Miner news today. The Republican Party is still in recovery mode after House Speaker paul ryan shocked the argyle socks off the political world and said hes not ready to support donald j. Trump, billionaire. We read you trumps initial statement. This morning donald trump call into the fox news network. I was really surprised by it. Its fine. He can do whatever he wants to do. Its fine. I was surprised by it. Many other people were surprised by it and some were really surprised by it and not happy. Ill tell you i have many endorsements from yesterday. Theyre coming in left and right. Hes one of the only ones that really was surprising. Was there more . There was more. Trump also used his favorite social media microphone to depend himself and deride the House Speaker. He said i inherited something special. Wrong. I didnt inherit it. I won it by millions of voters. He said even more when his National Spokeswoman went on cnn and had tough words for ryan if he doesnt change his mind. If the republican speaker of the house does not come around to supporting the republican nominee, do you think that paul ryan is still fit to be speaker . No because this is about the party. You have to understand, the last two president ial cycles, we were told john mccain was a conservative. His conservative review score card is 37 . We were told mitt romney was a conservative. He was proabortion, progay marriage. We were told to hold our noses and vote for the sake of the party. These same people are now telling us that because theyre guy didnt win, they want to hurt the party. We are a party. Paul ryan needs to be hes the leader now. Were told donald trump is only the presumptive nominee. Hes not the nominee until 1237. Its incumbent among paul ryan to bring unity. Were a party too. The Speakers Office put out a statement saying they will meet on thursday to try to smooth things over. More leading republicans have taken sides over whether or not to back trump during the past 24 hours. Dick cheney said he wont vote. Bush said he wont vote in november. Let us come back to the core issue here. The particular of trump versus ryan. Who do you reckon is likely to blink first in this stand off of stand offs . I think that trump might blink first but i think priebus is well positioned to try to smooth this over. The ties between the r thrnc an Trump Campaign is growing stronger. They are making progress in the fund raising front. I think priebus will appeal to his friend paul ryan. When and if ryan does endorse, it will be more powerful now. He may say i asked trump to get better, he did. I dont think this is a minor thing. I think ryan is uncomfortable with trump on many levels. Well see how the meeting next week goes. Im not sure this will be smooth as some people are predicting. I have zero doubt about the answer to this question. If anybody blinks, if anybody blinks, its going to be donald trump. You can see it. Last night that response, he seemed to be impetuos in firing back. The ways hes decided to go after people in the past did i mention lying ryan . That was restrained. The stuff today was been restrained. Katrina pearson went out. She sometimes does that. I think he wants to pivot on some of these issues that ryan cares about. If hes going to be blinking, i think its on his side. I agree. I think thats where its going to come if theres blinking. It may not be blinking. If you think about how much resistance to donald trump, by the end of this week hes in a surprising position. Didnt get the bushes, ryan and not getting jeb bush. But got dick chaney. Got some members of congress. Didnt get the governor of illinois. Its a mixed bag. Heres the key to me. Trump has to prove he can win a general election. They have reservations about trumps behavior, policy positions. Some have reservations about what kind of president he will be. If he looks like he can beat Hillary Clinton, thats going to get a lot of people on board. Theres still a powerful thing here. The end of the week has come. The speaker of the house, the last republican nominee, the previous nominee to that. The last two sitting republican president s. None of them are for trump. Not one. That overshadows everything else. Those are the biggest names. Chaney is whatever. Donald trump is an independent who is running who ran as a republican and a lot of moderate positions. He says he wants to unify the party. He wants to unify the party on his terms. Thats not going so well. Hes smashed the establishment. Hes criticized the bushes. Hes behaved in the way that no republican nominee of our lifetime has behaved. I agree this week hasnt gone perfectly for him. Hes gotten support for many establishment figures. He still may get paul ryan. Its huge for trump. If his goal is unify, and thats what he says it is, hes not achieved very much this week. He doesnt need total unity. These are the biggest figures in the Republican Party. If you want to change washington and be a different candidate, youre not going to get everybody. He should stop talking about unity. Unify as much as possible. Not getting ryan is a big deal. I think he will be hard to get. Thank you for agreeing with me. On that one point. Most important point. Coming up, congressman of new york. First, a quick word from our sponsors. Were always looking for ways to speed up your Car Insurance search. Heres the latest. Problem is, we havent figured out how to reverse it. For now, just log on to compare. Com. Plug in some simple info and get up to 50 free quotes. Choose the lowest and hit purchase. Now. If youll excuse me, im late for an important function. Compare. Com. Saving humanity from high insurance rates. I just want to emphasize the degree of which we are in serious times and this is really serious job. This is not entertainment. This is not a reality show. This is a contest for the presidency of the united states, and what that means is that every candidate, every nominee needs to be subject to exacting standards and genuine scrutiny. That was president obama earlier today talking about donald trump at the white house. Joining us is someone who doesnt care for the remaining president ial candidates and hes calling for a third party alternative. Bill crystal is in our washington bureau. Thank you for joining us today. Thanks, mark. What separates republicans from dick chaney and republicans like you . I guess just a different judgment of whether he has the temperament and character to be president of the united states. I dont think any of these issues is a show stopper. Were all used to if you have to vote for one of two president ial candidates compromising on issues that one cares about. Its choosing the lesser of two evils. Bill, im not trying to pick a fight. Im just using you two as examples. Im confused from a human level. You have great, i think Great Respect for dick chaneys judgment. Is that really it . Youre looking at the data. Chaney says this guy has the character to be president and you say he doesnt. How could that be youd reach a different conclusion in youd be inclined to endorse the republican nominee . I dont know. We have to have dick chaney on and have a civilized debate about this. I would say elected officials, former elected officials like dick chaney lean more heavily or presumptively likely to endorse the nominee of their party. People they knew privately were not really great but they supported this person running for congress or that person even for president. Im out of it. I dont expect to be lekk lecte anything. I think you guys captured it early. Ive had the same mental back and forth myself. Should one be surprised that bush, the most recent republican nominee arent supporting the nominee. As john was saying, on the other hand, or maybe john was saying that. Was saying that can i cant see you. Just the audios. Its correctly saying on the other hand hes picked up an awful lot of people down through a range of senators and others. Is it impressive that you have a nominee who doesnt have the support of the speaker of the house which is pretty amazing, i would say. Well see how this plays out. When you think about Donald Trumps temperament thats disqualified in your view, ha is the piece of evidence that you most seize on. A guy should not sit in the oval office. You embrace the endorsement of a rapist and you dont say that was horrible and i didnt mean, i think of them as a heavy weight champion. I deplore that. He doesnt say that. He says i like toughness p. On the day of the indiana primary, he spins this conspiracy story from the National Inquirer which is they put in about ted cruz father complicit in the assassination of a president of the the united states. Donald trump says it could be true. That level of just willful regard of all facts. For me the one thing if you asked me what i wake up at 6 00 in the morning. It was the mocking of the disabled New York Times reporter, which is such a humanly ghuman ly grotesque thing to do. Hes a congressman. What damage will he do. I say this not as a question but as a punctuation. The person you described is dick chaney. This new idea of stopping trump and stopping Hillary Clinton by finding someone who can win six states big enough to keep them from getting 270 electoral votes. Weve been playing with the map and it seems doable. If you could pick anybody in the country to do that, leaving aside theyd be willing who is constitutionally eligible, who is one that can pull that off with the right money . I think someone like the person i did have persons with, jim maddox who would have run an impressive campaign. Hes more liberal than i am on a bunch of issues. Its on a long shot, obviously that the independent candidate takes off some. Theres a debate. A lot of voters see them together in october. They would have to be madison. We have 20 seconds. Name somebody that could do it, who might do it. Is there anybody . Ben sass or mitt romney. I think hes thinking about it seriously or he could be ben sass chairman. Up next, the king and us will talk to peter king. Stay tuned. Well be right back. With noninsulin victoza®. For a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar. But it didnt get me to my goal. So i asked my doctor about victoza®. He said victoza® works differently than pills. And comes in a pen. 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Hes got to make a more coherent foreign policy, National Security policy, trade policy and try to tie together the incon ssistencies in his overal policy. I believe the twoparty system. I expect or hope to be back in Congress Next year. I want to play a role in whats happening within the Republican Party. I think we are at some sort of a defining moment. Less this is a one off abh aberration, this could be a real turning point in the party. Every key issue, donald trump is differing from what had been the accepted republican policies for the last 50 or 60 years on defense, trade and the whole issue of being more receptive to other people. I know youre saying hes deviating. You said he need a more coherent foreign policy, trade policy. Are you saying theyre incoherent . I am. Hes talking about how china will be our main add vversary. Hes talking about withdrawing our troops from korea, japan. Even the way he ridicules the tpp, the transpacific partnership. One of the main purposes was to strengthen our position vis a vis china so they cant be picking off these asian countries. He has to show how hes talking about some form of withdrawal from the middle east saying that the u. S. Is not going to be a policeman. The same time we have to protect christians all over the middle east. These are inconsistent, incoherent policies. In are a Hillary Clintondonald trump election, who would be the favorite to win and why . Right now i would say Hillary Clinton is the favorite. Going back to last summer, marco rubio or jeb bush would have been the favorite. Donald trump is defied all the rules of gravity, all the rules of politics. Right now i would not be surprised to see donald trump make a very good race or beat her. Hes going to come out very why does she have to be the favorite . What makes her the favorite right now . The fact that Donald Trumps infavorables are high. The fact she has a pretty much united party. I know some of the Bernie Sanders people will leave her but the organization of democrats will be with her. She has the whole government in exile that the clintons had over the years out there working for her. She there are many more democrats than republicans. They have the large voting blocks coming for them whether its the africanamerican vote or the hispanic vote which the republicans dont have. Where trump can cut into that is by going for the reagan democrats. Thats why its going to be very significant. Congressman, speaker ryan said, like you did, he would support the republican nominee. Theres now a defacto nominee. You said you would do that. Why shouldnt we take congressmans ryan position as going back on his word. Id say paul ryan was expecting to be resolved at the convention. As the speaker of the house, hes defacto leader of congressional republicans. He wants to ensure that republicans keep the majority in the house. He wants to make sure that donald Trump Realizes theres a number of House Republicans who have serious differences with him. Again, i havent spoken to paul. Im assuming these are his reasons. He wants to protect them but paul believes very strongly in a national defense. He believes strongly in free trade. He wants to find way to get donald trump to make some accommodation with that as we go forward. Congressman, you just talked about one of the things that paul ryan seems to be doing which is try to give some cover to some of your colleagues in the house. Youre pretty well in tump with some of your colleagues on the republican side. How many of your colleagues will want to take that cover that paul ryan is offering and not do what youre doing but try to keep their distance from donald trump. I would say a good 30 or 40 would have serious issues with donald trump politically and they would be the more moderate type republicans. On the other hand, you have some strong conservatives who feel that donald trump is not a conservative. I would say paul has to look out for both wings of the party. Its friday. Give me three adjectives you would use today to describe donald trump. Unusual, flamboyant and enigma. Three to describe Hillary Clinton. Determined, strong and insecure which maybe undermines strong. Insecure because shes not going to be sure whether trump is coming from. Good for trump or bad for trump with dick chaneys endorsement . Its good for him. Any republican he can get to endorse him is good. I cant imagine two more different people in my life than dick chaney and donald trump. Forgetting the politics, just the type of people they are. Two different worlds. You suggested that donald trump, this moment is a crisis for the Republican Party. How serious is that crisis. Is this the kind of crisis that could be existenial crisis. I never want go away from a twopear system. No matter who the candidates were whether goldwater or rockerfeller. There was much more that was agreed upon than agreed upon now. On Donald Trumps key issues, these are totally at odds with what the Republican Party position has been. I know they use the term establishment, th