And our principles are to provide for equal opportunities for people can make the most of their lives. What i would say to people who have different views on different issues, if you take a look at our core of our party that attracts the most people to our party, it is opportunity, it is upward mobility, it is free enterprise, it is freedom, it is selfdetermination. Those things are what and maima our beliefs and our principles. We believe in family, believe in family being able to meet their potential, hard work reaps rewards. Those are inclusive principles that apply equally to everybody. Thats why i think take a look at not make some of the harsh rhetoric you see here or there but go to the actual ideas, go to better. Gop and tell me does that not speak to the problems youre facing in your life. Does it not offer a solution to a better job, better economic growth, a better economy, to have a more secure family, provide National Security and opportunity and, by the way, in fiscal, we have done five budgets that show you exactly how to balance the budget and pay off the debt. I wrote the first four, which says we know exactly what we need to do to get this budget balanced, to pay off this debt and, by the way, if we dont start working on this pretty fast, if we blow another presidency and dont get our fiscal house in order, its going to get really ugly. The point i keep saying on this is because baby boomers are retiring, our fiscal situation gets worse and we see it coming. Its the most predictable economic catastrophe weve ever had and we know its coming. So the reforms were talking about, the reforms on health care and the rest, will guarantee that anybody in or near retirement sees no change in their benefits, but those of us who areyounger, we have to reform these programs so we can cash flow them for current seniors and we dont bankrupt the country. If we dont reform government soon and get our fiscal house in order soon, our debt will take the rest, it will take over and we will guarantee well give the next generation a lower standard of living, lower quality of life. When we get around to fixing our fiscal problem, after its got really bad, well have to cut benefits for everybody, after people have retired. Government has made promises to people and with our reforms we can honor those promises and get our fiscal house in order so that your kids and grand kids get a debtfree future. If we stay on the path were on, were not going to have that. Thats why the situation is so dire and were doing everything we can to give the country a choice so we can earn the right to put these reforms in place. Lets bring in marie tacee, executive direct of new jersey right to life right across the bridge. Like so Many Americans right across the nation i was deeply disappointed when the Supreme Court issued their decision striking down a texas law that sought to implement Common Sense Health and Safety Standards at abortion clinics. In light of this disastrous decision, what can congress do to advance the prolife issue . I agree with that. We have the same law in wisconsin. Tomorrow we are bringing a bill ive been work on called the conscience protection act. Im prolife. You probably know that. I would like to think we could at least get con sense news this country that taxpayers shouldnt be funding abortions, that the government shouldnt be forcing people to conduct procedures, especially health care workers, against their own conscience. Our First Amendment is the right of conscience, religious freedom, yet our own government today, particularly in california, is violating that right and not allowing people to protect their conscience rights, whether theyre catholic hospitals or doctors or nurses. Tomorrow were bringing the conscience protection act to the floor and passing it. Its diane blacks bill. Its to give those citizens in america who want to protect their conscience rights, their ability to defend those rights. Thats one thing were doing tomorrow to protect the conscience. We need to cultivate the culture of life. You talked earlier about aspirational politics. I want to introduce you to kerry cahill. His father, michael cahill, was killed in a domestic traffic in 2009 that killed 13 people. Now this remarkable story, she and the shooters cousin speak together traveling across the country, talking to students about fighting extremism. Shes not registered with a political party. Carrie. So i hear you and i hear what you have to say. But donald trump is proposing a ban on muslims from entering this country. And you have said that that is not what the principles of your party or your country and i agree with you. How do you explain to the 1. 6 billion muslims that we trade with that we ally with, that live next door to us how you endorse a man who has that proposal on his agenda . I disagree with him on it. Its just that simple. Look, no two people agree on everything. Let me go back to what the say at the beginning. We have a binary choice, donald trump, Hillary Clinton. I pick donald trump. The libertarian is basically voting for Hillary Clinton. When i hear something i dont agree with, the religious tests, i was defending the constitutions First Amendment. We need a security people coming into this country, not a religious test. When i see those principles being violated or compromised, whoever is doing it, im going to speak out about it, whether were doing it to catholic nurses in california or a republican is doing to muslims. Its being consistent in defense of your principles. You know i dont agree with them on that particular policy but on the other 92 policies, like this agenda and Everything Else and on putting on good judges of the Supreme Court so we dont have rulings on the Supreme Court and the balance of things, the good clearly outweighs the things i dont agree with. Thats just the way it works in government, in politics. We dont have people who run for office who 100 reflect all of our views. It doesnt work like that. We have to find people who reflect most of our views and whose views are more reflective of our views than the other candidate. Thats the kind of decision were facing right now. By the way, thank you for doing what youre doing. That is very cool. I mean, seriously, to be able to have the trauma that you and your family went through, which was islamic terrorism and to have someone to have someone in that family work with you to go out and spread awareness and to deal with confronting this, thats a service to your country. So thank you for doing that. By the way, thats one of the things were talking about in our agenda, our National Security platform, which is how do we confront the ideology. How do we confront the ideology of jihad . I met with other heads of state in saudi arabia and egypt and jordan about forming a a coalition of governments, of moderate muslim countries to work on confronting the ideology so the 10yearold boy in peshawar pakistan doesnt go to jihad. How do representatives trade go for us if theyre told the leaders of those countries cant come to this country. The point is, on balance clearly donald trump is going to give he already gave as you great list of judges to pick from from the sport, very impressive judges, the kind of people you want to see on the court. So again, youre not going to have a candidate in probably any election that shares your views on 100 of the issues. The question is where does the balance go but to me, without a doubt, its on the republican side. Thank you for doing what youre doing. We are all so sorry for your loss. Thank you for being here this evening. One last question for Stephen Cohen from Nassau County here tonight with his daughter, jordan. Mr. Speaker, thank you for taking my question. When you became speaker, you insisted very specifically in carving out time for your children say it again, please. You insisted on carving out time for your children when you became speaker. I think that makes you a very positive role model for our generation. What advice would you have for fathers for carving out time for their children, particularly those who dont have as much career flexibility as you do. I guess im more sensitive i lost my dad when i was a kid. So i grew up wanting a father. I grew up with mentors that took me under their belt. I cant tell you how many times ive had conversations with people in their 60s, with tough, big, good, strong careers, time consuming careers who would always say, boy, i wish i spent more time with my children. I dont want to be one of those people. So i was always able to manage in congress all my weekends, every weekend at home in wisconsin with my family and then im in d. C. Typically four days a week. I think if youre raising kids and theyre at this formative stage, in our family, 11, 13, 14, they only grow up once. And its just you dont want to miss that time. You dont want to have regrets. You want to be a part of their life. Especially when you went wanting like i did when i was young. To me it was just one of those conditions. In congress they sort of expect the speaker to travel nonstop every weekend. I just wasnt going to do that. So i was not going to fulfill that expectation of this job, people wanted me to do this job. I had to make it very clear. I didnt try to make a lot of news on this. It was just clear, you cant have my family. Can you have my time when im on washington but not on the weekends. Its important to have that Work Life Balance, its important for families to have that Work Life Balance so families are strong, in tact. Thats the most fulfilling part of life is raising a family, at least in my opinion. It was nonnegotiable to me. Speaker of the house ryan, thank you for being here. Thanks to all of you in the audience for being here and you at home for watching tonight the cnn tonight with don lemon starts right now. All right, jake, thank you very much. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Our town haul with House Speaker paul ryan, after a rare moment of unity. Hill H Hillary Clinton gets the endorsement from Bernie Sanders and donald trump gets closer to naming his running mate. Dana bash, mark preston and Gloria Borger join us. We listened to a little over an hour in this town hall tonight in the speaker. Many concerned about how conservative donald trump really is. What stood out to you . What stood out to me is paul ryan clearly made the case that he is a little suspicious of Donald Trumps conservatism. He said he wants consistency and what he called consistent conservatism. He made the case for having a conservative running mate. He came out and said i want a conservative. When he was asked by the audience how can you support this important to does not agree with you on the issues . He said compared to what . Its a binary choice, its either donald trump or Hillary Clinton. He still cant get his arms around donald trump in no way. Hes kind of twisting himself to do that. Well, i dont agree with him on everything. He totally is. Hes the leader of the party and the Supreme Court is very important. Donald trump appeared tonight with governor mike pence. We expect to learn who trump is going to pick as vp at any time. So what are you hearing . Ill tell you what i saw here in this arena, which was filled with people who were quite happy, at least the people here to see mike pence, their governor, give a pretty rousing introduction to donald trump and hitting all the notes he knew he needed to hit being Donald TrumpsVice President , starting out of how great donald trump is and playing that classic attack dog role going after Hillary Clinton. When it comes to donald trump, it was kind of interesting, maybe classic trump that towards the end of a very long speech that trump gave here, he started talking about mike pence. Just listen to what he said. We can talk about it afterwards. I often joke youll be calling up mike pence, i dont know whether hell be your Vice President or governor, who knows. Building up the suspense, which is not unique to donald trump. He may be an unconventional candidate. But at this time just days before, maybe hours before a candidate picks a running mate, they like to scramble thing for the press, keep the guessing game going and the buzz going. To mr. Preston, this is such a strange political year. What do you think is driving this v. P. Choice for trump. Well, you know, all along we try to figure out what is donald trump really looking for in a running mate . Is he looking for somebody who understands washington . For a fighter . For loyalty . Somebody with Foreign Policy experience . Hes touched upon all of those, certainly when we look at the remaining candidates supposedly that are under consideration. In the end, though, i do think if we are to believe where things are moving is that he is listening to critics within the Republican Party and advisers in the Republican Party saying go after a conservative to shore up the base. Theres no way donald trump is going to win the presidency without having a strong base that he can build upon. What we saw from mike pence today in indiana or this evening in indiana is someone who can come out and be the attacker of Hillary Clinton, the attacker of the democratic party, perhaps take a little bit off of drs shoulders, even though he enjoys it, done, if you are the president ial nominee, you have other things you need to do. You need to sell your vision and not spend all of your time attacking your opponent. Thats what the vp should be doing. Go ahead, dana. Mike pence is not a household name. So to marks point, he proves here he can be an attack dog but he is a conservative, he have an evangelical. He is somebody who is maybe not well known kind of in the broad public but among evangelicals he is and he is trusted among the base. And that is important because there is skittishness. You even hear speaker of the house paul ryan talk today about how he knows mike pence pause pence served in the house of representatives. He has that washington experience and that could help. Now, whether it could help with the independents and moving to the middle and getting people over from the democratic side, thats a different story. Gloria, i do want you to respond. Is the money on pence . Is he the oddson favorite . Yeah, look, i think hes the safe choice for donald trump. Im not saying that donald trump ever does the safe thing, but when you hear someone like paul ryan say i want a conservative, i never thought pence was an attack dog, by the way, but i heard him tonight and i changed my mind. He can go on the attack. The only thing i dont know about is the personal chemistry between the two men. Thats up to donald trump obviously but i would have to say that he is the safest choice that would be respondingly approved by the establishment conservatives that have been repelled by him. Dont forget pence endorsed ted cruz and a lot of the antitrumpers were cruz people. So this kind of deflates all of that to a degree, if he were to pick pence. So its all in the mix. Who knows what donald trump does. Hes the most steady choice. Have i to ask you, theres a new pew poll out and shows Hillary Clinton beating donald trump among registered voters 45 to 36 with gary johnson. Should donald trump be worried about that . Hillary clinton has had a consistent lead by as many points, it kind of varies a few points either way. Heading into your convention, what you want and you guys no this as well as anybody, what you want is to get a bump out of that convention and youd like to be ahead going into your convention. So its a little bit more difficult for donald trump but, sure, theyre worried. Theyre worried when they see any poll that shows them behind. I want to get to this and ask you about Ruth Bader Ginsburg with negative comments about donald trump. She told the New York Times she couldnt imagine the country led by trump. Today she said this to cnn hes a faker. He has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego. How has he gotten away without turning over his tax returns . The press seeps to be very gentle with him about that. Is that comment appropriate . Has she gone too far . This is the fifth president ial convention ive covered. Ive never seen a Supreme Court justice weigh in on a president ial race, let alone a candidate. But if you have take a step back and wonder how will this impact the race, this might help rally conservatives around donald trump who are already concerned that the court is going to shift to the left demonstrably if Hillary Clinton is elected. So could you perhaps see those on the right take these comments and really try to rally a base around donald trump. They might not like him as a person but they seem him as we saw paul ryan say earlier that its a binary choice. Donald trump said i think its highly inappropriate a United StatesSupreme Court judge gets voofd in a political campaign. I couldnt believe it when i saw it. Go ahead, dana. Theres a reason why her supporters call her the notorious rbg. They think shes one of their heros, a foek hero. However, like mark said and more importantly for all of us, what jeff riff to berey toobin, a ste court said earlier on cnn, hes never seen this and it isnt appropriate. Politically mark is absolutely right. There is no quicker way to engage the conservative base behind a candidate who has promised to deliver judges that they like by name than for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Start Talking about donald trump. Especially when this is