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Ago saying that 47% of americans blame the president for the shutdown and 33% blame the democrats. i think that that gap is just going to continue to grow. and you know, again, charlie dent just said it. if you're the party making the demand, you are the party that usually loses. just look back to what happened one year ago when democrats were saying we're going to shut down the government until we get a fix for dreamers. and they didn't get anything. they folded and they looked like fools. and likely that's what's going to happen here. >> we don't use that polling but it gets the point across...

Just put a poll up a few minutes ago saying that 47% of americans blame the president for the shutdown and 33% blame the democrats. i think that that gap is just going to continue to grow. and you know, again, charlie dent just said it. if you're the party making the demand, you are the party that usually loses. just look back to what happened one year ago when democrats were saying we're going to shut down the government until we get a fix for dreamers. and they didn't get anything. they folded and they looked like fools. and likely that's what's going to happen here. >> we don't use that pol...

>> if you take a look at the chart, the red tidal wave of debt. sean, this is the most predictable economic crisis. >> ryan's solution, of course, was to dramatically cut medicare, medicaid, social security. he never succeeded. once there was a republican back in the white house, so weird he became a lot less worried about the deficit and debt. as speaker he passed spending bills he didn't pay for, pushed through tax cut and the cbo added 1.9 trillion dollars to the debt. when ryan became speaker in 2015, the deficit was $438 billion. this year with unified republican government it's up to 779...

779 billion. next year thanks in large part to paul ryan and his party it's expected to hit 1 trillion. joining me to discuss ryan's legacy, charlie pierce and direct from ryan's home state, ruth coniff, editor of the progressive magazine. let me start with you, ruth. paul ryan crafted this image in d.c. as a kind of wonk, the rare wonk, the person who really genuinely believed in what he was doing. i wonder what his reputation was like in wisconsin and what is he going back to? >> that's a really good point, chris. paul ryan had two images. one was in washington where he was celebrated as a b...

Capital research has found that 1,000 of the largest public companies have cut employment, eliminating nearly 140,000 jobs. if that were not enough, the gop's plan is not paying for itself as republicans assured americans it would. the federal budget deficit rose to $779 billion in the 2018 fiscal year that ended in september. that is a 17% increase from last year. now, we're still waiting on that plan from republicans for a tax cut for the middle class. lawmakers are back on the hill today, and democrats may be facing a battle when it comes to speaker of the house. about a dozen freshman demo...