. >> happening now -- >> i think paul ryan is soon to be cantored as in eric cantor, his political career is over. >> sarah palin saying she's campaign against the house speaker in his august re-election. >> because he's so disrespected the will of the people. paul ryan and his ilk, their problem is they have become so disconnected from the people whom they are elected to represent. >> and john mccain saying it's foolish to ignore the will of the voters. >> you have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our republican party. i don't think it would be foolish to ignore them. >> ground zero for devastating fires is fort mcmurray. >> i've met more heroes in this experience than i ever thought existed. >> newsroom starts now. >> hello, everyone, this is the cnn newsroom, happy mother's day. the deeping rift in the republican party as donald trump as the potential nominee just got bigger. it's an all-out civil war as former vice presidential candidate sarah palin said she will work to end paul ryan's career. in an exclusive interview with jake tapper on "state of the union" the f

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. >> i think paul ryan is soon could be cantored as in eric cantor. his political career is over as the leader of the gop, the convention certainly. he is to remain neutral, and for him to already come out and say who he will not support was not a wise decision of his. you know, i think why paul ryan is doing this, jake, is it kind of screws his chances for the 2020 presidential bid. >> sarah palin saying, this is personal for paul ryan and i'm not sure that's true, that paul ryan wants to run for president in 020 and wants trump to lose so he can run. the point is fascinating. eric cantor was house majority leader beaten by a tea party challenger that nobody thought had a prayer. as donald trump tries to win the presidency, you have conservatives like sarah palin at the same moment, keep the tea party versus the establishment civil war going at the ballot box. >> the good thing that paul ryan has on its side is wisconsin is sort of one of the bases for the anti-trump movement. i don't know how much paul ryan has to fear from a primary challenge back

>> i think paul ryan is soon to be cantored, as in eric cantor. his political career is over, but for a miracle, because he has so disrespected the will of the people and yes, as the leader of the gop, the convention certainly, he is to remain neutral, and for him to already come out and say who he will not support, was not a wise decision of his. you know, i think why paul ryan is doing this, jake, is it kind of screws his chances for the 2020 presidential bid that he's gunning for. if the gop were to win now, that wouldn't bode well for his chances in 2020, and that's what he's shooting for. lot of people with their never trump or not right now trump mantra going on, they have their different reasons. i think that one is paul ryan's reason. >> specifically when you talk about him being eric cantored, eric cantor was the house majority leader who was challenged in the primary but a conservative candidate who got a lot of grassroots support and that was a big surprise. paul ryan is facing a challenge in the republican primary in wisconsin, the pri

. >> if eric cantor was -- when you worked for him, if eric cantor was sitting in on this meeting and he's sitting across the table, is eric cantor -- is this leader of the republican party, are you laying out where we stand or is it just a discussion? like how do you think this played out? >> it's both. paul ryan obviously has been putting out a positive agenda that he wants to campaign on for house republicans because his job, we talk about the troops in the field for as republican voters, he's also got house of representatives members he's concerned about with their re-elections. a lot of republicans in the house and senate are being attacked for saying they will support the nominee. kelly ayotte and john mccain being two. >> you say they talked about specifics. i was listening to the interviews, if you did a word cloud, unify, great, positive, great, chemistry. it is very important it seems to ranz prie reince priebus to give the impression it was a great, positive meeting. >> he's trying to unify his party. he's trying to raise money. he's trying to win the election, and if you h

so eric cantor knocked off in a primary by an unfunded tea party candidate.blocked from moving up after john boehner was hounded out of the speakership and paul ryan facing a challenge from the right in his own primary in august and being called paul ryno by a lot of people that it's almost impossible to reflect on it. >> there's been asymmetrical polarization that the republican party has moved further to the right than the democratic party has moved to the left. dana, do you agree with norm's critique that the media has not fully explained to the odd wrens and the readers and the viewers this idea of asymmetric polarization and as a result we pretend there is balance when there's not? >> i think that's exactly right and we in the media generally are guilty of this sort of false equivalency and saying there are equal and opposite things occurring here. the fact is they have not been equal and opposite things and i think there is a real problem now in the coverage of trump and that the instinct in the media say he's going to be the republican nominee, let's c

as in eric cantor. he is so disrespected the will of the people. yeah, as the leader of the gop, the convention, he certainly is to remain neutral. for him to already come out and say who he will not support was not a wise decision of his. >> maybe you don't remember eric cantor. he lost his seat to a tea party upstart in his home state and he lost his job as speaker. my question is do you think the o outsiders think they don't need the establishment? >> you are absolutely right. donald trump has shown no indication the party needs to be unified. he has a theory of stacking up the industrial states and rust belt states down the middle. >> the flip side is who's party? the party says what? more than 10 million voters in the republican primaries have picked donald trump. they say well it is a minority. the truth is as the primaries go on, donald trump is getting over 50%. it is now a majority. who does ryan represent here other than paul ryan? >> that's a great question. there is not a simple answer. we have a couple of parties vying. there is a meet

. >> i think paul ryan is soon to be cantored as in eric cantor. is over but for a miracle because he's so disrespected the will of the people. >> eric cantor, you know who he is. stunning re-election defeat sent shock waves through washington. christine allescia sat down with eric cantor and talked about donald trump. >> yes. >> spill it. >> it was a kind of surreal moment. i didn't think he was going to endorse him or say he would support him but he did and this is the ultimate establishment guy who's basically saying, if he becomes the nominee i'll support him and i asked him specifically why. and he said, basically, anything's better than hillary. i don't even -- i'm not sure what his policies are and asked him about foreign policy and his policy on big business. take a listen. >> there's certainly alarm and who knows what donald trump's foreign policy's going to be? right? i mean he gave a speech the otherdy and the title was only the thing i took from it, america first. what does that mean? what does that mean in terms of our obligations arou

. >> i think paul ryan is soon to be cantered as in eric cantor. his political career is over but for a miracle because he has so disrespected the will of the people. >> while the intraparty feud continued on, trump spent the weekend giving voters a look at what the election would look like, repeatedly going after hillary clinton. >> hillary clinton wants to take your guns away, and she wants to abolish the second amendment. on foreign policy, hillary is trigger happy. she is. she's trigger happy. she's got a bad temperament. by the way -- and her husband learned that a few times, didn't he? if she didn't play the women's card, she would have no chance. i mean, zero, of winning. she's married to a man and nobody, nobody perhaps in the history of politics was worse to women or abused women more than bill clinton. and hillary was an enabler and she treated these women horribly. just remember this. and some of those women were destroyed not by him but by the way that hillary clinton treated them. >> clinton appearing on "face the nation" responded to

. >> i think paul ryan is soon to be cantored as an eric cantor. his political career is over. >> reporter: one issue that hovered over the campaign today, trump's ambiguity on taxes, the billionaire's official plan calls for cuts for everybody, the biggest beneficiaries, the rich. but trump's now signaling flexibility at best, contradicting himself at worst. on the "today" show last month -- >> do you believe in raising taxes on the wealthy? >> i do. i do. including myself. >> reporter: then this yesterday. >> for the wealthy, i think, frankly, it's going to go up. you know what, it should really go up. >> reporter: less than 24 hours later. >> if i increase it on the wealthy, it will still increase. i'm not talking about increasing from this point, i'm talking about increasing from my tax proposal. >> reporter: trump's critics are demands clarity. >> anytime somebody is saying a different thing every day, you get there's not a policy rudder. it's what's selling to the latest campaign crowds. >> donald trump is already looking beyond the conventio

. >> i think paul ryan is soon to be cantored, as in eric cantor. his political career is over but for a miracle because he has so disrespected the will of the people. >> and while the intraparty feud continued, trump also spent the weekend giving voters a taste of what the ugly and personal general election would look like going after likely democratic nominee hillary clinton again and again and again. >> hillary clinton wants to take your guns away, and she wants to abolish the second amendment. on foreign policy, hillary is trigger happy. she is. she's trigger happy. she's got a bad temperament. by the way -- and her husband learned that a few times, didn't he? if she didn't play the women's card, she would have chance, i mean zero, of winning. she's married to a man -- and nobody, nobody perhaps in the history of politics was worse to women or abused women more than bill clinton. and hillary was an enabler, and she treated these women horribly. just remember this. and some of those women were destroyed not by him but by the way that hillary clin

. >> i think paul ryan is soon to be cantored, as in eric cantor.is political career is over but for a miracle because he is has so disrespected the will of the people. and yeah, as the leader of the gop, the convention certainly he is to remain neutral and for him to already come out and say who he will not support was not a wise decision of his. >> meanwhile, some top republican names are coming out for trump while others are staying on the bench, even ones in top party leadership. house whip lynn westmoreland said "i honestly don't understand what paul's thinking. i don't get it. i try not to give advice to the speaker but it brought about in my opinion even more confusion to this thing." dick cheney and bob dole both saying they will support trump. and in a "wall street journal" op-ed, bobby jindal says he will vote for trump, quote, warts and all, adding that, quote, i think electing donald trump would be the second worst thing we could do this november, better only than electing hillary clinton. >>> meanwhile, hillary clinton heads to virginia

we saw it start two years ago when eric cantor lost to a college professor who he outraised by 40:1.hen this presidential cycle, you have bernie sanders and donald trump. >> he's challenging debbie wasswas wasser man schultz for her house seat. this morning sanders threw his support behind him. >> clearly i favor her opponent. his views are much closer to mine than wasserman schultz's. and let's me also say in all due respect to the current chairperson, if elected president, she would not be reappointed to be chair of the dnc. >> sanders campaign also sent out a fundraising blast over the weekend. and cano vchlcanova has raised $250,000. and bernie sanders out in california ahead of the state's primary on june 7. a new nbc wall street journal poll shows 40% of democrats think this long primary is good for the party. back 2008, only 21% said it was good for the party. michelle, you were there in 2008 and you've covered it a lot of. what is your inside of those polling up in which is seem to show democratic partisans more favorable about this long primary? >> i think that partly it's b

they didn't see the firing of eric cantor, didn't see who he moved in in 2010 and 2014 and interestingal that's occurred. now they can't deny it, and doing it especially with hillary. lou: they can't, but they are. >> they are. lou: speaker ryan, mark, can you divine what is going through this -- we just went through it. he lost his hometown running for president, second on the ticket in 2012, lost his hometown in his re-election bid, which he did win in 2012. >> he's played this brilliantly. he is the most irrelevant guy in the world to the american public in. the line of succession to be the president, speaker of the house and nobody cares what he thinks. nobody cared about him. he's gotten himself on "lou dobbs tonight." he's created this aura that he has fake importance now that donald trump has to go meet with him. it will give him some fake cachet he's going to need for the next few weeks. lou: it's almost a push toward institutionalizing his relevance, it's interesting. >> in a board rooms, donald trump will come out ahead of him. lou: in a board room or knife fighter going acro

. >> i think paul ryan is soon to be cantor as an eric cantor, his political career is over but for a miracle because he disrespected the will of the people and yeah, as the leader of the gop, the convention cent certainly for him to remain neutral and for him to come out to say who who'll not support is not a wise decision. >> joining me is a republican house member from minnesota and a long time friend of paul ryan, vince, it is good to see you. >> it is exciting. >> first of all, if you are paul ryan, you basically say to the presumptive nominee, let me give you something. >> contrary to what palin said, he did not say he will be for donald trump. he said we are the party of lincoln and reagan and his mentor, i am not there yet with donald trump. donald trump should listen to that and understand that there is a bigger party than the people that nominated him. he needs to keep all the people that nominated him but he needs to explain to the rest of the republican party that he's consistent with that tradition that paul ryan laid up. if he cannot do that, he's not going to unit with

. >> i think ryan is soon to be cantored, as in eric cantor, and his political career is over becauseader of the gop, the convention certainly, he is to remain neutral and for him to already come out and say who he will not support was not a wise decision of his. i think why paul ryan is doing this, jake, is it kind of screws his chances for 2020 presidential bid that h

. >> i think ryan is soon to be cantored, as in eric cantor, and his political career is over because he disrespected the will of the people and as the leader of the gop, the convention certainly, he is to remain neutral and for him to already come out and say who he will not support was not a wise decision of his. i think why paul ryan is doing this, jake, is it kind of screws his chances for 2020 presidential bid that he is gunning for if the gop were to win now, that wouldn't bode well for his chances in 2020, and that's what he is shooting for. >> donald trump and house speaker, ryan, are scheduled to have a face-to-face meeting on thursday, and donald trump said i think paul ryan will be fine, and if not, that's okay. here to break it down, boris ebstein, and ben ferguson, and liz mayor, and steven collinson. great to see you all on this sunday, this mother's day. >> happy mother's day. >> happy mother's day to everybody. i want to go to you, ben, about sarah palin and her comments, and is this trying to stay -- >> i don't think she has very much power and every time she tries to

. >> i think paul ryan is soon to be cantored, as in eric cantor. his political career is over but for a miracle because he has so disrespected the will of the people. >> the man running against ryan in the republican primary in august seen here riding a motorcycle is businessman who challenged paul to debate and arm-wrestle him. speaker ryan himself offered to step down as chairman of the gop convention if trump asked him to. >> if he asked you to step down from the convention, would you? >> i'll do whatever -- he's the nominee. i'll do whatever he wants with respect to the convention. the point i would make is i just think it's important all wings of the party come together to get ourselves at full strength. >> one suspects ryan hopes he gets taken up on that offer. donald trump may be seen as abomination by many in the republican party. there is a case to be made the further he gets away from the republican party the better his chances. >>> the battle over north carolina's extremely controversial so-called bathroom law which requires transgender

. >> i think he is about to be cantered, as in eric cantore. to remain neutral and for him to come out and say who he will not support is not a wise decision of his. i think why paul ryan is doing this, jake, is it kind of screws his chances for the 2020 presidential bid that he's gunning for. >> pam for some perspective here, paul ryan is very popular in his district, 76% approval rating in wisconsin. donald trump won his district. the idea that he would lose in a primary doesn't look likely right now. the threat is start og to underscore, damage that trump tried to distance himself from this morning. >> do you want sarah palin going out there and trying to turn people against paul ryan? you're supposed to be unifying the party. >> sarah has endorsed me and she's a wonderful person. >> but do you want that? >> let me finish what i was trying to do. i have nothing to do with that. sarah is very much a free agent. she's a terrific person, but very much a free agent. i didn't know about this until yesterday. i guess she has been fighting or endor

. >> i think paul ryan is soon to be cantored as in eric cantor. his political career is over but for a miracle. >> reporter: while trump's take on republican orthodoxy may leave some in the party groaning, "saturday night live" is already celebrating its good fortune. >> did donnie ever take a gander at the holy scripture? >> honestly, i love all the books in the bible, i really do. they're all terrific. corinthians part deux, book of revelations, two genesis. >> well, suspect that special. >> so you can see "snl" already having their fun with donald trump as the presumptive republican nominee, but on a more serious note we are of course looking ahead to this meeting this week between donald trump and paul ryan. paul ryan told the "milwaukee journal sentinel" if trump is not comfortable with him, wants him to stem down as the co-chairman of the convention, he will do that. so far trump has not called for that to happen so, we'll see what comes out of the meeting thursday. >> let's take a closer look at donald trump's proposals. are they as potenti

. >> happening now -- >> i think paul ryan is soon to be cantored as in eric cantor, his political careeragainst the house speaker in his august re-election. >> because he's so disrespected the will of the people. paul ryan and his ilk, their problem is they have become so disconnected from the people whom they are elected to represent. >> and john mccain saying it's foolish to ignore

she not only -- people have compared her -- some folks have compared her to cantor, eric cantor, he lostseat unexpectedly. the difference here is she really takes care of her district. she's frequently been there and known for sending out lots of mail, like in hurricane season, things you need to do to be prepared. she's in contact with her district and also a kind of a politically historic figure in florida politics. she's the first jewish woman elected to congress from florida and it's a heavily jewish district as well and that plays well into debbie wasserman schultz's favor. the thing we've learned, don't call an election before it's over. and florida, sometimes you don't know what the results are over until it's over. >> don't say the election is going to happen in advance, until you actively see it being given birth to at that moment. mark caputo, always great to see you. >> thank you. >> thank you. we learned today there was a new state giving illinois a run for its money when it comes to governors under investigation in serial terms. that story and a lot more ahead tonight on thi

. >>> i think paul ryan is soon to be cantored as in eric cantor. his political career is soon over because he has so d disrespected the will of the people. as the leader of the gop, the convention certainly he is to remain neutral and for him to already come out and say who he will not support was not a wise decision of his. >> of course former alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential nominee sarah palin predicting the demise of speaker paul ryan's career in congress. the reaction was prompted by ryan saying he wasn't there yet as far as supporting donald trump. sarah palin seeking to support a rival to the speaker, tattooed, paul. >> ttp is a job killer. it's going to kill american manufacturing. mr. speaker, you championed this trade deal. why don't you come back to wisconsin and debate me man-to-man, face to face, on the realities of gtp. if you don't want to debate me, maybe we can arm-wrestle. >> donald trump was asked about palin's push to turn vote airs intelligence paul ryan, here's what he said. >> i have nothing to do with that. that's

some do them very well and some don't and even good pollsters miss the park, we saw that in eric cantor's district. polling can tell you a lot over time. all it tells you is where you are now, not how to get there, where good political strategy comes in. >> one of the places where donald trump and the rnc wants, a unified party. this was a joint effort pby the rnc to unite the party. do you sense there was a little push behind the scenes? >> possibly but there was a lot more research to hire a pollster. not to undermine the $50 million he's put in the campaign but allegedly been cheap on spending a lot of money on this campaign. now that he will be the nominee there should be enough money to pay for a pollster. >> rick tyler, always good to have you with us. >> thanks. >>> we're talking about the democratic race for the white house. that is a focus of today's microsoft pulse question, does outlining bill clinton's potential role help or hurt hillary clinton in the general election? we talked about online polling and you can log onto make your voice her on pulse.msnbc.com. fon emily skinne

people like paul ryan and eric cantor. donald trump is in the position they want to be in.eds desperately for republicans to come on board. he is expressed he's not worried about having paul ryan come and standby his side. it's very important for those paul ryan types to stand by his side in order the meet team strength. >> this dance is helping both of them. every time donald trump goes do washington, we're all reminded he's washington outsider and not part of the process. paul ryan gets to say we're able to work with him. on these issues. we'll start rounding all these really sharp corners on policies. he'll be able to go back to his conference and say we've worked it out here whether it's on the muslim ban other entitlement reform. there are places they are going to come together on. i think it was telling even the issue that speaker ryan came out with today to begin his press conference. it was on heroin epidemic. something that donald trump was very much talking about. >> let's talk about the veep stakes. he had the meeting with the law firm. everybody is putting the n

we saw it start two years ago when eric cantor, the second ranking republican in the house of representativesost to a college professor who he outraised by 40-to-1. and then you take a look at this presidential cycle. it's not just the rise of bernie sanders, but you also have donald trump. >> and you are a college professor trying to do exactly the same. >> well, that is true. >> that is true. i have to leave it there. thank you so much for being with us today. appreciate it. >> thank you. nice to be with you. >>> coming up, donald trump flip-flopping on his stance on guns in classrooms on the heels of securing the endorsement of the nra. we'll talk to a trump supporter after the break. e*trade is all about seizing opportunity. and i'd like to... cut. thank you, we'll call you. evening, film noir, smoke, atmosphere... bob... you're a young farmhand and e*trade is your cow. milk it. e*trade is all about seizing opportunity. sign up at etrade.com and get up to six hundred dollars. every ingredient is the main ingredient. the new green goddess cobb with avocado, bacon, freshly made dressing, to

john boehner and eric cantor are not there anymore.e they been replaced with paul ryan and kevin mccarthy and are they run the same way? guest: great question. i did not vote for paul ryan. opportunity to make a big course correction. we made a small course correction. it is run differently. i think speaker ryan is more inclusive than speaker boehner. it would be disingenuous for me to say that things have not improved because just yesterday, one of my bills moved through committee. boehner called ted cruz a few names. he's also called me names. he would say, i'm not moving bill because he is a whatever. paul ryan is not that way. we've moved one of my bills. that is a first for me. it would have never happened under john boehner. host: that is to audit the federal reserve. guest: one of the most popular bills. from past the wall. audit the i would federal reserve. he had the delegates from five states that he was more successful than anybody wanted to knowledge at the time -- to acknowledge at the time. his hallmark bill was audit the

just as eric cantor about the old rule of politics. just ask the tea party class of 2010. an insurgent candidate with an enthusiastic base of support can drive a message from the bottom up through social media without the approval of the two political parties. connell: doesn't seem like -- and i could be completely wrong on this, but from observing it, it doesn't seem like the year is this year for a candidate like a gary johnson where you have so much populist outrage that is fueling bernie sanders and is fueling donald trump, that governor johnson could capitalize on that, that he's that type of candidate. he seems different. if it was somebody else, maybe they'd have a better shot if that was their approach, no? >> well, he is a humble and in a lot of ways a quiet candidate. connell: right. >> but libertarianism fundamentally objecting to the kind of big government collusion with big business -- connell: right. >> -- too much war, too much crony capitalism. i think there's a populist strain in it, and if people are looking for a serious person that wants to dismantle so

. >> specifically, when you talk about him being eric cantor, challenged in the primary by a conservatives support and that was a big surprise. paul ryan is facing a challenge in the republican primary in wisconsin, the primary coming up august 9th. the candidate i believe is paul neilen. are you planning to support his challenger? >> that's a good question. seeing as i haven't gotten to call him and tell him i'm supporting him, but yes, i'lldy whatever i can for paul neilen. >> so some pretty big news later in the interview. i did obviously push back and tell sarah palin that the reason speaker ryan says he can't support donald trump right now is because of things trump has said in terms of his tone and tenor and some of the proposals he has made, but governor palin said she doesn't buy that. she thinks it is just because paul ryan and other republican power brokers in washington feel threatened. >> all right, so sarah palin said she will endorse paul ryan's primary challenger. she was the congressional king maker in 2010. what is the potency of palin endorsement this cycle? >> well, don

. >>> i think paul ryan is soon to be cantored, as in eric cantor. >> reporter: trump essentially said palin was going rogue. >> i have nothing to do with that. sarah is very much a free agent. >> reporter: trump's next pivot could come when he picks a running mate, a process already inspiring new material on "saturday night live." >> could it be say -- >> good lord. >> ted is a demon. my god. >> i am no longer ted cruz. i am it will war of shadows! >> you sure you aren't lord of the weak chins? >> reporter: only six months to go. trump is hardly the first presidential candidate to pivot or flip on an important issue. hillary clinton once phrased the trans-pacific trade deal as secretary of state, now opposes it. as for the meeting with paul ryan, the speaker said he will step aside as chair of the gop convention if the nominee asks. i'm told by a ryan aide he was just answering a hypothetical. >> jim acosta reporting for us. thank you. donald trump's latest statements about debt, taxes, the minimum wage, are likely to make some mainstream republicans even more uneasy. let's go to cnn'

i know people say, remember eric cantor had a 34-point lead as well. >> right.y parents' district. charles: if he's not in danger of losing his district and being removed to washington, d.c., what do you think, what do you think would persuade him? i feel like they're getting closer and closer, do you think he will get concessions from donald trump? >> i'm not sure about concessions, but i think after the republican convention when donald trump is the nominee, and you realize that he actually could win this election, if you're speaker of the house, don't you want to work with the president? he's going to have a huge agenda. so i would think that you're going -- i don't think that you want donald trump to be your enemy. i would think you would come around. charles: no doubt about that, by the same token, a president trump would need paul ryan to get certain things through d.c. we remember the first year where barack obama, they thought they had it all and nancy pelosi and harry reid, they shook barack obama down a few times and no one foresaw kennedy passing away

look at how he became speaker of the house, he was one of the young guns with kevin mccarthy and eric cantors were in better positions to be speaker of the house. they both collapsed, and he became speaker of the house. so i think this is a political calculation from paul ryan where he's saying to himself, look, donald trump is the presumptive nominee unofficially. officially he hasn't secured the delegates yet, the 1,237. if he does something to implode, i think paul ryan wants to leave the door open to launch a campaign for president himself at the convention in cleveland. >> all right, ben. you're laughing. >> i think that's absolutely the most ridiculous thing i have heard since donald trump quoting "national enquirer" saying that ted cruz's dad was connected to the assassination of jfk. i didn't know it could be topped, but congratulations, you just did it. the reason why paul ryan is withholding his support is very simple -- many people are concerned that donald trump is going to do something that will be toxic and it will hurt their re-election campaign. there are many congressmen, ma

the supporters of donald trump to go after paul ryan and make sure that he gets cantored, as in eric cantore want that? do you want sarah palin going out there and turning people against paul ryan? >> sarah has endorsed me. i like her a lot. she's a great person. >> do you want her to do that? >> let me finish what i want to say, okay? i have nothing to do with that. sarah is very much a free agent. she's a terrific person but very much a free agent. i didn't know about this until yesterday. i guess she has been fighting or endorsing somebody that's running against paul ryan. and i didn't know about it until yesterday when i read about it. >> but this is a big deal. paul ryan, the speaker there. you have said, to this point, to give you your due, i want ryan on my side. i want to work with him. >> i'll go a step further. i've always liked him. he called me not so long ago, a number of weeks ago. he called me. he was very supportive and nice. i thought everything was fine. then i got blindsided. we'll see. i'll see what happens. chris, you know this better than anybody. the republican party,

. >> i think paul ryan is soon to be cantored as in eric cantor.his, jake, it kind of screws his chances for the 2020 presidential bid that he's gunning for. if the gop were to win now, that wouldn't bode well for his chances in 2020. >> i think that's a totally incorrect interpretation of paul ryan, and i think i know paul better than sarah does. if he were running, he would have run last time, this time. i think paul is one of these guys in politics -- i wish we had more of them -- who's very principled. this is what he believes in. >> he likes policy, not politics. >> i know it's a bad word. i used to get accused of it by your boss, mr. ales. when he was my campaign manager. i used to love policy too much. what are you studying policy for? go out there and campaign, damn it. but i'm a policy wonk. i understand it. he has a couple of disagreements on immigration. he's got some disagreements on some of the language. he wants to talk to him about it. what's so bad about that? whenever i ran, i always had to go talk a few people into taking the next

. >> so he's going to be eric cantored. >> you know i have been having such a hard time with this sincets like each other? >> all best friends? >> of course, not. the clintons cannot stand the obamas and the obamas cannot stand for the clintons. >> do you know how many people are doing it and holding their nose. when they inside to get in line, they get in line and they just go and a unified force. the republicans just played it out on cnn. >> you are right. >> i thought paul ryan is terrific. he should have picked up the phone and call donald trump, hey, i am not there yet. >> your show starts in 12 minutes, do not change your channel from "fox and friends" >> we got the invictus game comicom coms coming up next. strip in stantly opens your nose up to 38% more than allergy medicine alone. shut your mouth and say goodnight, mouthbreathers. breathe right. my school reunion's comi♪ fast. could be bad. could be a blast. can't find a single thing to wear. will they be looking at my hair? won't be the same without you bro. ♪ when it's go, go to choicehotels.com. the site with the right room,