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Popcorn and friends around for that. both are simultaneously attacking each other over entitlements programs, probably the most important issue on the table for florida's booming retirement population. welcome everybody. brand new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm martha maccallum. bill: i'm bill hemmer. insists romney, that he has a plan to reform it by raising the retirement age for all americans and reducing benefits for wealthier americans. martha: texas governor says it should be run by the states. listen. >> what would happen to the social security trust fund if you sent social security ...

Well, mr. romney took him to task over that. >> what would happen to the social security trust fund if you sent social security back to the states? how would they guidivide it? would it be florida's responsibility to meet the social security needs of everyone coming to florida? how would you deal with people moving all over the place. what happens, by the way, if one of those states got in financial trouble and raided their fund? i believe in social security. there are tens of millions of americans who rely upon social security. to meet their needs. i want to protect it. i want to save it. >> ...

But if he fails to gain traction tonight, i think people who might put up some money, people who might get behind him are not going to do it. make it or break it. this is a big, big, big, big, big debate. >> dana: a big issue is social security. mitt romney and perry is fighting it out about social security. here is what romney said last night. >> what would happen to the social security trust fund if you sent social security back to the states? how would they devide it? would it be florida's responseability to meet the social security needs of everyone who comes to florida? how would you deal...

Until thursday night to try to win votes. >> with florida and national polls suggesting the race is tightening between rick perry and mitt romney, he ripped the claim that social security is an unconstitutional federal failure that should be run by the states. >> this does not work in any way, shape, or form. >> in miami, romney rattled off a series of rapid fire rhetorical questions designed to make perry's idea for states to provide social security seem impossible. >> what would happen to the social security trust fund if you sent social security back to the states? how would they divide it?...

Of questions designed to poke holes in that idea that states can handle it. listen to this idea. >> what would happen to the social security trust fund if you sent social security back to the states? how would they divide it? what happens, by the way, if ople move from state to state to state? you consider all the people who retired in florida, would it be florida's responsibility? to meet the social security needs of everyone who comes to florida? that wouldn't work. >>reporter: mr. romney says he would raise the retirement age a year or two and dramatically reduce the cost of living increase...