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Action where he actually can get something done even with the democratic senate and a democratic house that he couldn't get his policies through. i mean the fact of the matter is that all of this noise and you have pointed out a few things, nothing can -- nothing allows the president to escape the truth of where we are at in this economy and that is our trump card. the fact is the economy is not where it should be. he didn't fix it. and i would add on top of your list the fact that the president stole $700 billion out of medicare to pay for european healthcare and this is not -- the key for us...

Should we be thanking the president for medicare changes? >> i think we should hold the applause right now. paul ryan had the number that was from the cbo considered by partisan. that number was original lie 200 billion. you know this is one of these things if you remember nancy pelosi saying we will find out what's in it. we are finding out as we go along every time we get an update on it it becomes progressively more expensive. >> 716 billion let's take a look at some of the specifics. hospitals get a cut of 415 billion, medicare advantage 156 billion. another one is hospice care. any family...

Steve is steve with clothes on. >> steve: indeed. thank you, brian. we just heard from the democrats on why they say they cut $716 billion from medicare. but are you still confused about the impact it's going to have on medicare? peter johnson, jr. has been looking at it and he's got some graphics and peter, you're going to explain what's happening. >> you might be surprised. let's look at the cuts. these are the major cuts that we're talking about under obamacare. 415 billion to hospitals. medicare advantage, 156 billion. $56 billion to low income patient hospitals. what's the net effect of t...

Or whether it would be on democrat terms with late night phone calls to seniors in the closing days of the campaign and really ugly mail pieces scaring the heck out of seniors about republicans taking away their medicare. republicans want to have the debate now and want to have it for one very important reason. they have something they can hang their hat on. president obama, as part of obamacare, took $716 billion out of medicare in order to fund obamacare. he took the basically, used, the medicare as a piggybank to pay for obamacare. the reductions primarily in two areas. $415 billion cut fro...

Is. but apparently all of it was lost. in the northeast corridor, this is the best route, the profit was $41 per passenger. >> brian: it just caught a lot of people by surprise. we know china put $415 billion into their high sed rail system. but when that was a main focus of transportation of this country. a lot of people, including -- remember the new jersey line to new york, governor christy cut that. he said we can't afford it. >> steve: if this were to go through, it would need tax subsidies forever. >> gretchen: this is atory that wl get your attention. a tennessee gop law maker, just 29 ...