florida and central florida. fire danger in this area and 100,000 acres of more of fires burning. so, one of the worst wildfire seasons so far. and may is typically the dryest season for florida and there is not a lot of relief in the forecast, unfortunately when it comes to rain, talking about temperatures in the 80 s and the 90 s. all right. real quick. these are not my relatives but i wanted to introduce you. what s your name? i m burt rice and kim rice. janice: where are you from? cincinnati. janice: look at this beautiful sign they brought. we love janice dean. that s amazing. janice: it s my birthday today. how could you tell? am i wearing a little tiara? i am. ainsley: happy birthday, janice. thank you, my friends. janice: when are you leaving? tomorrow. janice: share birthday cake with me later? steve: why. why do you think there is birthday cake later? janice: because shannon bream is going to be celebrating my
i don t know the answer to that. no. nor i do know the answer to that. steve: joining us right now we have the speaker of the house, paul ryan. good morning to you. brian: in studio. a very rare appearance. ainsley: before we get to that congratulations on healthcare. it was a good day for us. we are keeping our word. we are keeping our promise. steve: we will talk about healthcare in a moment. first let s talk about what happened yesterday. i know you were busy as speaker of the house on the senate side they had that hearing. it s interesting the democrats wanted to talk about whether or not there was collusion between the russians and the trump camp. no evidence of that at that point. correct. steve: but the republicans wanted to talk about how somebody inside the government unmasked a name or two. and then leaked it to the the washington post. and that, they say, is a crime. that is a crime. so that is taking classified information, unclassifying it, and leaking it out
democrats should be paying attention. because now you have a republican in the white house. if you don t like the fact that maybe if you don t believe that there is credibility that president obama had this access and abused it, are you going to feel differently now that president trump is in office now and now you might be targeted. steve: noble can abuse it the whole idea is not to abuse it. ainsley: brian is right. he said choice news. different media outlets are choosing to report it in different ways. the headline really is there is still no evidence of collusion between russia and president trump. brian: no there there. ainsley: that s fact. listen, we are a news organization. we re going to report it. if that ever comes to be, if we ever find evidence of that we are going to tell you about it. so far there is no evidence. yesterday we did learn that yates and clapper both said they did not release the information to the the washington post. period, paragraph. that s the stor
so why he lied about that i m not sure of. but he did lie about it the vice president was caught on tv saying they didn t talk about sanctions. it turns out they did. so president trump fired him about two weeks later. 18 days later after the story broke. steve: right. exactly. all we heard from sally yates yesterday was that something about his conduct was problematic. it was problematic. but we don t know what. and so he was fired despite the evidence that he had conveyed any come pro-compromising information. we don t know what it was. thanks, the washington post, we know it was regarding sanctions. going back to the only crime committed that we know of so far. there was no collusion or anything else we know of was the surveillance. and the unmasking. and lindsey graham made it very clear why everybody should be worried about that. listen. it s important to know about the unmasking of the conversation between the ambassador and general flynn. somebody took that information and
it yesterday, senator lindsey graham and senator chuck grassley were questioning them yesterday in front of the senate. listen. did either of you ever request the unmasking of mr. trump, his associates or any member of congress? yes. and in one case i did. did either of you ever review classified documents in which mr. trump, his associates or members of congress had been unmasked? well, yes. you have. can you give us details here? no, i can t. ms. yates, have you. yes, i have and no, i can t give you details. how did the conversation between the russian ambassador and mr. flynn make it to the the washington post ? i don t know the answer to that. no. nor do i know the answer to that. steve: well, we kind of know what happened though. we know that the names were some names were unmasked. and then as we learned in the front pages of the new york times, in the final days of the obama administration, the