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Borderline high and his body maximum index is 23.7 which is the upper end of normal for men. we learned mr. obama still smoked. his doctor judged his overall health as excellent and we want to drill down some of the numbers. sanjay gupta joins us now. this body mass index, i don't understand what it is. bmi. the president's is considered just below overweight on the bmi scale. how is that possible? i mean, he looks incredibly thin. >> wheth >> when you talk about body mass index, there's a somewhat complicated formula looking at weight and height calculating this body mass index. you're absolu...

Advised him to lower his cholesterol. yesterday the president's first physical exam since taking office showed his cholesterol level spiked to borderline high. his body max index is 23.7, the upper end of normal for men. we also learned mr. obama still smokes. his doctor judged his overall health as excellent, but we wanted to drill down on some of these numbers and maybe a lot of folks at home can take away something from this. 360 md sanjay gupta joins us now. this body mass index, i don't understand what it is. his is, the president's is considered just below overweight on the bmi scale. ho...

Because if the hard earned tax dollars can be treated like monopoly money. >> the president is going to have to be consistent and clear. he can't spend big part of his state of the union talking about more spending programs and then say that we're -- we have got a serious deficit problem. >> bret: the president, the administration submitted a 3. trillion-dollar budget proposal to congress today. that means the proposal has it at $1.6 trillion deficits for the following year. here is a quick breakdown of the numbers. the receipts are taxes are scheduled to rise from 14.8% of the gross domestic ...

Because if the hard earned tax dollars can be treated like monopoly money. >> the president is going to have to be consistent and clear. he can't spend big part of his state of the union talking about more spending programs and then say that we're -- we have got a serious deficit problem. >> bret: the president, the administration submitted a 3. trillion-dollar budget proposal to congress today. that means the proposal has it at $1.6 trillion deficits for the following year. here is a quick breakdown of the numbers. the receipts are taxes are scheduled to rise from 14.8% of the gross domestic ...

That is the debate. warren buffett has said something similar to that, and as i well know, there is a lot portion of americans that don't pay federal income tax. here are the numbers for you. back in 1962, 23.7 percent of the country did not pay federal income tax. it dipped there as you can see in 1970 but it has chimed since that to the point where it is almost 50 percent today. >>dave: it is staggering when you look at the increase. 15 percent in just over a decade. why is it increasing so rapidly? we will ask michael graham who is a columnist for boston herald and a radio talk show host. w...