BALDWIN: Paul Ryan is serving his first full day as the newly elected speaker of the House, replacing John Boehner, and already talks are turning to his possible White House ambitions. Speaker Ryan just sat down with CNN's chief political correspondent, Dana Bash. And Dana joins me now. Dana, congrats on the interview. What did he tell you?</s>BASH: Well, it was actually interesting, Brooke, because I spoke not only to Paul Ryan, the incoming, I guess now speaker, but John Boehner, the outgoing speaker. It was pretty much the last thing he did before he left the building. And one thing that Boehner told me was that the way he convinced Ryan to run for speaker, because, as we know, he was very reluctant, he said no way at first, was to lay on the Catholic guilt. He told him that it was God's will to do that. And so when I talked to Paul Ryan today, I asked him about that, but also whether this means he might not be president because it's very difficult to go, never mind from Congress to the White House. Barack Obama did it. But speaker of the House is a whole different ball game. Listen to what he said.</s>BASH: Do you think this means the end of the road for any hope of being president?</s>REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: I don't know, hope of being president?</s>BASH: Meaning when you're speaker of the House, it's just -- it's a lot harder.</s>RYAN: That's OK with me. It doesn't really bother me. I was -- if I really wanted to be president, I would have run in this cycle for the presidency. I had the chance and opportunity to do so. I chose not to do that. So, I'm perfectly happy and content with this decision.</s>BASH: So, there, of course, was, just to sort of give the context here, a lot of talk about Paul Ryan at the beginning of this presidential cycle, whether he would jump in. As he said, he made the decision not to.
Paul Ryan on Possible White House Ambitions