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Ministry during my time as house chaplain." im confused. why ryan, a catholic himself, decided he needed to go. >> theres a lot of people scratching their heads. there should be a response here. i had to call a official here on capitol hill to see what was going on. what i was told is this particular pastor had became a little too political in his prayers. specifically around tax reform he was using political conjectu conjecture. im thankful that i came from a church in illinois where they dont ...

Book now at choicehotels.com. welcome back. im stephanie ruhle way head scratcher for me, hopefully we can break it down. the chaplain for the house of representatives has changed his mind and is rescinding his resignation. the reverend patrick conroy says speaker paul ryans office called for him to resign saying ryan told him it was, quote, in the best interest of the institution. msnbc garrett hake joins me from capitol hill with the latest. back it up for me. what happened here. >> reporter...

Heres what we know. in the middle of april paul ryans chief of staff went to the house chaplain and asked him for his resignation. what was said in that meeting is very much in dispute so ill come back to that later. bottom line, the chaplain offered a resignation letter that paul ryan accepted gnat sort of bubbled up late last week as members of the house heard about this and it bipartisans members were outraged by it. they said there was no reason for conroy to resign, they felt like he was do...

Moral excellence. so when you have these two, youre holding both, what you have in effect is a recipe for a hypocrite. >> all right. that is not the case. i will never, ever pledge to be -- what is it? arbiter of moral excellence. >> im just quoting. >> im going to leave arbiter of moral excellence to my friend eddie and to scott pruitt, please do better. the house chaplain pulls an about-face, taking back his res resignation. how did he go from being forced to resign to standing up to the spe...

Father patrick conroy has served as chaplain of the house of representatives for the last seven years. until last month, when the most unexpected headline on tax day was that house speaker paul ryan fired the priest and he wasnt saying why. the speaker demanded father conroys resignation, father conroy said okay, but there was no explanation as to why he was being forced out. speculation immediately focused on a prayer the chaplain read about the republican tax bill. quote, may their efforts the...

Quote, on friday, april 13th, your chief of staff came to me and informed me you were asking for my letter of resignation. i inquired as to whether or not it was for cause, your staffer mentioned something like, maybe it was a time we had a chaplain that wasnt catholic. paul ryans chief of staff tonight denies that allegation. but the chaplain has levied that charge, that maybe he was canned with a snide remark about it being time for somebody not catholic. but the chaplain unquit today and ther...

Hill, jonathan capehart, about the reasons why the chaplain was forced out and has now been rehired. have you gotten to the bottom of any of that? >> i havent. isnt it interesting the firing of the chaplain of the house is, what, number 15, 16, 36 on a list of stories that if it -- that were the only thing happening that would be the breaking news. would be "the" story in washington, if not the country, and still i -- i dont know -- i havent gotten to the bottom of this, but glad he got his job ...

Conroy sent a letter to the house speaker rescinding his resignation. he wrote in part, quote, i have never been disciplined nor reprimanded nor have i ever heard a complaint of my ministry during my time as house chaplain. when he asked ryans chief-of-staff why he was being let go he was told, quote, maybe its time that we had a chaplain that was not a catholic. ryans chief-of-staff, jonathan burke took issue with ryans version of events, says he strongly disagrees with conroys recollection of ...

The chaplain gave a prayer in november during the debate about tax reform that some people thought this a political tone to it. he talked about the importance of fairness in the tax code and that is not create winners and losers. some people are pointing to that the. chaplain also says that paul ryans chief staff made a remark something to the effect maybe its time for the chaplain to not be catholic. the chief of staff disputes that strongly. paul ryan is, of course, also a catholic. there is d...

Retact my rehabilitation. on friday april 13, 2018 your chief of staff came to me and informed that you were asking for my letter of rez igs neigh. i inquired as to whether it was for cause. the chaplain has levied that charge that maybe he was canned with the snide remark that maybe it was time for someone not catholic. but the chaplain unquit today and speaker ryan decided to unfire him as well. so now he serves in the house. as it was in the beginning, shall it be forever more. at least until...