salvaging the republican party in congress. joining us live, manu raju, creating waves on capitol hill to say the least. reporter: absolutly. ryan is facing a backlash within his own conference, amongst republican conservative member boss of this flap with donald trump. some threatening his job as speaker. one coming out publicly, a conservative from oklahoma actually voted for ryan last year when he ran for speaker. now he is threatening to withdraw support if the house speaker will not fall in line behind trump. this comes as other conservatives, too, have flashed their anger towards ryan, that his position he won t defend or campaign with trump. these conserves, concerns were raced on monday. read you a tweet playing on the screen. saying on twitter, bryden styid
home, you saw president obama talking, republicans leaders, where have they been? now distancing themselves. favoring democrats, well established. you re seeing president obama continue to talk about that point. going to ohio and pennsylvania tomorrow. doing radio interviews. this is a a strategy that i think democrats think they can build on this and republicans don t seem to be, because they re protecting their own individual seats. they don t seem too concerned or can t figure a way past it and think how to win a presidential election. david, a.b., juana, thank you all. great panel today. and donald trump plummeting poll numbers, talking about this. kpo make election night a nightmare for republicans. not just the white house they re worried about. talking about the doomsday scenario for the gop. donald trump taking down republican candidates in down ballot races, turning over congress. both chambers for the democrats. your insurance company
forward. manu raju, thank you for the report. back with our political panel sorting through this fallout we re seeing here. juana summers, a.b. stoddard and dave icmawina. i remember an aide that said to me, looking at the majority in the house, because of the way state legislatures are controlled by republicans and able to create districts in a certain way that in the absence of that, at times in recent years, the republicans actually should be in the minority, but they re in the majority and so they find themselves in this sort of odd situation, and it kind of gums up the works. but that s not going to change. so what is the way forward here for republicans? i think david made a great point before the break. we re heading into, no matter who wins at the top of the ticket in november what s going to be a pretty depressing, frankly, era of congress with not a lot of room for compromise
or john mccain. and taking a softer approach on good morning america saying the speaker of it s house has a job to do. protect the majority in congress. so it seems just by the sound of it, brianna, they re figuring out how to deal with this s one thing we ll look for when donald trump takes the stage here later on this afternoon in lakeland and in a few minutes in ocala. talking to at least one staffer with the trump campaign, he s going to continue to hit hillary clinton on the e-mail scandal, continue to his hillary clinton on the clinton foundation, the question is whether or not those questions, those lines of attack, can really counteract what is the a very damaging week that continues for donald trump. brianna? jim acosta for us. at donald trump s second event you see the big crowd behind him already gathering. checking in later. and donald trump taking the stage in his first event no