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Obamacare has. >> no, ours is pretty simple. it gives patients and their families the freedom to choose their healthcare decisions and the freedom to choose where their money is going. if you get your health insurance from an employer, you will continue to get it the only difference is we think our reforms will actually see premiums go down so that will be good news for you and your employer. if you are someone who doesnt get health insurance from your employer, maybe you are working part time a...

Politics. a different marketplace where candidates sell not just their idea but critics say they sell themselves. hat in hand to billionaires. chief national correspondent jake tapper shows us the price of politics. >> presidential hopefuls this weekend pressed the flesh at nascar, a farmers market and for five of them the weekend was spent with fat cats at a koch brothers backed retreat at a saint regis report in california. >> you are here because you love america. >> reporter: and american po...

Presidential hopefuls pressed the flesh at nascar, a farmers mark, and for five of them the weekend was spent with fat cats at a koch brothers retreat at a st. regis resort. >> youre here because you love america. >> and american politicians love them. >> money helps. money helps. im playing by the rules of the game, the way it was laid out. if people dont like it, thats just tough luck. >> with no contribution limits on super-pacs, 2016ers are seeking sugar daddies. you have to raise $100,000 e...

The announcement with her mother. it will be the first child for chelsea and husband mark mez vinski. a democratic fund rai-raiseo supported will hillary clintons bid has pleaded guilty to evading contribution limits and witness tampering. accused of funneling more than $180,000 into legal campaign contributions to three unnamed dand candidates and coaching someone to lie about it. still ahead, you will never believe why a major northwestern city is wasting millions of gallons of treated wat...

Allegedly using straw donors to a candidate for senate if 2012. federal prosecutors say in the indictment that in order to get around election contribution limits had other people give a total of $20,000 to a particular senate campaign. and then he personally reimbursed them for those donations. you are not supposed to do that. the senate candidate in question was not listed in the indictment. according to publicly available data, the only candidate that mr. d souza donated do was wendy long, gi...

A candidate for senate if 2012. federal prosecutors say in the indictment that in order to get around election contribution limits had other people give a total of $20,000 to a particular senate campaign. and then he personally reimbursed them for those donations. you are not supposed to do that. the senate candidate in question was not listed in the indictment. according to publicly available data, the only candidate that mr. d souza donated do was wendy long, giving her the maximum $5,000. she...

Reasoning in doma to apply to similar same-sex marriage bans at the state level. thats whats happening right now. thats what the judge in utah did. a judge in ohio did that as well. this is what were seeing in federal courts across the country. >> mike sacks, heres a challenge, 15 seconds, a few of the other issues that you see the high court making landmark decisions on? >> church and state, revisiting legislative prayer and how high the wall between church and state will be for sectarian praye...

You made a candidate say the names of the donors and people that gave them money. wouldnt that allow the market to -- >> disclosure doesnt work with contribution limits. the supreme court recognized that in the 70s. we had a terrific disclosure system with the soft money system. that resulted in all kinds of problems. it was ended by very large votes in congress. you are not going to solve the problem by disclosure. i would be all for requiring disclosure of donors on ads. >> to be continued and...

>> thats absolutely right, melissa. congress has established a system, which requires contribution limits -- contributions to be limited so that government can be protected from corruption and the appearance of corruption. and the problem is that if the court takes the radical step to strike down a federal contribution limit for the very first time, going against their precedent for 40 years, it would increase the impact of the tiniest sliver of the richest americans, these elite donors, over ou...

A professor at harvard, whos been studying systemic discussion, its in the atlantic, filed by the constitution accountability center saying the framers were concerned not just about individual corruption of individual lawmakers, but the corruption of the legislative process itself as a whole. >> and i have no doubt that jamil, our digital editor, will get his piece up right away, but let me ask, from an aclu perspective, though, because this does get framed as a speech question, does aclu say, i...