Kevin McCarthy: ‘John Kasich Would Be an Excellent President’

SCARBOROUGH: “Would John Kasich be a good president? 
MCCARTHY: “I think John Kasich would be an excellent president. I think he would be — on paper he seems like the very best. I always had this philosophy that I think governors — it’s a better training ground to be president. They can’t print more money, they have to balance the budget. They pick a cabinet, they run agencies they didn’t create and try to make them effective. So — and you have to make a decision at the end of the day. When you’re in the House and Senate you could to play the politics of it. But as a governor you have to make a decision, it work with both sides.” 
BRZEZINSKI: “I would argue that not only if you think on paper he’s the very best then why wouldn’t you also think in terms of his presentation and his — [crosstalk] — performance at the debates —“
SCARBOROUGH: “Yeah. Boy, he’s been good.” [crosstalk]
BRZEZINSKI: “— his civility, his humanity, what hasn’t been the very best about Kasich?” 
MCCARTHY: “Well, I tell you what. I felt it was personally moving when I watched — was it the young college student get up and talk about in personal — and then hug him?” [crosstalk] 
SCARBOROUGH: “Yeah, wow!”
BRZEZINSKI: “So why wouldn’t he be the [indecipherable] one you [indecipherable] behind?” 
MCCARTHY: “That’s a type character I want in a person. Look, there’s a lot of people that have not become president that I think would do a very good job as president. You have to get elected. And that — that’s our system. So maybe you didn’t catch on fast enough, maybe you didn’t engage fast enough. Donald Trump has taken the oxygen away from a lot of people where they don’t have the opportunity. And a lot of people [indecipherable] no fault of their own, they ran a conventional campaign when the American public does not want a convention.”