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

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

okay. >> john boehner is loving life right now. that's for sure. n't think we expect delaney/boehner 2020. that'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 unorthod

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

looked over work just to go well but i absolutely could not place when i am on the race i give john. 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 sev

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

primarily, it was certainly when boehner was the chairman, speaker boehner, the glorious thing 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 ou

looked over work just to go well when i absolutely could not praise when i am on the race i give john. 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 sev

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

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 time i thought about it. because, you know, i often wonder where were those in the , conference who voted against him on the floor, i mean, in

problem with congress, and in the wake, there was a report of a number of lawmakers, including john boehnerrmer house speaker nancy pelosi of her husband trading, and shares of the credit card company when congress considered regulation. there have been allegations raised before. in 2012, congress passed the stock act, that included members of congress and executive branch officials from trading on that , but upinformation until then, it was perfectly legal to do so. david: a terrific piece, thank you, bill allison from washington. sign-up up for the balance of power newsletter at bloomberg.com/politics for the latest on global politics. sherry: coming up, we will hear from the softbank chief operating officer and chairman. this is bloomberg. ♪ alix: u.s. independent producers spend more and get less as the shale development hit several bump. not enough for investors as they clamor for buybacks. plans for the largest giants in the world. ♪ alix: i'm alix steel. welcome to "bloomberg commodities edge." looking at thes hottest commodities with the smartest voices in the business.

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

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

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

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

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

having something happen to them as happened to the republican party when they had revolt against john boehnerpublicans 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 likewise fa

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

the 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

i spoke to then speaker john boehner and told me it was the darnedest thing.ccain announced this there must be a grand plan behind his. boehner called him and said what the heck is going on. mccain literally said to boehner, according to boehner. i 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

john boehner's home district. let's talk about the headwinds that republicans are now facing. do people care about all the accusations of corruption and indictments? >> sure. what we're trying to determine here is, donald trump was elected despite doing things that no one said he could do and still be elected. can other candidates replicate that feat? or was it because of his status as a reality star that he was able to do things that politicians couldn't and still can't? >> or, and you framed that wonderfully, susan, has the president so diminished the impact of the mueller investigation, the manafort trial, and other of these charges, that it's sort of a pox on all your houses, and it sort of colors every candidate, democratic and republican? >> that may be. it may contribute to a sense that there's nobody you can trust in washington. but that also i think redounds to the disadvantage of republicans. if there's a throw the bums out attitude about things, it seems to me that is going to hurt republicans even if voters also are pretty skeptical about democrats. >> jeremy, and

john boehner was wounded. he was going to bring everyone together. trump was a real wild card.e to imagine -- and i think a lot of fortunes would be different had the republican party had another republican at the top of that ticket, but i think paul ryan's career trajectory would have been completely different had he had a president that was a little more amenable to the traditional establishment track. >> i would say -- i mean, the one key thing he goes back with is the thing that i think keeps a lot of establishment republicans sort of in line with trump, tax cuts. that was a huge goal for paul ryan. they did get that done. so he goes home with that. he also is leaving, and the article talks about it, it's an interesting time, an age to be leaving this role. he's exiting quietly. >> guys in their 40s when they're at their height of power. happens all the time. >> sure. >>> coming up, a look back at that ohio race coming up today and the campaign ad wars. >> dishonest danny o'connor. >> troy balderson, he'd be more of the same in washington. the sleep number 360 smart bed int

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

couple weeks ago i was reading about how much money china is spending on lobbyists, including john boehnerr all this stock of foreign government trying to tilt our election process, just go to washington d.c. and write a few checks. it reminded me of your book, the ability for wealthy individuals, countries or company to buyinsfluence has been entr -- instrumental. >> the bigger washington has, the more incentive there is to spend money on political process. people look at campaign financing and say let's have less, have a smaller government then where it is not in people's interest to spend influence. you see is last 100 years, an increasingly government backed government, influenced and politicized institution. that has not been very good overtime for th stability of ba. charles: the wall street that washington d.c. loop, city has been on more than anything else, paulson from city to great jobs and government, almost it does not feel like it helping the rift of the country, we end up with trillion dollar bailouts of the institutions over and over. >> paulson was a goldman but a lot of se

so why is it socially acceptable for rick boucher and mickey kantor or john boehner, god help them comen behalf of trying to? why does nobody say wait a second, what are you doing acting against america's interests? >> up until the trump administration there was this narrative through successive republican and democratic administrations, the big propaganda theme was china is not a threat. trump has come out and said the emperor has no clothes. china is a threat. it's not just limited to these former officials and congressman and former commerce officials and the like. they are actually going after former military officials. if there's a program called the sonja initiative which was launched about ten years ago by the former vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff admiral bill owens. and he basically has made tens of millions of dollars in china and he formed this organization of former military officials who literally lobbied congress and the administration to do china's bidding. >> tucker: that is so deeply corrupt that we are going to follow up on that story and i hope you will com

john boehner these grocery stores, you see hundreds of products, every one of those represents an individual or group of individuals that's trying to figure out how to best satisfy the needs of everybody that walks into the grocery store and that's true if it's cars, tractors, others matter what you're doing. you are constantly trying to figure out how to satisfy other people's needs because that's how you improve your life. what about in a socialist society.let's say you're in a red line. you're not thinking about how you can satisfy other people's lives, you're trying to figure out how you can get the most from the limited supply of goods and services provided by the government. there is no competition. there is no people trying to figure out how to make everybody happy or supply a large group of people. what you're dealing with is a limited supply of something and the way youimprove your life is like taking more of that limited supply and that applies to healthcare in the united kingdom. you're not worried about what the guy behind you or the guy in front of you is going to get, you're wo

not on the schedule, former speaker john boehner, but he did make a surprise visit today.ound deep fried merlot. michael avenatti is now at the state fair and he's telling people that he's considering his own presidential run. he brought his own soap box with him we hear. we can't talk about the fair without talking about this. the official butter cow. there it is pain stakingly carved each and every year. it's been an annual tradition more than a century. don't believe me? here's the butter cow from 1911. it hasn't melted. so iowa, make it a great fair this year. trust me, i wish i could be there. rest assured, my visit to the iowa state fair is still with me. kind of like a corn dog. sfx: [cell phone dialing] no. no, no, no, no, no. cancel. cancel. please. aaagh! being in the know is a good thing. that's why discover will alert you if your social security number is found on any one of thousands of risky sites. this is a story about mail and packages. and it's also a story about people. people who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams they're handing us more than m

let's bring in michael steel, a former spokesperson for house speaker john boehner and knows exactlyks on capitol hill think. he was senior advisor to jeb bush in 2016. the panel is here. michael, i'll start with you. how would you characterize the mood behind the scenes and sort of on capitol hill there on that side of pennsylvania avenue with what's happening in ohio 12 and just suddenly the koch brothers feud this trump? i get the sense that folks are suddenly going, wait a minute, this is the wrong time of the year for these fights to break open like this. >> i would describe the mood as determined and resolute. everyone knew this was going to be a very tough year. everyone knew we were facing historic headwinds. everyone knows that president trump can tweet or say things that aren't always helpful at times that aren't always helpful. but if you look at ohio 12, i think the polls are a lagging indicat indicator. i think the president's visit will goose the support among republicans in that district. and i think that your msnbc colleague, chris matthews, did a tremendous service b

michael steele, adviser to jeb bush and john boehner. yes, he was not on the 4:00. ruth marcus, msnbc columnist and editor at the "washington post." okay, ruth marcus. you know, every time i thought everything is going to go fairly normal and here we go. >> what is wrong with you, chuck? >> let me give you more of what the president said. the level of hatred, the level of anger is unbelievable, he said. to evangelicals. part of it is because of some of the things i've done for you, for me, for my family, but i've done them. this november 6th election is very much a referendum on not only me, it's a referendum on your religion, it's a referendum on free speech, the first amendment. however you want to look at it, this sounds like a guy desperate to get his base out and nervous that his base is not going to come out. >> and nervous and with good reason. i think you put your finger on it. it's not just that all politics are national, it's that all politics are trump. this is the flip side of he alone can fix it. he needs to argue that without him all will be chaos. he

john boehner and paul ryan cannot say that.s a very effective whipper of the votes, she always has a couple in her back pocket, makes sure that the legislation she puts on the floor is definitely successful. i think young ambitious men, they are the most outspoken in terms of their criticism of nancy pelosi. i think we have to speak truth to power when we're talking about women in leadership positions and ambitious women and how we critique them in a different way we do men in the same position. >> michael, what are your thoughts? >> and i like to agree with zerlina. my take away is this key thing, having done battle with nancy pelosi directsly in 2009 and 2010 is she is effective. she is effective as hell. she is a very competent politician and, you know, i think a lot of democrats who underestimate her ability to work her will on that caucus are going to be sitting there with a lot of egg on their face come january of next year as they vote her in as the next speaker, if she wants it. that's the thing that's going to be reall

it's gerrymandered beyond all get out by john boehner on behalf of one of his friends in congress. and here we are in a dead heat. and whoever wins there's going to be a rematch in 91 days. and what excited me, and i was out in ohio last week, what excited me was the unity of purpose on the democratic side. danny o'connor had six opponents in the primary'll. and after that primary everybody came together. everybody was united. the local indivisible chapter supported one of his opponents and they were all in. the swing left. the labor movement. the d triple c. the dnc. the ohio democratic party. everybody together. and that is why we got so close. and we'll see what happens here. if ever we need yet another reminder of the importance of getting out there and voting, here we are in another nail-biter. that's why it's so important for people to exercise their right to vote. and frankly, that's why republicans like the republican secretary of state in ohio engage in such constant shenanigans to make it harder for people to vote. >> we're going to have to go right back to steve kornacki

he calls mccain, mccain calls him back and boehner says what's your strategy john and he says well i and he would jump on things a little too quickly. maria: it was a moment in time i remember that when he suspended the campaign and it gave it to the leadership barack obama. rachel: it was a turning point that's absolutely true maria so you have a lot of guests on today some will be able to speak about john mccain, but other issues because politics is churn ing all the time. maria: absolutely we'll get their reaction to john mccain's passing from the inside the house when we speak with the majority leader kevin mccarthy as well as darrel issa we'll talk about that but also we want to get to what's going to be coming up in the coming months the mid-term elections are obviously the most consequential mid-term elections in our lifetime. i would say so many things are on this mid-term election. ed: bruce ohr is finally going behind closed doors and being interviewed by house judiciary. you've got critics saying the president has conspiracy theory. no wait a second this guy is right in th

inresentative john boehner 2009 was trading in various health stocks around the time the public optionas being considered which could have hurt rugged insurers and was not being adopted. these were allegations based on timing. nobody had a smoking gun. ,ith representative collins there are text messages, emails, indictment that show there was some kind of communication back-and-forth about this. we do not have that in these other examples. they are all based on timing and suspicious circumstances. that is what led to a lot of public clamor for the stock act. host: to illinois. line for democrats. caller: the question i have is related. i was informed that congress who receive two terms automatically receive pension for life. i'm a combat veteran disabled from vietnam and it took me 10 years to apply for a pension and get it through the v.a.. i do not understand why congressman get it automatically and why veterans do not get it automatically since they serve their country. thank you for your time. guest: thank you for your call and for your service. i think part of it is the difference

john? i said, this is probably going to blackmail boehner and his party. ha ha! anyhow, hey,n't -- so i think it's -- you know, that kind of, you know, stiffness. pullingit's more of a to the extreme on either side that doesn't allow you to be beings, you know. there's something there. but i think women are more open. who, also think even those they may be extreme in their party, if you can get to them -- ego,this may be, again, my but i think if you can get to them, i think they would care the same issues. i think you can make them see workinge of them together, because they do care about the same issues. care about children. they do care about family. that, we haveo do to give, each other. at because you're standing in group over here, whether you're women or men, you have made up your mind that you are not gonna budge. right? now, eva clayton believes she could get some of them to budge. it's not just eva clayton. i think women to, if they could them, if democratic women and republican women could come together individually, one or they would begin to see the

boehner and former senior advisor to jeb bush, michael steele. washington correspondent for bbc world news america, katty kay. presidential is historian and msnbc contributor john meacham. in phoenix white house correspondent and long-time capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell. and joining us by phone former senior advisor and the host of "deadline white house" on msnbc, nicolle wallace. nicolle, i want to start with you since you spent so much time behind the scenes with somebody who most americans know through their television sets, through the campaigns that he waged through seeing the moments of the past few years. what was john mccain, the man, like behind those closed doors when the cameras were off? who was the man that you knew? >> you know, i think so much of john mccain's person a was consistent with what i saw behind the scenes. what you see is what you get. but what i think the high profile moments in politics we got was all the time he had with his closest friends, joe lieberman, lindsey graham who were by his side in the 2018 campaign. the reporters who were beloved to him in the 2000 campaign, straight talk express. you know, there was a lot