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Contributions then but it didnt go directly to my points campaign. it went through a pac and it was funneled and nobody knew it came from until after the election. the reason he did that was because we called him out on what he was doing. it appeared in the "new york times" a couple weeks before the election. my point is i think that they know that their ideas are unpopular. so what we saw in missouri, this is again when we didnt have contribution limits to what you can give on a campaign and th...

Go directly to my points campaign. it went through a pac and it was funneled and nobody knew it came from until after the election. the reason he did that was because we called him out on what he was doing. it appeared in the "new york times" a couple weeks before the election. my point is i think that they know that their ideas are unpopular. so what we saw in missouri, this is again when we didnt have contribution limits to what you can give on a campaign and they still chose a dark money rout...

>> while liberals fretting about the fate of roe v. wade have dominated early headlines about president trumps next supreme court pick, the left is actually sounding a lot more alarm bells, charging nothing less than the fate of the republic hangs in the ballast. >> the issue of how protective the voting rights act is, whether or not that actually were. dominic applies to the redistricting process. theres the issue of whether we can actually control how much billionaires give to candidates, cont...

Donated 4,000 to senator doug jones and 3,000 to connor lamb just to name a few, telling the post, nothing nefarious, i was not choosing to overdo nate, if $207, candidates should refund the money, i donate assuming they do not accept what is over the limit. so folks on social media, talking about this one, bob says she knowingly committed a crime through attempts to add deception, she absolutely needs to be charged and sassy on twitter says, ros odonnell illegally exceeded contribution limits, ...

Wasnt on the same page. hannity thought he was talking about a totally different deal. they come back and say lets just get it straight what you were talking about because i had it wrong. >> they were not only not on the same page, they werent even reading the same book. hannity was saying i have to give you a friendly atmosphere. giuliani did not think it through. if he had, he he would realize he would put his client into greater legal jeopardy. at least until before last night. he at least ca...

Setting up for a big midterm election campaign issue. i think this video is an in-kind contribution to president trump. might have to check out what those contribution limits are. i do think the president could be in a position now. these people will not all get in. theyll have to go back. one thing he could do is kiss on out foreign policy role. hes had some good meetings with world leaders and these people in el salvador, nicaragua, costa rica, et cetera, that have these problems. just like we...

An illegal contribution. and although typically those are administrative matters, they can be criminal matters particularly if there was an intentional violation of either contribution limits or another portion of the statute. so there is definitely some work for prosecutors to do as they flush out her story. >> so according to report, stormy daniels payment is also the karen mcdougal payment and any documents related to the national quier for her story. and also michael cohen owns a lot of maed...

Their candidates and a lot of states have done that things are getting better at the state level. since 2010, we have seen 17 states increase their contribution limits. and, of course, there are about 11 states that have no limits at all. steve: interesting stuff. david keating, press of the institut --president for the ine for free speech. thank you very much. >> you are welcome. thank you. steve: what do you think about that? email us at friends@foxnews.com or tweet us and we are also on faceb...

Districts. and tonight its whatever happened to segment, democracy vouchers, remember them? it was the city of seattles attempt to bring more people into the process of paying for a political campaign. but it came with some unintended consequences. correspondent dan springer tells us what happened. >> when we first reported last july on seattles novel experiment to publicly financed municipal elections by giving registered voters 25 vouchers to give to their favorite candidate, the candidates we...

Of getting us to where weve got a virtuous society? >> i lose no sleep over the scandal of money and politics, the scandal of republican money in politics. it doesnt worry me at all. i just blow through campaign contribution limits all together. id allow people to make anonymous donation to the parties. i dont have a problem with that. what i would like to do is concentrate on the real influence peddlers, the lobbying industry. >> isnt there a clear connection between the money going to the camp...