jacksonville, florida. we'll take those comments now live. >> hello, florida! i want to thank you, governor, for that kind introduction. he's been a friend for many years. and ladies and gentlemen, how about that governor, rick scott? florida is incredibly fortunate to have a leader like rick scott. since he took office he signed over 50 tax cuts, balanced the bemidji-walkeret year after year, and helped create more than 1.3 million jobs, one of the fastest growing state economies in america. the sun is definitely shining on the florida state with governor rick scott. give him another round of applause, would you please? governor, i have to tell you, president trump and i are proud. proud to partner with you, to make america great again. the same goes with the others re. mayor lengthy curry, thank you for joining us. and seema verma, such a privilege to have you here. i had the honor of swearing her in this past tuesday as the 15th administrator of america's center for medicaid and medicaid services. she happens to be a hoosier. and she's one of the leading hea

and we're counting on florida. every republican in florida to support this bill and support the president's plan to repeal and replace obamacare. and president trump and i -- president trump and i are confident, we're confident that with your support, florida will be there and we will repeal and replace obamacare once and for all. you know, it really is remarkable, this time we find ourselves in. a time of renewed hope and boundless opportunity for the american people. i think we're at a pivotal moment in our nation's history that started last november the 8th. in this moment, though, i want to leave you with a challenge. we need every freedom-loving american who knew we could be stronger, who knew we could be better, who knew we could stand tall again, to yourselves stand up and speak out. it's time that we demanded government is as good as our people. we need you to tell the world we can do better. that we're renewing and restoring this country. that we're putting it back on a path to a brighter future. tell your

now dave barry and carl hiaasen discuss politics in florida. sensenbrenner 0 will join us on in-depth tomorrow discussing his work and take your phone calls. >> welcome dave barry and carl hiaasen. >> what was your name again. >> carl hiaasen couldn't be here but i'm in his place. >> thank you for coming, thank you to jamie. [applause] what we thought we would do in the few minutes we have left is we are going to briefly talk about our newspaper careers but first we think the festival for fitting 1,000,0001/2 people into this room with an incredible crowd. >> national park service estimate in this room. i would never see a crowd this big. most amazing incredible crowd. huge crowd. so we are going to tell you about our newspaper careers and then talk about florida or whatever. i started the newspaper business in 1921, worked for a newspaper in pennsylvania called the daily local news in westchester, pennsylvania. a local paper. on the front page, woman beats off would be rapists. that is the kind of paper we were. i was a general assignment repo

and we're counting on florida.lican in florida to support this bill and support the president's plan to repeal and replace obamacare. and president trump and i, president trump and i are confident, we're confident that with your support florida will be there, and we will repeal and replace obamacare once and for all. [applause] kelly: so you've been listening to vice president mike pence speaking in florida about health care and the economy. we're going to sign off now. the journal editorial report is coming up next. laura and i will join you again at four. be sure you join us again on "america's news headquarters." laura: thanks for being with us today, we'll see you soon. ♪ ♪ we are proposing a budget that would strengthen a bloated bureaucracy. and i mean bloated. while protecting our national security. we see what we are doing with their military. bigger, better, stronger than ever before. >> welcome to "the journal editorial report" i am paul gigot. the trump administration blueprint on thursday reigniting a p

but as was said, in many other ways, the law is benefitting regular folks in florida, and florida doesave many, many retirees in this bill and its scoring and analysis has shown to be -- it's going to have an abject effect on older people, primarily. it's going to -- it's going to help younger, healthier people, who are wealthier, frankly, at the expense of older, sicker people. so no doubt that a lot of florida residents are very concerned with this. you mentioned jacksonville. that's a big military community. there are a lot of people on military health care there. and very affordable, very good health care, paid for by the government. so it's a funny thing that you're hearing sort of this notion that government health care cannot possibly do what it needs to do for the american people when you have a lot -- a large population getting very good government-sponsored health care. >> so kevin, as you are relating just a second ago, the vice president as potentially the salesman in chief here, but is he not the right person that we need to hear more from, president trump, he's the one th

quite aveling to florida often. his children are traveling on not ess trips quite often, just across the country, but to united ike dubai, and .rab emieshgszr and melania trump and the resident's son barron, live in trump tower in new york, incredibly delicate place to protect. costs new york police department hundreds of thousands of dollars a day in police guard.me to so these are all costs that the guaranteed because his security and important to the country, but it is also, you number of expenses that the president criticized obama for, for golfing often and for traveling while he america was facing all these problems. for president trump to be ollowing that lead and almost jumping ahead of president obama and spending, it brings some on how diligent is president trump sort of being taking travel and making these trips happen, not just once in a while, but as we've seen with president marlago, four out of the last five weeks to his beautiful estate. raising questions. next four years, how much will axpayers be s

florida. we provide a service, providing entertainment for the rest of the country. >> host: on the short drive from the airport down here to books and books in coral gables, there's a couple things i notice that it wanted to ask about there i saw a lot of -- >> guest: utero? >> host: i drove. >> guest: i felt like the way people miami drive, these people don't know the law. i now know everybody miami is right according to the law of his or her individual country of origin. there are many, many different interpretations of what a stop sign might mean but it doesn't mean stop in dade county florida. florida. that's the last thing it means. >> host: i saw quite a few slip and fall lawyer billboards, massage parlors and plastic surgery centers. >> guest: those are the big ones, all big ones. reptile sales also. if you need like a butt enhancement and of his snake at 2 a.m., it's going to be minutes away. it's like starbucks down here. -- venomous snake. lawyers are everywhere. basic if anything h

when you look at florida specifically, 26 of those 157 exonerees were from the state of florida.rly 60% of those are african-american. when you add that on top of the already inherent shortcomings of the death penalty, it is not a surprise to me that she would make such an announcement, particularly when we look at the hearst v florida case that was recently in the supreme court where the supreme court struck down the way that florida's administering the death penalty. formally florida, a judge would make a decision over the jury about whether or not someone would get the death penalty. florida lawmakers then changed that law to have nonunanimous juries, so 10 to 2, a jury to give someone death. the florida supreme court struck that down. there's been a legal battle over the death penalty as it is administered in florida. so i think in good conscience, she felt she could not do that. and we have really -- it is ironic when you hear about her also receiving death threats. when you think about the legacy of lynchings in this country, and as you stated, when you think about the lega

i never got to the florida panhandle, north florida. i enjoyed it.about them, usually i'm sitting at home making things up. so it's fun to go go to actually see a place, take notes an then makes things up about it. no, they actually have something to write about. >> can you go incarnito? >> yeah. but not the kind of fame where i get mobbed. i went to a place called the villages which is amazing. just amazing community in north central florida, a couple of hundred thousand retirees dancing and partying and having a good time. and i got recognized a few times there, so -- >> next call for dave barry comes from isabel in middleton, wisconsin, hi, isabel. >> hi. >> hello. >> we are listening. >> okay, i have a question for dave. you haven't picked on gray-haired old ladies in retirement homes yet. you missed a huge, huge great place to pick up laughs. >> well, i actually kind of did a little bit in this section we were talking about the villages. but i haven't really done retirement home humor and that's probably because i'm personally being close to bei

he lives in kissimmee, florida. marshall has had a serious heart condition since he was a young man. three years ago, his condition worsened and it resulted in several hospitalizations after which he was told he would need a heart transplant, though he is on full disability. he was told that he had to enroll in medicaid or he would not be eligible for the transplant. just the medication for the after the transplant operation patients, it cost around $100,000 a year, which obviously, marshall would not be able to afford without medicaid coverage. he would also like to take this medication and is going to have 2 if he is going to live, for the rest of his life which he worried that turning medicaid in the house bill, the house trumpcare bill turning it into a block grant program, saying we are going to cut it off, and if, state resourcess which we are going to share the health cost burden, mister governor and mister state legislatures, he is worried if that house bill passes, and medicaid is threatened as we know it,

very florida detail. [laughter] so they are going south, she's operating the accelerator, he ih operating the car and she is shaving. what can go wrong. the car in front of them, one in a million slows down and they slam into it and there's a big accident. this was international news ones that got out. my god did you read about this woman in florida. she was from indiana. [laughter] she was shaving her sure.am we got the blame in florida except for tiger and the poor, we get the insane people from other states. if someone decides he wants to get naked and pleasure himselflf in a stuffed animal in wal-mart he doesn' doesn't do that in ohr pennsylvania, he comes to florida and we become international. it's a transient state and people come here to be weird.beo >> you write florida has become the joke state everybody makes fun of. if they were characters on seinfeld, florida would be cramer. they automatically laugh knowing it's going to do some idiot g thing. >> we got that reputation is useitused to be jus

>> who killed florida state university professor dan markel?e look at his ex-wife's family. >> reporter: needless to say, the news of the adelsons' suspected involvement rips through tallahassee like a hurricane. what was the reaction? >> completely shocked, and the possibility of the adelson family being connected to this, that just blew everybody's mind. how is this possible? how is this kind of case, this kind of crime, happening in this town? >> the family had no involvement whatsoever. >> reporter: so far, none of the adelsons have been charged with a crime. and down in south florida, charlie's attorney, michael weinstein, scoffs at the very notion that his buddy could be behind markel's murder. >> he's an really easygoing, laid-back, have a beer, relax kind of guy. >> reporter: did charlie adelson have anything to do with markel's murder? >> no. he is being looked at because of the fact that he had a dating relationship with katherine. i would be naÏve to sit here and say that there is not a connection, because katherine worked at the ade

the e florida supreme courtt struck that down.re's been a legal battle over the death p penalty as it is administered in florida. so i think i in good conscienc, shshe felt she could not d do t. and we have really -- it is ironic whenen you heaear about her also receiving death threats. whenen you think about the legay of lynchings in this country, and as you stated, when you think about the legacy of lynchings in the state of florida, at the naacp legal defense fund, we r represented the boys were accused of raping a white woman and they were essentially called to be lynyned during that time. there is repeat history of black men in this country being lynched. lynching was used as a form of social control, which is what the death penalty is being used for now. so it is time for us to really pull back the curtain and look at the shortcomings of the death penalty. it is not accomplishing what a lot of folks are being told it is accomplishing. amy: critics say ayala isis breaking the law by saying that she won't seek the death penalt

miss friday: i thank the gentleman from florida from florida and i have no further speakers and i'm prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized to close. miss friday: i want to thank the subcommittee ranking member, congressman keating and subcommittee chairman john katko for being original co-sponsors of this bipartisan legislation. h.r. 1353 was you nan maoly approved earlier this month. it will ensure that the technology objectives are aligned with the industry stakeholders that produce technologies to help t.s.a. meet those objectives. i thank you for your support and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. rutherford: mr. speaker, i first want to congratulate my colleague, miss rice for what a is great bill and bring accountability to t.s.a. and thank you for that. once again, i urge my colleagues to support this bill and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 135

the gentleman from florida is recognized. . hags: mr. speaker, i wouldrge my friend from colorado to know that i have no additional speakers and i'm prepared to close if he's prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the -- mr. n from florida buck: i'd like to make one more statement before closing. could i inquire how much time do i have left? . the speaker pro tempore: 17 3/4. mr. buck: i would yield two minutes to my friend from georgia, mr. collins. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. collins: thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate my colleague from the rules committee. i can't be in any more agreement with my friend from florida right now. we talked about this in the rules committee yesterday. it gets down to the fact you are adjudicated a mental effective. that's language that's got to be stopped in this and i know my friend from the rules committee and we serve on judiciary, we are going to look into this. if we really want to talk about veterans and suicide, then we need to start addressing it head-on in rea

for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. mr. bilirakis: thank you. thank you, madam speaker. in recent weeks i held three town hall meetings and a round table discussion about the health care -- about health care in my district. hundreds of constituents attended and all together i spent more than 10 hours listening to our folks. the best ideas come from the people, madam speaker. i know you know that. and i feel it is my duty as a representative to hear my constituents' input. the american health care act reflects what i have heard from my patients, families, doctors, and many others over the past eight years. our bill will lower costs, increase choices, and give patients great control of their health care. we're helping middle income americans gain access to affordable coverage. it also protects those with pre-existing conditions and allows young adults to

and but i have to tell my friend from florida, please join us. if you don't like the product that's working its way to congress please join us and help us make it better. right now all i see from my democratic friends is a pilot moment washing her hands and letting republicans alone to the heavy lifting. we would invite them to work with us in a bipartisan way. something that didn't happen in obama care which was passed on a partyline vote. i think it's proven to be at terrible mistake. >> with the senator yield since he invokes my name? >> i would yield for question but i would not yield the floor. >> alright mr. president, i don't intend for you to yield the floor and you are my friend. you started out by saying that you are missing something and yes, you missed the first part of my speech, in which i talked about these folks in the age category of 50 - 64 not eligible for medicare, medicare. >> a question but not a speech. >> okay, i'm about to ask a question. i want to introduce you to these people. they are in the age group of 50 - 64. in fa

. >> and you have served both in the florida house and florida senate. right behind you is your campaign sign for florida senate 2000, is that correct? rep. lawson: that's correct. >> what do you do with at sign? lawson: i was driving down the road and i saw people with assignments that it will work for food. i rolled down my window and gave that guy a dollar. i went back to the office to try to find a piece of cardboard. i took a magic marker and said i will work for your vote. i took the cardboard and stood on a major intersection and tallahassee that i will work for your vote. people seemed to really like it. i didn't have much money running for the senate. that was my theme. so i took it with me every place. florida games. i want to florida state university with the cardboard. i stood on the outside. it was my trademark. i will work for your vote. i would get a thumbs up. i wanted to stick with me forever. the campaign people threw it away and i jumped into a dumpster and found it. that's why it had a little crease in it. i got it framed. i wanted to

not moscow, beijing, berlin, in miami florida. it existed under the cover name of zenith technical enterprises incorporated. does anybody know miami well? so now i can make stuff up.

be up for it. >>> moments ago, president trump landed in orlando, florida. a series of meetings there involving education, promoting school choice, school vouchers, other sensitive issues. we'll be hearing him speak later. he will also tour a catholic school in the orlando area as well. all this before he heads over to mar-a-lago and palm beach, florida for the weekend. we'll monitor the president's activities. we'll have live coverage of his speech coming up. democrats have a message for the attorney general of the united states, jeff sessions. his recusal, many democrats say, is not enough. adam smith of washington state is the ranking member of the armed services committee. he's joining us from seattle. congressman, thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. appreciate the chance. >> you say recusal is not enough. you say he is unfit to serve as the head of the justice department. you want him out. tell us why. >> well, it's -- what's interesting about this, as many people have said, look, there's nothing wrong on its face with members of the tr

house and florida senate. right behind you is your campaign sign for florida senate 2000, is that correct? >> that's right. >> i rolled down my window and gave that guy a dollar. >> i worked and really seemed to like it. i didn't have much money and so that was my theme and so i took it with me every place, football gam games so as a result after i want toded to stick with me for the campaign people threw it away and i jumped into a dumpster and found it. that's why it had a little crease in it. i got it framed. i wanted to bring it to washington with me. some people gave me tips because they read the sign wrong. they thought i would work for food so they would come up and say let me give you a dollar or something. i appreciate you guys. i want to try to help you. they didn't read the sign. >> you sought a u.s. house of representatives back in 2012. >> right. >> you know something about defeat probably also with your basketball career. when you lost, whether it was basketball or lost your opportunity to not ge

what is going on in florida? in new york police are dealing with a cowboy. they had ponies that got loose. they got loose rands away in staten island. both now are back with the owners but it was after somebody cowboyed up and learned how to laso these two. michelle: the return of winter. today's snow and the frigid temperatures on the way could be a devastating combination for the cherry blossoms. today we found many of the buds on the ground frozen and it could get worse. >> the magic temperature is 27 degrees. at 27 degrees we can see the damage to the blossoms. some of them are dying off. 27 degrees we will see 10% loss on the blossoms. it's down to 24 degrees ands that could jump to 90% loss of the blossom. michelle: the budds that do survive are expected to hit the deep bloom next week. jonathan: talk about the weather. i can't get over the cobr florida? that makes the other problems in the world seem smaller. doug: figured out how to undo the lock on the house and got out. jonathan: if they had an opposing digit that would be scarier. doug: the snow i

that is what we did in florida. the class will hear from one of my colleagues, patricia la beck about how that happened. the nation academic education him progress test. it is the only test where you can measure how students do state-by-state. you can't teach to it. it's a test that has been validated by all the psychometricians. 29 out of 31. anyone that follows these nerdy rankings, when you're 29 out of 31, you say think god for the other two states. we were 50th out of 50. we couldn't even say thank god for whatever state it was. every state in the country was saying thank god for florida. 10 years later, with a huge fight started with the campaign is that this is what i want to do, i worked with a whole team. we were six out of 50. in 10 years time. [applause] jeb: frankly, washington needs to have that. we need to have people run to say what they are going to do and then we need to hold them to account. it's how it used to work with great regularity. it will make it possible for people to live lives of purpose

soto of florida. the chair: pursuant to the rile the gentleman from florida, mr. soto and a member opposed each will control five minutes. mr. soto: thank you, mr. chairman. my amendment would strike section 1721 of the fairness in class action litigation act of 2017. the irony of section 1721 is it unfairly subjects class action plaintiffs to an inevitable deluge of prolonged delay. a stay of discovery means no deposition. it means injured people will not get essential documents. it means victims will not be entitled to the names of necessary witnesses and more as long as a motion that may dispose of the case is pending. there's nothing to prevent a corporation from filing motion after motion to obstruct a victim's path to justice. numerous consumer, civil rights, environmental, labor and other public interest groups oppose this bill because it builds an automatic stay of discovery in the district court whenever an alleged wrongdoer files any one of a list of motions, including common motions like a motion to strike, motion to dismiss, motion to dispose of class

the president is often in florida. costseans that membership $200,000. these can accrue very quickly. with president obama, he had kids and they would go on vacation but they were not necessarily traveling for private businesses. possibility that it will become even more incremental and the exponential in the way that it gains. host: our guest talking about the security and travel costs associated with the first family and president trump. for democrats. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. for independents. an independent line for our guest. caller: in all the time i have been watching c-span, i almost never hear any complaints about how much it costs for bush or clinton or even obama that traveling but now it is. we have two people going back and forth on the debate but this point is, i may have to block -- because all i hear is this every day, relentless pile on on trump. i never have anybody on that says anything that about trump. point, youe first talked about president obama in relation, but what about the bush family? >> it is a good point. president b

host: lois in florida. republican. caller: i want to make a comment -- you played the conversation and kevineny hoyer mccarthy. i'm boiling at that. the steny hoyer and the rest of the democrats forget what they did with obamacare? how they went behind closed doors? did they forget how they went ?ehind closed doors host: if anybody's interested, we are looking back at that debate when president obama came into office and pushed this health care law. go to www.c-span.org. you can find the hearings and the gatherings that were done by the white house. you can find them all there and listen to that debate. you can also go to nationaljournal.com and follow erin durkin's reporting. thank you for your time. coming up, jonathan greenblatt of the anti-defamation league will be here to talk about what his group and others are doing to combat ask of anti-semitism acts ofnit states -- anti-semitism in the united states. ♪ >> this weekend on american history tv on c-span3 -- saturday eveningon

known as florida's green swamp. >> jeez.rassic park in here. >> reporter: why here, why this swamp that happens to be in your backyard? >> you have thick vegetation, running water, you have wildlife for food. why couldn't they be here? >> reporter: the duo spends most weeks trekking through palmetto trees trying their best to creatures they do know exist here. but it all started as a kind of therapy. >> it goes back to his wife was terminally ill and we knew she was dying and the day was going to come. and so i said, when the day comes, you know, you need to stay busy. and at the time, there was a finding big foot show that was beginning to be more popular. and i said, you know what, i've always wanted to go do an expedition. >> and i said, hell, why not? i have to do something. if i sit here, i'm not going to make it. >> reporter: now they're hooked. they document their adventures on their youtube channel, the trail to big foot. this video is their jackpot proof. the day they nearly came face-to-face with it. that black spe

why trump took off for florida. leaving him and chief of staff reince priebus behind. >>> agony in mosul. residents fleeing isis' last stronghold in iraq. some, barefoot in their haste. the raging battle with civilians caught in the middle. >> hundreds of thousands of people besieged by isis, starving to death. >> plus, the new evidence this morning of a possible chemical weapons attack. >>> and new patdown procedures. why your airport screen may feel a lot different than before. >> someone who is inexperienced would be very -- could be very threatened. >> the reasons behind it. and who's in line to get one? >>> and good morning, everyone. as you can see, dan harris not here. it's so nice to have tom llamas by my side. tom, thanks for coming in this morning. >> great to be here. busy sunday morning. >> certainly is. >>> we want to get to our top stories. there's twitter video there of president trump in florida on saturday. the first and only images we have seen of him since his tweet storm yesterday. he's back on t

. >> gre of president trump in florida on saturday. the first and only images we have seen of him since h world talking. alleging, without any eviden >> the president comparing itn for >> i'm the news media, including abc news. morning accusatif much greater con presidential outbursts. for anyone but the president, a secret fbi wiretap on trump tower. and no u.s. official contacted by abc news would confirm the allegation. >> it's an extremely serious offense. anyone who would reveal the existence of a wiretap would violate federal law. >> reporter: because the president cited no proof, it's not clear whether he based his allegations on a top secret white house briefing. or from reading an article on the conservative breitbart website. with detailed speculation from a conspiracy-loving talk show host mark levin. >> how many of trump's people were eveavesdropped on? how many had their conversations intercepted? recorded? transcribed? because this, ladies and gentlemen, is the big scandal. >> reporter: a spokesman for president obama qui

i went on a free tuition scholarship paid for by the florida lottery. >> shout out to the florida lottery shout out to the florida lottery. the state of florida back then, i think it was run a bit differently. the state of florida wanted to drive the film industry in the state so they built a film school. they invited florida kids into the program. it was a beautiful situation. as someone who grew up poor, they provided the equipment, the stocks all these things. i got into film school, didn't know anything about it. over the course of two years, got kind of good at it. i had a brief moment where i recent sure if i could do it -- where i wasn't sure if i could do it. i didn't know light exposed film. i grew up poor, black -- i thought people like me aren't meant to be good at this. of course, over the course of two years, i did the work. i taught myself how to shoot my own film. instead of watching what i thought was the best in world cinema, i trained myself on how to do this. i moved out here. i worked at miss winfrey's company, harpo films, and then "watching god." six years later i ma

we are counting on florida. we need every republican in florida to support this bill and support the president's plan to repeal and replace obamacare. reporter: the vice president said president trump is behind the dough 1000%, but he also said president trump is open to negotiating. here you have the author, the president, the author of the president of the deal -- making that offer. >> we heard he was making some concessions. what were they and how are they received. reporter: he endorsed two big changes to medicaid that conservatives would like. + 97x4v!y÷]u[m]yv;kúdx:bh7(r,1 members of a republican study committee. this is aimed at bringing more conservatives on board. today, for the first time since president trump agreed to tweak the bill, the vice president detailed those two big changes, and here they are. >> we are going to stop anymore states and adding a burden to future generations. we will give states the option of block grants of medicaid to the states so states like florida can innovate and desi

president trump is in florida with his family. he has secret service protection at maur alogo, his home here. and secret service is with his adult children and extended family. very few details about the incident at the white house. at present, we can tell you the existing white house fence has ben been an issue for long time because it's considered too easy to scale. in february, after years of analysis, a new fence was approved. construction on that will begin sometime later this year at the earliest and it would be 13 feet tall instead of the approximately eight foot tall fence that exists there now. the idea to try to make it much harder to climb without ruining the visual of the white house. we have an incident today, we believe there's been another breach of security at the white house. we don't know the seriousness. and it can take a while for the secret service to sort it out and give us a report. >> wondering if it's a copy cat situation considering the same thing happened, possibly last week. the same thing is happening

in florida's green swamp. >> hear it, mark? >> yeah, i hear that. thought that was one of your guys. >> no, that was something running towards us. >> reporter: the 63-year-old mark barton and 51-year-old chris connor. for the past three years, they've been on a wild mission to prove that florida's very own version of bigfoot, the skunk ape, a hairy, 7 foot tall, half man, half ape creature, with very bad body odor -- >> there's that odor again, guys. >> reporter: is for real. they swear they've seen one. >> it looked apish. round cheeks, thin lips. the broad nose. deep eye sockets. and what you can make out to be a thick brow. >> reporter: legend has it the creature lives somewhere in here, 110,000 acres of the overgrown, water logged, snake-infested june bell known as florida's green swamp. >> geez, like jurassic park in here. >> reporter: he first spotted it when they were children. >> taking three large steps to get back into the swamp, blended into the swamp and that was it. >> i'm beginning to be more and what we're looking for. the only proble

we're counting on florida. we nee every republican in florida to support this bill and support the president's plan to repeal and replace obama care. and president trump and i -- president trump and i are confident -- we're confident that with your support, florida will be there, and we will repeal and replace obama care once and for all. >> richard, you heard sort of a shout from somebody in the crowd as he was saying that because that's what they wanted to hear today, and mike pence has sort of become the administration's point person in selling this new gop plan across the country. this is his fourth city that he has visited just this month, but here in florida and specifically in duvall county where i am now, it's a particularly hard sell. just to give you an idea, according to the aarp almost half a million floridians between the ages of 50 and 64 will be paying hundreds if not thousands of dollars more every year for coverage. that's why you have some gop lawmakers here saying they are concerned -- there

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida -- from maryland, mr. brown, for five minutes. mr. brown: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for five minutes and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. brown: madam speaker, i rise today to speak out against the proposal offered by the republican majority to replace the affordable care act. after nearly seven years of republicans house finally released their health care proposal on monday. simply stated, this proposal is bad for seniors, it's bad for the poor, and it's bad for the sick. it costs more and offers less. it raises costs on middle-class americans while giving huge tax breaks to the wealthy and to special interests. madam speaker, more than 12,000 of my constituents receive financial assistance to buy health insurance on the exchange in the commercial market, and almost all of them will get less health under the republican proposal. and why is that? because th

. -- hispanics in south florida. the younger cubans, sons and grandsons and daughters and granddaughters of the exiles are not still pissed off at john kennedy and are willing to vote more like young people. that is why you see the shift in american policy towards a lightning of cuban sections, before the obama administration, it was the clinton administration. politics in south florida have a dramatically changed. it is safe to argue that it stayed away did for so long because of political reasons. not because of any national security reasons. most of the community realized cuba is not a threat. >> any speculation on your part as to what happens in cuba when raul eventually dies? >> they have a designated successor. they have a guideline of who is in his 50's. with the trend going on he has 40 years he can be in charge. there is a designated successor. the cubans i talked to said that is not necessarily meaning anything. when raul dies of there may be a couple for who is in charge --a tussel for who is in charge. he

but they don't retire in florida. instead, they open their home to the public.ll it noell's ark chimp farm. they're hoping all these lovable creatures can keep tourists entertained and support them and their rescue efforts. it doesn't quite work out that way. >> the attitude and the people changed. people would picket. they were being chastised. >> that's next. >> but first, our "strange inheritance" quiz question -- in 1953, j. fred muggs becomes the first regular animal cast member on a live television show. which show was it? "the nfl on cbs," "the price is right," or, the "today" show? the answer after the break. ♪ this is the silverado special edition. this is one gorgeous truck. oh, did i say there's only one special edition? because, actually there's five. ooohh!! aaaahh!! uh! hooooly mackerel. wow. nice. strength and style. it's truck month. get 0% financing for 60 months plus find your tag and get $5500 on select chevy silverado pick-ups when you finance with gm financial. ( ♪ ) it just feels like anything is possible here in upstate new york. ( ♪ ) at

in florida especially that's a tricky proposition. your population is the hardest to cover, disabled people, low-income seniors. they have been rising faster, those populations, than the national rate. florida is a state that did not expand medicaid though offered under the aca. and the rates of problematic growth, premium increases, are higher now in florida than they were before obamacare. so what do you say to that? >> that's exactly right. that is why we have to change it. one of the things that the aca did which to me makes no sense is they proposed to reduce health care costs and increase quality, and then they added all these taxes into the health care system. in florida, for example, medicaid advantage is popular with seniors, yet the aca imposes a tax on every single medicare advantage plan in the state. of course, health care costs have gone up for seniors. that's why we want to empower the consumer. we really believe the only way you're going to contain costs in health care is sf the patient, the consumer, has a greater rol

we'll go to florida in a moment and ready to roll. president obama reportedly eyeing a political comeback. what's the next phase of his public life? we'll get to that in a moment. we start with president trump, who again just landed in orlando, florida, for a school visit. tonight he's in palm beach. it will be his first republican national committee fund-raiser as commander in chief. his entire weekend though likely dominated by talk of russia. democrats demanding jeff sessions testify under oath again, in fact, sessions' recusal was followed by revelations confirmed by nbc news that trump's son-in-law and national security adviser both met with the same russian ambassador back in december as did two 2016 aides. that's according to "usa today." ironically president trump and russia's foreign minister using the exact same terms to defend the context between the attorney general and russian ambassador, both calling it "a witch hunt." we have nbc reporters at the white house and with donald trump in florid let's start at 1600 pennsylvan

florida implemented first voucher program 16 years ago.orter: for 7-year-old going to public school was misherbal, she had trouble making friends, didn't get enough from teacher and hated the school. every day ended in tears. >> why are you crying. i don't like it here. i don't like it. >> reporter: they brought their second grader here to kingdom academy just outside of miami where she has flourished. >> i think it's better here. >> she can only attend because of a controversial voucher program at the center of a heated political battle for 16 years. instead of paying taxes to the state corporation get dollar for dollar tax credits by donating money to organization which gave many of the 98,000 scholarships enabling them to go to private schools statewide. >> kids don't get to choose their parent, or the environment they grow up in. why do with have affluent family but none for the lower income families. >> reporter: it's leaving students behind. >> we don't have enough books for kids to take home. >> reporter: french teacher says by not

quorum call yoar quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. rubio: is the senate? a quorum call? the presiding officer: the senate in a quorum call. mr. rubio: i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. rube roberts-stabenow i ask unanimous consent that i be permitted to enter into a colloquy with the senator delaware. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. rubio: mr. president, i am here today to discuss along with the senator the issue of russia. i know it's been at the forefront of much of the debate that's on-going in this country, and about -- and i wanted to begin by commending the vice president and secretary of defense and secretary of homeland security, secretary of state for their strong message of support for nato. that includes the president last night, and their strong support, by the way, for the trans-at l.a.n. be particular alliance that these individuals outlined during their respective visits meeting with allies in february. at that munich security conference on the 18th of februa