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Choice right now. the president can try to pick up some moderate democrats and try to get a working majority in the house as ronald reagan did or he has to bring some of these freedom caucus members around. i dont know that threatening to campaign against them in 2018 which i doubt will happen in the end is necessarily the smartest move. you saw justin pushing back there with the bullying tactics. >> i know on social media today, people are tweeting on mark meadows. he went to a ups store, i don...

Lots of members of the white house staff are saying this is ryans false. if youre throwing ryan overboard and remember this is the same house republican caucus that kicked out john boehner as speaker who would replace him and would he have more ability to herd the cats to get a working majority. it was the problem with boehner and with ryan. they dont have a working majority 218 republicans to pass everything. >> shannon: the president came in as the song says like a wrecking ball and has done t...

People over the finish line so we could maintain our strong house and senate majorities. >> our senior political reporter manu raju is here covering congress closely. where were their surprises? >> wolf, overall, major surprise with the gop stand of losses significantly in congress the party was able to preserve a working majority in both chambers. in the house officials on both sides expected the republicans would lose anywhere from 12 to 20 seats, but their losses will probably be only in the ...

What paul is doing by taking the job. >> issues you had were the possibility of getting the 218 on the floor. you probably were going to get that but it was not necessarily the resound majority that you wanted. ryan was able to get 236. how important is it for him to have that big number of 236 republicans in support of him? >> its very important because youve got to have a strong working majority if you want to change the direction of this country. and thats what this conference wants. thats wh...

>> much to your chagrin. >> well yeah, actually. other democrats you hear them talk about the gop as the party thats been wrong on all the big stuff. creating social security, civil rights, war in iraq. you dont do that. do you think there is a stark difference between the parties? >> i think theres a difference between the parties. but heres my belief. im talking to voters. i think there are a lot of republican voters out there, self-identified, who actually think that what the bush administrat...

Do you think there is a stark difference between the parties? >> i think theres a difference between the parties. but heres my belief. im talking to voters. i think there are a lot of republican voters out there, self-identified, who actually think that what the bush administration has done has been damaging to the country and what im interested in is how do we build a working majority for change? and if i start off with the premise that its only self-identified democrats who im speaking to, the...

Guy in the house on the republican side, why would you want him to have this job right now? you need somebody in there thats just a sacrificial lamb to try to bring order to this cause of action and maybe set it up for somebody like paul ryan to preside over a working majority. >> i would like to nominate donald trump as speaker of the house since you dont to be a member of congress to be speaker and i think he could get things sort of settled. >> well, it would be -- >> some say ted cruz is alr...

Thats just a sacrificial lamb to try to bring order to this cause of action and maybe set it up for somebody like paul ryan to preside over a working majority. >> i would like to nominate donald trump as speaker of the house since you dont to be a member of congress to be speaker and i think he could get things sort of settled. >> well, it would be -- >> some say ted cruz is already speaker. >> you did the transition to ted cruz. ted cruz is the presidential -- potential presidential front-runne...

Should lead. he is the guy to lead. we need him to lead. >> kathleen just wrote "dont do it, paul." >> he would be a great speaker. he has the qualifications for the job and hes well like and respected. hes the brainy one in the party. anyway, theyre going to do the same thing, the free daum caucus folks will do the same thing to him as theyve done to everyone else because he will eventually have to have conversations with democrats. he will face these debt ceilings, these other benchmarks that ...

Weve got very important votes coming up that are going to be contentious and we needs to unified. the problem we have right now we came out of a historic election, a big majority in the house, substantial majority in the senate and have to figure how to make it work. i want to see more work done in that tlekz. >> interesting when i saw the numbers, 100% of democrats. 100% of them. voted for this clean bill and yet it seems as though the republicans -- how do you get unity and cohesion when you h...