daniel lipman for us.ank you. >>> leaders met with paul ryan to vent their frustration with the republican legislative agenda. the washington post citing two people familiar with the discussion reports that ryan met with the group's chairman mark meadows of north carolina along with representatives jim jordan and scott perry of pennsylvania. the group was reportedly "frank" about their mounting concerns and warned ryan that they and others in the house congress conference could desert him in the coming months if they fail to enact conservative policies. yet, one republican lawmaker close to ryan dismissed that meeting, stating, "those guys are always unhappy. god bless paul for sitting there and listening to them." meanwhile, the paper also reports that chairman meadows and former white house chief strategist steve bannon have begun discussions on possible replacement for ryan as speaker. according to several people close to both men. however, those discussions remain informal for now. president trump exte

joining us now from washington is politico's danielle lipman.he big question facing the republican party even for observers outside of it is, are there republican leaders vessel invested in defeating roy moore? is this a setback for them? where is it going to be for the establishment wing of republican party? >> this makes it much harder to keep control. because lots of incumbents are going to be facing conservative charlies like bannon predicted. this gives those people a lot of encouragement. and mcconnell does not like people like judge moore to serve within the u.s. senate. so this marks a real defeat for trump. because it makes him look like -- it embarrasses him by -- he had to delete his own tweets praising luther strange. so, that's kind of -- if you do that, that's kind of a black eye for trump. >> i got to say, he said thank you for supporting trump. >> his candidate lost. >>> there's also a top resignation going on the top of the dea, chuck rosenburg stepping aside. while he's stepping aside, he's tweeting about the president. tell us