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Imagine if we decided just to have some internal food fight and get nothing done for the country. how does that help people get a job? >> house speaker paul ryan is heading for the exits. a young family waiting for him back home and massive losses likely facing his party this fall. its a stunning end for a young, polite, jack kemp style conservative. a policy guy whose idea of an exciting campaign vent involved power point slides and medicare statistics. he was the presidential nominee in 2012. ...

Presidential candidate to run with mit romney because yes dreamy blueys and youthful fitness looked great but also policy, right. he had the very, very serious plan. he was the policy guy. >> in choosing wisconsin congressman paul ryan as his running mate mitt romney instantly remade the presidential campaign. congressman ryan, the energetic chairman of the house budget committee is the republican master of all aspects of federal spending. and he comes complete with his own detailed conservative...

Is cavorting with porn stars and playboy bunnies and that is just not something that paul ryan understands at all. and at the end of the day, the frustrations and misery of doing that job as speaker, where you are confronted with this day after day, he just decided it was too much. and you, maybe absolutely right that history will judge him harshly for that. the thing that privately people would say is that he believed he needed to be the ballast in the ship of state. and hes decided he doesnt w...

I want to talk about this now we have the former chairman of the council of economic advisers under ponn and the senior economic advisers to the trump campaign be steven moore. gentlemen, good evening. this announcement could come tomorrow. sources say its in part an effort to help him rally voters for the republican candidate in the pennsylvania special congressional election. is this going to backfire, do you think? >> look, i cant speak to the politics im a policy guy. but this is bad policy....

The first shot in the trade war. president trump has been talking about could begin as soon as tomorrow afternoon. but the president thought to be ready to announce tariffs and aluminum and steel. the former chairman of the council of economic advisers under ponn and the senior economic advisers to the trump campaign be steven moore. gentlemen, good evening. this announcement could come tomorrow. sources say its in part an effort to help him rally voters for the republican candidate in the penns...

He said, you know, i cant lose credibility with the press. thats why at one point he literally says "all my prior statements are inoperative." he had to confess that. when everything -- many of his statements were shown to be wrong. and he did maintain a credibility with the press throughout. it was quite remarkable. even when nixon was in his final days and sinking, ziegler was actually really close to being his chief of staff and head policy guy, yet briefing the press occasionally. he did kee...

It was quite remarkable. even when nixon was in his final days and sinking, ziegler was actually really close to being his chief of staff and head policy guy, yet briefing the press occasionally. he did keep his credibility because he was honest with them to the degree he could be. he was a good dodger too, though. >> i thought you had a great observation about gates guilty plea on twitter. heres what you wrote. you said, muellers throwing everything he can against manafort, chug gates who can n...

President trump has a fairly limited policy agenda that he wants to put forward. he certainly did articulate some things during the state of the union address, he talked about immigration in particular, but hes not a policy guy, hes not a policy wonk, hes not somebody who has paid over any course of his presidency paid any attention to policy and that suggests he probably isnt too focused on this, but i think one thing we should keep in mind, it had been a week since there was a press briefing a...

You can expect to dominate the agenda with what youre actually trying to do on policy substance. donald trump, in part by choice because he weighs into controversies. in part by accident because hes been overtaken by events, particularly the russia investigation and the shooting, he totally squandered that opportunity. >> so, phillip, getting things done, getting out ahead of a cycle, a news cycle, a day, a half a day, there must be a list in this west wing of things they want to accomplish. he ...

>> brian, most presidents regarded the state of the union speech as not just a night, but really a month, a week leading up to the speech, two or three weeks after on the road, in which you can expect to dominate the agenda with what youre actually trying to do on policy substance. donald trump, in part by choice because he weighs into controversies, in part by 10 because hes been overtaken by events, particularly the russia investigation and the shooting. he totally squandered that opportunity....