this is chad pergram. this guy right here. he is our producer there up on the hill. s is blake berman. i call him back row blake because front row chad's going to ask an important question of paul ryan. taz where paul ryan's going to speak. this guy has a fantastic question that you're going to love. fantastic question. but first i want to get to things. more presidential politics as we wait for speaker ryan to address the reporters that might jump -- say he won't jump in the race. he's about to speak. meantime let's bring in zeke miller, political reporter for "time." he's live for us in washington. zeke, john kasich is the king maker, isn't he? >> certainly. as you were talking about before, he will walk into the convention with the third highest -- likely the third highest number of delegates. really hard for him to get the nomination outright but he will have all the power on potentially the first but certainly a second ballot. >> but i feel like his biggest power is today, right now at this moment because if john kasich wants to help donald trump he gets out of t

. >> doesn't know john boehner, that got the intention of our producer, chad pergram. he said ted cruz as one time was john boehner's lawyer and worked for years on a case that involved john boehner. we asked the cruz campaign and he aides said he was a junior assistant that helped with legal briefs, still ted cruz was involve enough that he gave several interviews, even to newspapers, in which he was quoted as boehner's attorney. for his part donald trump held a recall in evansville, indiana. how can he top lucifer in the flesh. that's pretty good. trump piled on cruz's criticism and says cruz is not popular on capitol hill. >> in the senate he's known as a liar. marco rubio, who is good call, called him a liar during the debate. he said you're a liar. i said that great, when another senator can call a senator a liar, now can i do it always. so we women up with liin' ten. boom, in. and donald trump blasted ted cruz for picking carly fiorina as his running mate since cruz cruz can't not be the nominee without a contested convention. if nothing else it gave him the news