step into it? well, we re all i think we re hopeful that paul ryan will run. i think he would be a spectacular personally. trey gowdy is passionate he is not going to be the speaker. so the focus turns to paul ryan. magnificent individual. he s got a great mind. if he doesn t run, as a congress and a caucus, we have to understand that it is about america and not congress. america wants to move the policies forward that will make us stronger in the long run and create opportunities so all of america can be competitive and prosperous and live the american dream. that s the pledge. that s why we go to washington. 20% of congress is freshman. that s true. 60% of congress has not been there more than two or three
i really love vice president biden. you i hope he doesn t run. i think he ought to just end his career on a high note like being ambassador to paris or something. reporter: in the clinton administration. exactly. reporter: she d rather see him get a nice little job in a new clinton administration. sounds just a wee bit condescending. we have a job for you, the ambassador to france. don t run against hillary clinton. we ll have to see what happens xs ed henry, thank you. with the debate tomorrow night, there s already a lot of talk today about that one person who won t be there. but may end up running, vp joe biden. he s spending the holiday weekend with his family reportedly discussing whether to throw his hat in the ring or not. seep yore political correspondent mike owe manuel in wilmington, delaware. mike, any signed of movement at his home? are you watching closely? reporter: well, gretchen, we observed a 15-passenger van pulling into the biden property a short time ago.
trying to get paul ryan to reconsider. if paul ryan decided that he was going to run for speaker, is he a consensus candidate who can get to the 218? i think he can. i don t know how paul gets over the issues. we talked to paul about running for majority leader back when eric cantor lost and his objections were that he has young kids at home. i fully respect and admire him for that if paul decides he wants to run, certainly he becomes the favorite and somebody who might be able to unite the party. if he doesn t run, though, it s interesting to see all of these names surface. how to get to the magic number of 218 is the question. does john boehner stay on and is that acceptable to your caucus? john staying on is not acceptable to anybody. there s a reason we re having this discussion, which is john had to leave. there s a lot of talent in the republican party. you haven t heard much about it. because we haven t been allowed to do our job the last several years. there s a lot of ta
that there s a very few number of people who would know what happened in a private discussion between the vice president and his son on his death bed. it s plausible it came from if not biden, but people close to him. the narrative of biden s run is affecting the race. if he doesn t run, a lot of people will be surprised. we sit and wait for the announcement. and hillary clinton seems to be having a good week. a humanizing moment on saturday night live, and now a new ad. is this a surprise, clinton s good week? reporter: it s a long campaign. there are going to be good weeks and bad weeks. this comes after several bad weeks. it s the result of a gift from mccarthy. right now in washington, mccarthy is being interviewed by
which in her case is actually helpful. but the most important player in the democratic party in the last week is kevin mccarthy. hillary clinton, if she wins, is going to owe him an ambassadorship to ireland somewhere, and the fact that this happened and created this opening for her to really go after that committee right at the time joe biden was deciding . if he doesn t run, i ll be very curious if there was a kevin mccarthy factor there, too. the best case for biden, the reason people have been interested in biden beyond the fact that a lot of people like him is that some of the people who are for hillary were starting to worry, can she win? and in the last week she has actually looked like a winning candidate for the first time, and so, you know, someday we re going to see her having lunch with mccarthy in the white house if she makes it. christina, a big issue just entered the democratic side of the campaign, certainly, which is the trans-pacific partnership. it s now been negot