Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140112:15:26:00
Much of the 2012 election seemed like a game of who would be meanest to grandma? president obama accused governor romney of planning to gut medicare and the romney campaign accused the administration of already slashing medicare, and then they promised to strengthen it. but in the end, their medicare plans have more in common than either side would admit. it feels to me like that's in part because the elderly are the group that americans the overall and lawmakers themselves tend to be older, simply do have a great deal of empathy for, so medicare is the one we don't touch. >> we tend to have e...