president trump took office. you were a deficit hawk. this was one of former speaker paul ryan s biggest frustrations with president trump is he doesn t show any political will or interest in doing anything that would reduce the deficit or the national debt other than growing the economy. is this an area where you hope to make headway with president trump? a couple difference things. don t dismiss the importance of growing the economy. i m not dismissing it, but the deficit is significant and the debt. would we grow the economy, more money comes in. they re both going in the wrong direction. spending. we spend more now than we did before. you know how highly i regard paul ryan. he s a good friend of mine. a great deal of respect for him. but maybe you should remind him that it s the congress that spends the money. if the congress had adopted the president s budgets over the last two years, we would not have the deficit we have now. not the debt we have now. and we d be on a g
from mexico. everybody said you were never going to get it from mexico and you know you know back when you were talking about donald trump being a terrible human being and talking about how stupid the wall was, you know that donald trump was lying to voters when he said that he was going to build a wall and get the money from mexico. and yet you go on tv shows and for god knows why, destroy your reputation, you had a good reputation as a deficit hawk when you were in congress. i don t understand it. never will. why people throw themselves under the bus for donald trump. it never ends well for them. so as our on chris hayes reimagined the chance at the trump rallies for 2020, donald trump will be going out saying what are we going to build? the response, aesthetically tasteful steel slats. who are going to pay for it?
his party had gone in a dramatically different direction when he arrived and his position as a deficit hawk and tough guy on spending were far out of fashion with his party by the time he was in charge. bill: have a merry christmas. i think what paul ryan would tell you, they had a golden opportunity until they got the no vote from senator mccain at 2:30 in the morning. a big opportunity and argue to get some things done financially. julie: paul ryan took a lot of heat as well whenever the republicans couldn t get something through they went to him. he was in there. he fought a good fight and did a good job. bill: good speech. 11 past the hour now. julie: more problems for facebook to tell you about. the social media giant still doing damage control after a stunning report on user data. now an attorney general is suing. we ll have the latest straight ahead. bill: the president s nominee for a.g. slamming the mueller probe in a newly surfaced memo. is it a cause for concern or
mick mulvaney was a different type of republican before the president won, but you ve seen throughout his role in this administration, he has become a trump ally. he has a deficit hawk and now in his position at omb, he s not so much anymore. he has already served the president in a lot of these different roles, acting cmp director. i think that the two men would be pretty sympatico for however long he may be chief of staff. the president does have selected memory on some things because, of course, lindsey graham said some not-so-nice things about the president during the campaign and they are the best of buddies. there you go. have a good one. round two for the former fbi director as he faces off with congressional republicans in a lame duck session. we ll be live from the hill. moments away from the opening bell on wall street. take a look at futures this monday morning, pointing lower. the dow fell 500 points friday,
this is a guy much like paul ryan who is respected as a deficit hawk when he was in congress. was a take no prisoners deficit hawk. and was seen as a purist. and yet as omb chief he s spent his time along with donald trump pushing for the largest deficits and the largest national debt in u.s. history. how does he square that? how do republicans scare that? how does the press scare that? frankly i don t think republicans in congress necessarily do. his flipflop on the question of donald trump s character is dwarfed in some ways by his flipflops on policy in this area you point out. he wasn t known just as the deficit hawk, he willing to throw the rest of his party under the bus in service of that one goal, he was one of the members of the freedom caucus