These are unifying things within our party. We believe it will help propel not only the nominee but help us win. Mike last question. Of a julyility nominee how worried are you about a deadline . Speaker ryan i do not worry about stuff like that. I am not. Mike what are the possibilities . Speaker ryan i am busy working in congress. I do not think about stuff like that. Couple jake weeks ago you are trying to get into a new routine. Have you found that routine . Getting there . How has it changed . Speaker ryan i have more people with me. Here, i just work. I work out and i work. I have that routine. At home, it is a similar routine. Volleyball and basketball on weekends. Packers had a good win on sunday. Jake you were there . Speaker ryan yeah. I pretty much got myself in a routine. Jake you had dinner with nancy pelosi last night. What was the most interesting thing you learned . Speaker ryan the most interesting thing i learned this is newsworthy, that i had dinner with my counterpart . Why should this be newsworthy . We did not know each other very well. I never served with her on a committee. She is a counterpart, and i thought it was a good idea to get to know her. Mike what did you learn . Speaker ryan i got to know her better. She is a very smart lady. Passionate in her beliefs. She represents her caucus very well. We have opposite views on most things. But we are respectful of that. Jake you talked about not getting stuck on this rider or that rider, but the work of congress can be technical. Speaker ryan we need to raise because we can get stuck in the here and now, the petty and small. But time is so tenuous. Myust believe this is 17th year in congress. I believe we have four more years where we ignore the debt crisis, have government taking over the health care issue, weakening our military. We have horrible Foreign Policy. Economic stagnation. Wages are flat. Ourr countries are eating lunch competitively. Wewe keep down that path, will not give the next generation a more prosperous future. We have never done that before. Every generation has made a sacrifice and decisions so the next generation is better off. That wewithout a doubt will sever that legacy if we do not get on top of our problems. Means fixingaze these problems while they are still fixable. Give you one example. Entitlements. Most of them are agebased entitlements. Security, mysocial mom and i needed it when i was young. But if we stay on this path, it goes bankrupt. The sooner we tackle these problems, the better off it is. Our own terms, we can prevent these programs from going bankrupt without changing the benefits. The government can actually keep its promises to the people who are now depending on the programs to organize retirement around these promises. Those of us in the younger generation, you and i are in the same generation . Are you a millennial or Something Like that . Are not going to be there for us if we do not do something about it. Lets get onake is top of americas problems now. Impasse weast the have had to keep the promises that have been made on our own term. If we keep kicking the can down the road, it will be a european debt crisis without america backing us up. We will not be able to Fund Government programs and salt economic problems on our own terms. That is why we have to raise our gaze and tackle the problems before they tackle us. You were insistent that you did not want this job. Were you wrong . Speaker ryan it is what it is. I am fine. Tell. You love it, i can speaker ryan i had to do it differently. We should not be governing what this. I want to get us back to regular order. It is turning a battleship a little bit. We made some pretty good turns. We have more to go. I like it in the sense i see progress being made, and i am excited about 2016. Im excited about our party giving the people of this country the choices they deserve whatve so they can decide this country looks like going forward. Sliver of that role, in helping determine that, i feel honored to do that. Now that you have the gavel, what has been the biggest constraint or power . Speaker ryan i am not a person who wants power. I want power to go out there, out in the country. I do not want it to stay in the capital. If i can use the gavel to decentralize power out of washington, back to the people where it belongs, i feel i can make a difference. That is what i like most. Mike you are chairman of the national convention. You say you are not going to reject or bless any candidate. Have been very speaker ryan we use the word trump as a verb. Your point . Mike what do you think of him . Speaker ryan i will not get into any of that stuff. I think that plan or comment deserved to be called out. My rule is not to comment on the people or the ups and downs of the campaign. Mike this was an extraordinary exception. Speaker ryan it is an extraordinary exception. Therefore, i will not be answering the question. Mike you said this is not conservatism, not what the country stands for. How did you decide to talk about him . Speaker ryan it is the first amendment. The bill of rights. Religious freedom, pluralism, is who we are. This is why the country was founded in the first place. When you see your principles, youunifying principles have an obligation to stand up for those principles. Jake you caught me off guard. I will take it back to you. I was enthralled with what he was saying. [laughter] speaker ryan best White House Correspondent at politico. Earbuds. Used to wear those are gone . Speaker ryan i walk with other people now. I have new friends. I do not want to be rude to my new friends. Jake could you say affirmatively you will not be drafted into the president ial race . Speaker ryan that is ridiculous talk. I am doing this job. You should stop all that speculation. Jake i think you just stop it. Speaker ryan good. Mike jake was talking about your routine. When you are here, what do you do in the morning . Speaker ryan i go down to the gym at 6 28, start my workout at 6 30. Workout until 8 00. Mike 90 minutes . Speaker ryan i get a shower also. I shower. Do you really want me to get into that . When i shower . What kind of shampoo i use . Then i go on my day. Mike who do you work out with . Speaker ryan a bunch of members. I do not know that i should get into who they are. Mike what are you doing . Speaker ryan a lot of things, insanity, p90x, yoga. We do some cycling as well. Spin. Spin is cycling, just so you know [laughter] what do these groups have in common the rolling stones, ac dc, rage against the machine. Iza zac brown is not on my playlist. Jake you seem to take offense. Speaker ryan i do not know who they are. Jake what do the rolling stones, ac dc and rage against the machine have in common . Speaker ryan they are on my playlist. I am a bow hunter. We have gun season, which interrupts those season. Bowt a decent 10 pointer in season. I am having a dry spell. I got a little busy. I like to make italian sausage, jerky. Steaks and venison. That takes about three to get in the freezer, and i have one. The season goes to the end of the year. I will go back out in the woods. Hunter, deer season is not over with, and i have a tolerant wife. Mike two more . Speaker ryan hopefully. We will see. Ofre was a picture tweeted you at lambeau with the packers. What was it like to be there with your kids . Speaker ryan awesome. We try to get in a game a year. At the end of the summer, when we look at the schedule, which came we were hoping to go to, i like going to december games, hitting the bull. Bowl. It is just fun. It was like 50 degrees and raining. We just wanted to go to a december game. The cowboys, it is always great to beat the cowboys. Jake do you get better seats now that you are speaker . Speaker ryan not really. Mike what is your super bowl prediction . Speaker ryan as long as we can keep the old line healthy, which it is, and mccarthy is not we had a veryays, balanced offense, if we hit our tempo, which we clearly can and can connect with the receivers, which he can that is the thing about going to a Live Football game. You can see how well receivers run the route. I think we can make it. I hate to say it, but my guess is it is the pats we would face. Jake i thought you meant they would win. Speaker ryan i probably should not do this, but i think the patriots have a decent chance of a repeat. They seem to be back on their game. I do not know if denver will get there. And Russell Wilson is playing pretty well. Those guys are on an upswing. Year. C is tough this the division here is not so good. [laughter] speaker ryan the rest is pretty good. You give us one thing to look forward to next year that you will, lets in the you will a cop which in the house . Speaker ryan we will go back to regular order. We should not take it as inevitable we will pile up appropriation bills. We have to stop thinking it is normal. I believe there are things where we can find common ground. External business reform is a good example. I think there are areas where we can make a difference, move forward. Then we are going to disagree on a lot of this. That is a good thing. Lets disagree by offering a big agenda. Then, let the people decide. That is the way i see 2016 unfolding. Mike i would like to thank jake and anna for joining me today. Thank you to my amazing colleagues at politico who put on hundreds of amazing events. America, to bank of your colleagues, for making these conversations possible. We really appreciate that. Thank you for reading playbook and supporting this event. I think the audience in live stream land. Mr. Speaker, merry christmas. Speaker ryan merry christmas. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] next, Hillary Clinton outlines her plans to combat homegrown terrorism. Then a discussion on the climate agreement in paris over the weekend. On our next washington journal, we get your reaction to tuesday nights gop debate dingell and debbie discuss domestic terrorism. Then we get leonard lances perspective on the spending bill and federal budget. The new Jersey Republican will talk about the fight against isis and the 2016 president ial race. Washington journal is live every morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Join the conversation by phone, facebook, and twitter. Cspan takes you on the road to the white house. Best access to the candidates at town hall meetings, speeches, rallies, and meet and greet. We take your comments on twitter, facebook, and by phone. Every event we cover is available on www. Cspan. Org. Democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton talked about her strategy for trying to prevent terrorist groups such as isis from recruiting in the u. S. Remarks come nearly two weeks after isisinspired terrorist killed 14 people in San Bernardino, california. Mrs. Clinton was critical of donald trump and ted cruz. She spoke in minneapolis, minnesota. Thank you, everybody. Today its my pleasure to introduce Hillary Clinton. You may have heard of her. [laughter] shes running for president of the United States. [cheers and applause] hillarys running for president to make the economy work for everyone. Not just those at the top. Shes running to make our democracy work for everyone, not just the special interests. Shes also running to be commander in chief, to keep america strong and American Families safe and secure. As we all know, maybe too well, there are a lot of people running for president this year. [laughter] but hillary is the only candidate who has the strength, wisdom and experience to be commander in chief. The recent attacks in paris and San Bernardino reminded us that we find ourselves at a very dangerous and complicated world. Were in a global fight against extremist forces who use advanced technology and communications to orchestrate terror attacks and strike fear in free and peaceful people. So, as we all know, the stakes are high. And we need a president whos up to the job. Hillary will not need onthejob training. As secretary of state, she led the charge to restore americas leadership of the world. She spearheaded a global sanctions coalition, and she excuse me. She did more here. [laughter] she spearheaded a global sanctions coalition against iran that spurred the agreement that will prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon, she brokered a ceasefire between israel and hamas, while championing human rights around the world. And she recommended to president obama, in the situation room, that he authorized the mission to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice. She has been the only candidate in the race to lay out a specific and comprehensive plan to defeat isis in every place that it presents a threat. In the middle east, around the world, and, yes, here at home. Now she comes to minnesota, and may i thank her for coming to this Wonderful University of hours. [cheers and applause] shes here to give more details on the last part of her plan, protecting americas homes, schools, houses of worship and businesses from domestic radicalization and foreign extremists. I have known hillary for a long time. There is no one i trust more to sit in the oval office. So please join me in welcoming the next president of the United States, Hillary Clinton. [cheers and applause] ms. Clinton thank you, thank you. Thank you. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you. Im delighted, delighted to be here at this great university. One of the premier Public Institutions of Higher Education in our entire country. Yes. Indeed. [applause] ms. Clinton just, you know, one of those statements of fact that deserves a response. I want to thank my longtime friend, Vice President mondale, for his kind words. His support in this campaign means a great deal to me personally, because i admire so much his service to our country. He is a great minnesotan and a Great American and were so privileged to have him with us today. [applause] ms. Clinton i want to acknowledge a few of the other elected officials who are here. I am delighted to be joined by former colleagues and friends Amy Klobuchar and al franken who are the dynamic duo for your state, and i am grateful to them for everything they are doing and their support of my campaign. I want to thank tina smith and steve simon, your secretary of state. [applause] ms. Clinton and i understand betsy hodges is here, mayor of minneapolis. [applause] ms. Clinton i also want to acknowledge the dean of the humphrey school, eric schwartz. [cheers and applause] ms. Clinton eric was my top adviser on refugee issues at the state department. I also had the great privilege of working with him when he was on the National Security council during my husbands administration. You know, he brings a mix of expertise and empathy that has been conspicuously missing from much of our public debate. And im grateful that he is here today, but im also a little jealous that all of you here at the University Get to have the benefit of his experience. Over the past several months, i have listened to the problems that keep American Families up at night. Most people dont expect life to be easy, but they want more security, a goodpaying job that lets you afford a middleclass lifestyle, health care you can count on, a little bit put away for your retirement. Being secure also means being safe, safe at home, at school, at work. And today, i want to talk about how we keep our country safe from a threat thats on everyones mind, the threat of terrorism. But i want to begin by saying, we cannot give in to fear. We cant let it stop us from doing what is right and necessary to make us safe and doing it in a way that is consistent with our values. [applause] ms. Clinton we cannot let fear push us into reckless action that ends up making us less safe. Americans are going to have to act with both courage and clarity. Now, as we all know, on december 2, two shooters killed 14 people at a Holiday Party in san bernandino, california. Sadly, in america, in 2015, turning on the news and hearing about a mass shooting is not unusual. But this one turned out to be different. Because these killers were a husband and wife inspired by isis. Americans have experienced terrorism before. On 9 11, we learned that terrorists in afghanistan could strike our homeland from fort hood to chattanooga to the boston marathon, we saw people radicalized here carrying out deadly attacks. But san bernandino felt different. Maybe it was the timing coming so soon after the paris attacks. Maybe it was how random it seemed. A terrorist attack in a suburban office park, not a highprofile target or symbol of american power. It made us all feel it could have been anywhere at any time. The phrase active shooter should not be one we have to teach our children. But it is. [applause] ms. Clinton now we are all grappling with what this means for our future, our safety, our sense of wellbeing and our trust and connections with our neighbors. We want to be openhearted. And we want to celebrate americas diversity, not fear it. And while we know the overwhelming majority of people here and around the world hate isis and love peace, we do have to be prepared for more terrorists plotting attacks. Just yesterday, a man in maryland was charged with receiving thousands of dollars from isis for use in planning an attack. And here in minnesota, authorities have charged 10 men with conspiring to provide Material Support to isis. But in the twin cities, you have also seen firsthand how communities come together to resist radicalization. Local imams condemning terrorists and local activists pushing back against propaganda. I met with a group of Community Leaders who told me about some of the work and the challenges that they are dealing with. As the sirs Somali Police sergeant in minnesota and probably in the country, said recently, safety is a shared responsibility, so we have to Work Together. 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