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Courageous. i do think mr. ryan is sincere. i think he is a patriot. i think he wants to solve a real problem, which is our long term deficit. but i think that what he and the other republicans in the house of representatives also want to do is change our social compact in a pretty fundamental way. >> you know, saying he's a patriot, willie, that's better than saying his plan is un-american. he got some of those polls, saw the independents sliding away and came out a couple days ago saying reach out and touch somebody's hand. >> radical. now, he's saying radical. it reminds me so much, jeffrey...

Over at the white house today talking to top officials, they think they have a political winner defending medicaid and medicare, and they think they have a top winner going after tax cuts. the only problem with that is, it was not that long ago the president went along with continuing those tax rates. he said it was because he wanted to preserve tax cuts for the middle class. if congress does separate it out for him, he'll knock it out of the ballpark with a veto. >> to the details of the plan -- in fact, the two plans, we have an obama plan and response to, the ryan plan. the ryan plan doesn'...

Mr. ryan's plans, we end medicare as a guaranteed program for seniors, that's the simple facts. if you don't like it, vote no. >> you know that the ryan plan transforms it to put market forces in there. >> what does transform it mean? what does it mean in english good it takes it to a voucher program so seniors can get out. we're talking about people under 55 years old, medicare as we know it will not exist, because it's on a path to go broke. you have to make some changes. and i welcome the president to the table. remember it was the president and you democrats who cut medicare last year to f...

Think they have a political winner defending medicaid and medicare, and they think they have a top winner going after tax cuts. the only problem with that is, it was not that long ago the president went along with continuing those tax rates. he said it was because he wanted to preserve tax cuts for the middle class. if congress does separate it out for him, he'll knock it out of the ballpark with a veto. >> to the details of the plan -- in fact, the two plans, we have an obama plan and response to, the ryan plan. the ryan plan doesn't get to balancing the budget or beginning to actually bring ...

The ryan plan has $4.3 trillion in budget cuts over the coming decade. huge cuts in medicaid, and then the medicare cuts get even bigger in the decade after that. it use s most of that money for tax cuts, 4.2 trillion in tax cuts. in the health care area, you know what the ryan plan does, it actually makes medicare more expensive, but it saves money for the government by having the government pay so much less of the cost of medicare that it's a huge shift on to the backs of beneficiaries, it shifts costs to beneficiaries, it doesn't lower health care costs. the president is trying to lower hea...