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Choice right now. the president can try to pick up some moderate democrats and try to get a working majority in the house as ronald reagan did or he has to bring some of these freedom caucus members around. i don't know that threatening to campaign against them in 2018 which i doubt will happen in the end is necessarily the smartest move. you saw justin pushing back there with the bullying tactics. >> i know on social media today, people are tweeting on mark meadows. he went to a ups store, i don't know if he was dropping off or picking up a package, but he was greeted a rock star. people were...

Lots of members of the white house staff are saying this is ryan's false. if you're throwing ryan overboard and remember this is the same house republican caucus that kicked out john boehner as speaker who would replace him and would he have more ability to herd the cats to get a working majority. it was the problem with boehner and with ryan. they don't have a working majority 218 republicans to pass everything. >> shannon: the president came in as the song says like a wrecking ball and has done things totally different in washington and we're hearing what the omb director said if it doesn't ...

People over the finish line so we could maintain our strong house and senate majorities. >> our senior political reporter manu raju is here covering congress closely. where were their surprises? >> wolf, overall, major surprise with the gop stand of losses significantly in congress the party was able to preserve a working majority in both chambers. in the house officials on both sides expected the republicans would lose anywhere from 12 to 20 seats, but their losses will probably be only in the single digits and then the senate and gop looks they'll have at the very worst, 52-48 majority. cnn ...

What paul is doing by taking the job. >> issues you had were the possibility of getting the 218 on the floor. you probably were going to get that but it was not necessarily the resound majority that you wanted. ryan was able to get 236. how important is it for him to have that big number of 236 republicans in support of him? >> it's very important because you've got to have a strong working majority if you want to change the direction of this country. and that's what this conference wants. that's what paul wants. i mean paul is a big thinker about big ideas, so he needed that vote to be able t...

>> much to your chagrin. >> well yeah, actually. other democrats you hear them talk about the gop as the party that's been wrong on all the big stuff. creating social security, civil rights, war in iraq. you don't do that. do you think there is a stark difference between the parties? >> i think there's a difference between the parties. but here's my belief. i'm talking to voters. i think there are a lot of republican voters out there, self-identified, who actually think that what the bush administration has done has been damaging to the country and what i'm interested in is how do we build a w...