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So -- >> true. paul ryan rose to national prominence, brooke, rose to the speakership on the strength of what the ryan budget, what was the underlying principle there? our debt, we were spending too much. our debts were getting out of control. we needed to make hard choices to reel those in. that was in 2010. >> we have some of that sound. let me play some of that. this is from a few years ago, aka yesteryear. >> what we have here is a spending gusher that will keep on gushing and they have no plan to get this fiscal house in order. we are can cutting spending. ever heard that type of statemen...

Many different things, cancer research, things that are quite popular. these are not programs that are perceived only to benefit a few. there was a time when the president himself recognized the danger of this kind of thing, this is back in 2012. here is the president then tweeting about the ryan budget. >> what has changed? >> well, i don't know that the president has a grip over his own budget. his team is careening from one place to another. certainly i can tell you i've been out in rural counties in oregon. i have a town hall in every county. i've been in a dozen republican counties since ...

>> do you think he gets that? see, i think that's a very good point. it's always really interesting to see to me, were you going to get -- you know, where are you going to get basically paul ryanism? where are you going to get the heritagism? all the things that were on the shelf for president rubio if it were him. so far that's what it's been in congress. it's really been that. >> here's someone who recognized, he said that paul ryan was one of the worst picks for mitt romney. it's why mitt romney lost. here he was trying to say, look, i'm not going to -- >> because the ryan budget. >> i'm no...

On. they want to deal with jobs. they want to deal with the stuff he actually campaigned on. that's the shocking thing about his presidency. he campaigned as a populist, and he's governing on what heritage foundation is telling him to do, and he doesn't understand even what he's proposing. >> do you think he gets that? see, i think that's a very good point. it's always really interesting to see to me, were you going to get -- you know, where are you going to get basically paul ryanism? where are you going to get the heritagism? all the things that were on the shelf for president rubio if it we...

This bill was a massive tax cut. we know there is a big tax cut, eviscerating medicaid, including in states where donald trump won. even on his budget, cutting pbs, cutting funding for sesame street and meals on wheels. is there a point in which you, as leader of the democrats in the house noticed donald trump himself shift to this agenda? when did that agenda become paul ryan's agenda? >> it's always been paul ryan's agenda, if you look at the ryan budget of the last couple of congresses before and now, you will see that the agenda -- >> when did donald trump sign on to that? >> i think when ...