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Serious setback in court. a state judge ruling that part of the program is unconstitutional. trace gallagher live in our west coast newsroom with more. trace? >> reporter: and, megyn, the way it works in louisiana is if you are attending an underperforming school and your family makes less than $57,000 a year, then you qualify for a voucher, right? that is taxpayer money to pay for private school tuition, online classes, even early college class,. now, there are some 700,000 students in louisian...

For the conversation, lets turn to richard wolffe, msnbc political analyst and vice president and executive director of msnbc.com. and molly ball, political reporter for "the atlantic." the republican proposal includes ryans voucher program for medicare. were not even a month away from the election and they are throwing up on the wall everything that was rejected. why are they doing this? >> well, i can tell you why they think they have a mandate. they are throwing insults at each other and that...

Billion in revenue. for the conversation, lets turn to richard wolffe, msnbc political analyst and vice president and executive director of msnbc.com. and molly ball, political reporter for "the atlantic." the republican proposal includes ryans voucher program for medicare. were not even a month away from the election and they are throwing up on the wall everything that was reejected. why are they doing this? >> well, i can tell you why they think they have a mandate. they are throwing insults a...

Martha: it is the point. we have seen in so many of our inner cities, the more money that gets thrown at the program over the years, we have seen a declining rate of grades and test scores. so we added more money, we are getting lower test scores. you want to make sure you will have quality in those hours. up believe the way to do that is to promote school choice which doesnt seem to be happening in this administration. >> what can do you with a few dollars for kids? before president obama becam...

He wants to slow the cost of living increases on social security. social security is off the table. on medicare, though, one part of the presidents savings would come from increasing premiums to the wealthiest americans so there might be some agreement there. but raising the eligibility age for medicare recipients is an absolute nonstarter. the idea is unpopular and its also inefficient because it increases the cost to seniors without creating much savings to the government at all. heres the bot...

The wine, women and song and the rest i would waste on education. jenna: well leave it there. something our audience can ponder. fred, great to see you. good advice. >> thanks for having me. jon: right now a judge in louisiana is hearing arguments over the states controversial school voucher program. it is meant to help kids in failing schools afford a better education but teachers unions and some school districts are suing claiming it is unconstitutional. casey stiegel, is live in baton rouges ...

Medicare to get the type of serious deficit reform needed to bring down the $16 trillion debt? >> well, you know, i think anytime youre talking about a deficit, theres two ways to bring it down, and i know you know this well. youre either going to raise revenue or have cuts, and i would continue to argue for a balanced approach which means i do think you can find savings in both programs. but what im concerned about is what the real agenda is and the real agenda, in my opinion, is to end medicar...

Table. its got to come from the wealthiest americans. republicans are saying well get some revenue too, but we want spending cuts. then they will look at entitlements. in fact, he said this is the real problem. are democrats willing to buy into that, that the real problem is the big three and youre going to have to serve up some revenue in those programs? >> no, what democrats have said with respect to medicare is that we can build on the approach that we took in the affordable care act, which i...

Wealthiest americans. we want to spending cuts. then they will look at entitlements. in fact, he said this is the real problem. are democrats willing to buy into that, that the real problem is the big three and youre going to have to serve up some revenue in those programs? >> no, what democrats have said with respect to medicare is that we can build on the approach that we took in the affordable care act, which is different than the republican approach. the republican approach has been lets pas...

Its got to come from the wealthiest americans. republicans are saying well get some revenue too, but we want spending cuts. then they will look at entitlements. in fact, he said this is the real problem. are democrats willing to buy into that, that the real problem is the big three and youre going to have to serve up some revenue in those programs? >> no, what democrats have said with respect to medicare is that we can build on the approach that we took in the affordable care act, which is diffe...