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The house expected to vote on the new two-year budget deal in a couple hours. republicans expected to select paul ryan as the next speaker. here is congressman ryan arriving on capitol hill in the past half hour. right now republicans meeting behind closed doors at a candidates forum. let's get the latest from capitol hill with nbc's luke russert. we've learned ryan says he'll support the new budget deal despite saying to you yesterday that the process stunk. >> yeah. it's the old washington adage, right, josé, we hate how the sausage is made but at the end of the day this is pretty good saus...

I'm going to do everything within my power to stop it. bill: all right, now, you, two-year deal, about $50 billion i believe of increases. one for 2016, 50 billion more for 2017 thereabouts. i understand the point, hold on to debt as leverage. like a trump card so to speak. you use that to negotiate. we'll see whether or not you get your way. later on tonight during the debate i imagine you will bring this up. what is your strategy, senator? >> what i want every american to know i'm the only fiscal conservative on the stage. the reason i say that is, i'm willing to hold the line on all spendin...

Deal, wait till the last minute once again. $80 billion of more discretionary spending is part of the deal. even paul ryan said that this is no way to do business. it's just not. do you suspect it's going to change? are you going to be supporting that bill? >> i'm not. i worry about lifting the budget caps. i want to reprogram money. i do believe we need more money for our military and i support that aspect of it. but lifting the budget cap is something i don't. you have to fix that problem. i do believe paul ryan is the right agent of change. he has broad support, articulate on these issues a...

So we think we are right in the middle of the mix. and we're hoping for a big breakout moment, maybe even tonight. >> are you going to talk about your concerns about dr. carson the way that you have about donald trump this evening? >> i think we're going to try to put forward the message which i believe to be true that i'm the only fiscal conservative on the stage because i don't think you can be fiscally conservative if you're reckless and believe in sort of a liberal amount of spending for the military. and that's what's going on in washington. they're going to bust the budget caps by raisin...

Once again. $80 billion of more discretionary spending is part of the deal. even paul ryan said that this is no way to do business. it's just not. do you suspect it's going to change? are you going to be supporting that bill? >> i'm not. i worry about lifting the budget caps. i want to reprogram money. i do believe we need more money for our military and i support that aspect of it. but lifting the budget cap is something i don't. you have to fix that problem. i do believe paul ryan is the right agent of change. he has broad support, articulate on these issues and knows more about budgeting an...