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>> doing good. >> good. look, coming up, governor mitt romney, who is back to the drawing board announcing he will reunite with his friend paul ryan monday in new hampshire. on the agenda, a joint defense of their budget and exchanging medicare for that voucher program. plus, taxes are off the agenda but the obama campaign is trying to change that with a new offer today. five years of tax returns and then theyll drop the issue. we will look at that and why the tax rates for the 1% dont seem ...

Rather than blah, blah it is about medicare and health care for americas seniors. the obama administration made the argument they took money out of medicare providers and tolded it into the creation of the funding for the affordable care act, obama care. the romney campaign says, look, we wouldnt take $716 out of any form of medicare, and therefore we are going to protect it for seniors and allow it for people 55 and older to stay. and for folks beneath the age of 55 they will create a pay for s...

Says the police are investigating the incident. our first concern is with our colleague who was shot today. our concern is for him and his family. >> president obama expressed his concern for the individual involved in the shooting. this violence has mno place in our society. he was notified about what happened in the 1:00 hour by homeland security advisor john brennan. >> peter doocy live in washington, thank you. >> back to the race for the white house another look at who is talking. medicare ...

Need? thats the choice we face. juan? >> i thought that ad was scurilous. i think what shes saying is when it comes to medicare, i dont think you can distort this any way you want. but paul ryan budget, the one he originally proposed was going to make medicare into a voucher program and not guarantee services and care -- >> that is absolutely not true. >> gretchen: thats not true. >> it is absolutely true. >> none of the services would be affected, juan. let me point out something, this is so im...

They clearly did not anticipate the degree of difficulty in dealing with the difference between the ryan plan, addition one, ryan plan, addition two, which a lot of people dont even know happened, and then romney plan whatever that is. >> right. and i think they also got taken in just a little bit by kind of the beltway medias kind of enchantment with paul ryan. >> yes. >> and paul ryan gets called serious, and hes so thoughtful. and i think they might have thought that the political press would...

Joining me now is congresswoman debbie wasserman shultz, chairwoman of the democratic national committee. thank you for joining me tonight. i hope you like my white board. >> oh, reverend al. that was classic. thank you so much. >> so mr. romney keeps pointing his finger at the president for robbing medicare. what do you say about that? >> well, that just blows the facts up when it comes to mitt romneys full embrace of the ryan plan. i mean, he said as recently as last night in a local tv interv...

Out is both sides are going to change medicare to some extent. romney people are going to do the serious business of looks like shifting it into a voucher program which is going to get less money to give to the insurance companies to replace medicare with less money. and by giving a slice of that money to the insurance companies. i think it does reduce the amount of benefits going to recipients. on the other hand, the obama approach has been to basically put a squeeze on providers, what they cal...

Being dishonest of what he plans to do for medicare, for the medicare afford act. >> they want to turn medicare into a voucher program. my plan has already extended medicare by nearly a decade. their plan ends medicare as we know it. my plan reduces the costs of medicare by cracking down on fraud and waste and subsidies to insurance companies. their plan makes seniors pay more so they can give another tax cut to millionaires and billionaires. >> sofia, i want to start with you. romney claims tha...

>> theres no surprise mitt romney while running for president is doing everything he can to confuse seniors where he really is on medicare, because his plan guts medicare. his plan ends medicare as we know it. the plan hes embraced, turns it into a voucher program. ends the guarantee. and the budget plan hes embraced and hes offered increases taxes on the middle class to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires and increases the premiums to pay for those tax cuts. the obama plan, the o...

Takes away the promise that we made more than 50 years ago to seniors in america that there was a floor through which we were not going to allow you to fall through so that you and your family would not have to face medical bankruptcy. which before medicare, too many seniors did. we had to make sure that we took health care and keeping seniors healthy off the table so they werent having to choose between medicine and meals. mitt romney and paul ryan turn medicare into a voucher program then repe...