people don t really know is he is a product of a kind of christian evangelical lecture circuit, book circuit, radio circuit that some of us are not necessarily plugged in. that s not my circuit but i think he has a constituency before the campaign which enabled him to raise the money he s raised and have the profile he s had, when many of us barely heard of him. jessica, back to you on this. paul ryan, him becoming just about now the speaker, is that a win for the gop establishment? i think so. he obviously reluctantly came to the table on this but i think he will make a fantastic speaker. he is someone that can unite all the factions of the party. he s a policy wonk with you also very personable. it s a thankless job, clearly we saw that play out but if anybody can do it, paul ryan can. joan, why will he be more
politico reporting now that paul ryan has canceled fund raisers for the next 48 hours. what do you know? well, that would indicate that paul ryan is going to give serious consideration to the desires of john boehner and kevin mccarthy he d run for speaker. before i came on the air with you, i had the opportunity to talk with mccarthy e briefly, as he was walking to the house floor. i said will paul ryan run? he goes he would be a fantastic speaker. mr. mccarty, would he run? . he goes i hope so. the pressure on paul ryan is going to be turned up. quite heavily. and he is being looked at now as the candidate. when i tweeted this exchange, it goes to show you how difficult it is, laura ingram says he s a young gun we should do three young guns and they re out. so someone like laura ingram who has a huge following in the
policy. does he? yes. very smart. he impresses donors. he s got a good life story. his life story is untrue. he presented himself in exile. exactly. he s irresistible candy for the media. his foreign policy depth i haven t seen it. people give him all this credit for being this fantastic speaker. i haven t seen it. people give him that credit. i think he ll benefit from the credit he gets from us with be from the media who does like him. but the problem with marco rubio is the substance i don t think is there. i would be remiss if i did not bring up hillary clinton and the e-mails that dropped in the middle of her very orchestrated photo-op. how much of an issue is this for her? listen i think that it s a lot to chew on. it s complicated. it is going to take listen. it s friday on a holiday weekend. right? an interesting time to release the e-mails. mostly what i m seeing are kind of minor headaches popping
at the same time he has to do it you would imagine, with the bush name. you know his his path is actually kind of almost assuming that jeb bush ends up faltering and to a lesser extent probably scott walker as well but rubio is going to be fascinating to watch tonight, tamron. looking at all the republican presidential candidates nobody has more potential upside than marco rubio has. he s a fantastic speaker, he s young, dynamic, has a beautiful family, has a great message and biography to sell a lot of those things actually sound like barack obama around 2007 but he hasn t yet been able to realize it. some of the times he s been on the biggest national stage, giving the state of the union rebuttal to president obama s state of the union address, or his big which was going to be a well received convention speech but got upstaged by clint eastwood having a monologue with a chair. steve deace was on with us and the first thing he brought up was the issue of you know
leaders of the past. it was a two-for. that wasn t just hillary. that was by the way, the guy he has to get through and get to the nomination which is jeb bush. yeah. same guy that he s competing with for florida his mentor allegedly, the guy that a lot of people in bushland thinks he stabbed in the back. i think before he even starts talking about hillary, she s an important person to beat up on if you re a republican, but it s the nomination you have to get and he s got to get it. how do we stand on his own merits? great. look, he s doing this announcement at the florida freedom tower which is kind of like the ellis island for cubans coming over. he gets the hispanic vote. he s a fantastic speaker. very very important, though, this norman braman guy, the big donor, boy, does that lend him a lot of credibility. i don t know if you have heard norman speak but he absolutely adores marco rubio. he comes from florida. help the he had the choice between bush and marco and he explai