professor green: i have written that john boehner was a rayburn speaker in a gingrich house.e wanted to compromised or he wanted to negotiate. he wanted to make deals. but his party and the larger political contest made that too difficult for him, so he had to deal with factions like the house freedom caucus, that really caused him trouble and ultimately he resigned from the house. susan: another speaker had a nickname, zara read, thomas reed of maine, three congress is between 1889-18 99. what shooting know about him? -- what should we know about him? professor green: he was the most influential speaker in terms of the way the house operates. when he was rising and leadership in the 1870's and 1880's, the house was becoming paralyzed by filibustering and dilatory tactics. among others, things, the rules of the house made it easier for individual members to slow things down. you had what was called the disappearing quorum. the house requires a quorum to do business, usually a majority, but you could choose not to participate in a vote, even if you were on the floor. and if le

african-american studies at the university of maryland and former communications director and speaker for john boehneri love politics. that was a big night last night. bernie sanders did not have the delegate count at the end of the night he wanted and alexandria ocasio-cortez had something to say about how the night went. >> it's no sugarcoating it. tonight is a tough night for the movement overall. well, you know, yes and no. obviously tonight is a tough night electorally. if you were looking a little bit deeper beyond the polls in terms of what this means for the movement at large, i think that there is a lot of information that we have here that we can glean from. >> dana: i'm not exactly sure what all she means by that, but sanders said today he's not getting out of the race right now even though he realizes that he's way behind in the delegate count. the math won't work out for him. what about this movement, do bernie and aoc and their supporters think that it's bigger than it actually is? >> well, i think they are saying that the movement itself is a little bit bigger than just electoral politi

. >> i work forward john boehner and paul ryan.ts with president obama but they were always able to have that private phone call and conversation and figure it out. >> they clearly are still friendly today. whatever relationship is built -- >> when you reach that level, there needs to be that relationship when crisis hits. and the fact we have a president and a speaker of the house who have not spoken in many months and refuse to apparently still not speak to each other is just a really bad indictment of our politics and where we are. it could have real effects on whether they're able to pull together a meaningful deal. >> i think they can pull a deal together. one example of that was last week when they had to do the quick $8.3 billion. what happened is the house and the senate came together and then they put it on the president's desk. that's what's going to happen with this. i understand that they are actually closer than we're led to believe. the house is going to pass its bill and there will be something. >> mcconnell has new

mark meadows begged john boehner to forgive him and he'll probably be doing that every day with donald trump and trump will love that. but worth mentioning that the last three chiefs of staff, first of all, trump has a tweet back when obama was president 2012, three chiefs of staff in less than three years, part of the reason why barack obama can't manage to pass his agenda. >> and now we're four. >> general john kelly reportedly called donald trump a moron. you can watch the video of the last chief of staff who is banished for nofrn ireland calling trump a terrible human. and mark meadows according to tim alberta, a political reporter, he says the month before the convention of 2016, the rnc, mark meadows toldhe fr that he was not going to the rnc because he feared living with the legacy of nominating the erratic donald trump. these are his last chiefs of staffs. >> good to see you, my friend. pete dominic and hans nicols. thanks, guys. still ahead, elizabeth warren once a frontrunner drops out of race. more on the state of women in politics in 2020, next. sleep. our gummies contain a

he was that thorn in the side of speaker john boehner. but with trump's ascendancy in washington, meadows got on that train pretty quickly, became one of the president's top defenders in capitol hill, a major presence on fox news and in conservative media, and has really carved out an enormous amount of influence with the president. >> do you make anything of the timing? there are some, if you don't follow this too closely, who might say there's this coronavirus thing and the white house is not handling it particularly well. are they bringing this guy in to handle it, or is this a friday night distraction, or is it something else? >> well, one timing thing that is noteworthy. apparently trump offered the job -- this has been reported by "the new york times" on thursday evening and did not announce it of course until tonight after the markets closed on friday for the weekend. so clearly trump was trying to not have a story of turmoil and shake-up in his west wing while the markets were still open. so that's notable. you know, it could be s

he was that thorn in the side of speaker john boehner, but with the trump presidency and trump ascendancy in washington meadows got onboard that train pretty quickly, became the president's top defender or one of the top defenders on capitol hill, a major presence on fox news and conservative media and has really carved out an enormous amount of influence with the president. >> do you make anything of the timing? there are some, if you don't follow this too closely, that will say, look, this is the coronavirus thing and the white house is not handling it particularly well. are they bringing him in to distract or something else? a /* >> this was reported on "the new york times" this evening and did not announce it tonight. after the markets closed on friday for the weekend. so clearly trump was trying to not have a story of turmoil and shakeup in his west wing while the markets were still open. so that's notable. you know, it could be some sort of effort to distract from the coronavirus problem. i don't know. it's not clear that mark meadows is going to be able to do anything to resolve th

they considered that during obama and by 2010 we won the house with john boehner and the slogan wherew is a pr str*ulg where schumer and pelosi believe they can blackmail the president into accepting really dumb ideas there. are some things you negotiate. there are some things you work out. but i personally do not want to see a trump-mcconnell-mccarthy team that are blackmailed by pelosi and schumer and give in. i think the american people need to understand we can get something done immediately this week. the house has to come back to do it. but they ought to put a lot of pressure on pelosi and schumer to put america ahead of partisanship and to try to help solve an american crisis, not just pay off their allies and their interest groups. i think this is -- i'm not at all surprised. i thought mcconnell did a great job. he had these five working groups, individual senators in the democratic party are very reasonable when you get them in those kind of working groups. but their leaders understand this is their moment to blackmail the president and if they can get away with it, they will

out that the idea that democrats and republicans can sit down isn't such ronald reagan concept, john boehnerident obama, harry reid, mitch mcconnell, they warded office call cliffs, there's any -- >> one more in the mix, george w. bush had senator obama and senator mccain to the white house and i would pause it was frankly president obama's sort of steadiness during the financial crisis that really aided him in the final day of that contest. >> absolutely. in retrospect it wasn't a perfect situation but, look, most people -- most americans looking at that fairly that was a moment of gratitude. >> eamon, thank you for spending some time with us. >>> after the break, joe biden has a sizable lead in michigan. what to watch for tonight's in the six democratic primaries today. that's next. today. that's next. i guess those cows must actually be big dogs. sit! i said sit! you can't claim that because it's inanimate! people ask me what sort of person should become a celebrity accountant. and, i tell them, "nobody should." hey, buddy. what's the damage? i bought it! the waterfall? nope! a new volksw

watched congress a lot, watched c-span a lot, they may remember the moment where the leadership, john boehnernd nancy pelosi were on board, but a lot of house republican rank-and-file members were not. the housewent down on floor and the dow dropped 777 points in 20 minutes. they don't want a repeat of that. this is very sort of serious business. all of thesehat folks all lived through that and don't want to see it happen again. covers theen denis senate for bloomberg news. it's going to be a busy and consequential day. we appreciate your time. thank you. host: this from steven in midtown, manhattan -- magazine" has a sobering number for at least one covid-19 patient. nearly 35are bill of thousand dollars. the story is available online at time.com, outlining her story in facing, while most people infected will not need to recovertalized and can at home, "according to the world health organization those that need to go to the icu can likely expect bills regardless of the insurance they have as the u.s. government works on another stimulus package, future relief is likely to help ease the theom

watched congress a lot, watched c-span a lot, they may remember the moment where the leadership, john boehner and nancy pelosi were on board, but a lot of house republican rank-and-file members were not. the housewent down on floor and the dow dropped 777 points in 20 minutes. they don't want a repeat of that. this is very sort of serious business. all of thesehat folks all lived through that and don't want to see it happen again. covers theen denis senate for bloomberg news. yuval levin is joining us from his home in maryland. he is with the american enterprise institute. thanks for being with us. guest: thank you very much for having me. i hope you and your family are doing well. host: we are, and to you too. time fromate your your home. let me begin with asking about the president, his performance so far in this pandemic. how is he doing? guest: dan to that question you have to acknowledge this is a very difficult situation that no president would findas