the aarp is widely viewed as supporting the president. >> we have the aarp on board because they knowseniors. rted the aarp called the president's statements inaccurate saying it hasn't endorsed any plan or bill. some were left with the feeling that aarp was waffling. >> i feel that they are supporting it through the back door and telling their members if they are not through the front door. >> there has been some confusion as to whether aarp is supporting or endorsing the president's plan or not. which is it? >> aarp has not endorsed any plan at this point. >> reporter: yet the aarp couldn't find anything to quibble with, including the medicare cuts which she says will not affect benefits. >> so is there anything in president obama's plan that you don't like? >> we agree with many of the ideas. but we actually haven't seen provisions and legislation yet so we are not, you know, we're going to reserve judgement until we see them. >> meantime the aarp's image suffered with this town hall meeting august 4th already seen by hundreds of thousands be youtube. >> faced with skeptical questi

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this is what he said about the aarp. >> aarp would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining medicare. i just want seniors to be clear about this. >> while the aarp agrees it would never support a bill that undermines medicare, in a statement, its chief operating officer called any suggestion of an endorsement, quote, inaccurate. gibbs cleaned it up this way. >> i don't think the president meant to imply anything untoward. >> he just misspoke? >> right. >> reporter: the white house says these town halls the president has held have been valuable, a way to inform and knock down what they see as false information about health care reform. so the president hits the road again this weekend with town halls in bows man, montana, and grand junction, colorado. dan lothian, cnn, the white house. >>> white house press secretary robert gibbs was on the defensive as i said on the issue of whether the president misrepresented the aarp's position on health care. we're going to play for you the entirety of that section of the press briefing from the question onward. let's listen. >> yesterday the pre

>> aarp has not endorsed any plan at this point. >> a lot of members leaving aarp are going to the american seniors association. it is adamantly opposed to president obama's plan. >>> a shrieking -- a shrinking habitat is threatening giant pandas in china. the threat is development. they are confined to corridors less than a mile wide. we have more now from beijing. >> reporter: china's famous mascot the giant panda could disappear from the wild in two to three generations. experts warn the natural habitat is threatened by development. >> heavy traffic has stopped pandas from crossing a-- highways and can no long meet and interact with each other as they normally do. researchers increased the number of pandas born through artificial insemination. the chinese bears are unsuccessful of reproducing oner that own. 1600 pandas are roaming the corridors less than a mile wide. american technology has boosted the number of pandas in zoos afternoon the construction means the panda population could soon shrink to nothing. >>> all right. we will get the forecast from kim. >> doppler 9,000 found a thun

is aarp becoming a branch of acorn?"> well, i would encourage folks who want more information to go to aarp.org and look at the information on our website. glenn: yeah, well, i don't mean to scare the elderly by any stretch of the imagination. i just mean to tell them the truth, because i don't have any kind of financial gain or any political power to gain on this. be afraid of national healthcare. not because i tell you. you have your children go look into national healthcare in england. go look at it. go look at national healthcare in the wonderful canadian healthcare system. it's a nightmare if you're old. it must be, because there are too many old people to too few young people. where are they going to get the money? they're not. they're not going to get the money. please, please, mom and dad, grandma and grandpa, please, don't listen to people who, at times they might be honest brokers. other times, you might want to question why exactly is this happening? >> a company asks 13,000 workers to voluntarily walk away fr

. >> we have the aarp onboard, because they know this is a good deal for our seen quors. >> aarp would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining medicare. >> but aarp, 40 million members strong, has not endorsed anything. >> we continue to say in public and to the president, no, we have not yet endorsed it. >> aides say mr. obama was not trying to mislead the country on aarp's position. >> no, he just misspoke. >> isn't that something that can happen, that people can misspeak? >> not intentionally meaning to mislead? >> sure. i don't know if it has happened on certain subjects, but yeah. >> mr. obama's response came after legislation seeking $600 billion in cuts over medicaid spending over ten years. aarp agrees with the president that the cuts won't unduly hurt seniors. >> i think what the president was trying to communicate is accurate, and that is that we have studied the medicare savings in the proposed legislation, and we do not see any cut in benefits. >> aarp's relationship with the white house, at least on the healthcare issue, isn't exactly arm's length. it hosted a forum

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aarp is selling out its members. its members don't believe that $300 to $600 billion in reductions in medicare are going to be done without reducing services to seniors, and so aarp is saying, oh, just shut up, just be quiet, just get out of the way of this healthcare reform. they're doing exactly what the administration wants, and i think the problem is when the president said that aarp was onboard, they are. they are onboard. they are partisan. they are not representing their membership anymore, and the seniors across this country are in revolt. they are not going to accept the fact that aarp, whose constituency is seniors, is going to go on the side of the administration and not support seniors. why aren't they talking about tort reform? why aren't they talking about the cuts in medicare? why aren't they doing something about that? >> who controls or who runs aarp? i mean, they're not doing something in their own best interests, i mean, in the best interests of their membership, then is this an example of hard wor

>> well, this was a very big mistake, the aarp. let me just explain.arp is the most powerful organization in policy sense in a political sense in the country. the only rival might be the national rifle association. the aarp is second in size -- in any organization in the country to the catholic church. it can, if it wants, kill health reform, and it remarkable to me that the aarp, which has been working so closely with the white house and the democrats, actually made the statement, slapping back the president on his mistake in new hampshire. this was a very big deal. they monitor closely their members and their views, because they nearly have a catastrophic situation in the 1990's when they backed catastrophic healthcare on chill and their members hated it, and they still went ahead and pushed for it, and they vowed never to make such a mistake again to defy their members, and so it's clear to me their members are now telling them in their own polls they don't like what they see, and this is a real problem for healthcare reform. >> well, the aarp was h

aarp critics say they aren't buying the diplomatic explanation. >> the aarp has spoken out of both sides of their mouth and is telling their constituents or their members one thing and do another. >> despite the tension, aarp will continue to hold town halls. >> it's really important to ratchet down the tension, make sure that you're getting a debate based on the actual facts, not based on the things that some folks want you to believe. >> and the aarp announced today that it is launching a multi-million dollar national ad campaign to combat what it says are the myths being used to frighten and mislead older americans. bret: shannon, thank you. researchers at emory university in atlanta have begun testing a vaccine against the h1n1 virus, previously known as the swine flu. they plan to roughly inject 25 volunteers every day for the next 20 days, and emory university is among eight research institutions around the country defendanting the vaccine. experts are bracing for a resurgence of of the h1n1 flu this fall. the g.d.p. only dropped a tenth of a percent in july, but does that mean the

endorsed by aarp. when they told me these plans were endorsed by aarp... i had only one thing to say... sign me up. call now -- 1-800-232-7773/tty and let us help you choose the right plan. so call now, 1-800-232-7773/tty and find out about... an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan. a personal health insurance advisor is waiting for your call bret: and now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine. one prominent democrat is defending his decision not to hold town hall meetings on healthcare reform. senate majority whip dick durbin says he doesn't plan to hold large scale events with his constituents because they have turned into shouting matches elsewhere. the senator told reporters, quote, i don't think that's a productive use of my time. instead, durbin has been focusing on meeting with healthcare practitioners and small groups of citizens ax survey of three conservative blogs indicated 2/3's of the members of congress are choosing not to hold town halls. one of those was texas democratic representative chet edwards, whos was going to limit hi

. >> we have a clip from president obama about the aarp and let's listen. >> we have the aarp on board because they know this is a good deal for our seniors. aarp would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining medicare. >> all right, john. because the aarp and turned around later said they had not endorsed any of the bills now moving through congress. what's the truth? >> well, they've long supported comprehensive health reform which includes a lot of things on the democratic bill, they've been careful not to endorse the details. they know a lot of cuts are going on fall on their members, their members are volting and floolgd aarp offices with questions and complaints that aarp would even think about endorsing such a bill. so, i think aarp wants this bill to pass privately because the leadership is liberal, but also realize they can't afford to alienate a large chunk of 40 billion members. >> we'll have to follow this revolt. when we come back, remember, fannie mae and freddie mac. meet their cousin jenny. she's putting taxpayers on the hooks for billions in subprime loans. could

of aarp -- there is a new c.e.o. there.did you know he was a big contributor during the campaign to president barack obama? and the aarp website now has a link to a project they're working hand in hand with seiu, you know, business roundtable and the national federation of independent business. it is like, one of these things doesn't belong. the seiu, if you don't remember, is the union architect of the healthcare bill. gee, aarp and seiu are working together, and the president, and the c.e.o. gave money to the president -- maybe the president didn't mislead at all. maybe he's just assuming that, you know, if they're not endorsing the bill, we have aarp onboard, and when you think of quality healthcare, you immediately think of -- come on, say it together -- a farmer's market, right? the government is thinking, yeah, well, of course, that makes common sense. if you have a farmer's market -- this is the way the government thinks -- if you have a farmer's market or a bike trail near you, you're going to eat healthier, exercis

aarp members, i have nothing against aarp. it's a fine organization, but something is not right here, and you must call aarp and demand answers to these questions. no accusations. just answer the question. who makes life and death decisions here? one of the people currently that is a health policy advisor to president obama, got it, advising the president on healthcare. he happens to be the brother of rahm emanuel. his name is dr. ezekiel emanuel. i can't tell you how much i feel we are taking on some of the most powerful organizations and powerful people on planet earth. dear god, please listen to this. ezekiel emanuel, he is only one out of the three people that we have found that are currently at the white house who believe in this kind of thinking. listen carefully. he just wrote this in january of this year. quote, "when implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals age between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chance

with us now aarp legislative policy director david certner.t may not be fair but it is perceived that you have allied with barack obama on the health care issue. >> we have been strongly in favor of health care reform running up the last two years. we have not endorsed any specific piece of legislation right now. we really are intent on frying trying to fix the healthcare system and effect our members. bill: so aim. i want to fix the healthcare system and i believe it needs to be fixed. nancy pelosi writes a memo that they were going to partner up with aarp as planned a august recess p.r. blitz. i don't know if you want to be on the same side as nancy pelosi and say you still represent senior citizens. >> i'm not sure who wrote that memo. bill: why would she say that? >> certainly that's a big deal if nancy pelosi is going to put that in writing that the aarp is going to partner up with the democratic party. that's a big deal, is it not. >> we are not partnering with her. bill: did you make that clear with her. >> i think we have been working

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aarp represents a lot of people, but not necessarily me. isn't aarp a for-profit organization?uest: no, it is not. it is a not-for-profit organization. caller: well, six or aarp eight years or was looked at for receiving receipts from drugs. guest: we do have a for-profit side of the organization. caller: first of all, parts d medicare is a very good part of the program. it could be worth it to scale it down. the $3,500 donut part -- the first part is covered, the last part they pay for themselves. 95% of medications are paid for by medicare. guest: that is correct. caller: there is nothing wrong asking for people to help pay for their own medications. if they did not have it, where would they be? i did not see where the government will improve on the program. if they want to reduce it, that is fine. but medicare is also paid for by payroll taxes. i can see where they could extended if they want to make sure it is funded properly. 4% will not hurt someone. but to extend it for longer periods beyond someone was making $90,000 per year, they could probably do that and make it wel

for proof, aarp, he said, had reduced the health care reform bill. in fact, they did not endorse any bill. in his misinformation -- in trying to fix misinformation, he wound up peddling his own. they are generally satisfied that they would not have a negative effect on seniors. as far as the overall health care debate itself, aarp has not endorsed any of them. for that reason, they say that the president, whether he intended to or not and inaccurately described the aarp and where it stands on the debate. shepard: there was a very calm nature to the audience yesterday at the president's town hall meeting. >> that is correct. you could sign up on the web site, tickets were given out by a randomly computer-generated lottery. there are a lot of democratic activists in certain regions. robert gibbs said that it was pretty tame, that the president would have liked for something feistier, but that it was not because the white house preselected the crowd. shepard: we are waiting for a ceremony to begin at the white house. 16 individuals, receiving the medal

the hospital association and the aarp are supporting it.ry single special interest group and the united states -- bill: i do not think ama is. they took out an advertisement in "the times." we could spend on all night debating the minutia, but i do not think that goes anywhere. >> the elderly. bill: he is losing it. and yesterday, what about the little girl? >> yes. bill: if obama is going to say to the nation that a lot of these protesters are right- winger loons that come in it to insult me, and then he uses his daughter of an obama supporter to ask a planted question, have you seen anything that dumb in your life? "the boston globe" put it out. >> when he got out there, and he said they were not going to cut medicare benefits, let me explain what the facts are,. he is going to cut their reimbursement rate to doctors and hospitals for medicare. they will pay them less for an mri, mess for a doctor's visit, less or heart surgery, which it will ask for a doctor's visit, and in a capitalistic society -- they will pay less for an mri, less fo

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you don't even have to be an aarp member to call. you have any questions about medicare, call today and get your free copy of "medicare made clear," by unitedhealth educational publishing group. it will help you better understand all your choices. so don't wait. call today for your free guide. >> no doubt that he took office today and was inaugurated again as president, but there's also no i'll do the that there continue -- doubt that there continues to be a lot of foment and ferment within iran itself, many people bravely pursuing reform agenda. >> secretary clinton talking today about the newly rei inaugurated ahmadinejad, the president of iran, a after extraordinary turmoil. martin join us from the savan center at brookings. martin, thanks so much. what have we learned -- what have we learned in the last couple of days or weeks about iran and the direction it's taking, given the fact that the protests do not seem to have prevented the inauguration of ahmadinejad? we now have to deal with him. >> in one way or another, that's very

that's aarp for retired persons.upporting the obama health care initiative. are they? and are members as angry as some appear to be? well, let's listen to what happened at one of the listening sessions. >> we wanna tell you what we're working on. i think we can all agree that the system we have now is sustainable. the current system could use some improvements. >> no, we don't agree. >> excuse me, but i would really appreciate if everybody could keep their comments quiet until there is time for the public. i would appreciate some courtesy. really. i mean this might be fun for you but that's not what we are doing today. >> you know what? you are really not running the meeting, sir. i am going to continue. >> do you guys work for us or do we work for you? steve: so what happened there at that aarp meeting down in dallas, a listening session, was apparently they didn't like the way things were going, the organizers said ok the meeting is over. the members of aarp stuck around to continue to talk about it. you know, ther

aarp represents a lot of people, but not necessarily me. isn't aarp a for-profit organization? guest: no, it is not. it is a not-for-profit organization. caller: well, six or aarp eight years or was looked at for receiving receipts from drugs. guest: we do have a for-profit side of the organization. caller: first of all, parts d medicare is a very good part of the program. it could be worth it to scale it down. the $3,500 donut part -- the first part is covered, the last part they pay for themselves. 95% of medications are paid for by medicare. guest: that is correct. caller: there is nothing wrong asking for people to help pay for their own medications. if they did not have it, where would they be? i did not see where the government will improve on the program. if they want to reduce it, that is fine. but medicare is also paid for by payroll taxes. i can see where they could extended if they want to make sure it is funded properly. 4% will not hurt someone. but to extend it for longer periods beyond someone was making $90,000 per year, they could probably do that and make it w

the fact is that the aarp is doing the two-step. they take one step forward, they get called on it, then they take one step back. mike: president obama has said several times that the aarp supports this bill. then, after he made that statement, they came out and released a statement that said, we have,endorsed thje bill. then they run television ads that support it. -- they released a statement that said we have not endorsed the bill. >> clearly the leadership is nervous. they have seen more and more members leaving joining associations like mine. we have 150 telephones and just in the past week to handle the overflow. our phones have been melting down by seniors. they're asking to join us and they are asking about town halls. this is an issue that has come front and center. this is a bailout by the administration. the aarp spokesperson said on the bill o'reilly show last week would not say whether they were for or against this bill. this bill is carefully constituted. we say it is on life support. seniors don't like it. we need som

do you care to clarify where aarp stands? >> yes. well, aarp has not endorsed any particular plan.hat aarp does support. but we have not endorsed any plan in congress. as you know, bills are still being put together in congress. so i do want to make it clear, our ceo has made it clear, and we've stated many times in the past weeks that we have not endorsed any plan at this time. >> yet elaine said when she called to cancel her membership and said it was because of the support from aarp for the president's plan that the person on the phone didn't deny there was some support. are there portions of it? are you against any portion of it? how are you sort of -- if people call you and say where are you guys coming down on what changes are being proposed? what would you say to your members? >> well, i hope the person who took elaine's call told her how we're fighting to protect medicare. to save medicare for future generations, how we're fighting to lower the prescription drug cost, particularly for people in the infamous donut hole, the coverage gap, and how we're fighting to hold down t

we have seen a lot of that from aarp meetings. breaking in a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for this year. breaking that down, that is nearly $39,000 for every man, woman, and child in america. new "the wall street journal" article finding 8 ways to reform health care without adding to the deficit. we cannot get through all of them. we picked three. this one is -- trace: in other words, you raise the deductibles, and then you can lower the everyday cost. >> these are two related but different ideas. there might be political support for making it easier. in a way, this is in keeping with the things that even democrats are talking about. health savings accounts have become a loaded term. the bush administration never got very far. it is kind of the flip side of the debate we're having now. i think you can separate those two ideas and get some traction. trace: a lot of people have talked about this. it says -- trace: it kind of goes to the old open bar theory. if you pay for the drink, you are watching that drink. if you go to a buf

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