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On the senate floor saying he wants to cut medicare and social security. i say lets fix it. but were not even talking about it. id say in my plan, we ought to have a report from congress. what will you do to fix medicare and social security? i want to make sure we keep it. biden just signed a bill thats going to make medicare in a worst position. so theres some simple things to do to fix inflation. hes doing none of them. >> harris: so senator, i just want to drill down on this point because dem...

Precipitously over the last couple of years, but the amount paid off has not dropped as much as the enrollment. that is one of the things that actually raise the red flags on this. >> sandra: bernie sanders on medicare for all. >> we are going to do away with administrative waste, we are going to do away with the incredible deterioration of insurance companies. so people will be paying in some cases more in taxes, but overall, premiums, deductibles, copayments. they will pay less for their healt...

As a young student in nevada said to me the hardest thing about going to college should not be paying for it. then we have to make it more affordable. how do we make it more affordable? my plan would enable anyone to go to a public college or university tuition free. you would not have to borrow money for tuition. but i do believe, and maybe its because i worked when i went through college, i worked when i went through law school, i think its important for everybody to have some part of getting ...

University twice free. you would not have to borrow money for tuition. but i do believe, and maybe its because i worked when i went through college, i worked when i went through law school, i think its important for everybody to have some part of getting this accomplished. thats why i call it a compact. i would like students to work ten hours a week in order to make it possible for them to afford their education and i want colleges to get their costs down. theyre outrageously high in what theyre...

Gigot. >> a fight in the republican party over entitlement reform kicked in high gear after house speaker and presidential hopeful newt gingrich called paul ryan right wing, engineer and democrats praised criticism of ryan and make medicare the defining issue of the 2012 election. and join the panel, wall street journal columnist and deputy editor. senior editorial page righter joe rago. and dn fund and washington columnist kim strassel. joe, spoke to newt gingrich after remarks on sunday and wh...

Have to take steps to, quote, make medicare more solvent. senator john mccain is proposing an amendment to strip the deals with individual lawmakers, the so-called louisiana purchase, strip them from the bill, and they were used, republicans say, to get votes from democratic lawmakers. jane: what are the chances of any of those amendments passing? >> not much. even senator gregg says he doesnt expect any of them will pass. he says all of them likely will go down party lines. keep in mind, if the...

Another network just a week earlier. >> who or what is the greatest national security threat to the united states? >> so, governor o mali, please say how you would protect better than anyone on that stage. secretary clinton, what would you do that president obama couldnt? >> the plan to expand social security, to make medicare available to all americans. is that something you would support? >> we have got a terrific panel of nearly 30 voters lined up for you tonight. folks of all political backg...

Another network just a week earlier. >> who or what is the greatest national security threat to the united states? >> so, governor o mali, please say how you would protect better than anyone on that stage. secretary clinton, what would you do that president obama couldnt? >> the plan to expand social security, to make medicare available to all americans. is that something you would support? >> we have got a terrific panel of nearly 30 voters lined up for you tonight. folks of all political backg...