agenda and we want to get it done and we know it will make a difference. that is what we were elected to do. paul ryan rose to prominence as a sharp pencil deficit hawk. he touted his role in the tax cuts. he helped pass the tax cuts to balloon the deficit in 2020. ryan s departure is a real blow to republicans who saw him as a stable policy driven leader. the house gop faces a months long battle for leadership as it deals with the upcoming mid terms in november. among the contenders are kevin mccarthy and steve scalise. they both appeared alongside ryan with this photo tweeted out by president trump. cnn has learned the president s national security team will hammer out a strategy on syria. it is not clear if the president
because of the difficult relationship with president trump. we re very different people. i m from the upper midwest. not from new york. we are from a different generation. we have different styles. what we learned after we got to know each other. we had a lot of friction in our relationship. what we learned is a common agenda and we want to get it done and we know it will make a difference. that is what we were elected to do. paul ryan rose to prominence as a sharp pencil deficit hawk. he touted his role in the tax cuts. he helped pass the tax cuts to balloon the deficit in 2020. ryan s departure is a real blow to republicans who saw him as a stable policy driven leader. the house gop faces a months long battle for leadership as it deals with the upcoming mid terms in november. among the contenders are kevin mccarthy and steve scalise.
agenda and we want to get it done and we know it will make a difference. that is what we were elected to do. paul ryan rose to prominence as a sharp pencil deficit hawk. he touted his role in the tax cuts. he helped pass the tax cuts to balloon the deficit in 2020. ryan s departure is a real blow to republicans who saw him as a stable policy driven leader. the house gop faces a months long battle for leadership as it deals with the upcoming mid terms in november. among the contenders are kevin mccarthy and steve scalise. they both appeared alongside ryan with this photo tweeted out by president trump. thumb s up. big smiles. what a lineup. we have cnn analyst jackie cucinich. good morning. we heard paul ryan and he
so true. paul ryan rose to national prominence, brooke, rose to the speakership on the strength of what the ryan budget, what was the underlying principle there? our debt, we were spending too much. our debts were getting out of control. we needed to make hard choices to reel those in. that was in 2010. we have some of that sound. let me play some of that. this is from a few years ago, aka yesteryear. what we have here is a spending gusher that will keep on gushing and they have no plan to get this fiscal house in order. we are can cutting spending. ever heard that type of statement around this town before? we really do believe that the value of this republican majority has been a change to this culture. we want to balance the budget. they don t. we want to restrain spending. they want to spend more money. we think taxpayers have given enough to washington. who who who is leading
cards the gop has been dealt. and i think right now boehner is just fed up, especially after the shutdown, groups who look at governing as if it is a combative republican primary. and they look at it as a campaign that needs to be won, rather than a governmental policy that needs to be set. do you think this was a sign that boehner thinks he has truly vanquished that power caucus. that he has the upper hand to deal with this deal, and there is a certain type of cockiness that he had, that you very much did not see during the long days of the shutdown, and we played the tape where he was asked about the shutdown, and he said pass. he was trying to represent the leadership and just the leadership. the difference now is that boehner has paul ryan at his side. and paul ryan crafted this deal. remember, paul ryan rose through the conservative ranks starting