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History has shown when these corporations get this money, they don't put it back into the workforce or research. they put it into their own pockets, dividends. it's really not something that's going to help the bottom line. that is the paycheck of the individual in a pay raise by those corporations. i hope it happens. it's just history has shown it doesn't happen. >> noah rothman has a question for you. >> it looks like act two of this thing will be approaching nondiscretionary spending and seeing if they can bring some of that in line. republicans are going to propose things like premium supp...

This week rick scott came out with his first spanish language ad in a pitch to latinos. he's also come out behind a bill that would push in-state tuition for some children of illegal immigrants, but the bill seems to be dieing in the senate, and so it will be really interesting to see whether or not he can put real political pressure in there to pull that one out for his campaign. it's especially interesting because he's had such an evolution on this issue, taking a hard line on immigration issues back in 2010. >> very different rick scott. we'll watch that. >> manu. democrats in red states ...

>> let me bring in congressman van hollen. what we're talking about by far the biggest part of the budget and that is entitlements. last year as part of the budget, the president included chain cpi, a slower measure of inflation. this year he's taking that out. regardless of the rest of the economy, the fact is that the entitlements are running out of money and you're taking out a way to save money. >> two things on that. i find it curious that right now as we interest, many republicans are telling the president and cm is that we should not end some of the overpayments to the private insurers ...

Tax increase in it as it has -- >> i'm confused. i thought republicans were for chain cpi. are you now saying you're against it? >> no, what i'm saying is that democrats who say you can't touch chain cpi luns you raise taxes should know that chain cpe has within it tax increases because of the indexing of the brackets. so it's a ridiculous argument. it is this balanced if you want balance the way the president wants to do it which is to have taxes and some important restraints on spending,this bal balance the way the president wants to do it which is to have taxes and some important restraints...

Violated. >> some states, they're so far in the past, they're pushing laws to legalize segregation based on sexual orientation. >> you can see the president obviously wants to continue this conversation. and the fact is, conservative groups are pushing similar matters to the one that was vetoed in arizona in oklahoma, in missouri, mississippi, and kansas. where do you see this going? >> well, we've actually counted ten states that are considering similar legislation to arizona's, including florida where rick scott, who is running for the election, came out and said he would vie toe the measure...