i think it s hitting very, very close to home. brian: does it bother you personally when people say stuff like that or people call you up and say, they just mentioned you on this show and listen to what they said? i guess i have to consider it an honor, if you really think about it. what else can you say? it s really sad. do you a good job. i ve employed thousandses and thousands of people. i pay you talk about medicare examine medicaid, health benefits, thousands and thousands of people have been taken care of, education for their families. they love donald trump. they work for donald trump. it s sad when you hear statements like that and it s really based on tremendous ager and hatred. that s what his campaign is all about. gretchen: we re going to see you down at the republican national convention a week from today. i understand you re going to have some sort of a surprise role? it s a thing happening. i cannot tell you, but it s going to be very interesting. i think your
kentucky. gretch? gretchen: thank you, brian. president obama capitalizing on fear over mitt romney and paul ryan s plan for medicare. medicare upon to turn medicare in a voucher system congressman ryan wants a vouch are system. i havened medicare . we made reforps that extended the life of the program and saved millions of seniors with medicare and happens of dollars on the prescription drugs gretchen: is this paving the president s road to the white house. here to debate it white house senior advisor eddy mills and editor of black chick crystal right. good morning. good morning. gretchen: the president said he strengthened medicare and yet in october under obama care 716 billion will be
it hit a rock and started taking on water. the coast guard says there were only reports of minor injuries. they re now investigating how this could have happened. those are your headlines for a monday morning. steve: with just one week from the republican national convention and two weeks from the dnc, both sides are now turning their attention to medicare, or ed henry at the white house, should we say, medi scare? good morning, steve. that s what the republican ticket thinks that the obama campaign is doing. advisors were hitting the sunday talk shows yesterday and hitting the republican ticket hard on that medicare issue. certainly the republican ticket believes they re trying to scare senior citizens in key battle ground states like florida. what we saw this weekend is that paul ryan, the republican vice presidential candidate, is trying to fight fire with fire, but also by pushing back on the numbers, but also rolling out his own mom who is a senior citizen in florida, bring a
you said hey, i m not going to talk about the worthiness of but politically, this could be very damaging. now he s on the ticket. have you changed how you feel about paul ryan s budget? i will say this, the republicans are energized. they like him a l. they think he s terrific. he want to save medicare, as you know, obama stole $716 billion out of medicare and he put it into obamacare and that seems to be the consensus. i watched a lot over the weekend. the consensus seems to be that that s what happened. everybody fights it. they re fighting it. but he stole $716 billion right from medicare. i really think that it s very interesting what is happening. there is a great energy in the republican party and the polls are not look bad, i must tell you. gretchen: what do you think about the fact that robert gibbs now an advisor to obama s reelection campaign, did you hear what he said about you yesterday on fox news sunday? listen to this. this is a guy who has flown all over the count
to a draw because romney and ryan are going on the offense. however, ultimately people tend to trust democrats a little bit more on that issue because after all, we like to spend money on entitlements. if they can fight it to a draw, that s a lot better than historically better than republicans have done on that issue. steve: i think this time, for the low information voter, they may not quite understand everythings that going o. if you look at the poll last week between given the choice between obamacare and medicare, they prefer medicare. and the republicans were saying the president raided $716 billion to pay for obamacare and seniors are going, i don t like that. it s a great way for the romney campaign to frame the choice. but you steve, raised the critical issue and you said high information or low information voter. the key question here is, are the american people ready for a debate about this? serious debate about this, or