Including the hard right House Freedom caucus, the group that helped push boehner out of his post. He wants to make it harder to overthrow sitting speaker and the 45yearolds father of three schoolaged kids wants a better work life balance. I cannot and will give up my family time. I may not be on the road as often as previous speakers but i pledge to try to make up for it with more time communicating our vision, our message. Reporter california congressman Kevin Mccarthy was up for the job but abruptly withdrew following outcries from some conservatives and these comments about Hillary Clinton and the house benghazi committee. Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right . But we put together a Benghazi Special committee. A select committee. What are her numbers today . Her numbers are dropping. Reporter Kevin Mccarthy says he does support paul ryan as speaker. Some democrats, though remain cautiously optimistic. Reena and kendis, back to you. Stephanie ramos live in washing
Gop colleagues agree to support him. Hes given them a friday deadline to make their opinions known. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has been monitoring the situation overnight from washington. Reporter paul ryan is no longer resisting the pressure to run for House Speaker. I consider to do this with reluctance. Reporter after weekses of lobbying to take on the job of leading a divided house. Now the wisconsin lawmaker and former vp candidate finally says hes down to do the job agreeing hell run to replace john boehner as House Speaker only if republicans unify behind him. If i can truly be a unifying figure then i will gladly serve. Reporter but ryans got a few conditions. Even tugh he has support from most republicans he says hell only run if supported by all the key groups within the gop including the hard right House Freedom caucus, the group that helped push boehner out of his post. He wants to make it harder to overthrow sitting speaker and thee45yearolds father of three schoolaged kids want
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Get right and what did it get wrong . Hey there, good wednesday morning. We begin with developments in the race to replace john boehner. Paul ryan says hell take the job as speaker but only if his him. Hes given them a friday deadline to make their opinions known. Abcs Stephanie Ramos has been monitoring the situation overnight from washington. Reporter paul ryan is no longer resisting the pressure to run for House Speaker. I consider to do this with reluctance. Reporter after weekses of lobbying to take on the job of leading a divided house. Now the wisconsin lawmaker and former vp candidate finally says hes down to do the job agreeing hell run to replace john republicans unify behind him. If i can truly be a unifying figure then i will gladly serve. Few conditions. Even though he has support from most republicans he says hell only run if supported by all the key groups within the gop including the hard right House Freedom caucus, the group that helped push boehner out of his post. He
Thats right. Its wednesday october 21st. Announcer from abc news this is world news now. Good morning, everybody. On this wednesday, on this back to the future day october 21st. Im kendis gibson. I came in a delorean this morning. Did you . Yeah. And you still couldnt get anywhere in traffic . Thats right. Im sure you made it up to 88 miles an hour and got here in no time and the future has arrived. The future has arrived. Also on capitol hill apparently. We didnt know who would be speaker of the house but a major power play has ended the battle for leadership in the house of representatives. Many people saying that he is the future of the republican party. Talking about former Vice President ial candidate paul ryan. You see there. Who says he would run for speaker. But ryan says he doesnt really want the job and would take it only if he has the backing of all fellow republicans in congress. Abcs Kenneth Mouton is in washington with the latebreaking details. I considered to do this wit