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Eve of these elections, presidential elections here in south korea, and the front-runner right now is a left-leaning, liberal candidate named mun jae-in, and if he wins and he s ahead by double digits that would bring an end to ten years of conservative party rule here in south korea. and part of why that s a big deal is the conservatives have traditionally been much more hardlined against pyongyang and working much more closely on a military-to-military approach with the u.s. this politician has indicated he d like to try diplomacy, and he s actually lined up with the trump administration, which has said, hey, the strategy of strategic patience that was pursued by the obama administration and previous administrations has failed. that s what this south korean politician has said as well. so, you have this north korean newspaper s blaming, basically, the tension on the conservatives over the last ten years, and that s basically a backhanded ....
Is that what happens here? is he really the only viable option? joining us now is john stanton, d.c. bureau chief for buzzfeed news and somebody i can confidently say is not going to be the 21st person on the list for the speaker s job. john, great to see you. god, i hope i m never on that list. you never know who s going to get tap pd at this point. do you think we actually need a bigger chart? we ve got 20 names so far. do we need room for more? there s 240 members of the conference, right? take out the three that don t want it, ryan and boehner and mccarthy and probably all of them will be there. probably master blaster from thunderdome will come out of retirement to try to get in at some point, too. there is reporting tonight that mitt romney has joined the effort to try to press gang paul ryan into taking the job even though he doesn t want it for obvious reasons. all this effort around paul ryan, is it folly, not just because he ll keep saying no, is it folly, because he ....
good to be here. god, i hope i m never on that list. you never know who s going to get tapped at this point. do you think we actually need a bigger chart? we ve got 20 names so far. do we need room for more? there s 240 members of the conference, right? take out the three that don t want it, ryan and boehner and mccarthy and probably all of them will be there. probably master blaster from thunderdome will come out of retirement to try to get in at some point, too. there is reporting tonight that mitt romney has joined the effort to try to press gang paul ryan into taking the job even though he doesn t want it for all the obvious reasons. all this effort around paul ryan, is it folly, not just because he ll keep saying no, is it folly, because he could just be hardlined in the same way that john boehner and kevin mccarthy were. his stance on immigration, his stance on taxes, cutting a budget deal with patty murray who is a very progressive democrat, these are things that have ....
I mean, he s the guy who said, if minnesota wants to do it, let minnesota do it? this is going to be embarrassing all the way to iowa. rubio has done a good job in the senate of carving himself out, a reputation of being pretty serious, he s done it on national security. particularly for a young guy, he s got to show he has the chops. he s done that, you see the immigration bill where he pulled off of that, you see him pulling back. that s another issue, you have to be hard ass, completely against illegal immigration. nobody et goods to stay here or be a citizen. it s so hardlined. it s outrageous. they don t even say, look, if you re here ten years we ll let you stay. or you ve been here 15 years, you haven t broken a law, we ll let you become a citizen, there s no give at all. if you re leer illegally you have to go away, and take your kids with you. that s where they don t break ranks. when? they ll read the demographics, head to atlanta. and say, here s a way for me to ....
Off of that you see him pulling back. that s another issue, you have to be hard ass, completely against illegal immigration. nobody et goods to stay here or be a citizen. it s so hardlined. it s outrageous. they don t even say, look if you re here ten years we ll let you stay. or you ve been here 15 years, you haven t broken a law, we ll let you become a citizen, there s no give at all. if you re leer illegally you have to go away and take your kids with you. that s where they don t break ranks. when? they ll read the demographics, head to atlanta. and say, here s a way for me to get some votes. the problem is the republican primary is completely about white male base. some white female. if you look at the percentage of african-americans and latinos voting in the republican primaries, it s so men school what you have to do at this point to win republican white males? they don t want another mitt romney. gerrymandering. ....