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For seniors. thats the simple facts. if you dont like it, vote no. >> you know that the ryan plan transforms it to put market forces in there. i know you dont like it. >> what does transform it mean? >> what it does, takes it to voucher programs -- by the way were talking about people under 55 years old. medicare we know will not exist because it is a path to go broke. soap you have to make some changes and i welcome the president to the table. remember it was the president and you democrats who...

I think its very important that we bring it up, i welcome the president to the table. paul ryan has already laid these issues on the table and i think it is an extremely important bipartisan discussion. >> congressman weiner, your team now has a plan to rally behind. hows the rally going? >> its much better. you described it as an attack on paul ryans plan. heres the central fact of the medicare program. democrats create and support it. and the democrats dont. the republicans created it and supp...

Republicans are seeing now, is they think they have an opportunity to hack away at the safety net programs they never cared about, im not saying they dont like seniors, im just saying they dont like medicare. im not saying they dont like seniors, they just dont like social security. think just dont like them to become poor or sick or need for care. thats the fundamental difference between democrats and republicans. youre going to have to stop saying my name out loud. somehow it slows me up. all ...

Trillion in budget cuts over the coming decade. huge cuts in medicaid, and then the medicare cuts get even bigger in the decade after that. but it uses most of that money for tax cuts. it has $4.2 trillion in tax cuts, and in the health care area, you know what the ryan plan does -- the congressional budget office says this -- it actually makes medicare more expensive but it saves money for the government by having the government pay so much less of the cost of medicare that its a huge shift on ...

Millions of seniors from poverty with social security and medicare. we have led the world in scientific research and technological breakthroughs that have transformed millions of lives. thats who we are. this is the america that i know. >> this is not the america the tea party knows. this is not the america that john boehner and mitch mcconnell represent. they represent the america that believes government can do nothing right, except occasionally when a republican commander in chief is directin...

Responsible governing, the burden of maintaining the great liberal successes of social security and medicare, and the rest of the social safety net falls and has always fallen exclusively to the creators of those programs. that is exactly how the republicans see it. republicans were opposed to the creation of social security. why should republicans figure out how to keep it going? republicans were opposed to the creation of medicare. why should republicans figure out how to keep medicare going? ...

Strike any one of us. there but for the grace of god go i, we say to ourselves. and so we contribute to programs like medicare and social security, which guarantee us health care and a measure of basic income after a lifetime of hard work. unemployment insurance which protects us against unexpected job loss. and medicaid, which provides care for millions of seniors in nursing homes, poor children, those with disabilities. were a better country because of these commitments. ill go further. we wou...

Thats not right, and its not going to happen as long as im president. >> joining me now, senior political editor for the "huffington post" and howard feinman. also, the founder and president on the nonbudget center, bob greenstein. thank you for joining me tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >> howard, i think what i heard was a veto threat of the president a veto of an attempt to preserve any of the low top tax rate by republicans. please tell me that was a veto threat i just heard. >> i think it def...

We call it unemployment insurance. they call it a government handout and wonder why the unemployed dont just start their own businesses. >> there but for the grace of god go i, we say to ourselves. and so we contribute to programs like medicare and social security. >> there but for the grace of god go i. i learned that phrase as a child, but ive never before heard that as the rationale for medicare and social security. i imagine medicare and social security are logical extensions of the concept ...