capitol hill. one of the denials i read was from paul ryan. a lot of people don t want to take no for an answer. the pressure on paul ryan, chuck, i think is fair to say has been turned up to 11 to run for speaker. and why? because he seems to be the only member of this house gop conference that can bridge the ever widening divide between the conservatives and the establishment. we can report that john boehner has approached paul ryan about running for the job. i interviewed kevin mckrcarthy. he said ryan would be fantastic and that he hopes that he runs. the issue, though, is ryan all along has said this is not the job he aspires to get. he s got union kids back in wisconsin. we know that his wife is not thrilled with him possibly doing this. the question becomes could he do it on an interim basis or does he decide, if i were to take this job, it would put so much mud on my tires at some point