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I was struck by that, both questions from the white house press corps were about obamacare and healthcare, what the presidents plans are. twice in two days, bret, he has said hes got the votes. listen to this. >> so we feel we have the votes. we will be doing that after the taxes. in the meantime, were involved with a budget. >> dana: so, bret, just coming across the fires is that senators alexander and murray have come up with a bipartisan deal that they say can actually be a short term fix. is...

Affordable care acts contraceptive mandate and one day after president trump announced that hed reached out across the aisle to senate minority leader chuck schumer the try to cut a deal on a health care bill. he was asked about that as he was leaving the white house yesterday, the president said he proposed a temporary deal, one that involved the federal government handing over money for health care directly the states in the form of block grants. listen. >> so, basically, if we could do a one-...

And he has indicated here and there that he wants to keep preexisting conditions that he wants to keep other key elements of obamacare. some of that is missing in these other bills. >> they are at the both speaker ryan and majority leader mcconnell said they want to push that to the states. it will be guaranteed from the states and probably not from the federal government. >> there is another thing too. there is the matter of medicaid expansion. all of these are proposals block grant to the medi...

Have a high risk pool for the sick, medicaid block grants, bol sterg the health savings accounts, capping employer-sponsored plans. what do you quibble with there? >> the first thing is if you block grant medicaid, that creates a serious problem. that is not a solution to anything. its mostly just a way of cost shifting. taking off the federal expenditures and putting responsibility on the states and one of the serious problems of block granting is say the economy like in 2008 and 2009 goes into...

Block granting, repealing obama care, voucherizing medicare, doing all of the things he does, in comparison to the debt crisis, all of that is fine, moderate, it is just a necessary painful medicine for a deep disease. if we dont have a debt crisis though, if the whole thing is not about deficit reduction but about making radical conservative reforms to the government, nobody likes it. thats what paul ryan found out in the first 10, 12, 15 years of his career when he didnt have the deficit reduc...

A crisis which the currency is completely devalued. we print and print money, inflation races up, financial markets collapse. it is compared to that where block granting, repealing obama care, voucherizing medicare, doing all of the things he does, in comparison to the debt crisis, all of that is fine, moderate, it is just a necessary painful medicine for a deep disease. if we dont have a debt crisis though, if the whole thing is not about deficit reduction but about making radical conservative ...

>> welcome back on a big news saturday as we have been telling you all morning. as the mitts vp app. confirms. romney choosing ryan as running mate. how will react to this pick. joining us now is brian benjamin. a delegate and top fundraiser for the democratic party. good to see you this morning, brian. how will the obama campaign go after this selection? let me guess. medicare? >> well, thats a start. first of all, if you look at paul ryans budget, we have to go through this in complete detail ...

>> ive been there, youre going to save $800 billion. doesnt his plan -- yes or no on this one, say we will spend $800 billion less on medicaid? thats there, black and white, on the paper, right? >> my understanding is we do make savings in medicaid. we do that by block granting. i dont have that memorized. >> $800 billion less in spending. identical to the amount were giving back to the richest 2%? >> well, yes, except the trouble is if you decide to get rid of those tax cuts, whats going to hap...