Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131213:17:22:00
If they had no options, we wouldn't want them to run. so they have to choose what course they are going to take. we want them to run for congress. i could never subject myself or my family to the kind of criticism, to use a gentle word, the attacks you received. i said, i'm the speaker of the house. they had to take me down because we were passing affordable care act, repealed don't ask, don't tell, lily ledbetter, so many things about the environment flying in the space of status quo special interest mentality of washington, d.c. but i'm in the ring, throw a punch, take a punch. that's okay w...