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To ask is, who do you trust to have peoples backs? who is going to stand up for them? social security and medicare. im in new hampshire where maggie hassan is going to win this race and her opponent has said, back 1935 is when they started social security, maybe we should change it. he talked about changing medicare. weve seen that all over the country. democrats stand up for social security and medicare. go ahead, dana. >> i want you to listen to something that the governor of california, gavin...

Important thing because as chrysten sinema, who supports this points out, hearing is directly related to dementia. when you cant hear, you have a problem. and it impacts on dementia. so were able to -- and its cheaper to be able to take care of hearing. but i think ive been able to take care of that without changing medicare because whats happening is now you have these hearing aid companies, you no longer are going to have to go to the doctor and spend five grand and get an appointment. you can...

Important thing because as kyrsten sinema, who supports this points out, hearing is directly related to dementia. when you cant hear, you have a problem. and it impacts on dementia. so were able to -- and its cheaper to be able to take care of hearing. but i think ive been able to take care of that without changing medicare because whats happening is now you have these hearing aid companies, you no longer are going to have to go to the doctor and spend five grand and get an appointment. you can ...

Make it harder for democrats to keep the house and the senate? joining me now, chairman harrison. senator sanders said his opposition to the spending bill was quote, not acceptable. how do you see this all playing out this week? >> listen, i think at the end of the day, this bill is going to get passed. its going to go to the presidents desk and were going to start continuing delivering for the american people. these components of this bill are so, so important. think about what we were able to ...

Facilities, the senate bill, yes, you are able to deduct medical expenses and makes it even better, no longer do you have to reach the 10% threshold, theyve dropped it down to 7.5% and thats a big deal and help a lot of people. brian: this e-mail is from a man, steven says this, how will the new tax bill affect medicare? >> thats a great question and although theres nothing specifically in the bill, changing medicare, there is going to be a trickle down effect, whenever you introduce more defici...

On unsustainable path -- paths, im sorry. we do need to make some major reform changes to our medicare system regardless. brian: i heard the president over the weekend, its going to be welfare reform and medicare reform right after this gets done. >> and that is so important. >> if you do it bipartisan, he doesnt like poor people as opposed to lets work on this. >> the only way to get out of this, to get something together right now is to have bipartisan support. they will need support to give a...

Mandate. that couldnt be further from the truth. he lost by more than 2 million votes, the highest number ever in history, and hes trying to wrap in these failed policies into his current -- like you said, hes always wanted to privatize -- they want to privatize education, privatize social security, medicare. so we have to fight back, and thats what democrats need to do. organize, fight, push, push, push. because this is the same old failed policy. >> and jonathan cohn, you now have the news tha...

The young people of newtown are still haunting mothers and fathers. >> but as far as medicare is concerned, ryan is low throwing a joke, is he not? >> he is doubling down in order to kowtow to basically a philosophy, an anti-government philosophy from a novel he read in high school and from the right wing of his party for an extremely unpopular idea. its not just unpopular with people over 55, but people nearing retirement dont want their children to not have it. >> sam, does he destroy his cred...