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And thank you mr. president for the invitation today. i think as we focus this part of the conversation on cost, a lot of americans say to me if you're really interested in controlling cost, maybe you shouldn't be spending a trillion dollars on health care as the senate and house bills do. also, cutting medicare benefits by half a trillion dollars to fund some new entitlement is i think a step in the wrong direction and many americans do as well. the nonpartisan actuaries for the center for medicare and medicaid services say on page four of the letter on the senate-passed bill it would bend th...

Ehad greatest -- i had the greatest suggestions but they won't get you there. you have to do something with the titlement program and something with medicare, but not using other figures. go to the actuaries. in your work we go to actuaries of social security and medicare. not going to fiddle around, especially farming stuff out and go to an agency and watch and say here is $400,000. come up with what we're looking for. >> neil: senator, republicans argued, i don't know who is right on this, that the healthcare plan, the way it's presented period is not going to save the money the opponents cl...

And of course, richard quest, everybody who knows him knows he's never shied away from anything, including a little bit of snow. listen to these -- we've got economic reporters, forecasts that say 200,000 jobs may have been lost because of these storms. another economist said maybe 90,000 jobs have been lost. businesses, they say, bore the brunt of jobs lost, manufacturing, construction, and transportation. people weren't able to hire, people weren't able to -- i mean, people weren't able to go to stores. but people bought shovels and they bought salt and bought snowplows. i don't understand w...

The president invited republicans to a bipartisan televised session on health care reform and in breaking news at this hour republicans respond in what may very well be their setup to not showing up. you will recall that republicans had the president cornered they believed. you did not televise the health care reform debate they said at the waterloo of mass political encounters two weeks ago. first he reminded them nearly all of it was televised then invited them to another televised session on the 25th and tonight. republicans have issued their long list of preconditions to going. house repub...

Republicans to a bipartisan televised session on health care reform and in breaking news at this hour republicans respond in what may very well be their setup to not showing up. you will recall that republicans had the president cornered they believed. you did not televise the health care reform debate they said at the waterloo of mass political encounters two weeks ago. first he reminded them nearly all of it was televised then invited them to another televised session on the 25th and tonight. republicans have issued their long list of preconditions to going. house republican leader john boeh...