fairly, i don t know, weak minimal statements about the possibility of mueller s firing and about the president s criticism. this is the spokesperson for paul ryan, ashley strong. as the speaker has always said, mr. mueller and his team should be able to do their job. is that strong enough? not at all. and unfortunately, we ve seen the republican-controlled congress fail on their duty to be a check and balance on the president. and the great thing about america is this november, the voters get to decide. do they want an actual check and balance on the president? and they will go to the polls, and they ll be weighing on their mind. this is what trey gowdy said, which i thought was interesting. he is someone, a republican who really sort of cut his teeth as a purchase sewsuer of hillary cd benghazi. if you have an innocent client, mr. dowd, act like it. if you believe, as we found there is no evidence of collusion, you should want special counsel mueller to take all the time and ha
well, paul ryan s spokeswoman, ashley strong, put out a statement that the speaker supports mueller s ability to do his job. i was pointing to the fact most republicans who were on tv this morning did say mueller needs space to do his job. yes, that s true. by and large, that was the usual suspects that said that in the past. jeff flakes and lindy grahams of the world lindsey grahams of the world. and gowdy is a conservative hero in some respects. led the benghazi probe. if you read between the lines he was saying, don t act so guilty because it doesn t look good. to me, that was important. it was a signal that maybe a sort of brushback to the administration. i think it s pretty clear. trump is sending out dowd to a certain degree but putting it out in the stes to see what kind of response he can get
nancy pelosi is on the house floor, has been for the past few hours arguing for the so-called dreamers, those young people brought to this country illegally by their parents. she says she supports the substance of this spending cap deal, but wants a guarantee from speaker ryan. unless we can get the same commitment that mitch mcconnell gave the bipartisan group of legislators who asked for it in the senate, we would like that same response to our bipartisan group. reporter: ashley strong, a spokeswoman for paul ryan said, quote, speaker ryan has already repeatedly stated we intend to do a daca and immigration reform bill, one that the president supports. so at this moment the house side of the capital seems a little more uncertainty. dana: can i just ask you on the timing. this really does need to get done by tonight or tomorrow. reporter: the senate would go first. all indications are the senate should have the votes.
ashley strong pushing back saying this is pure speculation as the speaker himself said today, he s not going anywhere any time soon. aides note that ryan gave $1.9 until to the national republican campaign committee, the re-election arm. so he s doing the fund-raising aspect of the speaker s job and say he s sticking around for now, trace. this is the guy who said he didn t want the job in the first place. mike emanuel live for us on capitol hill. good to see you. thank you. while the feds deciding to shake up the way we use the internet. the vote that could allow companies to do things like slow down your service, even keep you from seeing certain sites. critics are promising a fight, a big fight. plus, fox in the mouse house. disney s big buy-out. what it means for all you fox fans. coming up next.
oversight committee has requested documents from the fbi related to mr. comey s dismissal. a reference, of course, to the investigation being run by jason chaffetz, the republican from utah, and elijah cummings on the democratic side in the house oversight committee. where those investigations are going incidentally, nicolle, as you know, since the appointment of bob mueller still very much up in the air. on the washington post story, on the person of interest that you and ari were just talking about, here s what ashley strong has to say. the speaker cannot and will not discuss what is said in classified briefings. as it relates to ongoing investigations, the speaker has said many times that we must allow the career professionals at the justice department to do their jobs thoroughly and independently before passing judgment and of course we did see rod rosenstein yesterday down in the basement here sorry, here yesterday and today, yesterday briefing all senators. today, briefing