How was this tax plan, a version of which has since been approved in the House while another comes under scrutiny in the Senate, going to save the GOP next year? Ryan's answer, in short: The Democratic bills -- the 1993 crime legislation and Obamacare -- were "unpopular," while the Republican tax plan, he said, "is not unpopular." We didn't -- we didn't do like some of the Democrat majorities of the past, and pass some big, huge thing on an unsuspecting country. We ran in 2016 on doing this tax reform. The president ran on doing this tax cut and tax reform."

Source: CNN November 27, 2017 22:10 UTC