to see this program, get an early copy, hannity.com, my website. for all the details. that is is all the time we have left. thanks for being with us. greta is next. see you tomorrow night. >> greta: tonight, popping the cork and getting out the soap. vice president biden. >> this is a [ bleep ] deal. >> greta: whether you love it or hate it the, the health care reform bill the president signed today is a big deal. what happens now? republican senator licensee gram went on the record. nice -- lindsey graham went on the record. nice to see you. even senator mccain came out with strong language saying there would be no more cooperation until the end of the year. >> the well has been poisoned. people are upset at the process used to pass this bill. reconciliation is being abused. when you think about it is nullifying scott brown's election. if they had gone through the

normal course of business, you pass a bill in the house in the senate, there's differences you work it out in conference, send it back to both bodies, you got 60 vote hurdle in the senate. scott brown said if he went to the he would vote to kill this bill. reconciliation avoids the conference system. so we are going to be passing the senate bill with changes without using a conference. scott brown never gets to vote on health care and that has made a lot of us mad. >> greta: were the republicans out ed in procedure? >> no they just used something no one has used before. i think it is sleazey and inappropriate and unleashes some unhealthy forces. senator byrd objected to the reconciliation process being used to pass clinton health care this is 1/6 of the economy. they are stopping the senate from having a say on the differences between the house and the senate by going to 51 votes. republicans are being dealt out of the game. scott brown never gets to vote

on the health care legislation he campaigned against. and this will come back to bite 'em in the butt. >> greta: one aspect, the student loan program. a lot of americans wonder what do student loans have to do with health care? >> i'm wondering that too. the price tag of this bill is over a trillion dollars. they are raising taxes -- >> greta: they say it is 940 billion. >> when you add in interest and everythings it is going to be well over a trillion. they cut medicare 500 billion dollars. not to save medicare but take money out, seniors, to pay for the uninsureed. raised taxes by 600 billion. that doesn't get you there. so they are taking the student loan program that 19 million students have access to, they are giving the program completely to the federal government. you want government take over? your ship has come in. every student in the country

has to go to the federal government to get their student loan. what the federal government has done, dealt out the private sector, lending money at 6.4%, borrowing it at 2.6%, the difference -- >> greta: 4% spread -- >> guess to the government. 9.1 billion dollars of money created by the student loan takeover by the federal government is going to pay for health care. it is not enough to increase taxes on these students when they get a job that's what will happen to them unthis health care bill. it is not enough to pass on two trillion dollars worth of debt that is what happens when you look at this bill in perpetuity. you got to hit them while they are in school, this stinks. >> greta: this 4% spread is the cost to the students still the same just a question of where the 4% goes? >> average student will be spending $1700 to $1800 more during the life of their loan

because of this surcharge. from the students' point of view, it is gonna cost you 17 to eight 10 hue more to pay your -- 1700 to 1800 more to pay it off. they took the business over to venerate income for the government and applied it to paying for this health care bill. >> greta: are you going to have an amendment on this? >> you better believe it. the one thing i want students to do is speak up. your student loan rates are going to change many you are going to have one place to get your student loan from. >> greta: are the democrats doing this to help finance the health care reform bill or do they say there's another reason? >> they are saying the banking system doesn't work. that the private lenders ought to be taken out. no private sector entity should make money sending kids to school. so we are going to have a federally government run student loan program. not enough to own the car companies.

they are saying this is better for students. truth is the spread between what we borrow and what we charge the student is 4.2%, maybe a little higher. it generates money for the federal government to be used not to retire the deficit not to help students go to school but to pay for this health care bill. another example of the government takeover of the private sector that will cost more money. and why? to pay for a health care bill that they can't afford unless they start robbing students. >> greta: thank you sir. >> thank you. >> greta: you just heard from a republican senator. now the other side of the aisle. we tonight -- michigan's debbie stabenow went on the record. you voted for the bill right? you liked it? >> yeah >> greta: what is your insent to vote for the reconciliation bill which is the house version if you liked your own? >> this is going to make a good bill better. provisions in there are going save for middle class

families, seniors and on the national debt because it brings down the deficit more than the original bill. >> greta: why didn't you do that to yours? >> there were different priorities worked on. i was pushing affordability for middle class families who didn't get it all the wait this final bill does that >> greta: any ruffled feathers? any democratic colleagues who think i'm not going to vote for that house bill i liked the senate bill fine? >> i think we have a couple of folks that may not support in particular bill. the majority of people understand this is making a good bill better. i'm proud author of the tax cut for business takes effect right now up to 35% for small businesses to help them pay for health care this is really important. >> greta: when i hear the president speak today it -- i know were you there sounded like an unbelievably magnificent transformation and

the american people should be thrilled. we listen to the republicans they say this is a expensive, dangerous and people are worried about the deficit and your neighbors -- and your numbers are so vastly different. are you cutting medicare? >> overall, the congressional budget office which is extremely conservative and 43 different economists have all agreed we are cutting the deficit about 140 billion the first 10 years and over 1.2 trillion in the second -- >> greta: one of the things you are able to do that because we are collecting income to pay for it for 10 years for six years of services is what the republicans say. and the second thing you cleverly not -- included the 200 billion dollar doctor fix which would have put you over-the-top, had that been included? >> first of all i'm the author of the effort to fix this medical payment issue for doctors. i want to see that get done that has been going on for many years. we have to move forward and

fix that in some way. >> greta: that is health care, right? >> that is health care. >> greta: should be on this price tag? >> i think it is sag that would have been good to include. let me go to your question of only six years and 10 years worth of revenue. the second 10 years it's 10 years of revenue and 10 years of spending and the cbo says and 43 different economists we will save 1.3 trillion dollars. you asked about medicare. >> greta: that's the second 10 years. >> even bigger. >> greta: 30 million adding in the first ten years, will have more children to add on in that second 10 years, right? >> here's what we know. we know the current situation is not stable. in my state we are losing jobs. we are losing manufacturing jobs because of health care costs. >> greta: 14%. >> absolutely 14% unemployment. small businesses getting 30% increases saying do i keep

people employed and drop the insurance or do i keep the insurance and fire people? we are at a point where we have to do something. this gives tax cut to small business to help them be able to provide health insurance. it brings down the cost of medicine for seniors. it brings down the deficit and it is going to help people going forward to be able if get what they are paying for. right now wins companies, you can get dropped. you can't get coverage -- >> greta: let me ask you about the business. some small businesses if you have 50 employees or more you have to provide insurance, i'm not saying i'm opposed to people providing insurance that is going to create a small business hardship, not a help. >> any business right now that provides insurance will not be affected at all. if someone is not providing insurance, going forward not to provide insurance they will be paying a fraction of what they would pay into a

contribution, towards what their employees are receiving in terms of taxpayer funded -- people will get tax cuts the business will contribute to that much less than if they were providing it themselves. >> greta: one to ten, ten being the most certain that the numbers you have in your bill are going to save us money? there's a lot of numbers floating around. >> here's what i know, i don't know if i would put a number on it. what the congressional budget office didn't count are things that i think are the biggest savings. preventive health, making sure somebody can see a family doctor rather than walk into an emergency room. making sure we change the way we provide an incentive. the incentives are to keep us healthy rather than different procedures that is going to save a lot of money. >> greta: next, no doubt about

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beat down the reconciliation bill. what is the republican plan? we went to capitol hill and senator gregg went on the record. nice to see you. >> thank you for having me on. >> greta: before we get to the meat of what is going on. tell me you are the manager of the reconciliation bill. how did you get that job and what does that mean? >> i'm the senior republican on the budget committee and reconciliation is a budget vehicle. therefore, i'm responsible for being the gatekeeper on the floor. i try pick what amendments we'll go to first. i make the points of order or i ask somebody to make the points of order for me. and i help with the speaking order. so -- there's obviously a lot of interest from the republican senators we want to make sure everybody has a chance to make their points and offer the amendments they want to offer and i'm sort of the o traitor of that >> greta:ed i heard the president speak and when you hear the democrats and you think hallelujah and then i hear from the republicans and

think medicare is going unand i'm so cooked. >> medicare is used to finance this bill. >> greta: how? >> when the bill is phased in there will be a trillion in reductions in medicare expenditures. >> greta: people who would ordinarily get that trillion are not? >> it means advisers and seniors using medicare advantage as their insurance vehicle will see dramatic reductions in their payments or in the case of insurance will not be able to buy medicare advantage insurance. that will save a trillion dollars over the first 10 years. that money is not being used to make medicare morsel vent it is being used to create new programs that the president and his folks wanted which is fund people who don't have insurance today who aren't on medicare, who aren't seniors and never paid into medicare. >> greta: you introduced an amendment today to oppose the

use of that. the president says people who are getting medicare won't have benefits cut. >> he's wrong. >> greta: is he mistaken or slick? this is a big deal, either they are gonna get them or not? >> i think most americans understand if you reduce a program by a trillion dollars somebody is going to be impacted. if you say to thes did the hospitals, delivering medicare services, especially rural hospitals we are going to reduce your payment by half a trillion dollars, there's obviously going to be an impact on delivery of service if you say to seniors who buy medicare advantage, that is no longer going to be available that is going to impact services. he's wrong on that scorch medicare recipients will be affected. >> greta: how do we side who to believe? medicare so profoundly important. direct us to how we find out. >> you can go to cbo. i don't have the language in

front of me to paraphrase what they said was the reductions in medicare in the big bill which is what the president signed today will be spent on new programs that have nothing to do with medicare they were very forthright about this. it was a very practical matter. you are going to take a huge amount out of medicare, use it to fund new entitlement programs that the president wanted and medicare which is already headed towards insolvency is going to have used up what i call the seed corn or the low hanging fruit that might have been able to use, you are doubling down on the problem. you know medicare is going insolvent, going bankrupt in probably 10 years. yet, rather than resolving that problem or trying to help to resolve that problem by making difficult reductions in medicare and using the money to make medicare morsel vent you are spending it on new

entitlements, you know when a government starts an entitlement it never fully funds the entitlement. >> greta: what do they say when you talk to them about this? >> they want this bill. they know they can't pay for the bill any other way than to money out of medicare so they are willing to use medicare funds to pay for this bill. >> greta: how about senator nelson in florida who has a huge constituency of citizens on medicare, what does he say about it? >> you probably have to ask senator nelson as to how they handling this. hopefully, they vote for my amendment. you cannot start a new program unless you can prove that the money to tart the program didn't come from medicare -- money to start the program didn't come from medicare. >> greta: is it going to pass? >> it is the only way to protect medicare, so it should. >> greta: will the republicans get in the way of anything and everything the democrats try do? smart or suicidal strategy?

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>> greta: things really are getting uglier here in washington. even though the senate health care now law the fight continues. some republicans vowing to fight anything and everything the democrats try to do. why would they do that? joining us rnc chairman michael steele. good evening sir. in terms of strategy, blocking everything, saying absolutely -- senator mccain says there

is going to be no more cooperation does that have a risk of backfiring? >> senator mccain is just saying matters of national security, something obviously important comes to the table, we going to work with the president. but this, you know bending over, extending our hand and saying oh gee let's introduce this and see if we can work together. that is not the mindset more has been the practice of the administration or congress. you tell us what you want to do and we'll be prepared to if you are ready to go bipartisan we'll do bipartisan otherwise we'll layout an opposition's perspective on these things. with respect to the health care bill, a lot of people saying why would you want to repeal the bill with all these wonderful things that are going to happen in the first year or whatever. we are not talking about repealing the bill for the sake of the bill we want to replate -- replace it with something thats did and patients think need to be done. big difference. >> greta: your website is fired up, literally, about

speaker of the house pelosi. >> yeah. i think she has been derelict in her duty to the american people. i think she has spent her time trying to figure out now cajole people like congressman stupak to vote against his conscience which is another conference about -- his con -- another conversation as to why he did what he did. so i've asked for her to be fired. and i'm asking americans to help me make that happen. >> greta: she is in one of the safest districts. >> it is not about her district. >> greta: [ talking over each other ] >> it is about whether or not she returns to the united states congress in january 2011 as speaker of the house. [ talking over each other ] >> greta: speaker pelosi in her -- >> they can her back to congress, she just won't be the speaker. >> greta: who do you think is

going to throw her out? >> we are the people are by giving republicans control of the congress, i would be very happy to call mr. boehner speaker boehner and i'm looking forward to doing that we are saying go to firenanny pelosi.com and make it happen. -- >> how are you doing? >> look the challenge and still the opportunity is you have primaries that going to take place. a couple races because they have late primaries, candidates are still making up their minds to get in. everyday this congress continues to act the way it has acted, brings to the table more and more good conscientious principled conservative candies to run against incumbent democrats who pretended to be heir apparents of the new conservatives in this country unbarack obama as blue dogs we

are calling them and taking them outcome november. >> greta: former governor of alaska has her target list of people she wants to take out. have you seen that list? >> i have not seen the list recently, but i've heard of it, yes. >> greta: what do you think about it? >> i think the former governor of alaska, she has set her targets, some may line-up with some of the folks we are looking at. we are being methodical. we are being very careful because we don't want to go down the road where we do same old same old. we want individuals who prepare to come to washington and for once in the last -- years pay attention to what the voters want. >> greta: 30 seconds. democrats seem today big win they have the wind at their back, worry you? >> no. the american people, the

number went up those who are opposed to some 60%. >> greta: you think they are in a worse position? >> because the arrogance of power has led them down this road. on the night this pill passed -- this bill passed, i look them in the eye and ask them to join me in firing nancy pelosi. she has been derelict in her duty by not listening by taking the party and i believe the country down a bad road this november they are going to pay. >> greta: chairman steele, thank you. next president obama signs the health care bill, minutes later gets sued. well he didn't exactly get sued, but the government did. two angry attorneys generals are here, next. rush limbaugh talking about the health care bill using words like goodies and christmas. did he change his mind about the bill? rush limbaugh himself, cocococoo

>> greta: the health care reform battle just opened on a new front, the courthouse. the ink was hardly dry when attorney general bill mccollum filed suit. 12 other attorneys general signed up with him. virginia's attorney general filed a separate suit. bill mccollum join us live, good evening. >> good to be with you greta, thank you. >> greta: the attorney general of virginia filed suit because he has a specific virginia statute that says you can't order people to buy insurance. he filed suit on his grounds with what did you file suit on? >> first of all, we believe all of the states that joined us today in the northern district of florida the 12 others besides florida that it is unconstitutional for the federal government to mandate or require somebody to buy

health insurance. you do not have an elastic commerce clause. there are powers in the constitution government has no right to require a citizen to buy a product or service because they are living, sitting in a chair or existing. there are a number of supreme court cases that ruled that in addition, there is no right for the federal government to take the resources of a state to manipulate them and control them in the way this bill would do with respect to medicaid and other services in the state of florida and many of the other states. the cost to my state alone is billions of dollars that our taxpayers could not afford and could not assume to do something for the federal government that the government should be doing itself. there are court cases and precedents that say that the government cannot invade the sovereignty of the state doing that the two together give us the opportunity to challenge this and that's what we are doing. we believe the u.s. supreme court will rule the entire health care bill, out on table today, the president signed, unconstitutional.

>> greta: one of the issues you raised similar to virginia but you don't have the statute is on the mandate. first about the mandate. if the court were to agree with you the mandate was somehow unconstitutional. are you saying that would knock out the entire health care bill or would that take that one particular provision and toss it out? >> well we think that's the core of the bill. i believe would it knock out the whole bill. but the reality is, it is a house of cards. it is all predicated on the assumption that you have required people to be insured if you can't require them to be insured the rest of the methodology of trying to solve the health care problem that all of us want solved, would fail. this particular methodology. but the reality is, for the states it is more interconnected. for us it is a question of being told we have to provide additional services. additional medicaid enroll lees in huge numbers that come

aboard under this legislation that we can't afford to pay the percentage we are required to pay. and requiring us to set up insurance exchanges and do a number of things that the federal government has no authority or power in the constitution to require the states to do. they are intertwined in the way we look at it. >> greta: of the state attorneys generals who have joined with you, any of them democrats? >> yes buddy caldwell of louisiana, the rest republicans we have reason to believe there will be more democrats who join us as we proceed. most attorneys generals understand the impact this has on their states and the problem with the individual right of choice of the individual who is out there. it is unprecedented for us to have this sweeping attack not only on rights of an individual to be free from the federal government telling them they have to buy a product or service. they could require you under the premise that would be in this bill to go out and buy a

car or to bibi -- or to buy amen in -- to buy a membership in a club. this is more than an unfunded mandate. i served in congress, i know what that is. this is take state's resources and putting it to use for the federal government's purposes and manipulating the stays to the degree that is beyond the southern protections in the constitution for states, -- sovereign protections in the constitution for states. >> greta: we are going to watch closely, thank you for joining us. attorney general john pruning join us live, i assume one of your issues, you don't like the idea of being forced, your citizens forced to get health insurance but it is also the cost the unfunded mandate and the pressure it puts on nebraska, is that right? >> yeah it is no secret the

states are in a dire financial position now the revenues are not enough to pay the bills every state in that position nebraska may be less so than others because of good management by our governor and others but we are in a tough spot. for the federal government to a we are going to add thousands to the medicaid rolls we can't an for it now. >> greta: two issues. let's say the reconciliation bill did not prevail. which means we are now back to the senate bill and senator nelson has negotiated a large amount for your state. i take that it issue would fall off to the side at least as far as it guess to nebraska, you guys got money coming your way if the reconciliation bill dies. >> well, first of all, nebraskans hated that i think senator nelson realizes that. we were embarrassed by it. we don't want anything that is not fair. nebraskans are very fair they want the same deal as

everybody the cornhusker kickback might have paid for people's care. if somebody needed an x-ray it was going to pay for that in perpetuity. what it didn't pay for was the enormous bureaucracy. this deal is so sweet that my understanding is you will have many people who will drop the insurance coverage they have to join medicaid because it is going to be a better deal that is a problem for the states. we don't have the bureaucracy in place to take on tens of thousands on the medicaid rolls. >> greta: why did you pick florida as your forum of where to file? secondly, is there any way to expedite this? is this going to drag out from now until kingdom come? >> i hope it doesn't drag out from now until kingdom come. we are thinking 12 to 18 months. it will have to go through the 11th circuit, either side will appeal we think this will go

to the u.s. supreme court where it should be decided is in the u.s. supreme court. whether or not congress has this unlimited power under the commerce clause. the supreme court has said two times, the congress can't force anyone to buy whatever service they choose. they can regulate commerce but they can't say you have to buy a product, you have to engage in commerce. this bill punishes inactivity. somebody wants to sit on the sideline gets punished. we picked florida for no particular reason. maybe it is the palm trees, beautiful place, so is nebraska. >> greta: i've been to nebraska, it is beautiful. i have a copy of the complaint filed in florida, it is 23 pages. it seems -- you didn't begin writing in today when the president signed the bill. when did the discussion begin? when did you attorneys

generals get together? >> we've been talking about a lawsuit for many, many weeks probably since christmastime, when we knew bill was starting to coalesce and the senate had the 60 votes. about that time we started talking about it. there was a conference call two nights ago now once the bill passed the house and it indeed seemed like it was going to become law. at that point there was a conference call late at night we decided to pull the trigger on this those who were interested said so. we reached out to our governors those of us that wanted to do that and pulled the trigger minutes after the president signed the bill. >> greta: you don't need permission from your governor do you to file this? >> no, but in my state we work closely together. i want to make sure he and i on the same page in some states they need permission in others they don't. in mine he and you are of like mine on this issue.

>> greta: thank you, good luck. bill: talk radio gone wild over obama care. we'll have a report on that will the supreme court overturn the legislation? is it legal? >> greta: o'reilly at 11. we are live until the top of the hour. rush limbaugh wants christmas in march. what does that mean? we'll let rush tell you. former secretary of state condoleeza rice teaming up with one of the most famous sing pers in the world this is wild. [ female announcer ] treat yourself to something special for lunch. how about a coastal soup and grilled shrimp salad combination? or maybe our new savory shrimp jambalaya. seafood lunches starting at just $6.99 at red lobster.

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focused on ways to break the power of the mexican drug traffickers. the cartel's violence hit home earlier this month in the border town of juarez. suspected drug gangs gunning down three people connected to the u.s. canculate. and the u.s. saying beijing should consider the google decision to pull out of china, moving most of its china-based search functions from the main throond hong kong. google said it could not comply with the demands to sensor web content. the chinese government has blocked topics on the pro-democracy movement. i'm ainsley earhardt, back to "on the record." >> greta: are we getting slicked? rush law. >> we ought to start -- rush law. >> we ought to start demanding all the benefits, premium reductions, prepreventive care colonoscopies, mammograms. we want the deficit reduction

starting now. we want all the promises today. we don't want the props in 2014, 29 teen, we want it -- we don't want the promises in 2014 in 20 , we want it now. if this bill is christmas why wait until december? let's have christmas in march! >> some benefits from in health care bill kicking first long before the most controversial parts. the question is why? rick santorum joins us live. good evening senator. is it just a coincidence that some of the more popular provisions kick in quickly or do we want them so much we are willing to have those loaded up front or do you suspect something more sinister? >> i wonder why they would put popular things first. what rush was talking some of the preventive, big subsidies promised down the line they are very expensive. they put in some things like

allowing children to have the preexisting clause apply to children. most children in america pause of the expansion of s-chip and medicaid have some sort of health insurance. that isn't that big of a deal that is one they can say at least we've covered children. but the regular preexisting clause that's four years in the making. there's a reason for that because they don't have the individual mandate in. they don't have the other things that make the preexisting clause work. you are going to see a few things out there. i don't think it is going to be much to persuade the public this is such a great thing, at least at the beginning. >> greta: is the order of the way the benefits are rolled out in this, is it done because it is timing, it is smart, it makes sense or is it done for financial reasonses in terms of how we are going to pay for it or political reasons to get beyond some election because the -- what's the reason?

>> there's a reason these benefits go into place most of the benefits the big cost go into effect in 2013 and 2014 because you have to pay for them. the pay - forces are not something that barack obama wants to -- the pay-fors not something that barack obama wants to get hit. he's up for election in 2012. what he has done is put a few things in place, minor , no big discorruption to the insurance industry to the health care industry, put those in place before his election then the hammer comes down, big taxes and expenditures and some benefits come along with that. >> greta: you believe they sit around in a room and say as we write this statute we have to remember the election is coming in two years, four years, that's into the equation of how the statutes are written? >> absolutely.

>> greta: no question in your mind? >> absolutely. they will tell you and they are right, because they have done so much with government, all of these insurance exchange, all of these other things they are trying to do where government is controlling the health care industry that it takes a long time for the secretary of health and human selfs to write pages of rules and regulations that is true it does take a long time because it is so government intensive. if this was a private sector reform they could do it right away and let the private sector react. but government has to write all this stuff, so that does take time. >> greta: we haven't gotten to the 2700 pages, how do we implement them. we have to wait for pages and pages, this 2700 page document goes out to the various agencies. they now come up with rules and write guide books as to how it will be

implemented they ship it off to different parts of the country and everyone tries to sit around and figure out what it is, right? >> it is a process. you want to talk about the amount of money spent if this goes into effect, the amount of money spent in this town lobbying the session father of health and human services. this will be a long and laborious and expensive process and the public will not be at the table. what we have in this bill, 2700 pages is just an outline for how this is to be done. we have to fill it in with the novel later. get grow we are just getting started -- >> greta: we are just getting started in terms of who gets what? >> right. broad outlines, the specifics are yet to be written. >> greta: next the best of the rest. condoleeza rice ready to start her music career. guess who she is dealing up with? admit it did vice president's

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11:00 is almost here, flash studio lights. it's time. last call. right now by all accounts congress is not popular. for the people that like congress... >> 22 gallup poll, congress approval rating is at 16%. only 16% of americans think congress is doing a good job. other 84% didn't get any bailout money. so i don't know. >> nice to see bai