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Right now hes giving them bonuses. >> keep the enrollment up and keep the seniors happy at least through this election. then the cuts will start. >> reporter: mr. obama also by the way applies the 716 billion to offset the cost of obamacare making it look much less expensive than it otherwise would. martha. martha: interesting. all right. thank you so much, jim. jim angle. bill: a little bit of context now in medicare in 2011 it covered $70.2 million. in 2013 more expected to depend on the progr...

For the poor drawing this comment during the debate. >> 15% of hospitals and nursing homes say they wont take any more medicare patients under that scenario. we also have 50% of doctors who say they wont take any medicare patients. >> so the senior citizen will be less desirable than the welfare mother to doctor. they are going to find long waits for care and find it difficult to find facilities to admit them. martha: it would have a major impact on seniors, which are typically a very reliable a...

Through this election,. >> reporter: then the cuts will start. not only that, mr. obama also applies the 716 billion, jon, to offset the cost of obamacare, making it look much less expensive than it otherwise would be. jon. jon: seems like a big shell game. thanks for untangling it for us. >> reporter: big shells. jon: very big shells. jim angle in washington. thank you. jenna: new outrage after a group of high school students gets suspended for eating these mints, and its causing a big burst of...

Jim angle is live from washington to help us court it all out. >> reporter: as you showed, martha, governor romney insists the president cut 716 billion from medicare while the president argues he saved 716 billion east said during the debate. >> $716 billion we were able to save from the medicare program by no longer over paying insurance companies, by making sure that we werent over paying providers. >> reporter: others, however, say they are not savings, they are cuts to medicare that shortch...

On the technological security systems elsewhere we are going to do it the old fashioned way by hand on the back end and youre just going to have to trust us that were doing that. in my mind that is just not an acceptable standard in todays era. >> reporter: experts say its relatively easy for any website to upgrade the security for these kinds of transactions and donations, but the obama campaign says it has complete confidence in the system and the protocols it has in place right now. jenna. je...

Cool, be presidential, he tried to stay above the frey and ended up looking detached, a bit off and listless and the president in his sort of coolness did know the take mitt romney to task. >> the democratss big s charge, that romney has a 5 trillion dollar tax cut, he wont be able to pay for. one that will force a $2000 tax increase on middle class families. thats all based on a study by the tax policy center, which originally said romneys plan could only be deficit neutral with a tax hike on t...

Mr. obamas strategy was hold back on the attack because it might look beneath the dig dignity of the office. >> no subject was more hotly contested last night than tax policy. jim angle takes a look at the fact and the fiction behind the claims. >> the two candidates jousted over taxes throughout the debate, romney wants to reduce tax rates by 20% across the board. but says he would keep a definite sit neutral by trimming some of the $1.2 trillion a year in tax deductions. president obama argues...

Help, but its going to take a different path, not the one weve been on, not the one the president describes as a top-down cut taxes for the rich, that is not what im going to do. >> reporter: now what is going to be interesting, what well be watching for at this rally in the next few minutes how does the president present himself now? is he the same guy last night that took a punch and didnt seem to be ready to come back or is he going to get off the canvas this morning and show this is a wake u...

An economists dream. what about the rest of us? well see -- thank goodness for your fact chec fact checking, jim. jon: new information on the murder of a u.s. patrol agent nicholas ivie. what we know about where he was ambushed and the hunt for his killer. jenna: a look at what to expect in round two. my doctor told me calcium is efficiently absorbed in small continuous amounts. citracal slow release continuously releases calcium plus d with efficient absorption in one daily dose. citracal slow ...

Of expectations of him, expecting him to say even crazy things, or things that are factually not true. and so its going to be very difficult for, i think -- it will be difficult for anyone to say he has done something that crossed some line that he shouldnt cross. >> bret: i want to end on this one points, we didnt cover it. the controversy about big bird. and believe it or not, there are some quarters that are very upset about that this. take a listen to governor romney and president obama toda...