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Face of the attacks trying to honor a promise he made to remain positivech hell now mount a bus tour to try to combat the negativity, but thats going to be tough to do in the face of 1,200 negative ads. thats right. according to cantar media, iowans have been showed a negative message about mr. gingrich more than 1,200 times in the last few weeks. the biggest player by far in the state has been restore our future, thats a super pac supporting mr. romney. so far its spent $2.6 million on televisi...

General need to get a recall of scott walker? >> they have only got a lemed time to get the signatures they need. they have 60 days to collect 540,000 valid signatures which is in reality means they probably have to get close to 700,000 signatures. going to be tough to do. talking about the thanksgiving holiday, the christmas holidays coming up. its not going to be easy for democrats to do. making things more complicated, state law doesnt provide for contribution limits during a recall election....

Arizona law, they are moving away from allowing any sort of campaign regulations. so even the contribution limits that are in effect now may well be gone by the time of the 2016 presidential campaign. >> and you agree that the republicans are better in raising these outside independent expenditure money than the democrats are? >> well, so far they have been. i mean, certainly karl rove and ed gill less pea and company were to take advantage of the united decision and organize expenditures that a...

>> then they come up with the roth i.r.a.s. is there a limit on that? do you recommend that? >> its a problem there as well, even though you make a savings for your college, but you have income limits and annual contribution limits of $5,000 a year. if you make a dent, you cant get the apt of money you need to pay for college today. >> jamie: we know how expensive that can be, not to mention the other expenses. give folks better ways to save. what is top way to put money away? are there employer...

Excess of the individual contribution limits that the rnc has allowed to give. what weve essentially said is if youve maxed out to the senate committee, congressional committee or rnc and youd like to do more under the citizens united decision you can give to american crossroads 527 or crossroads gps, and so were not tapping the people who -- if youre giving to american crossroads, yourefallly capable and in all likelihood have given the maximum to one of the national committee organizations. jo...

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Might be down right shakespearean. chris christie once sent jared kushners father to prison. >> in 2004, he game focus of a federal investigation. charged in a business sash attempt to silence a federal witness. it all stemmed from an accusation that kushner had been making campaign contributions using names of his employees so he could skirt the federal contribution limits. what makes this so interesting is that the man prosecuting kushner was then u.s. attorney for new jersey, chris christie. ...

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Do you see that trend continuing? >> reporter: i do, although i think its fair to say that the republican party who supported this case and helped to bring it here was really hoping that what the court would do is do away with the legal justification for any limits on contributions whatsoever. that comes from a post-watergate ruling in the 1970s when the court said that you can limit contributions, but you cant limit spending by candidates. i think the conservatives were hoping the supreme court...