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First Read Minute: Maybe budget deal won't hurt Ryan presidential hopes after all

NBC's Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro take a look at the Republican Party's bargaining man, Paul Ryan, as his budget compromise with Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., awaits a vote in the Senate. And in a poll this week, his popularity in Iowa is the highest of the 2016 GOP contenders—can his bargaining ways keep him as the GOP's top man?
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NBC's Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro take a look at the Republican Party's bargaining man, Paul Ryan, as his budget compromise with Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., awaits a vote in the Senate. And in a poll this week, his popularity in Iowa is the highest of the 2016 GOP contenders—can his bargaining ways keep him as the GOP's top man?