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Thing for the country without a doubt. My friends and i agree on that whether or not we agree on the speaker. He did the right thing. He did the right thing i think for this institution. He showed it could function in a time of crisis. Finally, i think he did the right thing for our party. He made sure we could continue to negotiate and achieve some of the very objectives my friend from virginia laid out and achieve them in divided government which calls for some degree of give and take. So im very proud of this speaker. Im very proud to stand behind him. Tomorrow morning, whether i win or los...

Have seen and heard from the white house and seen reported today, sir, that devin nunes did nothing wrong? >> i don't think he did anything ethically wrong. i think people will make their own judgments as to whether, from a leadership standpoint, he made the right call as the chairman of that committee. others might have done it differently. he did it the way that he saw, he thought was most appropriate. he served on that committee as the designated chairman representing the speaker of the house, going to paul ryan first was the right thing to do. there will be separate and different calls abo...

Told this. and what speaker ryan suggested ahead of the intel committee. >> exactly. >> was going to do. at the end of the day, willie, the bottom line is still the same. donald trump lied about barack obama ordering wiretaps on trump tower. he lied about obama being like nixon, this being like watergate and obama being sick, that a lawyer could hold a case against barack obama for tapping trump tower. they proved absolutely nothing yesterday, except their political incompetence. >> as nunez, himself, said in that interview we played with jake tapper, no, the president is not correct that he w...

It's day trading of the worst sort because if you've actually got something, play it through the system properly. talk to the ranking member and then hold -- hell, if you want to exploit this, hold three weeks, four weeks of hearings on this, leak it out to the press what you may have, and you would get a month of headlines. instead, he just blew himself up yesterday because he is, obviously, doing the bidding of a president who is a political day trader. >> so i couldn't agree with you more. i want to make sure i understand and everyone understands. director nunez, the chair of the committee ...

Policy in the bill. i've been very up front about that. i felt the tax credits are insufficient for too many americans. i have concerns about the way the medicaid issue is being handled, particularly in the expansion states. i've talked with governor kasich, as well as my governor and i have a proposal from republican governors, you know, saying they need greater flexibility, better resources to serve their populations. and i think we just have not built the necessary coalitions and had the stakeholder support that we need to advance a reform like this. i voted against obamacare seven years ag...