he called republican congressman, john boehner of ohio. he needed to call him that night because he needed to congratulate him for becoming the new speaker of the house. he had to offer his congratulations for boehner ousting his own party from power and taking control of congress. they did so with an exclamation point that year. democrats lost six seats in the u.s. senate and lost 63 seats in the house. 63. 63 seats that had been held by a democrat instead flipped to a republican, one of the biggest single election swings, maybe the biggest. putting in that conciliatory phone call to the guy who had just kicked his team out of congress, that was not the last indignity president obama would face over that huge electoral loss, because in addition to calling john boehner from the treaty room that night, the next day he had to go out in front of everybody and face the press. >> some election nights are more fun than others. some are exhilarating, some are humbling. but every election, regardless who wins and who loses, is a reminder in our de

he called republican congressman, john boehner of ohio. he needed to call him that night because he needed to congratulate him for becoming the new speaker of the house. he had to offer his congratulations for boehner ousting his own party from power and taking control of congress. they did so with an exclamation point that year. democrats lost six seats in the u.s. senate and lost 63 seats in the house. 63. 63 seats that had been held by a democrat instead flipped to a republican, one of the biggest single election swings, maybe the biggest. putting in that conciliatory phone call to the guy who had just kicked his team out of congress, that was not the last indignity president obama would face over that huge electoral loss, because in addition to calling john boehner from the treaty room that night, the next day he had to go out in front of everybody and face the press. >> some election nights are more fun than others. some are exhilarating, some are humbling. but every election, regardless who wins and who loses, is a reminder in our de

frankly, even different from john boehner, who was more inclined, more old school, to try to get something done, that it really limited the space for any large legislative action. of course, it put us in this trap. the only thing the president can do is through executive action and then they say you're an out-of-control executive. on the merrick garland piece, he nominates someone to the supreme court eight years before the end of his term and doesn't get a hearing on it, which is without precedent in history. >> mitch mcconnell's refusal was staggering staggeringly partisan. the sad truth and the context of the republican party, which has spent eight years disbanding norms and circle the wagons around a demigog. what do you expect of mcconnell, he said he won't even give us a hearing on merrick garland. he was, after eight years, worn down by republican obstructionism. >> we went to congress and said here is the evidence. here is what we know about the russians intervening in our election. rather than us make a statement we would like this to be a bipartisan expression of concern. mcconne

it was comes certainly when boehner was the chairman, speaker boehner, the glorious thing about john boehner everyone just called him boehner. he was chairman at the time. me more if come to they had an issue they wanted to bring up. if they wanted to talk through something. the conferences is when you would air your ideas and frustrations. a lot of times, you were the first line of, is this the appropriate place for this? >> did you enjoy this? rep. molinari: of course. >> how did you --how closely did you work with dana? rep. molinari: closely. >> were you involved with the implementation of the contract with america? no.. molinari: no, i was one of the people they talk to. the point of the contract was would unify the republican party as opposed to divided. when a group of others came concept, i have this was somebody who would sit down with. they talked to a lot of members at the time. make sure we were missing anything. they were very good and making it a collaborative effort. i was somebody who would put my two cents in. and campaign very heavily on it. the year my husband and i got ma

, spokesman, said this on behalf of john boehner. obama negotiates with iran, putin, but not with congress. interesting that's a statement, especially in this news conference, where we saw the president saying he is willing to shut down the government. it feels a bit like deja vu. david? >> well, it does. i think, you know, there are some people right now in the white house who are freaking out because bolton, for example, would be somebody who wouldn't want to have a discussion, a sit-down with iran right now. but i think we're quickly going to come to the conclusion that no one is ever going to go broke betting against the president's confidence in himself. he thinks he can sit down with anybody, persuade anybody of anything. i think it's a bit of a defensive measure. he got a lot of criticism for sitting down with putin. if he is going to sit down with putin with no preconditions, he has to be able to sit down with anybody else with no preconditions. of course, the putin summit and the kim jong-un summit, which were established wi

that's essentially where we are where there's a number of me going around the internet showing john boehner. there right because he's now the want to finish to finish it and he waking up from a nightmare where we're all he zero. zero zero zero you know right he was wandering around in the background of the north korean meeting with kim jong on a looking like he's a little lost neo-con child somewhere and the same thing he is the one sent to negotiate a summit with putin where he just months ago he was saying that you know dialogue with the russians is pointless and it would be to our detriment even to engage in it so. this is all quite interesting to see but you know i brought this up before on the program repeatedly in the last year the european the leaders of the european countries the particularly the e.u. they almost essential e campaigned against trump dearing the election process many many e.u. leaders openly in the worst hillary clinton you still can you still work i can still meddling they both start with an m. . and those that did their state media you know completely. you know una

that's essentially what we are where there's a number of me going around the internet showing john boehner. there right because he's now the want to finish to finish it and he waking up from a nightmare where we're all. going out right he was wandering around in the background of the north korean meeting with you can't just go on looking like he's a little lost neo-con child somewhere and the same thing he is the one sent to negotiate a summit with putin where just a month ago he was saying that you know dialogue with the russians is pointless and it would be to our detriment even to engage in it so. this is all quite interesting to see but you know i brought this up before on the program repeatedly in the last year the european the leaders of the european countries the particularly the e.u. they almost essential e campaigned against trump during the election process many many e.u. leaders openly in the worst hillary clinton you still can you still work i can still meddling they both start with an m. . and those that did their state media you know completely. you know unabashedly objective

boehner was the chairman at the time, speaker boehner, isn't that -- the greatest thing about john boehner is that even though he was the house speaker, he was just boehner. the greatest thing about him. sometimes he would be off and you would run the meetings. people come would come to me probably more than other position its they had an issue they wanted to bring up, if they weren't sure it was appropriate to be brought up, if they wanted to talk through something. the conference is when you would get together and air ideas, concepts, and frustrations. a lot of times you were the first line of is this the appropriate place for this. i would do a lot of that. >> did you enjoy that? >> i did. of course. >> how closely did you work with speaker boehner? >> a lot. closely. our staffs closely. >> were you involved to any degree with the drafting and implementation of the contract with america? >> no, no. i -- i was there as one of the people they talked to. the point of the contract was one of those things that would unify the republican party as opposed to divide it. so when pete hoekstra an

certainly, when boehner was the chairman at the time, speaker boehner, the glorious thing about john boehner, is even though he was speaker, everybody just called him boehner, which i think says so much about him. boehner was chairman at the time. and so sometimes he might have to be off, so you would run the meetings. people would come to me probably more in the other positions, if they had an issue that they wanted to bring up, if they weren't sure it was appropriate to be brought up. if they wanted to talk through something. because the conference is when you would really get together and air your ideas, your concepts, and your frustrations. so a lot of times, you were kind of the first line of, is this the appropriate place for this? and so i would do a lot of that. >> did you enjoy that? >> i did. >> of course. and how closely did you work with speaker boehner? >> a lot. very closely. and our staff is very close. >> were you involved to any degree with the drafting and the implementation of the contract with america? >> um, i -- no. no. i was there as one of the people that they talked

joe barton and i working with john boehner named our committee when we moved from the big house. i am a michigan guy, to the john d dingell guy where it will be forever. i have a lot of stories to tell but i will finish with one. i was asked as a member of the committee to come to my alma mater, the place where he and debbie represented ofcelebrate the anniversary in salk's contribution developing this polio vaccine. dr. salk came. he hadn't been in decades. we went to his old office and it was pretty drab. but i said of course i will be there. my district is in southwest dish again. i went on a prop lane. that is what northwest had and i flew to detroit. g 67. got out, gate that was one of the worst mayorts around -- atlanta get that reputation now, or newark. [audience groans] rep. upton: sorry, frank. should have stayed in transportation. [laughter] i fly in this old prop plane and which is ar as g57 must as far from the curb as kalamazoo is to ann arbor. i got off -- those were the days when you could go to the gate. who is waiting for me but john dingell. i think he just had

as john boehner said recently, the republican party is off taking a nap somewhere. wake up. freedom loving people all around the world are looking to us. wake up. our democracy is at risk at home and the very idea of liberal democracy is at risk around the world. waste, fraud, and abuse up. i yield back, mr. speaker. -- wake up. i yield back, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida, the very honorable ms. ros-lehtinen. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you so much, mr. speaker. next wednesday marks 55 years on the jewish community center in arbegin teena. this attack carried out by the ukrainian backed terror group, hezbollah, left 85 innocent people dead and many more wounded. if took the -- shook the entire jewish community who were targeted by hezbollah two years earlier with a deadly attack at the israeli embassy in buenos aires which left 29 dead and 250 wounded. the bombing remains the deadliest terror attack in argentina, yet its perpetrators and those responsible for the embassy bombing have yet to be brought to justice. that has

more inside baseball, but, the republicans have adopted this posture in the last 10 years from john boehnerpaul ryan, consolidated the power of the speaker's office and telling the chairman, you have to pass our bills, we will not let you write your own bills and work on it. that is a fair process and it frustrates a lot of members, conservative, moderate come in between. jim stands for the internal reform that will let congress produced better results and get his jobs done. shery: is that why you are backing him? the consensus is his bid is a long shot. you do not know what will happen in the midterms. does this give you some sort of upper hand when it comes to jockeying for leadership roles, your conservative members? >> one of the things you will see, whatever happens in the election, conservatives will be a bigger part of the republican conference in congress. ,he numbers will work that way conservatives are winning and moderates are having trouble keeping their seats because people perceive they did not keep promises. jim is right to leave the republicans back to a republicansad the ba

he called john maboehner of ohi. he had to call boehner that night because he needed to congratulate boehner on becoming the newest speaker of the house. he had to offer his congratulations and they did so with an exclamation point that year. 2010 midterms, democrats lost six seats in the u.s. senate. they lost 63 seats in the house. 63. 63 seats that have been held to democrats instead flip to republicans. one of the biggest election swings in u.s. history. maybe the biggest. putting in the conciliatory phone calls to the guy who just kicked his team out of congress. that was not the last indignity president obama would face over that electoral loss. in addition to calling boehner in the treaty room, the next day he had to go out and face the press. >> some election nights are more fun than others, some are automobile accide humbling. every election regardless of who wins or loses, it is a reminder of our democracy, the power rests not in those elected in office but the people that we had the privilege to serve. i told john boehner and mi

few years ago, russia banned from coming into the country the speaker of the house at the time, john boehnermccain. trump's now and a trump administration official, dan coats of indiana, who's now a top national security official in the trump white house, it's easy to not remember that this relationship is pretty hostile still. >> who spent fourth of july in russia? >> a number of republican senators. they had announced that it wasn't a surprise deal. richard shelby of alabama, john thune of south dakota, two very senior members of senate republican leadership and committee chairs. >> it's just so striking for a republican party -- >> it was very surprising. >> it wasn't a secret trip. >> correct. >> but it shows how much donald trump has co-opted this party and brought them along to what he believes rather than what they believed or held true before donald trump was elected. i've asked this question before and i'm going to ask it again. we've got a year and a half under our belts so maybe the answer is a bit clearer. for our nato allies, do they look at what donald trump says or do they loo

john boehner called him a legislative terrorist. charles: of course that could swing both ways.urrent leadership though compromises too much both for republicans on the house and senate side where mcconnell doesn't ever want to use, for instance, like the nuclear option and, you know, because they're afraid one day the dems may get to power that's going to be the sweet spot is the middle. and maybe that is a steve scalise, if he wants to do it. i think the president will have a hand in the this. he will ultimately indicate who he perhaps prefers. but i love that people are positioning themselves, that they want it. and it has to be a man or woman of action who is not going to obstruct the president. charles: could this hurt the party and could it get to the point where -- because at first everyone was sort of hey, you know what, it's mccarthy, he was next in line. could this hurt the party? >> i don't think it hurts the party. have the freedom caucus intact whether he runs or not. charles: what about going after rod rosenstein. >> that is read meat to the base. the republicans a

a new piece in "the daily beast" reports that many officials including ex-house speaker john boehnertianson have lobbied on behalf of china and a lot of others. two other republicans recently accused an environmental group, the natural resources defense council come of helping china by filing environmental lawsuits against the united states military with a long-term intent of undermining military readiness. kevin joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. give us a sense of the scale of the lobbying in washington on behalf of the communist government of china. >> you mentioned the lawsuits, we had very well-funded environmental groups and the national resources defense council really stands out in it to mike that it has continuously filed lawsuits. the end result is that prevents them from doing testing on sonars that are used to detect submarines. so number one we need to get a handle on some of our environmental laws and make it possible to title this abusive litigation -- >> tucker: let me stop you there. and that is a fair point, but how does china intersect with the nrdc? >> if the

you could ask john boehner or paul ryan. >> juan: for our own che guevara. >> tom: the theme of all ofoday is the democrats are pushing their luck on, yes, why do they keep picking far left people as their stars? elizabeth warren, however he picked, bernie sanders. they love these far left politicians but come on. look at her. i would vote for her. she knocked on doors. tammy duckworth was right. it's not even that big of an upset when you look at it. she knocked on doors. she did the work. >> dana: she posted a picture. they were saying she didn't work that hard. she posted the picture of the tennis shoes she wore walking her district and they were completely worn. she did a lot of miles on them. she really worked for it. the tea party republicans really worked for it too. >> tom: crowley, he was lazy. this seat was right before the picking end crowley was lazy and he deserved to lose but she's not going to be a star, and the democratic party. she is going too far to the left. >> kimberly: people said hillary clinton didn't work hard enough in terms of skipping states. >> chris: i wil

brian: john boehner went on to be a speaker of the house. in 1982, he was a speaker from ohio. >> it was never believe that the amendment was truly necessary. but the true wisdom and the alignment of those people who put together our constitution once again is reflected in the wisdom of this amendment. at the time, only six states ratified the amendment. it wasn't only until 1873 that the seventh state ratify the amendment and that was my home state of ohio. and ratification in 1873 was a direct result of a pay raise that congress gave itself midterm during that year. 2018. this is the house of representatives has not had a pay raise since 2009. gregory: you may be right about that. have to keep you in mind is that they get cost-of-living adjustments that keep their salaries rising, albeit more modestly, than what had been the case during the 1980's and 1990's. brian: supposedly, that is not happening right now. 174 have been locked in at thousand dollars to $175,000 a -- $174,000 to $175,000 a year. gregory: they get those annual cola's. br

seeing the same dynamic that has driven republicans in the house crazy, the same dynamic that drove john boehner the same dynamic that drove paul ryan crazy is showing up again which includes a group of 40 or 50 really conservative republicans disagreeing with the rest of the party on a lot of key issues. >> i think it's a healthy thing that you have races that are contested and it helps you understand more about the caucus. kevin mccarthy is the front runner, and you might see someone from the left also enter the ring. in general, i think these are healthy things and you get to learn more about what issues the republican caucus cares about. that will help whoever the eventual leader is manage the caucus. >> i think a lot of democrats are excited, this race between mccarthy and jordan play out. it happens in november and whether it's a race for speaker or race for minority leader. if democrats win back the house i will be curious to see, it was at the expense for a lot of moderate democrats and then the caucus got moved to the left. if democrats win back the house, as if by defeating freedom cau

gore and joe biden, and michael steele, former senior adviser to jeb bush and form er speaker john boehner. nice to see you all. matt, let me start with you. we sort of describe this as the president's defiant love of vladamir putin. i'm reminded of a tweet you wrote in 2013, vladamir putin, is he going to miss america, will he be my new best friend? >> the question you asked at the white house was so telling, this friend or foe. it shows the disconnect whether vladamir putin is a friend of the united states, and whether he's a friend of donald trump. i think donald trump doesn't look at this as whether he's a friend of the united states. he doesn't look at vladamir putin's intervention in the u.s. election as an attack on the united states, he looks at it as an attack on hillary clinton and the democratic party and something that helped him. that's why you see him not just refusing to hold vladamir putin accountable, but making excuses, denying the attacks exist, and going to europe and try to drive a wedge through nato. >> and joyce, a past conversation we had with the president at the w

pelosi keeps losing, she never brought a be ill to the floor that failed, unlike paul ryan and john boehnerthe other side. so i think that it comes to the fact that she's a great fund raiser. that's always a fact that is laid out in terms of her staying in leadership. i think democrats are in a position that elizabeth warren is right. of the 25 names, he picked the one person on the record seeing the president based on congress not acting shouldn't be under investigation or be indicted while in office. so of all the names he picked, that one person i think that's very interesting and congress should demand to know whether or not he thinks the president is above the law in the coming confirmation hearing. >> this is a president that h j hasn't been in office two years. there is a real possibly he will get a third pick. when you look back, let's pretend we are ten years, five years in the future here, is this going to potentially be the legacy of donald trump, the way he is able to shape or reshape the supreme court of the united states? >> it could be, craig. a lot of it is the luck of the d

even different from john boehner who was more inclined to get something done. that it really limited the space for any legislative action. the only thing the president can do is executive action. i think where it manifests the most clearly is on the mayor garland piece. eight months before the end of his term, he doesn't get a hearing on it, which is about precedent. >> you write that mitch mcconnell's refusal was partisan, that the context of the republican party, which spent eight years disbanding and circled the wagons. obama reflected this sense of exhaustion. what else do you expect, cohn li said, he won't give us a hearing. he was warned by republican obstructionism. >> that was related to @ russian intervention. in september of 2016, we went to congress and said here's the evidence. and rather than us make a statement, we like to be a bipartisan expression of concern. mcconnell refused to sign on do that statement. ultimately, there was no strong bipartisan statement about this. you know, obama, it was almost sad in a way that i was shocked. a lot of us

: ou're not rto l think of a party t toe the party oftrp idr speaker john boehner, the republican partye asleep over here and taking a nap i think he said. we're the party of trump. i don't consider myself in the party of trump. >> brennan: practically speaking what does ha mean for people who may think of themselves as republicans and voting in november? >> it depends. not to walk away i, i'm not criticizing steve he's free to do it, i'll stay republican, may not be voting for a lot of republicans at the moment but i consider myself one and hope the party would restore itself to free trade, no tax, small government, democratic internationalist, strong defense, am the things that madf reagan that is what i would hope others would work to do. some people may think that say party of lincoln you have to destroy the party of trump, that may be true. >> brennan: that means voting democratic? >> let me speak for myself, i'm thhe democratic or firstthor. branch of government, the congress, needs to do its oversight of the executive branch, never more needed than with this particular executive

. >> the question has been, this is the same group that john boehner finally said, forget it, i'm donei can't deal with this anymore. a lot of people think it's the source of paul ryan's frustration as he goes. even if he doesn't succeed, just doing it causes a divide within the house republican conference. some people say, why would you do that? why would you get everybody in a circular firing squad or looking over their shoulder when the biggest single dynamic in a midterm election year is to try to have unity and intensity in your party? >> absolutely. but a lot of people would also question why the freedom caucus and this band of conservatives, which is a very small group, relative to the rest of the conference, that's driven a lot of what goes on in the house. certainly since president trump has been in office. i think the answer is they think it's been successful for them. they've prevailed on a lot of policy issues, or at lee stopas stopped things from happening they didn't want to happen. in a lot of ways, that's deprived president trump of some wins he wanted to get on the boa

jim jordan called john boehner a terrorist and they've been successful in grinding the establishment halt here. >> to that point, heidi, does it mean jim jordan runs on the trump coattails inside the republican party? where does it leave someone like m mccarthy who we believe is going to run for that position? >> he will absolutely run on trump's coattails. he is trying to tightly align himself with the president. but at the same time kevin mccarthy has been someone referred to as the trump whisperer. somebody who was willing to go to the white house and deliver the president his favorite colored gum balls or candies or whatever they were to try to curry favor with this president. so it is a good question to see which side the president himself comes down on, if he does. >> we're actually hearing that was actual willy star bursts, not gum balls. >> reporter: starbursts, my apologies. >> facts matter, my friend. heidi przybyla for us. good to talk to you. we will see you on "morning joe" in a bit. >> thanks, heidi. >>> president trump was silent on a development yesterday that seemed

and, i mean, it's stunning because if you rewind a couple years, you had people like john boehner and harry reid and dan coats who is now trump's director of national intelligence banned from moscow. that's how low the relations have gotten between the u.s. and russia, and now you have this. and i think as people start filing into the capitol tonight they are going to have to answer. one more thought. trump is so popular among the republican base that it could hurt to get against him, and that's the reality, right? the most -- the biggest political hurdle that most members of congress have is a primary. if you are seen as anti-trump in a primary, you could be in political danger or at least that's what a lot of republican lawmakers think. so you are not going to see a lot of action. you are not going to see any sort of impeachment or anything like that. that kind of stuff is not going to happen. people will talk and that will be the end of it. >> news flash. you swore an oath to the constitution, not your party. phil rucker, you were on the campaign trail. eli, you were on the campaig

these guys should ask the republican counter by counterpart, john boehner, smoking a cigarette and drinking mary sitting somewhere nice i'm sure -- >> shannon: somewhere sunny. >> definitely somewhere sunny, some wire with golf. paul ryan, soon to be headed back to wisconsin, that is over for him. the republicans consume their feedstock of leadership quicker than the democrats, but when it starts, it hurts. >> shannon: as i recall, she was a vote against nancy pelosi to retain her position in the house as well. we'll see. great to see you. love the seersucker. >> happy independence day parade is to be when you, as well. the president salutes american heroes and towards american allies, the president said it is long past time for our nato partners to pay their fair share. >> nato is the most excessive political military alliance in history but of core members including germany aren't willino spend what is necessary for their own self defense, what are we to make of that? >> shannon: general jack keane is standing by to discuss that. the president's upcoming nato visit, the u.k. visit, and th

. >>> john boehner got in the pop business as an advise r, now the company is going public.oining us big series >> thank you very much >> plans to go public on canadian securities exchange everything is canadian now >> that is true. that's where we're most welcome today. we would love to be public on the new york stock exchange or nasdaq in today's world, canada is where we're headed. >> how did both those things change, acreage? >> when we go public, it gives us optionality our goal is to take stock and tangible assets and use that to go out and aggregate more of this country's assets and canada's. >> you said you could have raised more. why not? >> we set out to raise $50 million and when speaker boehner joined our board, we had so much enthusiasm for the round that in fact we raised $119 million. one of the reasons we stopped there is it was in fact the largest round ever done in canada's history in the united states, but we also wanted to save some for the ipo or rto we could have raised as much as $300 million in this round, and that's the type of enthusiasm we're now s

[laughing] i think john boehner is carrying around, donald trump will go rent at some point and then everything will again be as it was from 1990-2015. i don't make predictions about the post trumpcare for a lot of reasons, and of the recent which invites one to act and think like a a spectator rather than participant. i think when he is gone is going to leave behind greater less degrees damage but it's going to be like after the extinction of the dinosaurs. we're going to be in a new terrain. the ecological niches that once filled by one creature will be empty and awaiting another. the nature of the ending that is coming with determine what fields. >> colonel he could be here for another, until 20 or 2024. should the be another wing of the republican party, jeff flake, nicole wallace, steve schmidt? >> there should be but there isn't and won't be and probably can't be. for a lot of reasons having to do with deep structure of american politics. it's a two-party system, so long as the electoral college, sorry, the presidency is a two-party contest as long as is an electoral college. i

one of the reasons there was compromise on zte, seeing john boehner's name thrown around. which do have to be careful. there are very powerful entities, including trillions of dollars in wealth given the way things are okay right now? >> the status quo isn't going to stay. there are instances where the president of china can talk to the president of the united states specifically about specific issues. in order to maintain a healthy relationship you might see some response in this. that will not be able to be a tool for every problem. broadly speaking, even top dollar lobbyists are not going to be able to change the fact there isn't overwhelming support, there isn't moderately high support in congress or in the american media or the among the public for the continuatino of the policies that exist. it is actually very popular with the american people that the president would like to reset the table with regard to our relationship. charles: we all kind of inherently understand what we missed out on over the last two or three decades. thank you both very much. federal reserve

with and has worked since the last three years since his failed attempt to become -- to succeed john boehner a nuisance to him as leader. it's clear that, i mean, jordan's candidacy just shows you right there that mccarthy didn't do enough -- >> was it a winnable fight, though? i mean, was there any world in which -- >> let's be honest, there's nothing mccarthy could do. the whole point of -- it seems like the whole point of being for the freedom caucus is to be opposed to what other republicans are doing. it's never good enough. that's why they're in existence. they want to move the party. once they're satisfied, what's the reason of being? >> the freedom caucus in itself, the fact that kevin mccarthy is in california, he has to be even in his district that is mostly more of the right wing of california, it's still california. he can never meet the obligations of what the freedom caucus actually would request of him. >> some of his farmers, interestingly, are dealing with serious consequences in the tariffs. >>> good news, congressman john lewis is resting comfortably tonight after a brief

john boehner was chased out of office because one person enacted this. cannot have a speaker who is trying to do people's business across party lines with that , so of sword over his head that a minority of his own party can depose him. we want to make it easier for majorities across party lines to be able to express themselves. right now there is a mechanism called the discharge petition, if you get 218 votes you can bring a bill to the floor, if the speaker does not like it. the problem is you have to do it in daylight. pause for a moment, i want to get viewers in on the conversation. if you want to ask our guests about the idea of ending gridlock in con -- in congress, please dial in. ,or democrats (202) 748-8000 for republicans (202) 748-8001, and for independents (202) 748-8002. go ahead. instancesa number of in recent years, there has been majorities in favor of bipartisan legislation to address some of the country's most urgent problems. have taken thes position that they want to pass legislation with the votes in the majority only. so they have r

john f. kennedy, it's an era. he was our first tv president. i think donald trump is the last. alison: former speaker boehneraid this morning at a conference in michigan, there is no republican party, there's a trump party, the republican party is kind of taking a nap somewhere. you remember the republican party. is he right? david: it's more radical than that. here's the way i think about this. imagine standing in the year 1990 on a timeline. 25 years to one side and 25 on -- the other.ous you go to sleep in 1990, who are the most important politicians, bush and clinton. 25 years later, who are most important politicians? bush and clinton. what are they alk talking about? iraq and health care. nothing happens. the system -- i mean, the society, china rises to greatness, the internet is invented. the society has transformed. the opioid epidemic. but the political system is frozen. now you go backwards. 25 years from 1990. there's segregationist democrats and liberal republicans. the whole political system is completely different. in this dynamic country, the 25 years from 1965 to 1990 seem ed normal to me fo