"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."

Charlie Sykes: What do you think happend on January 6th and what should Republicans say about it?

Paul Ryan: "It was terrible, it was an Insurrection, it was violence...I believe it was a travesty and Trump is to blame, and he should be held accountable for it, at least politically speaking and the last thing we should do is try and whitewash it. We should castigate it. We should call it for what it was, say it should never happen again, make security adjustments and condemn the heck out of it."

What has gone wrong in politics?

"It's the Advent of decentralized media, hits and clicks digitalization. Performers came to Congress and realized [they] don't have to spend all those years toiling in the Committees legislating compromising being a good legislator if [they're] really good with [their] thumbs on [their] digital presence [they] can get great cable clicks and become famous really fast. [They] can raise a ton of money and small donations online, and they can LeapFrog this meritocracy." - Paul Ryan