What does she think of her brother-in-law, congressman paul ryan running for president? and what is the ryan family really like? reporter: tell me. you are a closely knit family. we are. it is the ryan is a big family. i remember the first time i was introduced, we went out to dinner in janesville in the 90s and it took us a half hour to get to the table because he was introduce me to all the cousins. really? there is a lot of ryans. there are and they live in the old neighborhoods and they like older houses. they re a wonderful, warm, fun family. reporter: you know, i happen to know you are from memphis. i m a memphis guy, full disclosure. i think tobin made a wise choice. what it was like, integrating into the family and learning their values and the way they do things. toby and i spent the most time in wisconsin together, helping paul in his first campaign. we had just had our baby girl
Meatballs that he always likes to eye am sure he is eating that for the protein. greta: coming up from prom king to hometown hero. how did paul ryan get from janesville, wisconsin, to the number-2 spot on the republican ticket? we talked to one man about ryan s rise up close. meet his high school government teacher, next. also, the house budget committee chair is the vice-presidential candidate. that puts the economy front and center on the campaign trail. will the budget plan help or hurt the g.o.p. campaign? byron york is here to talk about it. these fellas used capital one venture miles
Meatballs that he always likes to eye am sure he is eating that for the protein. greta: coming up from prom king to hometown hero. how did paul ryan get from janesville, wisconsin, to the number-2 spot on the republican ticket? we talked to one man about ryan s rise up close. meet his high school government teacher, next. also, the house budget committee chair is the vice-presidential candidate. that puts the economy front and center on the campaign trail. will the budget plan help or will the budget plan help or hurt the g.o.p. campaign? abigail higgins had. .a tree that bore the most rare and magical fruit. which provided for their every financial need. and then, in one blinding blink of an eye, their tree had given its last. but with their raymond james financial advisor,
Did track & field. he did. greta: he was no, prom king? prom king. but it s you are not voted greta: how do you get to be prom king i hope they have changed this. if you are class president, you are the prom king. greta: all right. that s how you became the prom king. he did. greta: he gets back here every weekend with his family? absolutely. you know, i bet he spends the least amount of time in washington of any congressman. sleeps on his couch and is on the first flight back to see his kids and adorable wife. greta: would you have guessed that this is how paul ryan would end up? of course not. you know, never would have guessed. he grew up fast. you know, he matured, quicker than most, i think teenagers. and you could see it as he developed, he was in college and high school maybe very
Avoiding this fiscal disaster that awaits us, if the cost of medicare, especially, continues to rise the way it s projected to rise in the coming decades. it s way to bring that under control. the two most controversial elements of it that we know about are that 1, restructuring medicare into what they call a premium support system, democrats call a voucher system and the other thing is turning medicaid into a bloc grant, in which the federal government gives the money to the states and they administer medicaid and cut it to the levels that it is today. both of those things, you are going to hear a lot from the obama campaign. greta: i suppose the democrats wouldn t worry about the bloc grant aspect if they were confident that the states were going to keep up the same quality as the federal government, or the same number of services, if the suspicion of the states? right. the short-hand version from the democrats is that paul ryan wants to balance the budget on