david jolly of florida republican congressional candidate recently a republican recently came out and said that he was he doesn't want politicians raising the minimum wage he thinks it should be at least indexed to inflation if you have been indexed to inflation since sixty eight this is where it would be shouldn't shouldn't we do this something about this and was david jolly confused as you going to be walking this back or are the republicans starting to sing this we've got one i don't i don't see this being the republican party we'll see if he survives i think he's win out in the primaries yes we'll see if he actually survives we don't know he's right. yet i just think he didn't didn't check his facts before he made this statement but it does show the difficulty rebecome republicans are going to have in framing their attitude towards the minimum wage going and in austin most of all i think this is it mean obviously it's very popular it's gets good politics i think it's bad policy i don't think he gets through the primary unless he walks his back he might be republican he's not conse

david jolly, a first-time candidate, worked for young in washington.owly lost the governor's race to rick scott in 2010. at frieda's cafe in largo where they serve up politics along with the sweets we found some fierce opponents of obamacare. >> i had blue cross and blue shield, and when obamacare kicked in, i had basically i couldn't afford. it had lost coverage on my children because it was so high. >> reporter: also found one registered republican who is a fan. costume shop owner sarah paul recently signed up. >> haven't had insurance for 28 years. no joke. we couldn't afford it. >> reporter: that's the way this district is, truly 50/50. republican david jolly is hoping his push to repeal obamacare will win over voters, mindful he needs to propose alternatives. >> we can't just be the party of no. we can't just say obamacare is bad. we have to have creative solutions. >> reporter: cink is campaigning on her support for obamacare while at the same time keeping what she says is a flawed program somewhat at arm's length. >> well, i wouldn't describe my

both parties do see the race between republican david jolly and albert cink as a petri dish, if you will momentum. ad spending has hit a whopping $8.2 million. degue digest that a minute. $8.2 million for a single media market. the race is shaping up to be a nail-biter. a recent poll, the chamber of commerce, shows them leading, a republican poll. but the florida republican party typically builds a lead during absentee voting, but they hold a three-point edge, and that spells trouble for them. the candidates are making the final argument. yesterday, they had the second of three debates, sponsored by the local chambers of commerce. not affiliated with the u.s. chamber, held in clearwater's capital theater. the debate was not televised live, but both campaigns are eager to jump on and circulate any potential stumble. there was one exchange on immigration reform where cink was to be generous politically inarticulate. >> we need to encourage and incentivize legal immigration. we cannot tolerate illegal immigration. >> immigration reform is important in our country. it's one of the main agend

i have to add that david jolly has no solution. he has gone on record as saying he would fully repeal the act, and i do not wish to go back to where we were before, to a system that was not working. >> to be honest when neither of you are asserting solutions. we are going back 30 years and having the same argument we were having before clinton. look at the government opened the way, and it cost down. the samegoing over problem we have had bad we need to do something to fix it. >> question number three. the flood insurance practice is a big deal for this this trick. , how would you resolve it? mr. overby? >> i'm in favor of suspending him for the four years will we get to work on real solutions. we have been working with the insurance intercede to update lorna and other states. no one has come up with anything substantial yet. whatn support of representative brandis is working on with expanding the public option to get involved. a lot of that will deal with deregulating and stopping people from being forced into the government optio

shouldn't we do that something about this and was david jolly confused as you going to be walking this back or are the republicans starting to sing this we've got one i don't i don't see this being the republican party we'll see if he survives i think he's win out in the primaries yes we'll see if he actually survives we don't know he's right ok yeah i just think he didn't didn't check his facts before he made this statement but it does show the difficulty rubble republicans are going to have in framing their attitude towards a minimum wage and it was it was to all i think this is it mean obviously it's very popular it's gets good politics i think it's bad policy i don't think he gets through the primary unless he walks his back he might be republican he's not conservative but there should be no minimum wage. all right. thank you all very much is. nate and mark thanks so much for having us coming up the death of actor philip seymour hoffman has opened the public's eyes to america's growing heroin epidemic that's causing a surge in heroin addiction and how can it be stopped the answer t

i totally disagree with that because we can't go back to where we were before. >> reporter: david jollyg sink on her support for obamacare. jolly saying we need solutions to expand availability much health coverage but not the ones that sink supports. >> we can talk about how we solve portions of health coverage in the united states but at the end of the day, she believes we need government to intervene in 7th of our economy and i don't. >> reporter: jolly is calling on sink to apologize for comments she made at a candidate's forum on tuesday where she said immigration reform is important so florida beach resorts have people to dot landscaping and clean hotel rooms. this really is an important race. it is truly a 50/50 district. republican bill young held it for 43 years. alex sink won it in her failed bid for governor back in 2010. both parties have been pouring millions of dollars in the race to shape it. the outcome could give early indication how much of a drag of obamacare is on democrats looking ahead to the november elections. jenna: will be interesting to see the results. john,

in less than four weeks on march 11's there's a special election where alex sink and david jolly are doing battle for bill young's district. absentee ballots, which are expected to make up most of the votes cast, believe it or not, were mailed to voters on february 7th. and the florida air waves have been flooded with ads. steny hoyer, who argued this week his party is in a good position to take back the house admitted democrats have to win districts like florida 13 in order to sell a credible message that they actually have a smart at the majority in the fall. in one indication the democrats in swing districts believe they need to localize their races, when sink was asked whether democrats can retake the house majority this fall, she didn't hesitate. she said this. not this year. it's not going this year. so you all shouldn't write about that because that's not happening. okay then. nbc's luke russert joins me now. he is at the democratic retreat in cambridge, maryland. i know it's not been easy traveling there. when you hear the words "retreat" you hear the maryland eastern shore,

that, outside groups have already spent some $4 million on the race between democrat alex sink and david jollytion is two weeks from tomorrow. that's just the warm-up for the big event in florida. that would be the governor's race, one that turns an entrepreneur against rick scott turned democrat charlie crist. he may have an advantage over scott, one of the least popular governors in the country. one more thing on this race. it could be one of the most expensive in history. not just florida's history. in any state election. scott set the record by spending $73 million of his own money in 2010 and chris warrens, he could spend $100 million, part of the democrats' push to get up their financial house in order, as well. they may spend up to $75 million. mark caputo is the political reporter for "the miami herald." he joins me now. mark, it's quite a couple of rates you have to cover this year. bellwether races in many ways. let's start with the special election. what have you been watching on the ground? we see both candidates are desperate not to have this race nationalized, but it seems like i

>> joining me now is republican candidate david jolly, special election set to be held march 11 here.s comments, do you believe they will indeed sink her chances? >> good morning, elisabeth. thank you for letting me be here. it hearkens back to president bush's words, the bigotry of low expectations. i think we heard the truth on tuesday at the debate and i think it is concerning to every voter in our district, but it should be concerning to everybody across the country that this is the typical philosophy, if you will, of many in the liberal lead establishment. >> several republican groups came out and said this is indeed racist. do you believe sink's comments are racist? >> i think it shows a certain amount of human bigotry, if you will. here's my concern. the real concern here is this wasn't a gaffe. we finally heard from sink, her exact opinion on this. the important thing, though, is if this came out of other schoolchildren, what alex sink said on tuesday, we would think there was a crisis in education now. every mother, pastor would be on the street corner demanding accountabilit

david jolly will take part of a special election debate. the special election is to fill the seat for the late congressman bill young. over 40 years in congress. watch that debate live. that will be on c-span3. a look at tonight's first lady's program. wreck.s in a car i wrote about it extensively in my book. the whole time i was in hospital, not injured, i had a cut on my leg and a broken ankle , i was praying that the other person in the car would be ok. the other person in the car was one of my best friends. i did not know. i did not recognize that at the site of the crash. and over prayed over for him to be ok and he wasn't, i thought, nobody listened. god was not listening. my prayer was not answered. i went through a very long time of not believing and not believing that prayers could be answered. and a lot a long time of growing up to come back to faith. at 9:00 bush, tonight eastern on c-span and c-span3, also on c-span radio and c-span.org. watch our recent interview with her in dallas at 10:30. a facebook question related to tonig

david? >>> yeah, jolly good. thank you very much indeed.ention could signal a major break through in the way burn victims are treated. it's all about a prototype printer. it will produce human skin for a patient's own cells. doctors say it could revolutionize the process of skin graphing. daniel reports. >> what we do is use different solutions that are compatible for cells. and this is the printer card ridge. >> reporter: leanne is working on a phd in engineering. this is a 3-d printer that should be able to produce human skin from a patient's own cells. the cells will go in to essentially inkjet printer nozzles, and then combine to produce enough skin for a graph for patients with severe burns. >> in general, we're very disconnected to burns, so to see the impact and the intricacy of how skin needs to be regenerated, how -- how the time scale is very important in terms of saving someone's life, so there's a lot to -- yeah, to take into account, yeah. >> reporter: burns are horrific injuries, at present skin is transplanted from another pa

. >> but most trial observers had david's testimony hurt him more than it helped him. >> it was almost kind of light hearted, jollysaid this to someone right afterwards, he testified like the insurance salesman that he was. >> after a month-long trial, the jury made its decision. >> all 12 jurors being in agreement find that the defendant, david duyst, as to count one, guilty of murder in the first degree. >> david duyst was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. >> i am the best expert witness in this entire case because i know what i did and i know what i did not do that morning. i am innocent and i will maintain my innocence for the rest of my life. >> he can stick to his story all he wants, but there's nothing that supports it, certainly none of the evidence we found. >> he wanted it all, the kids, he didn't want to lose the kids, he didn't want to lose the house, he didn't want to lose nothing. those things he would have lost if he had gotten divorced, and he knows that. >> prosecutors don't think david's girlfriend, linda ryan, had anything to do with the murder. but questions about the c