Paul Ryan First News Today

Thing for the country without a doubt. My friends and i agree on that whether or not we agree on the speaker. He did the right thing. He did the right thing i think for this institution. He showed it could function in a time of crisis. Finally, i think he did the right thing for our party. He made sure we could continue to negotiate and achieve some of the very objectives my friend from virginia laid out and achieve them in divided government which calls for some degree of give and take. So im v...

Have seen and heard from the white house and seen reported today, sir, that devin nunes did nothing wrong? >> i dont think he did anything ethically wrong. i think people will make their own judgments as to whether, from a leadership standpoint, he made the right call as the chairman of that committee. others might have done it differently. he did it the way that he saw, he thought was most appropriate. he served on that committee as the designated chairman representing the speaker of the house,...

Told this. and what speaker ryan suggested ahead of the intel committee. >> exactly. >> was going to do. at the end of the day, willie, the bottom line is still the same. donald trump lied about barack obama ordering wiretaps on trump tower. he lied about obama being like nixon, this being like watergate and obama being sick, that a lawyer could hold a case against barack obama for tapping trump tower. they proved absolutely nothing yesterday, except their political incompetence. >> as nunez, hi...

Its day trading of the worst sort because if youve actually got something, play it through the system properly. talk to the ranking member and then hold -- hell, if you want to exploit this, hold three weeks, four weeks of hearings on this, leak it out to the press what you may have, and you would get a month of headlines. instead, he just blew himself up yesterday because he is, obviously, doing the bidding of a president who is a political day trader. >> so i couldnt agree with you more. i wan...

Policy in the bill. ive been very up front about that. i felt the tax credits are insufficient for too many americans. i have concerns about the way the medicaid issue is being handled, particularly in the expansion states. ive talked with governor kasich, as well as my governor and i have a proposal from republican governors, you know, saying they need greater flexibility, better resources to serve their populations. and i think we just have not built the necessary coalitions and had the stakeh...

Breaking to the speaker and bow down to the speaker and the president. after hearing meadows crack last night, it sounds like this thing is going to pass. >> it may pass and youre right. i think this is an opportunity where the freedom caucus, if its going to -- what is the reason to have a caucus, right? is to have political weight on capitol hill to get something done. what are they actually going to get done? its still in the end the whole thing is a muddle. this bill, even if it does pass an...

I dont want to respond to that because that is sensitive information and while he is doing a press conference stating what he learned about anonymous sources relating to the presidents comments he might have been wiretapped and gave no info to the community. this is the intelligence community. not the education or ways or means or commercial committee but the intelligence committee. he then traveled to the white house to share with the president an anonymous sources he had seen or read and had n...

How do you make that switch? >> you explain something you want or something you didnt want was accommodated. i heard mark meadows. it took him a long time to say yes. when you ask somebody aes or no and they give you a 750-word answer they are ill figuring out how they are going to get there. the koch saying they will fund those who vote against it i think is going to be interesting. we will let the day play out. i think the news this morning with david nunez, i think the questions the speaker w...

Nunez spends the next several minutes talking about leaks and complaining to them to the administration. on wednesday he stands up citing anonymous sources and begins to talk about very sensitive fisa information that is classified. it really doesnt make any sense that why else he would be doing this than diverting attention from the other things that have gone on with mr. trump in the past few days. >> so harold ford, you served in the congress. what would you be thinking this morning if you st...

Short of the votes they need right now, there appears to be movement toward a deal. the last nbc news vote count had 29 republican no votes. if 22 republicans vote no, the bill is dead. the president and vice president met with members earlier in the day yesterday and speaker ryan and his leadership team met late into the night with skeptical moderate members like charlie dent of pennsylvania who earlier in the night, announced he was a no. congressman dent, by the way, will join us on "morning ...