shaken paul ryan in any way but the catholic attack now has paul ryan running scared. and he is trying to run away from ayn rand. paul ryan told a laughingly compliant writer at the country's oldest conservative propaganda outlet, the national review, that the idea that he's an ayn rand devotee as paul krugman has called him is simply, quote, an urban legend, end quote. ryan also said, i reject her philosophy. it's an atheist philosophy. and there ryan proved once again that there is nothing, nothing more powerful than the politics of religion. as soon as catholics started reminding everyone that ryan's guiding light was an atheist, ryan had to turn on her. he had to deny how closely he followed her teachings. he had to deny how much the merciless view of economics shaped his view. he had to deny making ayn rand's book and many books required reading for his congressional staff. he had to deny everything he's ever said about ayn rand simply because she was an atheist. if ayn rand has been a christian of any denomination, paul ryan would not have been forced to disown h

welcome back there are a lot of big political stories breaking this week there's paul ryan insisting his budget is not austerity there's donald trump begging republicans to bring up reverend wright and now dick cheney is hosting fundraisers for mitt romney sort of breakdown of all of these stories it's time for the monday politics panel joining me tonight are nicole williams democratic strategist invent senior online editor with the daily caller thank you both for coming right let's get started so we just saw wave elections in europe and people voters just showed enormous disgust for austerity which i think is prompting republicans who are pushing their own austerity in the united states through this kind of political jujitsu as we saw with paul ryan here's what he said on meet the press yesterday. the whole premise of our budget is to preempt austerity by getting our borrowing under control having tax reform for economic growth and preventing medicare and social medicaid from going bankrupt that austerity the president his budget the fact the senate hasn't done a budget in three yea

when we talk about paul ryan, much to jonathan's point, there is so much support that paul ryan is a moderate, a good guy, guy from wisconsin, not what paul krugman described, paul touched on this and says, what's interesting is the cult that's grown up around mr. ryan and the way self-proclaimed centrists elevated him in an icon of physical responsibility and can't let go of their fantasy. paul ryan wanted bigger bush tax cuts. >> yeah. >> he wanted $2 trillion in bush tax cuts. the bush administration called those irresponsible. paul ryan is very much at the extreme end of republican fiscal policy. >> and i think one of the reasons that politician can sort of overcome their actual ideology is the way that journalists cover these guys and you know, there's a reluctance among a lot of writers to pigeonhole them and place them on the ideological spectrum and sometimes talk about their charisma and their personality and other factors, and jonathan, it reminds me of the case you made on george w. bush back in 2000 who is someone that you were arguing in 1999 and 2000, was much further t

welcome back there are a lot of big political stories breaking this week there's paul ryan insisting his budget is not austerity there's donald trump begging republicans to bring up reverend wright and now dick cheney is hosting fundraisers for mitt romney so to break down all of these stories it's time for the monday politics panel joining me tonight are nicole williams democratic strategist invent all in a line of with the daily caller thank you both for coming right let's get started so we just saw wave elections in europe and people voters just showed enormous disgust for austerity which i think is prompting republicans who are pushing their own austerity in the united states through this kind of political jujitsu as we saw all with paul ryan here's what he said on meet the press yesterday. the whole premise of our budget is to preempt austerity by getting our borrowing under control having tax reform for economic growth and preventing medicare and medicaid from going bankrupt that austerity the president his budget the fact the senate hasn't done a budget in three years put us o

why is paul ryan disavowing this i will let you ask paul that question myself i've known paul ryan much since he was a staffer on capitol hill for senator kasten is he worked i believe in the ninety's for jack kemp as a speechwriter and. in fact i remember when we invited paul ryan to speak at the iran birthday celebration that we did some years back you know he reminded me that he was a believing catholic and i said you know that's fine i know that i know a lot of other don't have to be and if you didn't object to this no no the object of this philosophy does not have room for a god but people can read i'm rand her books and her philosophy and maybe they want to agree with all of it like i do ok but they can say she really nailed it on and i'll give you a whole lot of things that she may have going edward. now she nailed it on for example so you. know the thing is you're throwing something out that i could explain and in five or ten minutes and it wouldn't show less you're talking about less than about it would take me to talk to her i hear this from notions indexes. economic good frui

and paul ryan cite. that letter and his talk said the same thing. one in six americans are in poverty. now, the great society started in 1965, creating perhapses to address poverty. lyndon johnson. expansion of government. 50 years later one in six americans are in poverty? after spending trillions and trillions and trillions of particulars. now ryan is saying, first we need accountability. over why that has happened. second, the three main programs, two main programs created then, medicare and medicaid adding in social security, the costs are so large they drain money away from other programs for the poor. and paul ryan is saying we have to look at this and see where it is going. >> this is what the late senator, a democrat, and a catholic, used to make the case to me, that democrats should reform entitlements for seniors and medicare and social security because they are growing a huge wedge in the federal government and will soak up in the friends continue. and all spending there is, the money there is

make it but let's get back to paul ryan why is paul ryan disavowing this i will let you ask paul that question myself i've known paul ryan but since he was a staffer on capitol hill for senator kasten is he worked i believe in the ninety's for jack kemp as a speechwriter and. in fact i remember when we invited paul ryan to speak at the iran birthday celebration that we did some years back you know he reminded me that he was a believing catholic and i said you know that's fine i know that i know a lot of other don't have to be an objectivist no no the object of this philosophy does not have room for a god but people can read iran and her books and her philosophy and maybe there. agree with all of it like i do ok but they can say she really nailed it all on and i'll give you a whole lot of things that she may have going edward. now she nailed it on for example so you. know the thing is you're throwing something out that i could explain and in five or ten minutes and it wouldn't tell you the show less about just about how it would take me to talk i hear this from notions index of economi

why is paul ryan disavowing yes i will let you ask paul that question myself i've known paul ryan but since he was a staffer on capitol hill for senator kasten is he worked i believe in the ninety's for jack kemp as a speechwriter and. in fact i remember when we invited paul ryan to speak at the iran birthday celebration that we did some years back you know he reminded me that he was a believing catholic and i said you know that's fine i know that i know a lot of other don't have to be an objectivist no no the object of this philosophy does not have room for a god but people can read i'm rand her books and her philosophy and maybe they want to agree with all of it like i do ok but they can say she really nailed it on and i'll give you a whole lot of things that she nailed it when edward. now she nailed it on for example so you. know the thing is you're throwing something out that i could explain and in five or ten minutes and it wouldn't be the show let's just going out let's talk about it would take me to talk to her i hear this from notions index of economic freedom ok which is nons

ryan. >> do you agree or do you disagree. >> paul ryan. why? his budget cue rguru skills. he understands the budget process. navigating the legislate i process is going to be critical in that regard. secondly, he is bright, he is sharp and meticulous. he has the energy that compliments. he would be a good accompaniment. >> your rye action to paul ryan? is he an economic powerhouse someone who has actually run businesses instead of having the two of them together we would have a good solution for our economy which is the number one issue. >> i want to hear from obama people? >> i think paul ryan will destroy the humanity of the united states as we know it. >> i think paul ryan has the same issue. >> how? >> he has cut so many budgets. he's hurting a lot of people i believe. >> he wants to cut everything. >> we are 4 trillion in debt. we have to cut something. >> we to cut spending. >> the difference between democrats and the republicans is something like 4 percent of spending. it is ridiculous. >> i want to ask you a question. what is the s

>> representative paul ryan, here's why because his budget guru skills. i mean, he understands the budget process. i think that mitt romney would be well to have someone like that because navigating the legislative process is going to be critical in that regard. secondly, he's bright, sharp and articulate. high has the energy to complement. so he would be a good complement. >> your reaction to paul ryan. >> the economic powerhouse. you have someone who can write budgets and run businesses. so to have the two of them, we would have a good solution for our country economically, our number-1 issue right now. >> i want to hear from obama people. >> i think paul ryan will destroy the humanity of the united states as we know it. >> i do, too. >> i think that paul ryan would do the same. >> how? [overlapping dialogue] >> he is hurting a lot of people, i believe. >> he wants to cut everything [overlapping dialogue] >> $4 trillion in debt. we are broke. [overlapping dialogue] >> you know something, the difference between the democrats and the republicans is someth

ryan. >> do you agree or do you disagree. >> paul ryan. why? his budget cue rguru skills. he understands the budget process. navigating the legislate i process is going to be critical in that regard. secondly, he is bright, he is sharp and meticulous. he has the energy that compliments. he would be a good accompaniment. >> your rye action to paul ryan? is he an economic powerhouse someone who has actually run businesses instead of having the two of them together we would have a good solution for our economy which is the number one issue. >> i want to hear from obama people? >> i think paul ryan will destroy the humanity of the united states as we know it. >> i think paul ryan has the same issue. >> how? >> he has cut so many budgets. he's hurting a lot of people i believe. >> he wants to cut everything. >> we are 4 trillion in debt. we have to cut something. >> we to cut spending. >> the difference between democrats and the republicans is something like 4 percent of spending. it is ridiculous. >> i want to ask you a question. what is the s

next, marco rubio, paul ryan, rob portman. herman cain and you decide who ♪ [ male announcer ] aggressive styling. a more fuel-efficient turbocharged engine. and a completely redesigned interior. ♪ the 2012 c-class with over 2,000 refinements. it's amazing...inside and out. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. >> welcome back. i'm frank luntz. let's take a look at the three leading contenders for vice-president and how you rate them. first up, let's take a look at how our panel rated paul ryan, the congressman from wisconsin. >> i was working three jobs out of college, waiting tables to pay back my student loans, i did not think of myself as stuck in some condition like a victim. i saw myself on the road of opportunity, trying to realize my version of the american dream, pursuing happiness how i defined it for myself. [cheers and applause] >> before we get to a conversation about paul ryan. let's look at how they reacted to florida senator marco rubio. >>

so forget about all this talk of paul ryan being vice president. i say we make him vice pope. now, when we return i will talk to a man who may oppose paul ryan's self-appointment to the vatican. georgetown university's father thomas reese. (cheers and applause) welcome back, everybody. thank you very much. folks, before the break we were discussing the brave fiscal ministry of congressman paul ryan who says his deep budget cuts to programs for the poor are in concordance with catholic doctrine. now, in response, the u.s. conference of catholic bishops replied-- and i hope i'm pronouncing my latin correctly-- bull (bleep) (laughter) plus, the jesuits in the georgetown mafia sent ryan a nasty letter saying "your budget appears to reflect the values of your favorite philosopher ayn rand rather than the gospel of jesus christ. (audience reacts) rand, of course, believed that the only rational behavior is to pursue your own selfish interests. a belief shared by rand admirers like ron paul, clarence thomas, and scrooge mcduck. wlaf laugh rye qlan has defended himself saying his repu

ryan now paul ryan has won a number of tool time awards in the past few weeks there the tool time museum run to be on pays to have his own wing and in fact his latest gaffe is directly related to his last two all time award when he responded to criticism of his budget by the u.s. congress of bishops that point ryan had said that the body doesn't speak for all catholic bishops when in fact that's exactly what it does so last week ryan told another bald faced lie when he tried to bolster his catholic credentials in a softball interview with the national review ryan trying to distance himself from tea party hero i rant the godmother of libertarian philosophy now the congressman called his intellectual love affair with the author a quote urban legend saying the following he said i reject her philosophy as an atheist philosophy it reduces human interactions down to mere contract and is antithetical to my worldview if somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on a piston knology to me and give me thomas aquinas don't give me i'm rant what's an injustice right why would you dare pathos

he called paul ryan's budget marvelous. it cuts taxes for the wealthiest and eliminates medicare as we know it and makes deep cuts in programs that middle-income families need. here's the answer. instead of finger pointing and name calling on the senate side we have a bipartisan approach. setting at the table, dick durbin, tom coburn, conservative republican from oklahoma, mike crapo, conservative republican from idaho and kent conrad. eight of us with mark warner, saxby chambliss. we are working toward the bowles/simpson approach which unfortunately paul ryan's budget doesn't reflect. everything has to be on the table. if we're going to work this out, if we're going to compromise and give the american people an answer instead of a political speech or sound bite, we've got to get back to the same basic bowles/simpson principles that paul ryan and unfortunately the three house republicans refuse to vote for. it's still the bottom line solution to our problem. >> senator, let me ask you a political question in this campaign.

ryan now paul ryan has won a number of tools on awards in the past few weeks there are the tool time museum rather beyond pays to have his own wing and in fact his latest gaffe is directly related to his last tool time ward when he responded to criticism of his budget by the u.s. congress of bishops that point ryan had said that the body doesn't speak for all catholic bishops when in fact that's exactly what it does so last week ryan told another bald faced lie when he tried to bolster his catholic credentials in a softball interview with the national review ryan trying to distance himself from tea party hero i rant the godmother of libertarian philosophy now the congressman called it intellectual love affair with the author a quote urban legend saying the following he said i reject her philosophy as an atheist philosophy it reduces human interactions down to mere contract and is antithetical to my world view if somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on a piston knology to me and give me thomas aquinas don't give me i'm rant what's an injustice right why would you dare pat

ryan and paul ryan has won a number of tool time awards in the past few weeks there are the tool time museum run to be on pays to have his own wing and in fact his latest gaffe is directly related to his last two all time ward when he responded to criticism of his budget by the u.s. congress of bishops they have that point ryan had said that the body doesn't speak for all catholic bishops when in fact that's exactly what it does so last week ryan told another bald faced lie when he tried to bolster is that the credentials in a softball interview with the national review ryan trying to distance himself from tea party hero i rant the godmother of libertarian philosophy now the congressman called his intellectual love affair with the author a quote urban legend saying the following he said i reject her philosophy it's an atheist philosophy it reduces human interactions down to mere contract and is antithetical to my worldview if somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me and give me thomas aquinas don't give me i'm rant what's an injustice right why would you

so forget about all this talk of paul ryan being vice president. i say we make him vice pope. now, when we return i will talk to a man who may oppose paul ryan's self-appointment to the vatican. georgetown university's father thomas reese. [ air rushing ] ♪ [ ambient electronic ] hi, i'm nick, and i'm a photography student. ♪ [ continues ] i'm falling at 126 miles per hour. it's my first fashion shoot. i'm recording video... and trying to get the perfect photo at the same time. and i'm doing all this... on a phone. the htc one, as recommended by me, nick jojola. [ announcer ] available from t-mobile. (cheers and applause) welcome back, everybody. thank you very much. folks, before the break we were discussing the brave fiscal ministry of congressman paul ryan who says his deep budget cuts to programs for the poor are in concordance with catholic doctrine. now, in response, the u.s. conference of catholic bishops replied-- and i hope i'm pronouncing my latin correctly-- bull (bleep) (laughter) plus, the jesuits in the georgetown mafia sent ryan a nasty letter saying "your b

ryan now paul ryan has won a number of tool time awards in the past few weeks there are the tool time museum ryobi on pays to have his own wing and in fact his latest gaffe is directly related to his last school time award when he responded to criticism of his budget by the u.s. congress of bishops that point ryan had said that the body doesn't speak for all catholic bishops when in fact that's exactly what it does so last week ryan told another bald faced lie when he tried to bolster his catholic credentials in a softball interview with the national review ryan trying to distance himself from tea party hero i rant the godmother of libertarian philosophy and the congressman called it intellectual love affair with the author a quote urban legend saying the following he said i reject her philosophy as an atheist philosophy it reduces human interactions down to mere contract and is antithetical to my worldview if somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me and give me thomas aquinas don't give me i'm rant what's an injustice right why would you dare pathos ira

paul ryan has a plan. there's been a republican proposal here and there. by in large the republicans have defined themselves in opposition to barack obama. they've been very frank about it. the president is going to call them on it and dry to deepen that impression of blame as the campaign is under way. it's clear what the strategy is. blame the republicans for obstructionism. claim credit for whatever economic successes there have been and attack the heck out of mitt romney. you saw it on display today. >> thanks. >>> a republican strategist and former romney advisor says women are not paid less than men. rachel serves him the facts. joan walsh will weigh in. >>> president obama saves the american automobile industry, so the romney camp says it was mitt romney's idea. you don't want to miss this one. stay with us. >>> republicans are trying to deny there's a gop war on women. now they are trying to deny that women have been paid less for equal work. women make just 77 cents for every dollar a man makes in america yet gop consultant went on "meet the press

he called paul ryan's budget marvelous. it cuts taxes for the wealthiest and eliminates medicares we know it and makes deep cuts in programs that middle-income families need. here's the answer. instead of finger pointing and name calling on the senate side we have a bipartisan approach. setting at the table, dick durbin, tom coburn, conservative republican from oklahoma, mike crapo, conservative republican from idaho and kent conrad. eight of us with mark warner, saxby chambliss. we are working toward the bowles/simpson approach which unfortunately paul ryan's budget doesn't reflect. everything has to be on the table. if we're going to work this out, if we're going to compromise and give the american people an answer instead of a political speech or sound bite, we've got to get back to the same basic bowles/simpson principles that paul ryan and unfortunately the three house republicans refuse to vote for. it's still the bottom line solution to our problem. >> senator, let me ask you a political question in this campaign. po

ryan's capitol hill office paul ryan of course is the multimillionaire congressman who authored the republican budget which passed out of the house of representatives this year with a near unanimous support by republicans that demonstration was organized by the group disability for attend the programs today just trying to raise awareness about the devastating impacts of the ryans trickle down republican budget on state medicaid programs ryan budget radically slashed medicaid funding over the next ten years cutting federal health care money to treat the working poor and disabled people by over a third the urban institute estimated that the republican cuts would lead to twenty seven million poor disabled and elderly americans losing their medicaid health insurance coverage over the next decade this made x. republicans want to take to the nation's social safety net only does one thing free up funds for a three trillion dollars tax cut for the koch brothers mitt romney and the rest of our nation's governors and among those arrested last week protesting against this budget was actor and

ryan's capitol hill office paul ryan of course is the multimillionaire congressman who authored the republican budget which passed out of the house of representatives this year with a near unanimous support by republicans that demonstration was organized by the group disability for attendant programs today which is trying to raise awareness about the devastating impacts of the ryan's trickledown republican budget on state medicaid programs the ryan budget radically slashed medicaid funding over the next ten years cutting federal health care money to treat the working poor and disabled people by over a third the urban institute estimated that the republican cuts would lead to twenty seven million poor disabled and elderly americans losing their medicaid health insurance coverage over the next decade this made x. republicans want to take to the nation's social safety net only does one thing free up funds for a three trillion dollars tax cut for the koch brothers mitt romney and the rest of our nations all of guards and among those arrested last week protesting against this budget was

he called paul ryan's budget marvelous. it cuts taxes for the wealthiest and eliminates medicare as we know it and makes deep cuts in programs that middle-income families need. here's the answer. instead of finger pointing and name calling on the senate side we have a bipartisan approach. setting at the table, dick durbin, tom coburn, conservative republican from oklahoma, mike crapo, conservative republican from idaho and kent conrad. eight of us with mark warner, saxby chambliss. and mike johans and michael bennet. we are working toward the bowles/simpson approach which unfortunately paul ryan's budget doesn't reflect. everything has to be on the table. if we're going to work this out, if we're going to compromise and give the american people an answer instead of a political speech or sound bite, we've got to get back to the same basic bowles/simpson principles that paul ryan and unfortunately the three house republicans refuse to vote for. it's still the bottom line solution to our problem. >> senator, let me ask you a p

wisconsin congressman paul ryan. fox news bret baier has more. >> the next president of the united states, ladies and gentlemen, mitt romney! >> hearing top democrats talk about wisconsin congressman paul ryan's budget that has already passed the republican house, you might think mitt romney has already chosen him to be on the ticket. >> romney-ryan plan. >> romney-ryan budget. >> romney-ryan budget. >> governor remain knee hasn't shied away from the ryan budget plan. >> i applaud it. it's an excellent piece of work and very much needed. >> this is a person who led a very clear path for our party and for our nation. >> romney is not just handing out compliments. many analysts say he's making a decision by openly talking about the ryan plan that is clearly seen by democrats as a fruitful line of attack for them in the fall. >> you campaigned with mitt romney in wisconsin. spent a number of days on the trail with him. he embraced your budget. is that a full embrace. >> i never expect people to embrace every little deci

paul ryan has a plan. there's been a republican proposal here and there. by in large the republicans have defined themselves in opposition to barack obama. they've been very frank about it. the president is going to call them on it and dry to deepen that impression of blame as the campaign is under way. it's clear what the strategy is. blame the republicans for obstructionism. claim credit for whatever economic successes there have been and attack the heck out of mitt romney. you saw it on display today. >> thanks. >>> a republican strategist and former romney advisor says women are not paid less than men. rachel serves him the facts. joan walsh will weigh in. >>> president obama saves the american automobile industry, so the romney camp says it was mitt romney's idea. you don't want to miss this one. stay with us. you can't argue with nutrition you can see. great grains. great grains cereal starts whole and stays whole. see the seam? more processed flakes look nothing like natural grains. i'm eating what i know is better nutrition. mmmm. great grains. sea

we'll talk about paul ryan next. he's got an exclusive with us coming up. >>> will jpmorgan's trading loss lead to more regulation? we'll talk to morgan stanley james gorman in an exclusive interview coming to you live from morgan's trading desk. we'll talk about the role in the facebook mess as well. america anxiously awaits the jobs report. whether you think the number is a surprise to the upside or downside. send us a tweet and we'll reveal your answers later on in the program. back in a moment with a busy edition of the "closing bell." >>> welcome back. investors are going to be glad to see the month of may and it's been an overall disaster for the bulls. dow losing roughly 6% this month and even if the blue chip average were to close higher today, it would still have declined 16 days this month. that's the most down days for the month of may since 1956, a year near and dear to my heart. if the dow gives back today's modest gains, it will post five up days tieing a record that goes back to june 1969. for those of

ryan's capitol hill office paul ryan of course is the multimillionaire congressman who authored the republican budget which passed out of the house of representatives this year with a near unanimous support by republicans that demonstration was organized by the group disability for attend the programs today which is trying to raise awareness about the devastating impacts of the ryans trickle down republican budget on state medicaid programs ryan budget radically slashed medicaid funding over the next ten years cutting federal health care money to treat the working poor and disabled people by over a third the urban institute estimated that the republican cuts would lead to twenty seven million poor disabled and elderly americans losing their medicaid health insurance coverage over the next decade this made x. republicans want to take to the nation's social safety net only does one thing free up funds for a three trillion dollars tax cut for the koch brothers mitt romney and the rest of our nation's governors and among those arrested last week protesting against this budget was actor

bret all agree that the choice of ryan by romney, would be a bold choice. >> if you pick paul ryan you are going the whole way on the budget and the deficit, regardless of all the pain that would create. we will take your cough syrup, america, that could be the kind of campaign that could work but it would be a very difficult kind of campaign than we have seen in modern times. >> paul ryan budget genius, very important, good guy, romney is close to hims talks to him a lot. the down side is, you nominate paul, one, you take a player out of the congress. and, two, you are going do relitigate the ryan plan which has policy advantages but political baggage. >>bret: when you hear you are on a short list for romney, what goes through your mind? >>guest: i am pretty busy doing my job. i hear that, okay. if they ask me to consider it, i'll consider it but that is months away from that kind of decision being made as far as i know. i lick my job. i think i can make a big difference doing what i am doing because we have a fiscal crisis on our horizon and i have play add constructive role to preve