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its own security and securing the border radius now this is a very vivid his agent of it calls paul willis who are the bridge to be there for the americans to be there who are the british to. welcome back to politicking speaker of the house paul ryan announce whedon's day he is leaving congress at the end of his current term. citing a desire to spend more time with his children and wife ryan's plan the parchin now says believe this shit battle for the g.o.p. which will likely play out between house majority leader kevin mccarthy of california and house whip steve's khaleesi of louisiana will the president weigh in on which he prefers and what is this leadership vacuum in the house mean for the upcoming midterms so that we turn to david jolly. good representative from florida so describe bullmoose republican he joins us from tampa what do you make of ryan's leaving david i don't think it's a huge surprise you know he reluctant lee accepted the role of speaker just about three years ago and even at that time was speaking with concern about the fact that he had teenage kids that he really wan

willis, bbc news, los angeles. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams is here.nald trump later on today about this, if there is american military reaction in response to this, could britain joining? there is a little bit of diplomatic business that has to happen before then, the same issue discussed last night will be discussed last night will be discussed today, battle of resolutions, the russians and the americans with their own proposals on how these things should be investigated, it is likely the outcome will be deadlocked, awesomely a veto by one side or the other. donald trump says he will make up his mind in its 2a to 36 hours, he seems keen to punish president assad, the french also seem president assad, the french also seem quite keen on it, the language used last night by the french ambassador was much more tough than that used by the british representative, and we have also heard president emmanuel macron, president trump already spoke twice, interesting that theresa may has not yet had the phone call. she is having a meeting of the national security

paul. >> very nice moment of just class and comity in the senate that doesn't happen so much. willie, doesn't this happen every so often with rand paul, he comes out and makes a definitive statement about about how he's going to vote against the administration and then he votes for the administration, he's going to vote against -- i remember when he said i'm going to vote against pompeo, people saying i've heard this before. and then the president calls him you up and he is now supportive of pompeo. that's not the first time this has happened with rand paul, is it? >> it happened on the tax bill. rand paul takes a moment to express his views, his problems with whatever the nomination or the bill on the floor and works to get assurances as he said. i think to get a phone call, and a meeting with mike pompeo and suddenly receive assurances to say, the iraq war was a mistake, we'll get out of afghanistan soon enough and i don't believe in interventionist foreign policy. just to get his vote shouldn't be that easy. but that's what it was. we'll interview and talk to rand paul in a few mi

paul ryan. >> congressman cole, willie geist, good to see you.u might have changed your mind if you'd known speaker ryan was going to leave. is there truth in that? if you waited a day, would your decision have been different? >> no, i made this decision some time ago and -- but, again, paul has been -- he's been here my entire career. i mean, he got here in his 20s, i got here in my 50s so he's a guy i've admired and had the chance to be on his committee for four years when he chaired budgets so i consider him a close friend and ally and he's somebody who represents what's best in the house of representatives and public life in america. >> speaker ryan said all the right things about what may or may not happen come november. a lot of predictions about democrats taking over the house, so many retirements in your caucus. what do you see coming in the fall? are you concerned as many republicans are? >> yeah, absolutely. look nobody has had a good midterm election since 2002, doesn't matter if you're a republican or democrat so anybody that thinks w

willie. >> and michael cohen again yesterday denying that he was in prague. that's a pretty black and white issue we'll get the answer to. paul ryan retiring this week. this has been in the atmosphere for the last couple months, that he was considering not seeking re-election. he'll be around till next january. he said it was a family thing, but if you talk to people, i think he was exhausted by having to defend or answer for the president and also perhaps looking at what was coming this fall, this november in the house. what did you see in the retirement, chuck? >> well, first of all, when i sat down with him for the interview, he was elated after his decision. he swearings s it's all about f, but he was getting no joy out of his professional job. he admitted he didn't love the speakership. it wasn't something he aspired to. now he pushes back on the notion because of trump that he thought he would lead the party one day. but i do think it does send a signal, whether intentional or not by his decision to retire, that the writing is on the wall about this november for the republicans. >> chuck todd, thank you very much. a lot

willie, if you have -- let's go back to what elise said. if republicans aren't concerned that donald trump's a racist and we just have to go back to paul ryan who said that donald trump is one of the most racist things he could ever say and yet they endorsed him. right? >> yep. >> if you have republicans who don't really care enough to stand up and stop the president when he passes the largest omnibus bills ever that drive up the national debt and they say absolutely nothing, if you have republicans sitting on capitol hill and trump passes his tariff tax that actually does great violence to the idea of free trade and what republicans have preached about for -- and americans stood for for 30, 40 years and they say absolutely nothing and then he savages a company in the private sector, goes in and forget about the invisible hand, this is an iron fist of an autocrat in waiting and cost billions of dollars in stocks because it's a political enemy and donald trump is trying to choose winners and losers and that's the gravest of violence to all the ideas of milton friedmann and other conservative icons. what is the conservative movement -- you ca