prisoners. he didn t relieve forced levels at 2500. he didn t have an arrangement with the taliban and they want to attack our troops. he came in with a certain set of circumstances, he had no ability to change. paul: let s bring in dan heninger, kim strasser and bill hemmer. the argument is president biden was a prisoner of the donald trump agreement. do you agree with that? we are a long way from the buck stops here. it s the buck stops somewhere else. it is always president biden s mo. i disagreed with the trump decisions but the actual chaos, that was biden s fault and i think it was because he wanted his first 9/11 in office, the 20th anniversary, to announce that all troops were home and accelerated and pulled out support. it is compounded because the defense secretary said he had 0 regrets about the withdrawal. not the loss of life. anthony blinken says there are 175 americans still in afghanistan. does anyone talk about them, 44 and control of the taliban? it is the
early? is this ad fair? he knows that ron to santos by all polling in every estimation is likely to be his toughest candidate. he is going to soften them up a little bit. he thinks this is a voting issue. trump has always been this way on entitlements. i won t a touch of them. he is now s now looking at desantis s record who put some votes forward in a paul ryan budget, a number of republicans did as well. basically a statement of acknowledgment that we needed to do some thing about entitlement in the long-term which is not something anyone should be surprised with but he s joining trump, even biden, hoping this is a place they can beat up desantis and suggest he will push granny off the cliff. that s the opening salvo. paul: these programs are not
took an incredible combination of circumstances to put donald trump, there and i m the guy you can nominate and not screw it up. which by the way i don t think that idea, which i think is a pretty good read of what the politics were. there were a bunch of flukie, confluent factors that produced the result. that to me is interesting because it doesn t have a specific ideological vallance. we ve got a majority. the guy sort of weirdly backed in off the comey letter. let s do what we want to do. but the problem is it s a structural distinction between the two factions within the water. we have multiple factions within the democratic party, but the two major factions. and so the biden, bullock, delaney, ryan, they re essentially saying we can go back to brunch pretty soon once this man is removed because our lives are discomforted right now, but they re not fundamentally altered.
that s a 28-62 issue. flip it around, when you look at abortion, abortion being illegal in all cases in roe v. wade overturned, which is what donald trump s position was. he literally said i will appoint in that debate with hillary clinton, that s a 60-40, 65-35 issue itself. he managed to rig a lot of that, right? i ll give you another one. when i think this is the unspoken message of the biden campaign, think of the success that obama and biden had. what was one of the best weapons they had to use against republicans? it was the paul ryan budget. it was medicare. it was the fact that romney put ryan on the ticket. it was the fact that romney then reinforced the message by having the 47% tape come out. but that is an example where you can take any poll in 2011, this broadly nobody wants to go after medicare. and it will even the issue. that is always my response. when people say republicans think big. they ve been going big on medicare privatization.
death on the republican party as it was before donald trump. explain that. reporter: yeah. rand paul speaking last night, brianna, was seen as a pain in the butt for a lot of republicans because they wanted as ryan mentioned, they wanted to move this through the senate so they could avoid a government shutdown, however brief. what rapnd paul was saying is what every republican leader would have said five years go. they were organized 100% during the obama years to deficit reduction, and restraining spending. why we have the paul ryan budget, which in many i was is why we ha ways why we have paul ryan as the speaker of the house. donald trump committed a hostile takeover of the republican party and he doesn t care about debt and deficit. this is a person who very famously said, called himself the king of debt and proclaimed i love debt. they have gone along with that. what rand paul was doing on the floor last night was saying, wait a minute, we re the same party that five years ago w