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So -- >> true. paul ryan rose to national prominence, brooke, rose to the speakership on the strength of what the ryan budget, what was the underlying principle there? our debt, we were spending too much. our debts were getting out of control. we needed to make hard choices to reel those in. that was in 2010. >> we have some of that sound. let me play some of that. this is from a few years ago, aka yesteryear. >> what we have here is a spending gusher that will keep on gushing and they have no p...

Many different things, cancer research, things that are quite popular. these are not programs that are perceived only to benefit a few. there was a time when the president himself recognized the danger of this kind of thing, this is back in 2012. here is the president then tweeting about the ryan budget. >> what has changed? >> well, i dont know that the president has a grip over his own budget. his team is careening from one place to another. certainly i can tell you ive been out in rural count...

>> do you think he gets that? see, i think thats a very good point. its always really interesting to see to me, were you going to get -- you know, where are you going to get basically paul ryanism? where are you going to get the heritagism? all the things that were on the shelf for president rubio if it were him. so far thats what its been in congress. its really been that. >> heres someone who recognized, he said that paul ryan was one of the worst picks for mitt romney. its why mitt romney los...

On. they want to deal with jobs. they want to deal with the stuff he actually campaigned on. thats the shocking thing about his presidency. he campaigned as a populist, and hes governing on what heritage foundation is telling him to do, and he doesnt understand even what hes proposing. >> do you think he gets that? see, i think thats a very good point. its always really interesting to see to me, were you going to get -- you know, where are you going to get basically paul ryanism? where are you g...

This bill was a massive tax cut. we know there is a big tax cut, eviscerating medicaid, including in states where donald trump won. even on his budget, cutting pbs, cutting funding for sesame street and meals on wheels. is there a point in which you, as leader of the democrats in the house noticed donald trump himself shift to this agenda? when did that agenda become paul ryans agenda? >> its always been paul ryans agenda, if you look at the ryan budget of the last couple of congresses before an...

Amount of appointments that have not been made and so we dont know who those people are going to be. >> and were seeing we had this executive order on the affordable care act which i think if you were watching was a little confusing, we were digesting an executive order in realtime which always makes amazing television. >> it was great. >> thank you very much, thank you. theyre still chewing through what that means. im watching health policy wonks work this out in realtime. heres what i think is...

This rostrum up there today, on the dais. that was full bannon. it sounds different than ryanism and pencism. the question is do you get that rhetoric and get basically the paul ryan/mike pence agenda? >> thats what im afraid of. people has said hes going to block it, he promised not to touch medicare and medicaid, social security. the ryan budget is very different. but i have just a feeling that when they start selling him on it hell try to sell it to his people as this is a bigger better bolde...

Satisfied with it as is or is there tinkering you would do with obamacare? >> any initiative, social security, medicare, medicaid, you always come back and say, in the implementation, what can you learn from, what can you do? american people have to know in overturning the affordable care act, the republicans will do very serious damage to medicare, very serious to medicare. exactly simultaneous with the ryan budget which would remove -- remove the guarantee to medicare. so the affordable care a...

Preexisting condition for the rest of his life. repeal of the affordable care act is a problem. lifetime limits is a problem. if youre a senior, almost half of medicaid is about long term health care. you want grandma living in the guest room? you repeal the affordable care act. you go along with -- this is part of an initiative that is part of the ryan budget, that says were going to voucherize medicare, were going to block grant medicaid. so this has a tremendous assault on the health and heal...

Lifetime limits. thats a problem. if you are a senior, you know, medicaid -- almost half of medicaid is about long-term health care. you want grandma living in the guest room? you repeal the affordable care act. you go along with -- this is part of an initiative that is part of the ryan budget that says were going to voucherize medicare block grant medicaid. this has an assault on the health security and financial security that goes with what the affordable care act has done for the american peo...