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What's yours? >> erskine bowles, the democrat part of the bowles-simpson commission said, he's trying, he has ideas and a serious plan. at the beginning, president obama said that, i don't agree with his plan, but it's a very serious plan. the thing that has distinguished paul ryan from democrats and from his fellow republicans on capitol hill. you are afraid of talking about medicare and social security. you think it's a third rail, it will kill nupolitics. i am not afraid of this. i have a plan. the situation is so dire that we have to come up with a real plan and i will put my name on it. t...

The backs of the poor, that he is taking money out of the pockets of poor people to give in the form of tax cuts to really rich people. >> greta: right. if nothing is done to restructure medicare or to handle the budget, it does seem that we are headed miles per hour. we can't keep spenning more than we have -- there has to be something. >> even president obama's budget experts say the current situation is unsustainable. they believe it should be sustained for a while because of the economic downturn. but you cannot project the deficits with the projected increases with pending for medicare an...

>> think for yourself. >> that has everything to do with just being smart. being the smart political an candidate. >> also the fact that he's trying to be purposely vague on anything. go back to halperin's interview in "time" magazine and he talked about the economy, he didn't say anything. there was no specificity there just like there wasn't specificity in preparation on the immigration issue. they want to make it all about president obama which seems like a smart strategy in the moment. it's going to be tough to sustain that for months. at some point you have to take a stand, you have to be...

>> i'll make sure that priority of people in this district, conservative republican district, are heard loud and cheer in washington. i suspect republicans will pay attention. >> the national response to hochul's win that was perceived to be bellwether by many has been swift. harry reid said the result is rejection on what he called the republican plan to kill medicare. >> american voters have a chance to do something about it. >> they ran on the plan. promised to dismantle medicare. >> throughout the race, hochul hammered on the support of the paul ryan plan, restructuring medicare. >> distor...

>> i'll make sure that priority of people in this district, conservative republican district, are heard loud and cheer in washington. i suspect republicans will pay attention. >> the national response to hochul's win that was perceived to be bellwether by many has been swift. harry reid said the result is rejection on what he called the republican plan to kill medicare. >> american voters have a chance to do something about it. >> they ran on the plan. promised to dismantle medicare. >> throughout the race, hochul hammered on the support of the paul ryan plan, restructuring medicare. >> distor...