Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120817:23:11:00
That would have been the perfect answer. quickly on what malika said did. >> reporter: on medicare. >> yeah. i agree the republicans have done good in the short-term. democrats haven't been forceful enough. congressman ryan kept the same $718 billion cut in medicare in the ryan budget. we should hang that around his neck. and number two, the difference of what the president wants to do. when the president cuts medicare, he's cutting it on the provider's side. most of those cuts were cuts to what the drug companies could make by supplying drugs to medicare. when the republicans make cuts to med...