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And barack obama encapsulates the changes that are happening in america. on election day, we had a percentage of the country who were not comfortable with adversity and we had a majority that was comfortable with diversity. >> i think thats a big problem -- i think theyre really obsessed with the spending issue and illegal immigration. >> well, then, why didnt they revolt when george bush took us from a surplus to a deficit? >> they dont care about the deficit, they care about the spending. >> g...

Children, he saw a need in the community which was books for the homes, and he did something about it. >> reporter: and week after week the boxes of books just kept piling up. ryan apparently doesnt like to do things small. his parents could hardly believe it. >> our entire backyard was full of nothing but books and people. >> reporter: after six months, 25,000 books. >> super exciting, yeah. >> reporter: all going to 12 charities, 8 schools and 7 literacy programs prompting pages and pages of h...

We face, you have to overcorrect to get it to zero. you have to either raise taxes a lot or reduce spending a lot. mr. ryan doesnt raise taxes. our tax rate for the last self year has been lower than its ever been. in order to get so zero when you want to reduce taxes, you have to utterly and entirely cut spending relating to seniors, the poor and our kids. i dont understand why thats a good policy decision. >> he said hes going to close loopholes without saying which loopholes. so that is uncle...

Obamacare. what would be the impact of doing that now and is there even a prayer that it would happen? >> of course theres no prayer it could happen. the president is not going to approve overturning obamacare, nor should he. and this is more of the flawed intellectual framework in the ryan budget. he repeals obamacare but embeds a bunch of the savings that obamacare is driving. so you kind of cant have it both ways in life and i think mr. ryan is try doing that in his budget. but the cuts to th...

Theyve been above the level of economic growth, which is why the debt has grown. if we get the deficits below the level of economic growth, if you assume we can grow the country 2% to 3% across the long term and if you get the deficits to 1% to 2%, then the debt goes down. that should be our goal. we shouldnt try to get to zero. but getting to zero, you have to do what mr. ryan wants to do, which is basically destroying public programs. >> aiding and abetting osama bin laden. thats next. its not...

>> that may be optimistic considering what senator cruz is up to. because i feel he will feel massively emboldened by what happened. he caused the government to be shut down, more massively famous than he was, raising a lot of money. he sees a clear opportunity to become the leader of the faction of the tea party republicans. >> that is absolutely right, he is the leader of the tea party faction of the republicans. if you listen to what he says, he talks as though america is with him. and washin...

Dollar amount for that part of the budget. and he does not have to identify a single specific program he would cut. and as you also suggested, i think he will have huge cuts in areas like medicaid, health care for the poor, food stamps and he does that by converting the programs to block grants and just giving states lots less money. and the states have to be the bad guys, ryan doesnt have to say which people lose the benefits and go hungry or become uninsured. so it will be an exercise in huge ...

Remember, ezra, in ryans budget a year ago he took credit for all the savings in medicare that are in the affordable care act, then he and romney disowned them. i bet theyre right back in budget like they were last year. he will do all of those things, and then on top of them he will have huge cuts in, as you said, the part of the budget that is everything other than defense and everything other than entitlement programs, where education and environmental protection and food safety is. and the a...

Ryan doesnt really say exactly which programs he is really cutting here. but it is where he is cutting. he gets four and a half times this budget as he does from medicare. it is about half the total cuts and it is a huge cut. we dont know the programs that will get the axe, but he has given us enough detail on it, to say that about two thirds of ryans budget cuts comes from programs for the poor. but that is quite a bit. and he is still not balancing the budget until 2038. so how is ryan going t...

Medicaid, obama care, things like that. and now you begin to get into bigger numbers, ryan gets 1.5% of gdp, or more than three times of what he saves in medicare, but cutting mostly health care on poor people, about 10% of total savings. then there is everything else, food, education, infrastructure, everything else the federal government does. ryan doesnt really say exactly which programs he is really cutting here. but it is where he is cutting. he gets four and a half times this budget as he ...