Citizens and propelled to victory a grass roots movement, the likes of which actually, actually the world we dont just have to say the country. The world has never seen. You know i talk about the forgotten man, the forgotten women. Let me tell you, theyre not so forgotten anymore, by the way, in case you havent noticed. Theyre trying to figure it out, theyre still trying to figure it out, the media, where did all of these hundrmillions of people from. I knew they were there. They didnt have the incentive to come out and say i like this person. But boy did they come out in big league numbers. Government must stop listening to the special interest and start delivering for the National Interest an for the people. Also tonight, speaker of the house paul ryan met with president elect donald trump earlier today at trump tower and speaker ryan joins us in an exclusive interview. Good to see you. Thanks, sean. I know weve had our differences but i know you and donald trump had your differences. You were pretty harsh at times during the campaign. I spoke to him two days ago and he said your relationship is great. Absolutely. What happened . How did it evolve . First of all, we agree on the same goals. Our agenda is one in the same and we quickly decided f firs of all at the end of the campaign we merged forces. If you recall, mike pence and i saying republicans come home, vote trump, vote for your senator, vote for your congressman, unify republicans and look what a unified republican government can get. That was the pitch we made in the closing minutes of the campaign. I spent most of my time campaigning for congress. Now look what we have. We have a president , donald trump republican, a Senate Majority republican which everybody was saying we werent going to keep and a strong house majority. So now we have unified republican government. Its really exciting. So very soon after the race donald and i said look, this is fantastic. We have so much to do. Lets forget about any differences in the past and lets get working on the agenda and thats what weve been doing from that day on. I know theres still anger among Trump Supporters and the trump base. You said one of hisments you thought was racial, to use the exact words. You had at different times said youre not ready to support him. I remember an exchange you and i had when donald trump was going to wisconsin, i know you had another engagement, i said you need to be with him and you said ive got to campaign for other people. Why were you so hesitant i was basically focused on keeping the House Republican and i was very concerned about whether or not we could lose the House Republican majority. Speaker of the house, your primary responsibility is to save House Republicans. The black swan event we were worried about is think about having a Hillary Clinton presidency, a Democrat Senate run by Chuck Schumer and a democrat house ran by nancy pelosi. That was the horrible scenario i was trying to guard against. That was the default break the glass, stop that from happening. We had a 30seat majority. We won 63 seats in 2014. The democrats won 31 seats in 2008. So these things can switch back and forth fairly easily. So my goal was protect House Republicans. At the end we were excited about the ability to close this race as a unified republican ticket, a unified Republican Party so that we could have unified republican government which now were not worried. Were looking forward and were excited about getting this agenda implemented. And you said in 60 minutes you take every day. Yeah. Tell me about those conversations. Its all about personnel and policy. Every conversation we have, to me, you have to know how exciting this is for us. Weve been fighting barack obama for eight years. This has been really mr. Speaker, i warned the country about obama. I know about all obama. To be able to talk on a daily basis with the man whos about to be the president of the United States and tackling the big problems and undoing the wreck and the mess that was done before is so exciting. The conversations we had resolve about getting things done, how were going to replace obamacare within how were going to secure the border, how were going to get people from welfare to work, how does rebuilding the military look like. Now were talking about how to execute it, personnel, getting the right people in place, those kinds of things. Ive called this election the forgotten man, forgotten woman election. For an entire year i give e gave out statistics, 8 million americans on poverty, lowest Labor Participation rates since the 70s, lowest home oin rate, more debt than the other 43 president s before him combined. Now its time to govern. I want to go over the agenda. I was surprised by the comments by congressman flores. You support originalists justices. I didnt hear what bill flores said. Ill get to that in a minute. On the economy, getting people back to work, getting our economy in order, obama will leave as the first president never to reach 3 gdp growth in a year. You said 20 on 60 minutes. He wants 15 . Will you go to 15 . Its a question of with whether the numbers add up or not. In order to pass the budget with the tax reform in it these numbers have to add up. I would love to do 15. Its a question of whether we can make the numbers work to get the votes we need to pass the budget through. Its simply a matter of getting it through congress. Do you have a majority . If you want to get into the details. In a house we have a majority and were a majoritarian body. All i need is 218 votes and i can pass something. That doesnt happen in the senate. You know the senate has the filibuster. Theres one bill we call it budget reconciliation, and that cannot be filibustered. But thats how they passed obamacare. No, it isnt. They pass it obamacare with 60 votes and they did a side bill to add to obamacare. That was the reconciliation part. But they called it the side car. I got it. Heres the point. For you to be able to use reconciliation to not have a filibuster it has to be deficit neutral. We have to have deficit neutral tax reform. 20 we know is neutral. 20 gets us there, 15 isnt deficit neutral. Were going to work on the bill to get it as best as we can so it stays deficit neutral to they cannot filibuster it. The repatriation part is what some 2, 3, 4, 5 trillion dollars. Multicorporations have parked offshore. Because we have a terrible tax code. You agree to hay low that money back in at a 10 rate . Absolutely. Thats part of the plan. What we want to do, we want to switch the system over so that from ever more you can bring your money back. In the old days, meaning back in 2005 thats really old, congressman. We had a holiday. So for a moment. And then what happened is people use that holiday and then they keep their money overseas, stockpile it. You want to make it apartment. We want to paying it permanent. Would you consider a 5 rate if the companies that are bringing the money back would agree to invest in detroit, in milwaukee, in yeah. In cleveland. The big debate well have being in the spring is with that repatriation rev that we get, where does it go. Thats where lots of these conversations come into play. The point is this. Trillions of dollars are parked overseas that American Companies would like to bring back and reinvest in this country and this economy. And youre going to give them the opportunity. Were going to give them the opportunity to do that. Well pick it up on the budget when we come back. More with speak are of the house paul ryan after the break. Also coming up later tonight right here on hannity. The false propaganda that flooded social media over the past year, its now clear that socalled fake news can have real world consequences. Sore loser Hillary Clinton seems to be blaming fake news for her big election loss. We continue on this busy newsch nine members of a predominantly black church last year. But on taxes, were going to undertake one of the great tax reforms and simplifications in american history. At the center of this claim is a massive middle class tax cut. Middle class tax cut. Were also going to lower our business tax rate from 35 all the way down to 15 bringing new companies to our country and to your state. All right. Those are highlights from president elect trumps thank you tour. We continue now with the speaker of the house paul ryan. We went over repatriation. Were going seven brackets to three and were going to have between 15 to 20 and youve talked to donald trump about that. Obamacare is one of the first thing on your agenda. It is. Transitioning from obamacare to Health Savings accounts where you buy what you want to buy. You know one of the best advocates for health saifths accounts in congress is tom price. I coauthored the law in 2003. So we want to give people options and choices. We want competition and choice which drives down choices and allows people to buy what they want to buy. There will be a good transition so no one has the rug pulled out from under them as we go from a dark day of obamacare to a better system. Heres the point we keep trying to make with people. Its getting worse with obamacare. The price is going up. We see more and more carriers dropping out. The Biggest HealthInsurance Company in america, united pulled out, aetna pulled out. Theyre making the deductible so high its like you dont have insurance in the first place. Were expecting more of that. Its in a death spiral, the term that its going down. It took six years to implement obamacare. Were trying to figure it out. Will it be less than two . Tom price isnt even at hhs yet. The trump government isnt stood up yet. So those people who will be integral in making sure this will be successful arent even in the positions yet. Thats why what we want to do is bring relief immediately. Were going to work on the repeal legislation immediately and whthen we have to make sure theres a good transition period so people dont have the rug pulled out from under them and bring relief as quick as possible. My biggest concern and people who wrote me at the radio show, their biggest concern is a trillion dollars for infrastructure. You were asked on 60 minutes how are you going to pay for it. And immediately after you were on, a guy who brought businesses to mexico city. I watched that segment. It was private sector. They build roads, sewers and a power grid to bring a steel mill into their town, created 12,000 jobs. And revenues went up. How do you spend a trillion dollars infrastructure and how do you pay for snit . That trillion dollars is leveraged money that is in the private sector. So what we want to do is Leverage Private sector dollars publicprivate partnerships so people put private money into rebuilding our airports and improving infrastructure. Not a trillion dollar its not washington spending a trillion dollars. How much is washington going to spend in. Thats something were going to figure out and negotiate adds as we go. The goal is to leverage resources in the private sector so that the private sector produces lean mean and on time infrastructure. If you spin it through the washington system, cents on the dollar goes to the actual road to making improvement. We had to clean up that mess, which the Obama Administration has made worse. If you take a dollar spent by the private sector in private investment, so much more gets actually done in i would argue if it goes through the d. C. Bureaucracy and youve got 535 guys fighting for it we dont want this to be bureaucracy. We want this to be private sector direction and leverage so we can have better jobs, more money going into the economy, the infrastructure and dont do it through a washington program. I would argue that opec, saudi arabia, the middle east purposely ma nnipulated the pri of energy. How quickly will you put on the agenda America Energy independence . They want it. This is what were working with the Transition Team on. Theres a very legitimate point youre making there which was the American Energy renaissance that could be there for us but for our government was threatening to opec and other energy producers. Were sitting on a store of oil and gas that is tremendous. America this country could be the dominant producer in the world. Think of what that does for jobs, think of what that does for our prices for heating our homes. Every car could be driven on you name it. Think what it does for our Foreign Policy. Selling europe our gas instead of them having to buy it from russia. Its fantastic for Foreign Policy and jobs and everything but for our government. What were working with the Transition Team is what can they do immediately on day one to clear the regulatory bary barri the Obama Administration. And then wachat do they need to do. And then what do we need to do legislatively the deal with the barriers. Were working hand in glove with the Transition Team what is it they can do administratively, what can we do. This is starting right away to get the Energy Renaissance under way. I want to talk about senator flores comments, some areas we may have disagreement with the president elect. More with speaker paul ryan. And also coming up tonight on hannity. The epidemic of malicious fake news and false propaganda that flooded social media over the past year, its now clear that socalled fake news can have real world consequences. All right. Hillary clinton sore loser keeps coming up with new excuses for why she lost the election. Lisa boothe welcome back to hannity. We continue with speaker of the house paul runyan. So congressman flores seemed like he was speaking with you. Lets go for the things, the issues that the House Republicans agree with and donald trump agree with and then well deal with the other issues later. Now i would argue that you might have some disagreement on immigration or extreme vetting. Do you . Actually we dont. Weve talked about this quite a bit. Were fusing the agendas and working on a common platform of what were going to do for all of 2017. People say we have 100 days. Were working on a 200day plan. Theres not a problem or disagreement here. Youre working on the wall . Were working on getting border funding up. Criminal aliens gone. Weve agreed on that. Has there been a discussion thats enforcing current law. I understand that. Why would we be against if a person comes here illegally and creates a violent crime, enforcing the law to get rid of them. What about the drem amers . What president elect trump asked us to focus on is the current laws and getting the border secure. Where are you are extreme vetting . I agree with extreme vetting. I think his position changed to extreme vetting from hot spots. We always agreed that you need to vet more carefully and that is a sound policy. Is there any issue you can think of today you say you talk to him almost every day. All of our conversations revolve around getting the big things done. And when they resolve around where our Common Ground is, we dont talk about what we disagree on. Were trying to execute an agenda. Obamacare repealing and replacing and solving that problem. Its really hurting people. Weve got to bring relief. Getting comprehensive tax reform. Clearing the regulatory burdens out of the way of businesses. First couple of hours but theres more. We all believe our military has really taken it in the chin lately. Weve got to rebuild or mill tr tear. Weve got to open up. One thing on the agenda, he feels very strongly about infrastructu infrastructure. Weve got to honor youre saying thats not going to be a trillion dollar check . From the federal government, no. Its all about leveraging. Its going to Leverage Private sector money. If you agree on seven bracket to three, youre close to 15 for the corporate, you agree on repatriation, agree on originalists justices, agree on obamacare and Health Savings accounts and you agree on Energy Independence and you agree on the wall and you agree on vetting, whats left on the agenda . And the military and add infrastructure to the list and were happy to do that. And the va . House republicans, jeff miller, the chairman of the committee, hes the one that uncovered the disgrace at the va. Were the ones who brought the Choice Program in place to give veterans recourse away from the waiting list. That place needs a clearing out. Will you get education back to the states, which i would argue especially for inner city america . Yes. We made Good Progress on that. We passed the title one, got rid of common core and no child left behind. I cant think of a better person than betsy devos. Shes one of t the next leg of the reforms weve pushed the dollars back to the states. Now we want to encourage innovation like choice and charter to actually take place. Thats how you get people out of the poverty trap. Is there an opportunity for Something Like a grace commission, the biggest, besting with brightest business minds in the country getting together, how to reform government to run more like a business . For example when we watched Joe Max Higgins we just want to get that done and do it. With barack obama in there, weve been really frustrated because progressives believe in a no limiting government. They want to grow grow grow. Rights dont come from god, they come from government. This is the philosophy weve been fighting for years. We have a great opportunity thats been given to us by the American People to get the country back on track, limit the government, honor the constitution and clean this mess up. We dont want to want on a commission. We want to get going. Im a deficit hawk. This president accumulated more d