CNN’s Bash to Paul Ryan: How Can You ‘Control’ the Freedom Caucus?

Jeffrey Meyer | November 1, 2015
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Video cross-posted here at NewsBusters. On Sunday’s State of the Union, fill-in host Dana Bash sat down with newly-elected Speaker of the House Paul Ryan about his goals for the new job but did her best to play up the supposed dysfunction among House GOPers. The CNN host played up the liberal line that members of the House Freedom Caucus are a major problem for Republican leadership and asked Ryan “How are you going to control the 40 or so members of that so-called Freedom Caucus in a way that John Boehner couldn't?”