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Maine becomes the first state to get a waiver from obama care rules. over 1,000 organizations now have waivers from obama care rules. it's a $500 billion double counting revealed this week which shoots a huge hole in the idea that obama care can lower the deficit and now you've got the chairman of the senate finance committee saying, don't cut medicare advantage. even though he voted to cut it and the president wants to cut it to the tune of $200 billion. >> why the switch-a-roo? >> you're asking me. i don't have a clue. >> i don't either. >> it is bizarre. >> especially him. this guy was chai...

Spending. if you take away the double countrying, it's about a $700 billion deficit. we asked the cbo to look at this bill without all the gimmicks. when cbo looks at the debt, they can look at everything, not just this narrow piece of legislation. they say this health care bill increases the debt. so how can it be that this legislation reduces the deficit but increases the debt? the reason is because in this bill which is scored which gives you that score that you just mentioned, they have all this double counting, all this smoke in mirrors. that's not cbo's problem. that's the problem of the...

>> neil: i'm fine. this comes at a time when you have so many talking about double counting, overcounting, unreliable workers knocking on doors and not doing what they should. we'll get to that but bottom line, should we trust the final figures you spit out? >> well, we want to be as transparent as possible in all our procedures. so you mentioned duplication and missed units. we have a set of procedures built into the operations that check those things and as soon as we get a elevations, we'll share them publicly. so we can all make a judgment about how good the 2010 census is. >> neil: they w...

>> neil: the scene in anaheim, california. the scene for the all-star game. we're going to hear from derek jeter and alex rodriguez, andy pettitte excepting on the loss and provider. george steinbrenner, passing away at age 80. commenting on that ahead of the all-star game in california. >> in the meantime, the count is over, checking and rechecking is on. the census winding down the outcome to determine $400 billion spent in ten years but with possible double counting with the results be reliable. director, robert groves, joins us now. good to have you. >> good afternoon. how are you?

The opposite of what obama is doing. reagan stood up to the evil empire, the opposite of what obama is doing. can we expect -- reagan ended the cold war, created, didn't save, created 21 million new jobs. can we expect if he does the opposite we'll have the opposite results? >> of course, you are seeing it. you are sitting in california one of the worst places going. up the road 17% unemployment. new health care bill, they raise the taxes. 10 years of taxes for six years of reform, double counting, it is going to take us in the wrong direction. >> sean welcome this is an absolutely amazing spo...