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Think, we are correct in what we found so far in our committee and what chairman issa is asking for today in documentation. what's happening is as parts of the obamacare plan are going into effect, and to mask some of the cuts in programs like medicare advantage, what they're doing is shifting money around so cuts that would have come into play, we started the fiscal year, october 1st, they're taking money, appropriated money, shifting in so seniors who are on medicare advantage won't see the damage that's going to be done. so even gao has said that this is not, they, they determined it a demo...

Does not turn over documents related to president obama's health care law. he is accusing the department of trying to hide some details about the program that are important to medicare and to seniors, and he says they want to do that until after the election. in a letter obtained by fox issa wrote, your staff has run out of excuses and the long delay in providing these documents is inexcusable. steve centanni joins us with the details from washington. so, steve, what are his main concerns really here? >> reporter: yeah, martha, he says the department of human services has been stringing him al...

Spend $8.3 billion to basically buy an election. >> reporter: in his letter to kathleen satisfactory pwaoe sebelius wrote, your staff has run out of excuses and your long delay in providing these documents is inexcusable. they responded to fox news by saying hss is reviewing the letter. the quality bonus-paying demo is providing even seven teufs to improve care giving more patients high quality choices in the program. it is consistent with previous demos. issa's office points out that the demonstration project conveniently runs out in 2014. he's asking that sebelius' office turn over the docum...

The ones that do stay on the stage and we've talked to this a lot, there are former presidents who don't love politics. >> right. >> one of them is in dallas. >> one of them is in dallas -- >> any former president turned down an invitation by his party's convention to give a speech like that? >> no. and the road is littered with people who aren't invited an that's usually the norm. can i go back to the hub for a second, it was a demonstration project. he is basically acting out what he was saying in the speech, you know, let's get over our differences, stop fighting. when he's talking to the m...

Caught my attention, gao, not to be confused with the ggsa. which studied this, they are quoted as saying this idea, this program, this experiment was badly designed, unlikely to provide meaningful results. i take it you took that phrase from the gao study and went to the white house, look, this is a bad idea according to the gao. >> you have to ask the question, how could the administration get the authority to raid the trust fund with over $8 billion to give out to the companies before the election. the answer is, we're doing demonstration projects. >> greta: what does that mean? >> that the...