and most politicians in boston when they needed something they always went to john mccormic or went to tip o neal, that s where the power is. we could do an hour on how powerful that position is. and when i thought donald trump was not going to be president, i would occasionally say when he attacks paul ryan like this, if he ever became president he would discover how much power the speaker has over him, and i was so wrong about that because of the collapse of so many things including apparently the collapse of male ego, which might be a good thing in washington. but paul ryan as speaker used none of his power in relation to this president. so this president two years in has no idea what the powers of the speakership are. and think how frustrated donald trump has been just by the constraints he already faces. that he has to at least pretend to abide by the laws of the
this is the person next in line to the presidency after the president and vice president. and nancy pelosi in taking the speakership a second time, really harkening back to powerful speakers, people like tip o neal, this is an incredibly powerful position particularly when it s an adversarial position to the president, think newt gingrich. when nancy pelosi came in and reminded the people listening to her give her acceptance speech and in article i of the constitution. and it says all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representatives but the senate may propose or conquer with the amendments. if donald trump wants money for a wall it has to go through nancy pelosi. there s no other way around it. so he is now negotiating with a woman who has done this job before and who knows government
our federal government. how do you see democrats bringing some sort of stability to the house? well, you know, all of us have to work together. we need to bring back the ronald reagan and the tip o neal. nancy pelosi said she s willing to work with whoever wants to work with her to make sure we do what is best for the country, and that s the attitude we have to have, which is everybody come together to do what is best for america and americans. since you mentioned nancy pelosi, i want to ask you about the affordable care act and the ruling that was brought about by a judge last night. republicans are fully responsible for this cruel decision, and the judge basically invalidating the entire obamacare act. what are democrats prepared to do about this? we have to do everything we can to make sure americans are
coming this way with laura. i m sure he s going to say something powerful this week at the funeral about his dad, and i really have got ton knten to kn couple. jeb, got ton know governor burke, and marvin bush. one of the young they re so well brought up, these kids. they re not kids now. they re middle-aged. was tip o neal had an operation right after he left office. it was a difficult operation. stomach, everything. and he was really upset about it. almost very distressed about it. he got a call from one of the bush kids who said i ve been through that procedure. i ve had it through my 20s. you ll be fine. that mark of humanity of looking out for somebody knowing they re in emotional trouble, something that would change their here
motorcade to the capitol building. i know some things about him and that his personal relationships were not set they did not end at the aisle. he had really good friends on the democratic side. he kept in touch with all these guys. he was friends with tip o neal. tip may have voted for dukakis out of party loyalty, but he liked george bush in terms of who he would like to hang around with. and i think this was just a fact. he loved the fact he d been elected to the house of representativi represen represen representatives. when you get elected by the people in the area, when you re elected by them, you re okay. you re representing people at home. his people from harris county from houston, and he would come back to the gym years later after losing, leaving the house,