ryan had nothing to do with his wife's death. >> ryan's defense attorney argued ryan was plagued by his words on the 911 call. >> she falls asleep in the tub all the time. >> that sets the alarms going. >> exactly. >> in other words, had ryan told the 911 dispatcher only that his wife was unconscious, nothing would be suspicious. >> they jump on that and say he's a liar. >> he had no idea she had unusual sleep habits. he had no idea that she was suffering from a headache that day. >> remember, an expert witness for the prosecution had said it would have been impossible for sarah to fall asleep and die in the tub. but those who knew her sleep habits say it may have been an undiagnosed medical condition. sarah's boss testified her quirky sleep habits were well-known around the office. >> she would normally grab a quick lunch, go out to her car and take a nap for 30, 45 minutes. it was odd. >> the dentist recollected that sarah had not been feeling well. >> she had a sore throat. >> she was still not feeling well later that day. >> she had a headache and the back of her neck was hurting. s

paul ryan didn't. he drug his feet. interview the next day and said i'm just not there yet. eventually he found a way to get there. as i reflect on these moments, craig, it's easy to say people are being due police tis and they should have spoken up. there is a class of leadership that are responsible for normalizing this president. with all of the president's behavior, they spoke out about it, the never trumpers spoke out against it. what gave the president normalcy was the silence of people like paul ryan and the silence of mitch mcconnell. the republican elected leaders across the country, the republican finance group that decided in their silence they would give a nod to this president and work with him, that is what created normalcy for this president. >> ryan, as you know congressman jolly, refused to go out and campaign with then candidate trump in the wake of the access hollywood tapes. but he chose to say very little during his time as house speaker during trump's presidency. you served with him. i mean, could

paul ryan looked like a guy with a spine. >> he did.ry he disinvited the president, the nominee from his own event, and told reince priebus we have to get him off the ticket and had a conference call where he said i'm done with him. that was a decisive moment but not decisive in the way a lot of us thought it would be this is -- a lot of people don't like to hear but the tragedy of ryan, republicans caved into donald trump, who they compromised their values and their principles but what makes ryan different is he knew better he always knew who donald trump was. he knew what donald trump was all about. he was privately disgusted about it he didn't have a different opinion than jennifer and i had about donald trump so in a lot of ways, his is the most disappointing and hard to defend >> thank you for joining me tonight. we'll be back with richard engel what it looks like on trump's other side of the trade war with china. hmm. exactly. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. nice. but, uh... what's

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and paul ryan has never liked trump. and that is just the fact of the matter. they patched it up for a couple of years to get a few things done and now that that is over, paul ryan is telling the world how he really feels but for people it seems a little too little too late. >> and now you spend your career in national security and the reports that we're getting that the director of national intelligence dan coats may be the next senior trump administration official to be removed. >> and we don't need another acting cabinet-level official and we have four with the acosta resignation but when it comes to the director of national intelligence, it is largely irrelevant who is fit -- who is filling that seat. we have a lame duck dni in dan coats. president trump puts more trust in vladimir putin than dan coats and trump is the ultimate client for the intelligence community. he's not looking for a director of national intelligence he's looking for someone to fit his political talking point so if dan coats leaves, whoever come

ryan: 1:30. sen.o what i am proposing is that they be the jobs.in line to get those that their convictions not prevent them from having access to an industry where they can support themselves and their families! [applause] rep. harris: it is on the right. ms. ryan: 1:10 to close. gone.ime is [laughter] sen. harris: there is so much to talk about. i invite everyone to look at our harris.org.mala part of the issues and want to deal with are the issues of homeownership and closing the wealth gap in the united states. we know there is a history from back in world war ii, when people are coming back for more, and the united states government, we will help to build the middle class, and gave all these promotions and money to returning veterans, but black veterans were excluded from that. look at the history of redlining. where black folks here in detroit were excluded from homeownership, when of the greatest sources of wealth from any family in america. then you look at the foreclosure crisis, that dispropo

after ryan criticized president in the new book "american carnage," ryan suggested his retirement washat he calls an escape patch to avoid serving another two years with trump. here is the president reeearlie today. >> former paul ryan was not a leader. when people in freedom and great congressman wanted to go after the dems for things that they did badly, he would not give subpoenas where as nancy pelosi hands it out like they are cookies. paul ryan was a lame duck for a long time as speaker. he was unable to raise money. he lost control of the house. the only successful paul ryan had was the time he was with me. >> well, he did not pull any punches. joining me to discuss, mark mckinnon. you said it was a matter of time where trump attacked paul ryan. you actually agreed with him on this one, tell me why. >> it was an arranged marriage from the beginning. p paul ryan which was never going to work with trump, paul ryan gave some bad advice to start the administration by making sure that legislatively he'll start with the healthcare bill which created an incredible volatility with the

brian: here is leo ryan.ongressman ryan: all of you know i'm here to find out about your allegations here. i can tell you now the few conversations i have had, with some of the folks this evening, whatever the findings are, there are people here who believe this is the best thing that ever happened to them their whole life. [applause] [end of video clip] brian: where were you? rep. speier: i was sitting in the back of the pavilion at a picnic table with a bench. both of us have been sitting back there and interviewing members of the people's temple who had family members back home. they wanted us to deliver letters or talk to their children or young adults and try and assess whether or not they were being held against their will. that particular clip you just showed, the pandemonium that broke out in terms of the fervor of the applause was unnatural. it was alarming to me. brian: so you did not -- were you nervous at this time? rep. speier: i was nervous before we made the trip. in the book i talk about the f

president trump unloading on paul ryan after ryan basically said he doesn't have a clue. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with the politics lead. president trump on defense unloading at the white house as another cabinet secretary leaves the administration under the shadow of scandal, this time labor secretary alex acosta claiming he's leaving willingly to he is not a distraction but privately president trump was stewing over the unwanted attention to the trump administration and the president was worried about the steady stream of revelations to come involving the 2008 plea deal acosta brokers with well-connected multi-millionaire and accused child rapist jeffreyef steen. and president trump went from praising acosta to questioning why the victims had not been notified about that plea agreement ahead of time as mandated by law. and that is a key request many of us have been asking and a federal judge in february found should have been done. ruling that acosta broke the law. as kaitlan collins reports, the exit comes as president trump is weighing whether another

ryan young is near new orleans where the worst may be yet to come. ryan, what can we expect?ut the water next to me, this is the mississippi. already 10 feet of water in this area than should be expected this time of year. we've seen flooding all across america from the mississippi, now when you think about all this rain that could be headed this direction, we're talking about 10 to 15 inches. when you talk to residents, depending on what side of town they're on, we have different opinions. they said they believe the levees will hold, when you go to other sections of the city, they bring up wednesday and the idea they had that torrential downpour for several hours that left cars flooded in the street. today there was a conference that was supposed to come to town, they've been told to leave. at the airport, there are lines stretching around the building. you look back at this direction, think about all the water that's here, and all the water that could be headed this way, businesses downtown have already started deploying sandbags in front of their doors to make sure they're

when president trump was in a position to help ryan, help ryan get his agenda passed, in a position ofer, paul ryan was more than happy to suck it up and cozy up and actually help facility what the president was doing, and some of the presidents worst -- he was perfectly happy to do that, now that paul ryan is out of office, and the president has nothing to give to him any more, he has found his moral compass. >>> tropical storm barry. it's bearing down on louisiana, possibly packing more than a foot of rain. apply that same speed to the ford hurry up and save sales event. for the first time ever get 20% estimated savings on select ford models, plus earn complimentary maintenance through fordpass rewards. it all adds up. don't you love math? so get here asap because tasty deals and summer go fast. get in or lose out on 20% estimated savings on select ford models, plus earn complimentary maintenance through fordpass rewards. today's senior living communities have never been better, with amazing amenities like movie theaters, exercise rooms and swimming pools, public cafes, bars and bist

paul ryan talked about a number of issues. specifically the president's own commentary and the president's governing skills. he said, i told myself i got to have a relationship with this guy to help him get his mind right. because i'm telling you, he didn't know anything about government. i wanted to scold him all the time. >> and yet he didn't. go figure. i guess i think this is you can add paul ryan to the long list of people who have left donald trump's either service or working partnership in some fashion and who then go on to talk about how they were really trying behind the scenes to change everything and that's why they didn't say anything publicly. paul ryan was clearly not that supportive of the president. there were any number of times he was not -- during the campaign he was not with him. he was critical at points. and i think that he did less than others have in terms of trying to be warm during one setting and then after they've parted ways, being critical. but i don't -- this is not a surprise if you were watchin

watch this. >> paul ryan let us down. paul ryan was a terrible speaker, frankly he was a baby.'t know what hell he was doing. cortez should treat nancy pelosi with respect. she should not be doing what she's doing. and i'll tell you something about nancy pelosi, that you know better than i do, she is not a racist. okay. she is not a racist. for them to call her a racist is a disgrace. >> so you're reaction? >> first of all, probably not internal democratic politics being defended by president trump is probably not the ally you want out there saying that. whether he's correct or not. so that is at the -- not the high-profile political person nancy pelosi wants making the case for her. on the tim alberta book, i read this book and it is a fantastic book and filled with nuggets like that. and, look, paul ryan left the scene now and he's pretty free to speak. but classic trump coming -- paul ryan making a fairly measured criticism of the president and trump hitting him back twice as hard with a sort of school yard taunt. >> we shouldn't, abby, be surprised the president reacts the

a man like paul ryan does not often come along. >> that tribute.saw a tweet storm yesterday where donald trump went after him calming him a failed vp candidate whose record achievement was atrocious and a lame duck failure and he did not know how to win and blew it and had bad timing. it is just -- kind of nasty politics on twitter. >> we don't know it would have made a difference in paul ryan would speak out loudly. would that have been the case if there had been an alternative vision. if somebody like paul ryan had articulated, you know, less of this and less isolationists and all of the trumpian characteristi characteristics. there would have been a local remnant of people saying we are not buying into this. paul ryan must be looking around saying what did i get from all the appeasement? i got the tax cuts but going forward, i got nothing. >> the president really picked off from the democrats. >> well, it is interesting being in wisconsin, none of the c candidates are making the mistakes of not coming here. as i came down to the studio, there is

the only success paul ryan had was the time that he was with me. paul ryan let us down.errible speaker. frankly, he was a baby, he didn't know what the hell he was doing. >> jeff, what do you make of the president's criticism of ryan? is it fair? >> number one, president trump doesn't like to be criticized himself, so if somebody turns on him and be it someone like paul ryan with whom he had a working relationship, he had to have one or be it someone on the other side of the political spectrum and when he gets attacked, he attacks back and that's a classic response right there and one quibble i would point out in terms of fact checking when he said that paul ryan wasn't able to raise money. that's not true. paul ryan was a major fund-raiser during his team as speaker and the president doesn't like to see this reflection coming out later that's critical of him and i don't think -- doug might have more insight on this than i and i don't think people are that surprised to hear some of what the former speaker is saying and it's not words that president trump wants to see in

as soon as trump wins ryan recognizes that he has a choice.f you are a paul ryan if you are a jim matters if you're a rex tillerson if you're an h.r. mcmaster. a lot of these folks felt like look we have to have adults in the room around this guy because if you think it's bad now imagine if a bunch of his sycophants and enablers were the ones who were surrounding him in the west wing every day. and so we might not buy that argument. you might think that's a copout but paul ryan would tell you look if there weren't this group of fivor sixf us who were sort of buffering him from his own worst instincts then. everything you're seeing today could be infinitely worse. soledad: i don't give it much credence right because-- they don't take opportunities to call out things that are horrible and that that our values that their whole lives they said that they're against. i mean at some point you have to stand up for a thing-- tim: there's a breaking point-- soledad: that's the entire point-- tim: you would think. soledad : and then when what is what is

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again, paul ryan let us down. paul ryan was a terrible speaker. frankly, he was a baby. he didn't know what the hell he was doing. the wall let us down. now, in all fairness, the problem with -- when we had both houses, in the senate, you need 60 votes. well, we don't have 60 votes. we had 51 last time. now we have 53 because we won during the 2018 election, which nobody wants to say, so you understand. so the wall is being built. we had one set back. we had one victory. i had one tremendous victory that was very rarely covered by the press. two days ago, i won the emoluments case. that was the biggest case of all. i won the emoluments case. people don't know, by my being president, i lose billions of dollars -- and especially money i can't make because i don't do deals. but i lose billions of dollars. another thing. i get a salary of $400,000 or $450,000 a year. i don't think any other president ever gave it up -- it's a lot of money. almost half a million dollars. i give it up. i don't think i've anybody say i give up my salary. i am not looking for credit. but i give

♪ >> paul ryan was not a talent. he wasn't a leader.ame duck for a long time asking speaker. i deal with nancy pelosi a lot, and we go back and forth, and it's fine. but i think that a group of people is being very disrespectful to her. and you know what? i don't think that nancy can let that go on. blake: president trump today trashing the former house speaker, the republican paul ryan, and defending the current house speaker, the democrat nancy pelosi. this comes amid in-fighting in the democratic ranks between pelosi and some of the progressive freshmen congress l l -- congresswomen and after a book was released in which ryan was none too kind about the president. with me now is "the wall street journal" editorial board's mary anastasia o'grady. mary, it's good to speak with you. this one sort of came out of left field as there was a book that was released by tim alberta of "the washington post" in which paul ryan said of the president at one point in the book, quote, i'm telling you, he didn't know anything about government. speakin

oh, no >> jimmy: yeah, here's ryan reynolds in "fifteen. look at this ♪ [ chrs and applause >> oh. billy. t >> jimmy: who played drums >> who played the drums -- i was actually -- i was actually just a life support system hooked up to teeth at that age [ laughter ] i was like - it's like, wow that's amazing >> jimmy: you really had a good set of choppers back then. >> yea >> jimmy: yeah >> i guess you kind of grow into your teeth. [ laughter ] >>s.immy: that's what happen i want to talk about "pokemon detective pikachu. >> you're excited, yes >> jimmy: yeah i am excited [ cheers and applause i love pokemon i saw this trailer in front of - i forget what movie i took my kids to, and it crushed. >> yeah. >> jimmy: and i was like, "oh, my god, that's ryan. >> it's amazing. yeah, it's an amazing movie. >> jimmy: it's really great. and you know - you also, the way you market your movies, i'm a big fan of the way you do this. because you always make it interesting and a little different >> yeah.is >> jimmy: you put th, like, making of -- like, a fake "inside the actors studio" thing, onli

people weren't buying, it including then house speaker paul ryan. remember ryan was supposed to have an event with the president the next day. ryan quickly called reince priebus to tell him that wasn't happening. he didn't want to be on the same stage as trump, and shortly after ryan put out a public statement saying he was sickened by what he heard. at the same time several republicans publicly started to abandon trump. remember this was all unfolding in realtime. congressman jason chaffetz even called into this show to say that he would no longer support his own presidential nominee. >> these are abhorrent. they are wrong. to use a baseball metaphor. i've got to call balls and strikes the way i see them, and, you know, my wife julie and i, we've got a 15-year-old daughter. do you think i can look her in the eye and tell her that i endorse donald trump for president when he acts like this and his apology? that was no apology. that an apology for getting caught to. say that bill clinton did it and did it worse. that should have been wrong behavior.

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speaker ryan is a very good friend of mine. i have watched what he's been able to achieve with this president. tax reform that has not been done in 30 years. all those statistics i laid off for you in the economics of where it was, was a team that was built. i have watched what -- you are quoting something based upon a book that i have not read and hadn't talkeding to speaker ryan. i know that's not the words of what he would use because i have been in rooms with him and with the president. these are two individuals who worked very well together. i know someone can take a language out. in there they talk about mr. ryan talking about the president coming from business. that's exactly what america needed a president who could come in and shake up washington. speaker ryan was perfect in the job where he was at. the knowledge of what he had. that combination together was able -- we made sure in this congress that we got tax reform done. remember this, article 1, section 7 tax reform doesn't start in the senate. it starts in the hou

but for paul ryan to be complaining is pretty amazing. in wisconsin, a state that i won, where i stood up and made a speech, and then i introduced him and they booed him off the stage, 10,000 people. >> the president's attack follows recently published comments ryan made to politico's tim alberta for his upcoming book. ryan speaks frankly about his governing record saying, quote, we've gotten so numbed by it all, not in government but where we live our lives, we have a responsibility to try to rebuild. don't call a woman a horse face, don't cheat on your wife. don't cheat on anything. be a good person. set a good example. back with me now former chief communications adviser for paul ryan brendan buck. thanks so much for being here for this conversation. a lot of people i think are wondering why the former house speaker is speaking out e was a? >> well, for context he didn't do it now. this was an interview for a book that was quite a few months ago. this isn't the first time that he and the president had a spat. hopefully it's the last ti

ryan, what did you see that made you decide you wanted to get involved?> the large quantity of just everything that's going on with the backpacks, the backpack drive and the gifts during the christmas drive, that was overmi how large of an impact c help many people they serve through these times was something that may be coming back. >> at a personal level how gratifying is it being involved? >> there's no words to describe it, because i know that i'm helping so many kids, even if i just help one, it makes me feel great. since i'm helping so many, it makes me feel better. >> yes, it's kind of crucial to have people not only volunteering but volunteering with that spirit. >> absolutely. we've had the opportunity to see folks like ryan come back year over year so it's wonderful to engage to see generation after ne so we have grandparents bringing their grandkids and parents bringing their kids, and we have it for both of our drives and so the beauty of our drive not only focuses on empathy and encouraging folks to understand that there say greater need here

ir laughter ) tim ryan-- is that his name, tim ryan. ryan had a weird way of connecting with the common man. >> we've got to talk about the working class issues, the people who take a shower after work. ( laughter ) >> stephen: that's a unique way to refer to working class voters. (as ryan) "i care about the people who shower after work! who come in and peel off their sweaty clothes in the garage, because they're dirty. they are so, so very dirt i. then they soap up and maybe the soap splashes off the sides of the glass in the shower. and it gets all steamy and soapy you can't see what's going on in there. then some of the water splashes on the glass and rolls down, and then, bam you can see all the way to christmas morning-- and you can tell they're into crossfit. i'm sorry, what was the question? what was... ( laughter ) john delaney kept talking about how the nominee shouldn't attempt anything too extreme. like, anything. and elizabeth warren had a rebuttal for that. >> i don't understand why any one goes to the trouble of running fo

reporter: did paul ryan prevent you from making decisions? president trump: so paul ryan wasn't a talent. he wasn't a leader. when the people in freedom and great congressmen wanted to go after the dems for things they did very badly, he wouldn't give subpoenas. whereas nancy pelosi hands them

that did not happen leases moment that stood out, tim ryan lecturing sanders to stop yelling.oment when mayor pete stood out saying having been a veteran in afghanistan he would -- we heard about immigration, we knew that would be a big part of it. listen to former montana governor steve bullock talking about playing into the president's hands on that issue. >> would you decriminalize illegal border crossings? >> the point is not about criminalization. that has given donald trump the tool to break families apart. >> you are playing into donald trump's hands, the challenge isn't that it is a little offense to cross the border. the challenge is that donald trump is president and using this to rip families apart. >> reporter: we can expect tonight for healthcare to be front and center again. medicare for all, kamala harris has put forth kamalacare, sanders in the lead up for tonight was attacking kamala harris's medicare for all. we will see what that brings and all eyes will be on the front runner still leading in the latest poll, joe biden at 33%. we will see what we get tonigh

you've got paul ryan on the record. we're seeing coming out in this book, you say this is very important for the republican party, why? >> the main reason is this is so often what we hear privately, very similar to the situation with the british ambassador. this i think really highlights, there's going to be a point where donald trump is not the president, is not leading the republican party. this to me prestages how the republican party could really fold in amongst itself and divide and ultimately could spell doom for the party long-term. and meanwhile it shows that donald trump does not care about the republican party that he leads unless it follow t him blindly. >> why do you say that? >> what we see is donald trump is your biggest fan as long as you're his fan. and the second something negative comes out, he goes after you. this should be a lesson to every republican member who goes out of their way to praise trump. he doesn't give points. he only takes them away one at a time. >> loyalty all the time, but that's ne

that is paul ryan's course and mission in government and when he was elected paul ryan was deflated.the president in a party he had lost control of even though he was the speaker of the house. >> you read tim's book, it's not just paul ryan by the way in the campaign during the access weekend, there's a report about how disgusted republicans were. you take the snapshot of the way that republicans felt that way and people walked away from him publicly and privately from donald trump and how he conducted himself when he became president of the united states, it's night and day. >> it's night and day. i have to say that paul ryan did have a choice. he had a choice every day. he was speaker of the house. a third only behind the vice president and the president. article i gives the speaker and the house of representatives extraordinary powers. paul had the power of the checkbook. and, you know, rev, when we were just little back benchers in congress we had a choice and we stood up to newt gingrich when we thought that newt was moving away from the things that we had campaigned on. and the

>> another question for ryan. with all of his research, does he have his own vision of what the next suit should look like? >> when you are mentioning aesthetics that is what i thought. i do not make real spacesuits. i make costumes, so that is kind of all i deal with. i notice a funny thing with spacesuit design. the first suits are always designed kind of in the way that they think they should be, like with science fiction. the x 15 suit and the mercury suit were silver. they really did not have to be silver, but i think the legend, scott crossfield saw that silver fabric on a table at the david clark company and said oh, that looks really cool. for pr, that should be what a suit should look like. over the course of gemini and apollo, they got rid of that. this is silly, we don't need that. i noticed with "the martian," the suit looks a lot like david dava newman's suit. the first things are what they think they should be, but i know it will evolve into what functionally it needs to be. that is kind of the excit

ryan is, paul ryan was the architect of attacking obamacare as the first thing that donald trump didthe box. that was a defining moment for the trump presidency in a bad way, not what the president wanted to do. i know that for a fact talking with the president. >> you're saying ryan was part of the problem? >> let me tell you something -- ryan is now trying to make himself look like, oh, i was the guy who was controlling everything. he was one of the propeller heads who got this president to go after obamacare as first thing out of the box, it was a major legislative failure out of the box. wasted a ton of political capital that the president could have spent on tax cuts and infrastructure. >> let me pick up, i didn't what to do this -- chris is right. it pains me. >> you guys are agreeing way too much. >> here's the tactical, had the president come out infrastructure it would have divided democrats. he came out with healthcare and it united us, it divided us from our base about working with him. it was a very major strategic mistake. but i also take note on all this, rex tillerson

paul ryan the failed vice president candidate.ck failure leaving his party in the lurch. when mitt romney chose poll i said that's the end that have presidential run. he quit congress because he didn't know how to win. they gave me standing os in the great state of wisconsin and booed him off the stage. he promised me the wall and failed. happening anyway. he had the majority and blew it away with his poor leadership and bad timing. never knew how to go after the dems like they go after us. couldn't get him out of congress fast enough. >> good god, how any of us can sleep at night knowing that this guy has the nuclear codes is beyond me. look, first of all, congratulations, tim alberta. trump tweeting against your book probably means that it's going to become a best-seller. i sure as hell am looking forward to reading it. on paul rink, i know him, and i think he -- i think it was a difficult period. i think he agonized about it. i think he put the interest of being the chair of the republican caucus in congress, the speaker of the

ryan: the tariffs, some of them i support. had steel dumped that put steelworkers out of business. they were cheating. but that is a tactical move. with china, we need a long-term strategy. secretary mattis put together a military strategy with china and ofsia, but we have no whole government, economic strategy with china. we've got to go through competition, outcompete them. you know about the belt road initiative, the islands in the south china sea, the pork in the middle east, the rail lines going to europe. what is our strategy? they've got a 1500 year plan. we've got a president who lives in a 24-hour news cycle. when i'm president, we will have a conversation around the renewable energy market. the american worker is building the battery and charging stations. same thing with solar. build thedominate and most solar panels? china controls 80% of that market. manufacturing, wind. a long-term strategy, bringing labor,stors, bringing in bringing in the government, and having a whole of government approach. taylor: you talked

arizona remarks. >> speaker ryan worked very hard. good speaker and he was a great speaker. speaker ryan is a very good friend of mine. i've watched what he's been able to achieve. i've watched what he's been able to achieve with this president. tax reform that has not been done in 30 years. all of those statistics as i laid off for you and the economic of where it was was a them that was built. i've watched what -- you're quoting something based on a book that i have not read and i haven't talked to speaker ryan, i know that's not the words of what he would use because i've been in rooms with him and with the president. >> you want to correct the record here, tim? >> yeah, it's on tape if he wants to hear it. i'll give -- i'll give leader mccarthy the benefit of the doubt because as seif een on any number of occasions he's not a master of the english lang wake so maybe that's not what he meant to say but i have it on tape. >> tim, "american carn nang" out today. i appreciate you coming on the show. >> thank you. >>> we have breaking

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ryan's signature issue.e of how those once around this potus were once opposed and became patsies. mr. spicer, mr. priebus, mr. mulvaney. can you believe the man who now says you got to let trump be trump is code for i'm scared, right? mulvaney once said we're not going to let donald trump dismantle the bill of rights. but i focus on paul ryan, why? because he could well have a second act in politics and he could look good to the reasonable right and even some in the center, but he's going to have to own that he was just like the rest of them, not the best of them. he was given a chance to do what he said he would do, all the things that made so many smile when he spoke, seeing in him a hope for a better politics, principle before party, progress before patronage, but when he had the power to be different as speaker he was painfully the same. alberta writes that ryan saw retirement as an escape hatch. maybe an escape from trump or politics but not from reality. this period that we're all living together righ

he was probably, paul ryan, the biggest capitulator to trump of all. he would hide when donald trump would say something bad. is he the kind of patient zero of what happened to republicans? are they just scared of trump? what is it? >> boy, look, it's a combination of things, obviously. and ryan i think obviously does carry the burden in terms of his legacy of being one of the chief enablers of donald trump, given that he was the most powerful man in the co-equal branch of government, the branch of government that is given primacy under the constitution, article i. paul ryan, you know, told me that and i could sort of see on his face and hear in his voice that this was almost his way of apologizing or justifying or maybe a little bit of both, you know, what had gone on the last couple of years, joy. i think it's really interesting. when paul ryan is talking about this idea that outside of government now we have a responsibility to try and rebuild, he's basically saying, you know, forget about government, we can't count on washington, d.c., we can't cou

>> i lot of people have speculated what is ryan going to do in his career. now he's laying low with his family back in wisconsin. some people thought someday he would try to run for president. i mean, i personally don't think he can, though, because if he was going to be that guy, that republican going to re-claim the republican party from trump someday, 5, 10 years down the road, people are going to say you should have stood up to him publicly, you didn't. what he did was try to be friends with trump and try to talk to him, cajole him one way or another. and now you're seeing real frustration come out and that in itself is really interesting. >> it makes me want to read the book so there's that. thank you both very much. have a good weekend. >>> new orleans levies as barry barrels closer. ♪ kraft. for the win win. did you know congress is working to end surprise medical billing? that's when patients are hit with medical bills they thought would be covered by insurance. the problem is big insurance companies want a one-size-fits-all approach that lets them d

ryan told alberta this.lf i have to have a relationship with this guy to help him get his mind right. i am telling you he did not know anything about government. i wanted to scold him all of the time. president trump hit back. >> paul ryan was not a talent. he wasn't a leader. paul ryan was a lame duck for a long time. unable to raise money. he lost control of the house. the only success paul ryan had was the time he was with me. paul ryan let us down. he was a terrible speaker. he was a baby. frankly he didn't know what the hell he was doing. >> the timing of ryan's comments. what does ryan get out of criticizingling trump now. >> the timing was the publication of the book. tim alberta is a great reporter. ryan wanted to unburden himself and he did. he was always a tortured figure in the drama. you remember in the 2016 campaign at the end of the day he would not campaign with the president. at times he accused him of racist language. their relationship was strained. if you say something unkind about him he

always where is paul ryan's backbone.d conservative, john kennedy. >> there was mike pence ended up on the 2016 republican ticket. close connection with the va evangelical community. this is what trump said. you know donald trump told one iowa official these so-called christians hanging around with ted cruz are some real piece of -- he reported this for the national review for years. how will that kind of remark be heard among the religious rights? will they care? >> no. simple answer. no they won no, they won't. i reported on another scene in the book which was more striking. this was back in 2018 and they were having a conversation about his approval rating sort of fluctuating and no matter how low his approval rating got him on the electorate that he would consistently strong among self-identified republicans. >> republicans have been more popular with their party's base and not reagan or nobody than trump is right now. he was joking about this with some republican senators and he kind of lean back and had this look of

paul ryan is not alone, to your point of lindsey graham and others. at least paul ryan will in retirement say what's really on his mind. i don't know that we'll get that from any of these other folks. that's not meant to be an ad hominem attack, it's an observational reality. you had rick perry call donald trump a cancer on conservatism. that's something we conveniently forget. ted cruz, we all know the saga. these folks who have come to jesus and made their peace with donald trump. there's a reason for it. it's because they're terrified of him. they understand that this is trump's party. that his base is fully behind him. that as unpopular as he may be with the broader electorate, with moderates and independents, he has a chokehold on the republican base. if they're on the wrong side of them, they're going to lose their jobs. >> paul ryan, rich of him to say sitting on the board of fox, is that where he's going to change the country for the better? is it fair? what is it? is it that donald trump is speaking a sort of vehement kind of racist invective

ryan made his decision. look, obviously the tax cuts were important to him, chasing down his legislative priorities. i've covered paul ryan for a very long period of time, don. i can tell you that ryan really viewed himself and john kelly and jim mattis and rex tillerson, a small group of them as this sort of force field around donald trump, this protective casing and they would basically tell people, look, if you think it's bad now, imagine if the adults left the room. we're the guys trying to at least keep this thing from going totally off the rails. that was sort of the justification that ryan would use. obviously not everybody buys it. that was a bigger reason for him not to tangle with trump. once he lost his influence within trump's inner orbit, there was nothing he could do to try to control it. >> there were many times he could have stood up. people would ask always what happened to paul ryan's backbone, what happened to the principled conservative styled after -- >> jack kemp. >> jack kemp. what hap