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Associate director of the center for educational freedom at the caddo institute. is this overreach now? >> it is. it epitomizes the nanny state. states said we'll take federal money for subsidized lunches. over time they have to be more and more nutritious. now they say if you want the money, you have to change what's in the vending machine. the problem is kids aren't eating healthy oceans. they say, we're like your parents, you listen to us. >> i would imagine most kids get most of their calories a day outside the home, wouldn't you think? >> quite possibly. there are breakfast programs in sc...

Of tool to prepare our children to eat, especially when you look at breakfast programs. a new study came out by deloit and they're showing when kids eat breakfast in school, their math scores go up by 17%. they have less incidences of being absent. so, there's all kinds of benefits. so the school lunch program is -- right now it's not funded. and that -- that clip you showed actually set up the -- i actually testified in front -- in congress on behalf of the school lunch program. the president asked for $10 billion over ten years. it gets watered down in the house to an $8 billion program over...

Kind of programs we should be cutting right now. >> well it's interesting. right now i'm hopeful there will be a backlash, that head start is a program that should not be cut. in the next couple of weeks, the maine state legislature, controlled by republicans, will be making that decision. i'm hopeful they won't, but the fear is that they will make that decision. a couple of years ago when i was in the legislature, the then senate president libby mitchell to make state funding to go to public school breakfast programs. she got an unbelievable backlash that we should be having to pay for breakf...

the presidential candidates go toe to toe tonight. as they face off in jacksonville. romney and gingrich are in a virtual poll. romney is ahead by just two percentage points. on the campaign trail, gingrich conceded that all the super pac attack ads have now hurt. but he's not backing down. >> i can promise you i am going to fight every day from here until we win the nomination, because i am not going to allow the monied interests that are bose buying those ads to come in here and into other states, to misinform people and think we're too dumb to fight back. >> jessica buchanan, she ...