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Unemployment today is higher than when barack obama took office. now he promised he would also have a proposal for us by now to save medicare and social security from insolvency. he hasn't. he raided medicare $760 billion to pay for obama care. he said he was going to lower health insurance premiums for the average american family by $2,500 a year. any of you got that new reduced rate? didn't think so. actually it's gone up by $3,000 a family. you think about that. with the median income and a family at $50,000 a year about, that's a $5,000 plus dollar difference. it's huge. and then, of cours...

And essentially they said, my favorite of the lessons learned is bring a third party value day or the, maybe mom. they had a candidate who basically used his mom as validator. here's where the romney plan ended up which was the double speak. they were talking about the $760 billion that obama takes out and they say puts it into obama care. well, it actually goes into obama care for medicare to reduce costs, it's waste fraud and abuse, reduces cost. as of friday on that lovely etch-a-sketch or whiteboard that we had. >> i have brought a whiteboard in case anyone would like to make any points, k...

This debate and we are going to win this debate on medicare. [ cheers and applause ] >> i'll tell you why. there's only one person who treated medicare like a piggy bank. and that's president obama. he took 760 billion dollars from that program to create obama care. that affects current seniors and his campaign calls this an achievement. you think raiding medicare to pay for obama care is an achievement? let's just get rid of obama care altogether. >> while it is not exactly brave to go into an enclave like the villages, they are elderly individual who is i venture to say like medicare. romney...

Downplayed this and suggested it did not happen. the implication is that the vice president's office was trying to massage some of the information to downplay the gaffes. >> bret: ed henry live on the north lawn. thank you. the man who wants to replace biden had fun at the vice president expense today. chief political correspondent tells us the guys at the top of the g.o.p. ticket has its own message about home and change. >> romney stepped up, summoned the press and sketched out why his approach to medicare is better than the president's. >> my plan presents no change. the plan stays the same...

>> today mr. romney went after the president aggressively for the way in which his health care plan takes money from medicare. several hundred billions of dollars and accused the president of the united states of raiding medicare. listen. >> did you know that he has taken $716 billion out of the medicare trust fund? he has raided that trust fund. you know what he did with it? he has used it to pay for obama care. it is a risky, unproven, federal government of health care. if i am president of the united states, we are putting the $760 billion back. >> reporter: the obama campaign is reacting w...