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Pushover. but i am a voter. so washington, before you even think about cutting my medicare and social security benefits, here's a number you should remember, 50 million. we are 50 million seniors who earned our benefits and you will be hearing from us today and on election day. megyn: joining me now, simon constable, columnist at "the wall street journal.". jemu green, former president of the women's media center and fox news contributor and steve forbes, chairman, editor-in-chief of forbes media. former u.s. senator alan simpson coming out and calling this is the most disgusting ad i have eve...

It was a stopgap to keep the wolf from the door and at a time when most people were expected to be dead. people were expected to be dead at 63. the benefits would kick in at 65. it was a good deal all around. we were expected to live longer now. that is one thing. look at age and i think we've got to look at means testing. do you need the money? megyn: that has not gone over well with democrats, jemu. let me ask you this, jiang gel, jim angle as i call him, reported medicare in particular promised 10 of trillions more than it can deliver. the response seems to be got to do something otherwise ...

The markets are down 200 points today. what is behind that? >> that has to be greece. that has got to be european problems. i don't think or obama is today, market looking at this proposal anything other than than a campaign sheet and opening gambit in negotiation. that has nothing to do with him i see. jenna: similar themes? we're talking about debt. we'll keep talking about it. >> yeah. jenna: simon, we always appreciate you coming by. thank you, simon constable from "the wall street journal". >> thank you. jon: a fox news alert. remember the case of jose padilla, sometimes called jose padil...

Long-term fiscal outlook. >> reporter: senate majority leader harry reid who as you pointed out says the boehner plan is a none starter has a proposal of his own, to cut the deficits by counting savings by ending the what ares in iraq and afghanistan. republicans say the markets might not buy that but the same accounting tool was used in the republican budget that passed the house. jon: interesting to that the secretary of state commenting on tkphes particular spending matter. thank you. jenna: the lack of debt deal seems to be one of the factors in the stock market as wendell was talking abou...

With him tomorrow. >> police also say they discovered evidence the the scene, so the reason why this arraignment was post poapped because they wanted to gather as much evidence as possible in order to get these charges to stick. that arraignment scheduled to happen any moment now, and as soon as it does we'll bring it to you. we are told a bail bondsman has said most likely a bail will be set in the millions of dollars. meantime he does not have diplomatic immunity. i should remind you of that. and his passport has been withdrawn. so part of the bail package will also include where he'll be st...