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Shapers. [applause] hope you enjoyed the hot chocolate bar on the way in. Holly reuben and her team had for us, we love the Christmas Music as well. Welcome to cspan. Thank you, cspan, for being here, and welcome to the cspan audience, and welcome all of you. Axios is here to make you smarter, faster on the topics that matter, and we follow the same format with our events, bringing smart brevity to bring you into the worlds of business, tech, media and politics. Id like to thank the bank of america for making this series of news shaper conversations possible. We appreciate especially this grea...

Degree in english from boston university. A doctorate degree from temple, the author of the iraq live, how the white house stole the war. In his suburban pennsylvania community. He was the first democrat elected in 60 years the statehouse. The first democrat ever reelected to congress. And the first democrat to chair the Montgomery County board of commissioners. A final personal note, his wife, francesca, is one of our most valued and talented volunteers. We cannot let that go without saying [applause] hello everybody i am so happy that all of you are here it is a beautiful day. You could have...

Facebook. Com cspan. If you are a medicare recipient, we want to know your experience with the program and your thoughts on possible changes. We will begin with House Speaker paul ryan, who has during his legislative career eyed entitlement reform as a way to tackle the nations debt. [video clip] when you talk about entitlement reform, one of the things youre talking about is obamacare. And then welfare as well. We have a welfare system trapping people in poverty, and paying people not to work. Thinking about trying to do any reforms with Social Security or medicare . President trump has not s...

Camp david where you have the Top Republican leadership huddling with the president over what they want to get done this election year. We know Speaker Paul Ryan has long been an avid proponent of reforming these entitlement programs. Mitch mcconnell not quite so eager on that front. Clearly these two leaders have to get on the same page in terms of their agenda, but now they are definitely going into different directions. Host paul ryan sounds like he thinks its doable and Mitch Mcconnells response to the question was not so doable basically. They said in interviews last year at this time tha...

Mitch mcconnell not quite so eager on that front. To get on the same page in terms of their agenda, but now they are definitely going into different directions. Host paul ryan sounds like he thinks its doable and Mitch Mcconnells response to the question was not so doable basically. They said in interviews last year at this time that we have to look at our entitlement programs. We have to look at the drivers of the spending and the deb t. This is not new for him but new in the context of this new Republican Congress and legislative agenda. Weve asked Mitch Mcconnell repeatedly about those comm...