florida senator bill nelson. watch this. president trump: we didn t get one democrat to vote for us and senator nelson was hostile to it. let me tell you, if for any reason they get in, meaning the democrats, they are going to raise your taxes way up high. we cannot let that happen because this country is starting to rock with our businesses coming back in. it is starting to really rock. sandra: i wanted to bring up that moment because it s interesting. as the discussion is the economy and republicans keep pushing that message the president touting his success on the economy, is that a sign of things to come with the mid-term elections coming up? certainly in florida where the president keeps one of his homes and has a long-time ally in rick scott, the governor there who is running against nelson. i suspect we ll be seeing a lot of president trump when it comes to the florida senatorial race. nelson has to figure out how to deal with that and how to turn the positives that trump
it comes as the governor pat quinn has proposed a 1% income tax. the chicago sun times reports the governor only has 45 votes and he needs 60. and the cleveland school district is making a dramatic and controversial budget cut by eliminating 773 teaching and classroom support jobs by the end of the school year. this effectively means that the student per teacher ratio would double. the school district claims that the teacher cuts would alleviate the $52 million projected deficit for next year. the teachers union says this is a strong arm tactic before negotiations which are scheduled in june. for the first time ever pope benedict speaks publicly about the sex scandal plaguing the church. we ll tell you what the pontiff is now promising to do about the abuse. federal investigators launch a criminal investigation into the inappropriate spending they say by florida senatorial candidate marco rubio. we ll take a look at the
very it was very much a sort of presidential tryout speech. he could have given it on the trail in 2008. he certainly could give it on the trail on 2012. the rock star was dick cheney s surprise visit and marco rubio. those were the two that lit the fire in the room. mitt romney was well received, but let s remember he s also a massachusetts republican. they ve always been sort of suspect. he has over the course of the last four years or so sort of steadily moved right. so he still is one of those people that they look at. he was certainly well received, but it wasn t on the same level as rubio who is such a big promise particularly to the tea party people who backed him heavily in the florida senatorial race. i want to ask you, eric, to give me your take. you did hear a lot of anger coming from that podium today. and i do think at the end of the day that that alone isn t going to get it. people are looking for solutions here. they may not like where the president is headed and the