including the failure to repeal obamacare. i think tax reform was paul ryan s legacy. that s why he came to town and wanted to run weighs and means. tax reform made the code more competitive on the a corporate side and so on. so i think that has to be considered pretty much the highlight of congress. so there are several others that don t get as much attention like scaling back dodd-frank regulations on community banks, like the recent criminal justice reform package, in the senate, the judiciary revamp. i think there is a lot to point to on conservative accomplishments. paul: kim, how doin you see this congress? i absolutely agree with mitch mcconnell and all of the things that kate just mentioned. and the speaker touched on it briefly, don t forget congress role which was monumentally important in rolling back a number of those big last minute obama regulations and their tool for that was something called
conservative mold. it wasn t as if you saw the congress bending over passing a lot y of populac trump-driven agenda. paul: still ahead, wall street s wild ride continues. is the market volatility a warning of what s to come in in 2019? - [voiceover] this is an urgent message from the international fellowship of christians and jews. there is an emergency food crisis for elderly holocaust survivors in the former soviet union.
holding public officials accountable for their actions and for that we first need to know what they did in entireity. paul: dan, we don t have a lot of time. what s the biggest risk in 2019 for donald trump from the mueller probe. he s going to have the report to the justice department, almost certainly will leak. is it that congress will use it to impeach him? certainly, it s that congress will use it to impeach him. the biggest risk is that mueller does come up with a legal charge against him. and i just hope, paul, that i robert mueller understands that a lot of american institutions have been damaged here including theng fbi. what we want from mueller is a full and fair accounting of what has happened, what are the results of the investigation, rather than over-reaching to come up with a secondary legal charge against the president of the united states. paul: dan, i hope you re right. when we come back, our hits and misses of the year. year.
paul: it s the story that dogged president trump throughout this first two years in office, charges of collusion between his campaign and the russians. so with investigations likely to heat up in the new democratic controlled congress and with special counsel robert mueller sprawling probe set to continue in the new year, what have we learned so far about the trump, russia connection. kim, let s first just focus on the russia collusion, the trump, putin conspiracy, alleged, to defeat hillary clinton. if we learned any more factual basis to prove or disprove that allegation? absolutely nothing. at least nothing that has been made public by the special counsel s office. we ve learned that there were
them. but i think also his recent decision to pull troops out of syria rather abruptly which seems to have cost him the defense secretary. i think that has to counted among the top setbacks of the year. the one other would be how little congress really accomplished in its last chance for republican policy for several years now. paul: well, wait a minute. didn t they do the budget deal with the two year budget deal that got defense spending up, which you fought for very hard as i recall in our council and i think rightly so. the cost was a lot of domestic spending but they got a lot more military spending. they did, paul. it s a two year bump. it s not anything off the 3% of gdp that s now the norm. also, i think if it doesn t continue through the next budget caps deal with democrats running congress narks it will end up being pretty modest in what it will buy and sus dane fo sustaie