>> his name is ryan. >> you see ryan's face in the baby's? from iowa and melissa from seattle, also became aware of ryan after our first "dateline" program on the case aired back in 2009. >> i thought that he was railroaded. >> she sent an e-mail to ryan saying how sorry she felt with him. he sent one back. soon they were talking on the phone. she came to cincinnati to visit right and stayed at his mother's house. >> i thought it was a little awkward, because we had talked on the phone but hadn't met. he was telling me how much he loved sarah and could never love another woman as much as he loved her. i started crying because i felt so bad for him. >> sarah went back to new york and three weeks later returned to cincinnati as ryan's guest at his mother's thanksgiving dinner. that was the weekend they became intimate. >> the first time we were together i got pregnant. >> how did ryan take the news? >> shocked, obviously very bad timing. >> they kept the pregnancy a secret, as ryan's second tri would take place the folwi may. >> i decided, yeah

paul ryan is stepping down. announcing his retirement from congress at the end of this year despite denying earlier reports that he was stepping down, strenuously denying those reports were totally wrong and off base. there he was today saying yes, indeed, i'm gone quickly followed by another gop retirement which brings the total of republican lawmakers walking away from elected office to a whopping and we believe record setting at least in the modern era, 25. tonight, that same paul ryan, the speaker of the house for as long as he sticks around is also one of several republican leader who have gone to the white house to dine with with the president, the man there in the center of that picture as he faces down an increasingly threatening investigation by robert mueller, federal prosecutors in new york who raided the president's personal lawyer's residence earlier this week in response, the president is by all accounts openly musing about firing his own justice department appointees to attempt to shut down the pr

and paul ryan came in. now you've got a situation where he has forged this good relationship with the president but he knows the conference well because he had he been in charge of recruitment of candidates around the country for years. so meeting people in their home neighborhoods trying to pick out potential office seekers in the community, going to businessmen, going to people who were in local government trying to get them to run. he has a deep reservoir of good will among the conference. then you have steve scalise who is more conservative and went through that national nightmare of being shot, recovering from that, and having that personal narrative of overcoming his injuries and being supported in a way that both his personal story and his political story come together as a time when the more conservative side could be what carries the moment. but paul ryan in these remaining months can also try to manage his successorship as he can, try to hold that group together. it will be organic. ryan will have

that is paul ryan. paul ryan might have lost a reelection in his campaign in his home district but now we'll never know because he is quitting instead. and he is quitting in his party's darkest hour in the house of representatives. every pole shows the republicans losing the house. and that is because of paul ryan's leadership, which has been no leadership at all. none. and i am one of the many congressional observers who is deeply disappointed in paul ryan. i never fell for the media picture of paul ryan as a policy won because i know few qualify for that description on any subject. they are always guided by their staffs on policy. the staffs always know more on policy. but paul ryan had done more than others in memorizing talking points and every once in a while he showed a tiny bit of hope that he might actually be thinking about policy. like when he chaired a hearing that included testimony from a woman who was a food stamp recipient, a working poor mother, it was some soft most important poverty te

speaker ryan: i want to. as you may or you may not know, we offered the democrats a solution for daca in addition to pairing it with a solution for the border and the democratic leader chose to not take that offer. that offer still stands. i've spoken with the president many times about this. and so we would like to see a border security solution along with a daca solution. we made that offer. i have not rescinded that offer. yeah. reporter: when speaker boehner left congress in 2015, he talked about clearing the barn for potential successor. is that something you're looking to do? speaker ryan: it's been pretty clear. reporter: do a spending bill at the end of the fiscal year that will likely require a bipartisan deal with the daca still spend pending, is that run -- speaker ryan: when i say run through the tape i mean getting all the work done. by the way, it's been incredibly productive what we've already been able to accomplish. our military is now on path to being rebuilt. our tax code is rewritten. the

speaker ryan: good morning. reporter: the president seems to be going back and forth what the objective and what strategy might be deployed in syria. we've asked you a number of times within the last couple of years about an aumf. wouldn't this be better to codify what the objective is in an authorization because that is up to the congress, especially since the president seems to be going back and forth so much? speaker ryan: well, he has authority under the existing aumf. what i would hate to do in this time when we have asymmetric threats across the globe, especially with isis, is to have an aumf that ties the hands of our military behind their backs. so last thing i want to see is an aumf that makes it much more difficult for our military to respond to keep us safe because they have the authority to do hat right now. al-assad itself, teheran and ers in moscow have committed another mass atrocity on people, i think the u.s. has an obligation to hold people accountable for that. i won't get ahead of the preside

, the beltway myth of paul ryan is the opposite of what paul ryan did. which should make us examine our myths. whatever you think of congressman ryan, speaker ryan, whether you bought into the myth in the first place or not it's inskapably true that he did the opposite. he -- he failed at achieving the goals he set for himself from day one and that everybody cheered him on as being capable of achieving as a republican party leader. he did the opposite. and now he is leaving. saying he is pretty much done with what he wanted to do. he will be the second republican house speaker to quit in the space of three years. his predecessor john boehner stepped out in 2015. his post congress life has seemed kind of awesome actually. from what we foe about it it's mostly been him golfing and giving occasional interviews about how relieved he is not to be in congress anymore. he aspen out dispatches from his rv on the open road. he wears shorts when he drivers. kind of a low profile retirement for the last republican speaker of the house who quit. but today turned out

that's how we got paul ryan.speaks to the fact that it's very difficult to control the faction-ridden house of representatives g.o.p. caucus. you've got the freedom caucus. you've got the tuesday group. you've got a bunch people. you don't have a huge majority, and it's tough to get to get 218 votes. >> bret: eli. >> you look at the election of trump and to this date, you are saying that's the ark of the transformation of the republican party. paul ryan is an emblem of a republican party that was against deficits, was for lower taxes, was certainly, there's always a popular appeal but it's not the same kind of populist as trump. now the g.o.p. is really trump's party. that's a significant thing when we take a step back. >> bret: let's listen to the speaker and the majority and minority leader on upcoming months what could come. >> i want to be clear. i'm not done yet. i intend to finish the year. >> if he is willing to reach across the aisle, he will find democrats willing and eager to work with him. i say to spe

no, this isn't about paul ryan." but clearly this is a conference that is very nevous about perception. they do think as i charlie dent said in the piece, that president trump might re of an issue. but they want to make sure to keep paul ryan's sconsin seat as well. >> woodruff: lisa, while we're talking about that, you mentioned the race to replace paul ry you mentioned the two other-- his deputies, in effect, mccarthy and scalise. we heard-- i think it was-- one of the people you interviewed said the jockeying is going to start immediaty. i guess oit mark meadows. what kind of jockeying? what are we look at? >> get ready.go we are nog to have an answer who will be the next speaker any time soon. judy, this isn't just a race for the speakership. because the tbhox in line are w,nning against each other, essentially right hat means all five of the top republican leadership spots in the house are up for grabs. so then you could have a five-way, 10-way, 12-way kind of race, many dierent members trying to get involved, m

myth of paul ryan is the opposite of what paul ryan did. which should make us examine our myths. whatever you think of congressman ryan, speaker ryan, whether you bought into the myth in the first place, it's inescapably true that he failed at achieving the goals he set for himself day one and that everybody cheered him on as being capable of achieving as a republican party leader. he did the opposite. and now he'ser leaving saying he's pretty much done with what he wanted to do. the second house speaker to quit in the space of three years. john boehnerer stepped down in 2015. his post congress life has seemed pretty awesome. it's been mostly golfing and giving occasional interviews of how pleased he is to not be in congress. occasionally sent out dispatches from the rv. been a low-profile retirement for the last republican speaker of the house to quit. but then today turned out to be an awkward day to suddenly turn around and say hey, i wonder what john boehner is up to right now? what happened to the last one? tod today ended up being an

speaker ryan: good morning. i wanted to share with you a little of what i just told my colleagues a few minutes ago. you realize something when you take this job. it's a big job with a lot riding on you and you feel it but you know this is a job that does not last forever. you realize that you hold the office for just a small part of our history so you better make the most of it. it's fleeting. and that inspires you to do big things. and on that score i think we have achieved a heck of a lot. you all know i did not seek this job. i took it reluctantly but i had given this job everything i have. and i have no regrets whatsoever for having accepted this responsibility. this has been one of the two greatest honors of my life. the job provides incredible opportunities. the truth is, it's easy for it to take over everything in your life and you can't just let that happen because there are other things in life that can be fitting as well. namely, your time as a husband and a dad which is the other great honor of my li

ryan is a walk.e wants to sit in a room, he wants to roll out numbers, work the policy, he wants a white house that picks it up and sends to it the senate. that's the old-fashioned way. it hasn't happened that way. >> instead he is having to pick up the phone and say why did you tweet you are going the veto the bill that we just -- and then manage the white house. it's not how the job is supposed to be. >> the other thing i have been thinking about today i remember being in the oval office with president obama after his conversation with speaker boehner when he announced he was resigning. and they had a discussion they described as cleaning out the barn. there were things he wanted to do before he left. raise the debt ceiling and pass the budget agreement. and he did get some of those things done before he left. it raises questions of how speaker ryan uses his time before he leaves office. right now his legacy is not good and the deficit picture has gotten worse since he has been speaker. the questio

paul ryan will not run for reelection, caitlin. this may not be a big surprise but it's a very big deal. >> sure and the timing is extremely significant. there have been rumors of course that he was planning to step down but by announcing this now, it raises a lot of questions about, you know, him being a lame duck for the next several months. what a republican congress can do in that time especially heading into a midterm let alone the message that it sends about the house republicans chances of losing the house in november that was already a precarious situation, this certainly sends a signals and i'm wondsering if it might send signals to other republicans who were on the fence about retiring, maybe they're thinking about retiring too. on the other hand -- not to mention the fund-raising component too. ryan has been a prolific and profound fund raiser for republicans, raising millions and millions of dollars. very effective. can he be that effective now in the next few months? on the other hand, i'm wondering if it could empower

paul ryan should have told him to. there was not enough in that bill to justify and put everyone on the loin with. >> i agree you have to understand that the senate and the negotiation gave us not the military money and 63 billion dollars of nondefense deceptionary spending. >> your colleagues -- know that this was a mistake. >> they know it. >> we have a heart breaker. anyway we can condition for another segment. still to come. >> the ryan kid celebrating. >> i love them they are great people it is trump's party. i'm okay with that. sean duffy's party. ben and more group think on college campuses. >> and he want unseen segment we expose what is going on behind the cultural stories. topics run the gammet from the media blackout and prolife walk outs and the mayor of london calling for knife control after the murder rate passed new york. we are with best selling author, raymond aarroyo. knife control. >> the mayor london knife control. this is the same man rescinding the policy of accepting and policy of people who migh

paul ryan, you know, on paper paul ryan, if you're a conservative paul ryan is a perfect member of congress always been with him his need to sort of bring not only his caucus together but the entire house together to get thinkings passed and he suddenly becomes not so conservative, and a lot of bad ideas float to the top. it presents what the real problem is, running the house in these days. stuart: you have a split party in the house. that's a fact. sara fischer, axios website. you broke this story. you have got very good sources. what were the sources telling you as the reason for paul ryan stepping down? >> i mean it has been a chaotic time for paul ryan at the house. look, he has had to deal with not only majority which you would think is helpful but a president sometimes went against his own majority which can be incredibly challenging. the other thing paul ryan faces potentially a democratic takeover in november. sources are telling axios this could have big implication what donors are thinking for november. if they think ryan's out and that the republicans will lose the house, the in

it has ryan's colleagues jockeying for position in the race to replace him. we have fox team coverage from capitol hill. peter doocy looks at what ryan's retirement may mean for the midterms among a roster of republican incumbents deciding not to run again. we start off with chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel on announcement most people did not see coming, at least not today. >> good evening to you. the demands of being house speaker huge in terms of fund-raising, travel, overall stress. >> paul ryan says he's had enough. >> much work remains. i like to think i have done my part, my little part in history to set us on a better course. >> a source says ryan made the final decision with his wife over easter recess and that as recently as february ryan considered running for another

ryan, yes. paul ryanism, it's going to have to take a backseat to trumpism because with this stepping down by the speaker with the vacancies that are being created due to early retirements, and the like, donald trump has clearly secured the party. you don't retire when you have the majority. you don't retire when you think the prospect of someone on this program have come out and said, we look good going into november and we're going to look forward to holding the leadership going. you don't retire if that's your narrative. the narrative is quite honestly very different from that. paul ryan knows it. the leadership knows it. how paul ryan plays a role in shaping the next six or seven months for this party to try the save the house becomes important. i don't know if the incentive is really there at this point. >> another thing that struck me is that relationship between the speaker and the president. what we have seen with trump and ryan is different than when bill clinton was president with tom

wisconsin, of course, being paul ryan's home state, and it wasn't until after that that ryan again, reluctantly got onboard. both of those factors and going back to the idea that ryan never wanted to be speaker, part of the reason for that was because also his family. you know, it really is as i like to call it, f-4 on the computer for a politician when they're leaving that they say -- >> yes? >> stand by for one moment and i want to go to capitol hill. >> how is the gop conference here on that issue? should he fire -- >> i -- >> i can tell you the president is not talking about firing mueller. i've had conversations with the president. he is not talking about it so any suggestion otherwise is not based on -- >> have you talked to him recently? >> i talked to him this morning. >> have you talked to him reese leent about firing -- >> i don't want to comment on my conversations with the president, but do i talk to the president on a regular basis, and i can tell you he is not talking about firing bob mueller. i mean, now is he very frustrated with the process and the fact that this continues to g

i think paul ryan feels like he accomplished what he could in the time he was there. people like mark meadows have been very upset with ryan and the spending bills he passed. ryan built his career on the idea to reduce the deficit and disappointed in the fact that all the bills he passed have

now paul ryan is out. it should be set up front i have known paul ryan for a long time. he's a stand-up person. he is a man of deep faith. he's a man committed to his family which he said was the reason for his retirement. >> all three of our kids are teenagers. i realize if i'm here for one more term, my kids will only have ever known me as a weekend dad. i just can't let that happen. >> laura: on a personal level, this makes perfect sense. remember, ryan excepted the speakership with a lot of reluctance. on the political level, this reveals the schism between the establishment wing of the party and the conservative populist trump wing. let's not forget how tortured and outright critical ryan was of trump before and after his nomination. >> this is not conservatism. what was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for and more importantly, is not what this country stands for. >> you have said throughout the process that you will support the republican presidential nominee. now you have a presumptive nominee, donald trump. will you support him? >> well, to be pe

especially those in ryan's class. the romney small government republicans of which he was sort of the type will look around and say maybe this isn't my party anymore. if paul ryan is not sticking around with everything that comes from being speaker, why should i. i think it could potentially have significant ripple effects into 2018 and i think we'll start to see that over the next couple weeks. we're going to hit filing dead laines relatively soon. >> the phone lines are burning up at the rnc and dnc and elsewhere. thank you for that. on this businey morning, we hav another big breaking story. president trump just telegraphed exactly what the u.s. military is poised to do in syria and he did it in a tweet with a serious snub to russia on top. russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at syria. get ready russia. because they will be coming nice and new and smart. you shouldn't be partners with a gas killing animal who kills his people skpen joys it. we have assembled a team of reporters and experts to unpac

ryan is here. we're putting together another delicious dish. ryan, love having you here.e did saute pans. and we did a baking sheet. it's everything all in one. we did our spatchcock chicken here. >> clarify. >> cutting the backbone out. it's grilled and opened up. this cooks faster, hoda. you break the backbone down and it tocooks quicker in the oven. >> for the next time you make that. >> thanksgiving, christmas. >> i love the salsa verde you top it with. >> look at you, chefy. >> we have capers, garlic, baby kale, lots of green stuff here. parsley, basil, and some salt, pepper and red chili. am i supposed to use all that? >> yes. that's why it was there. >> and lemon zest. >> the spatchcock chicken, if you have a whole chicken in the often, it doesn't get crispy all the way around. you can ask your butcher to take the backbone out. >> is it hard to do it yourself? >> just kitchen shears. and this is a chiropractor for chicken. >> unnecessary. nope. >> the chicken is dead. it doesn't feel it. >> he made me do it before. it's easy to cut out the bone and break its back.

and too often, paul ryan did not answer the call of history. >> paul ryan's story is painful one. i was on capitol hill yesterday morning when the news came over people's phones that the announcement was coming. republicans even people who had been with paul ryan that morning in the house gym said they were surprised that it was coming now. in this way. as i look at paul ryan, you know him better than most people, joe, just seems to me this was somebody never really wanted to be speaker. he was reluctant. he had seen what had happened to john boehner. he had seen the basic impossibility of controlling and containing a party that was imploding. he wasn't able to do it. he could never deal with the pressures of his own party. he likes to say his legacy is the tax bill. his legacy, i think will be the $1 trillion deficit we're going to have by 2020, according to the latest projections. what a strange thing for a fiscal conservative to have presided over this ballooning of spending and fiscal policy that most conservatives would reject. but from the beginning this was the reluctant sp

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ryan did not respond to a request for an interview, but cnn's jake cap are asked ryan on wednesday whethercould consider running for higher office. 'i'm not going to run for president. that's not my plan. i'm always going to advocate for the causes i have. no plans for running for anything, and i don't think i will change my mind. 'ut governor -- my mind. " your thoughts on the retirement of paul ryan. before your calls, let's hear from paul ryan on among the reasons for his retirement announcement. ryan: it is almost hard to believe, but i have been a member of congress for two decades. my kids weren't even born when i was first elected. our oldest was 13 years old when i became speaker. now all three of our kids are teenagers. one thing i've learned about their idea of an ideal weekend is not to spend all of their time with their parents. what i realize is if i am here for one more term, my kids will only have ever known me as a weekend dad. i just can't let that happen. i will be setting new priorities in my life, but i will also be leaving incredibly proud of what we've accomplished. s

speaker ryan: yes. most speakers don't go out on their own terms, tip o'neill is probably the last one. harry reid announced he wouldn't run again and that's what i'm going to do reporter: you got our long-sought tax reform approved, your biggest accomplishment but you're not result, around for its the deficit. speaker ryan: entitlement reform is something i've worked on my entire career. i'm proud that we passed the biggest entitlement reform in the house of representatives. do i regret that the senate didn't pass this yes? -- this yet? yes. i'm very proud of the fact but of course more work needs to be done. it is entitlements. that's where the work needs to be done, i'll keep fighting for that. >> mr. speaker, did the chance you might not be speaker come november if democrats possibly take the house factor at all? speaker ryan: no. none whatsoever. you all know me. i didn't take this job to get the gavel in the first place, i'm not a guy who thinks of it like that. this was two things. i have accompl

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ryan said he's retiring to spend more time with his family, but many have cited ryan's frequent clashes with president donald trump. more than 40 house republicans have announced they will resign or retire this year, including nine committee chairs. during a wednesday morning news conference, ryan downplayed republicans' concerns that his departure could add to a blue wave of democratic gains in november. >> i gave it some consideration, but i really do not believe whether i stay or go in 2019 is going to affect a persons individual race for congress. i don't think a person's race for congress is going to hinge on whether paul ryan is bigger or not. amy: top contenders to replace ryan as republican house leader are the majority leader kevin mccarthy of california and the house majority whip steve scalise of louisiana. we will have more on paul ryan's retirement from congress later in the broadcast. home,ents who raided the hotel room, and offices of president trump's personal attorney michael cohen were seeking clues about how cohen worked with the trump campaign in 2016 to suppress neg

paul: there's a lot of commentary particularly from the left that paul ryan, the paul ryan party, politicalarty is now dead with his departure. it's now donald trump's party. so the growth wing, the jack kemp wing, the reagan wing of the party, the inclusive wing is now dead. what -- how do you respond to that? >> i think that's wishful thinking. i think that's the left saying what it wants to have happen, not what is really happening. look, paul set an example. he helped not only draw into politics a lot of new young people who are, who share his aspirations for the kind of republican party that he wants, but also helped persuade some of his colleagues of longstanding that they had to help take these timeless principles of conservativism and apply them to the challenges the country faces in a confident and optimistic way. and we wouldn't have gotten tax reform had we not had that kind of leadership, because he was asking -- with kevin brady, the chairman of the ways and mes committee -- they were asking their colleagues to do difficult things and go home and explain them, and they did. no,

nobody is raising money like that for republicans in house races the way paul ryan is. that's a critical component of this. and quite frankly, having a leadership battle inside the conference during an election year can be distracting for the party when they're focus needs to be on staving off a potential blue wave and making sure that democrats don't win the 23 seats that they need to win for the majority. >> this will not help them hold the house. that statement is obvious at this point. david, that's the future. the now we're getting some new information, paul ryan says he wants to spend more time with his family. he's got his tax cut but another reason that he is not running for reelection and this is due to reporting from sources close to the speaker, is he's had enough of dealing with president trump and by that i think it means it's got to be exhausting for house speaker paul ryan who every time the president does something controversial, tweets something controversial he has got to answer for it one way or another and it seems that he finally reached his limit o

. >>> paul ryan will retire at the end of the year. in the interview with jake tapper, he said he is leaving to go home to his family. he said the mid terms played no part in hissing this. >> i was able -- in his thinking. >> i am able to do this because we have been able to accomplish what we needed to accomplish. i feel content and confident. >> ryan denied he is leaving because of the difficult relationship with president trump. >> we're very different people. i'm from the upper midwest. not from new york. we are from a different generation. we have different styles. what we learned after we got to know each other. we had a lot of friction in our relationship. what we learned is a common agenda and we want to get it done and we know it will make a difference. that is what we were elected to do. >> paul ryan rose to prominence as a sharp pencil deficit hawk. he touted his role in the tax cuts. he helped pass the tax cuts to balloon the deficit in 2020. ryan's departure is a real blow to republicans who saw him as a stable policy driv

ryan said he's retiring to spend more time with his family, but many have cited ryan's frequent clashes with president donald trump. more than 40 house republicans have announced they will resign or retire this year, including nine committee chairs. during a wednesday morning news conference, ryan downplayed republicans' concerns that his departure could add to a blue wave of democratic gains in november. >> i gave it some consideration, but i really do not believe whether i stay or go in 2019 is going to affect a persons individual race for congress. i don't think a person's race for congress is going to hinge on whether paul ryan is bigger or not. amy: top contenders to replace ryan as republican house leader are the majority leader kevin mccarthy of california and the house majority whip steve scalise of louisiana. we will have more on paul ryan's retirement from congress later in the broadcast. home,ents who raided the hotel room, and offices of president trump's personal attorney michael cohen were seeking clues about how cohen worked with the trump campaign in 2016 to suppress neg

the question becomes who will succeed ryan? the next two behind him in leadership are the house majority leader kevin mccarthy and majority whip steve scalise. neither has said yet they would want to be the speaker. the attention will shift to who then becomes the third most powerful in the united states government between president trump and vice president pence? >> sandra: peter doocy on that breaking news. >> bill: immediate reaction now senator john thune the republican live from the hill. good morning to you, senator. quick notice here the news is breaking. what do you have to add on paul ryan's future? >> well, i think that, you know, it's something that has been talked about for a long time and obviously he has a young family. i think probably wants to spend more time with them. i'm sure the speaker of the house, which i have think is the hardest job probably in the world, is eventually sort of wears on you. but he is a great talent.

that's not paul ryan's fault. it's probably one of the reasons why the president worked well with the speaker. kennedy: are you retiring? >> not yet, kennedy. kennedy: aknow a lot of people are heading for the exits, including dennis ross. >> dennis has been a great conservative and i'm really going to miss pim. but look, a lot of people are leaving washington because this is a place where we're not getting enough done and we've got to have fighters willing to stay here and ensure that we don't engage in the greatest wave of generational theft and that's going to require republicans acting like republicans again. kennedy: if the president in fact fires bob mueller, what will the republicans do? how will they line up? >> i think he should fire rod rosenstein. and i think it's tragic that in the united states senate an institution that couldn't come together to pass a repeal of obamacare or fund a border wall is all of the sudden unifying around bob mueller. it's sure that the president and deep and dangerous waters

paul ryan...aps one consequence is that our champion —— people will think, our champion fundraiser will not be around any more. that will not be around any more. that will not be around any more. that will not be good news for the republicans. that is why you have got people saying that this is the nightmare scenario. we will see. mark zuckerberg is 33. the senators interviewing him yesterday were almost twice his age. that proved to be a disadvantage not an advantage. quite often they sounded like theyjust didn't understand what they were talking about. the stock market certainly seemed to think so. facebook‘s share price rose steadily as mr zuckerberg answered questions about privacy — about propaganda on his social media platform. he's been back again today — admitting his own personal data was compromised in the cambridge analytica breach. he also agreed that internet companies need some regulation but urged caution. i think a lot of times regulation by definition put in place rules that a com

paul ryan did not started. that's not how it began. >> i think we need a person that can bring the entire conference together. a unifier. someone who recognizes that we are a great nation moving forward. and we have quite a few leaders in that regard. steve scully's, kevin mccarthy and perhaps others as well, harris. >> harris: moving into the midterm election, what type of support would you like to see the speaker gift? he's raising a lot of money for the party. >> we want to be as competitive as possible. this is an indication that we have an excellent chance of retaining our majority. we recognize it at the midterm, we have to be careful in that regard and certainly, i think he will be committed to making sure that's the case. >> harris: when you say you have to be careful, what do you mean? what is the headwind you are facing? >> usually midterm elections, the party involving the presidency doesn't have as many seats reelected but i am confident we will retain our majority. >> harris: deploying the presiden

do you think the free man paul ryan in these last months will be different than the paul ryan that's already been governing? >> i don't think so because of the fact that the republican conference in the house as david was mentioning is in lockstep in many ways with the president. they come from districts in which the president is very popular which is one reason why ryan has had a challenge from challenging president trump because he knows if he were to do that and confront president trump on any number of issues he will get pushback significantly from his conference which is one reason why perhaps it was that you're not going to see this fight because they need the president, they need his supporters in order to have any chance of keeping the house in november. >> absolutely. manu, david, great to see you. what an amazing morning this has been. a quick programming note for everybody. paul ryan will be joining jake tapper this afternoon on "the lead." that starts at 4:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. don't miss that. coming up for us, new reports. the president is considering shaki

known as a policy wonk, ryan was a fast-rising star. the republican 2012 nominee for vice president. then at 45, the youngest speaker in more than a century but then came donald trump's unexpected win. after ryan had disavowed the "access hollywood" tape. >> i'm not going to defend donald trump, not now, not in the future. >> reporter: since then, they worked together to pass tax reform but ryan had to defend the president at every turn. >> absolutely he's helped with tax reform. do i wish he would tweet less? of course i do. he knows that but that's something i don't mind controlling. that's not something that will change. >> reporter: but ryan couldn't escape the building blue wave. democrats need 23 seats to win back the house in the midterm elections. ryan deciding to exit on his terms before voters had the chance to strip his gavel this fall. >> the blow to the morale of republican house members has got to be pretty dramatic, especially given how difficult this political environment already was. >> reporter: ryan's exit will spark

ryan: yes. look, i know most speakers don't go out on their own terms, but harry reid just last session did this. that is exactly what i am going to do. reporter: when you say the tax code is your biggest accomplishment, you do not mention the $1 trillion deficit. rep. ryan: i'm extremely proud of the fact that the house passed the biggest entitlement reform bill ever considered. do i regret the fact that the senate did not pass this? yes, but i feel that from all the budget i have passed, normalizing entitlement reform and the house passing entitlement reform, i am very proud of that fact. but yes, more work needs to be done, and it really is entitlements. i will keep fighting for that. rep. ryan: did the chance -- >> 50 chance that you might not b -- did the chance that you might be speaker if the democrats take the house come november factor into your decision at all? rep. ryan: not at all. i am not a guy who thinks like that. i have a compass much of what i came here to do, and my kids aren'