Hard line on syria tweeting missiles will be coming. Lets begin with capitol hill and the news about paul ryan. Joining me now is garrett haake. We have seen this long line of people deciding not to run ag n again. No name bigger than paul ryan telling staff and frebs and others in congress recently he decided he will not seek reelection this year. This is a big blow to the Republican Party and their chances of holding on to the house in thov. Ryan has been a prolific fundraiser and has despite how fractious the conference has been largely been able to hold them together on the big issues that they were able to accomplish this year. Remember in the house, they passed their Obamacare Repeal bill. They passed the tax reform package. That was something ryan championed for a long time. While we havent gotten the full read out into his decision, tax reform has been an issue that has driven him to congress and driven him through his congressional career. To not seek reelection in wisconsin.
With the president makinga move related to mule pert another journalist behind the New York Times scoop joining us. And Mark Zuckerberg is now in day two of his congressional contransition seat. I want to start with garrett. Weve all been working on sources in the last 60 minutes or so. Members have been walking out of the gop conference. What have you been hearing on the talk of paul ryan and his announcement than hes no longer going to serve as speaker after this term . The primary thing that were hearing is this a decision made about his family, hang on a second here. Weve got mark meadows coming around the corner, im going to try to grab him. What were hearing is that this is a family decision. This is something ryan has said for quite a long time, that he would discuss this with his wife when he went home sometime in the spring, make a decision before the filing deadline in june. And he has now made that decision. Several members said they werent surprised by it, that they knew th