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Republican majority has been a change to this culture. we want to balance the budget. they don't. we want to restrain spending. they want to spend more money. we think taxpayers have given enough to washington. >> cnn's phil mattingly live for us on capitol hill. phil, you were just asking the speaker the very question, what happened to your past? what happened to the old republican party that was committed to balancing the budget ending deficit spending? for today they think this will pass and they're going to explain it away? >> i asked the speaker quite plainly, paul ryan is house budget ch...

Senate republican leadership that he'll vote for mitch mcconnell for leader? >> i don't know. >> you called him a republican, how do you know he's going to be a republican in the senate or be an independent who sits on the republican side and votes with them on the big issues, how do you know that? >> what i do know is that the governor has put indicationings out earlier today, that he's going to move to the independent side. what i know right now is that his picture hangs at the republican party in florida. that he's the head of the republican party. because he's the republican governor. and ...

This campaign. i believe that it will be a plus-up. we qualify by signature. it was the first time in the tryst tri of the state that we've done it. because we've started with a grassroots campaign, i think it's going to help us in the coming months. >> he may have hoisted himself on his own petard. here he is in a web video, the rubio campaign has put out. it shows crist's appearance a month ago on "fox news sunday" with chris wallace. let's watch. >> here's your chance to dispel all the rumors. are you willing to pledge right here, right now that you will run in the republican primary for th...

An independent who sits on the republican side and votes with them on the big issues? how do you know that? >> well, what i do know is that the governor has put indications out earlier today that he's going to move to the independent side. what i know right now is that his picture hangs at the republican party in florida. that he's the head of the republican party because he's the republican governor. and now he's going to have a press conference saying he's an independent. that's in his own mind. there's still issues that he has taken positions on that are in line with the speaker rubio. and ...