that is what i was doing when speaker boehner resigned. he resigned in september 2015. like most of you, i was probably wondering, looking, i wonder who will succeed boehner? who will be the speaker, and who will be our back -- next member of congress? i had your traditional candidates, that filed right away. maybe they had already thought about it, saw the opportunity. i was getting invitations to fund raise. had no idea who i would end up supporting. in november, a couple people stopped in my office to raise money. wanted to know who i would support. heck, you guys probably know. they said commode they -- we will probably sit it out. i said, sit it out? it's a congressional race to has an been opened for 25 years. they said, why don't you run? i think as a joke. i told my wife about the day, i thought she would get a kick out of that. she said, well what did you tell them? i told them they were crazy. she said, call them back, you would be great in that. [applause] -- [laughter] host: so did she want you out of the house? rep. davidson: she goes, this is for the countr

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in the minority, taking advantage wherever possible with the fact that either speaker ryan or speaker boehner could not muster the votes of their caucus because of the tea party. she has been very clear. she is focused on the elections in 2018 as all of us are. as the country should be. and then, the democratic caucus in the house will decide who the next leader is. but the key is to have a majority in the house of representatives. look, candidates on the campaign trail, they are free and should be. to state their positions, not just on issues, but leadership. i think that freedom is encouraged. by strong leaders like nancy pelosi. nicholas: do you think she will be around this time next year? sen. van hollen: she is running for reelection, she will definitely be around. nicholas: leading the democratic caucus? sen. van hollen: like i said i'm , a nancy pelosi fan. those are decisions for the democratic caucus. host: i have 10 seconds. i want to ask a question. nick mentioned facebook. are you satisfied with the efforts that twitter and facebook have taken so far to help ensure the trolls and

i think paul ryan was an accidental speaker. boehner got thrown out. lou: the president is something else. he won the state of wisconsin. ryan couldn't even win as a congressional candidate or a vice presidential candidate and yet he somehow imagines himself through political force. as long as he's in the speakership, it's valid. the day he leaves it, hi's going to be another rino establishment todayy. >> he's not going to be looked back on as one of the greatest legislative -- lou: wait a minute. let me write that down. >> i usually wait for history, a week or two past the due date. lou: come on. you're being modest. >> i'll make that prediction right now. lou: you spend too much of your career creating and making history to wait a few weeks. >> the president has a big night tonight. he's done everything possible to help candidates withi, more sonn any president. i've done this for 50 years. he's giving himself -- normally in the month of august presidents take time off, go to martha's vineyard, obama went to hawaii. lou: and political advisers are te

vote in ohio -- just two years ago on june 7th of 2016, i won a special election to fill former speaker boehner's. and so that was the last special election for congress in ohio. voter turnout was low. people aren't used to voting in ohio in june or august. it's going to be more of a test of who can get out the vote. and those are generally the most active voters. >> so let me get your take on something that happened in the final hours. i'll play it for our viewers in case they missed it. this is last night, the republican candidate, troy balderson, said this -- >> my opponent's from franklin county. franklin county has been challenging. we don't want somebody from franklin county representing us. >> writing off one-third of the electorate in the district you want to represent. now this morning, he, you know, tried to clean it up and said i want to represent everyone. but do you think that could be a fatal error for him? >> well, i don't know his district. i don't know the demographics of each of the counties there. but you know, i've always found that you're usually better off to multiply your a

molinari: primarily, it was certainly when boehner was the chairman, speaker boehner, the glorious thing about john boehner, everyone just called him boehner. he was chairman at the time. people with come to me more if they had an issue they wanted to bring up. if they were not sure if it was appropriate, or they wanted to talk through something. the conference is when you would get to gather to air your ideas and frustrations. a lot of times, you were the first line of, is this the appropriate place for this? i would do a lot of that. >> did you enjoy this? rep. molinari: of course. how closely did you work with boehner? rep. molinari: closely. >> were you involved with the implementation of the contract with america? rep. molinari: no, no. i was there as one of the people they talked to. the point of the contract was one of the things that would unify the republican party as opposed to divide it. when a group came together to have this concept, i was somebody who would sit down with. they talked to a lot of members at the time. to make sure the way they were talking about the issues an

think primarily it was, while certainly when was chairman at the time, -- boehner was chairman at the time, even though he was speaker, everybody just called him boehner. that says so much about him. boehner was chairman at the time and sometimes he would be running the meetings. people would come to me probably more than the other positions if there was a position they wanted to bring up, if they weren't sure if it was appropriate to bring up, if they wanted to talk through something. the conference was really when you would get together and air your ideas, your concepts, and your frustrations. and so a lot of times we were kind of the first line of, is this the appropriate place for this? and so i would do a lot of that. >> did you enjoy it? >> i did. >> how closely did you work with speaker boehner? >> a lot. very closely. and our staff very closely. >> were you involved to any degree with drafting of the implementation of the contract with america? >> no. i was there as one of the people that they talked to. so, the point of the contract was one of those things that would unify the republican party as opposed to

i spoke to then speaker john boehner and told me it was the darnedest thing.ccain announced this there must be a grand plan behind his. boehner called him and said what the heck is going on. mccain literally said to boehner, according to boehner. i don't know, what do you think i should do. then they got to the white house and mccain didn't really have a plan, and barack obama ended up debating him back and forth with george w. bush mediating. he was impulsive and he wasn't perfect. and he knew it. judge jeanine: we are going to wrap my coverage on the passing of senator john mccain on "justice." but i believe steve deucey will join us from washington. steve: john mccain was the first person to gave me an opportunity to ask a political question on tv. it was 2008. i was a junior at villanova university. he was -- he already locked up the republican nomination for president. but obama versus clinton fight there in pence jane where i was a college student was still really going strong. so he came on to the stage there at villanova university, and he was going to

former spokesman for house speaker boehner and former senior advisor to jeb bush, michael steele. washington correspondent for bbc world news america, katty kay. presidential is historian and msnbc contributor john meacham. in phoenix white house correspondent and long-time capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell. and joining us by phone former senior advisor and the host of "deadline white house" on msnbc, nicolle wallace. nicolle, i want to start with you since you spent so much time behind the scenes with somebody who most americans know through their television sets, through the campaigns that he waged through seeing the moments of the past few years. what was john mccain, the man, like behind those closed doors when the cameras were off? who was the man that you knew? >> you know, i think so much of john mccain's person a was consistent with what i saw behind the scenes. what you see is what you get. but what i think the high profile moments in politics we got was all the time he had with his closest friends, joe lieberman, lindsey graham who were by his side in the 2018 c

not on the schedule, former speaker john boehner, but he did make a surprise visit today.ound deep fried merlot. michael avenatti is now at the state fair and he's telling people that he's considering his own presidential run. he brought his own soap box with him we hear. we can't talk about the fair without talking about this. the official butter cow. there it is pain stakingly carved each and every year. it's been an annual tradition more than a century. don't believe me? here's the butter cow from 1911. it hasn't melted. so iowa, make it a great fair this year. trust me, i wish i could be there. rest assured, my visit to the iowa state fair is still with me. kind of like a corn dog. sfx: [cell phone dialing] no. no, no, no, no, no. cancel. cancel. please. aaagh! being in the know is a good thing. that's why discover will alert you if your social security number is found on any one of thousands of risky sites. this is a story about mail and packages. and it's also a story about people. people who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams they're handing us more than m

let's bring in michael steel, a former spokesperson for house speaker john boehner and knows exactlyks on capitol hill think. he was senior advisor to jeb bush in 2016. the panel is here. michael, i'll start with you. how would you characterize the mood behind the scenes and sort of on capitol hill there on that side of pennsylvania avenue with what's happening in ohio 12 and just suddenly the koch brothers feud this trump? i get the sense that folks are suddenly going, wait a minute, this is the wrong time of the year for these fights to break open like this. >> i would describe the mood as determined and resolute. everyone knew this was going to be a very tough year. everyone knew we were facing historic headwinds. everyone knows that president trump can tweet or say things that aren't always helpful at times that aren't always helpful. but if you look at ohio 12, i think the polls are a lagging indicat indicator. i think the president's visit will goose the support among republicans in that district. and i think that your msnbc colleague, chris matthews, did a tremendous service b

it is unprecedented that speakers reside like john boehner did and paul ryan is.ou want to talk about a fractured race? you have leadership that cannot control the basin they are running for the hills here it o'brien: paul ryan, when he took over said he had two young kids. apologize if i left in a kids out. jeanne: he's got more, actually. o'brien: he said he had to be home for the kids. he wanted to spend time with his amec. he made it clear that was where he was going. departing speakers of the house on the republican side because you can't control the base. o'brien: and we believe in term limits. i think this move is terrific for republicans. shery: we have a good viewer question here. david: the one thing we learned in the last election is american people don't want as ms. as usual in washington. how can the democrats this time persuade voters that they will not just be returning to business as usual? whatever you think about donald trump, it is not the way it used to be. think: it is far worse, i what are you going to point to to say that what donald trump h

the former republican speaker of the house john boehner, shorts and boat shoes.says de lay nebraska laney i old buds. showing up for a democratic congressman. okay. >> john boehner is loving life right now. that's for sure. i don't think we expect delaney/boehner 2020. that's probably a little of a stretch. >> sure. >> but, you know, nobody knows. we're in an era with new political rules. nobody quite knows what they are. you will see a lot of democrats throwing out their theory of the case, throwing it up against the wall, and taking share shot. >> and we'll see who paul ryan shows up with. >> excellent. touche. i like that. he'll join boehner in the era of no political rules. up next for us, one year after charlottesville, kanye west, spike lee both on television saying very different things about president trump and race. this is a story about mail and packages. and it's also a story about people and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget... that your business is our business the united states postal

i talked to john boehner when he wasea speaker and if i had been speaker i don't know what i would have done because i think that by personality obama was hard to deal with. clinton is an astonishing human being. about a third of the time he would lie that you've got to get used to that. that. it was part of the process and you can figure out which ones are true and which ones are not. when i had a couple of occasions that they buried you don't wear your feelings on your sleeve, this is just the business that you are in. the democrats right now don't want to work with trump. their goal is to fail. i'm delighted that they will keep the senate in that they have no interest of being provocative and in that case they just run over. i would have figured out issues that made it expensive in such a way the leadership was constantly under pressure because about a third of them are saying i can stay with him i will get beat back if i go home. that's the kind of pressure that breaks apart the partisanship. if i were a legislative leader today i would recognize you have to spend a lot of time with

congress, and in the wake, there was a report of a number of lawmakers, including john boehner, and the former house speakeri of her husband trading, and shares of the credit card company when congress considered regulation. there have been allegations raised before. in 2012, congress passed the stock act, that included members of congress and executive branch officials from trading on that , but upinformation until then, it was perfectly legal to do so. david: a terrific piece, thank you, bill allison from washington. sign-up up for the balance of power newsletter at bloomberg.com/politics for the latest on global politics. sherry: coming up, we will hear from the softbank chief operating officer and chairman. this is bloomberg. ♪ alix: u.s. independent producers spend more and get less as the shale development hit several bump. not enough for investors as they clamor for buybacks. plans for the largest giants in the world. ♪ alix: i'm alix steel. welcome to "bloomberg commodities edge." looking at thes hottest commodities with the smartest voices in the business.

i talked to boehner when he was speaker and i talked to ryan when he was speaker. if i had been speaker i don't know what i would have done because obama by personality is so hard to deal with. clinton for all of his weaknesses is in this domicile in opening human being. about a third of the time you would lie but you just got used to it. as part of the process. you could figure out after while which ones were true and which ones weren't in which once happened and which ones didn't. even a couple occasions that were very, very angry. you don't wear your feelings on your sleeve. this is the business you are in. the other part of that is the democrats right now to want to work with trump. their goal is for trump to fail. i'm delighted mecom was going to keep the senate in an august. i think he should have done this earlier and i think it's okay but they clearly have no interest in cooperating particularly under the senate or the house leadership. but what i would done more of it is in this goes back to reagan i would figured out issues for the democrats to stay unifi

go back to washington to try and help save the economy and i remember then talking to the speaker john boehnerim back and boehner says what's your strategy john and he says well i don't know, john boehner what do you think i should do and so for all of the wonderful things he did he admitted later he was impulsive, he had a temper and he would jump on things a little too quickly. maria: it was a moment in time i remember that when he suspended the campaign and it gave it to the leadership barack obama. rachel: it was a turning point that's absolutely true maria so you have a lot of guests on today some will be able to speak about john mccain, but other issues because politics is churn ing all the time. maria: absolutely we'll get their reaction to john mccain's passing from the inside the house when we speak with the majority leader kevin mccarthy as well as darrel issa we'll talk about that but also we want to get to what's going to be coming up in the coming months the mid-term elections are obviously the most consequential mid-term elections in our lifetime. i would say so many things are o

i have watched a bunch of speakers in the house in my short congressional career. i have seen three of them. john boehneras incapable of controlling his party. paul ryan, incapable of controlling his party. nancy pelosi did the impossible. she took a rollicking caucus that included all sorts of people from all over the country, south, north, white, black, poor, rich, and got the affordable care act passed, got dodd-frank passed. her historical accomplishments in terms of her ability to get stuff done is without parallel. >> is leadership -- that sounds like a yes to me. i will let you come to that another time. is leadership -- congressman, is democratic leadership in the house too old and too white? >> well, poppy, look, having said that i am a huge admirer of nancy pelosi's operational ability, the fact that our top three leaders are in their late 70s -- i don't care who those leaders are -- that's a problem. it's a problem because, of course, we are at a moment in time where young people are involved as they never have been before. these are the parkland students getting young people involved. i don't

speaker. she did not put any bills on the floor that did not pass. john boehnert say that. the fact that she is a very effective whipper of the votes, she always has a couple in her back pocket, makes sure that the legislation she puts on the floor is definitely successful. i think young ambitious men, they are the most outspoken in terms of their criticism of nancy pelosi. i think we have to speak truth to power when we're talking about women in leadership positions and ambitious women and how we critique them in a different way we do men in the same position. >> michael, what are your thoughts? >> and i like to agree with zerlina. my take away is this key thing, having done battle with nancy pelosi directsly in 2009 and 2010 is she is effective. she is effective as hell. she is a very competent politician and, you know, i think a lot of democrats who underestimate her ability to work her will on that caucus are going to be sitting there with a lot of egg on their face come january of next year as they vote her in as the next speaker, if she wants it. that's the

one of the things i ran on was to focus on john boehner, which i did in the conference meeting when the speaker is will elect did. i was one of only three that voted against him. >> for the record, there were a lot more who said they voted against. >> it was a voice vote when i say all opposed, i could fill in my mind. my voice echoing. you know, we lost the vote. i mean, he won, i lost. after it was over, i had been in congress for two days. i mean, i was brand-new on this. this is what i ran on in voted against him. everything i was told that the floor vote as a showboat and these are the benelux in conference. so he called announced if i would therefore support and on the floor, which i agreed to do. >> remember the phone call as i was walking through a mall with my kid. >> i still get sick every time i thought about it -- every time i think about it. i often wonder, where were those in the conference who voted on the floor. they voted, where rutan conference when they have the vote? that is not the kind of boat you are talking about here for me, that is the one of the hardest i ever took it

i look back, one of the things i ran on was to vote against john boehner, which i did, in the conference meeting when the speaker is really elected. i was one of only three that voted against him and a did so loudly. >> for the record there are a , lot of people that said they voted against him. >> when they said all opposed, i can still hear my voice echoing all through that building, no. we lost the vote. i mean, he won. i lost. and after it was over, i mean, i had been in congress for two days, i mean, i was brand-new on this, and the speaker vote, this is what i ran on, i voted against him, i did, and everything i was told, that the floor vote is just a show vote at this point, he's already been elected in conference. so he called and asked if i would therefore support him on the floor, which, i agreed to do, and i -- >> i remember this phone call because i was walking through the mall with my kids and you called me. >> i still get sick every time i thought about it. because, you know, i often wonder where were those in the , conference who voted against him on the floor, i mean, in the conference, they vote