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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 uses 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 health care costs, not to just shift...

We're talking about here in all these plans is deficit reduction. i have never seen a deficit reduction plan introduced during a so called deficit crisis, and we've had them in the past, where that plan has a 70-year plan. a 70-plan to get the budget into balance. and not even begin to get to the national debt until at least 75 years from now. these plans tend to be written over 10-year windows. sometimes a little longer than that. i just can't fathom why there would be any difficulty in completely embarrassing the republicans in the house for introducing a deficit plan, a deficit reduction pl...

There, they think they have a political winner defending medicaid and they think they have a political winner in going after top winner, going an tax rates. 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. >> bob greenstein, to the details of the plan. in fact, now the two plans. we have an obama plan in response to the ryan plan. the ryan plan doesn't get to balanci...

Republicans hate seniors, republicans are against social security. anthony, you and i know better than that. we may have different visions of getting there, but i think what we saw last friday night, the two parties can come together. we saw it back in december when your president voted to extend the bush tax cuts. now, i did not vote to extend the bush tax cut. but president obama who promised against it, i did. and today he said, now i'm against it. you know what, having him at the table, having the discussion, i think is a very positive thing for both parties. >> congressman weiner, go ahea...

Note, this will be a marked difference, sharp departure from the paul ryan plan that brianna mentioned, and david plouffe saying candidly the ryan plan doesn't have a chance of becoming law. we'll see how this plays out when the president makes his announcement wednesday. set against the back drop of why the push now. you know this, congress has -- now needs to vote to raise the debt ceiling and that, of course, is on top of the mind of this administration. >> the larger issue, why that debate, why gear up for a fight now. there are some republicans who say the president had to be dragged kick...