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Enjoys the idea of doing that. i did it as governor, though. >> would you do it again? >> if necessary, i would. i mean -- >> is it necessary now? >> we have the highest budget we have had in the history of florida right now, about $74 billion. so i don't know if it's necessary right now. i like to live within our means, if we possibly can do so. but we have to properly fund public education, we have to properly fund the needs of the most vulnerable in our society. and when governor scott got elected the very first session, he whacked public education funding by $1.3 billion. >> would you rest...

Important because it shows the work the public defenders do in a heroic light. you're really doing heroic work that needs to be done. huge resources stacked against, $74 billion prison industrial complex with everyone from victoria's secret to starbucks invested in that labor. to say it's a job that should be done. i personally had bad experiences with public defenders whose work you're often cleaning up, trying to fix. it's a story that needs to be told. everybody needs to see the film. it's a story that's not been told quite enough. >> travis, one of the challenges you have with your clients...

With their children! and on she goes. all they want to do is cut out the waste that leads people to spend their food stamps on cigarettes. they did an end around to use it for liquor, we're told, and there was a report by our own eric shaun not long ago, talked about in some instance, converting it into cash and using it in casinos. >> if the sequester was in place, they would say planes are going to fall out of the sky and land on kids on snap. there are two issues that need to be put together. we have an institutional issue with the waste and fraud and the lobbying. this is worth hundreds of...

Engage in criminal behavior. there was a great study but not in columbia. only 11% of those people get treated. so the sad reality is in american prisons is that two-thirds of people after they're released will commit another serious felony within three years of release. so we're engaging respectfully in a stupid system. it is a 66% failure rate. and this is something that republicans, people like chuck colson, democrats, democrats can rally around. we're spending a prohibitive amount of money, $74 billion on our incarceration system. we have a two-thirds failure rate. and we're not treating t...

The airport. they're going to be taking those snowplows and removing equipment all night once the storm really hits. and trying to clean the planes and trying to clean the runways, to see if they can get traffic up and moving again some time on sunday, if not sooner. it all depends on what the storm here in our area actually turns out to be. ed? >> all right, rehema ellis at la guardia airport tonight. thank you so much for joining us. the blizzard conditions are expected to cause flooding all along the coastal areas. many of these cities and towns are still recovering from super storm sandy. ...