and an important one for sure. did president clinton have to convince you to take the job? we had to have an extended discussion about it. what were your reservations? from a personal standpoint, our younger son was finishing his senior year in high school, so there was family considerations with both of our sons, as well as business considerations. but at the end of the day, you have to have a compatibility with the president. in my case, i worked with governor clinton, helped to establish the new democratic movement. it is hard to not accept the request of a president who is asking you to help him and support him. so you went to kindergarden with president clinton. i guess that s my question to you. what type of person do you think president trump should put into this position? should it be a lifelong loyalist?
astute decision for nick ayers. he s going back. everyone is thanking him on twitter. he s so great. everyone is saying we wish your family well. so he can go back to georgia and wait this out because he s watched this play out. he could become enemy number one of trump by the end of 18 months. john kelly is reportedly not really on speaking terms with president trump. so i think he s made this move in a calculated move. i m sure there were family i have young kids, too. i understand there were family considerations to make but he was making a calculated political decision. did democrats taking over the hour, what are the adds in the first six months that they have control of the house, what are the odds the democrats are going to move toward impeachment on one of these fronts we re talking about? i think what democrats are going to do is hold oversight hearings on things we should look into. on real issues. on important issues. so i think they ll definitely do
storm descends on the west wing. this was a very politically astute decision for nick ayers. he s going back. everyone is thanking him on twitter. he s so great. everyone is saying we wish your family well. so he can go back to georgia and wait this out because he s watched this play out. he could become enemy number one of trump by the end of 18 months. john kelly is reportedly not really on speaking terms with president trump. so i think he s made this move in a calculated move. i m sure there were family i have young kids, too. i understand there were family considerations to make but he was making a calculated political decision. did democrats taking over the hour, what are the adds in the first six months that they have control of the house, what are the odds the democrats are going to move toward impeachment on one of these fronts we re talking about? i think what democrats are going to do is hold oversight
to deal with it, that, i can assure you. let s add to the conversation, cnn political commentator david chalian. let s talk about the retirement announcement for paul ryan. why is or isn t this a surprise to you? well, it is a surprise, ink, to many people that he opted to announce he s not seeking re-election. it is not terribly surprising that he s not going to serve in the next congress. i think that was a largely expected thing here in washington, maybe surprising, of course, to our viewers at home, but paul ryan had been talking for a while that, and you heard him say today in his press conference, this was a job he never really asked for and obviously, the family considerations were out there, the exhaustion of the current state of affairs with trying to navigate this period of time with president trump on the other end of pennsylvania avenue and all of that combined to perhaps this not being a long-term prospect and it is
party that speaker ryan was trying to be the vice president of back in 2012. does that have an impact? to some degree but it is also worth noting he accomplished what he wanted to accomplish on taxes. he said that he feels like they ve moved things in a direction that he wanted to move things and at this point in time, especially given the family considerations, he feels like he s done what he came to do to some degree. thank you very much for all the breaking news. get back at it. tell us when you have any more scoop on what paul ryan is going to say to his colleagues this morning. thank you. let s bring in our political director now for more context, david. surprising or no? so what s not surprising is that paul ryan s not going to be serving in the next congress. that was a largely believed to be the likely scenario. what is surprising is that he s not going to run for reelection this year and, you know, is basically standing down on that now. the filing deadline in wisconsin wa