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A look. >> speaker paul ryan is leaving washington at just 48 years old when manny expected he would be the future of the republican party. after 20 years in congress and three years as the speaker, he says he has had enough. >> i never wanted to become speaker, i was a policy guy. i like to think i still am. major tax reform passed last year's at the top of his legacy. >> it is something i worked on my entire adult life. it is something that will help improve the lives of people for a long time to come. >> the majority leader says he has always been true to his principles. he demonstrated fre...

Made him such a desirable candidate? is that something in terms of who the president is looking for? we don't know yet who could possibly be that replacement, but what are the qualities that the president wants if it wasn't a former military strong man like john kelly to bring order into the white house or former political operative like reince preb priebus to know the savvy workings of the white house. >> he cut his teeth in georgia politics. ayers was far more politically a tuned than john kelly was. certainly as the administration, the president, rather, has an eye to his own reelection cam...

Campaign. but is he a policy guy? is he a government guy? not so much. there is always a danger that it is designed to get shot down. >> you know, john, on the mattis point there, we had a test of that just recently on the khashoggi evidence, right? and you saw mattis line up with the president and mike pompeo, which seemed to be contradicted by the cia director's testimony. always good to have you on. let's get now because, again, another story we're covering today. d.c. federal courthouse, our own jessica snyder is there waiting for the latest peek into robert mueller's investigation into pa...

Argentina. we will work closely with them. why are you -- >> this is a typical overstatement from the statement where he really agreed to nothing new. there was no agreement at the g-20. the tar riiff s we have not bee increased. and now are working on what had been intractable problems. that's probably more than a 90 day negotiation for everything we know about negotiating with the chinese over these very sensitive issues. it's an open question as to whether or not the ball's really been moved forward in any way, shape or form. we're not going to know unless we see such progress between the n...

The ideological terrain is so messy. you'll get voters like this. you'll get people who are going to vote for one conservative in this instance and a liberal in that instance. our traditional labels won't capture the political behavior. >> it suggests something else interesting that policy doesn't matter. i mean, i think jeb bush learned this in the republican primary when he ran a policy ad criticizing the policy positions saying they weren't conservative. gop primary voters didn't give a bleep. >> jeb bush got wiped out very early on as a technocrat policy wonk. >> policy guy. >> the preside...