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New house speaker paul ryan won -- or took -- hard to say exactly what happened there -- but he won his leadership position by promising to make changes and get things done. >> we need to move from on opposition party to being a proposition party. because we think the nation is on the wrong path, we have a duty to show the right one. our next speaker has to be a visionary one. >> in his first order of business, speaker ryan declared that he will not allow a vote on comprehensive immigration refo...

Think key is to offer the country a very bold alternative, a bowled agenda how to solve this countrys problems. i think thats how we unify. >> how much rope do you give the freedom caulks? a lot of members are getting a lot of heat for just supporting you. >> i think the is it key is we need congress is it working as the founders intended. thats number one. number two, i think its very important we are a successful opposition party, not only do we use the tools that we have to be a successful op...

We dont like the direction the country is headed. we dont like the direction the president is taking the country. and so we have to be an effective opposition party, but most importantly, number four, i think that means we have to be able a proposition party. we have to be the alternative party. if we dont like whats going on, we owe it to the people of this nation, to our constituents, a bold, specific and clear agenda, vision for how we would do things differently and that is what a good alter...

And so we have to be an effective opposition party, but most importantly, number four, i think that means we have to be able a proposition party. we have to be the alternative party. if we dont like whats going on, we owe it to the people of this nation, to our constituents, a bold, specific and clear agenda, vision for how we would do things differently and that is what a good alternative party looks like. >> youre now the face of this so is this you that has to do this? youre in the middle of ...

About in the past. this is not a place where you can get big ideas done. how do you change that? >> i completely disagree with that. >> when was the last big idea? >> this is the peoples house. >> right. >> where people come to serve your country. if you dont like the way the country is headed you have an obligation to the people who sent you here to change it. >> thats true historically. how does that happen? >> i cannot pick up where john left off. that is why, in discussing this with my house...

I see four things that i need -- that we need to focus on. get the house working like it was intended to work, like the founders intended it to work. open up the process. number two, its very important that we do find common ground where we can find common ground to advance the nations interests and do it in a way where we dont have to compromise principle. number three, we have to be a more effective opposition party. we dont like the direction the country is headed. we dont like the direction ...

Speakership has to be different. i cannot pick up where john left off. that is why discussing this with my house republican colleagues we all concluded jointly this has to be done differently, so thats why were wiping the slate clean, its a new day, and were going to go offense on ideas. it will be a proposition party, alternative party. thats where big ideas come from. weve been too timid for too long around here, and that is because we have not given people a sense of what we can do differentl...

Unify. amainstream republicans have said you as speaker may have to throw the senate under the bus. >> no, i dont thing we throw any republicans under the bus. i was not asked to disunify the republican party and the congress i was asked to unify, so throwing republicans under the bus is not if my job description. we have to unify and we have to also understand the limits that the constitution places on us when we have a president that doesnt agree with us, a president that is unwilling to liste...

Unity to his deeply divided party and fractured congress. fox news john roberts talked to ryan about whats ahead. >> some mainstream republicans have told me you as speaker may have to start throwing the senate under the bus to get -- >> i dont think we throw any republicans under the bus. look, was not asked to disunify the republican party in the congress, i was asked to unify. so throwing republicans under the bus is not in my job description. we have to unify. and we have to also understand ...

Successful than his predecessor in dealing with that freedom caucus? >> i dont think its a done deal. daniel webster is sill till in race. this republican party, this leadership has been surprised before, consistently surprised about their inability to get the number of votes they need and now paul ryan said i dont just want 218. i want 235 or 240. i dont know if if he gets them. if he doesnt get them, does he say i toebt want to have to live with these people and we have to lift the debt ceilin...