Name: Watch Paul Ryan Discuss His Meeting With Donald Trump
Uploaded: 2016-05-12
Duration: 1 min 34 s
Description: He called it “encouraging.”

I think we had a very encouraging meeting. Look, it's no secret that Donald Trump and I have had our differences. We talked about those differences today. That's common knowledge. The question is what is it that we need to do to unify the Republican party and all strains of conservative wings in the party? We had a very good and encouraging productive conversation on just how to do that. It was important that we discussed our differences that we have. But it's also important that we discussed the core principals that tie us all together. Principles like the constitution, the separation of powers. The fact that we have an executive that is going way beyond the boundaries of the constitution and how it's important to us that we restore article one of the constitution. It's the principle of self- governance. We talked about life and how strongly we feel about this core principle. We talked about the Supreme Court and things like this. I was very encouraged with what I heard from Donald Trump today. I do believe that we are now planting the seeds to get ourselves unified to bridge the gaps and differences, and so from here we're gonna go deeper into the policy areas to see where that common ground is and how we can make sure that we are operating off the same core principles. And so yes, this is our first meeting. I was very encouraged with this meeting, but this is a process. It takes a little imt. e You don't put it together in 45 minutes. So that is why, we had like I said, a very good start to a process and how we unify. [ BLANK_AUDIO ]