escape hatch. ryan told alberta this. i told myself i have to have a relationship with this guy to help him get his mind right. i am telling you he did not know anything about government. i wanted to scold him all of the time. president trump hit back. paul ryan was not a talent. he wasn t a leader. paul ryan was a lame duck for a long time. unable to raise money. he lost control of the house. the only success paul ryan had was the time he was with me. paul ryan let us down. he was a terrible speaker. he was a baby. frankly he didn t know what the hell he was doing. the timing of ryan s comments. what does ryan get out of
paul ryan had a unique role in this and sometimes i was frustrated and sometimes i was extremely sympathetic and he had to make sure that the house of raptive h representatives was to stick together as a functioning body, and from his comments and trump s reaction to it is something i would counsel every republican member that i see hustling to pick up points with donald trump. he doesn t give points. he only takes them one at a time and republicans should be mindful of that. this time it s paul ryan and he s out of the scene right now, but if you re a republican senator and a house member you know that donald trump can and has sets his eyes on your college. like the first day of college, look to your left and look to your right and the next one could be you. here s how president trump hit back. paul ryan was not a talent. he wasn t a leader. paul ryan was a lame duck for a long time as speaker. he was unable to raise money. he lost control of the house.
so paul ryan was not a tal ntd. he wasn t a leader paul ryan was a lame duck for a long time as speelker. he was unable to raise money he lost control of the house the only success paul ryan had was the time he was with me because we got taxes cut i got regulation kutsz i did that mostly without him. but for paul ryan to be complaining is pretty amazing. i remember a day in wisconsin, a state i won, i stood up and made a speech and i interdeuced him and they booed him off the stage, 10,000 people so for him to open his mouth is pretty incredible. but maybe he gets paid for that. in our normalcy, we ve never seen anything like this in american life, nothing, not even close. thank you so much for being here
ms-13 but when people come into our country, we take those people out and we take them out very legally. reporter: the president made time to respond from criticism from paul ryan from a new book called american carnage how he said mr. trump didn t know anything about government when he came into office. so paul ryan was not a talent. he wasn t a leader. when the people in freedom and great congressmen wanted to go after the dems for things they did very badly, he wouldn t give subpoenas, whereas nancy pelosi hands them out like they re cookies. reporter: the president also fired back at vice president joe biden. everybody that knows him knows he s a weak man, he s an ineffective man. president xi laughs at guys like that. reporter: after biden described mr. trump as a foreign policy disaster. the world sees trump for what he is insincere and
paul ryan was not a talent. he wasn t a leader. paul ryan was a lame duck for a long time as speaker. he was unable to raise money. he lost control of the house. the only success paul ryan had was the time that he was with me, because we got taxes cut. frankly, he was a baby. he didn t know what the hell he was doing. with me now is cnn political commentator for the national committee who worked with republican leadership on capitol hill. you ve got paul ryan on the record. you say and what we re seeing coming out in this book, you say this is very important for the republican party, why? the main reason is this is so often what we hear privately, very similar to the situation with the british ambassador. this i think really highlights, there s going to be a point where donald trump is not the president, is not leading the republican party. this to me prestages how the