michigan school of public policy. harold ford jr. paul ryan laid it on the line. he did. it will be fascinating to see how the response is. certainly already on conservative outlets you have push-back against the idea of just placing the crown on paul ryan s head and letting him do it the way he wants to do it. we ll see what happens. big challenge ahead. i have to tell you, the polls out of new hampshire yesterday, i thought, were the big news of the day politically. and show that that race is 100 days in, that race is really firming up. that s where we ll start this morningment today marks a milestone in donald trump s presidential campaign. trump has led in every major national poll for a full
did he get support in that meeting? there s a lot of questions. we want to make sure the process is working fair. so i think a lot of us are going to take some time to think about it and sleep on it as well. this is something we ll have to sort out this week and you ll see us taking action in that regard. a. process is, actually, the only substantive thing paul ryan said in those four conditions. he said we need to update our house rules. one of the things he wants to change is your ability to challenge the authority of the speaker of the house, and in effect move to vote to have a vote to remove the speaker at anytime. is that a condition that you are willing to accept? well, i think we need to take a look at it in the broader sense. we have to take a look at a lot of the rules. obviously if there are things that take the power away from a speaker candidate, whomever that might be, then that s something you have to take a look at. i do believe a speaker is
you whether it s in the new york times or commentary or back when we just use to shoot e-mails back and forth at each other when you were in the bush white house. it s always great talking to you and seeing you. thank you for coming today. thank you. thank you both. and jonathan, thank you as well. coming up on morning joe, one of paul ryan s closest colleagues. republican congressman tom colt joins the conversation. more morning joe in just a moment.
media. i want to be fair to them. i don t think they re doing this for money or ratings. they have a genuine difference of opinion. i think a lot of them are wrong. i share the goals of many of those people. i m a conservative. jonathan, why don t you jump in here. i just wonder if, i guess there is some criticism that s to why paul ryan went completely public with his demands and could have had a private conversation. maybe the party isn t there. maybe it needs that in order to cut the fever.
that being said, right now, the speaker has so much power, it s one of the few ways that average members can have an impact on the process. so i ll be looking for some other rules changes as well. so in other words, you re saying you would be willing to give paul ryan that rule change if he gives you a rules changes you would like to see, procedurally affect your ability to function. that s correct. i m speaking for myself and not the freedom caucus when i say that, but from my perspective, that is correct. most of the members of the freedom caucus are very concerned about making sure we have a process that everybody agrees is fair and is not isolated in the upper echelons of leadership. i think paul ryan is favor in that. we just need to make sure we figure that out in the next three days. mo brooks agreed, he basically said something similar to you, what matters to him most is process and he would go along to agree to disagree with paul ryan on several policy issues as