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Strassel, bill mcgurn and allysia finley, kim, should nancy pelosi be speaker in the democrats best interest, do you think thats in their best interest? >> i think its still unknown if she will be, theres some members that declared that they would not vote for her, she has a cushion now because they obtained enough of the majority. im not necessarily sure it is the best thing for democrats and its because she is a liberal leader, once again presiding over caucus that elected a lot of moderate de...

>> i tell you what, this was a great victory for us and again from a deal-making standpoint we are all much better off the way it turned out because i really believe if the democrats want to we can do a tremendous amount of great legislation. paul: that was president trump wednesday calling the outcome of tuesdays election a great victory despite democrats winning control of the house for the first time in 8 years, the president saying hes ready to make deals with the newly elected democratic ma...

Growing movement that maybe we would be better off and somebody like jeffress from new york is being floated as possible contender and i thought that was -- if youd asked me a week ago i would have said forget it, shes it but now not so sure. paul: i would assume she would say, look, i helped you win back the majority, i raised a lot of money, you know i can do this job, i did it before and why dont we negotiate transition, you can fight over who succeeds me but give me the next two years and i ...

Changes? >> well, the problem-solvers caucus may have enough votes to hold up speaker vote which requires a majority of the whole congress and say, look, bills should come out of caucus and go to the floor if they have a reasonable level of support not necessarily majority support in a caucus and that will in fact, open up the floor to a lot more votes. paul: thats because they want to be able to vote on things that may not be necessarily the choice of the house leadership? >> we dont wanting to...