we need to reduce healthcare cost but i don t allow it for excuse to turn medicare to voucher program to leave seniors at the mercy of the insurance company. they want the seniors to pay more as the medicare guarantee was terminated. biden said he voted against earlier plan with the same concern. but the current plan would update the support seniors getch i don t see it as an ideological issue. when you have seniors all over the country who tell you i have a heart condition or high blood pressure, they can t see a dodger. wyden says it has to be fixed. and that means both political parties system v to come together. thank you. republican reconciliation pressing the interior secretary for information about president obama s green energy grant program. senate budget committee jeff sessions and darrell issa say they have waited more than six months for this information.
grapevine. up next, strange bedfellows team up to try to fix medicare. y needs manufacturing. machines, tools, people making stuff. companies have to invest in making things. infrastructure, construction, production. we need it now more than ever. chevron s putting more than $8 billion dollars back in the u.s. economy this year. in pipes, cement, steel, jobs, energy. we need to get the wheels turning. i m proud of that. making real things. for real. .that make a real difference. that s good morning, veggie style. hmmm.
student debt. one in three for the gop. john boehner sounding the alarm saying there s a one in three chance they could lose control of the house. secret wiring, listening devices. we re not talking cia but football. new orleans saints general manager under fire this morning over allegations he eavesdropped on rival coaches. still on duty. a shocking turnaround, sanford police chief bill lee tries to resign and is denied. outcry and disappointment from trayvon martin s family has a florida town this morning trying to move forward. drying up. medicare and social security in major trouble on the way fast to being in the red. who do you trust to fix it? romney or obama? desperately seeking susan. susan sarandon says the government tapped her phone lines and denied her security clearance to visit the white house. is the actress really being monitored? newsroom begins right now. president obama s college bound today as he begins his trip to three campuses in key voting
they did get some benefit cuts and they did it in a very smart way. the benefit cuts didn t come for a long, long time. in fact, i suspect i was at a town hall meeting in brentwood, someone was talking about social security and i talked about some of the things we re going to have to do to change the social security system. i asked what s the eligibility age right now for social security? anybody know? 67. it s 66 and a month or two. it s going to go to 67. when did that happen? in 1983. and they didn t start changing it. it was 65 back then. and they changed it in 1983 under ronald regan, but it didn t take effect for 20 years. so none of you people are mad at ronald regan for having done that, right? because none of you know. see, this is how politicians do things that are really smart. that s why you see paul ryan saying i m going to fix social security. i m going to fix medicare in ten
power. it will allow the pentagon to slash hundreds of billions of dollars from the budget. rick santorum heads to new hampshire primary with a million dollar boost from iowa. source close to the campaign says that santorum raised more than $1 million after finishing second in the iowa caucuses. santorum, he is attending a faith, family and freedom town hall meeting in northfield, new hampshire. that is happening this hour. he s trying to position himself as the main conservative challenger to mitt romney. let s go to the white house. i understand the president is there at the podium to make the announcement. good morning, everybody. the united states of america is the greatest force for freedom and security that the world has ever known, and in no small measure that s because we ve built the best trained, led, equipped mill tear ray in history. as commander in chief, i m going to keep it that way. indeed, all of us on this stage, every single one of us, have a profound