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We left the state better off because i applied conservative principles in a purple state the right way and people rose up. >> so you see his basic claim there, that florida was better off. and his numbers are generally right. they did create jobs. they did cut some of the spending there, that sort of thing. but this is kind of tricky. when you think about this, they had a long-term debt when he came in of $16.8 billion. and in an effort to contain other spending, when they wanted to build new roads and bridges and schools they borrowed the money selling bonds and that pushed that long-term deb...

And i really, i'm so excited because part of the thing we want to talk about here is the fact this has been called kind of the year of a war on women, but then you look at these numbers and you are one of a record number of women running, you're running against a sixth-time incumbent. what made you decide to run? >> i think it's the challenges of women period. what has happened, melissa, throughout the fourth district, throughout virginia, really throughout the united states. i heard you say earlier, there is a war on women. and women make up 52% of the population. in this country. so when you...

And going. it should be easy for them to do that in this mobile age. megyn: i moved back home with my mom for a year when i was in law school to save money. i was poor. >> that part of it, too. college is very expensive. postgrad is very expensive. but the reality is this is about the bad economy. this study cuts off in 2009. but the numbers have been rising since then. i hear from listeners all the time about family moving back in. it is like the waltons. >> you don't know the numbers have been rising since then. there is no data since then. since 2009 this country created 4 million jobs. >> ...

14.1%. why? >> i think what we have not done as women is figure out tools and equip our young women to succeed. you know, on a relative basis, women have only been in the work force for half a century and we haven't built out the natural networks or given young women a career path to succeed and instead, we've let the messaging around them help define them and the messaging in our tv shows and in our movies in our videos like "girls" is telling our young women that they are valued as a sexual object. that being smart these days is more of a penalty than an asset. >> one of the things, my daugh...

>> okay, well that's kind of a bold prediction in a state where recent polling shows him trailing governor mitt romney by a few points. governor romney may have found added momentum with his win, he captured 83% of the vote, all 20 delegates. rick santorum was not able to garner much support. his own camp admitted damage was done when he told a local newspaper speaking english should be a requirement for puerto row coto gain state hood. "rick santorum has a consistent show and when he went to puerto rico and took a locally unpopular --" it's hard to get through it. >> shocking. >> "m...