just federal funding, but state funding. >> where did they come up with that public education and big -- education bureaucracies was the rule in america? y yes, the government can help but the idea that the federal government should be running schools, frankly much less that the state government should be running schools, is anachronistic. >> dan ballz, the state government should be running schools, rick santorum has been saying plenty of these things on the campaign trail for the entire time he has been running but now doing it with a lot of scrutiny. as you write this week, you know, is he -- can he handle the focus? >> well, there's no question that he is a very conservative candidate, many ways that is one of the things that has put him where he is today as a real challenger to mitt romney. this comment yesterday about public education, i think americans believe in public