audio of paul ryan speaking to republicans about his support of president trump following those access hollywood filthy tape. back in october. here is what he said about support of president trump. comments are not anywhere in keeping with our party s principles and values. i will not defend donald trump. not now. not in the future. you know i have concerns with the nominee. i hope you appreciate i m doing what i think is best for you, the members, not what is best for me. i want to do what is best for our members. i think this is the right thing to do. i ll focus on campaigning for house republicans. to everyone on this call, this is going to be a turbulent month. many of you are facing tough re-elections. some of you are not. with respect to donald trump, i would encourage you to do what you think is best and do what you feel you need to do. again, that was back in october after the billy bush tape. we reported on it when it
brian: sorry to let you down, it s not judge jeanine tonight. she is going to be hosting the show. more on that in a second. the headline this week was supposed to be about failed labor secretary nominee dismissal of general flynn. president trump s 117-minute presser swamped the whole thing. momentum grabbed by the white house. some were horrified, some loved it, all of us were riveted by it but few should have been surprised by it, it was president trump being donald trump. theme, i will fight, i will survive under and pressure i will thrive. think about it. when this president is at his best under pressure. the biggest crisis in his campaign, the billy bush tape, on the second eve of the debate. the second debate was his best debate. one area he will never win as a brash republican president is with the media. they will never love you, never
brian: sorry to let you down, it s not judge jeanine tonight. she is going to be hosting the show. more on that in a second. the headline this week was supposed to be about failed labor secretary nominee dismissal of general flynn. president trump s 117-minute presser swamped the whole thing. momentum grabbed by the white house. some were horrified, some loved it, all of us were riveted by it but few should have been surprised by it, it was president trump being donald trump. theme, i will fight, i will survive under and pressure i will thrive. think about it. when this president is at his best under pressure. the biggest crisis in his campaign, the billy bush tape, on the second eve of the debate. the second debate was his best debate. one area he will never win as a brash republican president is with the media.
factors. someone was mad at how the media was treating donald trump after the billy bush tape. he felt empathy for trump in that moment. was driven toward him. there is a host of random arbitrary things that factor in voting behaviors and ended up creating a stew that allowed donald trump to be elected. as you know, kasie, having spent time around the clinton campaign, as close as margins were in wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan, that jim comey was the deciding factor. they do. they will also say that, okay, we could have done a thousand things differently. we could make one tweet here. put bernie sanders on the ticket. spend two more days in wisconsin or two days at all in wisconsin. i m not saying they re right. this is what they believe. you are right. they deeply kind of have internalized this and there is very much a sense of we re talking about how the president
story. they were not anywhere on the list? definitely i think they have to be above chuck schumer. doctor, what do you think about this? i don t know who is down there at the cia, we have the cia, that is why i mentioned the yellow cake thing, remember wilson? you snow, we don t know who is saying this. i am obviously against hacking, all of this exposure, but at the end of the day what is it doing? exposing the truth, the truth hurts. it s hillary clinton s campaign exposed. she is out there. but did it hurt her? we had david, welcome to the show. thank you so much. what do you think of this russian situation? the voters say it was like 60% something that they don t think it influenced the election at all. how could it influence the election? did you see the trump the billy bush tape. if that didn t bring him down, like what were they expecting? like the effect of an e-mail,