today are born to families eligible for medicaid. the idea that you can ask the american people to balance this budget on the fackets backs of the ugly and the most vulnerable with no burden through tax reform on the most fortunate americans is fundamentally unacceptable. it's not going to happen. they knew it it's not going to become law. we have made so much progress over the last four months with republicans and trying to build consensus for a more balanced approach i give the speaker a lot of credit for that. >> let's turn in the time we have left for the economy. last august you wrote op. ed article in the "new york times" and the headline as you can see there is welcome to the recovery. >> that was not our headline. that was the "new york times" headline. deeply unfair to the substance of what i wrote. >> chris: here is what you did say. put it up on the screen if you can what you did say is we are on a path back to growth. i assume -- >> -- that's true. >> chris: those were your words. do you stand by that. >> absolutely. at that point when i wrote the op. ed the american economy was