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Amendments come to the process and have regular order where we have conference committees, yes. by not controlling the process, so tightly held here the speakership, by letting it go forward i don't know what the outcome's going to be -- >> you told members of the freedom caucus that you were not going to touch immigration reform, something that you worked really hard on. you went out and campaigned with one of the most liberal democrats in congress talking about it. do you see any future for actually getting that done? and why did you make that promise if you want to -- >> because this presid...

Process to actually advance ideas. so i think that frustration is frustration that i shared, actually, as a house republican before becoming speaker. and i think that's what our members want to see us do more of. and that's why i think i'm in this position. >> do you think this means the end of the road for any hope of being president? >> oh, i don't -- hope of being president? >> meaning, meaning when you're speaker of the house, it's just, it's a lot harder to -- >> that's okay with me. that doesn't really bother me. if i really wanted to be president i would have run in this cycle for the p...

Welcome back. that was hillary clinton disrupted from a group of protesters black lives matter. we'll start with you, congressman. black lives matter movement has gained such potency in the democratic primary process. their conversations with bernie sanders really do seem -- the guy that you endorsed -- really do seem to have made a difference in his policies. what do you think about their tactics like this, doing what they did? >> you know, when some white pastors wrote martin luther king when he was in the birmingham jail and said we like your goals but we don't like your tactics, he wrote b...

>> i think we need to be clear about what we can and cannot achieve. and not set expectations we know we can't reach given the constraints of the constitution. but we also have to push issues where we can push issues. we also have to speak truth to power. we have a president that isn't willing to listen, that isn't going to sign lots of our bills into law. we have a senate that has a very difficult process when it comes to actually getting bills voted on. and so knowing that we have those constraints, we have to operate within those constraints -- >> what will you say to your caucus about putt...

We are back with our "first read" on on politics this morning. the jeb bush campaign notifying now staffers that they are cutting salaries across the board. this news just in. and with the iowa caucus 100 days away, democratic candidates and thousands of their supporters will descend on des moines this weekend for the annual jefferson jackson dinner, one of the most important political events in the democratic primary process. more on that in a moment. but first, a look back at the week in politics. >> first, we need to move from an opposition party to being a proposition party. we need to upd...