host: robert costa.uest: the role of speaker for house republicans over the last 20, 25 years, gingrich comes up. he is the ultimate communicator. he is sending out tapes to members in the 1980's. he understands the media relishes the opportunity to jump in and make his argument nationally. he writes the contract for america. becomes this force on capitol hill because of his ability to communicate, come up with phrases,t phases, -- and unite people. was the stepping down of livingston at the end of gingrich's tenure. he had a lot of troubles at the time. he emerged as someone very much in the lower ranks of leadership, but he became the consensus choice in a time of chaos. even though he had more authority, more clinical capital within the house gop. and tested had to deal -- hastert had to deal with the gop in the 1990's. he rises into the leadership and becomes conference chairman. lose of the leadership race in the late 1990's. he comes back and helps craft no child left behind. so he comes in as some

robert costa, thank you for filling us in. appreciate it. robert: thank you. >> robert costa. he's @costareports on twitter. @c-span is where you can make your thoughts known. why closed door? should be on the house floor. there will be a house floor vote in three weeks. the entire house voting for speaker. today's meeting is just the republican conference. our cameras are outside the meeting room. the house ways and means committee room in the longworth office building. we've seen a couple members come by so far. we'll stay here live for a moment or two and see who might be coming on over as the meeting gets under way in about 15 minutes. >> you're looking at one of the hallways in the longworth office building. our cameras are here outside the ways and means committee room. that's because house republicans will be meeting today to choose their nominee for house speaker. the whole house will vote on the speaker and there's representative johnson of texas and others have gone by. the whole house will vote for speaker three weeks from today on october 29. so when you come to wa

also with us robert costas and sam stein. jonathan allen, what took them so long? didn't bring trump down at all. there's -- the establishment. is the david against the donald trump goliath. i do think it's interesting the club for growth is getting here. they're trying to put together a super pac. the club for growth, there's a lot of overlap between that group and the donors for the koch brothers. it will be interestinged to see if they get engaged or if they sit this one out and let the republican nomination move forward. but it's as close as interesting as paul ryan running for speaker. >> the club for growth has its own polling in iowa and they say their ads there have pushed trump down to below ben carson. they have the most cent poll in iowa at october 34. they showed trump at 16 we're going to have to wait for more reliable polls if the koch brothers don't want donald trump, if the massive world of republican money doesn't want donald trump, why has that money, all that activism, all that power been sitting on the sidelines and holding their fire on negativ

according to robert costa that's the pitch bostehner is making. >> be a leader.t of the -- in addition to all the personal factors we've talked about that are keeping paul ryan from wanting to do this. there's the basic reality that the republican house speaker, whoever it is, is going to be faced with the same thing that john boehner kept coming face to face with. we've got to pass the debt ceiling we got to raise the debt ceiling. we've got to keep the government funded or it will close down. those two deadlines will keep coming up. these guys on the right will keep insisting on strict conditions for doing that. whether it's we have to defund planned parenthood or keep the government open. we have to get rid of obamacare. they're going to keep attaching strings. paul ryan if he moves to the role of speaker and leader, he's forced to choose between do i want to lead this party and lead this nation into a default, a debt ceiling default or do i want to stand up to the house freedom caucus and get called a traitor. that's a dilemma nobody wants to walk into. john

and then robert costa on donald trump. >> he really does care about these polls. does not have a pollstar inside of his campaign. said to imhad, mr. trump, are you going to bring on a poll stferm he said i just read the public polls. he has them pile on his desk and goes through them line by line with a blue marker. he really cares about his standing in the race. he is going to remain done all trump. he's not going to have a second act in terms of style. what is changing for trump right now is the operation of his campaign. >> rose: megyn kelly and robert costa when we continue. funding for charlie rose is provided by american express. >> additional funding provided by: and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: megyn kelly is here. she anchors the kelly file on fox news. it is currently the second most watched program in all of cable news. amy davidson of the new yorker has called her the brains of the fox news operation. in august she comoderated the first

robert costa from "the washington post." thank you as always. great to see you. >> thank you. >>> all right. so today, i got to tell you on the eve of this big third republican debate, somebody played what is kind of a cruel joke on donald trump. somebody apparently mocked up a terribly insulting cover of what purports to be donald trump's new book which is due to come out next week. whatever you think of donald trump, come on. he would not possibly call his new book "crippled" something, right? he would not possibly use that particular picture of himself on the cover. this in fact seems like a joke today when was unveiled as the cover of his new book. but that really is the cover of donald trump's new book. the new book really is titled "crippled america." i feel like i have to apologize even for saying it out loud. with regard to the picture he said "i wanted a picture that reflected the anger and unhappiness that i feel." mission accomplished. that is a very unhappy making thing all around. and it could be yours for the low, low price of $24.

political panel susan page "usa today's" washington bureau chief, mark leibovich for "new york times," robert costanal political reporter for the "washington post." and the executive editor of the national review welcome to all of you. let's start with benghazi, give us your bottom line after all of this politically how this shook out? >> think hillary clinton survived. did no harm. after pretty good ten-day period, she didn't provide the kind of information that can create big problems for her down the road. >> dickerson: mark, you wrote about hillary clinton's campaign and her effort to show authenticity or what passes for it in presidential campaign be. what do you make of just the review? >> i think she almost at her best when she is under siege in a weird way. has compelling contrast which republicans provided. she puts herself in good position, all that have most lasting. >> dickerson: hillary clinton lad her back up against the wall show did chairman be ever this committee because of the comments of his own republican party made him so frustrated how did the republicans come out at the end o

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we'll talk about it with robert costa. jamie weinstein and robert. robert, you just co-authored a piece about donald trump and ben carson and where they came from and sl their similarities? >> right side of the party and had a relationship that moved from cordial and chummy and had dinner together in 2013 and now at odds with each other and dominating the 2016 race. and they are different when it comes to temperament. >> what is it about donald trump that has him going after everybody who seems to threaten his lead. in iowa, ben carson is ahead in the polls. he's now losing in 3 or 4 polls in iowa. trump is leading elsewhere, and when he sees himself losing, he fights back. trump said he is a counter puncher. but in this case there was no attack by ben carson and this was a response of bringing up religion and it is trump who is not leading in all of the polls in iowa. >> you are seeing trump trying to find a way to counter carson's roadway. and trump is dancing around the issue of 7th day adventism. trump is merely raising the issue and creating que

. >>> on the next "wall street journal," political reporter robert costa on the election of the next house speaker. and the authors of a biography of congressman jack kemp will discuss the 2016 presidential campaign. washington journal is live every morning with your phone calls, tweets and facebook comments. >>> thursday, the head of volkswagen michael horn testifies about allegations that volkswagen used software that circumstance vented emissions requirements for some of its diesel engine cars. live coverage starts at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span3. >>> and i think every first lady should do something in this position to help the things she cares about. >> i just think that everything in the white house should be the best, the entertainment that's given here. so of course is our feeling for children. i think it is good in a world where there's quite enough to divide people that we should cherish a language and emotion that unite us all. >> jacqueline kennedy's 1,000 days as lady were identified as fashion icon, young mother and advocate for the arts. as television came to age,

debate site in boulder, colorado, nbc's katy tur, and washington post national political reporter robert costasere when reporters were talking to carson. what's his mood overall? he seems to be saying he's not in attack mode? >> his advisers call him zen ben. i walked with carson as he left the debate site, and he was as calm as ever. he believes trump will come at him tonight, but he also believes the way carson sees it, he is the front-runner. he's more comfortable in that position, and he believes he can continue to introduce himself to conservatives. >> katy, donald trump has not been very pleased with the polls lately. i want to run a little bit of sound for those who missed it from last night. he was in iowa and sort of chiding the crowd about his falling poll numbers there. >> iowa, will you get your numbers up, please? what the hell are you people doing to me? please do me a favor, let me win iowa. now, if i lose iowa, i will never speak to you people again, that i can tell you. >> so he's joking, but as he walks into that debate hall in colorado now, what do you expect, katy? >> i thin

dickerson: robert costa reports that boehner even called ryan and said, "you should do it. you are the only one who can unite this party," but ryan knows how impossible the job is. it says something about the job that paul ryan would rather wrestle with the tax code because it's easier than trying to put together a 218 majority. a couple of other thoughts are being kicked around, but i talked to a couple of members today who do not think there are live possibilities, but one is to find retiring members and make them speaker. that would take the conference through 2016, through the elections. the benefit to that is it puts the tough votes and tough favor on these people who are going to retire and allows -- you hear a lot of talk about tough votes. kevin mccarthy said he did not to run in force members to have tough votes. he means he does not want someone to support him and get walloped by the grassroots. rose: any other reason for this decision? dickerson: i was talking to someone who was whipping votes for mccarthy last night who said they went in planning for a four-hour

the three major dailies, ashley parker with the times and heidi priscilla and joining us robert costarson here. we will survive. your thoughts about the headline? everybody thinks hillary held her own. there wasn't a loss. some people thought she did better than that. >> study night for secretary clinton. appealed to her base and reassured donors. bernie sanders remains a favorite. he connected and had a tough exchange on guns. otherwise really connected on the economic issues on the banks. >> you think he's the favorite? what do you mean? >> when i am out on the campaign trail, base voters want to hear more about breaking up the banks. they want to hear tough rhetoric on wall street. to the donor last, hillary clinton came right at them. bernie sanders is with the soul of the party right now. >> wow. let me go to ashley. what do you think? >> exactly as you said. >> what's the headline? >> hillary won by not actively losing trade she did not let her character and credibility get impugned. she was able to attack bernie sanders in a way she has a before without elevating him to her lev

. >> robert costa with me now from capitol hill republican congressman from pennsylvania and tom davismr. dent thank you for coming on the show. we all grew up with a republican party like in pennsylvania where i grew up and a party that we recognize going back to lincoln, a party of the center right, occasionally of the center. what is the republican party today? how would you describe most members? >> we have a pretty eclectic bunch. i think the fundamental challenge we are facing is this that we have to demonstrate that we have the capacity for governance. tom davis, my friend on the show with me was part of the governing wing of the republican party. what we saw last week with a vote to keep the government open, only 91 house republicans voted for it. i can tell you over 218 republicans supported keeping the government open but only 91 voted for it. there is a lot of hope yes and vote no going on around here where members want us to govern but can't quite get to yes, can't get to supporting that agenda so it is very frustra frustrating. and then we also have the freedom caucus, rep

. >> joining me now with the rest of our panel is "the washington post" political reporter robert costa morning. >> good morning. >> what on earth was he thinking when he said that? >> mccarthy's still adjusting to the national spotlight. when you're the majority leader of the united states it's more of a background role. you're counting vote, keeping members in line. now he has to step up. he's going to be third in line to the presidency. newt gingrich said it was a transition even for him in 1995 to recognize that everything you say goes national. >> it's a bit difficult preparing for prime time when you're running for the speaker. so has that led to a collapse of confidence in the caucus? has there been if not nervousness but, you know, a lack of surety and sure footing among mccarthy's team? >> i've been calling around the house gop, and there's certainly some new nervousness, a sense mccarthy may not be ready yet for this job. but he has political capital. the conference in house republicans is young. most of them came in in 2010. mccarthy but the chief recruiter for the party at t

republican strategies rick wilson is here, robert costa and democratic strategist kevin pate here.e going to know soon, we'll know maybe this weekend, maybe next week. cnn is learning that vice president joe biden will likely decide whether he's going to run within the next three days. he was asked about it today. listen. >> reporter: have you made your decision yet? >> i can't hear you. >> reporter: have you made your decision yet? is there still an opening for you in the race, sir? >> i'm here to greet president park. we'll talk later. >> do you think he's made a strategic error by waiting this long? >> i think so. maybe we get one of those cnn time clocks up. if he announced before the debate, it wouldn't have been a slight to secretary clinton and maybe around this benghazi hearing, which we know is a witch hunt confirmed by a couple more republicans today, i think what happened is the shot clock has run out and everybody likes joe biden and the folks helping him are nice enough and they want to do the right thing but the time's up. hillary clinton looked poised and strong and

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. >> "washington post" reporter robert costa tweeted "representative peter king tells me members are crying in the cloak room, unable to handle the unrest and confusion. a banana republic," he says. according to one house republican, some of his colleagues might literally have had no clue what was going on when mccarthy made his announcement. >> he was not speaking as closely into the microphone as he probably should have so a lot of people didn't even hear what he said. a lot of members just looked in the room and didn't even realize what had happened until they heard from members sitting next to them that were paying a little closer attention. >> things were so chaotic on capitol hill it got to be a little too much for alaska congressman don young. >> most people weren't sure what he said. the sound system -- >> move out of the way. let's go. >> stay with us. stay with us, ashley. >> he said -- >> congressman, we're live on cnn. we don't want to block everybody. if you could come over here. >> when someone asked congressman young who was replacing mccarthy according to a reporter f

. >> robert costa your friend at "the washington post" reports boehner even called ryan and said you should do it, you're the only one who can unite the party. but ryan knows how impossible the job is. it says how difficult the job is that paul ryan would rather wrestle with the tax code because it's zero than trying to put together a 218 majority. >> rose: so now john boehner will continue to be speaker of the house and the republicans at some point will try to elect a new speaker? >> a new speaker. a couple of other thoughts are being kicked around but i talked to a couple of members today who don't think they're live possibilities. but one is to find retiring members and make them a speaker, and that would take the conference through 2016, through elections. the benefit to that is it puts all the tough votes and tough behavior on these people who are going to retire and allows -- you hear a lot of talk about tough votes. kevin mccarthy said i didn't want to run and force members to have tough votes. what he means is he doesn't want somebody to support him and get cal lopped for it

. >> robert costa has been up at capitol hill all day day taking break from the campaign. i thought my hunch is they don't have much. hillary clinton looked good in the debate. she is clean except they could keep barking on this one, hitting this one and saying benghazi so many times that people think there is something there even if they didn't think about it. the old comedians heard all the old jokes. what is there to get after this day after today? what is there that they can say benghazi? >> i was yus outside the house floor for an hour. it was a muted response. privately many of the republicans say clinton had a strong day, stronger than they expected. they don't think this is part of the 2016 narrative in a major fashion. they think clinton came prepared. she was poised. there was no celebrating tonight at the capital among republicans. >> elijah cummings, will he run for the senate now? >> he showed some vigor tonight. he is trying to have a national stage. that is a tough race. he has a tough decision. >> who benefitted today? i think hillary clinton benefitted. so

joining me now is robert costa, a national political reporter for "the washington post."sat down with donald trump for an interview. it ran under the headline "donald trump plots his second act." i am pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. robert: thank you. charlie: a one-time colleague on the show. robert: 2006 intern. charlie: tell me where donald trump is today in terms of his campaign and in terms of his mind and finally in terms of his plans? robert: we went to trump tower. he really does care about these polls. does not have a pollster inside his campaign. i said to him, are you going to bring on a pollster? he said i read the public polls. has them piled on his desk. he goes through with a blue marker. he really cares about his standing in the race. he's going to remain donald trump. he is not going to have a second act in terms of his style. what is changing for trump right now is the operation of his campaign. hiring more in the early states. moving beyond the early states for delegates. he is going to start to buy television ads. charlie: this is a se

tonight, we're joined by amy walter and robert costa, national political reporter for "the washingtont." all right. i posed this question on sunday. i thought we'd hear from ryan before biden. who are are we going to hear first from? ryan or biden? >> i think biden will wait until after the benghazi hearing. i think we'll hear from ryan early next week. >> that was really quick. >> that was very good. i agree. let's wait until after benghazi. if the whole reason for biden waiting is to see if hillary clinton implodes, why not wait until after the debate and benghazi. but i don't think there'll be an answer. that's the thing. i don't think this is going to be so clear cut. >> won't that look terribly calculating on his part. isn't it the last thing he want to look like is the calculating politician? >> but isn't that the reason for him getting in? >> ryan wants to meet face to face with members when he he's back on capitol hill. >> so what happens tonight? how are you watching the debate? you watch debates differently than most people? >> that's probably true. the thing that we haven't

announcer: on the next washington journal, political reporter robert costa on the election of the next speaker. then the authors of the biography of former congressman a presidential candidate jack kemp will discuss the 2016 presidential campaign. washington journal is live each morning with your phone calls, tweets, and facebook comments. >> today the house created a special panel to discuss the handling of aborted fetal tissue. the bill, which does not mention planned parenthood by name, discusses issues. here is the debate, it is about one hour. speaker. by direction of the committee on rules, i call up house resolution 461 and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 63, house resolution 461, resolved that there is hereby established a select investigative panel for the committee on energy and commerce, herein after select panel. section 2-a, the select panel shall be composed of not more than 13 members, delegates or the resident commissioner appointed by the speaker, of whom not more than

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joining us is robert costa to talk nor about whether house republicans will hear from paul ryan aboutaker. good morning. >> good morning. >> what is needed to convince paul ryan to put his hand up? >> ryan needs to be convinced that the conservatives in the house, the hard-liners, will not oppose him on the floor when it comes time to vote for speaker and they won't break from him on the big votes, the debt limit, government spending bill. >> how likely is that then. >> it's hard to get a political pledge inside of the house gop. ryan's allies right now are on the phone trying to get private assurances saying if ryan gets the consensus of the house behind him you can let him serve and do the job? >> if it's not ryan, then who? who do we keep our eye on? >> on the committee chairman, john klein of minnesota, jason chavis is in the race, darrell issa. look for a send steady hand who can be a calming force. >> john, warren buffett is making comments this morning at a fortune conference. he said we always thought in terms of a two-party government but now we have a three-party government

representative peter king of new york told my colleague, robert costa, it is like a banana republic on the hill right now because what we assumed was a sure thing, that we would have a new leader of the house of representatives by the end of the day, has turned into a situation that could drag on who knows how long. >> we have her descriptions of chaos and disarray. speaker boehner was supposed to travel to new york city to appear on the tonight show with jimmy fallon. he canceled that appointment. what is next for him and what happens next? amber: what happens next is anyone's guess. basically, we are doing with conservative factions of republicans come out, sometimes 40, kind of holding court against the more establishment group of republicans that boehner and mccarthy belonged to . that is our sense that the conservative faction didn't like mccarthy, decided they were going to vote against him, and even put up their own challenger . that cause the dissension among the republican party. boehner was essentially going to hand this off to mccarthy at the end of the month. now, he says,

. >>> on the next "washington journal" -- "washington post" political reporter robert costa on the election of the next house speaker. then the authors of a biography of former congressman and presidential candidate jack kemp. we'll also discuss the 2016 presidential election. "washington journal" is live each morning at 7:00 eastern with your phone calls, tweets and facebook comments. >>> thursday the house judiciary committee hoilds a hearing on planned parenthood practices and abortsion services. that's live at 2:00 p.m. east owner c-span3. >>> this sunday night on q&a, former senator and presidential candidate gary hart on "the republic of conscience," comparing the current government to the republic our founders intended. >> the founders used the language of greece and rome and warned against corruption. and their definition of corruption was not bribery or quid pro quo money under the table. it was putting special interests ahead of the common good. and by that definition, washington today is a massively corrupt place. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a. >>> o

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. >>> on the next "wall street journal," political reporter robert costa on the election of the nexthouse speaker. and the authors of a biography of congressman jack kemp will discuss the 2016 presidential campaign. washington journal is live every morning with your phone calls, tweets and facebook comments. >>> thursday, the head of volkswagen michael horn testifies about allegations that volkswagen used software that circumstance vented emissions requirements for some of its diesel engine cars. live coverage starts at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span3. >>> and i think every first lady should do something in this position to help the things she cares about. >> i just think that everything in the white house should be the best, the entertainment that's given here. so of course is our feeling for children.

. >> phillipe : the contra costa county sheriff's office says 51-year- old old robert bates is currently being housed at a state hospital. but the department of state hospitals wants to place him in this vacant home. >> : does it upset you that he could possibly be moving in? oh, absolutely, yes, absolutely. >> : more than once, the contra costa county sheriff's office says robert bates has been convicted of committing lewd and lucivious acts with a child under 14 years of age, and that's why neighbors here on dutch slough don't want him moving in here. >> : i think i speak for myself and the rest of the council that we don't think it's a great idea. >> phillipe :when similar recent situations have popped up in concord and walnut creek, neighbors lashed out, saying sex predators should be moved to more rural less congested areas. >> : this is about as rural as you could get in contra costa. >> phillipe :still, oakley vice- mayor kevin romick says bates doesn't belong here. >> : is putting someone with a proclivity for violence and sex offender a really good idea to isolat them this much?