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robert reich, great to have you with us. thanks so much. >>> there's a lot more coming up in the next half our of "the ed show." stay with us. >> my campaign has made it very clear. the president's cuts of $716 billion to medicare, those cuts are going to be restored if i become president and paul ryan becomes vice president. >>> up next, the architects of romney care and obama care will tell you who is really lying about medicare. >>> mitt romney uses a secret weapon to combat harry reid on his tax returns. >> the only reason we don't disclose any more is, you know, we'd become a bigger target. >> and michele bachmann's mentor might be headed to congress. i'll show you why he might be more radical than she is. you tell us what you want to pay, and we give you a range of coverages to choose from. who is she? that's flobot. she's this new robot we're trying out, mostly for, like, small stuff. wow! look at her go! she's pretty good. she's pretty good. hey, flobot, great job. oops. [ powers down ] uh-oh, flobot is broken. the "

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tavis: so that's robert reich. what do you learn from a great baseball manager like tony la russa about leadership? >> a lot. you know, it's interesting. he called my house. i was still in new york preparing for the first interviews the day after this hudson river landing three and a half years ago. he called the house and talked to my wife, lorrie. he called not because of the flight, but because his staff at his animal rescue foundation which he's very passionate about had recognized my name and had told him that not only had i landed the airplane in the hudson the day before, but that my family and i had for several years been fostering kittens and puppies for his animal rescue foundation until they were old enough to be adopted. so he liked that and that's why he called. so we got together on a number of occasions and talked about how he is able to personalize along with his coaches his approach to his players and create an environment of trust and respect. so even in this sense of entitlement among professiona

robert reich, adlai stevenson's old words could not be more relevant to today's campaign. >> exactly. but, you know, there has been a change over the years. i've been involved in about is six, possibly seven presidential campaigns. i've never seen such bald-faced lies as i am hearing in this campaign from republicans. i mean, there are obfuscatioobf there are sort of -- and politics is riddled with half-lies and half-truths, and there are mendacious statements, but these are actual bald-faced lies and they're doing them repeatedly. i think the reason they're doing them is they know they have so much money. they've got $1 billion, and if you tell a big lie over and over again, even though the mainstream media, even though everybody else who knows the facts are trying to get out the facts, it doesn't matter. you tell the bald-face lied over and over again with $1 billion behind you, then some people are going to believe it. and if they believe it, they might vote for you. >> let's listen to the latest message that mitt romney has approved about medicare. >> some think obama care is the

robert reich, take us through the adjustments made my president obama in the affordable care act, andhe changes in medicare proposed by ryan and the ryan plan and whatever we can make out to be the current romney plan. >> yeah, well, lawrence, it's very, very straightforward. i mean, both president obama, in the affordable care act, and ryan, and let's call it the ryan/romney plan, because it is ryan and romney, both of them are going to slow the growth of medicare expenses by about $715 or $716 billion over the next ten years, but they do it in different ways. under the affordable care act, you slow the growth by cutting the payments to the providers of medical care. that is the drug companies and the hospitals and all the other providers. holding down the costs. but under the ryan/romney plan, you hold down the costs of medicare by shifting the costs on to seniors. that is giving seniors what are essentially vouchers that are not in any way going to keep up with the expected costs of increases in health care costs. so seniors are left bearing the cost of the savings. i mean, it's ni

and what happened was, we got more revenues in, because the economy grew faster, and robert reich, theich paid a larger share of the taxes. that's what's going to happen under the ryan plan. >> robert, final plan to you. >> they pay a larger share of the taxes because the rich are taking home over 20% of total income. >> robert, one thing that mystifies me is the argument of broadening the base, which may be good. doesn't that necessarily mean raising some taxes on people who either aren't paying any or are paying very little right now? >> well, look -- it's very interesting. when ryan talks about closing loopholes and when romney talks about closing loopholes, they don't specify which loopholes they're going to close. nobody likes loopholes. the word loopholes sounds awful. but they have to be specific. but are they going to say nobody can deduct mortgages in excess of $20,000 a year? are they going to say that we're going to abolish a charitable deduction over $10,000 a year? are they going to actually close loopholes that have -- that provide -- for example, what mitt romney -- the

joining us this evening, ari fleischer and robert reich. he's the author of a new ebook that's called "beyond outrage." ari, we'll start with you. i was surprised that ed was surprised considering the interview from last night which was a very similar question about balancing the budget. why did they not know the answer? why was ed not able to answer that question? >> well, it's funny. i feel for ed. these things happen. every spokesman will have a memory lapse from time to time. governor romney all you have to do is roll tapes. he said repeatedly he anticipates it will be balanced in eht to ten years. sometimes staffers forget the basic facts. it happens. >> robert, mitt romney said a lot of budget details will have to be worked out in congress. you worked for president clinton. you know you can propose something and then of course what you actually end up is very different than what was proposed. isn't that a reasonable answer. if they can't commit to specific details, some of that is because some of this is going to be worked out by cong

i would add, not to disagree, i would supplement paul krueger and robert reich. and of course we haven't. on the other side of the question who got it run. >> alan greenspan is the easiest choice. he's the architect of too big to fail, and the assumption that the market would be self- self-correcting, and police fraud in the financial industry, every tenant that it's based on has been wrong. >> eliot: if there was anything to get wrong alan greenspan got it wrong. >> i think so. >> eliot: and for years everyone bowed down and kissed feet as if he got everything right. but smart folks saw through this. >> no regulation, that we could trust the larger banks to police themselves in the end proved to be a fairytale. >> eliot: self regulation an oxymoron of all time. and josh pose near of this world few who acknowledged, you know, i got it wrong posner is one of the more interesting voices. brilliant when he changed his mind. but posner is interesting to read and think about. >> and greenspan said too big to fail means too big. he's now preaching the gospel along side

first, labor secretary and cnbc contributor robert reich, author of "beyond outrage" which will be in week and the former director of the congressional budget office. you heard paul ryan. temporary tax cuts don't work. spending doesn't work. the president doesn't want to deal with this. the senate doesn't want to deal with this. now we are looking at another recession smack in the face that this country cannot afford. >> well, i agree with paul ryan that it would be great that republicans, democrats got together. even a lame duck session. and agreed to revenue enhancers, spending cuts and also agreed to a trigger. i happen to believe that one of the most important aspects of the debate is not just which revenue enhancers and spending cuts but also what's your trigger? when do you begin all of the tax cuts and spending cuts or tax increases or spending cuts. i think the trigger ought to be 3% growth and let's say 6% unemployment. you don't do anything until the economy is starting to mend. >> i don't know about the triggers. what i know is all of this short-termism is now coming back t