we expect that paul ryan, we expect that paul ryan will get some questions from the capitol hill press corps that has gathered in that room. we will bring those to you the second that it happens. while we wait, let me bring in the national political report forte washington post and on set our panel shawna thomas along with national political reporter for bloomberg news alleg. apologies for interrupting when paul ryan comes on for questions. what does paul ryan need to say here? will will he come out forcefully on this topic? >> his comments at the started of his news conference are revealing most congressional -- >> bob's mike we're going to get fixed. the second we get your mike fixed we'll come back to you. glad you guys are here. pick it up. >> the issue that we are seeing right now is that the republicans now and we saw paul ryan try to shift over to tax cuts. >> tax cuts, right. >> and the economy. and the economy is doing well and you can try to give the republicans their due for that. that's what they want to talk about. they are in a bunch of congressional fights that are only

paul ryan talking about tariffs.king about pardons and there at the top after a question from our manu raju talking about, yeah, really, poppy, the president's allegation. the president has said that the obama administration placed a trey gowdy put some big holes in that theory after getting a classified briefing from law enforcement officials and paul ryan, this is big and he's siding with him and saying there's no evidence to the contrary of gowdy's initial assessment after that may 24th -- that may 24th briefing. here he felt compelled to basically say that this is, you know, it doesn't -- >> to be compelled to say in so many words brian a from the republican house speaker, mr. president, you're wrong and the president who has been on this, you know, campaign to assert that there were spies inserted in his campaign. trey gowdy went on fox news last week and we'll review exactly what he said about the president's claims, quote, i'm even more convinced that the fbi did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them

we will hear from speaker of the house paul ryan any moment now. of course, that comes on the hills of president trump speaking to the house republican conference last night, going into that meeting, many lawmakers wanting to hear a very explicit endorsement by president trump of one of the house bills that is a broader immigration package that also includes an addressing of the separation issue at the border. coming out of that meeting, many lawmakers were confused and not clear exactly what president trump supports and the white house says he will indeed support this compromise measure and the feeling certainly was that he wasn't explicit enough to get those essentially over the finish line. lawmakers here and house republicans and coming out of the meeting, many say we don't have the votes for this compromised measure they may be voting on as soon as tomorrow. so this boils down that you have a lot of movement on capitol hill and a flurry of activity and essentially there is not a proposal that will pass that addresses this problem. so what will

what is going on with paul ryan?ink what the polling shows in the nbc/"wall street journal" poll shows, paul ryan is between a rock and a hard place. obviously that rock is donald trump, and the stranglehold he has on republican base voters, who paul ryan and the rest of the republican party are desperate to ensure they turn out for a republican congress that is not that popular. and the hard place is independent voters, obviously democrats, but really a strong majority of independent voters who would like the -- who are basically tired of the insanity that we're dealing with every day from donald trump and want a check on it and want a check on it by a very strong margin. and i think that's really the basic problem for paul ryan, who has demonstrated no conviction, obviously did basically a 180 within the course of a day because i'm sure someone at the white house explained that the president had some disfavor about what he said. and so he came up with this statement, which is absolutely patently false. it is -- jen

paul ryan didn't say what he meant to say. really remarkable. no matter how many times this is disproven by how many people the president will repeat the same lie after lie after lie. there was no evidence. there was no supply planted on the campaign. maybe you should talk to trey gowdy, who apparently saw the documents and got the briefing. i would also say, his continual claim of no collusion, no collusion is also false. we know for example about george papadopoulos reaching out to a russian source to get dirt on hilly. we know about the trump tower meeting in june of 2016 which they're promised dirt on hillary and they a foreign power information, something of value to help you win an election, yes, we have evidence of that already. the question is how extensive it was and who all was involved in it. >> jennifer just laid out all the points, neera. why is paul ryan, somebody who is retiring in january -- why would he stake his reputation going out and saying something like there's been no evidence whatever of any collusion.

and you have some people retiring like paul ryan. net positives here. >> these congressmen left and right, both sides are bought and paid for. we have to figure out something where money doesn't control everything where special interests don't buy whatever they need. we have people pay-for-play politicians that will get re-elected. quietly bides make sure they are still there. lou: they are going to be there for a while. i think we have the opportunity under this president who is without question the historic president certainly of this century, and i believe you have to go back paul the way to fdr to find somebody with the energy -- ronald reagan accomplishments were great, throwing aside the soviet union, destroying marxist leninism. this president has the ability to match those accomplishments in foreign policy. he has a long ways to go. by has that opportunity. he's already done so much. as ronald reagan to restore confidence in the economy. this president is historic and has i fence opportunities for achievement. >> we love rona

i started on paul ryan way back in healthcare.d see it and everybody was supposed to vote on it. he had 7 years to fix that one up. that's why i said the guy has got to go. he's a lame duck leader. he can't get anything done in the house. we have the majority in the house. what's going on? lou: it becomes more urgent when you realize there is nothing in the house leadership, the president is talking about working with dems, and mcconnell, i have no idea what he's doing. but they are all assuming they are going to have to work with dems instead of run on their agenda. the trump agenda won for him. it's a remarkable and historic performance of the first years inch he has been in office. why not run on the trump agenda and kick the dimms' tails? judge jeanine: you are so right. we know they are about obstruction and resistance flips nothing you will get them to cross over on. so the president says to the democrats, you would think, i'm going to keep families together. i know the president, this is a president who believes in families

speaker paul ryan more than sold out. she shamelessly politically corrupt, public cli urging the rhinos and dems to dump their. tition to join together, hold hands and allow him to declare he's come up with a comprehensive solution crafting new immigration legislation. ryan will give rhinos and dems exactly what corporate masters have demanded all along, amnesty for illegal immigrants. >> when we had tough thorny issues, we have long conferences, people come and they express their views. you actually find there's more consensus than not and that help us legislate. a lot of the members are appreciative of the fact that we have the right kind of conversations happening. lou: what you've just heard, of course, is an abject lie. the ryan-led house of representatives hasn't had regular order nor debate, thoughtful long debate on any issue, let alone immigration. and tonight how the politically corrupt leadership on capitol hill is driving the crisis at the southern border. jessica vaughn from the center of immigration studies

it obviously doesn't in his case. >> i have defended paul ryan when i agreed with him. but there is no continuous for ryan to side against the congress who are working for transparency. dein nunnes asked for a year for the documents that go to the heart of the trump- russian hoax. members was congress have not seen the documents that show why the investigation begin. the australian diplomat mr. downer lied and said the information came threw the australian ambassador of the united states and that's how it got to the f.b.i. one liar gave information to peter strzok who was demoted because he is the head of the never trump movement in the deep state and no way any criminal prosecution can be brought against the president. instead of our speaker standing with us and putting the focus on the f.b.i.'s refusal to turn over documents to perform the oversight. he instead defended the f.b.i. we need the institutional to be for the congress and not defender of the deep state. >> lou: he is that and of k- street and wall street and koch brothers. he is sold out for years and we jus

oh, yeah, paul ryan they didn't do so hot.resident trump, his run is in 16 was the best performance by a republican in the state of minnesota since 1972. that's right in 46 years. it's just amazing winning by or losing by 1.5%. i don't want to do revision history like some of those folks and think as i started to say he won it and of course hillary clinton did. al franken, his seat he lost to the, well to unfortunate circumstances i would put it that way, it's held by senator tina smith a democrat former governor tim polenti is running for the governor seat in 2016 and he said trump was unsound, uninformed, unhinged, unfit to be the president of the united states and then went on to vote for donald trump. now that's, that was strong rhetoric and a good vote it seem s to me. republicans haven't won minnesota at the presidential level as i said in 44 years and we're told that the president has arrived at the arena, keeping america great again. looks like that is a very serviceable slogan for the upcoming presidential election. i

the campaign that cobe the b political scandal in history and they would share that view, kate. >> paul ryan in a paul ryanesque way seems to be saying it's not over. there's more digging that we need to do. that is something of a lifeline to let this thing continue on if they so choose, which i think i know what direction the president will go on that. thanks to see you. thanks so much. chris cillizza . >> manu laid it all perfectly with where paul ryan stands on this, is there any chance that the president will take paul ryan's word since the white house didn't take trey gowdy's word for it? >> let me make a 100%, guaranteed accurate prediction, kate, no. donald trump has convinced himself that there is more here, that the use of a human confidential source which t fbi has acknowledged in an attempt to learn more about what george papadopoulos and car page were doing with the russians and what the russians were trying to do with carter page have turned donald trump to an embedded spy in his campaign and planted there by barack obama and without oversight by the department of justice and th

all this as paul ryan pushes for amnesty for illegal immigrants. he said he'll hold votes on two daca bills that will create an electoral disaster for republicans in november. >> this an effort to bring our caucus together on immigration. we have an actual chance in making law in solving this problem. lou: making law and doing it the ryan way. he hasn't shown anybody the text. this legislation is being written in back rooms in the dark of night. my next guest joins me discuss the severe abyss that awaits members of congress who sign on to the ryan ployor the establishment and the rinos, all who will embrace his ryan first putting america -- somewhere around last. joining us tonight is republican congressman andy biggs of arizon the president with a great showing again in the primaries. it should be clear tory except for your leadership here in the house and the senate than if they do not support this president and his agenda, electoral disaster awaits the entire republican conference. what do you think? >> i thinkhis is trump's time. dnk it's easy

house of representatives, the speaker paul ryan. speaker ryan pushing back against president trump's unfounded claim that the feds put a spy inside his campaign. the speaker siding with the republican chairman, trey gowdy, who undercuff the so-called spygate noncontroversy theory last week. >> i'm even more convinced that the fbi did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got. i think when the president finds out what happened, he's going to be not just fine, he's going to be glad that we have an fbi that took seriously what they heard. he was never the target. russia is the target. >> shepard: congressman gowdy spoke after receiving a report on the use of an informant to find out more about contact between the russians and the trump campaign officials. our chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill and he has the news there. hello, mike. >> shep, good afternoon. after one of the top leaders, paul ryan, was a part of the classified briefing on the use of a

they can either keep the illusion that paul ryan somehow is -- a ryan republican is something that getim and the status quo policies of the chamber, the establishment. does any one of those dunces understand that president trump is the man of the hour, the man of this century, and without question is on the right side of history? >> and that he won over immigration. people have been lied to over and over about this. and there are going to be more than a handful of republicans going down if a republican congress passes amnesty. the one thing i will say -- lou: we should point out. president trump says he will veto. >> that's what i was going to mention. and if he does, and makes a huge fight over immigration this fall, i will say he was a genius to let that heinous omnibus bill go through earlier to make sure that the fight would come down right before the election. if but if it lets it go, you don't want to know what i'll be saying about him then. lou: you've been saying some pretty rough things. the fact of the matter is, and frankly don't take into account 16 months in which he's bec

we also saw paul ryan. once a moral standard who called out barack obama for unpresidential rhetoric but never once has told trump to apologize for any of his ugliness as president. he gave a soft stance on steve king retweeting a neo nazi saying that shouldn't be part of the dialogue, but maxine should apologize. why? telling people to protest the administration, we don't need that. take a listen. >> that's dangerous for our society. it's dangerous for our democracy. she should apologize and there's just no place for that in our public discourse. >> i could play you a dozen examples of the president saying things that are so much more inflammatory, and ryan, crickets. now, trump is getting what he's been asking for. a fight. maxine waters calling for a shame campaign. people harassing administration officials in public, and private. what has trump company? he exaggerated water's intentions, saying she was calling for harm. that's not true. why? he traffics in the anger that comes from either side. here we

martha: breaking tonight on capitol hill, what is shaping up to be a stunning rebuke of house speaker paul ryanmbers of his put maybe n conservatives in the house signing what is known as a discharge petition to bypass speaker ryan to allow a vote on immigration, on daca, what to do with the recipients of daca, something that paul ryan has not wanted to see past in terms of the discharge petition, which is now three signatures short. kristin fisher jois w live apitol hill with the back story here tonight. hi, kristin. >> hey, martha. republicans who just left an hour long meeting in ryan's office safe they are making good progress. say they are optimistic they will be able to find a path forward to avoid this discharge petition, but as of now, there is still no deal and the time is really running out. a discharge petition is a fairly obscure, relatively rare legislative maneuver. put forward by about two dozen moderate republicans, moderate republicans like congressman carlos cabello and jeff denham for trying to want to find a permanent fix for the dreamers now. they don't want to have to wait

. >> lou: the always clever and cute, rinno, paul ryan is making a move for a presidential bid.own political fortunes and undercutting president trump in every turn and what is heralded bigge amnesty deal. elite draft of the rhino disaster. it is the ryan legislation. by the way, no body was involved in this thing other than the hand picked leadership for ryan. there is no participation for the rank and file even though the phony acted like it had broad spop pop support. nammesty for three hadn'5 million daca recipients. there is no actual numbical qualification. and fails to fully fund the border wall. and doesn't end chain migration. and sets limits, that are only general leap and ambiggously described. and stou here you go. another ryan special and that ryan special will be served up to destroy the republican party to destroy the republican party in the midterms. the republicans stand to lose 50 seats if they put up with ryan much longer. >> and bust of fentynol was busted. it is estmaefted to kill people. and mr. ryan, leave the border open, because there is a lot of america

angela, paul ryan says waters should apoll swriz.ased on what she did, what she said, is he right? >> absolutely not. if anyone's offering apologieap it should be paul ryan for failed leadership for not step dou downsooner, for bringing the immigration bill to the bail, which failed because it's a horrible piece of legislation. it's devicive. he should apologize for not engaging democrats in strategy to ensure that pieces of legislation that are compromised upon are actually brought to the house store. there are a number of things he can apologize for including not being courageous enough to take on donald trump during the campaign so we didn't have to deal with this nightmare right now. the only person out of the two people you mentioned who should be offering an apology is speaking paul ryan himself. >> steve? >> this might surprise you, i agree that he should apologize, but for different reasons. for being an incredibly ineffective speaker who sold out to lobbyists and has the support of the president's agenda, but regarding water

paul ryan's silly bill. a compromise bill.e could go to his master and say, i tried to open the borders, get you more cheap labor and suppress wages as has been done for last 20 years before president trump was elected. >> no more open borders. no more globalists, this is not our job and responsibility to subsidize ul all of the other country and a nation that lawless, people coming in with dis regard, disrespect, and we're made to feel for sorry it? no, get in line, follow the process that has been set up like everyone before you. and quit trying to come in, and take without doing tote right -- boeing to the righdoing to the e it, but there a legal process, and must be observed, they don't let us saunter in where we want, do they. >> no. lou: we'll build a wall because president said so, he is aboard that aircraft you see there, landing in fargo, north carolina to begin rally 8 p.m. eastern. and by the way. >> he is the best way to send the message, he really so exciting people it resonates, he delivers results. lou: i get a

the president, paul ryan again going to a vote tomorrow. and holding up the idea in front of everyone who will pay any attention to this lame duck that he was willing to trade our national security for amnesty for millions and millions of immigrants, making him look like a damn fool, making us look like >> yet again paul ryan hashim. proved to the world that the gop establishment, and especially the leadership, cannot be trusted. in the prior block you nailed it, lou. this isn't just about immigration. this is about national security. the people coming across those borders aren't just children and innocent people. they are ka coyotes weapons smuggling, drugs. it's a national security imperative. and the idea that he's going to sell us down the river just to make him and his friends look good at the next cocktail party in georgetown, paul ryan should be ashamed of hymn. lou: great to have you with us. good to see you >>> be sure to vote in the poll tonight. the question is, does the supreme court travel ban decision convincingly demonstrate

. >> and paul ryan and mitch mcconnell weren't going to help. >> no, no, we tell that story too, how the president tried to come up with a bipartisan response. he thought, you know, this was an attack on an american election, and, you know, i don't always like the word meddling, even though we use it. it was an attack. an information warfare attack. and he was hoping that he could get paul ryan and mitch mcconnell to join together in some sort of public statement saying this was happening, and these are steps that the cub -- the country had to take to deal with this. and we describe in the book that paul ryan was somewhat sympathetic to trying to work together and that mitch mcconnell just adamant, no, this is b.s., this is politics. and he was also boxed in. because he had -- >> his candidate. >> his candidate, the nominee of his party, donald trump, was out there saying this isn't happening or it's a hoax. or it's, you know -- >> the election was rigged. >> this is part of rigging the election. and he was doing this even after he had been briefed. on august 17, 2016, as the republi

paul ryan has never said any of these things.ions two years later hasn't prosecuted any of them. this is the cull mie nation of the deep state. it's astonishing these things could go on. two years later they arrest the guy's broth and charge him with bank fraud when they catch him at the airport with 9,000 dollars in cash. right now it appears that the m thes want this to go away. lou: it appears that the republicans want it to go away as well. sidney, let me ask you. what in the world could be the motivation not to move on these obviously these threats to national security and very bad actors? >> i can't imagine, lou. there's absolutely no excuse for it. on top of that you've got the fbi and the department of justice hiding 675,000 clinton e-mail, the entire file that the fbi found on her computer back in october, before the election in november, and they're hiding all of that. they didn't look at houma's e-mails even though they knew she was a proxy for hillary. they didn't look at what comey called golden e-mails, the blackber

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lou: paul ryan wants to be freed of that burden.with this trump tariff business. one where president trump is the only force working to balance trading relationships around the globe. it's what the international monetary fund should be talking about and working toward, the world bank and every world leader. instead only donald trump has the guts and the vision to be working toward that balancing of international relations. ed: you asked me every times going into the mid-terms. we should do very well now. this low unemployment rate with job costs going up in the sense of wages. lou: paul ryan, mitch mcconnell, and every one of those republicans running for reelection. ed: unemployment reached almost 11% under ronald reagan. we have this low low unemployment rate and it will go down further as the tax bill takes effect. my sense is it's nothing but a positive. lou: this is nancy pelosi with a bloody mary. but it is your pal, john boehner. he's holding what? he's got to have a cigarette. ed: he's in a public building. there is probably

where's paul ryan? i mean, paul ryan -- >> well, that's why it works. >> i haven't really been caught up on what scott pruitt's doing. i didn't realize paul ryan was living in some sort of bubble on another planet. >> the fact paul ryan would stand before a camera, let alone a bank of cameras, and say he is unaware of what scott pruitt is doing is laughable. because he is very much aware. but that is why it works. because they put the blinders on. and each side of the blinders says trump. and they are just focused on the fact that trump has them by, how shall we put this -- >> the short hairs. >> a nice way. >> i was going to say -- >> we're going to go with short hairs. >> we're going to go with short hairs. hey, let's call it what it is. and they looked at what happened in south carolina and they looked at what was happening in other races. and they go, oh, my god, we cannot afford to have trump come after us. because holding our seats is more important than any value, philosophy or ideology we've hel