superfans into committed caucus goers. to make it happen the campaign is teaching supporters how to caucus and organizing precinct captains to help deliver a victory. but the question remains can trump turn his poll numbers into actual votes. we have a great team. we have a great ground game. and i think we re going to do very well. i actually think we re going to do better than the polls. we have i think the best people. we have a tremendous group of people that are dedicated to making this really special reporter: now trump will be campaigning here in burlington, iowa, in just a couple hours. this is a state where most candidates would be happy to draw 100, 200 supporters. event organizers tell us this venue holds 2,500. jake. sara murray in burlington, iowa, thanks so much. joining me to talk all things politics two-times pulitzer prize winning journalist bob woodward out with a brand new book titled the last of the presidents men. thank you for being here. i will get to you
demands for the speakership and guaranteed time with his family. it makes sense. if you re going to be the speaker you have to lead a majority. but if you know a little bit about ryan s background, he came to congress 16 years ago, 1999. and he was so young they wouldn t let him on the house floor. they thought he was a staffer. and he would have to you know say it s me. and the idea that somebody who s been there that short time and is so young might become speaker is rather amazing. at the same time when i did the book the price of politics i got to know him. and he s a serious policy wonk. and a lot of people would disagree with him. a lot of people would agree. but he s got a fiscal rationale for doing the things that he proposes. yeah. i think he really does like being on the house ways and means committee, the chairman. but let s turn to your book. last of the president s men. this is a profile of alexander
done is cleared the decks. there won t be a circular firing squad over a government shutdown. as long as they can handle the debt ceiling which is a question, but that is manageable. the republican party could be united going forward next year in focusing on obamacare. they have accomplished a political matter and as a substantive matter if you care about defense spending it is impressive. we will talk about the debt ceiling in a moment, but i want to pick up on your point that barack obama won t do anything about entitlements. having read your book the price of politics in the book president obama said democrats have to get serious about entitlements. i think he used the word untennable. it seems as if congressional democrats decide they want to hold that man tell as the protector of entitlements going into 2014 jie. and i think this budget deal worked quite frankly. let s go to the center of this.
what rine what ryan has done is cleared the decks. there won t be a circular firing squad over a government shutdown. as long as they can handle the debt ceiling which is a question, but that is manageable. the republican party could be united going forward next year in focusing on obamacare. they have accomplished a political matter and as a substantive matter if you care about defense spending it is impressive. we will talk about the debt ceiling in a moment, but i want to pick up on your point that barack obama won t do anything about entitlements. having read your book the price of politics in the book president obama said democrats have to get serious about entitlements. i think he used the word untennable. it seems as if congressional democrats decide they want to hold that man tell as the protector of entitlements going into 2014 jie. and i think this budget deal worked quite frankly. let s go to the center of this.
forward. talks will continue on the 20th. meanwhile, the u.n. s nuclear chief is headed to tehran. his team is trying to determine if iran is, in fact, secretly working on a nuclear weapon. the islamic regime has stopped all attempts at probes there for the past two years with arguments over what investigators could see or who could be talked to. that new probe comes an iran s new leadership promises more cooperation. i m jamie colby. i ll see you back here in a half an hour with more from america s news headquarters. bob woodward has reported on every president since richard nixon. now the editor has been clashing with the obama white house. how does its handling of the media compare to previous administrations? i spoke to him earlier here in studio one. bob woodward, welcome. thank you. you concluded in your book the price of politics that