and it s hard not to notice the incredible concentration in that industry. it has economic consequences and now we know it has major societal consequence when s that much information is in that few hands. bret: two more things. one is you re historically a big deficit hawk. somebody who is concerned about the deficit and debt for a long time. you talked about it. just been through this whole omnibus spending issue. what are your thoughts on that and where the country is heading? i m very troubled. you know, it shouldn t escape people s notice there was massive amount of the discussion, debate and there should have been about a tax bill that may over 10 years increase the deficit by a trillion dollars. not to be sneezed at. but when you re already at $20 trillion, it s only the percentage that it is. right on its heels, congress happily and cheerfully passed a
heel it s our service members. under obama our military was disseminated. sequestration killed it. he said i m willing to give up a lot to get that for ships, tanks, planes. readiness. that is the overarching point still a lot of us, i think, would have loved to see him veto it. send the swamp abby: it s been reported that general mattis gave him a call before he came and announce he would support this bill saying had lunch, this is too important for our military. we need this spending. as you said there is a loft the president s base that are irate about this. they are mad about the spending. they feel like they didn t get in this bill what he had promised them. pete: the democrats are doing happy dances. ed: right. pete: chuck schumer said the area of austerity is over. i m talking about president obama not president trump. the ear wrath a fiscally responsible g.o.p. is effectively dead. ed: paul ryan a deficit hawk. the democrats used to run ads that were unfair about
correspondent jennifer griffin talks exclusively with speaker paul ryan about why he is supporting a pentagon budget of $700 billion. last thursday during a routine landing, the nose gear failed on an air force to see if i transfer plane and texas. the planes get it on its belly to stop. just last summer, the air force because of its entire fleet. house speaker paul ryan says it s defense needs to increase or it will get worse. just last week, we lost two f-18 pilots off the course coast of florida. we lost seven in western iraq. this is in many ways because of training and accidents because of our military budget. ryan climbed the wrongs of power focusing on cutting budget. what did you become a different talk? you had always been a deficit hawk. in fact, you had pressed president obama and criticized him to ignore the deficit. what changed? when i became speaker, i got access to the classified briefings to see what exactly
look, i have been a deficit hawk my entire time. i just alouded to that now. i have also been a pro-growth tax person. so you end up in this place, you know, nothing is perfect here. it was about half a trillion dollars off on a 43 trillion-dollar base, something i didn t want to see happen. buff at the end of the day, i m glad the economy is growing and i m glad that businesses are hiring people and wages are going up. laura: mueller investigation, where do you think this is going to end up? people say trump is not tough on russia like he should be. i like at obama. russia rolled into crimia, they were doing the reset, that didn t work. right. laura: didn t seem like russia was deterred at all during the obama administration. a lot of we tried to get lethal defensive weapons in the ukraine. we couldn t do it. we passed a bill to make that happen. enough to the trump administration is sending those lethal weapon items in. so, look, i don t know anything about what s happe
look, i have been a deficit hawk my entire time. i just alouded to that now. i have also been a pro-growth tax person. so you end up in this place, you know, nothing is perfect here. it was about half a trillion dollars off on a 43 trillion-dollar base, something i didn t want to see happen. buff at the end of the day, i m glad the economy is growing and i m glad that businesses are hiring people and wages are going up. laura: mueller investigation, where do you think this is going to end up? people say trump is not tough on russia like he should be. i like at obama. russia rolled into crimia, they were doing the reset, that didn t work. right. laura: didn t seem like russia was deterred at all during the obama administration. a lot of we tried to get lethal defensive weapons in the ukraine. we couldn t do it. we passed a bill to make that happen. enough to the trump administration is sending those lethal weapon items in. so, look, i don t know anything about what s