republican budget guru paul ryan said, "i'm proud of this agreement. without raising taxes and it cuts spending in a smarter way." well, he didn't say that today, when chuck hagel announced the proposed budget cuts. he said it 76 days ago, when he fought for the passage of the bipartisan budget act which he helped write with democratic senator patti murray. it is commonly known as the ryan-murray agreement. that agreement cut military spending to about 496 billion for fiscal year 2015. the obama-hagel defense cuts would not actually cut defense spending quite as much as paul ryan's budget. so what did paul ryan say today about the obama defense cuts? did he say, hey, come on, mr. president, you can cut defense spending more than i did, you know, more than that, because i paul ryan was able to do that. or did he say, you know, as a republican i hate cutting defense spending and i'm glad the president found a way to cut it less than i did? or did he just decide if obama's for defense cuts then i have to be against them? well, of course, you've guessed it

the key question, paul ryan, a man who is very, very popular in his party. but reality bites. instead of acknowledging that his key question had been answered by the president's health care plan, he pivoted to his new favorite subject, poverty. >> these changes, they disproportionately effect low-wage workers. washington is making the poverty trap much worse. in inducing a person not to work, not to get on the ladder of life to begin working, getting the dignity of work, getting more opportunities, joining the middle class, this means fewer people will do that. that's why i'm troubled by this. >> despite paul ryan's newfound concern for the poor, the cbo director made clear that the law is actually helping low-income americans. >> the subsidies make those lower income people better off. this is an implicit taxes. >> i understand that. i guess i understand the better off in the context of health care. >> consider that begrudging acceptance that the aca might do something good. joining me from washington is jarrod burnstein and josh greene. i cannot think of any other term other

that is one thing that i really wish that paul ryan would pay attention to.hey can move ahead, they have already taken leadership on this issue they have to have resol and integrity to move forward with incremental approach that has resulted from the leadership of a condition man bob goodlot, they are in position on this issue. all they have to do is act but in good conscious, and inflational interest. -- in the national intert. ste in chicago said, not only does president obama lie and mislead he cannot make decisions critical to job growth like the keystone pipeline, tell me how americans can trust a man, who vascillates in such a cavalier way? dave tweeted about lingering obamacare web site malfunctions. he said, why should the government fix it? president obama told bill oh, reilly last night it was working just great. well, there you have it we like to hear from you and share your thoughts, with a you' audience, e-mail us at lou dobbs.com or follow us on twitter, or facebook page up next, a political rookie looking to make a name for himself with a super

if christie is run to where he can't run at all. >> you mention paul ryan. point worth dwelling on. if you talk to the establishment wing of the party -- the people who finance the party, the people who unified behind romney, people who tried to draft christie three years ago, the name they are talking about is paul ryan. they see him as someone who's been vetted in that he's run for vice president. they see him as someone who does have a certain amount of stature, and they believe that the ryan plan didn't exactly drive the debate of the 2012 campaign so therefore he can overcome that. paul ryan is getting a lot of steam in a lot of different circles in the republican party. >> none of you mentioned marco rubio. let me move on because we have to go to your side and say, so if you're a house democrat in a swing district and you wake up to politico with this headline, what exactly are you thinking? this was about how the money people and some strategist think. democrats are like, see the house? we're never going to win that. that may be what you think but to

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this is paul ryan making some headlines yesterday. >> we have an increasingly lawless presidency whereoing the job of congress, writing new policies and new laws without going through congress. president doesn't write laws, congress does. >> a lawless presidency, that's a bold assertion that was overlooked yesterday because of the game perhaps. >> it's a bold assertion and become a key talking point. the electorate cares about the substance of the executive order and maybe they like what the president is doing on exgts pa carbon or not. >> minus pointing out that the president had delay eed a key pt of his own health care law. he didn't cite examples. >> you want to say that you have problems with the way he handled this, this and this on health care, that's a home run. talking that process doesn't really make that much sense, especially since people expect the president to do anything anyway. he's the president of the united states and can get this done if he wants to. that's why his approval ratings are down so low. it made no sense for them to take that tact to make their point. >>

here you have some of the same people who look at paul ryan's plan to strengthen medicare by providingpremium support so that medicare exists for future generations and current generation and call that pushing granny off the cliff. people who look at mitt romney's career that created jobs and opportunities and say he's a guy who murdered some woman who had cancer that now say because you look at a cbo report that does say it's going to cost 2.5 million jobs, you're being unfair because you're not saying the implicit tax margins under the subsidies in obamacare are going to cause the labor demand to dry up. >> quick comment, e.j.ing >> this point about small businesses so important, a scholar at harvard has shown in countries that guarantee everyone health insurance, there's a faster rate of small business creation than there is in the united states. >> it says workers. there is a very big distinction. >> let me get a break. we're going to continue this debate, by the way, in just a moment. the battle lines drawn in congress over this very issue, talking about immigration, the debt ceil

you see paul ryan calling him lawless today. been called everything from a socialist dictator to having an imperial presidency. you know, look, it seems as though we would benefit from republicans reaching out a little bit more to this president. >> and angela, on that note, was it a threat to republicans? >>> it was a veiled threat to congress altogether, republicans and democrats. but the president needs congress, because, jamie, congress has the power of the purse. and again, listen, president clinton did close to 400 executive orders. president bush close to 300. president obama has done 168 executive orders. so i don't agree with paul ryan from the standpoint that we have a lawless president. however, dealing with the mandate of a law that's already passed. for the president to arbitrarily move these mandates and to give waivers to different parts of obamacare, that is a problem. >> christy, if the president goes ahead, and moves things forward on his agenda, without a visible ef forth of trying to work with congress, how d

secret meetings between paul ryan of all people and chuck schumer? i said the other night as one who had secret meetings with chuck schumer, there's no such thing as a secret meeting for very long. >> lou, you're exactly right. one of the things many of us are very concerned about, when we hear these potential proposals talking about amnesty and other things that can happen, we think that's not the right way to go. the house has had it right and judiciary committee had it right, we do it on a piecemeal basis to make sure everybody has their say. that we do what we need to do, which is to fix the system we have now, make sure we're enforcing the laws that we have now before we go on and tackle something else that we're not going to even enforce or ever make work in the future. >> do you agree with congressman raul labrador that if he persists john boehner can lose his speakership? >> i'm not going to say whether he was right in that comment or not. many of us feel very passionate, as do most americans, what we have is not just a political problem but

i think he's trying to call the bluff of the republicans, john boehner, paul ryan have been saying we he's saying is okay, the new law will not take effect until after obama leaves office. and i think john boehner and paul ryan are really on the line here because they've been sending signals privately to all kinds of pro immigration groups. they really want to do this. they've shown some guts and now they're in danger of looking gutless by folding at the first signs of pressure. so i think -- >> is that your pressure, mike needham, as a conservative lobbyist? >> the pro immigration groups he's talking to are big business lobbyists in washington, d.c. we need a modern immigration system. the bill chuck schumer is talking about is a comprehensive bill that gets into detail of how many ski instructors will be allowed to come into the system. american people are bored how to change the status quo which is broken on the margins and instead looking for big bold ideas. >> every college president in the country is saying you've got to fix this, especially for the high-tech jobs. >> we do. tha

and in fact, paul ryan and raul labrador said to the whole community that he didn't think this was goingppen. >> and it might not. >> i'm curious about you on this one. you have actually been a big fighter, from my point of view, the good side of the immigration reform, trying to get families unified all that kind of stuff, yet it seems to be a very tough pill for the republican party to swallow. and for some people it seems like there may be an elephant in the room. there may be some ethnic or racial or cultural chauvinism here. you've got people saying stuff like this, steve king is famous for doing this to you guys, for every valedictorian there's a hundred other dreamer kids that weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. doesn't that kind of rhetoric from the republican party offend you or bother you and why don't you speak out more strongly against those kinds of almost intorer ens comments? >> i think the most important thing i can do in faith and freedom is talk about what we're for and not wha

. >> congressman paul ryan slamming obamacare. is he calling it the poverty trap. >> create the disincentive for people to work. >> the effect will be severe. as if 2.5 million people had stopped working. >> it allows americans to choose to spend more time with their family or pursue their dreams. >> they do have less of an incentive to work. >> translation? washington is making the poverty trap much worse. >> the white house has been forced to spin numbers. >> this creates the opportunity for more entrepreneurship that did not exist prior to the affordable care act. >> subsidy people are better off. they do have less of an incentive to work. getting more opportunities, rising their income. joining the middle class. this means fewer people will do that. >> the act create the disincentive for people to work. >> the benefit of having the freedom and choice that health insurance security provides outweighs those considerations. >> fewer people are going to be working and the economy will be slower as a result. that, to me, is just ja

but all three, many of the republicans have said the following speaker boehner, mitch mcconnell, paul ryan, even jim demint have said they want to do immigration reform. but they don't trust the president to enforce the law, particularly the enforcement parts. so there's a simple solution. let's enact the law this year. but simply not let it actually start till 2017 after president obama's term is over. now, i think the rap against him that he won't enforce the law false. he's deported more people than any other president. but you col actually have the law start in 2017 without doing much violence to it. you'd simply move the day back from december 31st to 2011 to december 31st, 2013 as to when people, the deadline for people who could get either legalization or citizenship so we could go after the new people who come in later. and it would solve the problem. make no mistake about it, david. this view that we can get this done in 2015, '16 is false. you'll have the republican presidential primaries, to pull people over to the right. tea party maximizes. so simple. let's say to our republic

paul ryan will be our special guest and a big morning for data and erarnings. economists expect about 401,000 homes were sold in the month down about 3% from december and more names from the retail sector are checking into earnings central in the next hour we'll hear from target and hopefully be getting more details on the data breach back in december. many analysts say the company could eliminate its $4 billion share buyback plan. 8:30 eastern hearing from abercrombie & fitch and see how the weather impacted its latest sales quarter from last quarter, we know this has been a big issue for a lot of the retailers. we'll be hearing from tjx companies and after the closing bell jcpenney will be reporting its numbers. it's been a stock to watch for the past year down near $5 a share as of yesterday's close. let's get to andrew with some of today's top corporate stories. >> hey becky. the big one bank of america saying that federal investigators are looking into whether the bank violated certain requirements of a government housing program. the probe centers around

we have a budget deal, paul ryan and patty murray. paul ryan is growing as a politician, not as reflexively conservative. he was willing to look at even some modest revenue increases. we have a farm bill. it was not a great bill, but we did get one. most importantly you tweet -- see clear signs from the republican leaders in the house that they did not want a crisis of the debt ceiling. we have a meeting right after thanksgiving with one of the leaders in the house. he was quite candid. he said, we heard our brand with the shut down and with the debt ceiling of 70, and we are not going to do it again. we are determined to focus on one issue and one issue only. that issue, of course, is obamacare. the republicans feel that they have been given a gift from god. why do you mess up your narrative on obamacare by precipitating a crisis? so there is not going to be one. i think gridlock has diminished. who knows. maybe a few months we will see a polls showing that the congressional job approval rating has gone from 12 to 8919% it could be a

paul ryan today, out of wisconsin, wow. very strong on this point. and what is the point?ent stepping legally outside his bounds? kwl i think ryan had it wrong. i understand he said the president is overstepping, and it's sort of extra constitutional behavior. that may be the case, more likely isn't. >> constitutional behavior? >> unconstitutional. i apologize. >> you might be, i don't know. maybe that's a legal term. >> maybe it is, but here's what i think the real point is. bottom line, what ryan didn't say and what the president didn't say is we need bipartisanship. we need to compromise, bargain, fix health care, deal with the jobs crisis, and work on every issue facing our country in a way that puts the american people first and not the political interests of the administration or the republicans. >> from twitter now, l.p. says, obama fill-i-flustered the interview. that's a new word. >> i like that, that's very good. i think he did. he basically, as i said, had his swat, his fly swatter, which is we had hearings. we haven't had hearings. about obamacare, he simply we

paul ryan said he's doing the work of congress. well, that's because congress isn't doing its job.ourage the president to encourage doing executive orders. we're going to meet with him tomorrow as a caucus and i hope his position like that continues. it's clear that republicans are not going to work with him. >> i want to dig deeper into executive orders because republicans are taking issue with president obama using those powers. here's house majority leader eric cantor. >> the white house continues to really thumb its nose up, if you will, at the congress. the president in the state of the union address did it flat out. he said, when congress doesn't work with me, i'll just go do it myself. and again, that's part of the problem in this town. >> you heard what the congressman said there. does he have a point? is there more the president could do to reach out to republicans? >> you know what, i don't think he has a point because i think the president has bent over backwards for five years attempting to work with republicans. even taking their ideas and putting them forward and then

. >> paul ryan was there after he had voted against raising the debt ceiling.he stayed until the very end. >> paul ryan closing down the white house. you go. who could blame him? this is a state lewis. gillian wee dreyfus and her cooper, mary j. blige, stephen co. bear, jj abrams, and mary j got to sing. i must be dreaming ♪ star ♪e my wish upon a ♪ come on! yeah, kicking it on the south lawn. i like it. there were some big names in business on the guest list, you chenos,chain -- jim just to name a few, united under the banner of franco-american relations. >> the americans have grown to love all things french, the films, the food, the wine, especially the wine. but most of all we love our french friends because we have stood together for freedom for more than 200 years. through all of the -- to all of our friends from france here , and longe la france live the alliance between our great nations. cheers. honor ofe my glass in the united states of america, of obama,sident barack michelle, long life to the united states, viva la france and estais unis. >> dinner i

saying this is really great news for america is not i mean we're seeing the fulfillment of what paul ryan mitt romney and the heritage foundation were calling . i. yeah i'm almost speechless at your introduction it's a good thing that more americans don't have to work except for tom you know what do you know what social scientists have found out leads to real happiness earned success not a subsidy from the government not a nurse or sister from from working long hours or a crappy job no but you're saying it doesn't exist you don't have to work but one of the best ways to get to earn success yeah working long hours at a crappy job that's that's about it hard to work out if it cannot and you know you can't get the job you love unless you have a global you love a we're going to haul a riot on this topic ok paul ryan knows about this stuff he says a lot of people change their jobs so the tax benefit should change and go with them and not be attached their job we had to address job walk so the key question that ought to be addressed in any health care reform legislation is are we going to conti

dynasty star willie robertson like he was some sort of conquering hero sure you could argue the paul ryan was just excited to see a t.v. star but let's be honest this is really about making a dog whistle to all those people on the far right who thought duck dynasty star phil robertson was the victim of a liberal media conspiracy after he made a homophobic and racist remarks in an interview with g.q. and shouldn't be all that surprising it's almost a foregone conclusion that once a week or republican congressmen like louie gohmert or steve stockman will say something ridiculously intolerant about women or minorities sensible conservatives try to say that people like gomer stockman are just a few bad apples but those conservatives are ignoring their party's own history the real agenda the republican party is to serve billionaires and transnational corporations because that group represents such a small number of voters they need to expand the tent it done this by aggressively courting bigots and racists along with the religious fringe. massaging the stick man and people who fetishizing guns

. >>> paul ryan and the powerhouse roundtable and the team of experts take it on this sunday morning. >> hello, unprecedented security at the big game. that's a live shot of times square and metlife stadium. law enforcement officials locked in, saying the next few hours pose the greatest danger. and tracking everything being done to block an attack. good morning, pierre. >> fworgood morning. this is the biggest event. >> this morning, it's a fortress, but for the nest few hours, turning to the softest, most vulnerable target, fans streaming to the super bowl by mass transit. travel big subways and trains. specialized units will be checking anyone with bags. at this staging area, bomb-sniffing dogs and sophisticated radiation and x-ray machines scan for explosives and weapons for every delivery to the big game. food, everything? >> even seat cushions. >> on the waters today, teams looking to protect the people in the fan zone in times square and the super bowl. there are even super sonic f-16 fighter jets to protect against threats in the sky. i saw firsthand when i suited up to train

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he and congressman paul ryan who is never shy about talking about budget and taxes inst that it shouldve economic growth. they are often talking about corporate taxesand i want to caution you, if i may, the chairman paul ryan. we went back to look at a time when the taxes were not so high. but talking about those bush tax cuts they say that tax payers have an astounding $1.5 illion between 2001 and 2007. the economy did not move. let me repeat. e economy did not boom. the economy did not create jobs at this level and didn't keep peace with population growth. actually the bush administration created on average 65,000 jobs per month and this does not include 2008 when the economy went to hack. many republicans are trying to run as fast as they can from the camp proposals and right they ar if the repblican party wanted totart a iscussion as many in the leadership now maintained, they have needed. unfortunately they have done so with insupportae laims and perfectly horrible timing. virgin wrote me about our friends in the democratic party. where do they get theirscrewy ideas, she asked. th

national election, and that's why there is so much excitement around a jeb bush, or potentially a paul ryanat is probably where the republican party needs to be, at that part of the spectrum if they want to compete with a hillary clinton or if hillary doesn't run, rahm emanuel, whoever else will run. >> politico jim vandehei. thank you very much, sir. >>> "time" magazine really with the story of which flights really get cancelled. fascinating revelations ahead. [ male announcer ] this one goes out to all the congestion sufferers who feel like there's a brick on their face. who are so congested, it feels like the walls are closing in. ♪ who are so stuffed up, they feel like they're under water. try zyrtec-d® to powerfully clear your blocked nose and relieve your other allergy symptoms... so you can breathe easier all day. zyrtec-d®. find it at the pharmacy counter. zyrtec-d®. are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need. siemens. answers. i'm beth

ciudadanía dicen algunos, la reforma migratoria fue tema de debate en los programas este domingo, paul ryan si nosotros tenemos seguridad primero y después aministia, todo puede pasar, el gobernador louisina dijo que el tema debe ser resuelto, presidente aplaude los esfuerzo de los sobre la reforma migratoria >> para este inmigrante en proceso de deportación, que tiene 4 hijos, no le importaria tener documentos y poder nacionalizarse. >> este otro inmigrante prosional, piensa que esta propuesta es absurda >> dentro de los principios de los republicanos la ciudadanía solo iria para los dreamers >> para esta activista lo más importante es mantener a las familias unidas. >> si legalizan a todos y regresar a los deportados, muy bien >> mientras republicanos trabajan en propuesta, el tema de la reforma migratoria será impulsado por importantes líderes, como dennis, en chicago, univisión >> sergio garcia el inmigrante mexicano, después de una batalla para ejercer abogacia se le cumplio su sueño en sacramento, dijo que su historia manda un mensaje al país, california toma la delantera en este tema

according to a new poll paul ryan fairs best against hillary clinton. not bad for paul ryan there. from there it is all down hill for the republicans. clinton would beat mike huckabee. against ted cruz clinton leads by 17. she leads rand paul by 20, 58-38. she has the same 20-point lead on jeb bush. same as rand paul. she beats him 58-38. so much for bush coming in from the bench. marco rubio down 21. stay tuned for the christie numbers. we have those in just a minute and they are bad for the governor. >>> chris christie is hoping to put his troubles back home on pause for a while. yesterday was a trip to chicago. while he raised big money for the republican governor's association there were calls back in jersey for him to give the gig up and get back to being something of a governor. here was the editorial this morning. it is undeniable that the rga job is a major distraction especially when heaped on top of the scandals. so give it up, governor. time to focus on the job you were hired to do. christie seems to be carrying favor with the right wing of the republican party which nev

[laughter] i can't imagine what -- for example, if the reports are correct paul ryan meeting with thee what he's up to. >> and, of course, they're not secret. it's all out there. it just doesn't make any sense, lou, from a practical perspective. lou: actually it does. >> the theater -- mitch mcconnell today let the cat out of the bag. immigration reform is not going pass this year. it's making the business community and the chamber of commerce happy. we made the try. republicans know this is not an issue they dare pass in 2014. >> of course it's dishonest. >> but t pure politics. it's not serious policy. lou: right. i guess the next serious deaf senate has to be undertaken to exam that would be the honesty gap between the two parties. [laughter] so who is going -- well, anyway. your thoughts on this. you've advised campaigns. you're a serious student in public policy, illegal immigration. this has been rammed down the throat -- attempted to be rammed down the throat of american people. this group of politicians, democrat and republican, house and the senate, and the white house have n

. >> republicans led by budget committee chairman paul ryan, responded by suggesting poor workers areeing encouraged to work less. >> by providing heavily subsidized health insurance to people with very low income and then withdrawing those subsidies as income rises, the act creates a disincentive for people to work, relative to what would have been the case in the absence of that act. by providing subsidies people are better off but they do have less of an incentive to work. >> i understand that. >> i guess i understand the better off in the context of health care. but better off in inducing a person not to work who's on the low income scale, not to get on the ladder of life, to begin working, getting the dignity of work, getting more opportunities, rise in their income, joining the middle class, this means fewer people will do that. that's why i'm troubled by this. >> it's interesting. mark halperin, the cbo director certainly not a right wing conservative, said that the affordable care act provides a disincentive to work. you know, democrats can go up and talk about opportunity and

paul ryan accusing the president of breaking the rules. >> we have a lawless presidency where he's doing the job of congress. presidents don't write laws, congress does. when he does things like he did in health care, delaying mandates that the law said was supposed to occur when they were supposed to occur, that's not his job. >> our fox news senior judicial analyst has written about this issue extensively. they complain but they're not going to do anything about it. >> i wish everybody in congress had the attitude that paul ryan does. there are good executive orders and bad executive orders. the president is the head of the executive branch. there are 3 million people who work there. when he issues an order that tells you how he wants a law enforced and it's within the law, that's a good order. but when he writes it so that it frustrates congress, that's going outside of congress. >> what are they going to do with the memo of the d.o.j. giving him a legal end around? >> they will never get those memos. they are afraid that they are without the type of authority that the president claim

the guy who runs the cbo testified before the house budget committee with paul ryan sitting in front of him and said what i just said and said it is absolutely a mischaracterization and not about job loss. >> you are the best. here is the cbo director testifying and answering the key question from u.s. congressman about demand for labor as a result of the affordable care act. in other words, will the new health care law increase or decrease jobs. here is the cbo director. >> will boost overall demand for goods and services over the next few years and then you go on to say the net increase for demand in goods and services will boost demand for labor over the next few years. that is the conclusion you make right? >> yes. >> when you boost demand for labor in this kind of economy you actually reduce the unemployment rate because those people who are looking for work can find more work, right? >> right. >> that's pretty clear. so it takes a little work. headline writers supposed to make things clear. many said these blew it and some we know around the broadcast world did the same thing b

. >> it was neat to see top officials and paul ryan. partying on like everybody else.my table, the faux pas's were a great ice breaker. for the first course, they came out with a bowl with potatoes, caviar and quail eggs. 10 minutes later, they pour the soup into the bowl. >> did you finish the caviar before the soup was poured? >> you can take a girl out of the press pool -- >> let me turn to margaret. there was a lot of news about obamacare. another delay in the mandate. on the other hand, a surge of people in rolling. >> on balance, things do not look good for obama care. we don't know how many of those newly enrolled people have paid their premium. beyond that, we know enrollment is skewing older. in the affordable care act it actually cuts medicare reimbursements, particularly for the medicare advantage program. seniors will find themselves without the plan and the doctor they like. the worst may be yet to come. >> he just cannot say any good news about obamacare. they are so invested in the failure. december is a bad month. i barely combed my hair. yet there was

paul ryan. 52-44. rand paul is 58-38. so ryan, ryan polls the closest to hillary clinton.n would have to toughen up if he wants to take her on. >> no, that's not going to happen. >> why? he's smart. why couldn't he toughen up? >> paul ryan couldn't deliver wisconsin for romney. >> but he was the young guy. now he's seasoned. he can follow me around for a week and we'll put him through the factor training program. >> yeah, maybe he needs the factor communication. >> he's got to go after them. >> if he gets this down, if he gets this down, he'll totally win. >> laura, thank you. james carville will reply in a moment. and out in another snowstorm in new york city and kelly on frivolous lawsuits. those after these messages. so we're up early. up late. thinking up game-changing ideas, like this: dozens of tax free zones across new york state. move here. expand here. or start a new business here... and pay no taxes for 10 years. with new jobs, new opportunities and a new tax free plan. there's only one way for your business to go. up. find out if your business can qualify at sta

talk about the importance of bringing folks like jim and paul ryan and some of the other folks, talk about why you think it's so important that we as conservatives get out and do this. >> i think as conservatives we talk a lot about, people on the left, as bill bennett said, when they look at poor people, they see a sea of victims. people on the right see a sea of aliens. i think when we talk about poor people, we spend too much time talking about their deficits and their shortcomings and giving statistics about the 70% born out of wedlock. people are not motivated to change and improve by warning them about injuries to be avoided. we as conservatives must inspire people to talk about victories that are possible. the grassroots instead of always focusing on the 70% of the families raising children in deficit communities, we should look at the 30% living in those communities that are raising children that are not dropping out of skchool or in jail or on drugs pane we should go in as scholars and ask what is it that they are doing that is different than their neighbors, and how can we

martha: paul ryan is fired up about this interview, right?s go on a specific example he brought up, and administration effort to delay the employer mandate, section 1513 of the affordable care act is very explicit, it says as of december 31, 2013, the employer mandate kicks in. the administration by not an executive order but by a rule from the department of health and human services use another part of the law, 1514, giving the secretary discretion on when employers have to provide the federal government details about their compliance with the law, it delayed it until 2015. the law said in 2014 at the secretary's discretion set in the time when the company's report. they use a different part of the law to undo a very explicit provision of the law. i think congressman ryan has a good point here. executive orders, three areas of concern, one is the executive order, the other is the legislative order and the final of the president's own actions. in this instance it was a departmental regulation in violation of the statutory requirements that sa

>> well, i think paul ryan was the absolute right person for me to have as the vice president.nd i say that because i was governor, i had not had the kind of experience in washington to know who i could trust there, who would get the job done, how the budget process would work most effectively. and paul is not only a man of character and courage and vision, he's also a person of great experience. and that washington experience combined with my experience leading and as a governor i thought was a good combination. but in terms of who's the best person to be our nominee, i'm going to wait to make that decision a little later. >> you believe governor chris christie is telling us the truth? >> oh, i sure do. chris is a friend of mine. chris is a straightforward guy. when he tells you something, you can count on it. and i'm counting on chris and believe that he, if he decides to get into national politics, he'll do very well indeed. >> if hillary clinton is the democratic nominee, in your opinion, who is most qualified to beat her? >> well, if i knew the answer to that specifically,