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Presidential race. >> without being specific, trump suggested last night on jimmy kimmel live that his polarizing rhetoric will change. >> i've been a little bit divisive and we have to come together and get this thing done. >> trump has said similar things throughout this campaign and in short order followed up with even hotter rhetoric. brett? >> thank you. senator marco rubio and sugar. the candidates long-time support of the sunshine state industry is being questioned by some of his gop rivals. correspondent phil keating tells us why from miami. >> sugar is big in florida and big in flor...

program. with critics deride as an anti-free market government subsidy. >> it's a loan program that acro allows our sugar industry to compete. >> the gao estimates that the u.s. sugar program cost taxpayers nearly $2 billion every year. university of miami political science professor says on the sugar issue rubio's conservative credentials are vulnerable. >> rubio is going to have trouble with this. he's taking money from billionaires on one end who hate corporate welfare and billionaires on thor end who want corporate welfare. >> senator ted cruz voiced this veiled attack on rubio's sweeth ...

In most cases. sugar programs has an import quota and artificially raises prices to 30 to 50% higher than they are in the rest of the world. costs consumers 3 1/2 billion dollars a year. save $1.2 billion in the first year. $6 billion over five years from reforming the sugar program. >> eric: what about peanuts? >> you could save 55 million in one year. 275 million over five years. another opportunity where if you grow peanuts, you're always going to grow them, in fact, the owners of those properties don't have to be actively growing them. they still get the subsidy. >> eric: the dairy? >> dai...

That the america we want? you know what they want the farmers to do, sugar beat growers righties always turn their back on the democrats, get your butt on the free market and see if it can work. compete with cuba and everybody else out there doing sugar business. why in the hell should we protect you because you never protected the workers. the american dream, for some of those workers who have been in those plants and worked for 25 or 30 years, have been locked out. you know why? because they have been too successful. a select few who are living and working the land are making big-time bucks....

A pretty good business to be in. protections like no other industry. better than oil? yeah. better than the defense industry, in a way, it's strong. the issue is coming up again because the farm bill is getting marked up and the sugar program is a hot topic. conservatives, they are using the program as their latest whipping post. they want to gut sugar subsidies across the board, say we shouldn't be doing it. the heritage foundation has called for sugar subsidies to be totally abolished. say it's bad for consumers, bad for agricultural, bad for america. mitt romney called for an end to sugar s...