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think. it s affected business investment and explains the pickup in the economy this year. i think when i look at it, i think paul ryan was the right person at the right time because he s very wonky. he knows all the stuff inside and out. the other day i watched his opening speech for the 115th congress and it was remarkable how consistent sil cocillatory . i think he had a real skill in herding the cats. i think he gets a lot of credit for having gotten the tax reform done. paul: a lot of president trump supporters won t like to hear this. i m going to say it anyway. i think many of president trump s most important accomplishments, tax reform, deregulation, the military spending bill, judges, those are the traditional conservative republican agenda. when you look at the things that were supposed to be the popul.
ace trump agenda, those are either failures or at best they re a work in progress. i think you ve gotmi to trums going to a miss paul ryan a lot when he has to face nancy pelosi across the table. i think to mary s point about the right person at the right time, paul ryan spent years kind of pulling together a binder of ideas that it was really detailed, called his better way plan. you look through it and of course he didn t accomplish everything. i think in particular on anti-poverty programs, i think paul ryan would have liked to do more to make those promote work eand advancement more than they do now. a lot of it, like tax reform and you see he was able to accomplish a lot of that and it s easy to forget that when the better way document came out, it was glibly dismissed as outdated or impossible to pass or just fantasy. now we see a lot of it as law. paul: what about the criticism of paul ryan from the left, that he wasn t critical enough of donald trump on a
political fortunes of democrats ever. i know she s a bit young but she might remember a decade ago, this was also barack obama s climate change ambition. he rammed a bill through the house, it played no small role in democrats losing the house the next year and that s because americans have no interest in a climate change plan like this, it s going to add trillions to the economy, hurt economic growth and make no measurable difference to climate change out ethere. so nancy pelosi better think real hard if she wants this agenda to be the face of her democratic party. paul: and mary. this is ay. miss for the economic and political disaster of the year. it s not connecticut. [ laughter ] this is venezuela. where 2.5 to 5 million people have fled the country. the ims expects another 2 million to leave this year. hyper inflation might reach 1 million percent. there are regular blackouts. there s no running water.