ryan and paul ryan has never liked trump. and that is just the fact of the matter. they patched it up for a couple of years to get a few things done and now that that is over, paul ryan is telling the world how he really feels but for people it seems a little too little too late. >> and now you spend your career in national security and the reports that we're getting that the director of national intelligence dan coats may be the next senior trump administration official to be removed. >> and we don't need another acting cabinet-level official and we have four with the acosta resignation but when it comes to the director of national intelligence, it is largely irrelevant who is fit -- who is filling that seat. we have a lame duck dni in dan coats. president trump puts more trust in vladimir putin than dan coats and trump is the ultimate client for the intelligence community. he's not looking for a director of national intelligence he's looking for someone to fit his political talking point so if dan coats leaves, whoever come

paul ryan looked like a guy with a spine. >> he did. he did something extraordinary he disinvited the president, the nominee from his own event, and told reince priebus we have to get him off the ticket and had a conference call where he said i'm done with him. that was a decisive moment but not decisive in the way a lot of us thought it would be this is -- a lot of people don't like to hear but the tragedy of ryan, republicans caved into donald trump, who they compromised their values and their principles but what makes ryan different is he knew better he always knew who donald trump was. he knew what donald trump was all about. he was privately disgusted about it he didn't have a different opinion than jennifer and i had about donald trump so in a lot of ways, his is the most disappointing and hard to defe defend. >> thank you for joining me tonight. we'll be back with richard engel what it looks like on trump's other side of the trade war with china. i can't tell you who i am or what i witnessed, but i can tell you liberty mutual cus

up to speed on what led the president to unload on paul ryan. >> so paul ryan had given an interview to a reporter who was writing a book, that book came out. and in that book there's some critical comments about the president saying that paul ryan prevented president donald trump from making bad decisions because president donald trump wasn't that familiar with the workings of government, the levers of power. that was essentially paul ryan's argument. for president donald trump, that was too much. he attacked him at at one point he called him a baby. he said he's an ineffective speaker. all but called him a lightweight. that was before and after he spoke about paul ryan two times in the between there he defended nancy pelosi as a democrat saying she's not a racist and that alexandria ocasio-cortez knows better. so at the same time he's criticizing a republican former speaker who's out of power who is in private life, he's defending speaker pelosi, rising to her defense, and it's just yet again another example that when the president feels however criticized, he fights back. sometime

paul ryan looked like a guy with a spine. >> he did. he did something extraordinary he disinvited the president, the nominee from his own event, and told reince priebus we have to get him off the ticket and had a conference call where he said i'm done with him. that was a decisive moment but not decisive in the way a lot of us thought it would be this is -- a lot of people don't like to hear but the tragedy of ryan, republicans caved into donald trump, who they compromised their values and their principles but what makes ryan different is he knew better he always knew who donald trump was. he knew what donald trump was all about. he was privately disgusted about it he didn't have a different opinion than jennifer and i had about donald trump so in a lot of ways, his is the most disappointing and hard to defend >> thank you for joining me tonight. we'll be back with richard engel what it looks like on trump's other side of the trade war with china. hmm. exactly. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you n

p paul ryan which was never going to work with trump, paul ryan gave some bad advice to start the administration by making sure that legislatively he'll start with the healthcare bill which created an incredible volatility with the democrats instead of starting off with something like infrastructure. it was an amazing press conference today. i worked for presidents before who hates talking the the press. i was driving when that happens. i went to get something to eat and came back in the car and it was still going. >> were you surprised of the praise on pelosi and at the same time criticizing paul ryan. >> one of the fee people that he has deferential to is nancy pelosi. i think he genuinely admires her strengths and fortitude and holding together the democratic caucus. she's somebody who fights back and he responds to that. >> paul ryan told tim alberto look, we got so numbered by it. not in government but we are numbed by it. we live our lives and we have a responsibility to try and rebuild. don't call a woman a horse face, don't cheat your wife or don't cheat on anything. be a good person or

same temperature. >> and i know paul ryan. he's a nice guy. i worked with him on the hill as a staffer and as a member. paul ryan is a walking congressional research service report. a very wonk-ish, into the levers and buttons of how the policy works in washington. and that is not how donald trump works. so for paul ryan to say trump doesn't know anything about washington, that is why he was sent here. people in motorcycle voted h-- voted for him and the president, i know, for a fact, was very disappointed that paul ryan couldn't get the health care plan done. that was one of the first things out of the block. needed to get done and they would deliver, couldn't count the votes and they failed miserably. >> the president undermined them. >> but the point is they said we'll deliver this and we got this done, please send it done and we have it teed up and then they couldn't do it and you see the president compliments nancy pelosi for holding her caucus together and keeping people disciplined and he said numerous times that paul r

paul ryan and others have let it go. it has become a party that has abandoned its former principles. reductions in spending, small taxation, free trade, less government. all of it. and so the thing is, you're going to hear very few defenses of paul ryan today because those who are still in office are trying to stay on the good side of president trump. i think it comes and goes. i don't think it's the most explosive part of tim alberta's reporting once we get on the other side of this book. >> he certainly got us interested in it. mia, to you. we've seen this kind of thing before and it's become something of a pattern where republicans don't really get a backbone to criticize the president until after they have decided that they're leaving or have actually, like in paul ryan's case, have left office and aren't really in a position of power to do anything about it. why is that? >> well, first of all, i'd say that there are a lot of people that have been willing to go out there during their time in office and call the presi

paul ryan talked about a number of issues. specifically the president's own commentary and the president's governing skills. he said, i told myself i got to have a relationship with this guy to help him get his mind right. because i'm telling you, he didn't know anything about government. i wanted to scold him all the time. >> and yet he didn't. go figure. i guess i think this is you can add paul ryan to the long list of people who have left donald trump's either service or working partnership in some fashion and who then go on to talk about how they were really trying behind the scenes to change everything and that's why they didn't say anything publicly. paul ryan was clearly not that supportive of the president. there were any number of times he was not -- during the campaign he was not with him. he was critical at points. and i think that he did less than others have in terms of trying to be warm during one setting and then after they've parted ways, being critical. but i don't -- this is not a surprise if you were watchin

again, paul ryan let us down. paul ryan was a terrible speaker. frankly, he was a baby. he didn't know what the hell he was doing. the wall let us down. now, in all fairness, the problem with -- when we had both houses, in the senate, you need 60 votes. well, we don't have 60 votes. we had 51 last time. now we have 53 because we won during the 2018 election, which nobody wants to say, so you understand. so the wall is being built. we had one set back. we had one victory. i had one tremendous victory that was very rarely covered by the press. two days ago, i won the emoluments case. that was the biggest case of all. i won the emoluments case. people don't know, by my being president, i lose billions of dollars -- and especially money i can't make because i don't do deals. but i lose billions of dollars. another thing. i get a salary of $400,000 or $450,000 a year. i don't think any other president ever gave it up -- it's a lot of money. almost half a million dollars. i give it up. i don't think i've anybody say i give up my salary. i am not looking for credit. but i give

a man like paul ryan does not often come along. >> that tribute. we saw a tweet storm yesterday where donald trump went after him calming him a failed vp candidate whose record achievement was atrocious and a lame duck failure and he did not know how to win and blew it and had bad timing. it is just -- kind of nasty politics on twitter. >> we don't know it would have made a difference in paul ryan would speak out loudly. would that have been the case if there had been an alternative vision. if somebody like paul ryan had articulated, you know, less of this and less isolationists and all of the trumpian characteristi characteristics. there would have been a local remnant of people saying we are not buying into this. paul ryan must be looking around saying what did i get from all the appeasement? i got the tax cuts but going forward, i got nothing. >> the president really picked off from the democrats. >> well, it is interesting being in wisconsin, none of the c candidates are making the mistakes of not coming here. as i came down to the studio, ther

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paul ryan has branded him as a compassionate conservative. and ryan sort of made this decision when the president was inaugurated, that he's going to work with him and bring him over to his side by being nice to him. a lot of people have said on capitol hill that he made this pact with the devil, he wouldn't say anything against trump while he was speaker, and now that he's not speaker any more, clearly he's speaking his mind. >> your name is mud. let me tell you something, he goes through two years and he's a good man, i think. he's a consider at man. i think he was a great vice presidential candidate. give me a break. we knew for two years that there were questions about temperament, judgment, statements about women, statements about mexican rapists, mexican judges in america. statements that were so significant about the judicial system that the head of the supreme court has to reresponded. and now paul ryan says i'm not responsible for congress i'm going to comment on character? he better be out there for a year and a half. he has a hole

again, paul ryan let us down. paul ryan was a terrible speaker. frankly, he was a baby. he didn't know what the hell he was doing. the wallet us down. now, in all fairness, the problem with -- when we had both houses, in the senate, you need 60 votes. well, we don't have 60 votes. we had 51 last time. now we have 53 because we won during the 2018 election which nobody wants to say, so you understand. we had one set back. we had one victory. i had one tremendous victory that was very rarely covered by the press. i won the emoluments case. i won the emoluments case. people don't know my being president, i lose billions of dollars -- and especially money i can't make because i don't do deals. but i lose billions of dollars. another thing. i get a salary of $400,000 or $450,000 a year. i don't think any other president ever -- it's a lot of money. almost half a million dollars. i give it up. i don't think i've anybody say i give up my salary. i am not looking for credit. i give up my salary. i get zero. i get zero. you know what makes me happy? that we're doing a great job.

the only success paul ryan had was the time that he was with me. paul ryan let us down. paul ryan was a terrible speaker. frankly, he was a baby, he didn't know what the hell he was doing. >> jeff, what do you make of the president's criticism of ryan? is it fair? >> number one, president trump doesn't like to be criticized himself, so if somebody turns on him and be it someone like paul ryan with whom he had a working relationship, he had to have one or be it someone on the other side of the political spectrum and when he gets attacked, he attacks back and that's a classic response right there and one quibble i would point out in terms of fact checking when he said that paul ryan wasn't able to raise money. that's not true. paul ryan was a major fund-raiser during his team as speaker and the president doesn't like to see this reflection coming out later that's critical of him and i don't think -- doug might have more insight on this than i and i don't think people are that surprised to hear some of what the former speaker is saying and it's not words that president trum

reporter: did paul ryan prevent you from making decisions? president trump: so paul ryan wasn't a talent. he wasn't a leader. when the people in freedom and great congressmen wanted to go after the dems for things they did very badly, he wouldn't give subpoenas. whereas nancy pelosi hands them

you've got paul ryan on the record. you say and what we're seeing coming out in this book, you say this is very important for the republican party, why? >> the main reason is this is so often what we hear privately, very similar to the situation with the british ambassador. this i think really highlights, there's going to be a point where donald trump is not the president, is not leading the republican party. this to me prestages how the republican party could really fold in amongst itself and divide and ultimately could spell doom for the party long-term. and meanwhile it shows that donald trump does not care about the republican party that he leads unless it follow t him blindly. >> why do you say that? >> what we see is donald trump is your biggest fan as long as you're his fan. and the second something negative comes out, he goes after you. this should be a lesson to every republican member who goes out of their way to praise trump. he doesn't give points. he only takes them away one at a time. >> loyalty all the ti

that is paul ryan's course and mission in government and when he was elected paul ryan was deflated. he had to manage and guide the president in a party he had lost control of even though he was the speaker of the house. >> you read tim's book, it's not just paul ryan by the way in the campaign during the access weekend, there's a report about how disgusted republicans were. you take the snapshot of the way that republicans felt that way and people walked away from him publicly and privately from donald trump and how he conducted himself when he became president of the united states, it's night and day. >> it's night and day. i have to say that paul ryan did have a choice. he had a choice every day. he was speaker of the house. a third only behind the vice president and the president. article i gives the speaker and the house of representatives extraordinary powers. paul had the power of the checkbook. and, you know, rev, when we were just little back benchers in congress we had a choice and we stood up to newt gingrich when we thought that newt was moving away from the things that w

ryan today. >> so, paul ryan was not a talent, he wasn't a leader. paul ryan was a lame duck for a long time as speaker. he was unable to raise money. he lost control of the house. the only success ryan had was the time he was with me because we got taxes cut, i got regulation cuts. i did that mostly without him. but for paul ryan to be complaining is pretty amazing. i remember a day in wisconsin, a state that i won, where i stood up and made a speech, and then i introduced him and they booed him off the stage, 10,000 people. >> the president's attack follows recently published comments ryan made to politico's tim alberta for his upcoming book. ryan speaks frankly about his governing record saying, quote, we've gotten so numbed by it all, not in government but where we live our lives, we have a responsibility to try to rebuild. don't call a woman a horse face, don't cheat on your wife. don't cheat on anything. be a good person. set a good example. back with me now former chief communications adviser for paul ryan brendan buck. thanks so much for bein

>> did the battle royale over the future of republican party leave paul ryan with a reckoning? tim: as soon as trump wins, ryan recognizes that he has a choice. >> and cheers in puerto rico as the governor is out. did he predict his own demise months before he resigned? >> i'm not the best spokesperson. >> plus what happens when you make too much money so your qualify for free lunch -- but not enough money to make ends meet? soledad: how much money did you end up owing? soledad: i'm soledad o'brien. welcome to matter of fact. puerto rico's governor says he will step down on august second. it comes after days of protests following a scandal over chat messages. ricardo rossello and male members of his staff, made homophobic and sexist comments in group chat messages which were obtained by the puerto rico center for investigative journalism -- and they include more than 900 pages of messages including one that joked about the bodies of hurricane maria victims of the morgue. the governor apologized for the messages. but puerto ricans say the latest scandal was just the final straw

♪ >> paul ryan was not a talent. he wasn't a leader. paul ryan was a lame duck for a long time asking speaker. i deal with nancy pelosi a lot, and we go back and forth, and it's fine. but i think that a group of people is being very disrespectful to her. and you know what? i don't think that nancy can let that go on. blake: president trump today trashing the former house speaker, the republican paul ryan, and defending the current house speaker, the democrat nancy pelosi. this comes amid in-fighting in the democratic ranks between pelosi and some of the progressive freshmen congress l l -- congresswomen and after a book was released in which ryan was none too kind about the president. with me now is "the wall street journal" editorial board's mary anastasia o'grady. mary, it's good to speak with you. this one sort of came out of left field as there was a book that was released by tim alberta of "the washington post" in which paul ryan said of the president at one point in the book, quote, i'm telling you, he didn't know anything about g

republican paul ryan gets a trump tongue lashing. democrat nancy pelosi gets an endorsement of sorts. >> i'll tell you something about nancy pelosi that you know better than i do. she is not a racist, okay? she is not a racist. for them to call her a racist is a disgrace. paul ryan was not a talent. he wasn't a leader. he wouldn't give subpoenas. whereas nancy pelosi hands them out like they're cookies. >> we begin today with the biggest headline out of that trump session with reporters, the hasty and important trump administration cabinet shuffle. the labor secretary, alex acosta, says he's stepping down. that less than 48 hours after secretary acosta defended himself to reporters. wednesday acosta insisted the nonprosecution deal he gave to accused pedophile jeffrey epstein a decade ago was on the level. today the labor secretary 234r5 flanking the president on the south lawn said he didn't want to be a decision and that he made this decision. the boss, though, didn't hesitate to accept it. >> he explained it. he made a deal people

again, paul ryan let us down. paul ryan was a terrible speaker. frankly he was a baby he didn't know what the hell he was doing. the wallet us down. now in all fairness, the problem when we had both houses, in the senate you need 60 votes. we don't have 60 votes. we had 51 last night. now we have 53 because we won during the '18 election which nobody wants to say. just so you understand. so the wall is being built. we had one set back, one tremendous victory. and i had a tremendous victory that was very rarely covered by the press. two days ago i won the emoluments case. that was the biggest case of them all. i won the emoluments case. people don't know that my being president i lose billions of dollars, and especially in money i can't make. because i don't do deals. but i lose billions of dollars but another thing i get a salary of 400 or $450,000 a year. i don't think any other president has ever given up -- it's a lot of money, almost a half a million dollars. i give it up. i don't think i've ever seen anybody say i give up my salary. i'm not l

paul ryan is not alone, to your point of lindsey graham and others. at least paul ryan will in retirement say what's really on his mind. i don't know that we'll get that from any of these other folks. that's not meant to be an ad hominem attack, it's an observational reality. you had rick perry call donald trump a cancer on conservatism. that's something we conveniently forget. ted cruz, we all know the saga. these folks who have come to jesus and made their peace with donald trump. there's a reason for it. it's because they're terrified of him. they understand that this is trump's party. that his base is fully behind him. that as unpopular as he may be with the broader electorate, with moderates and independents, he has a chokehold on the republican base. if they're on the wrong side of them, they're going to lose their jobs. >> paul ryan, rich of him to say sitting on the board of fox, is that where he's going to change the country for the better? is it fair? what is it? is it that donald trump is speaking a sort of vehement kind of racist invective

he was probably, paul ryan, the biggest capitulator to trump of all. he would hide when donald trump would say something bad. is he the kind of patient zero of what happened to republicans? are they just scared of trump? what is it? >> boy, look, it's a combination of things, obviously. and ryan i think obviously does carry the burden in terms of his legacy of being one of the chief enablers of donald trump, given that he was the most powerful man in the co-equal branch of government, the branch of government that is given primacy under the constitution, article i. paul ryan, you know, told me that and i could sort of see on his face and hear in his voice that this was almost his way of apologizing or justifying or maybe a little bit of both, you know, what had gone on the last couple of years, joy. i think it's really interesting. when paul ryan is talking about this idea that outside of government now we have a responsibility to try and rebuild, he's basically saying, you know, forget about government, we can't count on washington, d.c., we can't cou

and apparently paul ryan claims in an interview he really tempered the president. i told myself i've got to have a relationship with this guy to get his mind right, because i'm telling you he didn't know anything about government. i wanted to scold him all the time. those of us around him really helped stop him from making bad decisions all the time. is this a little bit of revisionist history here? did paul ryan temper the president all the time? >> it's certainly an insiders look. there were probably things we don't know about conversations between paul ryan and president trump that the former speaker of the house is hinting at there. if he says he tempered him, maybe there are things he tempered him on that we weren't privy to here in the public or the press. but i thought it was interesting to see president trump's reaction last night. he certainly came right down on his former colleague. and it's also interesting i mean in a way if the president didn't view that as criticism, which it cleary is, the president could have easily said, you're right, i didn't know

again, paul ryan let us down. paul ryan was a terrible speaker. frankly, he was a baby. he didn't know what the hell he was doing. the wall let us down. in all fairness, the problem when we had both houses in the senate you need 60 votes. well, we don't have 60 votes. we had 51 last night. now we have 53. pause we won during the '18 election, which nobody wants to say. just so you understand. so the wall is being built. we had one setback, one tremendous victory. and i had a tremendous victory rarely covered by the press. two days ago i won the emoluments case. that was the biggest case of them all. i won the emoluments case. people don't know that my being president i lose billions of dollars -- and especially in money i can't make because i don't do deals. but i lose billions of dollars. but another thing, i get a salary of 400 or $450,000 a year. i don't think any other president has ever given up -- that's a lot of money. almost half a million dollars. i don't think anybody say i would give up my salary. i'm not looking for credit. but i give up my salary. i get zero

. >> so paul ryan was not a tal ntd. he wasn't a leader paul ryan was a lame duck for a long time as speelker. he was unable to raise money he lost control of the house the only success paul ryan had was the time he was with me because we got taxes cut i got regulation kutsz i did that mostly without him. but for paul ryan to be complaining is pretty amazing. i remember a day in wisconsin, a state i won, i stood up and made a speech and i interdeuced him and they booed him off the stage, 10,000 people so for him to open his mouth is pretty incredible. but maybe he gets paid for that. >> in our normalcy, we've never seen anything like this in american life, nothing, not even close. thank you so much for being here with us. have a good weekend and goodnight from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. ♪ >>> a beautiful young mom abducted from her beachfront home her husband, horrified >> my wife made a phone call to me to say that she was held by gunpoint. >> her mother, terrified. >> it's your worst nightmare imagin

people weren't buying, it including then house speaker paul ryan. remember ryan was supposed to have an event with the president the next day. ryan quickly called reince priebus to tell him that wasn't happening. he didn't want to be on the same stage as trump, and shortly after ryan put out a public statement saying he was sickened by what he heard. at the same time several republicans publicly started to abandon trump. remember this was all unfolding in realtime. congressman jason chaffetz even called into this show to say that he would no longer support his own presidential nominee. >> these are abhorrent. they are wrong. to use a baseball metaphor. i've got to call balls and strikes the way i see them, and, you know, my wife julie and i, we've got a 15-year-old daughter. do you think i can look her in the eye and tell her that i endorse donald trump for president when he acts like this and his apology? that was no apology. that an apology for getting caught to. say that bill clinton did it and did it worse. that should have been wrong behavior.

paul ryan, basically the same observation. anybody who works with this guy up close says, you have the most competent, basically moron in the oval office. that's their conclusion. at some point, the emperor wears no clothing and it's going to become obvious. >> a lot of friendly fire, governor. >> no, it's not really. listen, i told the president from the beginning that paul ryan was not someone as the speaker that he could trust and trust his judgment. listen, paul's a very good policy guy. >> does paul know that? >> he's not very good politically. >> how did the president respond to that? >> the president responded to that by listening to reince -- and trusting paul ryan on that issue -- >> jon, here's the thing that happened in megapolitics, have to president and ryan, nancy pelosi and aoc, time period where ross perot died, if first moment of the breakup of the parties. >>> that's all the time we have, thank you for sharing part of your sunday with us. have a great day. ve a great day. >>> up next, i.c.e. raids set to begi

it tells the story of paul ryan's public subservience to the president in paul ryan's own words. "i told myself i got to have a relationship with this guy to help him get his mind right, because i'm telling you, he didn't know anything about government, so i thought i can't be his scold like i was. i wanted to scold him all the time. what i learned as i went on, to scratch that itch, i had to do it in private, so i did it in private all the time and he actually ended up kind of appreciating it. we had more arguments with each other than pleasant conversations over the last two years, and it never leaked." today the man who took paul ryan's place, house majority leader kevin mccarthy, insists that paul ryan never said that. >> you're quoting something based upon a book that i have not read and in talking to speaker ryan, i know that's not the words of what he would use because i've been in rooms with him and the president. >> joining us now is the author of that book, tim alberta, the chief political correspondent for "political" magazine and the author of "american carnage." so,

it tells the story of paul ryan's public subservience to the president in paul ryan's own words. "i told myself i got to have a relationship with this guy to help him get his mind right, because i'm telling you, he didn't know anything about government, so i thought i can't be his schoolold like i was. i wanted to scold him all the time. what i learned as i went on, to scratch that itch, i had to do it in private, so i did it in private all the time and he actually ended up kind of appreciating it. we had more arguments with each other than pleasant conversations over the last two years, and it never leaked." today the man who took paul ryan's place, house majority leader kevin mccarthy, insists that paul ryan never said that. >> you're quoting something based upon a book that i have not read and in talking to speaker ryan, i know that's not the words of what he would use because i've been in rooms with him and the president. >> joining us now is the author of that book, tim alberta, the chief political correspondent for "political" magazine and the author of "american carnage."

again, paul ryan let us down. paul resiyan was a terrible speaker. frankly, he was a baby. he didn't know what the hell he was doing. the wall let us down. >> and paul ryan has not yet responded to trump's comments. tim alberta joins "morning joe" to discuss her new book, american carnage. >> i cannot wait to read that book for a number of reasons. >>> new details on the former british ambassador's sharp criticisms of president trump as more of his dip maltic cablloma are revealed. >>> beto o'rourke reveals his ancestor slaves, the part of that he wants to address part of his ancestor history. s to addref his ancestor history so many great stories from amazing people. it makes me want to be better. to be able to connect with the people's stories that i'm listening to. that's inspiration. it's on during my commute, it's on all the time. doing the dishes. working out. while i'm in the car. at bed time. an audible listener is someone that wants to broaden their mind. people who are tired of listening to the radio, or music. to hear her speak those words. it was incredible. it

well, today trump was asked about the former speaker of the house, paul ryan zwh paul ryan wasn't a leader. paul ryan was a lame duck for a long time as speaker he was unable to raise money he lost control of the house the only success paul ryan had was the time he was with me because we got taxes cut, i got regulation cuts. i did that mostly without him. but for paul ryan to be complaining is pretty amazing. i remember a day in wisconsin, the state that i won, where i stood up and made a speech, and then i introduced him and they booed him off the stage, 10,000 people so for him to be opening his mouth is pretty incredible but maybe he gets paid for that, who knows? >> our regular, normalcy reminder, we've never seen anything like this ever in american public life, not even remotely close with that, that is our broadcast for this friday night and for this week. thank you so much for being here with us. have a good weekend and good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. >> happy to have you with us tonight. >>> honestly, there are a whole bunch of developing news stories we

during the campaign than paul ryan. came out and called him a racist. this guy is immoral, he's unethical, he's unfit for office. >> and then. >> and then on election night. i was there in janesville. you could see it on ryan's face. he had about 20 minutes to make a decision that night. do i stay true to myself? do i keep hammering this guy? do i remain the moral conscience of the party or do i swallow those criticisms and serve as speaker of the house? because you can't do both. ryan made his decision. look, obviously the tax cuts were important to him, chasing down his legislative priorities. i've covered paul ryan for a very long period of time, don. i can tell you that ryan really viewed himself and john kelly and jim mattis and rex tillerson, a small group of them as this sort of force field around donald trump, this protective casing and they would basically tell people, look, if you think it's bad now, imagine if the adults left the room. we're the guys trying to at least keep this thing from going totally off t

president trump unloading on paul ryan after ryan basically said he doesn't have a

i think paul ryan comes from a different faction of the republican party. but i do think that president trump was right in one sense. i think he was right in the sense of his disappointment with congress. when congress came in and president trump was sworn in, he wanted a bold agenda. and one thing he didn't want was republicans to keep their promise to repeal obamacare. that never happened. he wanted the congress to pass very bold tax cuts. and although the tax cuts were pretty big, i think president trump had promoted an even bigger tax cut when he ran for president. so, i see where the president was disappointed and expressed his frustration, maybe in an over-the-top manner. but clearly, paul ryan and president trump did not see eye to eye on many political issues, and that is flaring up right now. >> well, bishop, paul ryan is also, apparently, defending working with the president, saying, "those of us around him really helped stop him from making bad decisions all the time," he says. he says, "we helped him make much better decisions." so, why do you t

again, paul ryan let us down. paul ryan was a terrible speaker. frankly, he was a baby. he didn't know what the hell he was doing. the wall let us down. now, in all fairness, the problem when we had both houses, in the senate you need 60 votes. well, we don't have 60 votes. we have 51 last time. now we have 53. because we won during the '18 election, which nobody wants to say. just so you understand. so the ball is being built. we had one setback and one tremendous victory. and i had a tremendous victory that was rarely covered by the press. two days ago i won the emoluments case. people don't know that being president, i lose billions of dollars, and especially in money i can't make because i don't do deals. but i loose billions of dollars. but another thing, i get a salary of $400 or $450,000 a year. i don't think any other president has ever given up -- it's a lot of money, almost a half a million dollars. i don't think i've ever seen anybody say i give up my salary. i'm not looking for credit, but i give up my salary. i get zero. but you know what makes me happy? tha

. >> you start with paul ryan. this is what he told you, those of us who are around him really hel helped to stop him make bad decisions all the time. we help make him better decisions. now he's making some of these knee-jerk reactions. he's trying to take credit from moderator trump. is that is true? >> there is no question. folks will always focus on and when they think about deal with the devil that paul ryan made. nobody in the republican party was tougher on trump than paul ryan and came out calling him a racist and he's immoral. >> and then. >> election night 2016, you can see it on ryan's face. do i stay true to myself or do i keep hammering this guy or do i remain immoral conscious of the party or do i follow this criticism or ser voivice of the house. ryan made his decision. tax cuts were important to him and chasing down his legislative priorities. i can tell you that ryan really viewed himself and john kelly and jim mattis and rex tillerson a small group as a sort of force field around donald trump. they

paul ryan the failed vice president candidate. he became a lame duck failure leaving his party in the lurch. when mitt romney chose poll i said that's the end that have presidential run. he quit congress because he didn't know how to win. they gave me standing os in the great state of wisconsin and booed him off the stage. he promised me the wall and failed. happening anyway. he had the majority and blew it away with his poor leadership and bad timing. never knew how to go after the dems like they go after us. couldn't get him out of congress fast enough. >> good god, how any of us can sleep at night knowing that this guy has the nuclear codes is beyond me. look, first of all, congratulations, tim alberta. trump tweeting against your book probably means that it's going to become a best-seller. i sure as hell am looking forward to reading it. on paul rink, i know him, and i think he -- i think it was a difficult period. i think he agonized about it. i think he put the interest of being the chair of the republican caucus in congress

ryan a failure and a baby. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in the situation room. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we

. >> so paul ryan has not yet responded to the comments. tim alberta will join us later to discuss his new book. >>> still ahead, new details on the former british ambassador's criticisms of trump. >> plus 2020 presidential hopeful o'rourke reveals his ancestors owned slaves. the steps he wants to take to address that part of his family's history. fights cancer, repairs shattered bones, relieves depression, restores heart rhythms, helps you back from strokes, and keeps you healthy your whole life. from the day you're born we never stop taking care of you. has been excellent. they really appreciate the military family and it really shows. with all that usaa offers why go with anybody else? we know their rates are good, we know that they're always going to take care of us. it was an instant savings and i should have changed a long time ago. it was funny because when we would call another insurance company, hey would say "oh we can't beat usaa" we're the webber family. we're the tenney's we're the hayles, and we're usaa members for life. ♪ g

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david: and finally paul ryan. paul ryan announcing what most people really clearly knew that this battle between himself and what president trump is trying to do, not only to the country, but to the party specifically. >> that's always been my suspicion that paul ryan having been the vice presidential candidate with mitt romney assumed some day he would be the nominee for president, the party , certainly not this last time he didn't choose to run, but certainly in the foreseeable future and i think he was, i think that obviously, he didn't agree with what trump talked about, certainly didn't understand the power of trump and certainly basically retired for congress for that reason. he's now on our board here at fox, making good contributions, i'm sure, but at the end of the day, the trump movement is going to continue. he controls the republican party , and the moderates who didn't like him didn't want him to get on board or go find another avenue. david: ed rollins great to see you thank you very much. we'd like

the only success paul ryan had was the time he was with me. paul ryan let us down. he was a terrible speaker. he was a baby. frankly he didn't know what the hell he was doing. >> the timing of ryan's comments. what does ryan get out of criticizingling trump now. >> the timing was the publication of the book. tim alberta is a great reporter. ryan wanted to unburden himself and he did. he was always a tortured figure in the drama. you remember in the 2016 campaign at the end of the day he would not campaign with the president. at times he accused him of racist language. their relationship was strained. if you say something unkind about him he will come back ten times harder at you. ask the former british ambassador about that. this is his habit. this is how he will always be. i am sure when ryan gave the interview he would understand that trump would have a hissy fit about it when the book appeared. >> people are saying why didn't he speak out when he had some kind of power. >> that is a really good question. he would not have had power if he spoke out. this is donald

. >>> coming up -- >> speaker paul ryan, he is a great speaker. paul ryan let us down. paul ryan was a terrible speaker. frankly, he was a baby. >> those latest comments from the president came after paul ryan opened up to tim alberta in his new book "american carnage." we will dig into that next on "kasie dc." and we walk so that one day, there will be a white flower for alzheimer's first survivor. join the fight at alz.org/walk. when crabe stronger...strong, with new nicorette coated ice mint. layered with flavor... it's the first and only coated nicotine lozenge. for an amazing taste... ...that outlasts your craving. new nicorette ice mint. going back to the doctor just for a shot. with neulasta onpro... ...patients get their day back... ...to be with... ... family... ...or just to sleep in. strong chemo can put you at risk of serious infection. in a key study... ...neulasta reduced the risk of infection from 17%... ...to 1%... ...a 94% decrease. neulasta onpro is designed to deliver... ...neulasta the day after chemo... ...and is used by most patients today. neulast

he would not give subpoenas to paul ryan. paul ryan was a terrible speaker. he was a baby. he did not know what the hell he was doing. >> here is the deal. democrats, if you are not careful this is your future. republicans will exploit the fights because they can. because it is easy. they will watch with popcorn and greet the cannibalizing with glee. i am upon not here to revel in this. i am like the ghost of politics past. warning you. don't make the same mistakes we did. bad for our party and really bad for the country. when the loudest voices in the room represent the fewest people. majorities are steered to the farthest fringes. moderates are blotted out by extremists that are shoving bold changes down the throats of all-americans. beware, the end. look who the loudest voices on both sides are right now. joining me is a moderate democrat no, congressman, max rose. >> thank you for having me. i enjoyed the "saved by the bell" reference. you had your own run-in with this democrat on democrat climb. progressive congressman accused moderates like you of supporting child abu