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Joshua wheeler and i keep thinking that he is so emblematic of the age and rank right now the combat veterans we have that populate not only the armed forces but delta force, the best of the very best on the mission just like his that took his life in iraq. >> well, yeah. you know, one of the numbers that struck me was this noncommissioned officer had 14 combat deployments. i talked to a group this morning here in minnesota and reminded them we have had 59,000 killed and wounded fighting in iraq...

Eboni, i think when groups demand, like petition somebody, it actually helps that person. it only fuels the rise. like if you say trump should be on, people want him to be on. >> of course. especially somebody like trump. hes a natural-born contrarian. this is a guy that the more you push him back, the more that just gives him all the energy boost hes going to have moving forward. look, politically savvy minds say this is bad for trump. he should be being a serious candidate. i think that is jus...

Eboni, i think when groups demand, like petition somebody, it actually helps that person. it only fuels the rise. like if you say trump should be on, people want him to be on. >> of course. especially somebody like trump. hes a natural-born contrarian. this is a guy that the more you push him back, the more that just gives him all the energy boost hes going to have moving forward. look, politically savvy minds say this is bad for trump. he should be being a serious candidate. i think that is jus...

We need him in two spots at once. there havent been a lot of people that have gone on from speaker to the white house. i would hate to lose him for a potential contender for the white house. hes a man of such talent, into the ground -- integrity. its his decision but im just glad to know him and glad to know we have him in our quiver. >> it sounds like youre coming out in favor of cloning paul ryan whatever the ethics that are. im not quite sure. >> i wish we could. i mean, you know, i think the...

To his time in the house of representatives? have you seen a change? >> no. i actually think hes been pretty consistent. he was very deliberate when he was in sacramento about building relationships. he was well thought of. very friendly guy, well lyinged. he systematically built relationships in sacramento and he did the same in washington, d.c. so i think he has been consistent. however, the politics in d.c. are so extreme, i definitely see him as more conservative than he was in california. b...

40 congressman in the this freedom caucus. i think he ended up making the decision about a day or two or maybe even right in that conference meeting yesterday. and so now hes sort of looking forward. and i know that he and john boehner are both trying to make appeals to paul ryan to get in. the question is and i think manu pointed it out, hes sort at not really interested in doing this. ive talked to members who are friends of paul ryan who say, look, hes got young kids. hes got a wife. he goes ...

Got to stick around for another year, its got to be paul ryan for them. >> robert costa of the washington post tweeting, sending out a number of tweets. one of them says boehner to ryan pitching the chair, per sources. pitching the ways and means chair. okay, in addition. so committee chairmanship -- >> he has that now. >> hes saying -- sorry. he says if you really want to change policy, do it from the top. you can be a policy guy/healer. according to robert costa thats the pitch bostehner is ma...

Administration thinks those ones are feasible. are you satisfied with the presidents handling of this circumstance? he was very emotional as we heard from him late last week. >> i think there are things that he can do on his own. there are things that we, our policy guy, they are going to recommend to the president that there are steps that he can take as president. i think we need to -- i think some of those steps are incorporated in what mrs. clinton had suggested. >> mr. parker, we are sorry ...

Jack kemp is the book, "bleeding heart conservative who changed america" the author is with me now. i dont know if he would stick by boehner. you guys know better. but many conservatives say he abandoned the cause. >> hated real discord. he didnt like it when newt gingrich and the conservative opportunity society went after jim wright who deserved it. >> he didnt like even going after the other side. >> he was a policy guy. he believed about fighting about the level of ideas, not personalities a...

One apologized to donald trump for going after him. frankly hes come out okay. he is the anti-trump. right? hes the guy that iowans are going to like. it shows. hes surging everywhere. >> hes not a positive opposite of donald trump. >> nobody wants a positive opposite at this point in the cycle. they want an outsider who is authentic, who can offer something different. carly fiorina has that, ben carson has that. they dont have the anger and all the baggage that donald trump has. >> they have no...