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Forward or whether theres going to be a more conciliatory republican party. we see some of those same arguments now. livingston was going to be one very specific guy. when they turned to denny hastert in obscurity and everybody had it look him up without the benefit of google at the time, when they picked hastert were they picking somebody who had ideological specificity? >> no. but what he did have, the twist there was he was also tom delays guy. so tom delay was in the leadership back then and...

Republicans like paul. >> you know, paul ryan is just -- he at the end of the day does -- will make a deal. he has done it before. he sticks to his guns. he is not a guy that wants to shutdown government. hes not a guy that throws temper tantrums. isnt that going to put him in the same position eventually that john boehner found himself in? >> no, not really. john boehner, i know and like him and have known him for one time. i was in washington for one week when i knew he was an insider, a party...

Committee was all about politics. benghazi committee discovered hillary clintons private e-mails and part of it was the freedom caucus. and hard liners saying look, we didnt push to get rid of boehner to get a boehner 2.0. they want someone more effective. someone said to me. there is two kinds of speaker, a hard line type guy who cracks the whip and get the vote. or intellectual. like tom delay. majority leader and not speaker. and thats what he served and a intellectual and someone like newt g...

That person. chuck? >> all right. katy tur. on the trail there. and to summarize the presidential candidates, trump sort of bragging and boastful about it. huckabee combative bush surprised graham fear and carson with the kudos. thanks very much. lets bring in joe scarborough to talk more about what donald trump called bedlam. i think thats a pretty good description right now, joe. its pure bedlam. and this feels different. some people are going to say, oh, boehner is gingrich, mccarthy is livin...

Farenthold say maybe a texan. we both got a look on our face. who are their real prospects right now? who could they call on to fill this job? >> this is the thing. every name that you can think of is being floated around right now. but the closest parallel to this situation thats useful to look back at is what happened during the clinton impeachment saga at the end of 1998, bob livingston from louisiana, was all set to become the next house speaker. came out that hed had an extra marital affair...

Senate out in state houses who are are lined up to say this is the person we want to see as president is very gratifying. they look at what they think i can do for them. >> i was going to make that the last question. what about speaker boehner. this has been a challenge for this president, working with republicans in congress. why do you think youll have better luck? >> look, i think that first of all, you have to have an agenda youre running on that the american people believe is possible and c...

Reporters on the scene. casey hunt and steve kornaki. unpack that last sentence from hillary clinton. >> she seemed to be making the argument for pragmatism, i know washington and how that world works and how to get results. also, i know how to work with the other side. i know how to breakthrough this partisan logjam in certain times and certain ways. >> did you notice nobody in washington has endorsed bernie sanders? she didnt say it. >> you asked her what makes her different. the simple answer...

And another thing that needed to happen. one of those was the indictment. this indictment by the travis county district attorneys office, this drunk d.a. that had used this office we thing for political purposes did the same thing to tom delay, lasted for ten years and had a real corrosive effect on our ability to raise money. the other thing was we needed to be on the main debate stage on august 6th. we missed it by a few percentages of one point. when those two things didnt happen, it had a ve...

And either youre a billionaire or you have a billionaire backer, and you know, the real issue for us was that we ran into those headwinds with this indictment. and not being on that main debate stage. those are two very powerful impacts that we had to deal with. >> its very dangerous because youre right, i watched tom delays case very closely. ten years nearly bankrupted him, if it didnt, i dont know the status of his personal finances. but we seem to be criminalizing political differences here....

Potential to break into the top tier. >> thank you very much. joe that, is the question. how to stand out and how to deal with the trump factor. >> well that, sort of speech helps you stand out. and what an arc for john kasich being the guy in 1995 that actually worked and had to twist arms and had to persuade and had to do everything he could do to be the first budget chairman to balance a budget in a generation. he did that. he did it four years in a row for the first time since the 1920s. and...