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Concede it's got to look a lot different than the ryan plan? >> no. >> you haven't said publicly whether you're for the ryan plan. >> i voted for the ryan budget this week. >> wait a second. did you catch that? let me play it again. >> you haven't even said publicly whether you're for the ryan plan, so you're not behind that version of the -- >> i voted for the ryan budget this week. >> joining me now, brian beutler, senior editor at "the new republic." wrote a great piece pointing out the inconsistencies here. so, that vote, at the time mcconnell, it was and equivocal he was voting for the ry...

In a statement to factcheck.org, the mcconnell campaign said, "there's just no way to speculate if mcconnell would have voted for final passage without having debated the amendments." here's the thing. the ryan budget was clearly going down the senate, and at the time, everyone watching understood that test vote, that procedural vote as an opportunity for senate republicans to go on the record with their support for the ryan budget. it's not just me saying so. mcconnell, himself, expressed his support for the plan in an appearance that week on "meet the press." >> i'm just trying to understand...

Whether you're for the ryan plan. >> i voted for the ryan budget this week. >> wait a second. did you catch that? let me play it again. >> you haven't even said publicly whether you're for the ryan plan, so you're not behind that version of the -- >> i voted for the ryan budget this week. >> joining me now, brian, senior editor at "the new republic." wrote a great piece pointing out the inconsistencies here. so, that vote, at the time mcconnell, it was and equivocal he was voting for the ryan plan and the ryan plan would have changed medicare in all kinds of ways that it's hard to think a lot ...

Children can stay on your health insurance now until they're 26? are you really going to people give back the rebate checks they got from health insurance companies if they went over what they were supposed to? do we really want to go back to the days where it's no longer an 80/20 fix? the answer to that is absolutely -- do you want to go back to where women pay more for health insurance? you cannot win an election by taking away from people what they want and then give them nothing, give them no viable alternative. >> eric, to that point, in john boehner's home state of ohio, we're talking 1....

What else would they do? they'd gut the programs making live better for people. the pell grants, food stamps and medicare, a gutted. as the ryan plan bravely reveals, the gop doesn't have any new ideas on how to boost the deficit or improve the economy. >> if this sounds familiar, it should. it was their economic plan in the 2012 campaign. it was their economic plan in 2010. it's like that movie "ground hog day," except it's not funny. >> he's right. there's no doubt about it. we've seen this movie before. every time ryan rolls out a new budget,ets a it's all about the nation's fiscal health a...