In a shock move, Republican Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan will be retiring.

Mark Zuckerberg gets grilled on the hill, and the Trump investigation continues to proceed.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

So this week is crazy. Lots of stuff happening this week. The FBI raids the presidents

of the United States personal lawyers office two days ago.

And now the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, announces that he will not be running for re-election

and that he will, in fact, step down from his position as a Speaker after the November elections

and that he will not run for re-election, meaning he will leave office in January of 2019.

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and you feel it. But you also know that this is a job that does not last forever.

You realize that you hold the office for just a small part of our history, so you better

make the most of it. It's fleeting. And that inspires you to do

big things. And on that score, I think we have achieved a heck of a lot. Okay. So, you know,

Paul Ryan is of course going to say that because he's leaving. The truth is that Paul Ryan has

achieved some things. He has not achieved others. His great dream was entitlement reform. He thought that he was going to be able to save the country from the oncoming train that is Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid collapse, which will be happening over the next 10 to 20 years. That didn't happen. He did get tax cuts passed. That's a good move. He was able to pass through revocation of the individual mandate, which is obviously a good thing.

He's been able to get rid of some of the regulations that the Obama administration put in place through the Congressional Review Act process. He's gotten a lot of flack as well. And I have a lot of thoughts on why it is that Speaker Ryan is going. But first, I think we ought to review exactly what Speaker Ryan was, because today you're going to hear a lot of people who are on the right celebrating Paul Ryan going,

suggesting that Paul Ryan going're going to hear a lot of people who are on the right celebrating Paul Ryan going,

suggesting that Paul Ryan going is going to change the way that Congress does business.

He was a milk toast. He needs to go. Now, listen, I don't think Paul Ryan ran everything as well as things could be run. How could you? The man cut deals with Patty Murray when he was not Speaker of the House, and then he cut a deal with Democrats to pass a $1.3 trillion on the bus package that there is no excuse for passing. But it is important to note that for all of the bad bills that Paul Ryan passed, he also passed a good bill that was rejected by Mitch McConnell. So I think a lot of the ire that's been directed at Paul Ryan really ought to be directed at Mitch McConnell, because here's how the process works. Paul Ryan would pass a very conservative bill through a conservative house and then it would go to the Senate and there it would die. And then Mitch McConnell would pass a different version of a bill. And now the question was on Paul Ryan. Do you stand fast? Do you tell Mitch McConnell that you're not going to pass anything the Senate passes? Do you tell President Trump they're not going to pass something that he wants to sign. Or do you go along, to get along, take the hit on behalf of Mitch

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