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but now to florida were seen and projects help demings will win the democratic senate primary. and challenge incumbent, marco rubio. then things is a former police chief of orlando and has served in the house since 2014. and singer landa they protect that charlie crist will, be the democratic governor in nevada. he will face incumbent around the sides in november. and now to st. petersburg florida. >> quite a bit of celebrations tonight from charlie crist, camp here in st. petersburg. declaring the victory and the democratic primary for the governor's race to the general election in ...

The u.s. is expected to announce its largest ever security package for ukraine, with around three billion dollars. u.s. officials tell cnn it will include western air defense systems, as well as stockpiles of ammunition, lots and lots of ammunition. those are earmark money for training and maintenance. on tuesday, -- promise continued support for ukraine, and urge other allies to do the same. >> we must keep raising the cost, international pressure on president putin and his enablers, until the rights of the ukrainian people, and their sovereign country, are respected. and we must continue to ...

Money until -- >> what's the answer? then what's the answer? >> i think the answer is to shut it down, frankly, because some institutions become too corrupt. just take the money and have it automatically devolved down to the states. there should be no highway trust fund, because it's not a fund anymore. >> so take that -- [ overlapping speakers ] the states take that money, they spend as they see fit. how do you know you won't have 50 corrupt little political systems developing to also abscond with those funds? >> you'll have corruption at the state level, but at least the people making the de...

Numbers around? i mean how would you do that on a state level or a local level? i mean i have some ideas on it. >> absolutely. well -- >> you'd have to earmark a sales tax. that's what i would do. a quarter-cent sales tax on municipalities that would be earmark money for jobs programs. that's just me talking. it would have to be done on a local level. your thoughts. >> remember, even the jobs growth that we're seeing right now are jobs in hospitality and service sectors which is not high paying jobs. if you complement that with public works jobs, the kind of jobs joy's working about, they coul...

City were unemployed according to the most recent census. now, this is a dramatic increase in unemployment over the past 30 years. but we should point out over the last 30 years it was not the starvation of government or the starvation of infrastructure projects. the mayor of new orleans recently released a five-year plan by helping to attract better paying jobs in the city which calls for workforce training and support programs for small businesses. back to the panel, the both of you on this, is there any program in an inner city that would turn the unemployment numbers around? i mean, how wo...