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And they're going to make it real easy for everybody to understand. they're going to use the whiteboard, i think, an awful lot. because you can erase this and then put something else back on. you can switch stuff around. you can adjust the lies a lot faster as you go along. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question. will mitt romney's medicare propaganda work? text "a" for yes, text "b" for no to 62263. go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. leave a comment. we encourage you to do that. we'll bring you results later on in the show. i'm joined tonight by msnbc politic...

Cigna. and now he's with the center for public integrity, "huffington post" contributor and author of the book "deadly spin." great to have you with us tonight. this is -- i have laid it out, exactly what the republicans are doing. this is what they're doing on the campaign trail. they're out there saying president obama and the word stolen was used by the rnc chairman, that they have stolen $716 billion from medicare for seniors to pay for obama care. is this true or false? >> oh, it's absolutely false. in fact, what the president is doing is what needs to be done, to reduce payments over the...

Director and vice president of cigna. and now he's with the center for public integrity, "huffington post" contributor and author of the book "deadly spin." great to have you with us tonight. this is -- i have laid it out, exactly what the republicans are doing. this is what they're doing on the campaign trail. they're out there saying president obama and the word stolen was used by the rnc chairman, that they have stolen $716 billion from medicare for seniors to pay for obama care. is this true or false? >> oh, it's absolutely false. in fact, what the president is doing is what needs to be do...

Seniors when right now seniors are not seeing any reduction in benefits? >> what it tells you is that they'll stoop to lying. they'll do whatever it takes to try to deceive people. that's why i wrote the book "deadly spin." we're not talking about benign spin. we're talking about spin that really is deadly. and this will lead to people, if we were to implement the ryan plan, you could rest assured that many, many senior citizens would die who otherwise wouldn't have to. because of the fact that benefits would be reduced. over the past ten years, premiums in this country have increased 113%. an...

Flat out distort to the american people what is happening to seniors when right now seniors are not seeing any reduction in benefits? >> what it tells you is that they'll stoop to lying. they'll do whatever it takes to try to deceive people. that's why i wrote the book "deadly spin." we're not talking about benign spin. we're talking about spin that really is deadly. and this will lead to people, if we were to implement the ryan plan, you could rest assured that many, many senior citizens would die who otherwise wouldn't have to. because of the fact that benefits would be reduced. over the pas...