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He took $716 billion from that program to create obamacare. >> these charge between the two parties and campaigns over medicare are just going to intensify as the campaign continues. we should point out medicare provides health care treatment to 48 million americans, most of them elderly. >> john: after all the back and forth over golf knee's tax returns, congressman ryan released his? >> yes. the romney-ryan campaign has posted the last two years of tax returns for the congressman on-line. they show that congressman ryan and his wife took in a little over $323,000 in income in 2011 and paid n...

Currency manipulation. we learned that paul ryan actually voted against it a 2010 house bill that would have cracked down on china's currency manipulation. very different than what he is saying on the campaign trail. this whole vetting of paul ryan now by the media extends past medicare. >> well, the gist is both sides are trying to accomplish with the other sort of knocking them off there purchase at work. the romney folks were trying to knock obama's likability numbers down. obviously that is one of the biggest assets on the campaign trail. some of the harshest language we've heard from him ...

Why didn't he do this before and shut this down? >> why now? his big message with the white board was about medicare and his vp pick. why now? that could be the bumper sticker on this whole campaign. >> let me go to you, rebecca. he says he paid at least 13% in taxes over the past ten years. if that percentage is correct, is that fair? i mean, when you look at the fact that he's worth an estimated $250 million, if he paid 13.9% in 2010. but a worker who earned $60,000 a year pays 29.9% in taxes on average. so given the percentage he said today he did over the last ten years, is it fair? >> it'...

You paid lower than the 13.9%? >> i haven't calculated that. i'm happy to go back and look. >> did romney pay 10%, 5%? 0? we don't know. but we know personally approved over $70 million in fictional losses to the irs as part of the notorious summit boss tax scandal, one of the largest tax avoidance schemes in history. isn't it time for romney to come clean? >> laura: governor romney has already released two years of tax returns. and just days after president obama's super pac implied mitt romney was a cold hearted killer, mr. obama said this. >> over the next three months, 89 days to be precis...

You paid lower than the 13.9%? >> i haven't calculated that. i'm happy to go back and look. >> did romney pay 10%, 5%? 0? we don't know. but we know personally approved over $70 million in fictional losses to the irs as part of the notorious summit boss tax scandal, one of the largest tax avoidance schemes in history. isn't it time for romney to come clean? >> laura: governor romney has already released two years of tax returns. and just days after president obama's super pac implied mitt romney was a cold hearted killer, mr. obama said this. >> over the next three months, 89 days to be precis...