he put social security and medicare on the chopping block. harris: in focus now senator rick scott, member of homeland security and armed services committee. great to have you in focus. look, i laid it out for what s at stake. the time numbers are really alarming. ten years or less it will go by very quickly for people who totally depend on those programs, medicare and social sec security. i would never cut medicare or social security. i will do everything i can to make sure there are no cuts in medicare and social security. the democrats all voted to cut 280 billion out of medicare last september and biden signed it. 280 billion they cut and want to say other people will do it. here is what we have to do. we have to grow our economy. here is what s going on right now. the left, the big government crowd, wall street are saying you have to spend more money,
republicans are refuting some of president biden s claims. they want to cut your social security and medicare. i don t know one republican, including me. would ever cut medicare or social security. that s a fight the white house wants be but republicans don t plan to drop probes of mishandled classified materials as the house oversight committee plans a transcribed interview with a lawyer for the national archives next week. we want to know what type of documents were mishandled by all three of the most recent people named in this. biden, pence and trump. we have no idea. the national archives reportedly sent a letter to offices for the last six administrations asking officials to search records of former presidents and vice presidents for classified materials. in a statement, fox is told thank you for reaching out. the national archives has no comment. ahead of next month s expected re-election announcement, president biden is hoping to shore up support among his base,
caucus and said what you want t do, we need a tax break for the wealthy, that s going to help. if that asteroid was headed toward earth, you would say donald trump brought a. not a single republican candidate is planning to cut medicare or social security. democrats no longer seem to value truth in logic unless it helps them politically. according to the white house, inflation was only transitory w have zero inflation at a point when it was a 40 when your high. gas prices are down. the border is secure, and as new york governor claims, america s violent crime search as nothing more than a vast right-wing conspiracy it s not true, it s not happening. don t believe your very eyes when you watch the news every night pride. these are master manipulators . they have this conspiracy going all across america to try to convince people that it democratic states are as safe,
something they have an interest in, they are over you like a wet blanket so you don t want to cut medicare or social security. chris: want to cut somebody else s program. i m all for you. chris: is the senate broken? very badly. howard baker said running the senate, it s like herding cats. it takes leadership, somebody has to stand up and say we are going to do this and i used to would get the group together responsible for that area and and we would work together and i would get up and leave and i said call me when you reached an agreement and most of the time it worked because they knew that i was willing to take the step with them.
washington republicans are plotting a war on seniors next year. that s it. war on seniors. that s what you re going to be hearing from democrats like chuck schumer all year next year if donald trump abandons his campaign pledge not to cut medicare or social security. if you re on medicare or social security or benefit from the affordable care act, you have every right to be worried about what the administration s going to do to those programs. donald trump s nominee for health and human services has called for the repeal of the affordable care act, and is on record for repealing medicare. he s in favor of options that would allow people to opt out of medicare and behind the idea of a privatized system. here s congressman price defending the first and most extreme of the paul ryan budgetes in 2011. we ve got to have something different than business as usual. and part of that whole