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Ryan: I hope Trump would carry out GOP agenda

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he’s unsure whether Donald Trump, if elected president, would enact House Republicans’ conservative agenda.

“He’s the one I don’t know,” Ryan told Fox News. “I met him four years ago for about 30 seconds — very pleasant meeting, but I just don’t know the guy. So, you know, I can only hope and assume that our nominee will want to enact our bold, conservative agenda that we’re going to be offering.”

Ryan described his agenda as a platform that applies conservative principles to help solve the country’s problems, such as balancing the budget, growing the economy, replacing Obamacare, rebuilding the military and restoring the Constitution.

“I think these things, this five-point agenda that we’re building out, are something that everybody running for president should easily support and grab onto,” he said. “I just don’t know The Donald, so I just, you know, we’ll see. I would assume so.”

Trump has been attacked on the trail for having to reverse his once -liberal positions, supporting Democrats in the past and being moderate on Planned Parenthood. Ted Cruz, for example, has suggested Trump is a “campaign conservative” and has called on the Republican front-runner to have The New York Times release the transcript of an off-the-record conversation he had with its editorial board in which he allegedly said his plan to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants would simply be an opening to negotiations on immigration reform.

Mitt Romney, who chose Ryan as his running mate in 2012, has also called on Trump to release the transcript. The 2012 Republican nominee was to give a speech Thursday morning in Utah, blasting the billionaire, calling him a “phony” and a “fraud.”

But Ryan said he hadn’t seen pre-released excerpts of Romney’s speech. “As you know, Mitt and I are very close friends,” Ryan said. “He’s very worried about the future our party and our country. He’s a principled conservative. And he’s got a lot to say, and I look forward to seeing what he has to say.”

Ryan condemned Trump earlier this week for refusing to disavow the Ku Klux Klan, but the Republican leader has sought to remain neutral in the race and, as the chairman of the Republican National Convention, refused to get in the middle of the brewing battle between Romney and Trump.

“We don’t have a nominee yet,” he said. “This thing still has a ways to play out, and so people who are in the party are gonna be speaking their minds while we’re selecting a nominee and so everything’s fair game on the way to the nomination.”

But Trump disagrees. The real estate magnate said earlier on Thursday that he has been treated unfairly by the Republican establishment and re-upped his threat to launch a third-party bid.

“But if I go, I will tell you, these millions of people that joined, they’re all coming with me,” Trump told MSNBC's “Morning Joe.”