at politico.com, nick gass writes donald trump is still in battle mode. he is joining us on the fiend here in washington. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> as your piece points out, donald trump is essentially lashing out at everyone, including those within his own party. so how does he unite the gop or is that not a priority for him? >> it would not appear to be a priority at this point. he even indicated that the traditional sense of uniting party might not even be necessary based on the

interviews he gave on sunday, he seems to indicate that what he's been doing all along is working and that he wouldn't really deviate from what he's been doing. so interesting to keep that in mind, considering he said he would be more presidential, as we shifted toward the general election, but obviously that has not come to pass. >> let me follow up on the back and forth between speaker ryan and donald trump. speaker saying he would step down as convention chair if the nominee asked mim to do so. there is a key meeting this week on capitol hill. what is on the agenda. >> certainly probably talking about that. and the various differences that they have in terms of ryan splitting -- speaker ryan splitting with donald trump on their policies. it is interesting -- it is interesting to see what sort of unity, if there is any that comes out of the meeting, especially given the remarks that donald trump has made over the last couple of days saying

that he was blindsided by paul ryan going on cnn last week and saying he wasn't there yet in terms of supporting trump as the party nominee. >> do you think it is possible based on his comments with the milwaukee journal sentinel that speaker paul ryan would step aside as the convention chair? >> well i think that is what he indicated. we'll have to sort of see what comes out of the interview that could be just speaker ryan indicating that he's willing to listen to mr. trump's view points, willing to just sort of see what happens at this meeting on thursday. and sort of wanting to set the right tone going forward, especially with this meeting coming up and wanting to seem a little bit more unified than the parry is right now. >> and your story points out the comments of sarah palin, one of the early supporters, saying that he will support the candidate running against speaker ryan in the upcoming primary. donald trump's reaction, what has been it been? >> well, he was just sort of -- he was asked