florida attorney general pam bondi. florida commissioner of agriculture, adam putnum. last but not least florida chief financial officer, jeff atwater. there are many members of florida's legislature who are here with us. thank you, thank you so much for joining us today. we also have leaders from the cities of north miami beach doral, miami-dade county, palm beach county, miami-dade county school board. and additionally, from the republican party of florida former republican party of florida chairman van poole is with us. the former republican party of florida chairman is with us. and former republican party of florida chair person, carol jean jordan. so who are you here to see? i can't hear you? one more time. before jeb comes out -- and he is in the building -- i want to take great pleasure in introducing you to three sisters who have something special prepared for this special celebration. these three sisters come from families very much like many of ours who came to this country in search of freedom. it's with a great pleasure that i introduce to you, ladies and g

pam bondi huge republican star in the state who is also young. they wanted it show jeb might not be a spring chicken like marco rubio but he does have a lot of young people that have supporting him. >> i thought that too jenna. there was a lot of muscle. sort of lot of muscling of senator marco rubio in that. he was -- governor jeb bush was saying basically i own this state. >> remarkable. think how much of the -- when jeb bush said he was going to run. people said he couldn't one run. looping. it's a wide open race in florida i have seen neck be a neck polls between marco rubio and jeb bush. candidate are going to have to get out there and make their own cases he is not a title to anything. interesting how wyde open enthis race is. jeb and marco have real opening. >> we did see barbara bush she showed up for her son. >> i thought that was great. he paid a lot of attention to her during the speech i thought that was a great moment to see that she was there. >> indeed it was. bar are bra bush back on the campaign trail. >> definitely. >> panel, th

attorney general from florida pam bondi is here.>> it's called flakka it's skinny girl in spanish. >> why is it dangerous? >> the side effects is raises your body temperature and it makes you do absolutely crazy things. we had one man thinking he was being chased by dogs, impaled himself on a fence. another young teen took off all her clothes and jumped through a plate glass window to her death. >> in 2014 that increased to 228 cases involving flakka. so this is an epidemic right now. you were strong on k 2. i remember your stance there. >> and the pill mills. >> you are doing the same right now. this is a life and death matter right here. >> it sure is. that's why we have to get out ahead of it and that's why you tell the whole country about it. parents be listen. it's horrible. you can buy it in little bags. kind of like little white rocks basically and parents look at it and don't know what it is. >> ohio texas, tennessee, and florida, this is where some of the cases have been known and made aware of here to parents here. the sym

continuing now here from orlando florida, with pam bondi.he is a rising star, certainly in the state republican party. the attorney general of the fine state of florida. of the medicaid expansion, big issue right now. you're suing the administration on pushing it. where does it stand? >> governor rick scott and i are suing the president's administration on the low income pool funding. neil, you remember i led the fight against obamacare in the united states supreme court with 26 states and we won on the fact of medicaid expansion. you can not coerce -- neil: part of the exchanges. do you have your own exchange? >> no, we're not part of the medicaid expansion. we won we can not be coerced expanding medicaid. here in florida since twix. we have the -- 2006. low income pool, lip. it helps poorest families in florida. now the administration comes in and said basically, if you don't expand medicaid, we're going to pull your low income pool funding. to use the funding and our families a bargaining chip for something our state lawmakers need to dec