and a new culture but around customer service. it all adds up to our most reliable networkver. one that keeps you connected to what matters most. welcome back to cnn s town hall, we re here with house speaker paul ryan. mr.speaker just before the break you mentioned fox con, just to bring viewers up to speed, last week the president announced fox con will build a new factory right here in speaker ryan s district. you personal lobbied the president to help secure the plant which is expected to provide 3,000 jobs.
thanks. thanks for watching this special edition of 360. now a live town hall with house speaker paul ryan hosted by jake tapper. good evening. we re live in racine, wisconsin, for a cnn town hall with the speaker of the house, paul ryan. i m jake tapper. we re about to get the speaker s first reaction to president trump s address. the announcement comes during a tumultuous time at home. we re in speaker ryan s congressional district. his constituents will have a chance to ask him questions about a range of topics. please join me in welcoming the speaker of the house, paul ryan. [ cheers and applause ] hey, everybody!
[ applause ] good evening. we re live in racine, wisconsin, for a cnn town hall with the speaker of the house, paul ryan. i m jake tapper. we re about to get the speaker s first reaction to president trump s address. the announcement comes during a tumultuous time at home. we re in speaker ryan s congressional district. his constituents will have a chance to ask him estions about a rae of topics. please join me in welcoming the speaker of the house, paul ryan. [ cheers and applause ] hey, everybody! how are you doing? hey! how are you? welcome to racine. good to have you here. [ cheers and applause ]
he won going all the way back to 1998, they have been pretty much blowouts, won by 57%. lowest he got was 54.9 in 2012. he is usually in the mid-60s. what makes you think you can beat him? well, i would just look at the launch we had. i knew it was going to be success. . i had no idea it would blow up as big as it did. it is not some outstanding message that people have never heard before, but it is a message that people really want to hear. it s about bringing, you know, diversity of the district together to make sure that we all stand united as working people and everybody is heard. i talked about making a bigger table and this includes demanding that we have people sitting across from us that we re not used to seeing. so it is a message of uniting everybody and just the way it blew up across the country, not just in the first district. people are dying to be heard. with speaker ryan s absence over
speaker ryan s excuse for trump this is new for him. excuse me. trump ran as a big-time exec, not as an apprentice. peter. exactly. howard is absolutely right. but this is a long pattern with donald trump. this didn t just start. i did have a moment when i thought maybe the presidency, the honor to be president, the responsibility of being president, would in some way moderate his behavior. this behavior has gone on for decades. he is a warlord. warlords never ask for help and never say i don t know. oftentimes they have short tenures especially when they can t get family members to get on board and say the right things, which has recently been happening. at the end of the day i think trump has serious problems but the country i think has bigger problems. if that s the excuse, we are in big trouble. howard, stick around. we ll call on you again. coming up, the special report i mentioned.