old friend is what he s always been, the bravest and most honest guy in the republican party. i applaud what he s saying. i hear similar things from other senators on the republican side, but i hear them privately. politics is not about declaring war in our own institutions for your own personal gain, but this president has no problem doing that. are you surprised by paul ryan? are you surprised this is the most we re getting from paul ryan? i keep hearing moderates express disappointment, and people say things like, my goodness, the guy s in third line over the presidency. he s got a custodial i ve been a paul ryan fan. he s my kind of conservative. i m disappointed. i m disappointed in a lot of leadership, a lot of our friends. there s a point where the political game has to stop. it s not career before country. and i understand, look, i m in practical politics, these guys are afraid of their primaries, there s a hurt instinct in both
willing to go with anybody doing it. when you listen to chuck schumer say, i think he really likes me and i think i know how to talk to him. we have reporting now that chuck schumer basically listed the sins he thought president trump had committed, pulling out of the paris accord. his conversations after, after charlottesville. the idea, chuck schumer is going into the white house, limp, i m a new york guy. going to tell you the problems have. here s how to fix them and the president is responding to that. i do think schumer is right. i do think the president probably does enjoy talking to chuck schumer than mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. that relationship is strained. more preexisting. schumer predates his relationship with either ryan or mcconnell. the other issue, daca presents a huge opportunity, and the nixon and china that you mentioned, not a lack of consensus in the republican party. seems there is.
deported. e want to see people prosper and we want to pro prosper, too, chuck. interesting you say that. because you did have a slice of trump voters who weren t so ideological. maybe not the same conservative views you have, but so frustrated they would like to see a shake-up and they don t hate what he s doing with the democrats. not because maybe they agree with it, because they think, well, at least it s shaking up washington. in that sense, isn t he delivering on that promise? well, the problem is, the prioritization. he risked losing the coalition. right. it s a material coalition. this is why they should have started with obamacare. they should have started with taxes and then address this issue they tried to start with obamacare. he didn t try. chuck, you congress couldn t get it done. well, that s the problem. he outsourced it and blamed them for the problem. and i m no paul ryan fan but team sow recall, you were there,
that s sort of what he set himself with going into this administration. but just as everyone has been saying about this press release, you know when steve bannon is sort of given top billing over the white house chief of staff, i think it s pretty telling that donald trump continues to want to have a pugnacious, aggressive tone going into this new administration. jim acosta, stay with me. just some other reporting this week from our gloria borger about why donald trump likes and trusts steve bannon so much. because one source telling gloria he is completely about winning. and also, one point that a source told our gloria borger that is often overlooked when it comes to steve bannon is that he is more pragmatic than you would think when trying to achieve a goal. for instance, not a huge paul ryan fan but encouraged donald trump not to go after paul ryan when paul ryan wasn t exactly on donald trump s side. let s dig into a lot more of this. jim and dana, stay with me, because my pan
leadership, on the new speaker of the house this morning. thanks very much, sir. thank you for having me. let me move to the republican side of the aisle. republican rancor that drove mccarthy from taking top spot. will his own republican colleagues let him make chajs necessary him? barbara comstock, once a staffer in congress just like speaker ryan and while congresswoman you ve only been in your capacity for less than a term, you re pretty familiar how the place is run having worked for frank wolf over a decade. yes. what changes would you like to see speaker ryan bring that speaker boehner wasn t doing? well i think we re going to have that discussion as a conference and that s what paul has said. paul is a very collaborative leader who does want to turn the page here and start, you know,