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He called an obligation to our grandparents once again find their way back into his budget. hes back doing it again. i want to go back to our analyst here. ezra. it seeps to me, the far bigger picture, i know youre an expert at the nuts and bolts. but the larger dishonesty, hes showing crocodile tears about parents and grandparents. at the very same time, hes saying lets throw medicare out the window, replace it with a voucher program so someone 80 years old can go around shopping for a health c...

On whether they lost the election was pretty tone deaf. >> its like going into a labor negotiation and saying, give me $1,000 an hour and well start from there. i mean, what hes asking for, or nothing, if youre the boss, ill give you nothing if youre the boss. i mean, this is supposed to be the kumbaya season between the two parties when youre going to try to find common ground. he says, lets start off with the fact i want to erase your whole first term, then i want to get rid of medicare as we ...

Campaign theme and worked its way into ryans convention speech. take a listen. >> they needed hundreds of billions of more, so they just took it all away from medicare. $716 billion funneled out of medicare by president obama. an obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed all to pay for a new entitlement we didnt even ask for. >> and yet a few months later those very cuts from a program he called an obligation to our grandparents find their way back into his budget. h...

Parties. and that can work. >> why leave the pentagon almost untouched and turn obama care in a voucher program? >> we havent left the pentagon untouched. over $500 billion has already been taken out of the pentagon before sequester. so theres been real reductions in american defense spending. in terms of obama care, look, not a single republican voted for it i would be pretty shocked if we ever presented a budget that presumed that it would stay in law. we would like to see it removed. we think...

>> it felt a bit like a needle stuck on a broken record or that maybe he had his iphone earbuds in his ear -- his ipod earbuds in his ear during lunch last week with the president. i mean, lets -- im willing to give paul ryan the benefit of the doubt that it is hard in a few days, near impossible, to retool an entire budget to make an adjustment to look like youre trying to move toward some compromise. but this was pretty disappointing and shows that his response today on that they -- on whether...

>> and yet a few months later those very cuts from a program he called an obligation to our grandparents once again find their way back into his budget. hes back doing it again. i want to go back to our analyst here. ezra. it seeps to me, the far bigger picture, i know youre an expert at the nuts and bolts. but the larger dishonesty, hes showing crocodile tears about parents and grandparents. at the very same time, hes saying lets throw medicare out the window, replace it with a voucher program ...

Wanted to shift medicare in to something that looks more like a voucher program. the starkly disagreeing with him on that point and i assume one thing to discuss and certainly tell you that medicare was a topic of conversation last night when president obama met with some of those republican lawmakers and in fact at least one lawmaker who attended that dinner said that he hadnt been completely aware of the presidents position in terms of reforming medicare and openness to put things on the table...

Budget. the president hasnt introduced a budget. its pretty fundamental to governoring that you need a budget in place especially during difficult times. families recognize that, businesses recognize that. and yet the federal government is operating without a budget. >> actually, the president did actually send budgets to the hill. up may not have noticed it. >> not this year. >> not this year, right. >> thats true. >> mark. >> congresswoman, i want to ask you on budgeting, would you like to see...

Fundamentally clear that we have to protect the middle class. right? and he has said very clearly that he is not willing to affect these beneficiaries in these programs, that were going to have to get our -- >> so its defense cuts. >> but that its got to be balanced. right? its got to be balanced. >> its going to have to be defense cuts and youre going to have to get republicans to go along with that. i think theyre trying -- >> no, no, no. >> i think theyre just trying to get some kind of polit...

These beneficiaries in these programs, that were going to have to get our -- >> so its defense cuts. >> but that its got to be balanced. right? its got to be balanced. >> its going to have to be defense cuts and youre going to have to get republicans to go along with that. i think theyre trying -- >> no, no, no. >> i think theyre just trying to get some kind of political narrative going that will put the president on the defensive, and theyre thinking that people dont know what happened back in ...