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National polls and trails only the three candidates who have never held office, ben carson, donald trump, and carly fiorina. if those non-elected official candidates fade in the long run, as many expect, rubio is well positioned to emerge as a consensus candidate, which is why hes become the kind of trendy choice to win the nomination. but theres another candidate thats been largely overlooked and could very well emerge as a legitimate contender. a full 50% of gop voters support trump, carson, o...

Ryan. >> he could be a consensus candidate. >> we have a hostage crisis within the republican party. many place where is the mass shootings occur are gun-free zones. >> what is the point you are trying to make? if there were guns in germany, there may not be a holocaust? the skies over syria are crowded indeed. >> at some point, the united states will have to decide the real goal. this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. >> welcome to "new day." it is fr...

Trying to get paul ryan to reconsider. if paul ryan decided that he was going to run for speaker, is he a consensus candidate who can get to the 218? >> i think he can. i dont know how paul gets over the issues. we talked to paul about running for majority leader back when eric cantor lost and his objections were that he has young kids at home. i fully respect and admire him for that if paul decides he wants to run, certainly he becomes the favorite and somebody who might be able to unite the pa...

Box that john boehner has found himself in. we have to be governable if we choose broadly a consensus candidate. >> at this point it sounds much more likely he will do it but he has to go home, talk to his family. as weve been reporting, he has a young family. he is not somebody -- as he has said before, someone like john boehner, whos an empty-nester. this is a very tolling job to be speaker of the house, and as darrell issa said, its a great title except you get tarred and feathered all the ti...

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...

Call. are there parallels this morning between the turmoil in the house and the rise of outsiders like donald trump and ben carson in the presidential race? lets begin our coverage with cnn political reporter manu raju on capitol hill whats happening now? >> capitol hill is still reeling after that stunner yesterday when kevin mccarthy dropped out of the race to succeed john boehner, throwing the gop into a state of disarray and panic. now attention shifts to a crucial meeting later this morni...

>> gene robinson, i think norm is putting his finger on a political point here. in the old day, if you were a young broadly popular congressman and your party said hey, we want you to be our consensus candidate for speaker, thats a big promotion. and yet people like paul ryan dont see that as a political path. according to his public statements today. >> right. and why would paul ryan want that job? thats the worst job in washington. thats one of the worst jobs in the united states right now. be...

The situation. thats why not many people are running for the speakers gavel. >> we have appreciated your guidance. incredible. chad pergram, no one better doing this. daniel webster, could he be a consensus candidate? the florida republican who wants to be speaker of the house. last time he got 12 votes doing so. hes got a group now of some 40 members supporting him. the man is going to nominate him. who thinks he can pull it off after this. let me talk to you about retirement. a 401(k) is the m...

Representation of what were really doing. >> nbcs luke russert has also been talking with congressman chaffetz. you know there is that ability for chaffetz to throw a wrench in the works and mess up speaker boehners exit strategy. we heard why he says hes doing it but what is the reason? >> reporter: well, his idea is that he possibly could be the consensus candidate if kevin mccarthy is not able to get 218 votes on the house floor when hes put up for speaker at the end of the month on october 2...

You know, look, mccarthy seems like hes on the track. the thing that hes got going for him is the fact that conservatives dont have a consensus candidate that they could really put out there that could pull enough votes to do it. youve got to remember, scalise, they dont trust scalise either. to a lot of folks steve scalise seems very conservative but to the most conservative members of the house they kind of think hes a little bit of a squish. this is the dynamic that kevin mccarthy is sort of ...