against their principles. >> they don't have to pay for it. >> that is covered. >> the coverage includes -- >> catholic church -- the >> accounting gimmick. >> it's not an accounting gimmick. >> they say -- >> sean: we're out of time. all the time we have left. greta is next. thank you for being with us. see you tomorrow. >> greta: tonight, senator rick santorum. did you hear one of his major backers said today has jaws dropping and heads spinning? rick santorum is here. we will ask about his supporter and michigan, and of course much for a few minutes. then congressman alan west, unleashes on the democrats and accuses them of engaging in slavery. now what provoked that? congressman west is here to explain. plus, it has reached the boiling point. members of congress storming out of heated hearing on president obama contraception rule. what provoke provoked the stompg out? congressman darrell issa will tell you. he goes "on the record." right now, senator santorum joins us. good evening. how is michigan?

>> good evening, greta. it's great. we had 13, 1400 people here in oakland county. a week ago before they announced we were coming they had 300. feel good about the people seeing us tonight. >> greta: is foster one of your big supporter and contributor to super pac that supports you? is he one of them? >> he is. >> greta: now i'm going to play a video for you that is making the rounds. i want to know your reaction to this one. we'll play the video. >> contraceptive thing, my gosh it's such inexpensive. in my day, they used bayer aspirin for contraception. gals put it between their knees and it wasn't is that costly. >> greta: i know you certainly didn't say that. okay. you shake your head. you want to say something about it? >> well, i mean, look, i'm not going to be responsible for anybody, any supporter of mine and what they say.

i'm not going to play that game. i have been clear and i have a consistent record on this of supporting women's right to have contraception. i supported funding for it. so, this is a -- in my opinion, this is an attack on someone's religious beliefs. i have a strong belief, as does my family in agreement with the catholic church. somehow or another, that that is something that people should be afraid of. should about be afraid of. look at my record in the public. i have been clear about that issue. i have had a consistent, long voting record on it. this is the media trying to play, trying to play gotcha. >> greta: all right. let me understand. let me sort it out. there are two issues, one is the creepy supporter. the guy that says something really creepy about you and who is a huge fundraiser for your campaign. will you at least correct him

about that? i think most women don't think it's a particular funny comment. >> look, foster is known in political circles as telling a lot of jokes and some of them are not particularly funny, this one was not. he is not creepy. he is a good man, a great philanthropist, a very successful businessman. told a bad off-color joke and he shouldn't have done it. that is his business. it doesn't, in my opinion, reflect on the campaign or me because he wasn't doing it as part of our campaign. >> greta: okay. i should have said he's creep -- should haven't said he's creepy. i should have said what he said was creepy. i don't know the guy. >> a good man. >> greta: whatever. i don't know. the only thing i know is what he said. right now he is 0-1 with me. >> a stupid, it was a stupid joke. >> greta: okay. stupid joke. now let me go to the issue of birth control. so i understand, i have seen a lot of sound bites, quotes here and there. i want to understand, you know, do you think that birth

control is -- let me pull out sound bites -- is harmful to women and harmful to society? >> what i was talk about generally speaking in that interview is the concept of sexual liberation, sexual freedom has had its down side. birth control is part of that. dramatic increase in sexually transmitted diseases, dramatic increase out of wedlock births. dramatic increase in number of abortions. this is not been well, everything is just fine. that is a commentary i again, not something that is completely out of the mainstream. bottom line is there are consequences to the sexual revolution. that we are living with in america today. >> greta: in terms of your views on contraception and your religious beliefs and everyone comes to the office of the president with certain religious beliefs is it something that would in any in y

way -- say it would be imposed on the american people? how would we see it in policy if at all? >> good. just look at my record. i have been criticized by romney or paul's campaign for voting for contraception. that i voted for funding for it, which i think it's title 10. which i have voted for in the past. that provides for free contraception to organizations, even like planned parenthood. you know it's funny that on one side i'm ripped for having voted for this. now all of a sudden the left is trying to make me out somehow i want to stop women or men for that matter getting and doing things and taking things for contraception. look, i have my own views on these things. they are deeply held beliefs, but not everything that i think, that i disagree with morally should the government be involved in. only when there are real

consequences to society. or to the rights of individuals. do i feel a feed to speak out. that's why i do on the issue of abortion because we have another person involved in the decision. but the issue of contraception is not the case. it's something that people have a right to do in this country. and will be safe to do so under the santorum presidency. >> greta: okay. now to michigan. you are a state -- it must be exciting for you tonight, because the polls have you a little bit ahead of governor romney. it's his home state. both of you come to the state being opposed to the bail-out of auto industry. that is the auto industry state. how do you convince the voters to vote for you? >> i think i differ from governor romney on that front. governor romney supported the wall street bail-out. it was okay to come in and have the government take a huge role bailing out financial institutions but it wasn't okay to bail out the big manufacturers in this country, which are the hub of the manufacturing industry.

i would make the argument that my position is consistent. i don't see the government get involved in bail-outs period and that to me folks in detroit say he is a man of principle and believes in letting destructive capitalism work, going a bankruptcy process for the "wall street journal" banks, as well a -- for the wall street banks as well as detroit. as opposed to romney hails from michigan and understander of industrial heartland of this area, where he supported his friends on wall street but did not support the auto industry. that's where the inconsistency is. it's not in my position. >> do you find that the voters in michigan are asking you about that? is that an issue, the bail-out? we're pretty far removed from michigan but i imagine the auto industry and the bail-out is a big issue for them. >> certainly every reporter asked me about it here. every talk show host and

television show that i've been on. i haven't been asked by any voters. it's certainly something that is on the minds of the people here. i assume of southeastern michigan. they have every right to be. same for me and governor romney. if you are looking for consistency, someone who believes in and tries to live out in the public policy that, you know, the economic plan that i put forward and you see a consistency in my record, you see it with me and not with governor romney. this is one of many issues where he has been on both sides of the issue. be for it in some cases and against it in others and now trying to explain why he picked the big banks over big auto. >> greta: okay. if you are president tonight what are you doing about syria tonight? >> help syrian rebels and provide arms to them to the extent we can through other sources to provide other type of support.

this is an opportunity to get rid of a satellite country of iran as iran is becoming more menacing. opportunity to get rid of a back actor in the region. and candidly we can't replace him with anything worse than what they have. that is some of the, you look at gaddafi. gaddafi was pretty neutered. assad has been a very active advocate for iran and a tool for them. we should do what we can to overthrow them. >> greta: if you have a chance go to mackinaw island. only 300 votes in the most, but most beautiful part of michigan. >> beautiful. >> greta: it is. it doesn't have many voters in the middle of winter but boy it's a beautiful place to be. anyway, senator, thank you. hope you come back before in a short time. thank you, sir. >> thanks, greta. >> greta: now sparks are flying on capitol hill today. it got so hot three members of

congress got up and marched out of a hearing. it went down in a house committee hearing taking up the issue of president obama contraception rule. here is council woman eleanor holmes norris taking on darrell issa directly. >> i asked me the staff to get me the rules, mr. chairman. one thing mr. chairman, deny the right to have a -- >> general lady -- >> i want the right to make a parliamentary inquiry. >> state your parliamentary inquiry. >> greta: ten minutes later, norton, maloney and congressman qugley stormed out of the hearing. congressman issa joins us. nice to see you, sir. >> they didn't storm out of the hearing. they stormed to a press conference to make an issue over what they didn't like which was religious people, religious leaders, of many denominations coming in to talk about tim pact of the president and secretary's decision to not give them the normal broad exclusion of what is considered to be religious

freedom and their execution. that simple. we had ministers, we had a lutheran minister, obviously a catholic bishop. we also had a jewish rabbi for whom none of the things talked about or against their faith. yet, he was saying for the same reason that this is a bad precedent. >> greta: all right. were they given an opportunity to have a witness? >> absolutely. >> greta: what happened with that? >> greta, barry lynn is well known to the show. barry lynn, reverend barry lynn one of the witnesses they suggested. we invited him. we confirmed his receipt. he didn't show. >> greta: just didn't show up? >> didn't show. >> greta: was there a reason he didn't show up? no-show? >> the democrats uninvited him. he was their choice, one of their two choices and the qualified one. imagine, i've got the top leaders of several denominations there to spook on issue of religious freedom and interpretation back to the constitution and george washington letters and reverend barry lynn was asked for and we accepted him.

he didn't show. they then wanted a different witness. college student who really didn't belong on that panel for obvious reasons. >> greta: why did they want -- a law student from georgetown. why a law student? >> he is had a compelling story, a sad story of a classmate who developed an ovarian cyst that might have been prevented by using contraceptions in another way. one that by the way, the catholic bishop and everyone else there said is fully allowed under their faith. they don't have a problem with that. but her story was compelling but it wasn't in any way related to the point of the stated reason for the hearing. >> greta: but they wanted her. you said they could haven't her, it was too late? >> they were way too late for any witness. we said this a week ago. we have kept asking and asking, monday, tuesday, finally wednesday at the end of the day they gave us two names. we picked one. the tradition, the republican

and democratic leader, tradition is minority gets one witness. they put up two and we accepted one. >> greta: no show. >> no show. >> greta: isn't that peculiar? >> actually, we would have loved to have had him. even though i disagree with him on almost every interpretation of church and state, the fact is he is spoken and well known on it. he was their choice. >> greta: where does this hearing go? tell me what you as the product you hope to get. >> well, we heard from people who are the experts. i will again -- >> greta: on religious freedom, right? >> on their religions and how their systems work. we had university presidents and religious leaders, including the bishop laurie who speaks for all the bishops of the catholic church in this country. to give us their views. >> greta: is it a -- the issue as i see it is rather

straightforward constitutional issue. which is freedom of religion and when does the government step on your right to practice your religion. >> it's more than that. it's when does the church told what to do by the state? >> greta: that is broad -- that is stepping on your right. the minute the government gets in the religious business it's stepping on it. >> step og it. inconsistent with any history. one thing we tried to get the democrats to come up with, or anyone on the other side please tell us where there is a precedent for what the president and the secretary are doing. there isn't one. >> i suppose if the religion were committing mass murder, i mean step in at that point. not unfettered. >> it would be unusual church that had that has a tenet of religion. >> it's all absolute. is the white house backing off of that accommodation? the bishop soon to be cardinal dolan is opposed as many

catholics are. are they now backing off the accommodation? >> clearly there is no accommodation. >> greta: backward. that's what they call it. >> bishop laurie explained it and it was humorous to have a rabbi there and priest explained if you were jewish and if you were asked to serve ham, you said i can't serve ham. okay, you don't have to serve ham. but your vendor must bring in ham and serve it for free to anyone who wants it. he went through with great length -- >> greta: is the white house backing off? is the white house saying that wasn't a good accommodation, we'll go to another plan and here it is? >> i hope they will. i hope they recognize within religious faith and the mission they do, which include educating and the universities and so on. within those institutions that are primary to their faith, that they should have the ability to have a broad exemption. that is the history. i would like to have an exemption, too. i'm not, i can't stand behind religion per se. these people can.

and do. and have for 230 years. >> greta: if the white house doesn't come up with a an accommodation, running counter with the catholic church it's declaring war, war we don't need, political war. >> declaring war but not on catholics. lutherans stand there saying the same thing. >> greta: no, but the whole idea is you're next. you're next. >> that's why we had a rabbi there saying i don't object to abortion or contraception. this is not about the issue of the items that are contained. but i must be here because, in fact, this is wrong to do on religion. tomorrow it could be my day. >> greta: congressman, thank you, sir. >> thank you, greta. >> greta: straight ahead, congressman allen west accusing the government of slavery. he is fed up. congressman west is here to tell you why. that's next. also, can you answer this? if the general election were held today, yes, today, who would win? we know and you will too when dick morris goes on the record. plus, mystery of how how dieny

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deadly shoot-out at california federal building. tonight, two immigration and customs enforcement officers are dead. third is wounded. police say a gunman >> police say a gunman, reportedly an i.c.e. killed one agent and wound another. the gunman also died. it is unclear if he was shot by police or if he shot himself. at condemning government handout as modern form of slavery. this is congressman west in house floor speech. >> the record value of minimizing government dependence is particularly beneficial to the poorest among us. conversely, the democratic appetite forever increasing redistributionary hand-outs is the most insidious form of slavery. remaining in the world today. and it does not promote economic freedom. >> greta: so what does congressman west say that? he joins us and we'll find out.

congressman, explain. >> i think it's very simple. the republican party is the party stands for individual freedom and economic freedom. when i go back to my neighborhood in atlanta, georgia, and like i did last year when i gave a speech there i was shocked and appalled at what my neighborhood had become. i don't want to see people become dependent on government of the united states of america and i do think that is a mild form of slavery, economic dependence. i think that if we want to unleash undomnable spirit, we in washington, d.c. should be establishing policies that will allow that to flourish and grow across the community. the country cannot be as great if the sum of our parts are suffering. >> greta: how do we do that? i have had a look at the economy three-legged stool. it can't just have the middle class and rich doing well, it's a tool that will fall. we to empower people in lower economic class. how do we turn that around? how do we do that?

>> you and i talked about this before. jack kemp and art laffer came up with the urban empowerment zones. how do we stimulate urban growth and get people to reinvest in the communitys? how do we get individuals to invest in those who want this establish -- >> greta: how do we do that? >> we have to provide a sentence. when you look at -- provide incentives. look at small business, how do we give tax credit. we don't want to double up capital gains stat to dry up investment, something that the president talked about. i want to see and bob johnson and i, former head of b.e.t. talked about this. how do we incentivize people to invest in those who want to take business opportunities in the inner city? because then they will hire the people from that community. that is how you break that cycle. >> greta: how do we i insent vise it? why would someone want to open a business in the inner city communitys? most people are terrified of the inner city? >> the security aspect has to be a part of it. the same as if you are in a

combat zone. you can't have nation building until you have a secure environment. that is the first step. when you provide those capital gains incentives for individuals that want to go and see a good return on investment, that is how the company got started. we help them mitigate the risk with the investment. >> greta: do you think people in the lower class, typically african-american in urban areas are they better off now than they were four year ago, eight years ago? just the same? >> no, i think they are not. i think you look at statistics it shows when you look at the unemployment rate it's adversely affected in the community and hispanic communities. not just something endemic to african-american community. we vo to look at how do we refocus there and make sure we can get people to be part of the american dream, but we have to break cycle of

dependency and poverty. >> greta: there is a big difference between handing out and inspiring and giving an opportunity. >> is it. >> greta: the inspiring and the opportunity is -- >> well, the look at myself. the opportunity for me came i had two great parents, parents with a military background. i also got involved in the high school r.o.t.c. program. that was the ticket for me to get out. >> greta: what was the like at the time? >> my -- what was the neighborhood like at the time? >> more families there. a strong church environment. we did have the small black businesses. i would walk from the elementary school to butler ymca. that was the cradle of black entrepreneurship and small businesses. that is gone. >> greta: i was criminal defense in washington, inner city, i would have a 17-year-old client charged with murder. his mother would be 14, 15 years older. wouldn't be in the picture. the grandmother would be in

the picture. these families are really busted up. >> remember, that was something senator daniel patrick moin hand talked about. whereby if you start to reward young ladies having children out of wedlock with government checks eventually you break down the structure of the family. if you look at one of the strength of the black community it's the family, the two-parent household. now you look and the latest statistics say that you have between 65 to 70% of african-american children who don't have both parents in the home. >> i actually think it's so lost in the discussion in this country of what is going on with the urban centers. it's so important to the well-being not just for people in the urban centers but for everybody else. >> it is. like i say, sum of the parts. that's why we have another conservative black forum in may and talk about the urban economics. >> greta: congressman, thank you. nice see you. >> pleasure. >> greta: coming up, is at it wake-up call for the g.o.p. candidates? a new poll puts each g.o.p. candidate against president obama. should each be nervous this

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>> greta: the latest rasmussen poll puts obama approval rating at 49%ment gallup shows the approval rating plummeting to 43%.

but the polls show he beats republicans in head-to-head matchup. should republicans be worried? good evening, dick. it sounds like everybody should be worried. >> it's politics and everybody worries in politics. there is an interesting thing going on. obama relative improve in the numbers is that the republicans are killing each other and slamming each other. they're watchal and listening and turning back to obama. as soon as the internation warfare stops they will turn away from him again. as obama becomes more popular and the ratings increase, i think romney will do better. i think that santorum is someone who republicans could support if obama is not likely to win. they are worried about obama's ability to get elected.

if obama is down and out they say santorum is more consistent on social issues and reliably pro-life, i will go with him. if obama is in the 50s, low 50s, high 40s, people are getting nervous about his chances of women. republicans are going to say that the very things to make it difficult for romney to win the primary, make it easier for him to win the general election. >> greta: looking at the numbers right now in the matchup, if it were obama-romney, romney would lose by six points. if it were obama-santorum, eight points. it doesn't look like santorum that far off from it being essentially an even par with governor romney. in light of michigan coming up. the next primary is always the most important one. this one does seem important because it's michigan. they are both voting against the bail-out. governor romney is from michigan. he is supposed to win this. now he is losing in the polls.

how important is the michigan race? >> santorum has to win michigan. because he needs victory to be accelerator. to make it possible for him to win on super tuesday. super tuesday is the first time money really matters in this race. because you are running in all the huge states. texas is a week later. you need money to do that. if romney wins in michigan, i don't think that santorum will have the momentum to be able to get the funds to compete. i think my feeling about this, greta, right now santorum is theoretical object. >> greta: what does that mean? >> he is not gingrich. and the voters have decided they don't want gingrich. he doesn't have gingrich's baggage. he doesn't have a flip-flop on abortion. he never proposed romneycare. but the voters don't really know him. they never paid much attention to him in the debate. he has not had scrutiny.

>> greta: he went to iowa, which is interesting because he went to iowa he almost knocked on every single door and everybody counted him out. when people did get to know him in iowa, they thought he looks pretty good. he won. >> but i think that there is going to be a real vetting that will take place in the debate next week on the 22n 22nd. santorum has to live up to his image. go to people who decided to vote for him because of concern about the other two candidates and make the sale in a positive affirmative way. romney has to make a point. he has an ability to attract women, moderates and swing voters that may not vote in the republican primary but will determine who sits in the white house. >> greta: all right. now, as i understand michigan, correct me if i'm wrong, you don't to be a republican to vote in the primary, so there could be a lot of democratic mischief. if you didn't want romney to

win you get democrats to run out and vote for santorum or vice versa. is that true? democrats, or independents can vote in this one or is not >> i think independents can. i don't know if democrats can. i don't think it ever happens. what i think will happen is you will get a lot of independents who will vote in the republican primary. because there is no democratic primary. that also is likely to help romney. my bet is romney pulls this out. >> greta: in terms of looking at this, all the candidates surged except for governor romney holy spirit has been steady and hasn't moved up much, hasn't moved down much. should we read into that? is that good for him or saying he just can't push it? he can't get over the top? >> i am critical of the campaign romney has run. he relied too much on negative and being the last survivor. i think he also has wage ad campaign that never really got past the bu biographic phase.

we get staples, we get that you created jobs, we get you are in business not in politics. we get that. now tell us what you'd do as president ^wa. are you for? give statements, give speeches each day outlining policy proposals that you are making. cement the sale with conservatives. he hasn't done that yet. >> greta: he was on "hannity" earlier tonight. replays in two hours if people want to hear governor romney, they can check back in two hours. anyway, dick, thank you. >> thank you. >> greta: coming up, senator come coburn says you are being fed a big lie. what is it? senator tom coburn is here to tell you and joined by senator richard burr. and senator coburn has something to say about first lady michelle obama. stand by for that. also, president obama did it. governor mitt romney, he did it, too. now another politician breaks into song. who is it? you will see and hear that you will see and hear that performance coming up

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>> from america's news headquarters, i'm ainsley earhardt. an update now on that deadly shootout that greta was talking about earlier, involving immigration and customs enforcement agents in long beach, california. law enforcement says it was triggered by a argument between the gunman and a supervising agent. the agent is in the hospital in stable condition. the suspect, killed by a third i.c.e. agent who intervened. the u.n. assemble approving a resolution to strongly condemn human rightsvilleses by the syrian government and supports an arab-league plan that calls for the president to step down. russia and china voted against the resolution. more than 5,000 people have been kill in the 11-month crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. i'm ainsley earhardt, now back to "on the record" with gret a. forh lines, go to our web site, foxnews.com. have a great morning.

the dow 13 points from the 13,000 mark. >> greta: time is running out. so is the money. can medicare be saved? if you or your parent res lie on medicare, pay attention. this is a big problem. senators tom coburn and richard burr say they have a solution. we spoke with the senators earlier tonight. senators, nice to see you both. >> good to see you. >> greta: medicare, let me start with you, senator coburn so we understand. when under the existing system can we expect it will be insolvent, that they run out of money on medicare? >> if you take the worst case scenario, hospital trust fund, the fund that pays the hospital bills, will be out of money in 2016. each year that gets worse when the trustees look at it and say where are we? so each year it has gotten closer. the year before last it was 2017. the year before that, 2018. sometime around 2016, '17, we know we can say pretty specifically that the hospital trust fund will have no money. no money to pay the hospital bills for medicare.

>> greta: senator burr, you and senator coburn have come up with a new idea. tell me how it's different from what we already have. >> let me say it's not new. we incorporated a lot of ideas from a lot of people in congress, and around the country. we tried to put in a bill that ensures our parents and children that medicare will be safe. it brings transparency for the first time choice to seniors so they can actually choose a healthcare plan that best fits their age, income and health needs. we believe it's essential that seniors that are involved in the decision-making on the healthcare because utilization is going to be absolutely crucial in the future to the efficiencies that we need to get in healthcare. >> greta: senator senator cobur, you are a doctor. tell me what is it about your bill better for patient? >> they will have better access to better quality

doctors, for one. if you think about the distribution, numbers that are dropping out of medicare, not going to take medicare patients anymore, a big problem for 10,000 per day going on medicare right now. baby-boomers. my age. access to better care and better outcomes and they will be more involved in their care. that is the number one thing. number two, medicare will be saved. you have a congress that is doing nothing now about the biggest financial problem we have, which is how do we pay for medicare? acting on that and creating a competitive market to buy what you want and hold them accountable. you have can't hold anybody accountable on medicare. call medicare some day and see what answers you get. you have can't get anything. you will have accountability because you are buying a plan with money you are given to buy what you want, based on what your needs, your physical condition is, your health

condition and also your financial situation. >> greta: 10,000 more put on per day. baby boomers added to the roll. unless you put the age eligibility farther out or come up with a new income source or get rid of waste and fraud, or cut the services i don't know how your plan works or do you those do those things? >> we do. we cecind the age two months every year until we hit 67. we look at the medigap insurance and income test from medigap to the catastrophic limit for the first time. tom and i with the plan introduce to the american seniors an annual cap on what they would be responsible for out of pocket in the worst case health scenario. we ensure they won't lose what they acalmlated due to the health condition they have now or accumulate.

>> with the type of changes we make we get a different level of buy-in by individuals that are beneficiaries that help us to understand what the future cost will be. >> every person listening to this thinks in the age of 40, 50, 60, i pay money to medicare. are you telling me i can't get it until farther in future when i pay this money, number one? number two, it's more expensive and that is what is going to happen to me? >> the big lie is we put in enough money to cover the expenses. that is political cheating that has gone on. >> greta: right now? >> yeah. the average couple puts in $130,000. they take out $340. how long do you think it will last? why are they taking out 340? you mention something a minute ago senator, waste, fraud abuse. what we know is one out of every $3 in medicare spent doesn't help anybody.

what happens if we could take one out of three and make sure it is helping somebody? extend the life of medicare by 25 years. just by doing that. that is one thing that the bill will do. we order tests that aren't necessary because we don't care who is paying the bill. the doctor isn't paying the bill. the patient isn't paying the bill. the medicare fund is paying the bill. if you don't care who is paying the bill you don't care what things cost. so consequently we have a large component in total healthcare in the company that is around $800 billion a year that doesn't tellp anybody in healthcare. medicare is $350 to $400 billion of that. changing that extends the life of medicare. that means you don't get the test done twice because two doctors aren't talking to each other. you only get the test done once. >> greta: it seems universal literature, medical literature

exercise, even at early age, not being overweight, eating well, you have better health as you get older. >> except for your knees when you worn them out from exercising. >> greta: yet for your knees. it's interesting that the first lady, michelle obama is getting criticized by some saying it's a nanny state because she is encouraging that people get exercise. a lot of conservatives are criticizing her. fair criticism? >> no. it's great what she is saying. she is right. we need to change our diet and be more physically active. if we will do that, it will pay big dividends. we know that physical activity, markettedly stimulates the bin and increases neural transmitters, makes you brighter and smarter longer. it gives you better judgment and better stability. there is nothing wrong with her promoting that. give her kudos for doing it. right thing to do. >> we tried to put together a healthcare plan for seniors that encourages people to stay

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