sam baker is here. what s the latest? after the supreme court decision, what s going to happen? the costs, up, down? deficit, up, down? the cbo, the congressional budget office, the official scorekeeper says that the health care law will continue to decrease the deficit and get less expensive in the most recent report since the supreme court decision. greta: how could it be what it was about the supreme court decision that make its less expensive? well, it got less expensive because tell cover 3 million fewer people as a result of the supreme court saying that the states have to have the option of opting out of the medicaid expansion. a lot of republican governors intend to opt out. and that will leave about 6 million people without medicaid who otherwise would have gotten it. about 3 million will have another option. greta: let s say, there are 3 million unemployed and they get
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. what s the latest on the fight between the front-runners. reporter: wolf, it s pretty clear last night s debate touched off a very personal tone in the race for the gop nomination. that s because there s a lot riding on the next several days. i hope you watched the debate last night. it was kind of fun. reporter: the morning after the debate, mitt romney had a smile on his face, swinging away at rick santorum. i don t know that i ve ever seen a politics explain why he voted against his you re entitled to your opinions, but not entitled to misrepresenting the facts. i took that at aim. romney took aim at his performance. when le tried to justify his vote for the no child left behind law sometimes you take one for the team for the leader, and i made a mistake. politics is a team sport, folks. in front of a big crow, romney knocked that one into the blea bleachers. i wonder what team he was taking it for
bill. but on the republican side, the republican presidential candidates and republicans in the house are sort of trading the lead in terms of who s going to get the lead economic message. we keep hearing about how much people like the amazing herman cain 9-9-9 plan. now that mr. cain is polling so well, i understand we have new analysis of how that plan won t work? this is incredible. this is part and parcel of what we ve been discussing and what you were talking about with ezra. the idea the folks are speaking to themselves in an insular way that they are definitely leaving the country behind. this new analysis out today from the tax policy center which is a very highly regarded nonpartisan scorekeeper of this stuff shows that the herman cain 9-9-9 plan would raise taxes on the lowest income people. their income is around 10,000 bucks on average. would raise their taxes by $1,600, race federal taxes on the middle class by over $3,000, would lower taxes, take them
but on the republican side, the republican presidential candidates and republicans in the house are sort of trading the lead in terms of who s going to get the lead economic message. we keep hearing about how much people like the amazing herman cain 9-9-9 plan. now that mr. cain is polling so well, i understand we have new analysis of how that plan won t work? this is incredible. this is part and parcel of what we ve been discussing and what you were talking about with ezra. the idea the folks are speaking to themselves in an insular way that they are definitely leaving the country behind. this new analysis out today from the tax policy center which is a very highly regarded nonpartisan scorekeeper of this stuff shows that the herman cain 9-9-9 plan would raise taxes on the lowest income people. their income is around 10,000 bucks on average. would raise their taxes by $1,600, raise federal taxes on the middle class by over $3,000, would lower taxes, take them down, lower tax payment
the lead in terms of who s going to get the lead economic message. we keep hearing about how much people like the amazing herman cain 9-9-9 plan. now that mr. cain is polling so well, i understand we have new analysis of how that plan won t work? this is incredible. this is part and parcel of what we ve been discussing and what you were talking about with ezra. the idea the folks are speaking to themselves in an insular way that they are definitely leaving the country behind. this new analysis out today from the tax policy center which is a very highly regarded nonpartisan scorekeeper of this stuff shows that the herman cain 9-9-9 plan would raise taxes on the lowest income people. their income is around 10,000 bucks on average. would raise their taxes by $1,600, race federal taxes on the middle class by over $3,000, would lower taxes, take them down, lower tax payments for