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About how to accomplish those reductions, but the idea that the republicans want to end medicare as we know it, or that president obama is trying to slash and burn medicare, they're both ridiculous. i think what we have to do is recognize that medicare is underfunded based upon reasonable assumptions, $37 trillion and growing. and that we're ultimately going to have to rationalize our promises and focus on how best to control costs and how to balance compassion and cost. so let's deal with the substance and solutions rather than the spend and the mud slinging. >> one of the columns today by ro...

Election, robert samuelson the hole in ryan's medicare plan. trouble on the ticket. i mean this is a terrible thicket for voters to get through, sort out who's right, who's wrong, how will it affect me. a lot doesn't go into play until 2023 or 2014. it's going to be like algebra was for me. it's hard to sort out. >> when he picked paul ryan he decided to make a choice, one, to address the base to energize the base, and number two to make the budget a campaign issue front and center and those are probably good things. when you're saying, tom, that you know, it's contradictory all over the place...

what is at stake. meanwhile, don't forget we are at war. seven american troops killed when their black hawk helicopter crashed in southern afghanistan. we don't know if it was hostile fire. and still no word if enemy fire was to blame or the taliban as they claim. and it could happen to you. one ticket, one big jackpot. someone in michigan bought the winning single ticket for the third largest powerball jackpot ever. and good day, i'm andrea mitchell live in washington today. in our "daily fix" mitt romney is playing professor romney on medicare, while his running mate, paul ry...

plan to move the economy forward. and you know, secretly i think they know this. i think they know their plan is not very popular. you can tell that because they're being pretty designist about my plan. especially by the way when it comes to medicare. now this is something i've got to point out here because they are just throwing everything at the wall to see if it sticks. here's what you need to know. i have strength in medicare. i have made reforms that have saved millions of seniors with medicare, hundreds of dollars on their prescription drugs. >> all right. good morning. >> i'm ...

when their black hawk helicopter crashed in southern afghanistan. we don't know if it was hostile fire. and still no word if enemy fire was to blame or the taliban as they claim. and it could happen to you. one ticket, one big jackpot. someone in michigan bought the winning single ticket for the third largest powerball jackpot ever. and good day, i'm andrea mitchell live in washington today. in our "daily fix" mitt romney is playing professor romney on medicare, while his running mate, paul ryryan, attacks president obama's policies on the same subject. is medicare what the ticke...