host: charlie sykes? guest 2: i am reminded that paul ryan never wanted to be speaker of the house of representatives. i think because in part he understood it was an impossible job and you have to herd cats in a dysfunctional institution. craig is right, we have redefined chaos and i don't think going forward you are going to be seeing washington getting its house in order in any kind of way. it does strike me the hopeful message of paul ryan and the alternative that could have been had donald trump not come along in our dramatic turn politics and republican politics by going with donald trump as opposed to somebody like paul ryan. as i am listening to this, it comes back over me again the disappointment -- disappointment in how this ended up because paul ryan -- could have made a -- can you turn around the federal government, do all those things? is prettyhink that obvious. host: in that speech, he gets a standing ovation when he talks about the debts of this country. take a look at his first appearance

host: charlie sykes?st 2: i am reminded that paul ryan never wanted to be speaker of the house of representatives. i think because in part he understood it was an impossible job and you have to herd cats in a dysfunctional institution. craig is right, we have redefined chaos and i don't think going forward you are going to be seeing washington getting its house in order in any kind of way. it does strike me the hopeful message of paul ryan and the alternative that could have been had donald trump not come along in our dramatic turn politics and republican politics by going with donald trump as opposed to somebody like paul ryan. as i am listening to this, it comes back over me again the disappointment -- disappointment in how this ended up because paul ryan -- could have made a -- can you turn around the federal government, do all those things? is prettyhink that obvious. host: in that speech, he gets a standing ovation when he talks about the debts of this country. take a look at his first appearance in

friday morning, the milwaukee craig gilbert and the weekly standard's charlie sykes discuss paul ryan's congressional career and his legacy as house speaker. watch live at 7:00 eastern friday morning. join the discussion. announcer: live friday on c-span networks, the house returns at 9:00 a.m. eastern for work on legislation to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list. we will have that on c-span. at 8:30 a.m., a summit on improving oversight of the federal government. [gunshots] >> in the view of the warren theission, they described circumstances of the assassination of president kennedy. but is there more to this story than the warren report ever discovered? america,eekend on reel a cbs news inquiry, the warren report, anchored i walter cronkite, investigating unanswered question since president john f. kennedy's assassination. eastern,at 10:00 p.m. lee harvey ostwald and whether he acted alone to assassinate president kennedy. >> it seemed evident that we should establish the ease of difficulty of that rapidfire performance. hence our next question -- how fast could tha

dana milbank, charlie sykes, thanks, guys, have a great weekend.e it. >> thanks, chris, you too. >>> as the camp fire continues to devastate butte county, california, a story of kindness to make you smile this friday. 93-year-old margaret newsome was home alone when she learned the camp fire was rapidly approached. she went out on her front porch hoping to find help. what she found was a hero. her local garbage truck driver was headed her way. after learning newsome was stranded. he broke protocol. he helped her on to his truck, and the two of them drove five hours to safety. during the ride we're told, she told him stories of her life about beating cancer three times, witnessing the attack on pearl harbor and being backup singer for the rat piack. this looks like the start of a wonderful new friendship. >>> the one woman who has said she's considering challenging nancy pelosi's quest for the speaker's gavel is meeting with her right now on capitol hill. we'll ask a newly elected democratic congressman who flipped a gop seat where he stands on the

and joining me now is charlie sykes, contributor for weekly standard and jonathan capehart, washingtonsnbc contributor. and charlie, oothroughout there wisconsin, how do people feel about the suppression voter issues out there in kansas with dodge city, and north dakota and texas and other states? >> well, if it is an attempt to suppress the voters, it is amoral and it is going to leave a stain on the republican party. you think about the way that the campaign is closing, the closing arguments that we are hearing. and maybe it is enough to hold the senate for the republicans, but i think that it is going to be playing very, very poorly in the suburban areas, that they will determine frankly, the elections in the states like wisconsin and pennsylvania. and jonathan capehart, kevin tibbles reporting on what happened there, and you saw the line, but it is not clear that all of the people are going to be able to vote, but it might certainly have the opposite effect, and it is going to be doing that in georgia as well. >> yes, as we saw from the gentleman that kevin was interviewing, he was

i'm joined by msnbc contributor charlie sykes, contributor editor at the weekly standard, and former er for president obama, david lit is also with me. charlie, this was basically the biggest issue on the campaign trail for president trump. how do they defend this? >> well, you know, oddly enough i kind of feel like bernie sanders that i'm really sick of hearing about the damn e-mails. you're absolutely right. this is rich in hypocrisy, but it's part of this pattern where the trump family and the trump administration will project its own conduct on to other people and pretend to be absolutely outraged about it when they're engaging in it themselves. so you know, whether it's draining the swamp and then repopulating it with all the lizard people of the trump administration or the e-mails, it's hard enough to have a little shodden freud here because trump has talked about this so much. there is no way to defend this except to try to draw meaningless distinctions and try to say, well, that was horrible, and this is not. how do they not know any better? >> i want to run through just a lis

coming up friday morning, the milwaukee journal sentinel's craig gilbert and the weekly standard's charlie sykes discussed paul ryan's congressional career and his legacy of house speaker. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern on friday morning. joined the discussion. live friday on the c-span networks, the hou

hugh, perhaps you've been listening to the conversation -- oh, charlie -- it's charlie sykes. the error is mine. i apologize. charlie, you're no hugh hewitt. you've been listening to the conversation there. >> now i'm confused. >> i'll mess with charlie when i see him. you're in your home state of wisconsin surrounded by home state republicans. >> right. >> give me the headline for tonight. >> well, the headline for tonight is that, you know, despite the lack of a blue wave around the country, in the upper midwest, democrats are running the table. the night started with the call for tammy baldwin who is winning reelection by more than 10 points. and right now scott walker is behind. look, i was here thin this room eight years ago in wisconsin when it flipped dramatically. this crowd is looking for good news. one of the reasons they're playing the music so loud is they didn't want to play the tammy baldwin acceptance speech. but there's a lot of nervousness. obviously walker doesn't want to see the numbers where they are right now. this would be a big pickup for democrats. and i

that makes us think of charlie sykes. charlie, i know we're talking about your home state. taking so long out there? >> well, it is an extraordinary finish. in the next few minutes we should be finding out what the results are from 47,000 votes from the city of milwaukee. they just had so many of these early votes, these mail-in votes, that they're not able to process pem. so right now within the last three or four minutes, the city election commissioner walked the flash drive, you know, up to load them. we'll find out what happens. rough estimate is this could add 15,000 votes, net votes to tony evers' margin. this race has been so close all night. and within the next few minutes we'll get pretty dramatic development. >> how do you assessment walker campaign's confidence? if anybody knows how to run for governor in wisconsin, it's scott walker, including his campaign team. do they think they're going to win? >> well, i would say this. that throughout the night they thought they might have a path to victory and then, of course, this bombshell was dropped about the 47,000 vo

charlie sykes and former federal prosecutor glen kersher in. and back with me is maggie. carely, let me begin with you, if i may. are you expecting lawmakers to take law action against saudi arabia this week before the newhous new house comes in, or is this kicking the can down the road and hoping democrats will do something? >> even republicans have been fairly outspoken about this. bob corker of tennessee today, mike lee of says he believes the cia report and not what president trump is saying. whether they'll get something done this year or wait until next year is not clear. democrats in both the house and the senate want to do some digging into why president trump and his son-in-law, jared kushner, presidential adviser jared kushner, seem to be so devoted to believing the saudi account here and disbelieving what their own cia have been saying. >> so here's the interesting thing. i want to play you this sound bite from president trump denying he's had any business ties with the saudis. watch this. >> i don't make deals with saudi arabia. i don't have money from saudi a

steve kornacki, maria theresa cumar, charlie sykes. steve, i'll let you kick off this conversation. i mean, it is -- i have talked to one republican strategist about this situation in florida and they said if rick scott doesn't have the trump base he can't win. and because of donald trump he can't win in the suburbs. >> it's a no lose situation. the other thing, by the way, that came in between his poll numbers in florida was the handling of the hurricane, and very positive reviews for scott and still the favorable rating went down. i think that issue with suburbs is if you believe that donald trump was ultimately able to win in 2016 because there was a fair number of sort of reluctant voters in the suburbs who don't like trumpism, don't like his style but ultimately were persuaded maybe by the comey letter and maybe by the fact that trump was relatively quiet in the final days of that campaign, you're getting a very big contrast in the final days of 2018. there's one in georgia. remember in georgia last year -- and final poll has them ahead suddenly by two suddenly in that race. pe

. >> charlie sykes, of course, is contributing editor. thank you, both.s to me like we all watched that press conference today, he was in a fighting mode. the press was to some extent, too. but he wanted a fight, he wanted a little blood to show on people's noses, it looked like a fight. i've never heard in my life the president saying i'm going to use the subpoena power of one branch of the u.s. congress to prevent the other one of doing their job of oversight. heidi? >> oh, well it would be a test, chris, for congressional leaders. because clearly the house has showed they're willing to play ball and it's led to a deterioration of bipartisanship there. in the and senate we have not seen that. this would be a test for leaders. the president will also make good on leaning on senate leadership and senate committee chairs. but just like he doesn't control the house, he doesn't control the justice department. he shouldn't control the just department, and he doesn't control the senate. >> het me ask you, you had some news. >> that's right, chris. i was just c

. >> charlie sykes, thank you so much.ant to head back to wilmington, delaware where former vice president joe biden is walking up to the cameras. >> we asked if that's the last time you would vote for yourself on the ballot. what's your answer? >> i said i don't know and i still don't know. i have to make my decision what i'm going to do after the first of the year. it will be a family decision. >> you're holding to that? you think you'll announce early january? >> not announce. make a decision internally. i wouldn't announce if i were going to run that early. it would be too early to start it. i wouldn't make a formal announcement then? >> when would you? >> yoci don't know. it would depend on the circumstances and a whole lot of things. >> you were out at 12 rallies over the past week, 8 states, kind of presidential level campaigning. what did it feel to be out there? do you have an appetite for another run and that rigorous schedule? >> i have an appetite for that but the reason i was out there is that i was requested

up friday morning, the "milwaukee journal-sentinel's" craig gail bert and the weekly standard's charlie sykescuss paul ryan's congressional rear and his legacy as house speaker. watch c-span's washington journal live at 7 eastern friday morning, join the discussion. >> coming up tomorrow morning live coverage of a summit on how to do a better job of overseeing the federal government. month the speakers inspectors general from the national security agency and justice department. live starting at 8:30 a.m. eastern here on c-span2. you can also watch online at c-span.org, and on the free c-span radio app. >> some of president trump's nominees had their confirmation hearing, including ronald vitello to head immigration and customs enforce: this is an hour and a half.

guy, but, you know, i think for a lot of us -- and i will say for a lot of conservatives like charlie sykes and rick wilson and, you know, tom nichols, a lot of us, we're really actually surprised it's this close because we thought there would be more conservatives who actually cared about what conservatism meant, but apparently they're marching lockstep with republicans. so this is a lot closer race. i will tell you i thought it was going to be. people have chosen trump over the republican party, chosen trump over conservatism and so we have -- we have a personality cult out there that's taken over the republican party. we will see how it goes. >> i do think his war on the facts and the media has been a part of this and has prevailed. >> that's the other thing, too. the lying. the lying about the caravan is extraordinary. >> it's working. >> what about the wall? i saw a great article this weekend. >> all lies. >> he's lying about the wall. mike, they go and interview people because trump is saying i've got -- what's he saying -- i got $5 billion for the wall. we're building the wall. i'm g

and in milwaukee, charlie sykes, the contributing editor for the weekly standard.hank you for being here as well. -- what will be,

coming up, friday morning, the milwaukee journal sentinel craig gilbert and the weekly standard, charlie sykes discuss paul ryan's career and legacy as house speaker. be sure to watch "washington journal" friday morning. join the discussion. announcer: live friday on the c-span network, the house returns at 9:00 for work on legs to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list. we'll have that on c-span. on c-span2 at 8:30 a day long summit on improving oversight of he federal government. >> jackie spear talks about her memoire, "undaunted." >> i was on an airstrip in the guyana.ation of and we were ambushed on that airstrip. nd shot. officer ryan died on that airstrip. there were members who died. and i was shot five times on the right side of my body. a bone jetting out of my right arm. the wound in my league the size of a football. and it was, oh, my god, i'm 28 years old. this is it. announcer: sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. announcer: house minority leader nancy pelosi, says she has the votes to be speaker of the house during the 116th congress. she took questions o

and in milwaukee, charlie sykes, the contributing editor for the weekly standard. thank you for being here as well. -- what will be, do you think, the legacy of speaker ryan. charlie