davidson: john boehner one a lot of elections. he's still popular in our district, for the most part, just like he is still popular on capitol hill. every two years, there's an election. if you look at this year, thomas massie has been pretty vocal about this. election, thethis average tenure will be six years. it's a way lower than i expected. in the house, there are members who have served a long time. in 1972, got elected and he became dean of the house. i was at a reception for him, honoring him becoming the longest-serving member of the house. him, you've been here as long as i've been potty trained. host: there's not a single republican chairman of the committee that is older than the ranking democrat counterpart in the house, which is pretty staggering. republican waves have brought down the a spirit your counterparts in the democratic party has been there for decades. rep. davidson: i've heard that from some of the democratic staffers. they say, you guys have the young guys. i think it says that we are strong now, and we a

about john boehner, everyone just called him boehner. he was chairman at the time. people with come to me more if they had an issue they wanted to bring up. if they were not sure if it was appropriate, or they wanted to talk through something. the conference is when you would get to gather to air your ideas 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 this? rep. molinari: of course. how closely did you work with boehner? rep. molinari: closely. >> were you involved with the implementation of the contract with america? rep. molinari: no, no. i was there as one of the people they talked to. the point of the contract was one of the things that would unify the republican party as opposed to divide it. when a group came together to have this concept, i was somebody who would sit down with. they talked to a lot of members at the time. to make sure the way they were talking about the issues and how was moving out that we did not have any issues o

i don't think we expect delaney/boehner 2020.t's probably a little of a stretch. >> sure. >> but, you know, nobody knows. we're in an era with new political rules. nobody quite knows what they are. you will see a lot of democrats throwing out their theory of the case, throwing it up against the wall, and taking share shot. >> and we'll see who paul ryan shows up with. >> excellent. touche. i like that. he'll join boehner in the era of no political rules. up next for us, one year after charlottesville, kanye west, spike lee both on television saying very different things about president trump and race. this is a story about mail and packages. and it's also a story about people and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget... that your business is our business the united states postal service. priority: you bundle and save big, but now it's time to find my dream abode. -right away, i could tell his priorities were a little unorthodox. -keep going. stop. a little bit down. sto

mccain literally said to boehner, according to boehner. don't know, what do you think i should do. then they got to the white house and mccain didn't really have a plan, and barack obama ended up debating him back and forth with george w. bush mediating. he was impulsive and he wasn't perfect. and he knew it. judge jeanine: we are going to wrap my coverage on the passing of senator john mccain on "justice." but i believe steve deucey will join us from washington. steve: john mccain was the first person to gave me an opportunity to ask a political question on tv. it was 2008. i was a junior at villanova university. he was -- he already locked up the republican nomination for president. but obama versus clinton fight there in pence jane where i was a college student was still really going strong. so he came on to the stage there at villanova university, and he was going to get interviewed by chris ma these, an an msnbc producer came around and asked if i had any questions. that morning on the front page of the newspaper in philadelphia was a

i remember john boehner at the time, served on it. eloquently on how government should not be telling businesses what to do and that this was the boards and you know, the chairman of the boards and they should be able to make their own policies and he should be able to -- so he just went on. i responded and i said, i totally agree with you, that in a perfect world, that the boards and the business should be able to make their own decisions. based on your discussion, where you referred to the people as he, until then, we have to help out a bit. and good for boehner, because he did not get mad at me. he took it in the spirit in which it was intended. but that was one of those moments when you said, i'm not sure anybody -- i'm not sure any other man is hearing what i'm hearing. >> one of the questions we've been asking about how important you think it is to have a woman's perspective on a lot of these committees. >> it's important to have a woman's perspective. it's important to have an african american perspective. it's important to hav

say that trump is a conservative. >> boehner's right. what it is to be a republican, what it is to be a conservative. i think they've both been overtaken by trump in this moment. the party has been trumpified. the conservative movement is more a conservative populism that has very little to do with the tenets and the pillars that buckley put together, or that reagan put together and politicized. reagan always used to talk about the three legs of the stool, right? there was social conservatives, there was fiscal conservatives, and there was national security conservatives. but no, all of that has really changed and overtaken by events. now, there still is an entrenched conservative architecture that exists in washington, d.c. and beyond. in the think tank world, in the activist world, and the political world and they would say that conservatism is doing fine. but there's a real rift in the party. you see commentators like charles krauthammer-- may he rest in peace-- >> stephen: god bless him, yeah. >> --and george will and many longtime r

and even john boehner is a pro-china lobbyist.eard so and so is acting against american interest. have you a bipartisan collection of people working against american interest and that's okay in washington? how's that work? >> the operations have been extremely effective. they're literally buying up officials and have interests in china to do their bidding and very little is being done about it. we hear about russian influence operations. what china has been doing in the last 30 years is luge compared to what the -- huge compared to what the russians have done influencing the government and changed the american foreign policy towards china. >> tucker: and china has promise to overtake the united states as the preeminent nation in the world. why's it socially acceptable for john boehner, god help him, to lobby openly on behalf of china. why doesn't anybody say what are you doing acting against america's interest? >> there was a narrative through successive republican and democratic administrations that china was not a threat. china

you know him well, was it good old john boehner. when the u.s.the debt ceiling, boehner argued that we ought to prioritize our debts to china overpaying u.s. troops. after all the hard work of sucking up to china in congress, guess where he ended up after leaving congress? and swampy patent bomb that lobbies to the chinese embassy in washington. of said it before and i'll say it again. what the hell does a foreign government the lobbyists for? isn't that the whole point of ambassadors, to represent a country's interest? the only conclusion we can draw is the swamp is more powerful than government. that only works because our elected officials allow it to work. because they agreed to meet with these foreign government lobbyists. so who is meeting with them and what are they discussing? we call 30 members of congress. we asked a simple question, have you ever met with a lobbyist representing the chinese government, a chinese or those promoting chinese interests? everyone refused to answer. the outrageous thing is there is no requirement for them to

she said you hugging john boehner. so i said this is probably going to black john boehner and his party. so i think it's that kind of stiffness that allows it. and i think it's more of a pulling to extreme or either side that doesn't allow you to be human beings. it's something there. but i think women are more open. and i also think even those who may be extreme in the republican party, if you can get to them, now this again may be my ego, but i think if you get to them, i think they would care about the same issues. i think you can make them see the value of them working together, because they do care about the same issues. they do care about children. >> they do care about family. and in order to do that, we have to give each other. but because you are standing in a group over here, whether you are women or men, you have made up your mind that you are not going to budge, right. now, eva clayton believes that she could get some of them to budge. and i think it's not an eva clayton. i think women, too, if they can get

you hugging john boehner. you'll probably blackmail john boehner. with that kind of stiffness. pulling the extreme on either side. there is something there. i think more of them are open. i also think, even though those who may be in their pelican -- if this may be again you can get to them, they became of the same issues. they can make them see the value of them working together because they do care about the same issues. they do care about children. that, we have to -- each other. but because you're in a group, whether your women or men, you have made up your mind that you're not going to budge. eva clayton believed that she get her husband to budge. women, too. if democratic women and republican women can come together individually, they would begin to see the reality andand the the advisability of working together. this unofficial barriers that in order to be perceived as strong. nobody gets anything done. tell me who wins that? help me understand. democrats have to give. to makeve the ability the keys from common sense. just as he do our families. we bring dinner around th

republicans got tired of john boehner. the republicans got tired of boehner. they got tired of him, god bless him. he's now lobbying for pot. they got tired of him and he's gone. so what if the democrats want to get rid of pelosi? it's probably smart. >> we are seeing a split in the democratic party. we're seeing people like nancy pelosi and maxine waters, they are just driven by hate and animosity for this president. people like alexandria ocasio-cortez, i don't think she is driven by hate. i think she believes this platform could work, that socialism could work. the hard left, they are driven by lack of understanding for mathematics and the utopian concept for the world might work. unfortunately, it's going to be problematic for them if they can figure out and get this party together, just the people that hate trump versus the people who don't understand math. it's going to be externally problematic for them heading into the midterms must i'm interested to see was going to take place. >> laura: candace, have you been attacked at breakfast lately? what were y

boehner over. the break i want to jump the guy you've been trying for oh. you got a bit more i'm not running for you a young man twenty one so you don't go face. i got a black. what about what this deal on the bottom. bedroom when you drove in if you got good let me get everybody's fine line then you can get rid of it that's my baby don't sound like you know my wife don't i just like in my good. there. this used to be a beautiful beautiful neighborhood and it breaks my heart. you can leave one block. of beautiful houses and go to another look the seven blocks and the glass to my head to the bone. from the block here. every house think. oh no thought of all it was to the banks. the banks dated. you know trying to be green. what it was and talk to homeowners there but it couldn't afford a loan to get a separate mortgage on my home and gave them the loan would have interest rates. when it came to e.f. . you know they had to go you know put a mile. what started it was doing the right in sixty seven when we had a big all right. and we lost a lot of property a lo

that's the only connection -- maybe john boehner is running.a better chance of the democratic nomination than republican nomination at this point. >> i want to say, bill, you said something on this show i think on wednesday morning or wednesday afternoon about how nancy pelosi was the best argument against democrat control that republicans have and since then you obviously had been doing your homework. republicans have been pushing that message very, very hard. this was in the ohio special election this ad. take a look. >> after lying the whole campaign, dishonest danny o'connor admits he'd vote for pelosi. >> you'd do that? >> whoever the democratic party -- >> thank you. >> whoever the democratic party -- >> thank you. >> lied about pelosi. >> so whether or not that had any affect, nbc news reporting 51 kand dacandidates and incumbt supporting nancy pelosi. is she a liability in any way? >> look. i don't think that she is a liability right now. i think what's happening is republicans don't have an issue that they can really run on. they can't

victory to go from boehner to the freedom caucus. so you talk about the toughest vote. i look back, one of the things i ran on was to vote against john boehner, which i did, in the conference meeting when the speaker is really elected. i was one of only three that voted against him and a did so loudly. >> for the record there are a , lot of people that said they voted against him. >> when they said all opposed, i can still hear my voice echoing all through that building, no. we lost the vote. i mean, he won. i lost. and after it was over, i mean, i had been in congress for two days, i mean, i was brand-new on this, and the speaker vote, this is what i ran on, i voted against him, i did, and everything i was told, that the floor vote is just a show vote at this point, he's already been elected in conference. so he called and asked if i would therefore support him on the floor, which, i agreed to do, and i -- >> i remember this phone call because i was walking through the mall with my kids and you called me. >> i still get sick every t

mr boehner and to see people enjoying. stuff where via. video is twenty five years old how much longer will you have to work to realize his dream if i count it real. eight years seven up to eight years if i collect my money if i don't click. i will need ten fifteen twenty gearing fanshen i have a know. it so realistic dream property prices and the cost of living up far lower in his home country than on santa remey. four weeks later today riccio is up particularly early colleen air and his son mehdi have finally arrived and it's paulina's birthday she's turned twenty five she's familiar with life on santa rini after spending three years working with the child behind the pool bar as a kitchen hand at some point she couldn't stand it anymore and went back home she loved each other to do the same. pulley now shows us a video that reveals why feature was too embarrassed to show us his living quarters the three of them share the space with the cho's parents and grandmother six people in one room reaches parents are also seasonal workers. so they

national park cost and high tech a shows visitors the beauty of the all splatter will be hard to speaker boehner is part of the lower saxony watching c and when you speak of the girls are convinced that it's the prettiest part but the whole coastline here is there watch and see national park or the basic idea is to let nature be nature to let the natural processes unfold with as little interference as possible. and that's been especially successful here on the last platter. when you need some people come here to be seen others go out to sea they just have to set sail once out of all top class in tests his students knowledge of the rope in one hand the tiller in the other people robes ropes are for mountain climbing in the pony stables but for sailing we've got lines earrings azer is when there is thick as there. arm but in general the most torn up of this is a sheet a main sheet you have to gather up the main sheet so tight that the sale won't spill over or spill means flaps you see it's flapping all over so halid up tighter pull your right hand to your left just don't let it go here oh no it's

but i what boehner knows when north. korea had a. power levy did after. representing president obama at the u.n. when that u.s. u.k. backed asteroid took place was similar. for power yet this week she tweeted that the so-called thirty u.a.e. coalition shouldn't be bombing hospitals today saudi u.a.e. coalition baba hospital yesterday unicef reported that they have repeatedly attacked facilities that provide drinking water horrifying in the extreme u.s. and all the port full court press on sept peace talks in the shadow of a bomb or administration officials making extraordinary you terms of alleged war crimes like that and a group claiming continued bombing of the poorest country in the middle east by our a.f. trained warplane pilots we're going to hear from ngo save the children joining me now from for the by skype is our son bashar assad welcome to going underground the i.c.r.c. has been telling r.t. in the past few days the dozens of civilians have been killed mostly children in u.k. armed saudi strikes in dian in the saga something save the children ca

the minority, taking advantage wherever possible with the fact that either speaker ryan or speaker boehner could not muster the votes of their caucus because of the tea party. she has been very clear. she is focused on the elections in 2018 as all of us are. as the country should be. and then, the democratic caucus in the house will decide who the next leader is. but the key is to have a majority in the house of representatives. look, candidates on the campaign trail, they are free and should be. to state their positions, not just on issues, but leadership. i think that freedom is encouraged. by strong leaders like nancy pelosi. nicholas: do you think she will be around this time next year? sen. van hollen: she is running for reelection, she will definitely be around. nicholas: leading the democratic caucus? sen. van hollen: like i said i'm , a nancy pelosi fan. those are decisions for the democratic caucus. host: i have 10 seconds. i want to ask a question. nick mentioned facebook. are you satisfied with the efforts that twitter and facebook have taken so far to help ensure the trolls and

boehner over. the break i want to jump the garden tree. oh. you've. got a bit more i'm not proud of where you are young man twenty one so you don't go fake . i got a black. man and i would just deal on the bottom. bedroom when you drove in if you got good let me get everybody's front line then you can get rid of it that's my baby don't sound like you know my wife don't i just like in my good. there. this used to be a beautiful beautiful neighborhood and it breaks my heart. you can leave one block. of beautiful houses and go to another look to seven blocks and laughed my head to the bone. from the block here. every house think. oh no thought of all it was the banks. the banks they did. you know trying to be green. what it was and talk to homeowners there but it couldn't afford a loan to get a separate mortgage on my home and gave them the loan of a little high interest rate. when it came to it. you know they had to go to the you know put a mile. what started it was doing the right in sixty seven when we had a big all right. and we lost a lot of propert

donald trump won this district by eleven percentage points and he came here on saturday to back truly boehner said he has already taken credit for bulger's and lead in the end this race will go on in november and danny o'connor says he now can perform boulder's there will be plenty of money thrown into this race as there are already has been you can expect much more in the coming months. saudi arabia is to remove patients receiving medical treatment from hospitals in canada and transfer them out the country it's the latest move in a diplomatic round more than fifteen thousand saudi students in canada have been ordered to return home that could be difficult as the saudi national carrier is canceling flights between judd and toronto it's unclear how the dispute will affect existing trade worth four billion dollars canada mainly imports oil from saudi arabia with cars and defense equipment going the other way around also questions over a thirteen billion dollar contract to supply the saudis with nine hundred armored vehicles kristen salumi has more from toronto. canada is a country that prides i

donald trump won this district by eleven percentage points and he came here on saturday to back truly boehner said he has already taken credit for bulger's and lead in the end this race will go on in november and danny o'connor says he now can perform boulder's there will be plenty of money thrown into this race as there are already has been you can expect much more in the coming months. haiti's new prime minister has been sworn in president picked. off the days of negotiations with both houses of parliament he hopes can help unite the people is pretty decisive resigned after violent demonstrations against government plans to raise fuel prices. saudi arabia is to remove patients receiving medical treatment from hospitals in canada and transfer them out the country it's the latest move in the growing diplomatic route between the two nations more than fifteen thousand saudi students in the been ordered to return home that could be difficult as the saudi national carrier is canceling flights between toronto it's unclear how the dispute will affect the existing trade worth four billion dollars ca

donald trump won this district by eleven percentage points and he came here on saturday to back truly boehner saying he has already taken credit for bulger's and lead in the end this race will go on in november and danny o'connor says he now can outperform voters there will be plenty of money thrown into this race as there already has been you can expect much more in the coming months. the bangladeshi information minister has told al-jazeera that any police officer who assaults journalist in custody will be prosecuted as well as allegations that photo journalist was tortured after being arrested that happened just hours after he did an interview with ounces here on sunday he was covering demonstrations by students who are demanding tougher traffic laws the minister says the government respects the press and the shuttle was not detained for his journalism and he have been out of. columns. we are looking into it but as. a who through the court the court ruled he said. what happened to him but he has not read that instead of down others to go has been added to. the from within the company it's a

replace a guy named john boehner, which was an incredible victory. and so you talk about the toughest vote. one of the things i ran on was to focus on john boehner, which i did in the conference meeting when the speaker is will elect did. i was one of only three that voted against him. >> for the record, there were a lot more who said they voted against. >> it was a voice vote when i say all opposed, i could fill in my mind. my voice echoing. you know, we lost the vote. i mean, he won, i lost. after it was over, i had been in congress for two days. i mean, i was brand-new on this. this is what i ran on in voted against him. everything i was told that the floor vote as a showboat and these are the benelux in conference. so he called announced if i would therefore support and on the floor, which i agreed to do. >> remember the phone call as i was walking through a mall with my kid. >> i still get sick every time i thought about it -- every time i think about it. i often wonder, where were those in the conference who voted on the floor. they voted, wher

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boehner got thrown out. lou: the president is something else. he won the state of wisconsin. ryan couldn't even win as a congressional candidate or a vice presidential candidate and yet he somehow imagines himself through political force. as long as he's in the speakership, it's valid. the day he leaves it, hi's going to be another rino establishment todayy. >> he's not going to be looked back on as one of the greatest legislative -- lou: wait a minute. let me write that down. >> i usually wait for history, a week or two past the due date. lou: come on. you're being modest. >> i'll make that prediction right now. lou: you spend too much of your career creating and making history to wait a few weeks. >> the president has a big night tonight. he's done everything possible to help candidates withi, more sonn any president. i've done this for 50 years. he's giving himself -- normally in the month of august presidents take time off, go to martha's vineyard, obama went to hawaii. lou: and political advisers are telling the president, don't get involved in the primaries. you're risk

i talked to john boehner when he wasea speaker and if i had been speaker i don't know what i would have done because i think that by personality obama was hard to deal with. clinton is an astonishing human being. about a third of the time he would lie that you've got to get used to that. that. it was part of the process and you can figure out which ones are true and which ones are not. when i had a couple of occasions that they buried you don't wear your feelings on your sleeve, this is just the business that you are in. the democrats right now don't want to work with trump. their goal is to fail. i'm delighted that they will keep the senate in that they have no interest of being provocative and in that case they just run over. i would have figured out issues that made it expensive in such a way the leadership was constantly under pressure because about a third of them are saying i can stay with him i will get beat back if i go home. that's the kind of pressure that breaks apart the partisanship. if i were a legislative leader today i would recognize you have to spend a lot of time with

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it is unprecedented that speakers reside like john boehner did and paul ryan is.ou want to talk about a fractured race? you have leadership that cannot control the basin they are running for the hills here it o'brien: paul ryan, when he took over said he had two young kids. apologize if i left in a kids out. jeanne: he's got more, actually. o'brien: he said he had to be home for the kids. he wanted to spend time with his amec. he made it clear that was where he was going. departing speakers of the house on the republican side because you can't control the base. o'brien: and we believe in term limits. i think this move is terrific for republicans. shery: we have a good viewer question here. david: the one thing we learned in the last election is american people don't want as ms. as usual in washington. how can the democrats this time persuade voters that they will not just be returning to business as usual? whatever you think about donald trump, it is not the way it used to be. think: it is far worse, i what are you going to point to to say that what donald trump h

he was at full tilt war through breitbart attacking people like mcconnell, ryan, boehner, kanter.usting of kanter as an incumbent republican and he said he was interested in trump going against the republican establishment. when you take that building and steve bannon said in this interview, what i'm trying to do is save them and keep them in power, that is a different steve bannon. critics say it comes out of his currently reduced stature and it's his way of getting back in. you can only do so many revolutions at a time and the reason this is up for debate, but one logical reason you can argue he has a different stance is that building back there is much more of a pro trump wing of the republican party. the people leaving the caucus and the moderates, the steve bannon of 2015 is a steve bannon of 2018 trying to back up trump and what he sees as anti-trump populism. i struggle to show it involves hedge funds and financeurs and putting the debate aside, now this is about trump, but it's going through the bank shot of this first mid-term. >> let's play another clip from this. he mad

without further ado, the man who replaced john boehner and moved ,is seat decidedly to the right warren davidson, congressman from ohio. [applause]

but boehner said you are forbidden. violation of house rules to her that suit. >> that's why doing the book unified is so helpful. so often we are like icebergs. knowing trey gaddy publicly is to know just the tip of the iceberg. a lot of it has to do with his skills and abilities. being cross-examined by him is not a pleasant experience. watching him on court tv and watching him with a bipartisan group of members sitting at a table and laughing until your stomach hurts is a very definitive experience. >> it really opens up both of you and that friendship together is so much fun to go through. trey, there's a page in the book where you are talking about him in different places you say this guy his humility, he knows when to speak and went to listen. and you say he is strategic, very complementary. tell us more. >> he is my favorite person public office. i say that privately and publicly. i say that as someone who does not want to be a judge anymore. he is a really good human be happens to be in politics. i watched him,

they follow one f the ideological spectrum as much as we would expect with nancy pelosi and john boehner towards the outer part of the party and closer to the ideological center. another thing to note is the purple. this is the ideological overlap between the state legislators so it's not the case that there are no moderate legislators available to run for office. nearly 30% are at least as conservative. the problem is that there are no moderates that are available to run for congress. here are the state legislators that ran for office. we can see first they are squarely in the center of the distribution of runners. the ideologue and those that resemble at the time the state bustateto state office who ran r congress. to be sure, hardly anyone runs for office at all. nearly 3% of the legislators that resembled pelosi compared to .6% of democratic legislators that resembled him and .2% who resembled snow. the short story is bear much less likely to run than conservative republicans and liberal democrats. the difference is across it is striking. in the next couple of slides i will show the

having something happen to them as happened to the republican party when they had revolt against john boehner, republicans have never quite recovered from the fractures that that drove into the party and i think the democrats are beginning to move in that direction with nancy pelosi. paul: i have a hard time that if democrats take the house which nancy pelosi having lead the effort, raised a lot of money that the democrat party will throw to a side woman as speaker of the house after retain house, hard to believe. >> look, paul, i don't think the challenge is necessarily after the election if they win. this effort which you are seeing some folks like zeth molton, younger democrat from massachusetts, catherine from new york, they are pushing to get pelosi out now, they like for her to resign early, that would take pressure of candidates out there. we have been talking about the moderates suburban districts that are crucial in the midterm and the problems republicans have, the problem democrats have tieing centrist candidates to figure that's viewed as a coastal elite and mrs. pelosi is likewis

john boehner was incapable of controlling his party. paul ryan, incapable of controlling his party.ancy pelosi did the impossible. she took a rollicking caucus that included all sorts of people from all over the country, south, north, white, black, poor, rich, and got the affordable care act passed, got dodd-frank passed. her historical accomplishments in terms of her ability to get stuff done is without parallel. >> is leadership -- that sounds like a yes to me. i will let you come to that another time. is leadership -- congressman, is democratic leadership in the house too old and too white? >> well, poppy, look, having said that i am a huge admirer of nancy pelosi's operational ability, the fact that our top three leaders are in their late 70s -- i don't care who those leaders are -- that's a problem. it's a problem because, of course, we are at a moment in time where young people are involved as they never have been before. these are the parkland students getting young people involved. i don't care how good you are, there's a generational gap. again, you can ask me for an answer