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The white house director was asked about it. >> he is not cutting medicare in this budget. we were putting forward reforms that cut drug prices and it has the impact of finding savings. medicaid spending will go up every year by healthy margins. >> just to pull back the curtain a little bit, were fact checking that because there is a lot of voodoo math that went into creating this budget. he said he would balance the budget in the court of eight years. it calls for taking 15 years to balance the...

And we dont do that here. >> but isnt that all of it? without getting health care passed, where are you going to find the money? >> youre not. >> so you think this thing is going nowhere? >> nowhere. nowhere fast. youre asking me honestly. youre asking me is this going to go nowhere fast and im saying no. first of all, this is not a 2017 project, unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your side of the world. i think there is a possibility that in 2018 there is some form of tax cuts. this is...

Down, doesnt he? more information than anything. they have all the information they want. and yet any poll you take -- and its not just progressives or anti-trumpites if you will, not just the resistance. people want to see how this guy is making out. >> everybody wants to -- you want to understand the incentives behind whatever decision anybody or any proposal thats being made. let me say we already know whats going on here because one of the pieces of this tax proposal is whats called a pass-t...

Id like to see -- i remember voodoo math. i was a numbers guy before i went into politics. i want to see their plan. fa if its a reasonable plan, there might be ways to improve upon it. i dont see in the real world if you use reasonable numbers how you can guarantee coverage, guarantee the good things and somehow then still pay for that in a way thats going to lower costs. and honestly, this kind of period between when you repeal and they come up with replace, theyre not even lending any credenc...

That they have no alternative plan for them when captured other than what we just saw in that video? >> yes, lawrence, the rules of war and the geneva convention are definitely not at play here right now. and i think aman nailed it in the sense you have a variety of different groups. some of the numbers we see tossed around d.c. right now, this is what i call jihadi voodoo math. we dont know if some individuals are fighting for purely local reasons. there are others who came into syria for broad...

Voodoo math. we dont know if some individuals are fighting for purely local reasons. there are others who came into syria for broader religious reasons, and there are others who are fighting for criminal reasons or perhaps other reasons. who actually wins the war at the end of the conflict and who determines the type of support they have over the forces and followers is going to be completely up in the air. and well have little control over it. we may be able to influence it, but we should not b...

Forgetting is that many of these delegates are unbound delegates, so if you voted for somebody other than mitt romney, you can still make your vote be for rick santorum if youre a delegate. and so what the romney people are using voodoo math trying to show they are inevitable, and the truth is anybody that knows the delegate count and studies it, they are having just as much trouble getting to the winning number and this has the real chance of going to a convention where the conservative will wi...

>> there was a big disagreement between senator mccain and secretary panetta about the u.s. going alone into syria. mccain made a very strong point going back to the 90s saying, look, when the atrocities were happening in bosnia, the united states acted and its time for us to act here. he had a very pointed question to panetta saying, how many more tens of thousands have to die before youre willing to go in? but panetta countered and said, look, im not going to send american troops, me...