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Matter with white people." and eugene robinson is a pulitzer prize win be columnist from "the washington post." i think there are problems marrying paul ryan politically like his positions. isnt that the reason why romney kissed him, said good-bye, i like your name, ryan is cute, but im not going to get too close to a guy who wants to basically get rid of medicare, cut medicaid, get rid of pell grants and do all kinds of things to make rich people richer. he doesnt want to get too tight with tha...

Often parents who have the fewest resources and also meaning that if a young lady or a young man doesnt have a parent like ms. guess, what are the options? what are the choices for them? >> so i cant remember his name. theres a professor who did a study about the d.c. voucher program and how parents were choosing. what he found is that like rich, poor or otherwise, but in this case, people who were eligible to participate in the program. these are low income families living in the district. they...

Ticket. >> thats it. >> was part of that national ryization. you look at what happened a month ago. i sat down and asked her about this medicare question. >> lets not make any mistake here. theres only one candidate in this race, my opponent who has voted to kill medicare by turning it over to private insurance companies and end guaranteed benefits. i dont think anybody in the state of nevada or the united states wants to continue overpayments to insurance companies but by restricting and ending...

When you get old, probably the issue you worry about most is youre going to get sick, what kind of health care is out there for you, can you afford it. and when you have somebody like ryan come forward and saying were going to end medicare as we know it, people were saying what is he doing? medicare is a popular program. its not perfect but it is a damn good program providing health care to millions and millions of people. >> they make the case that -- senator, they make the case that theyre try...

And when you have somebody like ryan come forward and saying were going to end medicare as we know it, people were saying what is he doing? medicare is a popular program. its not perfect but it is saddam good program providing health care to millions and millions of people. >> they make the case that -- senator, they make the case that theyre trying to save the program. what about that? >> theyre quote unquote saving the program by forcing -- of course theyre not trying to save the program. what...

From new orleans, where the aarp convention is taking place. so, ron, the president is appearing by video, and then after the president speaks, paul ryan is going to get his turn with this crowd. what should we expect from these two duelling addresses? >> reporter: well, i think youre just hearing the president there, thomas. first of you a, good day. you hear the president hitting hard at mitt romney and paul ryan over their plan to simply transform medicare into a voucher program. the presiden...

Over this country rightfully are very, very nervous about the privatization of medicare and the conversion into a voucher program. >> so, senator, the past, if its prologued, shown that the president historically did not win over seniors. could the paul ryan pick change that? the obama campaign has a new ad out today talking to seniors about that 47% remark mr. romney raised in the fund-raising teep. lp seniors see themselves in that tape? >> my answer is, yes, and the president has to do two th...

The senior vote, independent senator bernie sanders of vermont. serving on the health committee and pension company kmss to name a few. a new poll out this morning saying when voters in swing states asked which candidate they trusted most to manage healthcare, 50% said president obama. a six-point lead over mitt romney. what factors into that equation most? just the fear of change, or distrust of the romney/ryan proposals? >> i dont know that its the fear of change, but when you are old you worr...

But he probably this is he has better things to do. >> weve had over 700,000 sign the petition to ask paul ryan to come back to the district and to debate me. so the grassroots organizers are logging on to my website at robzerban.com and theyre signing the petition and anyone can go on there and say, please come back to the district and debate rob zerban. people understand this is an important part of their democracy and want to have their questions answered about why paul ryan is trying to make...

Back to wisconsin to debate you, but he probably this is he has better things to do. >> weve had over 700,000 sign the petition to ask paul ryan to come back to the district and to debate me. so the grassroots organizers are logging on to my website at robzerban.com and theyre signing the petition and anyone can go on there and say, please come back to the district and debate rob zerban. people understand this is an important part of their democracy and want to have their questions answered abou...