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Shes obviously a much quieter person. >> is she deciding -- a lot of people looked at gingrich was it something personal did he cultivate with the adelsons where does that come from? >> he ticked their boxes in terms of israel stuff and he had a good relationship as well. >> in terms of the 2016 race all the reporting says marco rubio. ken vogel said his reporting is sheldon adelson called mitt romney and said, hey, you should run in 2016. this guy who sheldon adelson steam rolled in 2012 wanted...

>> think big gop donors are not the like the grassroots. theyre like investors. they want so see which stock they can ride all the way to the white house. they dont get emotional about this. they get specific about this. this is huge donors and republicans. you have candidates right now who are auditioning in front of the adelsons of the world and frosts of the world. >> billionaires. >> if you are looking at the "new york times" its coming down to three. jeb bush and -- >> how can they say that...

Not beholden to the oligarchic right, thats a russian term. its going to be harder for the contemporary gop, the danger of looking like the play thing americas super rich outweighs the benefits. of increased support from americas super rich. here is an argument of logic, which is all the money theyre getting from the adelsons, the koch brothers, is that worth being known as the party that hates the 47%, which theyre now known as? >> they are. and they will be known as that. >> as long as there i...

23% say they favor the middle class. just 3% say they favor the poor. who are those people? this impression will be hard to shake. quote, just as bill clinton showed in the early 1990s that he was not beholden to the cultural left, republicans must find ways to show that theyre not beholden to the oligarchic right, thats a russian term. its going to be harder for the contemporary gop, the danger of looking like the play thing americas super rich outweighs the benefits. here is an argument of log...

By what he said in the debate. it was striking that that exchange between the two candidates ended with mr. romney insisting that we will -- everybody will look this up. we will go to the record on this. >> i thought the biggest key in that answer was the president talked about private equity money. it wasnt available. it wasnt there. there were no taker. no one from wall street, no one -- no adelsons, and no bain. no one was willing to stand up and say, you know what, we believe in the american...

Misspoke or does in fact stick by what he said in the debate. it was striking that that exchange between the two candidates ended with mr. romney insisting that we will -- everybody will look this up. we will go to the record on this. >> i thought the biggest key in that answer was the president talked about private equity money. it wasnt available. it wasnt there. there were no taker. no one from wall street, no one -- no adelsons, and no bain. no one was willing to stand up and say, you know w...

Hes walking back that statement or whether or not mitt romney misspoke or does in fact stick by what he said in the debate. it was striking that that exchange between the two candidates ended with mr. romney insisting that we will -- everybody will look this up. we will go to the record on this. >> i thought the biggest key in that answer was the president talked about private equity money. it wasnt available. it wasnt there. there were no taker. no one from wall street, no one -- no adelsons, a...

Million raised. is that a sign that the democrats have finally overcome their ambivalence about super pacs? >> nothing like fear to focus the mind. and i think that as democrats have seen this is a close race, i mean the thing thats been mostly motivational i think for a lot of democrats is that i think everybody agrees that mitt romney had a convention that was not up to the same standards as the democratic convention. stumbled through the last couple days and even still this race is basically ...

Povertys role in this campaign. >> we know when money is speech, millionaires and billionaires get mega phones and the middle class gets muted. we know that because we crunched the numbers from the fec data that came out. and the adelsons have given a $36.3 million to super pacs. thats a rounded error for them, 0.3% of their net worth. and it would take $321,000 middle class families giving the equivalent amount of net worth to equal the same political voice the two people have. >> 321,000, that...

The money theyve donated? >> a donor might have a lot of reasons for giving money. its hard to look into their heart and predict what the reason is. but we know that hes said, one, the reason he put a lot of money into the newt gingrich super pac was to help his old friend, newt. he wanted to see this campaign go on for a while, back when there was a primary campaign. hes also a huge hawk on israel. and its clear he wants somebody in the white house who shares his views on israel. and finally he...