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I see four things that i need -- that we need to focus on. get the house working like it was intended to work, like the founders intended it to work. open up the process. number two, it's very important that we do find common ground where we can find common ground to advance the nation's interests and do it in a way where we don't have to compromise principle. number three, we have to be a more effective opposition party. we don't like the direction the country is headed. we don't like the direction the president is taking the country. and so we have to be an effective opposition party, but mo...

Speakership has to be different. i cannot pick up where john left off. that is why discussing this with my house republican colleagues we all concluded jointly this has to be done differently, so that's why we're wiping the slate clean, it's a new day, and we're going to go offense on ideas. it will be a proposition party, alternative party. that's where big ideas come from. we've been too timid for too long around here, and that is because we have not given people a sense of what we can do differently, how we can fix these problems, where we would go if we're given the chance. that is what we...

Unify. amainstream republicans have said you as speaker may have to throw the senate under the bus. >> no, i don't thing we throw any republicans under the bus. i was not asked to disunify the republican party and the congress i was asked to unify, so throwing republicans under the bus is not if my job description. we have to unify and we have to also understand the limits that the constitution places on us when we have a president that doesn't agree with us, a president that is unwilling to listen to us. so being effective opposition party but very effective proposition party. >> in the leadu...

Unity to his deeply divided party and fractured congress. fox news' john roberts talked to ryan about what's ahead. >> some mainstream republicans have told me you as speaker may have to start throwing the senate under the bus to get -- >> i don't think we throw any republicans under the bus. look, was not asked to disunify the republican party in the congress, i was asked to unify. so throwing republicans under the bus is not in my job description. we have to unify. and we have to also understand the limits that the constitution places on us when we have a president that doesn't agree with us...

Successful than his predecessor in dealing with that freedom caucus? >> i don't think it's a done deal. daniel webster is sill till in race. this republican party, this leadership has been surprised before, consistently surprised about their inability to get the number of votes they need and now paul ryan said i don't just want 218. i want 235 or 240. i don't know if if he gets them. if he doesn't get them, does he say i toebt' want to have to live with these people and we have to lift the debt ceiling. >> the problem, tara, dealing with the debt ceiling and serious things. let me show you wha...