. >> but it's florida that has the republicans' attention. ♪ come to the florida sunshine tree ♪ >> another battleground state, florida. >> the two-man race in the sunshine state. >> romney leads obama. obama leads perry. >> and governor perry, who's also, as you know, running for president. >> it's a low bar. but he has not met it. >> perry is up by six in florida. >> rick perry has surged to first place in the state. >> polls don't really mean very much. >> it's going to be rick perry the pinata. >> jon huntsman's got some traction. >> right. >> romney's naturally going to do better in a state like new hampshire. >> rick perry calling mitt romney obama light. >> we don't need to nominate obama light. >> i can't see anything which suggests it makes any sense whatsoever -- >> the difference between the republican nominee and president obama. >> thanks, sweetie. thank you, sweetie. ♪ orange juice with natural vitamin c ♪ ♪ from the florida sunshine tree ♪ ♪ he >>> it's florida week in the republican presidential primary. tonight, nine republican presidential candidates will debate

peter, why is the contest there, florida, florida, florida, considered so important? >> reporter: florida will be the state in the general election, no doubt next year, one of them, one of the major swing states. but the state republican primary will be pivotal. the candidates believe, people in florida believe it was for john mccain in 2008 when he defeated mitt romney and catapulted himself to presidency. presidency five is the name of the confab, a philly day event, started with a debate thursday night, a conference where they all spoke. today a straw poll where 3500 or so republican activists will cast a vote in the straw poll and pick for president. rick perry is the only candidate competing in the straw poll,

south florida from tampa, florida, on the verge of knocking them off in 2011. on fourth and two, the bulls punt it away. calling for the fair catch at the 9 yard line, a bit of another adventure for theo riddick, but he hangs on. >> mike: it's been a night of adventure for theo riddick back there. he dropped the first one, made a great catch on one he probably shouldn't have caught after that. i think he's had trouble just adjusting to the football. i think he's late with his feet getting under the ball. too much body movement. all right, daniel, 4:37 left, one time-out, down ten points. it doesn't matter if you get the touchdown or the field goal first, but you've got to get one of them. >> dan: you've got to get two scores. >> mike: you've got to get one of them and then kick onside and go get it. >> dan: one time-out left. tommy rees undefeated in his four games last year as a freshman. feels the pressure, steps up, and he's going to run it out of bounds. >> mike: south florida only brought four that time. i think you're going to see a combination of them br

with florida being florida, that's a key issue. one in six floridians is a recipient of social xusecurity. he has explaining to do. he has to make it clear he's not going to tinker with existing beneficiaries. marco rubio made it clear -- >> did you see the flyer for perry and romney out, from the romney campaign? >> yeah. the e-mail -- >> what do you think? >> romney thinks he's very vulnerable, will probably make the case anybody who sounds hostile to social security cannot win a general election. >> you have a lot of older voters, people who are going to be -- not going to be. who rely on social security. that doesn't play well. he has explaining to do, you say. i think he has a lot of explaining to do? >> it's probably how you phrase it. be more artful. not that he's talking about doing away with social security but talking about for future beneficiaries. >> at michele bachmann, our senior political editor spoke to someone on her staff saying she's going to hit him on social security and come at him hard tome? >> she faded sinc

but good for them. ♪ ♪ >> road to the white house goes through florida. you have to win florida. we said all along we need to have our own date. we need to have a date as early as possible. we shouldn't include any of the delegates. >> uma: that was florida governor rick scott talking earlier today about why florida should move up the primary date is the early primary date worth the risk of losing half the delegates at the convention? joining us now with thoughts on this, republican party chairman of florida lenny kerring recently elected as i understand. congratulations. >> thank you. thank you for having me today. >> uma: so let's get right to it. isn't it more important to keep your large pool of delegates at the nominating convince which could have a bigger influence in the presidential contest than playing politics with which state gets bigger headlines with the early primary date? >> i think the most important thing is florida go early and not be lumped in with many other states, where a large diverse state, republican based. representative of the electorate nationwide, whi

it is just amazing how many players from the state of florida on the south florida roster. you look at notre dame and all over the country, west coast, midwest, east coast. another tribute to the job that skip holtz and the staff are doing. if you can recruit at home in the state of florida, you'll be a good football team. >> dan: so from the notre dame 30. already up 16-7. to murray. murray with a good game. >> mike: joe miller. watch outside. zeke motta gets cut. a good job by the receiver. that allows him to return the football up here. >> dan: again, it's murray. murray for first down yardage. after a gain of six. this daniels is a complete different player. you talked about it at the outset. how inconsistent he was last year. we mentioned this is the first area he's had the same offense. the same offensive coordinator. again a good game. >> mike: interesting what skip holtz is doing. he's challenging notre dame with a run game. todd fitch, the offensive coordinator. they made a decision collectively. once, the minute ruffer missed the field goal, it stayed a two-posses

alone if we got in the republicans take the money that is the republican speaker of the house in florida dean and said last week it's what the pros will still goes and go to sort of the current economic problem of not spending more money but considering that florida has an unemployment rate of ten point seven percent republicans in the stage in the state should be asking for all the help they can get i mean it is unless they're just playing politics for more on this i'm joined by marie dimond reporter and blogger over think progress marie welcome thanks for having me great to have you here with us today as you point out your articles moody's says this is going to create jobs give us the details and your thoughts or you know that your reporting you know what your observation is of how this might play in florida first the movies right why. you know economists of every stripe have really been weighing in with positive reviews of president obama's jobs plan and you know as you mentioned moody's analyst said it could create two million jobs other economists have said it could create the floor

the second most important thing is florida. he devoted a lot of effort, resources and energy over the course of the last five years. if he won the straw poll on top of the polling, people would have said, mitt romney is beginning to take control, gain the upper hand in the republican race and give barack obama a lot of things to worry about. >> the president is ahead of the republican front-runners in national polling. we have a cnn poll showing the president beats rick perry 51% to 46%. the president versus mitt romney, he's up by one point which is not being up at all. it's 49%, 48%. that's essentially a tie. certainly romney's electability argument is strengthened by the cnn poll. >> yes. i think national polls at this point are largely meaningless. the truth is, the country, though mitt romney is a well known commodity, the country doesn't know rick perry. don't look at the head to heads against these republicans. look at what the president's favorability rating is, what the right track, wrong track ratings are. when he see

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un hombre hispano es ejecutado en la florida. >> Éste es noticiero univisiÓn. ediciÓn nocturna. >> buenas noches, comenzamos con la ley antiinmigrante que entrarÁ en vigor este jueves en alabama. una jueza no permitiÓ bloquear las partes mÁs hostiles de la ley como por ejemplo las licencias para manejar, abrir negocios o detener a los sospechosos de ser indocumentados. a los niÑos tambiÉn se les preguntara por su condiciÓn inmigratoria en las escolas publicas. >> muy buenas noches, ciertamente, luego de que en la corte a nuestras espaldas se viera la decisiÓn, es una incertidumbre y opiniones encontradas para miles de latinas que ahora se enfrentan con una de las mÁs leyes que se ha dado en la uniÓn americana. >> va a ser muy difÍcil vivir a este estado, nos estÁn haciendo la vida imposible. no quieren que estemos aquÍ. >> los pasos por las calles de alabama, retratan lo que miles de indocumentados aquÍ sienten. soledad y desamparo. >> me siento decepcionada. esperÁbamos que hubiera algo mÁs. sin embargo pensamos que el racismo fue lo que triunf

so if they continue to do that, they'll have trouble winning florida and florida could wind up being a democratic state. >> heather: we'll see what happens. thank you both so much for joining us. herman cain 37% wins the straw poll in florida. thank you. >> gregg: big day for herman cain. >> heather: yes. >> gregg: congratulations. that does it for us. rick folbaum and arthel neville take over at the top of the hour. >> heather: and we'll be here tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. eastern. we hope you are, too. bye. >> gregg: have a great weekend.

is 10.7%, up to 17.2% for african-americans in south florida. the high school graduation rate is improving but still ranks 44th in the nation. the national urban league of palm beach county is cleanly aware of the problems. they worked to develop one of the best youth programs. >> let's hear it for seniors. >> reporter: providing mentoring skills, training, s.a.t. prep and more so students can do well in high school and beyond. >> we're exposing them to everything and beyond and letting them know there's a life after high school and they have to go for it. >> reporter: tiffany also attends sun coast. her sister graduated with a master's degree but couldn't find work for three years. it's a memory that still haunts tiffany. >> my sister, if they couldn't get a job, what makes me different? >> reporter: in spite of everything, she still has hope. >> one of new light's principles is create a better future for my people and myself. that's what i want to do. a pray for that. i pray america could be what they used to. >> reporter: back at sun coast, t

we'll see you in 15 minutes. >> chuck todd gave a great segue, the 2012 race now, florida, florida in the spotlight as the gop candidates head back to the sunshine state for a full month of crucial events. first it was of course monday's tea party debate in tampa. rick perry got a grilling from fellow candidates thanks to the front-runner status. the group will be back at it in orlando on september 22nd. the next day, they are off to a big conservative political action conference in orlando. the day after that, florida's republican party will hold its presidential straw poll. sally bradshaw is a republican strategist who was chief of staff for former governor jeb bush. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> florida's impact near term, two debates, tampa on the 12th, second debate on the 22nd. could all of these help make or break a rick perry candidacy? >> i think they very important to all of the candidates, florida is front and center this year for the republican nominee, not the least of which matters because we have a very divided primary electorate. you can foresee a

florida has a stock pile. hours before florida carried out the execution of manuel vall, it was delayed pending a review from the supreme court of request for a stay in part because the man's lawyer said the new death penalty drug would cause him substantial harm. the supreme court decided not to block the execution and the state of florida went ahead with it. valle was declared dead at 7:14 p.m. eastern. it was announced today a memorial service would be held friday and funeral saturday in savannah, georgia, for troy davis, who was executed by the state of georgia last week despite the fact the seven of the nine witnesses against him recanted their testimony and three jurors who voted to convict him now say they have significant doubt in the verdict. today also the largest jail in the world which naturally is in america also ended up in the news. did you ever see the movie "the hangover"? i have not seen it. it's popular among the rachel maddow staff. i asked today if people had favorite clips and it was a gi

in florida right now every single member of the republican establishment sunshine state but a few g.o.p. lawmakers in tallahassee there's been some buzz on the web this week about a little known long of books in florida and how that law is still being enforced today. more than a half million couples in florida are breaking the law and they might not even know it right now it is against florida law for unmarried people to live together and anyone who's caught could face a fine and be sent to jail. that's right there's a lot of dating back to eight hundred sixty eight and makes it illegal for unmarried couples to live together in the state and you must be asking yourself surely the state and forcing this crazy law right police of the court systems actually wasting taxpayer money and prosecuting people who are shutting up but you my friend would be wrong see in the last five years seven hundred people have been charged using this law in just the last year more than one hundred people were charged for cohabitation while not married it's a second degree misdemeanor and carries heavy penaltie

david an msnbc analyst and sally joins us, a republican strategist in florida. let me start with david, by the way, the story headlines coming out before you start here are pretty dramatic, unforgiving of rick perry's performance. take a look at the headlines. they are damming. texas toast. michael med verve, a critic for everything, wrote in the daily beast, rick perry, beginning with the end. here's a headline -- >> bill chris tall on the weekly standard site, wrote an editorial with the headline yikes. he went on to run no frontrunner in a presidential field has ever we imagined had as weak a showing as rick perry. close to a disqualifying two hours for him. want to start with sally, republican political consultant, runs campaigns in florida. among republicans, that's the target audience from now through next spring, how bad did rick perry do last night? >> he had a tough night. i think it would be difficult to say and i think even his own folks would acknowledge it was a difficult night for perry and more than just being a difficult night in the debate, he c

that makes florida especially critical for this guy, rick perry. if he doesn't do well in florida it's another four weeks before he has a good chance to pick up a win. don't forget there are three candidates who are said to still be seriously considering a run. chris christy, sarah palin and rudy giuliani. with the primary season kicking off after the new year it's just three months, that's not a lot of time to build a campaign. >> a source said that iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, nevada are all going to announce their dates tomorrow at the earliest. >> what about possible penalties that florida could face. could they loose delegates for this? >> reporter: they could loose half their delegates. something they are aware of. when they were making decision today one state official tried to set up why he voted the way he did. >> i know if the situation was -- republicans might loose delegates but i think it's more about the motion of florida than about the parties. >> reporter: the republican national convention will be in florida this year. the

see there the main gate at the florida state fairgrounds. just outside of tampa, florida. the first debate in florida. that's also interesting. we've seen debates in south carolina, iowa and new hampshire, the first states that vote in the primary and caucus. florida is probably going to trail them very quickly. it's going to be very early in the primary and caucus season. florida is such an important state in presidential politics. not only in the general election, but also in the primary politics. of course, florida's going to be the site of the republican presidential convention right here in tampa. of course, fred, there's a lot of senior citizens and a lot of people near retirement age in this state. listen to this. john huntsman, we teamed up with him earlier today. this is what he had to say about florida. >> it's critically important. in fact, i do believe that this is where the republican nominee will be chosen. and somewhere between orlando and tampa, the great i-4 corridor, there's going to be a lot of important campaigning. a lot of connecting with the people o

find it in the juice aisle. >>> we go to florida here. just released dash cam video show police and bystanders lifting a car to free a 6-year-old boy. he tripped and fell wednesday in front of this moving car. injuries were not life-threatening. similar to injuries earlier this month where people lifted a burning car off a motorcycle rider. >>> a 67-year-old man's vehicle skidded off a mountain road near los angeles on friday. a passenger was killed, but david la vo survived by drinking creek water and eating bugs. no one found him but he was rescued last night because his family conducted a search. >> we stopped at every ravine. we kept screaming. we heard dad say help, help. and there he was. >> he was airlifted out by helicopter and is hospitalized with bruises and a broken collar bone. >>> traders in asia feeling better about the european debt crisis but increasingly worried. hang seng lost almost 2.5%, the nikkei was flat. on wall street, the dow jumped 143 points. the nasdaq um to almost 11. >>> now to bank of america and its plan t

poll in florida, which was a big help to us. our fundraising has jumped up as a result of thexúggynek i wish i'd hear from some of the other candidates. so i think there's a dissatisfaction with the choices that have been presented to the american public, which all the papers are saying it's a two-candidate race. you're starting to tee to see d to that. >> greta: you think that's a big reason behind the surge for nxsoox bump. herman certainly has. when people are looking at other places, then the top two, that's an opportunity for us. we're going to exploit that, spend a lot of time in those early primaries. >> greta: big controversy right now over the primary schedule. you like the primary schedule, the caucus in iowa followed by new hampshire and south carolina. >> greta: florida is stirring up trouble. what's the problem? >> i don't understand what because whatever they'll accomplish they're going to fail. it's talked about moving the primary up to january. all four primary states, iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, nevada

florida has a stockpile. they were set to carry out an execution of this man, the execution was delayed from the supreme court be for a stay in part because his lawyers said the drug would cause him substantial harm. it was blocked and the state of florida went ahead with it. he was declared at 7:14 p.m. eastern. >>> it was announced a memorial service held friday and funeral friday in savannah, georgia for troy davis executed by the state of last week despite the fact seven of the nine witnesses against him reisn't caed their testimony and three jurors who voted to convict him have significant doubt in that verdict. >>> today also the largest jail in the world, which naturally is in america, also ended up in the news. did you ever see the movie "the hangover"? i personally have not seen it. it is very popular among the rachel maddow state of florida staf -- maddow staff. and asked if they had clips. there was a giant fight. >> nobody's seen doug. >> y rng i've ever been this hung over. >> what's on your arm?

there's somebody in florida that wants to help the favorite. thethey'll runo.zqs afoul of the rnc who picked them as the host state. i'm disappointed in the people in florida they're doing it. people inw[e3!j w$2-h 0sr0?glxpzz'"ít+8g2éhqtti ásn0!á@7msgla s the national committee people aren't happy they're doing it, but i suspect the romney and perry camps are happy they're doing it. >> greta: who in florida there is -- >> the chairman is a perry supporter that's organizing this. lwñ?ñ? >> greta: why would he help romney? >> he's helping the favorite candidates. if you shave off a month you're looking at thebgkt9"27iqixbéyr0"rs candidates, you want this election as quickly as possible. >> greta: they both can't win, though,. >> no they can't both win but you're advantaging the candidates at the top of the polls right now by having the election sooner than later. that's what's happening. >> greta: would should iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, and nevada why should they pick the nominee for the republican party? >> well first up they d

>> bob, since i'm from florida let me weigh in on that. it doesn't much matter. >> where the president is upsidedown, too. >> excuse me. it doesn't much matter which one of the republicans get nominated because they're all the same. this will be a very stark contrast. they are all embracing and bear hugging the tea party. moving to the right they can't move to the right far enough. no matter which candidate is party, they all favorblican privatizing social security which would pull the safety net out from under our seniors and favor ending medicare as we know it and embrace the ryan plan to turn it into a voucher program. they all are wrong on on immigration reform when it comes to hispanics in the states. as a floridian i can assure you, mr. priebus, that when it comes to the dramatic con contrast between barack obama and his notion that we should preserve social security and medicare, that we should make sure that we acknowledge that there is an immigration problem and we should come together around comprehensive reform.... >> bob, meet

florida. they're invading the southern part of the state, it's a real problem. these are big heavy constrictors. >> they're about 50 pounds you put around my neck. >> it is. and you can eat something. >> there's an albino snake here and coming up a little bit later, see that next guy? he's suppressing my next opponent. somebody is getting in my chest. i finally get to wrestle an alligator. only one will emerge alive and i hope that it's me. hi, everybody. i have an extra snake. back to you, steve and gretchen. >> very nice, brian. >> so daring. i can't believe that scorpion. i don't know about you but the scorpion would do me in. >> who else had that dream where you wake up and you have a tarantula, scorpion and python just on you? next up, the gator. stand by for that. "fox & friends" celebrates our 15th anniversary coming up. >> brian went to disney world for an exclusive interview with the big man mickey mouse. >> you know where the name "fox & friends" came from? the couple that named our

>> rick: fox news alert and the governor of florida announcing the results in today's florida straw poll. as you just heard, herman cain is the big winner and by a wide margin. glad you're with us. i'm rick folbaum. >> arthel: i'm arrest they will neville. welcome to a brand-new hour inside america's headquarters. we go straight to carl cameron live from orlando. talk about i guess we can say an upset, yeah? >> sure. absolutely. the georgia businessman, herman cain, clearly winning going away and it's an expression of his strong debate performance earlier this week, a raucous speech at the political conference that took place here yesterday, and again, rallying the crowd today behind basic core conservative common sense principles, and herman cain's victory clearly comes at the expense of texas governor rick perry. perry had invested a lot of time and mone in this straw poll and was widely considered to be the odds on front runner until he had his debate performance earlier this week in which he got very dinged up for his positions on illegal immigration, something which conservatives ha

would it be florida's responsibility to meet the social security needs of everyone who comes to florida? how would you deal with people moving all over the place? what happens if one of the states you lived in didn't have it? what happens, by the way, if one of those states got in financial trouble? and raided their fund. i believe in social security. there are tens of millions of americans who rely upon social security. to meet their needs. i want to protect it. i want to save it. that's the old tactic that the democrats used back through the years to try to scare the senior citizens and that's irresponsible and if anyone on that stage, i mean, that's a republican and wants to be a republican nominee is trying to scare our seniors with this issue that somehow or another, i'm going to do away with social security, that's just not -- that's not appropriate. it's irresponsible. >> he's got to be clear and tell us -- because, you know, he's not the first one to bring up. mitch daniels in his brand new book out called it a ponzi scheme and said it's not the fact that it is or isn't, it's wh

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but we need to turn to florida now. that is where a lot of the republican presidential candidates are spending their time. today we've got a straw poll coming up at the presidency five event in orlando a day after the candidates spoke to conservative voters at the cpac conference. >> we need a nominee who's not ashamed of the tea party, who's willinging to stand up for tea party values who believe we are taxed enough already. >> it's time to recognize cheaters for what they are. on my first day in office, i will issue an executive order identifying china as a currency manipulator and allowing us to apply tariffs on their goods where they're killing american jobs. >> i've also been governor of a state that under my leadership led the nation in employment. if we want to get america working again, we need washington to get out of the way! and with your help and people like you all across this great country, that is exact what we will do. we will get america working again and take this country back to the great values and t

>> our mission is to make duck hunting in florida better for florida duck hunters. >> i thought you want to save the ducks. >> we want to save the ducks so we can hunt the ducks. >> you want to save the ducks now so you can kill them later. >> we preserve the word harvest. >> oh. are you willing to admit that your wind farms will be harvesting thousands of ducks. >> that is not true. >> not harvesting but just like slaughter begun. >> based on a national average of what we're seeing across the united states is basically three birds perturb yien for -- per tur turbine are killed. >> is there a number that is satisfactory to you of how many ducks are killed. >> obviously nobody wants to see one duck killed by a whirling turbine. >> because you want to see it kweuld a shot -- killed with a shotgun. >> that's right. >> you are like the serial killer. >> you are like the japanese dolphin hunter angry at the tuna net. >> that is possible because again the dolphin gets into the tuna net is wasted. >> the real victims are not dolphin siewsh sushi lovers but duck hunters. most are afraid to speak

florida is seen as crucial to winning the election. some of the candidates may have to rethink their campaigns. >> reporter: the republicans go the a shock and gop presidential hopeful herman cain got a shot in the arm winning the florida straw poll in an upset. >> with 1786 reports, 37.1%, herman cain. >> reporter: cain, a 65-year- old businessman, politician, columnist and radio host from georgia topped the favorites including texas governor rick perry who was still in florida saturday morning. in fact, perry called it a mistake for his main presidential rivals michelle balkman and myth romney to leave florida before the voting began. even perry was already in michigan ahead of the final tally speaking to the gop faithful on mackin yao island. >> i will guide this country with a deep, deep rutter. >> reporter: romney who traveled to the resort by ferry steered clear of the statement. the massachusetts governor and son of a former michigan governor, told reporters why he can be the first republicannominee to carry the state in nearly

because you know florida, i mean, all these big issues, they all come to a head in the state of florida, carl. good morning. >> reporter: hi bill, yeah, florida makes a petri dish for the national debate, whethert's social security because of the high population of seniors here, illegal immigration because of the high population of latino, particularly cuban americans who tend to be more conservative and because this is a very important swing state and the fox news debate is decisive, the quin teeac poll shows it's at the top of the race, rick perry remains the frontrunner but at 28 percent he's six points ahead of mitt romney, that's so close in fact that romney is well within striking distance and to many people it's a 2-person race in florida, as well as across the country. that's the republican side of this. but the democrat incumbent has serious problems, mr. obama is under water in florida, his disapproval rate is 57 percent. any incumbent with a disapproval rate over 50 percent is in bad shape, 57 percent is pretty extraordinary and only 39 percent approve the president obama's p

my home is still florida, they like the taxes in florida too. upstairs in the northeast, it is insane how much more expensive it is up here. >> yeah. we have no personal income tax, we've got a low business tax that i'm getting rid of. i'm phasing that out. people know we're going to control the size of our government. our government per capita is half of new york's. half. our budget's $69 billion for the same number of people as theirs $136 billion, that doesn't include tax. our country's going to come back. we've got the expansion of the economies of central and south america. so there's more people wanting to do business down there, and people want to live there. it's not like a cold environment. >> you want to live there. >> love it. >> no taxes, sunny. >> love that. was just down in tampa a couple of nights ago for that debate. governor, i'm wondering, your predecessor got in trouble when he embraced the president. the president's now trying to pass another jobs bill. what's your take on that bill and whether you think it would be a good th

florida clearly florida's latinos the population is changing as congressman suggests there are cubans in the south and florida increasingly. do you think in a state like yours in florida that the latino vote will be the de sighs i have vote? -- de sighs i have decisive vot. >> here's the problem he has. lack of confidence. lack of confidence in how he handled the economy. lack of confidence he is going to tax them or regulate them. they are not investing or creating the jobs if they believed the president was not going to target them. when you are dealing with hispanics and latino communities there is a lot of diversity. there's one thing that unites all of the people in the united states lack of confidence in the united states as far as his ability to get things done to get the economy going and also to deliver on some of his promises. you remember that the president said within his first 12 months in office he would fight for present and pass immigration freerm. he didn't even try to do that. so now when the election has already started, now when he's talking about it it really kind

caller: florida is such a big state. it is not a retail politician state like iowa and new hampshire. pierre greece has a decent organization and romney is -- romney has been of florida for a long time so he has a lot of support. has a campaign structure and a fund-raising structure. host: which partf florida does a gop candidate need to win to get the dominant -- nomination? caller: it is over the map. it is diffent from the general election. but my area, two and orlando, about 45% of the primary vote -- tampa bay and orlando about 45% of the primary vote. but you have to do well pretty much everywhere or target your campaign to specific areas to over, where somebody else might >> at american citizens forced from their homes. for 10-year-old norman mineta, this in terming camp was home. here is his story on "american history tv on c-span3. when american artifacts explore america through its arts, inventions, and discovery. and through oral histories. in 1910 to three, new york democrat elizabeth holtzman became the youn

leading off tonight, florida, florida, florida. it determined who won in 2000 and has voted with the winner 11 of the past 12 presidential elections. and right now, president obama's in deep trouble down there. his approval rating in florida is under water, and he loses to mitt romney in a new poll, is that's not the only tough number out today, as we're all watching. look at this. the dow dropped almost 400 points today. and over the last two days, the dow has fallen nearly 700 points. and that's the backdrop to tonight's republican debate in florida. with grim news like this, how does the president turn things around? plus, build, baby, build. president obama takes his campaign for his jobs bill to the backyards of speaker john boehner and senate republican leader mitch mcconnell, and calls them out, by name. he's sounding and acting tough now, but can he get something done? also, tea party gop takeover continued. the house voted down a spending bill last night. why? because republicans held down spending on disaster relief and t

you consider all the people who have retired in florida, would it be florida's responsibility to meet the social security needs of everyone who comes to florida? >> reporter: mr. romney rattled off a whole rhetorical list of such questions trying to make the arguments that perry's proposal in miss book "fed up" that social security should be handled by the states is not doable. mr. romney argues with a few minor adjustments over time social security can be saved. pey's campaign already responded that mr. romney himself in his own book of a couple of years ago referred to the possibility that social security would be a criminal enterprise if private sector people dipped into the social security trust fund the way the u.s. government has. the perry campaign thinks that mitt romney is crying crocodile tears and set aside the semantics and when it comes to the substance they recognize social security has solvency problems and is going to need an overhaul. jon: it's going to be an interesting debate to watch tomorrow night. thanks, carl. >> peace will not come through statements and resolu

okay, florida, florida, florida, and it all begins. we have mitt romney down there today and rick perry was arguably doing florida politics yesterday when he was talking about israel and here in new york as we joked the sixth borough of new york is south florida. maggie, the importance of tomorrow's debate with rick perry, and he has not had a good one yet and he has to reassure donors who have not bought in, but realize he is polling well, and he is there for the long haul, and how important is the debate tomorrow night? >> well, it is important. he needs a better showing and do something more akin to the initial debate and he needs to show he can talk about immigration which is a big issue in florida and talk about social security and a path forward and not talk about ponzi scheme and stick to the rhetoric. it is going to take more than tomorrow night for the donors and the establishment-types to move toward him, because they want to see a few solid performances. >> and there are a lot of the second tier of the republican presidentia

>> florida is a representative sample of the gop electorate in florida is representative of what you see across the country. so if a candidate can win florida in our primary, they are arguably ee -- will be electable and competitive in a general election. and herman cain made his case this weekend. >> so herman cain is electable in florida is what you're saying. >> well, we still have a long haul to go. this process is intentionally long and difficult so no one candidate, because of a single good day or a seingle bad day, that's not going to result in the rise or the fall. it's long. it's intentional. and it's about consistency. and that's good for the country and good for the electorate. >> lenny, is the bigger story here the herman cain win, or is the bigger story the rick perry loss? >> the story is that herman cain came to florida, and he performed well in the debate, as did many others. he was there throughout the day, working with the delegates. the delegates told me they felt like he came and he worked hard to earn their vote. >> last question -- >> retail politics. all politi

talent to tallahassee, florida. and we saw an opportunity to come here and to partner with the harlem children's zone. they're doing a marvelous job in terms of preparing students for careers and success and education. >> this is what you've been doing for so many years. you're trying to duplicate this at the college level to students. what is making the difference for your student at florida a&m? >> strong academic programs, dedicated, committed faculty, the tradition and history of the university. we're 124 years old and have made our name in having top students in rigorous programs. >> what's the niche that historically black colleges have? there's a wonderful tradition here, and it's sometimes overlooked nationally. >> let me tell you about florida a&m university which i think has done a tremendous job over the years of bringing students to the university, creating an environment that is supportive, nurturing, and all of the faculty and staff that the institution worked to ensure that students are exposed throug

well, social security is very important to florida. we have a lot of seniors and it is important to them and we all know we have to make sure social security is going to be there for them and future generation . we also have to make sure we afford and fix it so it is sustainable. what i am dealing with the state pension fund and social security all of the retirement plans. >> but is the governor taking heat there from seniors who are upset that he called social security a ponzi scheme? >> i think the ponzi bids is a debate and everyone will have to come up ith how they are fixing social security . we want to make sure it is sustainable. every candidate will have to answer the question of fixing the social security. >> you have not endorsed a candidate at this point. we would like t know if you plan to do so and when? >> i don't plan on endorsing a candidate right now. we have a lot of great candidates that would be great presidents. i like healthy debate . the key is going to be jobs i ran last year, the whole debate who has the right

in florida's constitution, a quality education is now in the florida constitution. i do believe that in america, particularly, everyone is entitled to a quality education. and most certainly in this country, people should not go to bed hungry. that is just unacceptable. the way that the misery index in this country is one that is way out of the line because of the recent economic situation. i do not think that we as a country even understand how the unemployment has affected so many families, and we have a whole new strata called the new league for, people who were driving forces yesterday and in bread lines today -- who were driving portias -- driving porsches yesterday and in redlines today. we need to make sure americans had the opportunity to have reasonable health care. not excessive. the fact is we've got to make sure that what happened in past -- and we know that. a lot of costs have spiraled out of control. we have to have a baseline. this country has promised that in a sense of being a land of opportunity for all its people. the resources that we have in th

in broward county, florida. rob, tell us the story. >> well, you know, invasive species and amphibians we call and they have been coming over here for over 100 years. back in 1863 a cute little green house frog came over via cargo shipment and now the thing runs rampant and that happened with other lizards and snakes and turtles and such. but just in the last 10 or 20 years curious kids and adults are fascinated by these animals and taking them in as pets, well, the problem is, some of them are getting out. >> here goes another guy. right there. look at this. >> one of many dangerous animals chris gillette has found in this area. >> he definitely bites. >> reporter: an exotic species that shouldn't be anywhere near the u.s. >> this kind of snake does not belong in florida. >> thisafrica. very common in the pet trade. >> we found it right next door to an exotic pet poimerter along with frogs, lizards and more snakes. >> look at that, another python. >> another one. got right off the sidewalk. >> that is another b