t from Democrats, who charge it would "end Medicare as we know it." The Senate rejected it in a vote last week, but also unanimously struck down an alternative plan proposed by President Obama.  Democrats said they wanted to leave it off the table while Vice President Biden leads a bipartisan group of senators to come up with a new budget that would include cuts in spending that would satisfy lawmakers who don't want to increase the nation's borrowing limit without reducing government's size. "The one thing we can't do is nothing," McConnell said. "The president, to his credit, is at the table. ... We're going to negotiate the contours of the plan in these negotiations. I'm personally very comfortable with the way Paul Ryan would structure it in the out years, but we have a Democratic president. We're going to have to negotiate with him on the terms of changing Medicare so we can save Medicare." Appearing on the same program, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called on Republicans to abandon the House Medicare plan, noting an analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that says it would require seniors to shoulder an increasingly large share of their health care costs. Schumer said there are only three options -- doing nothing, the Ryan plan or a Democratic vision that preserves benefits and changes "delivery systems," but does "not let providers proving are always two different things."  Fox News was told by multiple sources with first-hand knowledge of the 9/11 case -- including the former head of the joint congressional inquiry Sen. Bob Graham -- that the contact between Awlaki and hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdar and Hani Hanjour, three of the five hijackers who flew into the Pentagon, was not casual or coincidental but rather evidence of a purposeful relationship.  "There was a high probability that they (the hijackers) had shared with Awlaki what they were planning to do," Graham told Fox News. "The assumption was that it was a close relationship, and that Awlaki may have been one of the few, if not only people that Hazmi and Mihdhar had shared with, what they were there for and what the plot of 9/11 was going to be."  Graham told Fox News that a Saudi man, who has a few passing references in the 9/11 Commission Report, was hugely important to the joint Congressional inquiry because his story did not add up. Omar al-Bayoumi, 42, claimed to be a Saudi student in 2000, but Graham's team found no record to support his claims.  "He professed that he was a student. I checked through our committee with the university that he said he had attended. They had no record of his having been a student there," Graham said.   At the same time Bayoumi claimed to be a student, he was also collecting a salary as a ghost employee for Ercan, a subsidiary of a contractor for the Saudi Civil Aviation Authority.  The mysterious Bayoumi claimed that he met the two hijackers at random in a Middle Eastern restaurant after he had a meeting at the Saudi Consulate in Los Angeles in January 2000.  When asked how likely it was the chance meeting might occur, Graham said the Congressional inquiry hired a statistician to work out the odds.  "There were 134 Middle Eastern restaurants in Los Angeles in January of 2000. We had a statistician do a probability that four people would end up at the same place at the same time. And it was more than the 5 million to 1," Graham said.   Fox News reviewed hundreds of newly declassified documents to identify, for the first time, the network of helpers who allowed the hijackers to stay under the radar.  Bush, who spearheaded the phone records investigation out of New Jersey, found a direct link between Awlaki and Bayoumi's phone on the same day the hijackers moved into an apartment near the cleric's mosque in San Diego.  "There's a phone call from al-Bayoumi's cell phone to a phone listed to Anwar Awlaki in Denver, Colorado, the same day. The same day that al-Bayoumi says, 'I, uh, took 'em from there and I assisted them getting 'em, an apartment.' Now, what that phone call was or who that pho