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In the swamp, i joined katie in washington to figure out how we got to this point. >> it is hard to believe now, but there was a time not that long ago when it seemed like congress had a handle on this thing. in 2002, democratic senator russ fine gold got together with republican senator john mccain to introduce the first major bill addressing campaign finance abuses since the watergate era. >> well, there was this law in place, the federal elections law for 20 or 30 yores, but a loophole had be...

Certainly get these donors thinking about how their money is being used i think when they see a number like $33,000 for a dinner at a steakhouse and how -- how effectively that money is being used, particularly when one fact that jumped out at me from the cnn reporting is that the rnc, which does have contribution limits on it out-raised the superpac which has no limits on what a donor can contribute. >> interesting point. >> problems with america first have just been building. in the 2018 elect...

Things that are a problem are these contribution limits. if you can only get x amount, it means self-funders and very much people are able to fund their campaigns and it squeezes out people like him that doesnt come from money. >> thats right. the current regime, the status quo says increasingly that either youre a billionaire or celebrity or celebrity billionaire, donald trump. or on the other hand you are a grass roots pop lift who can raise a bunch bunch bunch of money from small dollar group...

>> well, well be watching. i want to bring in garrett haake on the hill and nbcs justice correspondent pete williams. pete, to you first. michael cohen is going to claim that the president and donald trump jr. were in fact part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws. if he does have checks that were signed by these two men, how far does that go into proving an illegal act and how big of an illegal act sk this considered to be? >> well, the illegal act has already been alleged. tha...

Mcdougal. >> its not a crime, george. paying 100 whatever thousand to one and the same to another is not a crime. >> charlie is here from the "new york times." youre the perfect one to talk to because you wrote this week how this compares to the other case. tell us how its different. >> giuliani is perfect for telling us how hush money payments made by a politician could be a transaction that would be subject to contribution limits and disclosure requirements and all the other rules. john edward...

Thinks donald trump used his personal lawyer and the "national enquirer." but edwards of course was found not guilty on one count. the jury deadlocked on five others. so, i want to drill down on the level of peril now faced by the president, regardless of what special counsel robert mueller may develop regarding russia. michael cohen has acknowledged being involved in illegal payments intended to influence the election, neither of which were disclosed and both in excess of contribution limits. h...

Prosecutors are bringing new focus to the inauguration and money which was allegedly funneled into it. first reported by "the wall street journal." so first, lets get a few things straight about pacs and presidential campaigns. pacs and super pacs, police call action committees are forbidden from coordinating with campaigns and special candidates but they are allowed to take in unlimited amounts of money unrestrained by a campaigns contribution limits. inaugural committees are groups set up by a...

Already sensing a loss tonight, potentially losing the house, and already assessing how this will play out tomorrow. the blame game is beginning. looking at one of the first polls closing in that kentucky race with republican incumbent andy barr. thats a race in which paul ryans super pac has spent $3 million in that race. the national republican congressional committee has not spent anything in that race. theyve actually spent $20 million less than it did in 2016. you talk to republicans in the...

Lets look at virginia 10, florida 6 and illinois 14. nrcc doing $5 million there for barbara comstocks race. i know shes a strong competitor. shes down in that race. then in florida 6, nancy soderbergh almost doubling the almost of campaign spending that has been spent in that race so far over the republican down there. then illinois 14 at $700,000, that one is kind of a surprise sort of last-minute looks like the republicans might be in trouble there. ill turn it over to you and you tell me if ...

Public. of course, i think think all should be maybe public, the ones that -- and i dont like this committee classification, what happened, but the chairman did allow me to make those public. and in those documents, in one e-mail from march 2002, you discuss limits on contributions to candidates saying, and i have heard very few people say that the limits on contributions to candidates are unconstitutional. although, i for one tend to think those limits have some constitutional problems. i just ...