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Omission by the administration not to identify cases now heading to military course. to explain the status of the 9/11 case will go to federal court 15 months ago. they told reporters they are still reviewing options. bret? >> bret: thank you. still to come, more of my exclusive interview general petraeus in afghanistan. up next, fuzzy math on healthcare reform. anks to the venture card from capital o, we get double miles on every purchase. so we earned a trip to new orlns twice as fast! bebebeb...

12 years of the medicare trust fund and the $500 billion represents a slowdown in the growth of medicare from what was projected at 8% to -- >> is it medicare, are you using it to save medicare or fund healthcare reform? which one? >> both. megyn: so, do these republicans have a point that the democrats need to be held accountable on the so-called fuzzy math? >> well, the fuzzy math being referred to is $105 billion -- megyn: no, no. there are two issues. we can get to that, but this is about th...

Omission by the administration not to identify cases now heading to military course. to explain the status of the 9/11 case will go to federal court 15 months ago. they told reporters they are still reviewing options. bret? >> bret: thank you. still to come, more of my exclusive interview general petraeus in afghanistan. up next, fuzzy math on healthcare reform. ♪ [ folk pop ] [ man ] ♪ if you got worries then youre like me ♪ ♪ dont worry now i wont hurt you ♪ ♪ and if you got worrie...

Its too late to repeal it. megyn: then they said, the savings are less than we expected. >> fuzzy math, fuzzy math. megyn: it was extraordinary to see her say, "both." >> first time theres been an admission, both, counting it twice. megyn: much more as the week goes on. >> good luck. megyn: you cannot use the same dollar twice. you cant do that in your own accounting. >> when you count it twice, your eyes glaze over. its difficult to get to grips that $500 billion has been counted twice and you ...

Week. another $4 billion. then $2.5 billion brought to the table today by the white house. i know this is in the weeds here. but that is how they are getting to halfway to the republicans cuts. $51.5 billion. okay. there is the math. they told us there would be no math. lets bring in the panel. jonnah goldberg, at large eder to. and erin billings, deputy editor of roll call. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. jonnah, both sides are guilty of what we will call "fuzzy math" on the cuts, the...

Week. another $4 billion. then $2.5 billion brought to the table today by the white house. i know this is in the weeds here. but that is how they are getting to halfway to the republicans cuts. $51.5 billion. okay. there is the math. they told us there would be no math. lets bring in the panel. jonnah goldberg, at large eder to. and erin billings, deputy editor of roll call. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. jonnah, both sides are guilty of what we will call "fuzzy math" on the cuts, the...

Are republicans or because they are conservative. im not a fan because i just s disagree fundamentally with some of the rhetoric, the angry rhetoric that they have used to rally americans. that said, look, if the republicans want to go back to a 19th century model of small government, less taxes, fine. we, meaning the government, inherited a mess that the republicans created. >> stop that. youve got to take responsibility now. its time to take -- >> we will take -- >> enough. it is time you guys...

Vat tax, which will affect everybody in this country and really just cripple the economy. the cbo came out recently and reestimated the fuzzy math and said next year, our deficit would be $1.4 trillion, rick, thats $75 billion more than projected. this is unsustainable as bernanke said. >> dick, let me give you the last word and all of that spending, as we look at these deficits that go up and up and up. >> i think president obama said clearly were going to have to raise the taxes on people that...

Yeah. that may be confusing, you know, given the fact that g.m. lost $4.3 billion during the second half of 2009. now, i dont know how you pay back gigantic loans when you are losing money hand over fist. but somebody does. tarp special inspector general neil barofsky is shedding light on eds fuzzy math. here it is. >> if there is any money left in that account after a certain period of time, it has to be used to repay the debt. basically what g.m. is doing is pulling back forward and taking the...

Yeah. that may be confusing, you know, given the fact that g.m. lost $4.3 billion during the second half of 2009. now, i dont know how you pay back gigantic loans when you are losing money hand over fist. but somebody does. tarp special inspector general neil barofsky is shedding light on eds fuzzy math. here it is. >> if there is any money left in that account after a certain period of time, it has to be used to repay the debt. basically what g.m. is doing is pulling back forward and taking the...