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A certified -- the medical examiners office usually is in charge of this. it can be a tough task to figure out exactly how many lives were lost. its tough emotionally and its just tough to do overall. what can happen sometimes is that you might have two different organizations -- the medical examiners office and another organization both counting. as a result there may be lack of communication and as a result, double counting. so this was almost double the number. there were 24 lives lost, they ...

Around last night, which is he cant pay for that $5 trillion tax cut for millionaires and billionaires, and raise defense spend dgz 2 trillion to a level the pentagon hasnt even asked for without raising taxes on middle class families. theyre refusing to specify what deductions theyd eliminate to pay for it. >> now, there have been factual questions about what the president said last night about social security, about deficit reduction, he claimed $4 trillion deficit reduction. hes double counti...

Sort of dubious to claim those as savings when, i dont know, its kind of double counting in a way. and then another 800 billion is from the phantom war savings. another issue to keep in mind, too. a lot of this has to do with the measuring stick you are using. the cbo when they measured obamas latest budget they found it would increase the budget pretty significantly. in any case 10 years from now under obamas plan, national debt would be 76.5% of g.d.p. and current little its 74.2%. >> there yo...

Use the word arithmetic. president obama hasnt had the senate pass a budget in three years. in the health care law there are accounting tricks and double counting and double spending of money. id like to get back to fundamental basic arithmetic. >> senator, thank you. nice to see you. >> coming up, theyre back. your favorite political panel. tonight democrats counting on star power, will it work? youre going to hear from the panel next. were going to have more live from charlotte. >> hard fought...

Use the word arithmetic. president obama hasnt had the senate pass a budget in three years. in the health care law there are accounting tricks and double counting and double spending of money. id like to get back to fundamental basic arithmetic. >> senator, thank you. nice to see you. >> coming up, theyre back. your favorite political panel. tonight democrats counting on star power, will it work? youre going to hear from the panel next. were going to have more live from charlotte. >> hard fought...

Use the word arithmetic. president obama hasnt had the senate pass a budget in three years. in the health care law there are accounting tricks and double counting and double spending of money. id like to get back to fundamental basic arithmetic. >> senator, thank you. nice to see you. >> coming up, theyre back. your favorite political panel. tonight democrats counting on star power, will it work? youre going to hear from the panel next. were going to have more live from charlotte. >> hard fought...

Brothers and others? it seems like it what this panel has been saying numerous times that the healthcare law double counted in its addition. >> im not sure its effect on the election but he is absolutely right that under the cbo rules and it actually acknowledges that the rules its under requires double counting. under the cbo rules, they were double counting half a trillion dollars that was going to the medicare trust fund. it was also using the same half a trillion to stand on obamacare. now i...

That this law would ad $340 billion in a best case scenario to federal deficit in ten years. >> greta: this is going to happen -- if your paper is correct, it will happen to us unless the law is held unconstitutional. this is inevitable unless we find a pot of gold some place, right? >> right. if the entirety of the law is upheld, it will be enormous cost to the federal government. >> greta: and there is just no place we can get the money except to go farther if debt? >> right. it will add to th...

Time for austerity is not today. the challenge is how do you do two things at the same time. put money forward for payroll tax holiday and getting a jump-start of infrastructure. >> the plan calls for spending 3.8 trillion in 2013. congressional republicans are seizing on that number reminding voters the president promised to cut the deficit in half by the end of the first term and will reduce the deficit by $ 4 trillion over the next ten years. republicans say that the presidents proposes is a ...

Examiner or physician confirm the death it is not hearsay. we dont want to do any double counting. so, we have 194 across the state of alabama. that is a major, major disaster, natural disaster to hit any state, when you lose 194 people. we have a lot of people that are injured, a lot of -- some people that are still missing. and of course, we are having updates every four hours on the number of deaths, the number of miss and the number of injured. early yesterday morning, when we saw the tornad...