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Up with lower overall job gains and the contrast is not good with president obama. president obama comes in 7.8% and now 8.2, oops. >> paul: what about the spending record. we've been critical of mitt romney on the health care plan precursor to the obama care, i think undisputable fact that's true, increased spending in massachusetts since he left. is the overall romney spending better than obama's? >> when you look at the state spending, they're obliged to balance an operating budget. that was balanced. and still if you compare that to obama. it's ridiculous. i think the increase for mitt rom...

Up with lower overall job gains and the contrast is not good with president obama. president obama comes in 7.8% and now 8.2, oops. >> paul: what about the spending record. we've been critical of mitt romney on the health care plan precursor to the obama care, i think undisputable fact that's true, increased spending in massachusetts since he left. is the overall romney spending better than obama's? >> when you look at the state spending, they're obliged to balance an operating budget. that was balanced. and still if you compare that to obama. it's ridiculous. i think the increase for mitt rom...

It seems to make logical sense. the trouble is, that over time, research has shown that for a lot of low risk offenders that's not the case. violent and career criminals for sure. they should go to prison, stay there for a long time. that what we have prisons for. a lot of lower level nonviolent offenders were swept up in this big net. so we are at the point where we have nearly one in 100 adult behind bars. one in 31 are on some form of community corrections super vision that is in prison, jail, probation or parole. one in eight state employees works in corrects and the corrections budget has...

Before, a state governor facing a recall vote. the first two sitting governors lost those elections. in wisconsin, governor scott walker hopes to become the first to actually keep his job, but he faces a very tight race after a campaign that has shattered state spending records and further divided a state already polarized. joining us now in wisconsin, neil cavuto, the anchor of cavuto at 8 p.m. eastern on fox business network, and ian walkshaw, jon mccormack is a staff writer for the weekly standard. john, i'm going to start with you first because neil gets all kind of air time here. you have...

judge in the trayvon martin murder case. martin savidge is there. martin, how did it take place today? >> reporter: well, it was simple and it was uneventful, fredricka. that is just the way the authorities wanted it to be. there was always concern about george zimmerman's team. it certainly was the worry of law enforcement because of the amount of notoriety this case has received over time, and of course, because there's a lot of different opinions on this story. let's tell you how the meeting took place. it was rather clandestine how george zimmerman got into the hands of authoriti...