IN A CALL WHERE HE WAS PRETTY CRITICAL OF THEN CANDIDATE
DONALD TRUMP.
UNDERSTAND SAYS AT A TIME WHERE DIDN'T SEEM SUPER LIKELY
THAT TRUMP WOULD BECOME PRESIDENT.
AT THE TIME, WE DIDN'T KNOW ALL THE DETAILS BUT NOW WE DO
BECAUSE AS OF TODAY BREITBART HAS LEAKED THE AUDIOTAPE IN
ONE OF THEIR FORMER SPOKESPEOPLE IS CALLING A CONTINUING
CAMPAIGN TO DAMAGE PAUL RYAN AND THAT IS UNDERSTANDABLE THAT
YOU ARE GOING TO AGREE PERHAPS AFTER LISTENING TO THE TAPE.
THERE ARE BASICALLY TWO THINGS I WANT TO MAKE REALLY CLEAR.
FOR MYSELF IS JUST BIGGER.
I AM NOT GOING TO PRETEND DONALD TRUMP, NOT NOW, AND ON THE
FUTURE.
AS YOU PROBABLY HEARD, I DISINVITED HIM FROM MY FIRST
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT GOP EVENT THIS WEEKEND, THING I DO EVERY
YEAR AND I'M NOT GOING TO BE CAMPAIGNING WITH HIM OVER THE
NEXT 30 DAYS.
LOOK, YOU GUYS KNOW I HAVE REAL CONCERNS ABOUT THE NOMINEE.
HOPE YOU APPRECIATE THAT I AM DOING WHAT I THINK IS BEST
FOR YOU THE MEMBERS KNOW WHAT'S BEST FOR ME.
I WANT TO DO WHAT'S BEST FOR MEMBERS AND I THINK THIS IS
THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
I'M GOING TO FOCUS MY TIME ON CAMPAIGNING FOR HOUSE
REPUBLICANS.
TO EVERYONE ON THIS CALL, THIS IS GOING TO BE A TURBULENT
MONTH.
MANY OF YOU ON THIS CALL ARE FACING TRUMP'S HAVE FREE
ELECTIONS.
SOME OF YOU ARE NOT BUT WITH RESPECT TO DONALD TRUMP I
WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO WHAT YOU THINK IS BEST AND DO
WHAT YOU FEEL YOU NEED TO DO.
PERSONALLY YOU NEED TO DECIDE WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU AND
YOU ALL KNOW WHAT'S BEST FOR YOU WHERE YOU ARE.
BUT THE LAST THING I WANT TO DO IS TO HELP HILLARY CLINTON GET
THE PRESIDENCY AND GET CONGRESS DOES SO THE LAST THING WE WANT
TO BE DOING IS GIVING HILLARY A BLANK CHECK IN CONGRESSÖ I'M
GOING TO SPEND THE REST OF THIS MONTH FIGHTING FOR CONGRESS AND
ARE MAJORITIES THAT I'M GOING TO SPEND THE NEXT 20 DAYS WORKING
HARD WITH ALL OF OUR MEMBERS TO GET REELECTED BECAUSE WE NEED A
CHECK ON HILLARY CLINTON IF DONALD TRUMP AND MIKE PENCE
DON'T WHEN THE PRESIDENCY BUT I WANT TO BASICALLY POSE WITH
THIS.
HIS COMMENTS ARE IN THIS IN ARE NOT KEEPING WITH OUR PRINCIPLES
TIME GOING TO DEFEND THEM TIME GOING TO FOCUS ON CONGRESS.
BUT IS NOT A MAN WHO THOUGHT
TROUBLES GOING TO BE PRESIDENT.
I'M NOT SAYING WHILE TO HIS REACTION OF ACCESS HOLLYWOOD
TAPES DANCING WHILE THE DISCOVER LEASE AT THIS JUNCTURE.
WHOEVER RELEASED THIS AND WE WERE PRETTY GOOD IDEA WHO, WE
WILL GET IT ON THE SECOND JUST WANTED TO SHARE PAUL RYAN
IN THE BIGGEST WAY WHEN HE IS MOST VULNERABLE TO THIS
DISSENSION WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ABOUT RENTAL CARE
PROPOSAL AND RELEASING THIS TAPE NOW IS SAYING HE NEVER
STOOD BY DONALD TRUMP.
GOING UP TO MESSY'S GOING TO THE SHOWERS IN THE PRISON AND
GO AND LETTING THEM BLEED OUT.
I HAVEN'T SEEN THIS KIND OF OVER-THE-TOP POLITICAL ATTACK
MAY BE EVER WITHIN THE SAME PARTY IN MY LIFETIME.
WHEN YOU THEN LOOK AT THE HEART OF THE BREITBART ARTICLE
WHICH RELEASES TAPE IT SAYS OVER AND OVER AGAIN HOW RYAN
QUOTE ABANDONED THE NOW PRESIDENT IN THE FINAL
CRUSOE WEEKS LEADING UP TO THE ALL IMPORTANT GENERAL
ELECTION AND RYAN'S DECISION TO ABANDON TRUMP ON THE CAMPAIGN
TRAIL HAS BECOME A FOCAL POINT IN THE HEALTHCARE NEGOTIATIONS.
NO I HAVEN'T, WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT?
YOU'RE THE ONE WHO BROUGHT IT UP.
THEY MEAN WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE IT A FOCAL POINT IN THE
INVESTIGATIONS.
I'M TELLING YOU, I'M JUST GIVING YOU A TINY TASTE OF IT.
ALL THROUGHOUT THIS LONG ARTICLE, RYAN THE BETRAYER
OF OUR BELOVED LEADER DONALD TRUMP.
O MY GOD, IT IS SOMEBODY IN THE WHITE HOUSE, OBVIOUSLY WE THINK
IT IS STEVE BANNON BECAUSE HE USED TO RUN
BREITBART AND HE DID A PURGE OF PEOPLE THAT DISAGREED WITH HIM
BEFORE HE LEFT.
ALL HE HAS LEFT ARE YES-MEN AT BREITBART
BUT ACTUALLY THINK ONE OF THE QUOTES MAKES ME THINK IT'S
NOT JUST BANNON, IT MIGHT EVEN BE TRUMP HIMSELF.
ONE UNNAMED SOURCE IN THE WHITE HOUSE SAID THIS QUOTE.
THE PRESIDENT GAVE RYAN A CHANCE.
LISTEN TO HOW MUCH ITíS SOMETHING DONALD TRUMP WOULD SAY.
THE
PRESIDENT GAVE RYAN A CHANCE HE NEEDS TO GET HIS ACT
TOGETHER SOON OR THE PRESIDENT WILL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO STEP
IN AND FIX THIS ON HIS OWN.
HE IS THE BEST NEGOTIATOR ON THE PLANET AND IF THIS WERE HIS
BILL AND NOT RYAN'S WE WOULD NOT BE IN THIS MUCH OF A MESS.
THAT IS TRUMP.
AND WE KNOW THAT TRUMP HAS A HISTORY OF TELLING A
REPORTER, YOU CAN QUOTE ME OFF THE RECORD AS AN ASSOCIATE
OF DONALD TRUMP.
WE KNOW THAT IS HAPPENED IN THE PAST.
HE USED THE ALIAS OF JOHN BANNON, ETC.
HE WOULD
OFTEN BE HIS OWN UNNAMED SOURCE.
THAT'S INTERESTING.
BUT MY QUESTION WILL BE ON THIS IF THIS WAS LEAKED BY THE
WHITE HOUSE, WHAT DO THEY WANT?
THEY WANT JUST A BETTER BILL?
MAYBE THEY WANT RYAN SCRAMBLING, GETTING HIM TO
DO SOMETHING MORE FAVORABLE TOWARD TRUMP?
I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW.
THE REASON I THINK THERE IS SOME CHANCE IT IS TRUMP
HIMSELF IS BECAUSE IT IS POORLY THOUGHT OUT THE SUCH A MESS.
YOU LOOK AT THIS AND SAY HOW THE HELL DOES THIS HELP THE
REPUBLICANS?
THAT'S WHAT EVERYONE IS CONFUSED BY.
NORMALLY YOU WOULD DO SOMETHING I WOULD UNDERCUT PAUL RYAN
BECAUSE HE'S TOO MODERATEÖ UNDERSTANDABLE.
IN THIS CASE
THEY ARE SAYING RYAN, HE BETTER WITHDRAW THAT BILL BEFORE
AND IS WAS COMING TO HIM DUMPING YOU PUBLICLY BACK HIS BILL
SO YOU ARE THROWING YOURSELF UNDER A BUS.
IT'S A TYPICAL INCOMPETENCY RECEIVED FROM DONALD TRUMP
BECAUSE HE IS LASHING OUT.
WHY?
HE HAS - AS EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT, HE IS SAYING I'M
WITH YOU, GO, OH NO, IT'S NOT GOING WELL?
I WOULDN'T HAVE DONE THIS.
THIS IS YOUR FAULT.
LIKE A CHILD, HE ALWAYS BLAMES SOMEONE ELSE.
I'M NOT EVEN SURE IT'S BANNON, I'M TELLING YOU IT MIGHT JUST
BE THE BIG GUY HIMSELF.
THEY DO THESE THINGS, SORRY JOHN, ONE QUICK SECOND,
THEY SAY RYAN HAS BEEN UNWILLING TO NEGOTIATE ON THE
SPECIFICS OF THIS BILL.
THIS IS ALL AGAIN FROM THE ARTICLE.
OBVIOUSLY TYPED OVER AND SENT TO BREITBART BY THE WHITE HOUSE.
AND TRUMP IN HIS TRUE ALLIES, DESPITE WHAT RYAN SAYS
INSIDE THE THE WHITE HOUSE PUBLICLY OF BEEN MUCH MORE
WILLING TO NEGOTIATE.
HE TRYING TO SEND A MESSAGE AND THEN HE LABELS THE OBAMA CARE
2.0, OBAMA CARE LIGHT, RYAN CARE, RHINO CARE.
ALL THE SUDDEN IT'S RYAN CARE, NOW THAT IT'S GOING UNDER,
IT'S NOT TRUMP CARE, ITíS RYAN CARE.
THIS WAS ON BREITBART, RIGHT?
YES.
THAT'S THE NEWS REPORTING THAT THEY WANT TO BE A
REPUTABLE NEWS ORGANIZATION?
I CAN'T READ THAT BECAUSE IT IS SPINNING SO FAST.
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT JOHNÖ THEY GOT OUT OF THIS
ARTICLE WAS THIS READ LIKE AN OLD SOVIET PRESS RELEASE, NOT EVEN A
PRESS RELEASE BUT WHAT THEY WOULD PRINT.
ALLIES AND LOYALISTS, ALLIES OF THE CAUSE SAY THIS, SOME
HAVE BETRAYED THE CAUSE.
ITíS SO OVER-THE-TOP THAT
YOUíRE LIKE WHO COULD BELIEVE THIS?
ITíS NOT CLEAR WHAT HE WANTS.
OTHER THAN TO NOT BE EMBARRASSED OR
HE DOESNíT WANT TO BE TIED TO A BILL THAT IS A DISASTER,
BUT IT'S NOT CLEAR POLICY WISELY HE OR THE WHITE HOUSE
ACTUALLY WANTS.
THIS IS YOUR BILL.
HE SAID HE HAD A COUPLE OF GOALS THAT HE LAID OUT THE I'M
GETTING PRICES QUOTE WAY WAY DOWN, EVERYONE'S COVERED,
DEDUCTIBLES OR LOWERS, HE'S A SIMPLY SAID THAT WE LOWER BUT
THEN WHEN ACTUAL BILL COMES OUT AND HE IS TOTALLY HANDS UP, I
HEARD HE WAS A NEGOTIATOR, LCD NEGOTIATINGÖ TALKING ABOUT THE
BILL MESSIAH SPECIFICALLY ASKED IN A PRESS BRIEFING DONE
TRUMP IS TALKING RELATED LITTLE ABOUT IT ALTHOUGH HE IS
TWEETED A FEW REFERENCES TO THE NEXT AS WE BETTER BUT WHERE
IS HE THROUGH ALL THIS?
I DON'T TO SPECULATE TOO MUCH WITHOUT ANY BASIC FACTS BUT THIS
SEEMS LIKE A FAX FREE VACUUM NOW, THIS HEALTH CARE DEBATE.
WE HAVE SO LITTLE FACTS, WE DON'T EVEN HAVE TIME FOR
ALTERNATIVE FACTS.
I WONDER IF TRUMP STRATEGY, I'M THROWING IT OUT THERE, I
WONDER IF HIS STRATEGY IS RYAN WILL PROPOSE AND THE REPUBLICANS
WILL PUSH A DETAILED BILL THAT IS A DISASTER AND MY NEGOTIATING
POSITION WILL BE TO DO ONE LITTLE PIECE OF IT, LIKE THE
STATE LINES THING, DEREGULATED ACROSS STATE LINES AND LET
INSURANCE COMMITTEE SO ACROSS STATE LINES AND THEN I WILL
EVENTUALLY SIGN ONTO THAT RELATIVELY LITTLE PIECE,
PRESERVE THE REST OF OBAMA CARE BUT SAY THAT BECAUSE WE TOOK
THAT ONE PIECE AND PASSED IT, THAT IS A REPEAL OF OBAMA CARE.
THERE HAS TO BE AN AXIS STRATEGY FOR TRUMP OUT OF THIS, RIGHT?
IN THEORY, THERE HAS TO BE SOME EXIT STRATEGY TO THIS RATHER
THAN JUST THROWING 26 MILLION PEOPLE OF HEALTHCARE.
I HAVE TWO ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS AND SEE HER THEORY
THAT PART ONE IS PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO FIGURE A
WHAT TRUMP THINKS.
REMEMBER, TRUMP DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE THINKS.
THE ONE COMMON MISTAKE THAT EVERYBODY MAKES OVER AND
OVER AGAIN IS THAT THEY UNDERESTIMATE HOW STUPID HE IS.
HE NEVER HAD A PLAN AND IN THIS ARTICLE YOU CAN SEE
THRASHING ABOUT WILDLY.
LAKE O, CONSERVATIVE GROUPS ARE UPSET THAT THEIR THESE TEA
PARTY PATRIOTS ARE SET IN THE CONSERVATIVE GROUPS, PLUS,
IT WON'T PASS THE SENATE BECAUSE OF THEIR MODERATE REPUBLICANS.
HOW CAN YOU CURE BOTH OF THE THINGS OF THE SAME TIME?
EITHER YOU GO RIGHT IN WHICH CASE THE RIGHT-WING IS HAPPY BUT
THOSE MODERATE REPUBLICANS WILL NEVER VOTE FOR AND IT HAS NOTE
CHANCE OF PASSING AND YOU KEEP TALKING ABOUT HOW THE ARITHMETIC
DOES NOT UP IN THE SENATE OR YOU MAKE THE MODERATE REPUBLICANS
SUCH AS THEY ARE HAPPY AND IN THE OTHER PUBLICANS WILL
HATE YOU EVEN MORE.
HOW TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION THE ANSWER IS TRUMP DOESN'T
KNOW THAT HE DOESN'T OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TEA
PARTY GUYS IN THE MODERATE GUYS KNEES NEVER THOUGHT IT
THROUGH AND HE THINKS THERE ARE ALWAYS MAGIC ANSWERS.
WE WILL MAKE A GOOD FOR EVERYBODY AND IT WILL BE
LOWER AND IT WILL COVER, WHY WANT TO COVER?
IT'LL BE BEAUTIFUL.
HE'S AN IMPETUOUS CHILD.
WHY CAN'T I HAVE EVERYTHING?
BY CANCER COVER EVERYTHING?
IT'S PAUL RYAN'S FAULT THAT IF I HAD DONE AND, AGAIN, HERE'S
ANOTHER REFERENCE TO TRUMP IS A LOT MORE WILLING TO WHEEL
AND DEAL ON THIS FRONT THAN RYAN.
IT'S TRUMP WHO WROTE THIS THING.
WHO WRITES A WHEEL AND DEAL AND THAT'S NOT A QUOTE FROM
ANYONE, THAT'S IN THE ARTICLE.
THEY SUCK, JESUS.
HE'S ALSO A GUY WHO I DON'T KNOW THEM, BUT EVERYBODY
SAYS HE IS WILLING TO THROW HIS ALLEYS UNDER THE BUS THAT HE
LIKES TO STICK THE SHIV AND THAT HE THINGS AT THE END OF THE DAY
WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS WHAT MAKES HIM LOOK GOOD AND SUCCESSFUL.
HE MAY ACTUALLY THINK THAT HE CAN TORPEDO RYAN, TORPEDO
THIS CURRENT EFFORT, MAKE RYAN LOOKED TERRIBLE, THAT THING
GOES DOWN IN FLAMES, NOT REALIZING THAT AS
PRESIDENT, HE'S NOT INDEPENDENT OF HIS PARTY IN CONGRESS.
IF YOU WANT THE REST OF HIS AGENDA TO BE WORKED ON,
HAVING THE FIRST HUGE THING YOU WORK ON TOTALLY SINK,
TOTALLY FAIL HURTS HIM TOO, BUT HE IS SUCH A SELF-CENTERED
PERSON THAT HE MAY NOT REALIZE THAT THAT'S EVEN OUT FUNCTIONS.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE EXIT STRATEGY IS.
I'M CAN UNDERSTAND THE REPUBLICAN I SAID STRATEGY.
AND I THINK I FIGURED OUT THE PLAN, AND TED CRUZ HAS A.
BUT TO ALL YOUR GUYS POINT, TRUMP IS SHORTSIGHTED.
HE JUST THINKS HAD AWAY WHEN THE MOMENT NOW?
IN THIS MEDIA MINUTE, HOW DO I WIN THIS MEDIA MINUTE?
I'M LOSING TERRIBLE, I'M NOT WINNING ANYMORE.
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?
FIRST THING IS BUT ON SOMEBODY ELSE.
GO TO MOVE NUMBER ONE DOLLAR I WILL FIGURE OUT THINGS
AFTER THAT THAT IT'S TOO CONSERVATIVE, TO LIBERAL.
YOU ARE NOT WINNING, NOT ME THAT WE TALKED ABOUT THAT.
NOW THE EXIT STRATEGY.
IN THE MIDST OF THIS, THEY EXPLAINED THAT TED CRUZ
THINKS WELL, WE DON'T NEED 60
VOTES, THE DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO FILIBUSTER THE THING
LIKE WE FILIBUSTER TO EVERYTHING WHEN THE DEMOCRATS ARE
CHARGED THAT THE DEMOCRATS NEEDED 60 VOTES FOR OBAMA
CARE, BUT WE DON'T NEED IT, WE CAN DO RECONCILIATION.
THAT ONLY APPLIES TO JUST BUDGETARY ISSUES, THEY
CANNOT USE IT FOR MOST OF THE BILL.
HOW IS HE GOING TO GET AROUND IT THAT HE SAYS OH, I CAME UP
WITH A NEW IDEA.
THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO
JUST PASS THINGS WITH 50 VOTES.
WHAT?
THAT'S ONE THING THAT EXISTS.
BUT THEY ARE REPUBLICANS, THEY DON'T CARE.
THE IDEA THAT I THINK THEY CRUZ AND THE CONSERVATIVES ARE
HATCHING IS HEY GUYS, MAKE THE BILL EVEN MORE CONSERVATIVE, GO
IN THE DIRECTION, THERE'S ONE REFERENCE IN THIS LONG
ARTICLE ABOUT YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND HOW TO DO IT THE
TRUMP WAY, RYAN NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE TRUMP WAY.
I THINK THE TRUMP WAITED THERE REFERRING TO IS JUST
GO FOR BORE RIGHT.
DON'T WORRY ABOUT ANY OF THE MODERATES OR DEMOCRATS OR
ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
JUST GO GET ALL THE RIGHT-WING REPUBLICANS YOU CAN.
WE WILL JUST CHANGE THE RULES
SO THAT MIKE PENCE HAS SOME MAGICAL CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY
TO GET RID OF SENATE RULES AND HE CAN BE THE PARLIAMENTARIAN
MARIA AND THAT IT DECIDES HOW TO IMPLY THE RULES INCLUDING
THE RECONCILIATION WE WILL JUST SAY TO PLUS OF THE WHOLE
BILL IS MAGICALLY DOES THAT THAT WAY WE ONLY NEED 50 VOTES.
I COULD EVEN USE SUSAN COLLINS AND ANOTHER MODERATE
REPUBLICAN IF I HOLD MY CONSERVATIVES WHEN WE PASS IT.
THAT IS PROBABLY HONESTLY THEIR BEST HOPE THAT
IS SETS A BAD PRECEDENT.
YOU HAVE TO THREAD THE NEEDLE REALLY
HARD TO GET INTO THEIR DARK
AND THEN HE THINKS
IF HE IS THINKING AHEAD AT ALL THAT HAVING LOTS OF PEOPLE
LOSE THEIR HEALTHCARE UNDER HIS BILL RYAN CARE, TRUMP CARE
WHAT EVERYONE A CALL IT, THAT WILL HELP THEM IN THE ELECTION?
AGAIN, NOT THINKING THAT FAR.
THAT'S WAY TOO FAR.
BY THE WAY, THAT CRUISE IDEA, DELEGATES TRUMP'S IDEA.
TRUMP DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE'S DOING THAT THE
CONSERVATIVES ARE PUSHING IN THAT DIRECTION.
THEY THINK WE CAN GET IT DONE THAT FOR THE GUYS AT THE
HERITAGE FOUNDATION AND THE CODE BROTHERS AND ALL THOSE DONORS,
TO THEM, YEAH, 26 MILLION LOSING THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE OR UNDER
THE NEW CICCONE AND PLANAR PROBABLY BE 30 MILLION OR MORE,
IT'S LIKE WAY, OR THEY MIGHT DONORS, THEY MY FAMILY?
THE TRUMP WAY AS I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOU.
I ONLY CARE ABOUT MYSELF.
THAT IS THE TRUMP WAY.
WE CONVINCE TRUMP TO GO HARD RIGHT IN JIM THIS THING
THROUGH AND DAMN THE TORPEDOES