i do not think trump likes paul ryan, and i do not think paul ryan likes trump. paul ryan is honest. he has integrity. i do not agree with most of what he says, but he is a totally different politician than trump, and the wisconsin republican party got it together. they have an agenda. they are together. ryan, he is trying to save his party, and it is so factious and disillusioned. it has been eight years. instead of cooperating and compromising and making deals with obama, they just obstructed. need kickbacks. people will kill me for this, but we need kickbacks back. when we had kickbacks, at least we could get stuff done. getting my bridge done. host: one more call it we will go to john, joining us from ohio. john, good evening. you have got the last word.

paul ryan -- we wouldn't even have borders if it was for paul ryan -- >> what? >> that's what tim kaine said -- >> i feel like i've heard paul ryan talk a lot about security at the border. i'm pretty sure he's never said we should abolish borders. if he does say it, i'd be the first to report it. but mr. nealon -- >> i'll tell you what, you ought to start reporting it now because paul ryan is not for securing the borders. >> you said paul ryan wouldn't have borders at all if it was up to paul ryan. >> yeah, i'll tell you, paul ryan has said america's more than its borders, it's more than this, it's more than that. we have to have a secure border first in order to have a nation. paul ryan hasn't funded that wall, that double-layered, 700-mile law that we got through congress in 2006. he has said that he's not for the wall, he said he's going to sue mr. trump. i mean, he takes every opportunity -- >> paul ryan's going to sue donald trump? >> let me pick up what you just said -- >> yeah, over the muslim immigration issue, he said he would sue donald trump, absolute

paul ryan owns that. >> mr. nehlen, you're putting me in a position i have to defend paul ryan. you're talking about issues on the campaign trail. i'm talking about the national election and the national impact of this, okay? >> sure. >> so trump has been widely criticized for his remarks about the khan family. i want to move on now. do you agree with him or not? >> look, we lost a hero. mr. trump spoke to that. mr. trump is a big boy. if you want to ask him about his comments, you ask mr. trump. i am focused on jobs for wisconsin. i'm laser focused for jobs for wisconsin. enforcing existing immigration laws. i'm not going to get distracted by the national race, because i can't affect the national race. i can affect what guess on here. and that's what i'm talking to local voters about. >> you did say paul ryan's repeated betrayals of the gop office is beneath the dignity of the speaker's office. paul ryan has spent more time attacking trump than defending americans. so you are talking about this. you did put out a statement regarding this. how is this -- >> yeah, i did put out a

donald trump needs paul ryan at this point more than paul ryan needs donald trump. that's playing out over and over again. you saw ted cruz get booed out of the convention because politics is a team sport. people want to see these leaders work together. it isn't an individual sport where you do it on your own. donald trump is going to have to continue to work to bring the party together. yesterday was a good step he's endorsed republicans running for office as well as him on the same ticket. it's on his shoulders to bring the party together and bring his team together around him. and many of these folks, he needs them more than they need him and that's the case with speaker ryan. >> peter, are you in agreement with that with that it's donald trump that needs to endeer himself to the support? >> yes, partially agreement. politics is a team sport by donald trump is not a team player. this dance with trump is becoming silly. it was silly a while ago, this effort for him to reach out and pretend he's a normal pal tigs and normal pepper. pretend there's unity. he gave a

paul ryan being challenged by an anti-establishment candidate named paul nealon. it was just a week ago that paul nealon was being praise said by donald trump, the republican nominee per president. we are going to bring you the results from that race, from paul ryan's primary, as soon as we get them. again, polls closing right now. results should be trickling in very soon. we are expecting to hear from paul ryan once this race is called. he's expected to take some questions from the press. we'll show you what they ask, what he says, when that happens. keeping a close eye on that corner of wisconsin right now. we also have some rather stunning new poll numbers to take you through tonight. these are numbers that are making political analysts reevaluate from long-held wisdom with presidential election politics in this country. specifically the truism that electoral landslides just don't happen anymore. all of those numbers and what they mean, that's all ahead. but we start tonight with a question. how is that donald trump reboot going? seems like just yesterday, in f

, i want paul ryan as a leader yeah, is. reporter: i charles: is his job to make sure they can win. >> why is paul ryan given his own economic policies and own town halls. >> you have to think he is look at long-term vision of the party. dedemographic facts, a huge democratic shift, young people are cynical of authority, but they want limited government, paul ryan sees an opportunity to engage the next generation, he does not want to lose them to donald trump. charles: but if they lose them to hillary, and a potential are of 8 years of hillary, the party is done. >> i don't think that is paul ryan's fault. >> kind of disagree, if we lose white house for next 8 years, if hillary clinton wins we'll be off in wilderness, if donald trump wins we could be successful and bring in very people we. i have watchd this for last 8 years, trust me on this point. >> trust me who do you sound like. >> i sound like john mccain, and mitt romney and every other -- >> are you just a little bit skeptical or dare i say cynical that paul ryan may

that interchange between donald trump and paul ryan, paul ryan and donald trump, earlier in the campaign when paul ryan said he wasn't there yet, that's not what we're talks about right now. we're talking about him endorsing trump, trump having him open the republican national convention and then seemingly out of nowhere recently, donald trump saying i don't know, i don't like him anymore, used to like him, i don't like him and i may not going to be with him, then again republicans piling on donald trump and him for five seconds behaving and endorsing paul ryan. what it shows is again, what we are talking about is a lack of unity in the republican party driven by trump's inability to stay on message or behave in a presidential way. it keeps the conversation on how he's unfit to be president. >> we're not saying black lives matter, either. >> hang on. hang on. >> alex burns, 20 seconds left. >> i do think, john, as we go forward, i think corey's right, we are figuring out the balance in the trump and ryan relationship. i think you will see a shift toward ryan as the election comes closer.

he encouraged me to endorse paul ryan is and i'm pleased to do it. >> joining us is paul ryan's challenger. appreciate you being with us. >> thanks for having me on. >> donald trump has not officially endorsed you. he did say you've been running a good campaign. we heard pence pence endorsing paul ryan saying trump encouraged him to make that endorsement. you said you have had no contact with the trump campaign lately. what's your reaction to all this? >> i'm not surprised in the least. wouldn't you expect somebody who has got a lo good friend to endorse their friend. i don't chalk that up to anything other than these guys having a friendship. >> mike pence you mean? >> i have a ton of respect for mike pence. i went to see him the other day. and for the trump campaign and i think kudos to mr. trump for saying, hey, i respect the fact you have a long-time friendship with paul ryan. of course, i disagree with who he selected to endorse. he's all in for the transpacific partnership, which is going to sell our jobs overseas. paul ryan is the mercenary champion for a very bad trade deal. but he

so those again are the terms, the words that paul ryan used. tapper initially talking about donald trump. we should say since then ryan has endorsed donald trump. obviously went to the convention, presided over the convention, despite his obvious misgivings. just in the last few minutes we've gotten a statement from ryan's campaign back in wisconsin. basically saying that neither speaker ryan nor anyone on the team has ever asked for trump's endorsement and he feels confident he will win his primary a week from today in wisconsin. but let's just take a step back about why we are doing breaking news. it is not just because it is a tit for tat among republicans. this is most senior republican elected official right now, period. ends of story. this is something you don't see even in the worst of time. especially after the convention, we thought that they would at least all begin to come together. i spoke to a house republican about this a short while ago, this is someone who endorsed donald trump. he said he thinks this will back fire on donald tr

people are upside with paul ryan's agenda. he had to go on local radio here to reassure people he still had a soul. just like christine o'donnell had to say she wasn't a witch. listen, if you can get the speaker of the house to go on and say you still have a soul when in fact he sold his soul to the globalests. and i called him a soulless globalest. >> what does this mean to you now that donald trump is not, you know, standing by his earlier commitment to you? yes, you say it's for party unity, does that make it excusable in your view? >> donald trump's message hasn't changed. he is against foreign corporations taking our jobs. and paul ryan is the biggest open borders, anti-worker, pro wall street member of congress on either side of the aisle. donald trump is not endorsing paul ryan's tpp plan to ship our jobs overseas. donald trump is not endorsing paul ryan's let's bring in as much cheap labor so americans can't have a living wage or food on their tables or their own job, where paul ryan is endorsing h 1 b visas he quadrup

ryan. >> paul ryan. good. he's a good man. he's a good man and he's a good guy. and we may disagree on a couple of things and mostly we agree and we'll get it done and we'll do a lot of wonderful things. he's a good man and while i'm at it, i hold in the highe esest em john mccain for his service to our country in uniform and in public office and i fully support and endorse his reelection. very important. we'll work together. . i fully support and endorse senator kelly ayotte of new hampshire. a state i truly love, primarily because that was my first vuktrvukt victory, but i love new hampshire. i love new hampshire. she is a rising star and will continue to represent the great people of new hampshire so very well for a long, long time. senator kelly ayotte. working hand in hand, we will grow our majority in the house and in the senate. we need that. we've got to get things done. arm in arm, we will rescue the nation from the obama-clinton disaster which is exactly what it is. that has bled our country dr

paul ryan -- name a time when paul ryan has worked harder for wisconsin or american workers than he's worked for his foreign doerne donors. paul ryan is taking food off american families' table by his polici policies. the reason he has those policies is because the corporations that fund paul ryan want those businesses. >> let me interrupt you. he doesn't have foreign donors, if he did, that would be against the law. >> i didn't say foreign donors, special interest. >> you said foreign donors. >> my mistake. >> why isn't donald trump talking about them? why is he going off on all the other tangents? why isn't he focused on the economic issues key to the rust belt and wisconsin? >> i think he is focused on all these things. the media -- this is why the american people hate government and they hate the media. it's because we pick the -- this one thing and we'll continue to pick at it when, in fact, we should be talking about this. why are you asking me questions about this? why aren't you asking me questions about the trade deal. >> he kept it up for days and days. he was a candidate. >

when you take on paul ryan, you are not just taking on paul ryan. you are taking on the chamber of commerce. you are taking on the koch brothers. you are taking on wall street. you are taking on all of the transnational elites that will do everything to keep their speaker in congress. let's consider how others have done before us. since his reelection bid in 2000, paul ryan has never faced a real primary challenge. he has essentially run unopposed for nearly 20 years. historically, u.s. representatives from wisconsin are rarely ever challenged. one reporter observed that from 1950 through 2014, less than one in five wisconsin u.s. representatives faced a primary challenger. since 1950, only one wisconsin u.s. representative has ever lost his primary. but we took on the challenge because we knew that despite the odds, we could not continue to be quiet and sit down and watch as we were led by a man who does not normally look down upon our desires but actively fights against them at every turn. we know how the people of our district and state feel. we

one-up paul ryan. this is the problem with donald trump. he always does something to put himself on the front pages and then gripes the fact the media is not covering hillary clinton. i think the media would cover hillary clinton more if donald trump spent less time trying to be on the front pages of newspaper and the lead story in many of the news stories that come out even on cnn or anyplace else. >> right before the endorsement, he quoted your father. let's listen to this. >> i understand an embrace the wisdom of ronald reagan's big tent within the party, big, big tent. remember, ronald reagan. great man. brave guy. remember he included reagan democrats and independents and republicans, lot of people. we're going to have the same thing. there are a lot of democrats perhaps in this room. are there a lot of democrats in this room? raise your hands. eh. i mean, i don't think we need too many, to be honest with you. so i embrace the wisdom that my 80% friend is not my 20% enemy. ronald reagan. stated by

we expected him to endorse paul ryan. the senator mccain endorsement and the kelly ayotte endorsement were kind of a surprise. he had quite a history with mccain. you think mccain was surprised, too? >> the whole thing came across as so reluctant, eric. i think this is like richie rich got his hand smacked and his parents said go upstairs, you're not having dinner until you apologize. he couldn't even stay on the script. he couldn't even say, hey, i endorse paul ryan. he has to talk about party unity and then the baby that was crying. he goes on and on with the new name, the queen of corruption. it seems so reluctant. that's why the guy he didn't endorse, he said you know his preferred candidate. >> he said that to save face, though. >> i have to go. up next on this special edition of "the o'reilly factor," hillary clinton tries once again to explain away her e-mail scandal and her controversial interview about it with chris wallace of fox news sunday. chris will be here to join us with some notes and analysis. stay tuned

pu paul ryan, trump told you that i'm not quite there yet. paul ryan did not seek his endorsement. does it matter? >> it matters in so far as this is a a typical step. it's what the party leader does. donald trump is now the leader of the republican party. he's the nominee for president. paul ryan is his party's top elected official, the speaker of the house. it's pretty extraordinary that trump is not willing to endorse paul ryan in his primary and i think the reason it's such big news right now is it speaks to the terrible discord and disy disunity within the republican party at the moment. these leaders cannot seem to get on the same page and here we are two weeks after the convention in cleveland that was designed and choreographed to showcase party unity and we're just given a fresh reminder that trump is not an agent of the party. he's his own man. he may be the nominee, but trump going to do what he wants to do. >> but for donald trump to stay on message and for republicans that are worried about him and certainly ones that are critical of him, what was the biggest standout

he likes paul ryan. paul ryan is a good guy. he's a good guy. >> reporter: the change in course follows days of panic inside the gop over trump's tanking poll numbers and concerns he could go serious damage to candidates down ballot. top republicans were furious that trump appeared to be playing games and double crossing ryan who already endorsed him. the speaker was barely containing his own feelings. >> heck if i know. i'm not going to try to psyc psychoanalyze this stuff. i'm not going to get involved in some petty back and forth. i see no purpose in doing that. i'm going to be me and do my thing. >> reporter: trump has also walked back his claim he seen video of that u.s. shipment of $400 million to iran that happened around the time american hostages were freed from tehran even after his own staff was telling news outlets that trump was mistaken, he was repeating the claim. >> it's interesting because a tape was made. you saw that with the airplane coming in. nice plane. the airplane coming in and the money coming offer, i

means what paul ryan thinks it means. because he said the judge references donald made was beyond the pale. a whole lot of what donald trump is doing exists beyond the realm of what is acceptable to paul ryan. it just seems like -- john phillips, donald trump supporter, you know, what's your message to paul ryan, the highest elected official in your party? >> well, i don't think it's to his benefit to engage in these side shows either. paul ryan has an opponent back in wisconsin. he should worry about that. trump has an opponent in clinton, he should worry about her. every day trump spends feuding with paul ryan or feuding with someone else is a did i he doesn't spend calling hillary clinton a pathological liar. >> we got to run right now -- >> democrats are going to hang this around trump. >> thanks, guys, thank you, hilary, thank you, all. >>> coming up for us what does senator graham think about all this including trump's refusal to endorse his friend john mccain who is also up for re-election? >> plus, can you say kis

he is good friends with paul ryan. he even ran paul ryan's -- excuse me. he chaired his first congressional race. it was described to me, paul ryan is like family. so he is taking this personally. he has made that clear to people insidehe trump campaign. and you know, as sources described to me, reince priebus feels like he has taken on a lot of water to be there for donald trump. even as a lot of people within the republican party were not so sure this is the right thing to do. reince priebus has said look, he was elected by the vast majority of republican voters, and now he just feels like donald trump, it is a personal front to him, that trump has not decided to endorse paul ryan. again, because for reince priebus, it is not just as a party chair. it is personal. >> so there are all sorts of rumors out there, dana. one rumor that we keep hearing is donald trump may drop out of the race. is that true? >> well, we have no reporting to suggest that's true. what i can tell you, carol, there is a lot of speculation as to what donald trump is trying to do, if

he supported paul ryan when donald trump has not supported paul ryan. he has come out against the idea of russians hacking into anybody in america's servers. saying that there will be severe consequences if that does turn out to be true. so this is a campaign and a ticket unlike anything we have seen before. and it certainly does not add to the idea that donald trump is presenting a cohesive message, and a cohesive campaign, despite what his aides might be trying to say. >> and just quickly, katy, anient occasion from your sources they are rattled within the campaign by this stream of numbers showing in some cases double-digit leads for hillary clinton? if we reset after rio and intercept near the debate with donald trump down double digits, where does the campaign go? where does the support go? >> reporter: you know, paul manafort this morning on cbs said it's only august, not to worry about this stuff. they will be able to come back from this. but the reality is, with the olympics coming in, and taking over coverage, there is going to be little opport

that paul ryan didn't back down. paul ryan didn't take away his endorsement. but he did say as you played in the tape, eric, it's -- that nothing is a blank check. i don't think it was so much that he was saying i want to pull my endorsement of our gop nominee but he was saying, listen, you are doing some things that are not only damaging to your effort, you are now damaging the republican party and down ballot candidates. so dana's number about paul nehlen, the guy running against paul ryan, that's not a contest. not even close. not like oh, donald trump's word going to make a big difference in that race. that's in donald trump's head. >> yeah, i'm not sure that trump thought he was going to endorse nehlen, he would beat paul ryan. >> i hope not. that's not realistic. >> feels like donald trump is using -- using a little bit of leverage, playing a little game at the last minute he ends up endorsing him. on message does he get back on message now, attacking hillary clinton? >> he has to. not only just getting on message and attacking hillary clinton, but how h

endorse paul ryan. but that really didn't amount to much, it appears like, in this race. one reason why, in the april presidential primary, ted cruz took this district and won it pretty overwhelmingly. this is not necessarily donald trump country. when donald trump actually tries to compete here in wisconsin, expect him to spend a lot of time in southern wisconsin. that's where mike pence is going to be later this week as well. but paul ryan and his campaign sort of viewed that flap back and forth with donald trump as nothing more than a distraction. paul nehlen really was never able to get much traction in this race. even as he tried to align himself with donald trump and go after paul ryan on the issues of immigration and trade issues, where paul ryan has differed with donald trump over. but now that this primary is over, it looks like paul ryan's going to win and win by a pretty healthy margin. expect him to hit the road, do a lot of campaigning for house republicans, raising money, trying to save ho

when you take on paul ryan, you are not just taking on paul ryan. you are taking on the chamber of commerce. you are taking on the koch brothers. you are taking on wall street. you are taking on all of the transnational elites that will do everything to keep their speaker in congress. let's consider how others have fared before us. since his reelection bid in 2000, paul ryan has never faced a real primary challenge. he has essentially run unopposed for nearly 20 years. historically, u.s. representatives from wisconsin are rarely ever challenged. one reporter observed that from since 1950, only one wisconsin u.s. representative has ever lost his primary. but we took on the challenge because we knew that despite the odds, we could not continue to be quiet and sit down and watch as we were led by a man who does not normally look down upon our desires but actively fights against them at every turn. we know how the people of our district and state feel. we have seen the polls. we know that seven out of 10 republicans in wisconsin favor a pause in muslim

i called paul ryan, the head of the soulless snake, global snake, because paul ryan wants cheap labor in this country. chris, there's 5.5 billion people in this world that make less than the average mexican worker. what are we going to do? are we going to open our doors to 5.5 billion people to come here? >> i hear you. trump has been tough on people from the arab world, the islam world. where are you on that? >> we need a security policy that secures america from anything. no matter what your -- >> that's general. somebody wants to come here from pakistan. what would you do? they're islamic. what would you do? >> they need to be vetted. paul ryan is sitting on a wonderful bill that brian babbin wrote. he's had that bill written. it's got a bunch of co-sponsors and paul ryan won't put it forward for a debate just like he won't put forward for debate an authorization to use military force. >> an 18-year-old brilliant kid from bangladesh or india or somewhere else islamic and she wants to come here to go to harvard or the university of minnesota. how would you let that kid come into the

trump by endorsing paul ryan it has primary fight. the move comes after donald trump said in an interview, "he is just not quite there when it comes to backing ryan who has been critical of trump." commutingobama is sentences. almost all were serving time for nonviolent drug offenses. most will be released december 1. michael phelps, the most decorated athlete and olympic history will carry the american flag for the opening ceremonies in rio.

>> reporter: with paul ryan and the fact that mike expense endorsing paul ryan and donald trump isn't? >> yes. yes. yes. >> you know what? put this in the long, long list of things that are very unusual in the 2016 race. just add that to the list. i do think it is actually more simple than maybe at first blush two appear. and that is, mike pence is genuinely a good friend of paul ryan. they served together in the house of representatives. they have been friends for 15 years or so. paul ryan said nice things about mike pence as soon as pence's name was even floated as trump's running mate. so it is not a surprise that pence would take a stand in even a republican fight next week. certainly you have paul ryan tearing donald trump's convention and kind of going through the motions. but paul ryan also, you know, ticked donald trump off in not endorsing him right away, and more recently, in issuing a very strongly worded statement about the way donald trump handled the khans. i think if you read the transcript of phil rucker, "the washington post's" excellent interview with donald trump, i

said he wasn't yet ready to back paul ryan. that caused another breakout of party disunity. ryan has been critical of trump for many of his inflammatory statements. he has refused to rescind his endorsement of trump. the july jobs report also out today. it beats all expectations with the u.s. adding 255,000 jobs over the last month. the unemployment rate remaining unchanged at 4.9%. and in chicago police released the body cam videos of last week's officer involved fatal shooting of 18-year-old paul o'neill. the videos show police firing down the street at the report car that o'neill was driving in. three police officers involved have been relieved of their police powers after officials concluded they violated department policy. after five years of preparation, we are now just over two hours away from tonight's opening ceremony of the summer olympics in brazil. it will be seen by about a billion people around the world. rehearsals were held overnight providing a glimpse of what we can expect for the big ceremony tonight. nbc's r

you know, if he really wants to help paul ryan, he ought to move to wisconsin where paul ryan is in a fight for his primary congressional seat. i think really it's about time for doug and others to put on their big boy pants and support hillary clinton and to look at her through a different lens because honestly, she is more prepared than really anybody in a generation to lead this nation and when one looks at her and contrast to donald trump who is unraveling and in the process unraveling the republican party, there's no contest. >> doug, throwing away your vote? >> i'm never going to say anybody is throwing away a vote. my vote isn't a vote i make at the ballot box and it's a vote i make, and -- >> your candidate is not going to win. >> yeah. that certainly looks to be the case. i understand that. there's also libertarian candidate who will be on cnn tonight so it's not merely a binary choice. i reject that argument, as well, but i'm not going to be critical of doug for how he votes. if this is important to him that's how he should vote and i have a larger concern and it emphasizes

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that includes paul ryan. well, his district there in wisconsin is one of those that in the right year for a democrat, the democratic presidential candidate can carry it. if you go back to 2008, barack obama defeated john mccain in paul ryan's district there in wisconsin. in 2012, paul ryan was actually on the republican ticket. mitt romney's running mate. ran at the same time for re-election to the house. won his race but only got 55% of the vote. that was four years ago. that does raise the question for paul ryan. it's a potentially tricky one. if he's in a re-election race this november that gets thorny if the district doesn't warm up to donald trump, it could be a bind. if he separates himself from trump, he could lose trump voters. if he attaches himself too much to trump he could lose swing voters. two things for paul ryan to worry about. to talk bhomore about this trump/ryan war, i want to bring in chris cillizza, founder of the fix blog. donald trump couldn't resist yesterday. paul ryan critical of him

paul ryan being challenged by an anti-establishment candidate named paul nealon. it was just a week ago that paul nealon was being praise said by donald trump, the republican nominee per president. we are going to bring you the results from that race, from paul ryan's primary, as soon as we get them. again, polls closing right now. results should be trickling in very soon. we are expecting to hear from paul ryan once this race is called.

i called paul ryan, the head of the soulless snake, global snake, because paul ryan wants cheap labor in this country. chris, there's 5.5 billion people in this world that make less than the average mexican worker. what are we going to do? are we going to open our doors to 5.5 billion people to come here? >> i hear you. trump has been tough on people from the arab world, the islam world. where are you on that? >> we need a security policy that secures america from anything. no matter what your -- >> that's general. somebody wants to come here from pakistan. what would you do? they're islamic. what would you do? >> they need to be vetted. paul ryan is sitting on a wonderful bill that brian babbin wrote. he's had that bill written. it's got a bunch of co-sponsors and paul ryan won't put it forward for a debate just like he won't put forward for debate an authorization to use military force. >> an 18-year-old brilliant kid from bangladesh or india or somewhere else islamic and she wants to come here to go to harvard or the university of minnesota. how would you let that kid come into the

look, i think that the fact that paul ryan threw his campaign spokesman suggests that ryan is going to act the way paul ryan tends to act which is try to kind of keep his head down and hope that this blows over and not get into a tit for tat between the house speaker and the republican nominee for president, that that doesn't serve anybody well because by all accounts he should be doing okay in his primary next week so his electoral future is probably not in real peril. john mccain is a different story. he has a primary at the end of the month and a tough reelection race against a democrat and already, anderson, his democratic opponent assuming he wins this primary is out saying, remember, john mccain has said that he would support the nominee 49 times or whatever it is. so the democrats are trying very hard to tie john mccain and kelly aillot who is also in a tough campaign in new hampshire to donald trump. it's a tougher position for somebody like mccain. >> this is part of what donald trump does, right? during the primary, so much of his strategy was about sort of swagger and cowing

comments paul ryan says: "i heard about the second amendment quote. it sounds just like a joke gone bad. i hope he clears it up very quickly. you should never joke about a think like that. i didn't actually hear the comment, i only heard about those comments." paul ryan says: "we knew we were going that we were hoping and expecting to get all along. and that's just kind of how it. the outcome is exactly what we were hoping for and expecting and desperate candidates do certain things for attention and that's what i think you saw here. " mary thanks theo the chairman of the republican national committee-- reince priebus tweeted out congratulations to ryan. calling it a well-earned victory. wanted. he held a watch party with supporters in janesville. that's where we find our jenna sachs. following his loss tonight ... paul nehlen spoke to a small crowd assembled here. his parting words ... "this is the just the beginning. tonight is just the beginning." nehlen said his fight to remove paul ryan from office ... is not over. he asked the crowd if it was wi

strikingly similar to something we heard from paul ryan back in early may, that paul ryan wasn't there yet in endorsing donald trump. you think donald trump remembers that phrase? i have a feeling he probably does. >> i think so. >> weeks later, about a month later he did publicly give trump his backing in what was a significant moment and a significant day in the campaign. we were there when it happened. but when you talk about this idea of how this unfolded, you've got to look at that history and that context between these two candidates. ryan's office does say that he never asked for the endorsement. let me give you some background as to why. paul ryan, at least up until this point has been expected to win this race fairly hand idly. he's fairly well liked in wisconsin, expected to defeat his opponent. we will see if the trump situation has impact on the race. but right now not a lot of indication that it will. >> hallie jackson, great to have you on your phone. we will continue our reporting as it is crazy town almost every day. hallie, thanks. i want to bring in rick tyler. i have

not paul ryan's party. saying he was not ready to endorse donald trump and donald trump shot back that he was not ready to endorse paul ryan possible agenda. i talked to the campaign manager and he told me this is not paul ryan's party. he's the leader of the republican party and that is how donald trump has been operating since day one. the fact he has won the primary he feels is a mandate in what is leading this party forward, not necessarily the leadership in washington. when you talk to the republican voters and they decided donald trump was going to be there flag carrier, they did not like what was going on in washington. he did not believe the people they voted into plow -- into power were doing a good job thomas o donald trump does have that on his side. he did get a morality of the republican party to get this nomination, but he's going to have to find independent voters. do independent voters find it appealing if he's fighting with everybody? about trump plus comments on mccain and you said briefly

ryan, which is he is not endorse paul ryan it is somebody to do so and actually says he likes paul ryan but he thinks the country needs strong leaders because we aren't dangerous times. he is clearly not on board. john: this controversy is clearly not going away and president obama's statement, trying to drive a wedge between donald trump and the republican party, does donald trump get that the first republican moving away and voting for hillary clinton, does he fear the possibility that the party may come apart at the seams? guest: no, i don't think he does. i think donald trump sees this as his party. not paul ryan's party. not the republican leadership. remember back in may when he was in west virginia and paul ryan was saying he was not ready to endorse donald trump, donald trump shot back he was nobody to endorse paul ryan's agenda. i talked to the campaign manager and he told me this is not paul ryan's party. this is donald trump is a party. he is the leader of the republican party, and that is how donald trump has been operating since day one. the fact he has won the primary , he

trump later endorsed paul ryan and paul ryan won handedly. one reason why he won handedly, donald trump is not popular in this division. but ted cruz won overwhelmingly in the april primary. that's one reason why paul ryan is not afraid to criticize donald trump. i asked paul ryan at his press conference after the primary, what he thinks about donald trump comments about second amendment enthusiasts possibly taking matters into their own hands, and this is what he had to say. >> i heard about the sec amendment quote. it sounds like a joke gone bad. i hope he clears it up. >> reporter: today showcases the strength, the party establishment over the tea party insurcgents seeing it happen rae after race. and tim feels kamp last week. and the senate majority leader defeated the candidate. he did not want to run in that race as well. showed that the party leadership knows how to win on the congressional level. but when it comes to the presidential level, that's a whole different problem, ryan and alison. >> hillary clinton is ready to give a big sp

paul ryan, good. good man. he's a good man and he's a good guy. and we may disagree on a couple of things, but mostly we agree, and we're going to get it done, and we're going to do a lot of wonderful things. he's a good man. and while i'm at it, i hold in the highest esteem senator john mccain for his service to our country, in uniform and in public office, and i fully support and endorse his re-election. >> again, that was moments ago in green bay, wisconsin. donald trump not just endorsing paul ryan, the house speaker, but offering his endorsement for john mccain in his reelection bid in arizona. and he gave one to senator kelly ayotte. she's in a difficult race there as well. donald trump endorsing all three publicly. trump clearly reading that from a statement, staring down at the paper for most of the remarks we just showed you. notably, paul ryan, the house speaker who did get trump's formal endorsement, was nowhere to be seen at the trump rally. ron johnson in wisconsin has a headwind. so ryan is facing a primary challenge next tuesday in

what does paul ryan say? >> he hasn't said much, and that's kind of in keeping with the way paul ryan tends to be in situations like this. his campaign spokesman simply said they never asked for donald trump's endorsement. that's what he's saying publicly, but i can tell you, erin, privately, in talking to paul ryan's closest friends and confidants many of whom have endorsed donald trump, they're just stunned. they're stunned because of the fact that clearly, ryan has not been all that comfortable with endorsing trump with going out and doing even what he did at his convention, nominating mike pence, formally being the person to do that as his vice presidential running mate, but donald trump, i mean, you know, we don't know, we haven't spoken to him, but it's hard to imagine what paul ryan said in the past few days about donald trump going at that time with gold-star parent, the parents who spoke at the dnc. he was very tough and others were, too, including john mccain, and it's pretty clear that donald trump

i am paul ryan and i approve this message. lou: donald trump however has praised my next guest, ryan's opponent in the primary. thanks to paul nehlen for his kind words very much appreciated appreciated and joining me the businessman who is challenging speaker ryan, paul nehlen. paul is good to have you on the broadcast again. let's talk about that ad, the part about the ones to secure the border. was that a news bulletin for you? >> yeah that could be -- couldn't be further from the truth. paul ryan has failed to fund our double layer several hundred mile fence. he's done the exact opposite. he is funded sanctuary cities and brought in tons of cheap labor that hurts those at the lowest rung of the ladder in our country and honestly speaker ryan is terrible with the border lou: let me ask you paul, national security is a major concern for the public and what do you plan to do differently if you are elected than what paul ryan has done in the eight months that eight months of he has been speaker? >> yeah while i definitely beli

post," trump refused to endorse paul ryan and john mccain. all this causeding senior party officials to reach a breaking point with the candidate they're just unable to control. there is some good news for trump, this morning the campaign announced a big fundraising number, $80 million raised by the campaign and joint events with the republican national committee. nbc's katie tur covers the trump campaign and she is live outside of trump tower, so katie, thanks for being here. i want to start with these reports about disunity and chaos within the campaign and also some buzz about republicans considering an intervention, what are you hearing? >> reporter: yeah, i just talked to one of my republican sources, and they can confirm that donald trump, an intervention will be staged. they're looking at staging an event for donald trump. people like rudy giuliani involved, reince priebus and newt gingrich. calls going on right now and there's conversations going on right now about who else would be involved in this intervention. who else would be aff

what he said about paul ryan echoing what paul ryan said about him. going forward i think what does the american voter think about what's happening will be a real teller. i'll give you a couple of examples. on twitter a couple of prominent trump sport upporters replied t news with simply lies, lies, lies. they distrust the media so much they believe it's all fabricated. any of the controversies about trump are fabricated. i just had a conversation with a man named de d dale. he became emotional talking about how he is praying that donald trump gets back on the issues. he said there's too much at stake for his children. he believes hillary clinton's presidency would simply not work. and he became emotional talking about how he hopes donald trump gets back on the issues. he's disappointed in him. >> something that's definitely not fabricated are mr. trump's own words. i want to play a moment from his rally yesterday. it's gotten a lot of attention. he got a gift from a veteran. take a look. >> something very nice just happened to me. a man came up to me

he is in it for paul ryan. >> that is paul ryan's primary opponent, as mr. ryan's long, hot summers continues. donald trump will not endorse ryan. now his primary challenger is starting to apply some pressure. the "washington post's" robert costa joins us from our kenosha bureau. >> a good bureau. >> we'll be right back. my experience with usaa is awesome. homeowners insurance life insurance automobile insurance i spent 20 years active duty they still refer to me as "gunnery sergeant" when i call being a usaa member because of my service in the military to pass that on to my kids something that makes me happy my name is roger zapata and i'm a usaa member for life. usaa. we know what it means to serve. get an insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. introduces new, easy-to-swallow tablets. so now, there are more ways, for more people... to experience... complete protection from frequent heartburn. nexium 24hr. the easy-to-swallow tablet is here. [baby talk] [child giggling] child: look, ma. no hands. children: "i", "j", "k"... [bi

encouraged me to endorse paul ryan. in next tuesday's primary. mark: yesterday, mike pence met in arizona with john mccain, the same day that donald trump suggested to the "washington post" that john mccain has not been good enough to veterans. john, what is your sense of this? john: if you are in a plane going through turbulence, it's like rattling around, grabbing the stick, the pilot trying to stabilize the plane. he is making the best of a horrible situation for him, doing it quite well given the extremes in which he is operating. but people looking at this will think it is weird that there is this division on so many issues. increasingly, where mike pence is in a different place and donald trump. mark: welcome to trump world, where things can be weird. below the radar, you talk about the conversations below the radar. that is problematic. mike pence is calming down donors, people in the media. donors. more than anyone else. john: more than anyone else. mark: he is doing it by largely being true to himself. and he c