could get some of the changes before the vote on wednesday and thursday. we think that is a good step and something that paul wanted was the change to the motion to video indicate the chair. we have not agreed. we think paul has the kind of vision and is the kind of messenger our party needs to accomplish the things we told the reporters we would accomplish. we are excited about that. he did not get the endorsement threshold we have but our members, a supermajority, think paul ryan is the right guy at the right time to lead the conference. what happened and you know it will happen, the first time that you and other members of the freedom caucus feel that paul ryan is being insufficiently hard-lined. will you give him running room? we will work with him and we think we can come together and fight for we met with paul an hour and he said we will have
negotiating for it. i think i got the gist of that right. what do you make of that and whether he could be persuaded to take it. if he were absolutely totally not interested in the job, he wouldn t be meeting with the freedom caucus people right now. that s a fact here. these are the people, the 40 or 50 members of the house who made john boehner s life miserable. they could make speaker paul ryan s life miserable. they could make whoever becomes the speaker s life miserable. i think ryan has to get some sort of arrangement with him. don t overlook the role of inside baseball, internal politics in this. a lot of these members in the freedom caucus feel that they have bp kind of abused by the previous leadership, that john boehner kind of openly expressed his contempt for them. paul ryan could make a lot of progress by being nicer to them. there are fundamental issues like the debt limit and about spending in which they might disagree so much that they would