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Let me start with the president's approach and i want to put it up on the screen for our viewers. the president wants to leave the program in place the way it is. it's a defined benefit program. he does already pass under the health care law will reduce payments to hospitals, to health care providers, and private insurers to the tune of $716 billion. you've heard that figure a lot this week. and he claims that he would extend the solvency of medicare eight years until 2024. here is the romney approach as we understand it so far. beginning not until 2023, to change the program. he would offer p...

Romney of killing somebody's wife and not paying taxes, these are diversions. let's talk about the issues. >> let's talk about medicare then. there's been so much noise and back and forth on 34ed medicare. there is what we know, let me start with the president's approach and i want it put is on the screen for our viewers so we can have a basic understanding of this. the president want it leave the program in place the way it is. a defined benefit program. he has passed under the healthcare law, reducing payments it hospitals, healthcare providers and private insurance to the tune of $716 billi...

afghanistan to tell you about. general john allen, the is now strongly condemning some photos that will be appearing in "the los angeles times" at 8:00 a.m. eastern time and those photos depict u.s. troops posing with the bodies of suicide bombers in afghanistan. the incident which took place back in 2010 "represents a serious error in judgment by several soldiers who acted out of ignorance and unfamiliarity with u.s. army values." nick, we haven't seen the photos yet. what exactly are they supposed to show us? >> apologizing for the contents of these pictures ahead of their publicat...

Aggressive budget intended to pull the country back from what allen blinder calls a fiscal cliff. the plan will be denounced by democrats as a radical attack on the poor to protect the rich. it will not touch social security but it will reform medicare by turning that open-ended benefit program into subsidies for health insurance with limits. the first year savings would be modest. but over a decade the plan is estimated to cut spending by $5 trillion below current projections. it will also propose to reform the tax code, substituting two rates of 10 and 25% in exchange for closing dozens of l...

Isn't that part of the bill we're not allowed to negotiate? >> there has to be new legislation that allows for that kind of negotiation. >> believe me, there are new ideas that can amplify some of these savings without affecting the experience that i think seniors have on medicare of this very favorable guaranteed benefit program. >> all right, look, if you open that issue back up, i think that's terrific. is there any chance the democrats will agree to the last two? >> on medicare, yes, i don't think so -- again, i'm not in the room, but those are precisely the kinds of service delivery benef...