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Hypocritical to complain when it goes the other way. if you're going to make rules that say money saving bills are okay, you can't say they're okay except for bills you don't like. joining me to talk about, it cornell belcher, also dana loesch. dana, what about it? when the cbo says something republicans like they seem to sing its places but on this issue they say there's fuzzy math going on. are they being hypocritical? >> i don't think so in this instance because there's something kind of funny about all of this. first of all, the cbo report issued which said that the $1 trillion health cont...

Called the doc fix for doctors. they took it out precisely so they could claim the bill would reduce the deficit. but with that item it would increase the deficit of course. and administration officials including hhs secretary kathleen sebelius say the doc fix is absolutely essential. the planned cut is untenable. listen. >> if you want to destroy the medicare program, the fastest way to do it would be to drive providers out of the program and i think that kind of cut would do it. >> reporter: so, shannon, voters can be forgiven for being a little confused. first democrats took that out of the...

Breaks down the numbers. >> president obama made an unshakable pledge about the healthcare bill. >> i will not sign it, if it adds one dime to deficit now or in the future. period. >> reporter: it took financial tricks to keep the pledge. the bill originally included money to prevent medicare doctors facing a scheduled 21% cut in fees but it cost too much. $275 billion. >> the way they solved that is pulled out the deficit increasing part of the bill, the so-called medicare doc fix. hefty price tag. not shockingly, they left it completely out of healthcare refo reform choosing to ignore the bi...

Breaks down the numbers. >> president obama made an unshakable pledge about the healthcare bill. >> i will not sign it, if it adds one dime to deficit now or in the future. period. >> reporter: it took financial tricks to keep the pledge. the bill originally included money to prevent medicare doctors facing a scheduled 21% cut in fees but it cost too much. $275 billion. >> the way they solved that is pulled out the deficit increasing part of the bill, the so-called medicare doc fix. hefty price tag. not shockingly, they left it completely out of healthcare refo reform choosing to ignore the bi...

Credit. correspondent james rosen reports it was a bipartisan defeat, followed by a revamped version of the same bill. >> the yeas are 45. the nays are 52. motion is not agreed to. >> republicans stood united and a dozen democrats deflected from block the so-called extenders bill, $140 billion grab-bag of extended jobless benefit, tax hikes on the upper income type and added funding to medicare reimbursement rate. democrats spent the last of the day squabbling over how to pare down the price tag. >> he can quickly pivot to a different version and get another vote this week. >> senate majority ...