They wouldnt be in for any surprises. So if he wanted to talk about the gig, your phone is right there . I want to help and not hurt, im such a realist that i realize there are a whole lot of people out there who would say anybody but palin. I dont i wouldnt want to be a burden on the ticket. I recognize that in many, many eyes, i would be that burden. So you know, i just want the guy to win. I want america to win. And i dont know if i would be the person that would be able to help him win, jake. Lets bring in cnn politics reporter eric bradner. Would trump be able to win with sarah palin on the ticket . Well, Vice President ial nominees typically play the role of attack dog but its usually attacking the other partys frontrunner or candidate, not people within their own party. So palin and trump really sort of play to the same part of the republican electorate. It may not be a great match. She really does sort of have the same sort of populist appeal that trump does we dont know what d
Do this. We want to bring the party together. Does the party have to be together . Im very different than everybody else thats ever run for office. Reporter the meeting might not heal many wounds. Ryan wants trump to adopt more conservative policy positions. Trump broke from the right on sunday. He said he is willing to support higher taxes on the wealthy in exchange for the deal that would see democrats give him a cut in business taxes and cut for the middle class. He said he is open to a minimum wage increase although he wants that to come from the states. All of this is happening against the back drop of a big threat by a trump supporter. The 2008 republican Vice President ial nominee sarah palin. Palin told cnn she is going to support ryans primary challenger. I will do whatever i can for paul nelan. This man is a hard working guy. So in touch with the people. Paul ryan and his ilk, their problem is they have become so disconnected from the people whom they are elected to represent
Lazy sunday morning. Im christi paul. Im victor blackwell. The courtship between pawn u paul ryan and donald trump. Theyre warming to one another, but the house speaker, like many in new relationships, wants to take it slow. Those are words for soem peop slow for some people. Lets just take it slow. Still not offering his endorsement to the republican nominee, however, the divide seems to be closing a bit. The team also meet together to go over policy. No word as to whether trump or ryan will be there in person. But while policy may be on the table, paul ryan does say bringing the Republican Party together for the general election is still issue number one. It is no secret that donald trump and i have had some disagreements. It is no secret that we from time to time clash on an issue or two. That happens with people. That happens with republicans. The question is, can we put together a process that really actually helps get our Party Unified so were at full strength in the full and bas
You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican Party. I dont think it would be foolish to ignore them. Ground zero for devastating fires is fort mcmurray. Ive met more heroes in this experience than i ever thought existed. Newsroom starts now. Hello, everyone, this is the cnn newsroom, happy mothers day. The deeping rift in the Republican Party as donald trump as the potential nominee just got bigger. Its an allout civil war as former Vice President ial candidate sarah palin said she will work to end paul ryans career. In an exclusive interview with jake tapper on state of the union the former governor says speaker ryan has committed political suicide by not supporting trumps candidacy and took it one step further, saying she will work to defeat speaker ryan by supporting his primary opponent. Governor, as you know, speaker ryan told me on thursday that he is not ready to support donald trump. One spokesperson said he should not be speaker of the house if h
States Michelle Obama to clintons former rival who is here, Bernie Sanders, and therein lies a big problem for the Clinton Campaign. How to get senator sanders supporters on their side. We know he has endorsed her. He wants her to beat trump come november but as far as supporters are concerned, not exactly an easy task considering what we just witnessed at a sanders event moments ago. We have got to defeat donald trump. [ boos ] and we have got to elect Hillary Clinton and tim kaine. [ boos ] brothers and sisters [ boos ] brothers and sisters [ boos ] this is this is the real world that we live in. That happened moments ago, we have to talk about that. Also the backdrop of all of this email hacking, a leadership coup and a big bounce for donald trump from his convention. No dearth of news on this monday. Lets kick things off first with manu raju, cnns senior political reporter and the fbi investigating russias alleged role in an email leak. That has just brought down in part the head o