coming a cross the border are coming to work. >> the republicans they don't defund obamacare and use their constitutional power. they didn't stop obama's executive amnesty, they funded it. are they catering to big business as many charge? >> i think some are. some are. you need a strong president who is willing to lead. >> the day you announced, a lot of people were jealous i got the first interviews. you just announced you're running for president. i asked you hard questions about immigration and driver's licenses for immigrants. i did my work. but i want you to lay out your vision. you want to be president. you want the most important job in the world. does that happen less and less now? do you think these moderators think it's their job to debate you? >> everybody wants to be woodward and bernstein. >> if they did, they would go after hillary. >> no woodward and bernstein for republicans. that's the deal.
coming a cross the border are coming to work. >> the republicans they don't defund obamacare and use their constitutional power. they didn't stop obama's executive amnesty, they funded it. are they catering to big business as many charge? >> i think some are. some are. you need a strong president who is willing to lead. >> the day you announced, a lot of people were jealous i got the first interviews. you just announced you're running for president. i asked you hard questions about immigration and driver's licenses for immigrants. i did my work. but i want you to lay out your vision. you want to be president. you want the most important job in the world. does that happen less and less now? do you think these moderators think it's their job to debate you? >> everybody wants to be woodward and bernstein. >> if they did, they would go after hillary. >> no woodward and bernstein for
sports freaks. x1 from xfinity will change the way you experience tv. the owner of a chinese mine which collapsed has reportedly committed suicide. 17 miners are still trapped. officials confirm one miner died. so far 11 workers have been rescued. the first week of congress in the new year will look oddly like the last few weeks this year. obamacare and fund ing for planned parenthood all on the agenda. contributor for the daily banner.com garland nixon and kevin sheridan here to talk about what's coming up. kevin, first to you, you're an old paul ryan guy, is the speaker going to keep going down the rabbit trail of trying to
defund obamacare and these kinds of things or will we see bills on things that everyone in congress can agree about? >> i don't know everyone in congress is going to agree about everything. what we're going to see is a bold republican agenda, a conservative agenda that is different from the last seven years of very liberal obama policies and so i think you'll see a real repeal of -- a real repeal and replace of obamacare, border security. i think you'll start to see the outlines of what an actual conservative agenda will look like. now, whether or not anything actually gets done in 2016, i would tend to agree with steve more that it is more of the same and we'll be standing in place for a while, but i think when we get to 2017, and we get a republican president, hopefully, they'll have an agenda to act on and that's what paul rain is going to use 2016 to do. >> garland, the house is only going to be in session as of now for 111 days next year.
the way, we just saw revision on the gdp numbers, 2% growth, we had that now for six years, it is okay but it is not knocking it out of the park and people aren't feeling the love for this expansion. so what you need to do, i think, got to fix the tax system, you know. we have the highest business tax in the world, you talked about that on the show, a big problem. we got to do something about promoting our american energy and especially our coal and oil and gas. and we have to do something about obamacare. you do those kinds of things, i think you can make this economy grow a lot faster. i don't think that's going to happen in 2016. i just don't -- i think there will be so much friction between congress and the president, i don't see this as a year where we're on the big issues like tax reform, you're going to see much progress. >> we do hear candidates talk about it. and from different view points, some of them want to raise rates on higher income, some want to -- >> and bernie sanders, there are others who want to make some changes you referenced, but getting anybody on the hill to
lead has shrunk in an international survey. >> cruz might be gaining support around the country, there isn't much love for him in washington. dana bash reports. >> wow! >> ted cruz has a new prediction that's making establishment republicans shutter. >> i think it could easily end up being a two-man race between donald trump and me>> it's no secret that many mainstream republicans recoil at the thought of trump at the top of the ticket. but some republicans also cant stand the idea of cruz as their nominee, mostly because they can't stand cruz in general. >> to me, he's just a guy with a big mouth and no results. >> many of cruz's own republican congressional colleagues still haven't forgiven him for leading an unwinnable fight to defund obamacare two years ago. which led to a government shutdown.
he was willing to shut down the government because he thought he could defund obamacare. he's always been willing to get out there and tell it like it is, even if that goes against what the party wants. i think what donald trump has done for ted cruz is be a brushfire and clear the way. >> who is the best shot to be the voice against trump and cruz together? >> marco rubio. >> i would say he has the best shot now. i don't know if that is going to last. >> the question is where? >> where can marco rubio win? he could probably win nevada. possibly new hampshire. his people got to get more organized. >> where is he sitting right now? the interesting thing about cruz, he is saying the same thing trump is, yet he has a distinction in that the evangelicals trust ted cruz. >> do home schoolers travel? >> not necessarily. >> they live there. >> they send them on buses to
senate floor and calls mitch mcconnell a liar. he was willing to shut down the government because he thought he could defund obamacare. he's always been willing to get out there and tell it like it is, even if that goes against what the party wants. i think what donald trump has done for ted cruz is be a brushfire and clear the way. >> who is the best shot to be the voice against trump and cruz together? >> marco rubio. >> i would say he has the best shot now. i don't know if that is going to last. >> the question is where? >> where can marco rubio win? he could probably win nevada. possibly new hampshire. his people got to get more organized. >> where is he sitting right now? the interesting thing about cruz, he is saying the same thing trump is, yet he has a distinction in that the evangelicals trust ted cruz. >> do home schoolers travel?
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tom foreman reports. >> reporter: alongside ted cruz' rising polls, a rising star, his wife, heidi, pushing the numbers towards him. >> i don't want to be the candidate, you are electing ted cruz, not ted and heidi. >> reporter: born in california, heidi studied at claremont college. a stint on wall street was followed by harvard business school. then, she met the future senator from texas. >> somehow, in the first two weeks, ted and i got assigned to almost eve work on almost every project together. >> every time her husband's record has been challenged she defended it. >> he told them he would work with every breath in his body to defund obamacare, and that is