"On immigration we got really close on that issue... I had the votes when I was speaker on a Thursday for building the wall reforming our, Asylum laws, converting a non-nuclear family immigration visas into into economic immigration visas, and giving dream dreamers green cards.

I had to vote for that out of the house Republican conference. McConnell was going to put it on the floor if I got it out of there. I got Trump to come to our conference on a Thursday. He was for it, saying I'm behind you guys a thousand percent. Get this done. I had my votes...

Some guys in the freedom caucus got to him on a Tuesday night because they were worried because they agreed to vote for it. They were worried that they're going to vote for this and going to get hurt by the base... so the next morning when I had the vote on the floor Trump said on a tweet never mind, don't bother let the Red Wave fix it, and we'll do it another time. And the votes blew up in within a matter of two or three hours."