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First place including the cornhusker kickback but does a whole lot more than that. it gives medicaid to states and fixes the donut hole for seniors and adds a medicare payroll tax on investment income for families making more than $250,000 and cuts $60 billion more from medicare and delays the tax on cadillac insurance plans that many unions don't like and pulls school loans from banks and has the government handling them. here's the president's take. >> while the senate has the last round of improvements to make on this historic legislation and these are improvements i'm confident they'll mak...

Is left exposed, just as the baby boomers start retiring. megyn: so cbo is on the to double counting of $500 billion in medicare savings. is that factoring in at all to the numbers that we expect from the -- do we expect cbo to come out today, the jig is up? imnumbers don't add up? it is actually not a cost saving measure here? >> no. what they say you can't double count them. if you're going to save the money in medicare it will extend its life. if you take the money out of medicare spend it somewhere else it won't extend medicare's life. they won't give you different numbers what will happen...

Talk and be responsive, he can. if he doesn't want to do that, he doesn't have to. that leaves you the option of the guy that has to interrupt him when he seems to be full buster and not answer -- filibustering and not answering the question. you never look good interrupting the president of the united states because he's the president. you did what you could. his answer on double counting of medicare savings was tremendously revealing. he really didn't answer your question in any satisfactory way. that is a major sticking point for anyone evaluating the bill in terms of its cost. you did as b...

Talk and be responsive, he can. if he doesn't want to do that, he doesn't have to. that leaves you the option of the guy that has to interrupt him when he seems to be full buster and not answer -- filibustering and not answering the question. you never look good interrupting the president of the united states because he's the president. you did what you could. his answer on double counting of medicare savings was tremendously revealing. he really didn't answer your question in any satisfactory way. that is a major sticking point for anyone evaluating the bill in terms of its cost. you did as b...

Deficit 131 billion dollars over the next 10 years. first a little about cbo. i work with them everyday. very good people. great professionals, they do their jobs well. but their job is to score what is placed in front of them. what has been placed in front of them is a bill that is full of gimmicks and smoke and mirrors. what do you mean when i say that? the bill has 10 years of tax increases, about half a trillion dollars with 10 years of medicare cuts, about half a trillion dollars to pay for six years of spending. so when you take a look at all of this, strip out of double counting and wha...