i would really like to hear a paul ryan rant. there are times that i'm concerned i mostly identified with being mad at paul ryan. and i'm also concerned that over at the capital they have some sort of listen i might be on it. but since you brought it up here's what i would say paul ryan is terrible. and here is why he is terrible. he wakes up every day and he knows donald trump is bad he agrees with us. he once said that donald trump was the a textbook example of racism. yet every day he eats his breakfast puts on that tie goes to the capital and does whatever the hell donald trump wants him to do. that seems like a terrible way to live. but he does that because he has made so many moral compromises about what it means to be a republican that his lost he is lost complete track of himself. mitch mcconnell does a same thing. but mitch mcconnell knows he's the bad guy. he's not confused by that. i've said this before. he identifies with the night kings. paul ryan should be better he should know better and he is as responsible like y

once again, this is the speaker of the house, paul ryan, speaking so movingly, so powerfully about john mccain. >> i think ahead to the day when i, like so many, will bring my own children and perhaps their children to that lawn in annapolis. i think about that. i think about what i might say to them. this is one of the bravest souls our nation has ever produced. however you choose to do your part, i hope you do it the way he did, with energy and urgency, playing for keeps, never back on your heels, never letting principle yield to expedience, resisting the false allure of the fleeting and battening down the hatches when things get rough, and always, always having a really good story to tell. >> dana, as we continue to see the live pictures coming in from the capitol rotunda, various individuals now paying their respects to john mccain, what paul ryan said, the outgoing speaker of the house of representatives, was so, so true and so powerful. >> that's right. we all kind of held our breath as he said that and pointed at the casket. because he's a relatively young man, obviously retiring

paul ryan is all over the country. how many more requests like the did they make against how much other candidates with national security back grounds? the agency that did this thus far is not saying how many others they did it to. it happened to others as well. the daily beast said they are not answering questions about how many federal officials had their files processed and whether the postal service released the files and to whom. we're also confronted with the fact the republicans here, the super pac controlled by the house speaker paul ryan, they obtained this document they never should have obtained. they circulated it. their justification for using this document to try to hurt the candidacy, that it was sent to them mistakenly but it was sent to them so too bad. this is like, if you with drew $20 from your account at the atm and after you got the $20 out of the account, the atm started beeping and spit you out $20,000 from somebody else's account. right? do you just expect to be able to put that in your pocket

this is paul ryan. mirror at the end of the day and say i avoided that tragedy, i avoided that tragedy," ryan tells me. i advanced this goal, this goal, i locked in on the word tragedy. it sets the mind reeling to what he might be talking about. i asked for an example. no, i don't want to do that, ryan replied. that's more than what i usually say. what is he talking about? >> donald trump got the nomination. i was on the u.s. senate trail, marco rubio was running for president. and when he secured the nomination, i believe coming out of indiana, every republican candidate was expected to say we support donald trump. paul ryan and i on the same day said comments that were uncoordinated where we both said, i'm not there yet. i stuck with that. paul ryan did not. and at some point, at some point, this is a reflection of somebody's own integrity, their own conviction. he was willing to satisfy the politics of convenience, and i'll tell you this, legacies will be remembered for people who stuck on principle a

as of today we do know how that firm and paul ryan's pac did obtain it. the u.s. postal service put out a statement today admitting they did it. they said it was an accident. they're apologizing for it. quote, the postal service deeply regrets our mistake inappropriately releasing her official personnel file to a third party which occurred because of human error. we take full responsibility for this unfortunate error and we have taken steps to make sure it doesn't happen again. the postal service intends to provide further protection against its inadvertent release and to ensure such requests are properly handled in the future. "we are continuing our review, get this, but we believe the issue began in june 2018 and that only a small number of additional requests for information from personnel files were improperly processed." oh, there is more? so security clearance applications are among the most sensitive personal documents that the government safeguards about federal officials. they are not subject to freedom of information act requests particularly against fir

paul ryan said again trump just loves to "troll you guys." i asked him if he derived enjoyment from watching you guys being so expertly trolled. not really, ryan said, i don't think like that and i don't act like that. he said trump just wants to see your heads explode. he wants you to spend the next 12 hours talking about this. i asked ryan who the you guys being trolled were. the country, he said chuckling, the people who don't like him, the non-president trumpers. i asked ryan if he was one of the you guys. sometimes, he said, yeah. well that's a big admission but i don't find it funny that the speaker of the house finds it funny that the president so expertly trolls the media and the people who don't agree with him. >> well, let me say -- i say this all the time that whether we voted for trump or didn't, he's our president around our country has to succeed. people have different opinions what about that is but paul ryan can't disappear. he's the speaker of the house. whether some group of people in the house will get mad at him, so what? h

always excited when i talk about paul ryan. but the "the new york times" interview that he gave, if there was any doubt in the minds of anyone in the republican party about what a fa shallow delusiol speaker he has been, that should have alone dispelled it. >> this was his farewell interview. and what he basically said in the piece is i saved the country from donald trump. he didn't say i helped donald trump get a tax bill through or donald trump got a tax bill for me, which certainly made happen. lou: what happened is that donald trump drove and led the republican party's tax cut legislation, period. >> and will continue to do so. the thing that i bothers me the most is the candidates are not out there and the incumbents are not wrapping themselves around donald trump and arguing donald trump's program and they better do it or they're going to lose. lou: ed has been talking about ithis for months now. the republican party has one choice and if they wish to win. it's a choice that paul ryan hates because this man would rather s

house of representatives paul ryan thinks that women like me just aren't doing our patriotic duty people this is going to be the new economic challenge for america people baby boomers are retiring i did my part but but you know we need to have higher birth rates in this country meaning they do bores are retiring and we have fewer people falling in the workforce. that's right women know your place and get to make a gap of all isms indentured servants of the future let's look at the numbers here according to the u.s. census bureau as of july fourth twenty thousand the u.s. population is about three hundred twenty eight million fifty four thousand eight hundred ninety two people we average one birth every eight seconds about one death every twelve seconds and one international immigrant every twenty nine seconds giving the united states and that gain of one person every twelve seconds which is averages out to a net gain in the population of about seven hundred seventy five hundred eighty eight people per day or about two point seven million people per year which comes out to a growth rate o

how does paul ryan allow that to go on? what's interest is ryan really has two sets of defenses for what he has done over the last year and a half. one is he would say look, if i had an argument, if i like got in this back and forth with the president of the united states every day it would be a distraction, no one would win and we would get nothing passed at all in this country. i would lose our caucus, lose 80% of our voters and that's not where the republican party is. as the leader of the party in the house, i have a responsibility to represent that, you know, that constituency. the other part is that he would say that he has averted, literally said this to me, he has averted any number of tragedies privately, tragedies is his word. he would say i privately deal with the president. i privately try to shut things down in the house that people will never know about. of course, i don't know what he's talking about. it's hard to prove a negative in this case. like a number of other people who have worked in the white house,

actually paul ryan's claim that more americans having babies will fix the economy it sort of borders on eugenics and ignores the the very legitimate and downright responsible reasons people are having as many babies these days here in america adults of childbearing age in the us are strapped with student loan debt which makes affording the twenty thousand or so dollars it currently cost just to give birth to a child nearly impossible not to mention the hundreds of thousands of dollars it cost to raise them there are at least half a million kids in the country who are the child care system right now who already made parents and eleven percent of millennial to have fertility problems that are wildly expensive to overcome and while the list of reasons is long ever so long it's unnecessary pheno woman has to have a reason for not having children women are not cattle men are not pollinators we don't graze of the fields until the end of use to procreate with a good in the nation and politicians who choose to go down this handmaid's tale adjacent passed up bed decades of good and important

paul ryan, the speaker of the house will follow.-president of the united states, mike pence will speak. then there will be this presentation of the senate wreath jointly been mcconnell and schumer, followed by the presentation of the house wreath by paul ryan and the minority leader nancy pelosi. there will be a presentation of the administration, the trump administration wreeath by the vice-president, a final benedicti benediction. people from the public will be allowed to walk in and pay their personal respects to the late senator. it's going to be very emotional, especially for this very, very loving family. >> yeah, you can see meghan's husband is there along with other family members and some members of congress. this has already been a poignant week, this poignant moment -- >> the vice-president is there with his wife. >> and speaker ryan and mitch mcconnell. made more poignant by that sudden rainstorm. if i were prone to metaphor, you might say the nation is weeping for this man today. >> that's something that senator mccain

first of all, paul ryan, that is not how it works.g it this whole time if you wanted. although i bet when jeff sessions he heard about this he got excited and said when can i start saying the "n" word, i have to start testing my dna. in other news last night president trump was at another campaign rally, this time in tampa. and once again he said something that left us going, uh? >> the time has come for voter i.d., like everything else. (cheers and applause) >> voter i.d. if you go out and you want to buy groceries you need a picture on a card. you need i.d. you go out and you want to buy anything, you need i.d. and you need your picture. (laughter). >> trevor: something tells me this guy has never been grocery shopping. like ever. he probably tried it once but the first thing you see when you walk in is the produce aisle so he just walked right back out. he was like e-w, vegetables, gross. oh, gross-eries. i get it now. one day i will be president. all right, let's move on it our top story. 3d printers aring chaing the way we make e

he is as responsible, he had a choice and then i believe the paul ryan things alone. when trump was elected, he could do what he believed that he was dangerously unfit to be president and encouraged -- he's a racist and encourages racial division in this country. he's been accused credibly about sexual assault on 90 woman and he could've said i will not do his bidding but i will try to keep this country better but he decided not to do that. the example i see that sums up paul ryan to me is right around the time when the # need to movement took off he said he would do an npr interview and he sat down and said it was in the middle of al franken and harvey weinstein and to answer our question paul ryan said a very important we believe the women. being a pretty damn good journalist said do you believe the women who accused president trump of sexual assault and, paul ryan melted into a puddle on the floor. [laughter] yeah, he's bad. [applause] >> thank you for being here. i'm originally from the philadelphia area and that being said, growing up in that area is one of the f

some surprising news recently for speaker of the house and man test-driving the concept of smiling, paul ryaning to appear on the upcoming season of pbs's "finding your roots with henry louis gates jr.," a tv series in which famous guests learn about their ancestral histories. i assumed the most shocking thing they'd find was that ryan's great-grandparents were eddie munster and grover. ( laughter ) but it turns out they found something way more unexpected. surprise! paul ryan's slightly jewish! haven't the jewish people suffered enough? ( laughter ) ( applause ) i just-- the anti-defamation league has already responded, saying, "what? run the tests again!" ( laughter ) this, naturally, leads to one burning question: paul ryan, are ( gheven circumcised, bro? i'm n guein pgaul, that's the price of admission. which is why we're are excited to offer you the chance of a lifetime with "the late show's live paul ryan brisstravaganza." come on my show and get a live bris. mohel's are standing by. think of it this way: the foreskin is only %1 of the penis. and we know how much you love cuts for the %

let's talk about wisconsin, jeremy, and paul ryan's seat, an open seat. >> that's right, paul ryan isng down, that will be an open seat. republicans have a pretty good chance of holding onto it because of a weak democratic challenger who is favored to get the nomination there. i think the bigger story, though, andrea, is the republican senate race, which really is kind of a microcosm of the larger divide taking place in the republican party right now. you have one candidate, kevin nicholson, who is an upstart. he's new to the scene, he's young, he's only 40 years old. he's a former marine. he's never held elected office before. and he's really portrayed himself as the most unabashed, pure supporter of president trump, as he challenges a known quantity of milwaukee area politician named leah vukmir. vukmir has all the institutional advantages, the backing of scott walker, the republican governor, reince priebus, who is from wisconsin, and speaker ryan. i think it's a question of whether or not voters will punish her for that and seek something new and fresh as a lot of conservatives ha

where was the caller paul ryan? why is no punishment nor seizure of the congressmen. we take up those stories and more. republican strategist doug wallin and michael goodwin among our guests. all in our top story tonight. president trump pushing back against the deep state effort to undermine his presidency and to influence the upcoming midterms. the president today targeted a special counsel. in a tweet he wrote, quote, disgraced and discredited bob mueller and his whole group of angry democrats spent over 30 hours with the white house counsel only with my approval with purposes of transparency. anyone needing that much time when they know there is no russian collusion is just someone looking for trouble. they are enjoying ruining people's lives then refused to look at the real corruption on the democrat side. the lies, firings, deleted e-mails and so much more. mueller angry dems are looking to impact the election. they are a national disgrace. the president also treated this. quote, where is the collision? they made up a phony crime called collusion and when there

steve, what is the latest on paul ryan's district? >> let's take a look. you see it here. wisconsin, democratic primary. this name here familiar with a lot of democratic activists nationally. his name is randy bryce. he had an iron worker, a union activist. he put a video up and challenged paul ryan who at that point thought would be his opponent in this race. he raised millions of dollars and got lots of attention and paul ryan announcing he would not be running for re-election. he won the democratic primary, he's certainly shown he can raise money. who will he face-off against? we have a winner as well in the republican primary, his name is brian steil, a former aide to paul ryan. he will face-off in this district here. not out of reach for democrats. other races quickly we can get to here, number one for the governorship of minnesota, this right now shaping up as the surprise of the night. we know this name, tim pawlety, former governor of minnesota, and he has hit some serious trouble in the republican primary in minnesota. jeff johnson he was the republican candidate

lame duck house speaker paul ryan says he doesn't think tariffs are the way to go.ll changed his tune on tariffs, now backing the president's stance on balanced and fair trade with china. do you suppose paul ryan will muster the integrity to follow mitch mcconnell's example? do you think the firing of peter strzok and the revocation of john brennan's security clearance is an indication they are going on the offensive to put an end to the mueller witch hunt once and for all. join us tomorrow. we'll be talking with interior secretary ryan zinke and >> they announced the great numbers, fantastic guidance. also came on the heels at the the same time of china tariff talk announcement. a golden scenario for wal-mart coupled with economic news that we have seen. cheryl: fantastic news helped leading dow in latest gain, wal-mart-amazon faceoff. legal cause legal cause futures up this morning, dow up 19, more turmoil for tesla how elon musk infamous tweet on taking the company private play have been the icing on the cake for sec. cheryl: following

no, seriously, though, but with paul ryan, what do you think he's referring to specifically? literally means tragedy. i'm sure he said influence on the president in terms of policy and things he said. but it's not as though he stopped him from launching a nuclear war or anything of that nature. >> i don't think anyone takes it that way but roughly speaking. >> this is a calculation that paul ryan have made, i can condemn the president's conduct and that will destroy me. the party -- my party will no longer support me and the president will be exactly the same the way he was yesterday and the day before, nothing will change except i will no longer have any influence and no longer have any ability to advance policy goals that i supported my entire career. is that a compromise? yes, it is. is it practical and the only way forward for people elected officials in this position, yes. >> do you agree? >> yes. i think that both paul ryan and mitch mcconnell and everyone else concluded that, you know, falling into this trap of answering questions about the president everyday only suit

you wonder what paul ryan's reaction will be now. and then if he begins to revoke the security clearance of others, the list is long, i read it, you went through some of them who have been his critics for a specific reason over time, if we're not beginning something that at least to his critics and to some others looks like it's retaliatory and precedent setting. >> as relates to paul ryan, might take a day or so until the question is posed to him. senators are returning back to capitol hill as we speak for a rare august recess. certainly that question, one would presume, would be posed to them as they trickle in. you know, when we started off this briefing earlier today as you saw the briefing yesterday, it was believed and we never know and my colleague would never know what they're going to ask and as it goes down the line, it was believed a lot of questions would be about omarosa. sarah sanders comes out with this announcement today. just like that, the narrative has seemingly changed. >> shepard: there's been a pattern of that o

i covered paul ryan for years.ere big dreams for him, and his speakership even, how he came into the speakership. john boehner was wounded. he was going to bring everyone together. trump was a real wild card. you have 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 b

lame duck house speaker paul ryan says he doesn't think tariffs are the way to go. changed his tune on tariffs, now backing the president's stance on balanced and fair trade with china. do you suppose paul ryan will muster the integrity to follow mitch mcconnell's example? do you think the firing of peter strzok and the revocation of john brennan's security clearance is an indication they are going on the offensive to put an end to the mueller witch hunt once and for all. join us tomorrow. we'll be talking with interior secretary ryan zinke and>> no p, we have to leave it there, god bless aretha franklin. lou: good evening, our top story, tonight straight talk on impact of the trump policy agenda on this country. tonight we recognize the facts that national left wing media ignore. you noticed since president trump was elected, booming trump economy has been growing, strengthening and american can again be call the a prosperous nation and americans a prosperous people. as the president promised on the campaign trail in 2016, his leadership, his administration, polici

lame duck house speaker paul ryan says he doesn't think tariffs are the way to go. changed his tune on tariffs, now backing the president's stance on balanced and fair trade with china. do you suppose paul ryan will muster the integrity to follow mitch mcconnell's example? do you think the firing of peter strzok and the revocation of john brennan's security clearance is an indication they are going on the offensive to put an end to the mueller witch hunt once and for all. join us tomorrow. we'll be talking with interior secretary ryan zinke and candace owens. good night from new york. kennedy: hey, john brennan. you called the president's claim there was no russian collusion hogwash. and you said you know america worked with russian spies during the 2016 campaign. if it's actually true, how do you know? and why didn't you ever tell anyone? as you know, the president yesterday revoked john brennan's security clearance after the former intel chief's reported attacks on the commander-in-chief. the president called him a partisan hack. brennan said in a "new york times"

disloyalty from paul ryan is an established character and, well, fact of nature. he did not endorse then-candidate donald trump. and when the infamous hollywood tape surfaced, ryan's response couldn't have been more sanctimonious. he said i am not going to defend donald trump, not now, not in the future. that is the only promise that i believe ryan has ever kept in his political life. joining us tonight, the dean himself, ed rollins, chairman of the great america pac, rollins served as white house political director under president ronald reagan. great to have you here. >> thank you very much. lou: i know that you right now are trying to recover from the shock that paul ryan could reveal himself to be so sanctimonious, disloyal and petty and venomous. >> the president's approval numbers are at 50%. his approval numbers are at 25% and dropping. i think the public knows who is the leader of the republican party and who is trying to drive an agenda to. through. i think paul ryan was an accidental speaker. boehner got thrown out. lou: the president is something else. h

lou: have you ever seen a speaker's former staff member who's been put in position like, i guess, paul ryanit's his to hand off to the next generation, who opportunity want to be associated with ryan? >> shows me some wisdom on the part of the candidate. and obviously his polls must be showing him something that ryan is not quite the asset that he could have been two or four years ago. we know that. this is an interesting day today. wisconsin obviously has a great governor who's running for his third term, scott walker, who sort of started this whole thing. walker was hurt a little bit by running for president. one of the things that happens when you run for president and don't do well, it makes it tougher when you go home. there's two tonight, one in minnesota who also was damage when he was a front runner a couple of years ago and got blown out early on. lou: is he going to win? >> i don't think so. he's certainly not a front runner and it's not a slam dunk for him. he was a two-term governor too. lou: walker is an interesting case. he's a highly effective, successful governor. >> tremend

>> paul ryan's legacy will be one of weakness.ook at what donald trump is doing with the various trade wars he is engaging in. it falls hollow to say, oh, we averted this tragedy, we stopped this, we stopped that, you just have no idea what we're doing in private but we can't give you an example. it reminds me of ivanka trump's language. you could substitute her for her excuses for her father's behavior, claiming she is influential in private but can't speak out in public. we see how donald trump respond to what is on television, respond to what is in the press. he cares about public critique. it is an incredibly weak tact for the so-called allies to fall back on that excuse. >> the argument we have heard from speaker ryan and ots is he had a job as speaker of the house to keep his delegation together, to keep republicans together, to achieve goals like the tax cut. we wondered time and again why he wouldn't occasionally step to the bank of the microphones and criticize the president or, when appropriate, to go after a policy or d

this is paul ryan's district, paul ryan now running for re-election. bryce he had some last minute revelations in this race about a previous arrest for dui, a couple of other offenses. he's shown he can raise money in this district there, the first district of wisconsin, not out of reach for a democratic especially if the climbing what it ends up being for this fall. he won it and he'll now announce and run is as independent. >>> coming up an old classic from the president's vocabulary came roaring back today. we'll be joined by a journalist who says no one should be surprised not for a minute. >>> the president has made something of an industry out of this is paul ryan's district, paul ryan now running for re-election. bryce he had some last minute revelations in this race about a previous arrest for dui, a couple of other offenses. he's shown he can raise money in this district there, the first district of wisconsin, not out of reach for a democratic especially if the climbing what it ends up being for this fall. he won it and he'll now announce and

tuesday, paul ryan said he need more informationefore he could draw conclusions. what would you like the speake thousand say about this? >> people ask me all the time, when are thei repuns ever going to distance themselves from president trump a some of his attitudes and et cetera. never. this is -- there is nothing that presidentrump has been asht, denial of climate, women's right to cheese. fairness in the economy, imgags, gunafy. name an issue. there is nothing they haven't been there long interworse. >> isn't this just a political calculation? ifou look bk at 1998, bill clint yob was fing impeachment and republicans ran on that. how is there a risk for democrats in that? >> it's important for people to know that when democrats win, we are about honor p the founders put forth. they couldn't possibly imagine how many so when we win, we will reswlears they have, the most closed congress in mystery. transparency, ipart sonship un ny. >> there are people who are saying swhe an adollish.ce. the order folks. is that a winng message? >> no, it'sot an and the fact is i

another very important primary is the race to replace paul ryan.wants his former aid, brian style to succeed him. the district has five other republicans running as well who will face the winner of the democratic party in the first district. come november, first district here in wisconsin no longer is a sure thing for the republicans. dana? >> thanks, peter. the white house sounded optimistic about the mid-terms. larry kudlow telling politco these are very good terms. the confidence indices are telling a very important story and potus' polling in the low to mid 50s. the blue wall has crashed. joining me now, senator al franken and josh holmes, former chief of staff to mitch mcconnell. drew, i'll go to you first and allow you to respond to larry kudlow about the economy and whether that will help republicans keep the house. >> thanks, dana. i'm afraid it won't. here's why. people don't see the economy in terms of gdp or abstract numbers. so republicans attempting to take away people's healthcare coverage, driving up the cost of healthcare coverage,

right now it's november, but for paul ryan it's the future of the party. >> our thanks.k with more news after this. >>> you have partisan biased department of justice employees that are doing it to trump, they're doing it to me. this is political. period. there is -- this is the u.s. government at what i would call the deep state or folks in the u.s. government that don't care what the election does. they want to rig the election their own way. >> california republican congressman duncan hunter taking a cue from the president he endorsed trying to blame career public servants in the justice department for the legal trouble he finds himself in tonight. duncan hunter received brief notoriety for vaping during a congressional hearing when he first ran for his father's old congressional seat, he received notoriety for becoming the first combat veteran from iraq and afghanistan elected to congress. hunter quit his job after 9/11 and joined the marine corps and served in combat with distinction. the problem is, tonight he is under criminal investigation. along with his wife fo

i'm not sure what paul ryan going to get.t is true this has been a contentious issue for folks for a long time. members of congress have created a system where they have these golden parachutes. ,here have been members who even if you had committed a crime is member of congress, you could retire with your pension. changes were made to that provision but it is a problem. -- the idea that members of congress and other public officials are getting benefits that are not available to the general public. host: a story from cnbc on paul ryan's post congress pension. house speaker paul ryan, after announcing he will retire in january, when he turns 50 he will likely be entitled to a pension plan described as a golden parachute. if using role in the program offered to members of congress, he could receive $84,930 a year assuming he sticks it out through january. that report goes through how that process works. it is a cnbc story from right after paul ryan announced he would be stepping down in april. karen has been waiting in the bron

right now it's november, but for paul ryan it's the future of the party. >> our thanks. we're back with more news after this. so, how's it going? well... we had a vacation early in our marriage that kinda put us in a hole. go someplace exotic? yeah, bermuda. a hospital in bermuda. a hospital in bermuda. what? what happened? i got a little over-confident on a moped. even with insurance, we had to dip into our 401(k) so it set us back a little bit. sometimes you don't have a choice. but it doesn't mean you can't get back on track. great. yeah, great. i'd like to go back to bermuda. i hear it's nice. yeah, i'd like to see it. no judgment. just guidance. td ameritrade. >>> you have partisan biased department of justice employees that are doing it to trump, they're doing it to me. this is political. period. there is -- this is the u.s. government at what i would call the deep state or folks in the "uss government that don't care what the election does. they want to rig the election their own way. >> you california republican congressman duncan hunter taking a cue from the pre

i looked at this new profile of paul ryan, the house speaker, and mark lee said what paul ryan said is fighting with this president doesn't work. that's how he explains not being more adversarial to the president. take that as you may. could he change the democratic party in its approach to fighting with republicans? >> maybe and maybe for the better. and i do not think he should be the president or the democratic nominee. i think that fighting spirit is what a lot of us are hungry for. this week the senate judiciary committee democrats filed a freedom of information suit to get the papers of brett kavanagh, who wants to join our supreme court. they did that and i cheered because they were fighting. >> even though they won't get them before september. >> when the house of representatives held that sit-in and live streamed it because the feed was cut, i cheered because they fought, because there are 320 million people who need leadership. i don't think from what i've sewn th seen that michael avenatti is the lead they're we need, but he has the fighting spirit we need and some of the rh

does paul ryan -- in light of this today, does paul ryan need to reconsider that?o say something more forceful as the top republican in the house? >> i think the speaker is obviously a very smart man. i don't know what he is doing today but i'm sure he will review what was said and speak with his counsel on that. i don't want to get out in front of the speaker. i have great confidence in his leadership. i think that he's probably said he would prefer -- i don't mean to put words in the speaker's mouth, but he would probably prefer the president tweets a lot less on this. >> i think he's dentally said that one or two times. let's talk about these tariffs. cnn's now reporting the trump administration is considering raising tariffs on $200 billion of chinese goods, raising the tariff from 10% to 25%. i want to play for you what the president actually said about the trade war with china last night. listen to this. >> our farmers are true patriots. because china and others have targeted -- china and others -- remember this -- have targeted our farmers. not good. not nic

that is something that paul ryan could do right now. >> you really believe that he is corrupt? >> i think that he has been corrupted with power, and he believes that his job is to protect president trump. our country suffers because of that, and anderson, because the house intelligence chairman cannot show unity and protect us from future russian attack the, as we speak, the russians are attacking us, and they are not afraid of us. they believe that devin nunes and the president have give n them a green light. there is too much corruption, and that is what this election is going to be about. >> thank you for your time. and now, let's get two more views. obvious obviously a fan not of the president, and also the president of the senate conservatives fund. rick, i mean, these comments by nunes, it is a surprise when it comes to defend ing ting the prt and the things that we have seen him do? >> well, devin nunes said out loud what everyone has known for a long time and he has admitted the culpability in an effort to obstruct the ties of the president of the united states to russi