raising the debt ceiling and whether or not they can get a clean vote through or are conservatives going to block that and also tax reform. those are the two biggies on his plate when he retu

>>> welcome back everybody, i am tyler mathisen of the big interview of the day, house speaker paul ryan talking exclusively on power lun"powerl" weighing >> ylan mui is live with the highlights of that interview >> reporter: tyler, speaker paul ryan was here at a tax reform road show trying to talk off potential of getting tax reform done this year i sat down with him just a few minutes ago and i asked him about president trump's tweet that blamed him and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell for making a mess of the debt ceiling fight. here is what he said >> i don't take it going after me that's an option that we are looking at the va deadline came up and we were not able to do that then. we have plenty of options ahead of us.

ryan he tweeted that i requested that mitch mcconnell and paul ryan tie it into the popular v.a. bill it is not for easy approval. they didn't do it. now we have a big deal of dems holding them up as usual on debt ceiling approval could have been so easy. the president also tweeting the only problem i have with mitch mcconnell after hearing repeal and replace, that should never have happened. scott, needles to say, those are not the tweets of somebody who feels himself to be united, those are the tweets of somebody who is critical. in mitch mcconnell's statement yesterday he didn't deny "the new york times" reporting from earlier in the week that he said he questions whether or not the president will be able to salvage his presidency at this point and also that there was a profanity laced conference call between the two men on august the 9th where the relationship boiled down in which the president was apparently upset about two things, one, the failure of obamacare up on capitol hill and also as "the new york times" reported, mitch mcconnell's failure to shield the president fro

ryan for failing to get things done how does paul ryan feel about the presidential jabs. ylan is getting ready for her one on one with the house speaker. >> reporter: paul ryan keeps trying to talk taxes but the president has other ideas in those tweets he was blaming both paul ryan and mitch mcconnell for making a mess of this debt ceiling fight. paul ryan just wrapped an employee town hall here today at boeing, speaking with employees as well as boeing ceo and during that town hall he said he is in close contact with the president. we jokingly said he takes it day by day we'll see if we can find out more from him and get his response in a few minutes, guys. >> should be a very interesting conversation so much to talk about with paul ryan coming right up. >>> harvey upgraded to a hurricane just moments ago it is barreling towards the texas gulf coast this picture taken by one of noaa's satellites a short time ago. that's me, showing how massive the storm is trust me, it's massive there it is. the energyindustry closely watching hurricane harvey with a third of refining c

>> any cost to paul ryan, john mccain, jeb bush, jeff flake, and a list of other republicans that you probably consider establishment republicans saying this was a bad idea? >> my response would be yada, yada, yada. they're against every single thing the president does that's the least bit controversial. i don't think paul ryan, john mccain, or anyone else in that crowd would have thought to pardon sheriff arpaio or anyone else for that matter who was headed for personal bankruptcy, who was being prosecuted by a very political justice department. they wouldn't have done that. because they don't have the kind of guts to do those things. they're against anything donald trump does. >> let me raise this business about this was a crusade from the obama justice department. this contempt was initiated by the judge in the case. that's who brought this case. the idea that this was some kind of vendetta from the justice

paul ryan is anxious to let it be known he supports that. lou: did he decide a thumbs up is his way of an identifying avatar with donald trump. he's sitting on a horse an can't even ride the damn thing. are you kidding me? mollie: i thought he rode the horse pretty well. lou: i'll take your judgment over mine because it was awful riding to tell you the truth. >> paul ryan has a new name. we'll call him paul hollywood ryan. boats, helicopters, techno music, horses. wow! what a video. thumbs up. this was paul ryan's attempt at being something that he's not. of course, i welcome it because he's finally supporting the president. i'm on the same page with you. if this is his way of displaying it, i'll take it. lou: i have a real problem with the man coming late to the game. this is a guy he couldn't support. now he sneaks out a 30-second video in helicopters and horses. he didn't exactly spring on board the helicopter. mollie: this isn't the first time he mentioned that he made this trip. he did this months ago. he put out a video at the time. he

what about the likes of paul ryan, mitch mcconnell? president trump was tweeting negative comments about them today, reports that they have not spoken for weeks. an exaggeration in your mind? >> there appears to be some tension there but they need each other. none of them can succeed without the other. this debt ceiling is going to get raised, not because they love each other, but because it has to. julia: do they need to be friends in order to get this done, doesn't have an impact on enacting reforms, tax reform, for example? >> as with most of life, relationships matter. it can be helpful, i wish it were better. perhaps in the future it will be, but right now, they are facing a legal deadline back by a crisis. i think they all are committed to get it done. i think the odds are actually higher than you mentioned. julia: pragmatism wins through. >> usually. julia: i want to talk about tax reform. you have talked about it as the political holy grail, the low hanging fruit for the gop. others say it is a result of the chaos we have seen,

house speaker paul ryan -- paul ryan just putting to speak in oregon. let's listen in. worse is ifhat is we are successful like intel clearly is, in being a global company and making money by selling goods and services overseas, they can bring those profits back into this country and reinvest it in jobs and manufacturing in america for many reasons but chief among them because of our tax code. we have $3 trillion of american profits arced oversees the cannot come back because of our tax laws. we have to get these tax rates down. the average tax rate on countries in the world is 2.5%. when we are taxing american businesses 35%, that makes us very uncompetitive. if we get our tax rates down on all of our businesses, then we can be far more globally competitive and we can make it make more sense to keep our companies based in america. that means headquarter stay here. when headquarters stay here, the attachment to the community stays here. the boys and girls club gets more funding. united way and local churches and charities get more community support like you do in portla

paul ryan, mitch mcconnell, they've been around the block. there was a point, said it all the time, there was never a point in which anyone in congress thought yeah, we're definitely -- let's say a billion dollars. >> and a government shutdown, a lot of us remember winds up costing the american public billions and billions of dollars. >> right. and let's talk about the consequences of what would happen. if the government shuts down, right, our market goes down. right. you're going to see wall street take a major hit. you're going to see all across the globe, markets around the globe are going to take a hit. there is going to be you can have financial investors looking at the solvency of the united states and wondering, are we a good bet? and to your point, we know when a government shuts down, let's dispel the myth that they're saving money. all those government employees get back paid, they're not allowed to go back to the office. >> it's like a paid vacation. when they go back, they get paid. >> well, i just to want go back to what caitlin

nick, your thoughts. >> well, paul ryan has a new name. paul hollywood rhine. boats and riders and technomusic and helicopters. thumbs up of paul ryan being something he's not. he's finally supporting the president. i am on the same page with you. and this way of his dismaying, i will take it. >> lou: i have a real problem with a man coming late to the game. he couldn't support and sneaks out a 30 day video and grandizing him in ape technothriller on horse back and helicopters and whooe hey does the x 90 program. he didn't spring on board. helicopter. i know you thought it was terrific. >> this is not the first time he did the trip. he did it months ago and talk about the experience of working on border security. and this is a new video and style of approach and marketing that trip. he took it before and publicized it, too. >> lou: this video paid for by tax pay ares and sitting there on all sorts of government. is he running for something? >> you wonder what it is. it is at the same time house republicans support the president. there are so many areas where re

it's the site of tonight's town hall with speaker paul ryan. it comes at a time in this nation with racial tensions boiling over and republicans breaking ranks with the president. tonight just a little under five hours with critics on both sides questioning the president's leadership and his moral authority in a prime time address live on cnn. the commander in chief, president trump, will ask americans implicitly to trust him on his new strategy for afghanistan. the president will speak from fort myer in arlington, virginia. athena will speak to us now. what do we expect the president to say? >> reporter: we expect to hear the president lay out a plan that would increase u.s. troop levels by several thousand and also address the u.s. relationship with other countries in the region, principally pakistan. as you mentioned, the president's speech comes against a backdrop of weeks of west wing chaos and the controversy over his response to the violence in charlottesville. this is a chance to turn the page, focus on national security. the question i

both republican arizona senators and speaker of the house paul ryan made comments. and this morning blast from former vice president. he says the president's contempt for the u.s. constitution and willingness to widen this nation knows no bounds. now he's pardoned a law enforcement official who terrorized the latino community, violated its constitution gnat right, he defied a federal court to stop, and ran a prison system so rife with -- your response? >> vice president joe biden is loved and known for his hyperbole. i think that's another example of it. i think there is disproportionate coverage right now. as i and governor abbott focus on the 4.6 people in the greatest houston area. i think the arpaio pardon is straightforward. george, as you know, the president you worked for and just about every modern president ends up with some controversial pardons. i think the president has been pretty clear on it. it's not fair to characterize him about not caring about the rule of law. >> that came from senator mccain and speaker of the house paul ryan, as well. you're abs

this really looks, i can't distinguish 2017, paul ryan from 2016 paul ryan. >> yeah. that's pretty much right. look, republicans have found this way of branching out, being critical of trump when they feel they need to the moment is egregious, and pretty much everyone agreed the charlottesville issue was so egregious. but then they elected him. told their voters to vote for him. they vote for his policies for the most part, and i think that's pretty much what we're going to see when they get back in town. obviously this puts people in a side show, meaning senators are pissed, get to town spend half their time responding what the president tweeted. that's very aggravating. but the tax reform bill, probably come up for a vote. probably. and most republicans won't vote for that. >> i love the sound, republican lawmakers annoyed reporters ask them to talk about something that the president of the united states has done, as if we're talking about kim kardashian. anyway, coming up next, will donald trump finally be the president to get middle east piece? talking with leader

ryan wants. >> paul ryan has been floating a border adjustment tax that was going to be a big pay-for, a trillion dollar. very controversial. it just recently died. they were going to get $500 to a trillion out of obamacare tax relief to apply that to a sweeping tax reform and cut package. that didn't pan out. so they're looking for ways to pay for it. they don't have one. while they want to say yes, we're going to present the proposals in september and get going, they haven't agreed on whether or not they are going to pay for it and have it be permanent or whether -- really give the certainty to business that paul ryan has been talking about the whole time or do something that can expire in 10 to 20 years. >> that is a fundamental disagreement. >> therein lies the rub of the republican conference and the house and the senate, shepard. they disagree with the ranks of the moderates after a few years of obamacare in place grow fond of a medicaid expansion and the fiscal hawks like paul ryan and the freedom caucus who say their goal all along as republicans and conservatives was to shrin

house speaker paul ryan said he does not want to see a u.s. government shutdown after president trump threatened congress with that and -- unless it agrees to fund his mexican border wall plan. >> no one is interested in having a shutdown, it is not in our interest to do so. while we work on doing what we said we would do what we have done is to control our border. do not think you need to choose between the two. juliette: the u.s. is preparing another round of sanctions to punish the government of venezuela. would squeezetoll trading in debt. one of the people said the campaign to pressure nicolas sarkozy maduro and number doesn't -- no decision has made. you may be assured under the leadership of president, the u.s. will continue to bring the full measure of american economic and dramatic power to bear until democracy is restored. in venezuela. germany's free democrats say they are under no pressure to form a coalition with the christian union block after next months election. wasnior member of the fdp speaking exclusively to bloomberg. impo

ryan -- i should say even republicans, of course republicans like paul ryan are against the raise act, marco rubio today said that there is some merit in the raise act, but it ain't going to pass the sentence. you have resistance in the republican party to the raise act. how do you overcome it? >> well, it is an american issue. bottom line is, american supported, independent supporter, republican voters supported. eventually, if it has support, it is only a question of when it happens. as you know better than anyone, laura, we had met about 300,000 people a year in the 70s, but half million a year in the 'it is, what happening now is not the norm, it is actually unusual we are living in right . >> laura: the polling on this is so devastating for the other side. it is crazy. i think it was a gallup poll from a year or so ago. it is almost like those numbers don't matter. as always emotions, the statue of liberty and so forth. meanwhile, other polls are being floated by the media today, the cnn poll, will put it up on the screen, certain qualities, please state whether you think each on

and paul r.," house speaker paul ryan, "tie the debt ceiling legislation into the popular v.a. bill that just passed, for easy approval. they didn't do it. now we have a big deal with dems holding them up, as usual, on debt ceiling approval. could have been so easy, now a mess." >> the senate republican leadership aide says the idea of tying the debt ceiling increase to a popular veterans' reform bill had been discussed, but the idea was rejected by hard-line conservatives. the house freedom caucus, who has been supportive of the trump administration, they want provision to curb government spending. did not want to vote against the v.a. bill. for now, the white house trying to dispel the notion of fractures in the republican party. sara murray with more from the white house. >> reporter: good morning. president trump spent much of the day yesterday railing against members of his own party including house speaker paul ryan and majority leader mitch mcconnell. despite all that, white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders insists he has a fine relationship with republican l

. >> speaker of the house paul ryan has come out against the pardon. this is what his spokesman told "the wall street journal." the speaker does not agree with thea>hñus decision-- . >> trevor: yeah, paul ryan! sort of standing up to trump, yeah. because let's be honest, paul ryan has never really standing up to trump. paul ryan stands up to trump the same way you stand up to a waiter at a [bleep] restaurant. you're all kfer dent when he's not there, like this food is horrible. what's that, oh no, everything's great, thank you, thank you, yeah, yeah. could i just have all the salts, please, all the salt, thank you. and now to understand why both democrats and many republicans have condemned this pardon, you need to understand the man who trump gave the pardon to. so let's saddle up and meet this character in a special installment of our ongoing series, profiles in tremendousness, pardon edition. >> was sheriff joe convicted for doing his job? >> trevor: ladies and gentlemen, meet joe arpaio. he was elected sheriff of maricopa county, arizona, in 1993

president trump taunting paul ryan, house speaker over the debt ceiling up next paul ryan's reaction and we will speak to speakers on both sides of the aisle on their take of this possible shutdown next, we will talk to the ceos of hp einc. and whadeloitte anda the two companies are working on, that's ahead next. >> welcome back. house speaker paul ryan in washington today to view our plans. it's contentious i feel they are under pressure on some of these agenda items. >> well, certainly, president trump's tweets this morning didn't help the matter, trump blamed both paul ryan and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell for making a mess of a debt ceiling saying they should have attacked a debt ceiling increase to a va funding bill i pressed paul ryan on this question here's what he said. >> i don't really think it as going after me look, that's an option we were looking at the va deadline came up. we were not able to do that then i am not worried about this. we have plenty of obligations ahead of us. we will hit the increase before this is penetrating. meaning we will pass a debt lim

who do you think the real paul ryan is? do you believe he's come around and changed or pretending to like donald trump more than he does? >> they seem to be pretty much arm in arm. i haven't seen -- he wants to come out and say something bad about charlottesville but he's not going to point to the direct cause of it. for so many years paul ryan has been talking in the district about all kinds of wonderful ideas he has. now looking at him he has the perfect opportunity. he's the speaker of the house. he's the one that decides what legislation gets discussed in congress. he has a republican president, a republican senate and a conservative leaning supreme court. they have the driver's wheel but the car won't start. >> i want to ask you because you're prolific on twitter. there's something you retweeted that i want to put up. it's very controversial. this is an image that super imposes the make america great again with nazi imagery behind him and says we'll beat him again. it seems to be a bay bayon et on the first image. why

and paul ryan says he missed a chance. >> yeah. well paul ryan is one person with one opinion. i can tell you when you see what the president is doing as far as jobs, opportunity, economic development, working hard to bring people together the zwrob is multi faceted. this is one issue that has to be addressed. he's working it. he's doing the best he possibly can. i think tonight if it he touches on it, it won't surprise anybody. it can't happen overnight. when you look at racism in the country it's built up over time and hit that pinnacle in a horrific evening and day. >> i want to ask you someone the most political spot on earth right now. with the possibility of this senate primary. senator jeff flake running for reeselecti reeselection. you have been rumored to run guest him. the president seemed to endorse dr. kelly ward when he was very mad at how jeff flake was responding to charlottesville. just a few minutes ago we saw an ad released by a pack associated with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell going after kelly ward. >> one year ago, arizona republicans rejected kim

i think they are crazy because what you get from insulting mitch mcconnell and insulting paul ryan? you don't get tax reform. you don't get money for the wall. you don't get what you said you're going to give to that base. you keep promising these accomplishments. so i just think it's a bad strategy and somebody ought to give him a better one. >> bret, i have a theory that lindsey graham hears these questions from corker and clapper now on whether the president is fit to serve. i think lindsey is a national security guy understands how terrifying that is to the majority of americans. i think he's trying to turn the heat down on crazy and ascribing a strategy -- >> he's turning the heat up on stupid and that's kind of a bad choice when you're thinking about the person -- >> is that where we are? >> is this a psychiatric question or just a question of mental competence. because the approach of simply trying to denigrate persistently and nastily members of your own party, the people you need to move your legislation through is kind of extraordinary. i think what it says is that trump i

paul ryan gave the president a damaged bill of goods with the health care. there's a lot of angst over that. i think the president, i have urged him privately and publicly, to reach out, create a bipartisan consensus like president bush did. get legislation through. this is a guy that -- >> doesn't sound like he's listening to you. >> the reason is, people are -- why hasn't the president done -- he's been under such attack by the press. no president has ever sustained this attack. there were people like maxine waters were calling for his impeachment before he took the oath of office. it's horrific what is going on. >> it's a difference between -- >> he's dumping a bucket of water on his head and complaining of being wet. he constantly does this to himself. >> i would say you and everyone else and the major media is dumping the bucket of water. >> how many of donald trump's wounds over the last seven months have been self-inflicted? seriously? >> the majority. >> i would say he should rise above and not punch down and go to a higher road and try to reach out

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none of those -- >> do you think mitch mcconnell and paul ryan don't want to do that? >> i think they do, but is congress moves slower. the president wants to put a pause in our travel from seven countries down to six who we believe we don't have a proper vet progress says for to make sure that our country is seiche for people traveling from there and courts tell him he can't do it. he was told he has to d health care before tax reform because there's tax implications in the health care. he's getting trafrustrated. >> that's not leading, that's blami blaming. >> he made a promise to secure our borders and he wants support for that. i think he's trying tactics to get some of his agenda moving because he's been in office now for eight months and a lot of things he promised the american people haven't come to fruition yet. >> congressman dan donovan, thank you. >>> there is breaking news i'm told, a press conference ongoing in charleston where there had been an active shooter situation. let's listen. >> -- while this situation is unfolding. we do know already at this poin

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and paul r., mitch mcconnell and paul ryan, tie the debt ceiling legislation into the popular v.a., veterans affairs bill which just passed for easy approval. they didn't do it. now a big deal with dems holding them up as usual on debt ceiling approval. could have been so easy. now a mess. the president followed up this tweet with this one. the only problem i have with mitch mcconnell is that after hearing repeeg and replace for seven years he failed. that should have never happened. fwling our senior white house correspondent jim acosta and manu raju, jim, the president not letting up at all on the republican leader senate and house leaders. is there a strategy here? >> reporter: no strategy. the example of the president cutting off at the knees his own press office. remember, yesterday evening during "the situation room" where we were talking about the white house issuing this statement saying that the president and mcconnell remained united on all of these issues and wake up this morning and the president is tweeting that mitch mcconnell and paul ryan, complaining about the fact that his

one step forward, two steps back in that, as you heard paul ryan say. i like what he said on monday. didn't like what he said on tuesday. liked what he said an hour ago. see about what he says ten hours from now. that's always the problem. the way you get to the white house is incredible to message discipline. covering a campaign, all they do, give the same speech over and over and observer agaver ag. donald trump is not that guy in a way made him appealing as candidate but so difficult to project what he'll say tonight or a week from now. abby mentioned, yes, for a day, maybe a week stays off twitter. but always sort of cycles back to who he's been most of his adult life. >> what do you think, jeremy? refer to charlottesville in his speech in arizona tonight? >> it's impossible to predict. one thing i've learned covering donald trump the last two-plus years. you never predict anything anymore. >> and a lot of republicans would love to hear him say, i'm sorry. i apologize. i made a mistake. here is what i feel in my gut about the kkk, about neo-nazis, a

"i requested that mitch mcconnell and paul ryan tie the debt ceiling legislation into the popular va bill which just passed for easy approval. they didn't do it so now we have a big deal with dems holding them up as usual on debt ceiling approval. could have been so easy. now a mess!" the bottom line here is that the president, according to officials here, has this uneasy alliance with republican lawmakers. they concede that's the case, but they believe there are place where is they can come together on their shared agenda. that's what they're focused on right now. frankly that's what paul ryan focus on as well after he heard the latest round of criticism between the president, purpose ported criticism between the president and mitch mcconnell. here's paul ryan in the last 24 authorities. >> it's important we all stay unified as republicans to complete our agenda. i think president is employing a strategy he thinks is effective for him. >> reporter: that was paul ryan speaking while traveling as congress prepares a return from its recess back in session next week. and as evidenced by

paul ryan hasn't. >> well, sass may rival what ryan has done. the other people you named i don't think have been as outspoken at times as paul ryan and paul ryan has done it as speaker of the house. in a couple of weeks what paul ryan is going to have to do is keep the government from defoughting on its debt and keep there from being a government shutdown. he still has things about the president that he doesn't like will not stand in the way of solving those. i have talked to the most powerful donors in the republican party and the top exact adviseds. they're like we can't change him, we're just going to be quiet because he's not going to do what we tell him to do anyway. actually, the only thing donald trump respond to is blunt force rhetorically rhetorically or politically. that's all he responds to, and paul ryan since donald trump has won the nomination has been silent and meek. >> i completely agree with what mark said. i think the way ryan looks at it for better or worse is he leads 246 other house republicans, many of whom are not bothere

nick, your thoughts. >> well, paul ryan has a new name. paul hollywood rhine. boats and riders and technomusic and helicopters. thumbs up of paul ryan being something he's not. he's finally supporting the president. i am on the same page with you. and this way of his dismaying, i will take it. >> lou: i have a real problem with a man coming late to the game. he couldn't support and sneaks out a 30 day video and grandizing him in ape technothriller on horse back and helicopters and whooe hey does the x 90 program. he didn't spring on board. helicopter. i know you thought it was terrific. >> this is not the first time he did the trip. he did it months ago and talk about the experience of working on border security. and this is a new video and style of approach and marketing that trip. he took it before and publicized it, too. >> lou: this video paid for by tax pay ares and sitting there on all sorts of government. is he running for something? >> you wonder what it is. it is at the same time house republicans support the president. there are so many areas where re

presently the senate majority leader and paul ryan say they are united. privately president trump and mitch mcconnell haven't spoken in weeks. >> this congress is interested in getting america growing again. >> reporter: the president blamed mcconnell again for the health care failure in the senate. mcconnell joked about how hard it is to be the senate leader with a slim majority. >> it's a little bit like being a groundskeeper at a cemetary. everybody is under you but nobody is listening. that's what you get with 52 to 48. >> reporter: the president has urged mcconnell to ditch the filibuster rule in order to sideline the democrats, something mcconnell says is off the table. another complication could be the president's threat to force a federal government shutdown if congress doesn't provide the money and funding for his promised border wall. today the president meets with secretary of state rex tillerson before heading to camp david with the first lady. anne-marie? >> seth lemon here in new york. thank you so much, seth. >>> well, the navy recovered th

i'm noting from twitter right now that house speaker palm ryan came o paul ryan came out with a pretty strong treatmenstatement. he twhooeted th etweeted that te language is -- no the views fueling the situation in charlottes there are repugnant, let it unite americans against this kind of vile bigotry. that is a strong statement. the kind of statement that i think a lot of people would expect a president of the united states to have made in this situation. i was actually during one of the breaks on my message board and a friend of mine pointed out, look, the president has a lot on his plate, but he takes time out to tweet all the time, boris. so why hasn't he no matter how busy he is taken five minutes out on-to-tweet aboto tweet aboe when he tweets about his poll numbers all the time. >> all right. stay with us. i want to bring in charles ramsey. a former police commissioner. sir, watching everything that unfolded today, does it seem to you that police was anticipating something like this or prepared for it? >> that is a good question. when i first started watching, i thought where a

and pressure on paul ryan to do the same. he has tweeted that white supremacy is a scorge against bigotry. he put out this statement in a

he is again slamming mitch mcconnell for failure to repeal obamacare and accuses paul ryan of making a quote, mess out of efforts to raise the debt ceiling. this hour, i talk about those stories and more with reuben guy aig a, from the armed services committee. our specialists are also standing by. first, to senior white house correspondent, jim acosta. the president isn't backing away from multiple fights with fellow republicans. >> reporter: that's right, the list keeps growing, he continues to air complaints about professional leaders from his own party as the white house is trying to ease tensions that may shift into overdrive with the white house openly considering the idea of government shutdown to force congress to pay for a wall on the border, the same wall the president promised mexico would fund. over here at the white house, it is sounding like border wall or bust. president trump is once again trolling one of his favorite twitter parties, his own party. tweeting the only problem with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell after hearing repeal and replace for seven years,

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