years. every paycheck. now when you need it, obama has cut $716 billion from medicare. why? to pay for obamacare. so now the money you paid for your guaranteed health care is going to a massive new government program. reporter: now, the obama/biden campaign calls that ad dishonest because, they say, obamacare doesn t cut any money from the benefits that medicare recipients receive, it only cuts money from insurance companies. they also point out the ryan budget plan preserves those very cuts, though the romney campaign accuses the obama team of dishonesty for its false claim that the ryan plan would do anything to touch the medicare benefits of people 55 and over which it does not. can you imagine, jon and jenna, the idea that both campaigns think the other is being dishonest? shocking. jenna: that is so strange, james. the sarcasm just is overwhelming at this point. thank you very much. james in colorado following paul ryan. we ll be back to james as news
ryan s wheelhouse, namely the country s $16 trillion debt. what we also need to do? we need to stop spending money we don t have. [cheers and applause] president obama has given us four years of trillion dollar plus deficits. he is making matters worse, and he is spending our children into a diminished future. we don t have to stand for that. we re not going to stand for that. and on november the 6th, we re going to change that. reporter: this coming weekend representative ryan heads to central florida to confront directly the fears that some, perhaps many, seniors may have about his plans to reform medicare, fears, of course, eagerly stoked by the democrats. to that end, the romney campaign today released an aides say will get wide play across the country in which they link the issue of medicare to obamacare. you pay into medicare for
if you will, that the ryan plan doesn t change anything for people who are, say, older than 54 right now, right? that s right. and the big thing that i heard from republican strategists yesterday that talked to, and we also heard from jeb bush, the former governor of florida, who has campaigned before on this issue, is that paul ryan is the most articulate republican on this issue and even though he has taken a beating in the past on this, he is the best person to put forward to talk about the future of medicare. jon: when he talks about his own grandmother in florida, he comes across as a pretty sympathetic figure? that is exactly right and then again, that s what we ll hear. now another big point that mitt romney is making, is that he is not particularly running on the ryan budget. he his running on his own budget. that begs the question, why did mitt romney pick paul ryan if he will not run exactly on paul ryan s
on the rising cost of the auto industry bailout in days to come, jon. jon: doug mckelway live from washington. thank you. jenna: everything is on the table when it comes to this election. auto bailouts and medicare and the record of congressman ryan. the new vice-presidential pick shows flex tablt flexibility on the a few hot-button issues. jon: the race to stop raging wildfires. fast-moving flames devouring dozens of homes and threatening hundreds of more. an update on that firefight. jenna: a tough summer as far as fires. jon: so hot. jenna: we have crash tests to show you. why spending more money may not buy you safety. we ll tell you more about that. next. ely. but because of business people like you, things are beginning to get rolling.
representative ryan put forward a plan to keep medicare solvent. and i ll note that while i haven t introduced today my own plan, will in the future, it s not going to be identical to the ryan plan. our proposal will have similarities overall to the ryan road map but our medicare plan will be somewhat different. our plan will include a series of options that people can choose from. one of which will be to stay in the current program. all right. chris cillizza, how about it? are presidential candidates trying to walk the line here? here s the problem. what we saw last week and joe biden mentioned it is when newt gingrich called the ryan plan, a medicare piece of it social engineering, people like rush limbaugh, nicky hailey said you can t do this. you are knee capping paul ryan. we need to support this plan. we had a special election on tuesday in which support for medicare by the republican candidate, if not doomed her, certainly made it a lot harder to win a seat republicans sho