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Louisiana, minnesota and colorado combined. plus some. 75 million americans all have the same health insurance. and the big health bill that the republicans in the senate unv l unveiled today takes a meat ax to that health insurer. more than anything else it does. if you want to know one thing about it. lets say you want to know one good thing and one bad thing. the good thing for rich people is that its a huge tax cut for rich people. thats one really good thing. the bad thing is it takes, as i...

And the big health bill that the republicans in the senate unveiled today takes a meat ax to that health insurer. more than anything else it does. if you want to know one thing about it. lets say you want to know one good thing and one bad thing. the good thing for rich people is that its a huge tax cut for rich people. thats one really good thing. the bad thing is it takes, as i said, a meat ax to that one health insurance provider, biggest health insurance provider in the country. singles it o...

Democrat, one in the house or senate that wants to talk about reducing medicare and social security spending? i cant find a single one. >> not arguing. lot of support for those programs. lot of people supportive because middle income people are struggling and need those programs. but also not suggesting all these things i mentioned. >> youre the one who wants to run ads against the republicans. >> im out of the ad business. >> of granny thrown out -- >> im just watching with interest to see how ...

Been done before. >> point of fact, it has been done before, actually, by the last guy. eight years ago president obama held his inauguration concert, quite famously, in that very same place. the lincoln memorial. beyonce was there, bruce springsteen, u2. there is virtually no more different transition than two people so different in background but perhaps the most consequential difference is on policy. we are about to see a massive shift in how the federal government operates and who it helps a...

Chrischristie.com. people should look at them. theyre tough. theyre tough choices, but thats what we have to make to get our budget in balance. thats what i did by reducing or eliminating 800 programs in new jersey as governor. and i will take the same approach, a not a meat ax. >> criticized for missing a lot of senate votes. heres how senator rubio responded to those criticisms. >> these votes that are happening in the senate, were not going to be able to make a difference unless we have a new...

I think we have a rifle shot, not a meat ax. we need to rifle shot these programs to keep from a government shutdown. we shouldnt shut down the government. but there are certain things we shouldnt compromise on. tough decisions will be made in the next few days. bill: when you move to the new year, do you expect the new republican majority in congress to succeed or fail? >> im absolutely convinced that our lesson from this last election that they want to us govern southern well govern and well h...

Knows is not true. what we wouldnt have done is pass add 2700 page bill that takes away a trillion dollars from health care providers and causes millions of americans to lose the plans they have and like. we would have gone in a different direction. instead of taking a meat ax to the american health care system, we would have taken a scalpel, done things like interstate health insurance, allow consumers to pool together to purchase insurance cheaper, medical malpractice reform. imagine how much ...

Fall? that kathleen sebelius, as some have suggested, ought to resign? >> well, lets have congressional hearings. lets find out who is responsible for this fiasco and take the appropriate action in my view, but, look, this is just the beginning of the problems associated with a massive restructuring of one-fifth of our economy, and theres going to be a whole lot more problems associated with this before its done. thats why we republicans have to keep up the fight, but we have to rifle shot it ra...

Our childrens money because were borrowing from the next generation to pay for this. >> greta: i was going to ask you about waste and fraud, i dont know if you know it on capitol hill, a number of staffers who owe taxes. >> staffers and people from the irs and other-- >> and what effort is being made? i know some bills have been introduced to do something about the tremendous amount of waste in government, whether its empty buildings, people getting payments who shouldnt, people getting unemploy...

Place in history to start the conversation. that will warm him up. your thoughts. >> absolutely. i dont know if it was about him that paul krugman said its a dumb persons view of what a smart person sounds like. paul ryan is essentially trying to propose to balance the budget in ten years. his previous draconian budget did so in something like 40. to meet this test, austerity at all cost, this fetish on the right, hes decided to take a meat ax not only to medicare as you said, voucherizing it, a...