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These things for 30 years. >> and they have caught up to him. hes been talking about minimum wage and infrastructure and income inequality and the nation is also in that place. >> that is a much same e safer argue the than e-mails against the backdrop of the staffers allegation on cnn this weekend and kevin mccarthy. it could appear youre doing the republicans bidding but this question of consistency and can you trust her to be in her commitments i think is a much safer ground for those democrat...

And pushing her to do that. she doesnt have ia platform ye. in the en,d, i think we were heard. >> no platform yet. i know you want to be more than heard. any commitments from secretary clinton? >> we got commitments around national use of force standards looking to see if thats going to be in it. we talked about making sure that we prioritize alternatives to police saying we dont need to have a police first response to everything. mental health is different from domestic abuse and drugs. we tal...

Something for the country. thats not a big thing to do or hold out and see if theres a senate seat in his future. >> always fun to talk about the intrigue and see these inner workin workings. heres the schedule coming up and why this is so important and why its not good for congress to be in disarray. nine days away until the highway trust fund returns out. 13 days away until the debt ceiling deadline. 25 days until the federal budget expires. these are real issues that congress needs to deal wi...

Today. but listen to what one of the colleagues darrell issa said about ryan and why he believes that ryan is the only guy to do it. >> i think that he has gone from the hard no to the fact that he has to consider it. i know that he is going home the have the kind of real meeting with his family that would allow him to weigh that. all of us are trying now to make sure that he understands that the support will be behind him. if he chooses to do it, one of our commitments has to be that we will no...

Challenge comes. as much as hed like to stay the chairman of ways and mean, a job hes waited 20 years for nearly, the fact is his time is now and many of us believe he will answer the call. >> okay. so you spoke with paul ryan about this. based on your conversation you do think that hes going to go for a hard no to a yes? hes not going to have any choice but the say yes. >> i think hes going interest a hard no to he knows he has to consider it. and i know hes going home to have the kind of rea...

Be an amazing speaker but he has to decide on his own. >> reporter: hes got to decide on his own, but as he was walking away here, i said, do you think its going to happen and he said, i think it will. i think that is a very good indicator. but you mentioned darrell issa. manu was talking about this meeting just wrapping up, was very quiet, didnt say much of anything as for people to reconsider and to get into the race. darrell issa is one of those who is talking behind the scenes with paul ryan...

Especially some of the members who want that seat. dana, where do things stand at this hour? >> reporter: were an hour away from votes beginning but this morning there was a meeting where the candidates for speaker got a chance to make their closing arguments to their caucus. explain why they should be speaker, the three candidates you just mentioned. and i actually happened to speak with one of them, as you mentioned, daniel webster. he is a congressman from florida but also the former speaker ...

Just say that you dont get the nomination today in the vote today and kevin mccarthy does, will you support kevin mccarthy on the floor when the house votes october 29th? >> im going to answer that if i lose, how about that? >> have you been thinking about it? >> no, ive been thinking about winning only. >> how do you feel in terms of the volts, how many do you have? >> i have no idea. vant asked for commitments. ive made my own commitment to them. i commit to serving them by telling them the tr...

Out and win the conference and say what you want about anybody. have the vote and unless you have severe moral objection, unless you have some crisis of conscience, you are obligated to vote for the choice of your party. ive gone against the party on different votes but the fact is when you talk about organizing the congress of the united states, the person second in line to the president of the united states, you better have a good reason to vote no. these guys dont. ive been listening to the r...

Schtick? >> do you have a second date? >> that depends on the look on your face. >> fight a lot of money. love dont pay the bills. we know that better than anyone, dont we? i dont know if i put a lot of weight into this survey. i guess its a promise youre making to the credit card company to pay them. so youre breaking a promise, but i dont know. >> date ad guy that didnt pay his bills, wouldnt you be suspicious of that person, that he doesnt pay bills? >> i would be suspicious of somebody check...