think speaker boehner may have gotten ahead of himself a little bit by saying we ll have a decision tonight. but it seems they ll definitely talk about the way forward this evening, but don t necessarily expect a decision from paul ryan tonight. especially, that could change, if the caucus gets really heavily behind him quickly. maybe speaker boehner wants to get out of his job, quickly? i think it s fair to say that boehner certainly wants to get to his florida condominium and start up his golf game by the end of the month, but it remains to be seen whether the conference will allow him to do that. one thing i ll just say, raic richard, from getting a feel of the conference, the amount of pressure on ryan is enormous. and the appeals to his sense of duty and sort of god and country, and this idea that if we were to take a pass on it, he is in fact acting in his own interest and not for the good of everybody, that s a lot on his mind. it s still a 50/50 choice, but
good to be with you, richard. steve, i want to start out with some pushback from jeb bush, because he s been pushing back hard. he said this last night on fox. take a listen. his view of history is just wrong. the simple fact is that when we were attacked, my brother created an environment where for 2,600 days we were safe. no one attacked us again. and just a tip of the hat to that and moving on to what the threats are today is what we ought to be focused on. donald trump is not a serious candidate as it relates to foreign policy. not a serious candidate, according to jeb bush, but he did see another attack from bin laden, apparently. it s very interesting, jeb bush is talking about what happened after 9/11 and what his brother did. donald trump is talking about what should have been obvious to many before 9/11 occurred. and i think donald trump, in a way, did predict something that was going on. you know, at the time, we had two u.s. military bases in saudi
actions, like the potential invasion of iraq. there were many republican realists, very opposed to that action, worried that we d go the wrong direction. and there were many neoconservatives that were pushing bush to take that action and to sort of own the middle east in a way that we never had before. and i think what jeb bush is doing is he is trying to paint those skeptics as fringe elements. and they simply aren t. they included people like brent scowcroft, his father s best friend, something that hasn t come up much in a media discussion. so there were a number of people that were all of the same ilk, having concern. not necessarily blaming president bush for the 9/11 attacks, but very skeptical of some of the actions taken after. steve clemens, joining us from london, thank you very much. thank you, richard. coming up, martin o malley serenades the ladies of the view in his latest campaign stop. how are the other candidates courting voters today? we ll show you what s tre
warming to the idea of becoming house speaker. but that he doesn t want threats of a revolt from the right if he does take the job, which was just the kind of threat that doomed kevin mccarthy the last front-runner for the job. nbc s luke russert joins me live on the phone from capitol hill. luke, are we hearing anymore about whether congressman ryan has actually made a decision? well, as of right now, it is still unknown what his decision is. i will say that he is certainly open to the possibility of taking the job, richard, and we should say that before this meeting at 7:00 p.m. with the house gop conference, paul ryan did have a meeting with five influential members of the house freedom caucus. and we do know that if ryan is to take this job, he wants to have a mandate. he would like to get 235 votes at least on the house floor, for his speakership, because he wants to enlarge his vision for house the house gop should be moving forward. i ve got to tell you, richard, i