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Actually increase the debt here by over 130 billion. how do those numbers come together? >> what youre got to realize is the cbo does not use a dynamic form of scoring and the other thing that you have to realize is that remember now, boomcare is a $63 billion program and after they passed the bill it was $1.4 trillion and the budget number they gave us this year to work with was $2.6 trillion and it is tripling in cost very, very quickly. so we know the cost of obamacare is going to continue to...

Saying another american was killed by insurgents in a different part of the country. the attacks coming in the same day the chairman of joint chiefs of staff dempsey is due inside that country assessing security there. the president is using his weekly saturday address to confront critics from both sides of the political aisle on his new federal budget. he talked about it today, giving a bit of a preview ahead of next weeks official release. critics calling the proposal unwise and unpopular. t...

Lets take a look at the 47%. it seems to be one of the things, if youre right about this election, its the numbers. first of all, they occupy people, 1%, all of the second-degreen, 1% became the thing to talk about. and then the 47% being anybody whos on any kind of benefit program, whether its disability or retirement or military or pension. everything was painted as bad. where did he get that number. >> look, this election was all about the numbers. 23 million unemployed, one in six on welfare...

Deal, who gets it. >> shannon: its unclear whether the vice president was referring to president obama or himself as the homeboy. but he is being criticized over both possibilities. department of the homeland security u.s. citizenship and services, us cis seems to promote government assistance in the welcome materials. the daily caller found this on the welcome to the usa.gov website. depending on your immigration status, length of time in the united states and income you may be eligible for s...

Our viewers. the president wants to leave the program in place the way it is. its a defined benefit program. he does already pass under the health care law will reduce payments to hospitals, to health care providers, and private insurers to the tune of $716 billion. youve heard that figure a lot this week. and he claims that he would extend the solvency of medicare eight years until 2024. here is the romney approach as we understand it so far. beginning not until 2023, to change the program. he ...

Let me start with the presidents approach and i want to put it up on the screen for our viewers. the president wants to leave the program in place the way it is. its a defined benefit program. he does already pass under the health care law will reduce payments to hospitals, to health care providers, and private insurers to the tune of $716 billion. youve heard that figure a lot this week. and he claims that he would extend the solvency of medicare eight years until 2024. here is the romney appro...

Romney of killing somebodys wife and not paying taxes, these are diversions. lets talk about the issues. >> lets talk about medicare then. theres been so much noise and back and forth on 34ed medicare. there is what we know, let me start with the presidents approach and i want it put is on the screen for our viewers so we can have a basic understanding of this. the president want it leave the program in place the way it is. a defined benefit program. he has passed under the healthcare law, reduc...

afghanistan to tell you about. general john allen, the is now strongly condemning some photos that will be appearing in "the los angeles times" at 8:00 a.m. eastern time and those photos depict u.s. troops posing with the bodies of suicide bombers in afghanistan. the incident which took place back in 2010 "represents a serious error in judgment by several soldiers who acted out of ignorance and unfamiliarity with u.s. army values." nick, we havent seen the photos yet. what exactly are ...

Aggressive budget intended to pull the country back from what allen blinder calls a fiscal cliff. the plan will be denounced by democrats as a radical attack on the poor to protect the rich. it will not touch social security but it will reform medicare by turning that open-ended benefit program into subsidies for health insurance with limits. the first year savings would be modest. but over a decade the plan is estimated to cut spending by $5 trillion below current projections. it will also prop...

Isnt that part of the bill were not allowed to negotiate? >> there has to be new legislation that allows for that kind of negotiation. >> believe me, there are new ideas that can amplify some of these savings without affecting the experience that i think seniors have on medicare of this very favorable guaranteed benefit program. >> all right, look, if you open that issue back up, i think thats terrific. is there any chance the democrats will agree to the last two? >> on medicare, yes, i dont thi...