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Hand represent states where there's a lot of rural poverty and things like that so they need to find other ways to sell the agenda and it's only when there's focus on those agenda items that they end up in these, tripping over themselves with these sort of false claims. >> i'm amazed by the enduring ability of the paul ryan budget to screw over republican politicians, and i remember at the time, i mean, rachel and i remember on air talking about why would you vote for this thing? it's not going to pass and you just committed yourself to a whole set of wildly unpopular policies and here it is, ...

Could take the white house, maybe take both houses of congress and we'll have the kind of opportunity that has only been afforded to democrats in the past under fdr, lbj, obama, to impose an entirely conservative agenda and we can do it very quickly. and if they had won, they might have had a chance to do it. instead, they lost and now they're stuck with the ryan budget though there's no opportunity on the horizon for them to implement it. >> brian beutler, thank you so much. >> thanks, chris. governor rick scott tries to answer questions about his use of uniformed officers in a campaign eve...

In a statement to factcheck.org, the mcconnell campaign said, "there's just no way to speculate if mcconnell would have voted for final passage without having debated the amendments." here's the thing. the ryan budget was clearly going down the senate, and at the time, everyone watching understood that test vote, that procedural vote as an opportunity for senate republicans to go on the record with their support for the ryan budget. it's not just me saying so. mcconnell, himself, expressed his support for the plan in an appearance that week on "meet the press." >> i'm just trying to understand...

Whether you're for the ryan plan. >> i voted for the ryan budget this week. >> wait a second. did you catch that? let me play it again. >> you haven't even said publicly whether you're for the ryan plan, so you're not behind that version of the -- >> i voted for the ryan budget this week. >> joining me now, brian, senior editor at "the new republic." wrote a great piece pointing out the inconsistencies here. so, that vote, at the time mcconnell, it was and equivocal he was voting for the ryan plan and the ryan plan would have changed medicare in all kinds of ways that it's hard to think a lot ...

Basically a statement of what the republican party would do were it given complete control of the government. he's completely comfortable with what paul ryan and the rest of the republican party want to do should that electoral outcome ever, ever be handed to them. now, obviously there's the budget process where you start with that and you amend it a bunch and in theory the, you know, final outcome of that process could yield something that maybe mitch mcconnell wouldn't support. that's not really what he was voting on. he was voting on the platonic version of the paul ryan budget. >> that's r...