if you re going to contribute to the team you gotta give money to help democrats or republicans win, you re gonna be a chairman in your gonna reap the rewards but it is a team sport. you re not shunned but you re not as welcome meant. if you have to raise money to win elections, i get, but the bit that seems very shady is who you re getting the money from and the specific point that you go to the industries in the company you affect. you might have people in your state or district that will say i believe in what republicans are doing and democrats are crazy, i want to help you guys out. if you know them you can say would you contribute to this cause but really are you seeing those dollars come from members of congress from the committee relationships that they might have come of their coming from wealthy people in america who thanks democrats
and luke russert who cover capitol hill for nbc news. fairly busy morning. kelly, give us a sense as we saw paul ryan walk through that chamber, seemed to be a lot of good will coming at him from both sides. was that generally the mood? reporter: absolutely. paul ryan has long been held in high esteem by both parties in terms of the way he s conducted himself. he s smart, well-prepared, he has worked in committee relationships with democrats as well as republicans. those things that are really about paul ryan, the man, have made him popular if you can use that term with democrats. that doesn t mean they agree on issues but they respect each other. so that s a good starting point. certainly for republicans, paul ryan was swept into this office, a job he did not want in a city filled with ambition, paul ryan for a long time has told luke and me and our colleagues that he did not want to be speaker. that conversion really happened in the last week or so given the