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Maine becomes the first state to get a waiver from obama care rules. over 1,000 organizations now have waivers from obama care rules. its a $500 billion double counting revealed this week which shoots a huge hole in the idea that obama care can lower the deficit and now youve got the chairman of the senate finance committee saying, dont cut medicare advantage. even though he voted to cut it and the president wants to cut it to the tune of $200 billion. >> why the switch-a-roo? >> youre asking me...

Spending. if you take away the double countrying, its about a $700 billion deficit. we asked the cbo to look at this bill without all the gimmicks. when cbo looks at the debt, they can look at everything, not just this narrow piece of legislation. they say this health care bill increases the debt. so how can it be that this legislation reduces the deficit but increases the debt? the reason is because in this bill which is scored which gives you that score that you just mentioned, they have all t...

>> neil: im fine. this comes at a time when you have so many talking about double counting, overcounting, unreliable workers knocking on doors and not doing what they should. well get to that but bottom line, should we trust the final figures you spit out? >> well, we want to be as transparent as possible in all our procedures. so you mentioned duplication and missed units. we have a set of procedures built into the operations that check those things and as soon as we get a elevations, well shar...

>> neil: the scene in anaheim, california. the scene for the all-star game. were going to hear from derek jeter and alex rodriguez, andy pettitte excepting on the loss and provider. george steinbrenner, passing away at age 80. commenting on that ahead of the all-star game in california. >> in the meantime, the count is over, checking and rechecking is on. the census winding down the outcome to determine $400 billion spent in ten years but with possible double counting with the results be reliabl...

The opposite of what obama is doing. reagan stood up to the evil empire, the opposite of what obama is doing. can we expect -- reagan ended the cold war, created, didnt save, created 21 million new jobs. can we expect if he does the opposite well have the opposite results? >> of course, you are seeing it. you are sitting in california one of the worst places going. up the road 17% unemployment. new health care bill, they raise the taxes. 10 years of taxes for six years of reform, double counting...

First place including the cornhusker kickback but does a whole lot more than that. it gives medicaid to states and fixes the donut hole for seniors and adds a medicare payroll tax on investment income for families making more than $250,000 and cuts $60 billion more from medicare and delays the tax on cadillac insurance plans that many unions dont like and pulls school loans from banks and has the government handling them. heres the presidents take. >> while the senate has the last round of impro...

Is left exposed, just as the baby boomers start retiring. megyn: so cbo is on the to double counting of $500 billion in medicare savings. is that factoring in at all to the numbers that we expect from the -- do we expect cbo to come out today, the jig is up? imnumbers dont add up? it is actually not a cost saving measure here? >> no. what they say you cant double count them. if youre going to save the money in medicare it will extend its life. if you take the money out of medicare spend it somew...

Talk and be responsive, he can. if he doesnt want to do that, he doesnt have to. that leaves you the option of the guy that has to interrupt him when he seems to be full buster and not answer -- filibustering and not answering the question. you never look good interrupting the president of the united states because hes the president. you did what you could. his answer on double counting of medicare savings was tremendously revealing. he really didnt answer your question in any satisfactory way. ...

Talk and be responsive, he can. if he doesnt want to do that, he doesnt have to. that leaves you the option of the guy that has to interrupt him when he seems to be full buster and not answer -- filibustering and not answering the question. you never look good interrupting the president of the united states because hes the president. you did what you could. his answer on double counting of medicare savings was tremendously revealing. he really didnt answer your question in any satisfactory way. ...

Deficit 131 billion dollars over the next 10 years. first a little about cbo. i work with them everyday. very good people. great professionals, they do their jobs well. but their job is to score what is placed in front of them. what has been placed in front of them is a bill that is full of gimmicks and smoke and mirrors. what do you mean when i say that? the bill has 10 years of tax increases, about half a trillion dollars with 10 years of medicare cuts, about half a trillion dollars to pay for...