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All as house speaker paul ryan prepares to hit the trail with trump in wisconsin, a boost from the gop's top elected leader. still, trump's own surrogates providing ammunition for clinton, saying trump's ban on muslim immigration which trump himself has never publicly backed off of doesn't stand. >> because it's not donald trump's position. i'm proud to stand with him when he says that we need to suspend immigration from countries and territories that have been kr s compromised by terrorism. >> reporter: all coming as trump on wednesday committed a swing state faux pa pronouncing nevada, nevad...

Since then, the u.s. has sent hundreds of millions in aid. >> the u.s./egypt relationship should not be defined by assistance, and there are much bigger issues that matter to us and concern us and define the relationship. >> conner powell now has more. >> reporter: secretary of state john cakerry arrived in cairo a described the turbulent times. and kerry insisted today that the united states is both a friend and partner to egypt. this was kerry's first trip to egypt since the military over through the democratic elected leader.

We are talking about morsi, the leader of egypt, the first democratic elected leader who gave a somewhat stunning declaration this week. he gave himself nearly limited power. it's created uprising in tahrir square. we have the author of "no god but god." an adjunct. heather is back at the table. let's start with the context of this. i find the process by which politics is negotiated in the absence of a constitutional law fascinating because right now, egypt is operating in this post revolutionary environment. there's no letter to the law, am i correct?

Maybe democrats pick up a couple of seats. there are a lot of races still to be called. but john boehner is still the top republican elected leader, and he's going to have to go against harry reid and president obama again to strike some type of deal on taxes and spending. jon: and he has has some have put it the most difficult job in washington now because he's got a substantial number of tea party supporters in his caucus who are not going to be inclined to go along with tax increases, but the president and harry reid are going to be pushing what they've been pushing throughout this election...

Economy and they are asking the question where are the jobs? >> let's bring our panel reed wilson from the "national journal" hotline and molly ball for the atlantic. welcome both of you. so speaker john boehner commented on it. said basically i want to talk about jobs. an hour and a half after this announcement not one single republican elected leader said anything significant about it. it seems like they are running away from it and wanted to talk about jobs, jobs, jobs. >> that's the thing. john boehner didn't really comment about it. in fact at the end of this press conference, this on cam...