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Various cam pains, those groups remain untaxed under the guise of social welfare organizations. political operations funded by undiscloseded donors at least for the moment are considered to work for the cause of social welfare and thats how you get a billion dollars where you dont know where it came from or whats to become of the organization who made it happen. today the obama administration proposed new rules to specify exactly how much and what kind of political activity these wealthy nonprof...

Billion dollars where you dont know where it came from or whats to become of the organization who made it happen. today the obama administration proposed new rules to specify exactly how much and what kind of political activity these wealthy nonprofit groups could engage in and still qualify as tax exempt social welfare groups. these new rules would not just set clearer limits on spending, they would prevent these groups from funding political ads that appear two months before an election. that ...

That couldnt be considered social welfare activity anymore. if these new rules are adopted, could they represent the first effective counter force against the massive flood of spending that sprung out of the citizens united decision? and if so, wouldnt bit neat that it all started hatching two days before thanksgiving. these proposed rules, i think it was unexpected that they were going to happen today, two days before thanksgiving, but we knew that something like this might come from the admini...

Magazines, et cetera, these are necessary things that we need to go after because theyre not necessary. however, theyre necessary, but the question is are they going to be sufficient to really reduce the gun violence? >> we know that theres been a raft of legislation been put on the floor. senator gran has issued a bill stopping gun trafficking. and background checks and high capacity magazines. jonathan, we word from a read-out at the white house that the president is going to be introducing hi...

Somebody who has done extraordinary work both in the united states senate. somebody who served this country with valor in vietnam. >> i can tell you there would be very little republican support for his nomination. at the end of the day there willle be very few votes. >> praise from president obama and deep concern from senator lindsey graham over the man likely to be topped for the top job at the pentagon. the announcement expected to be made in the last couple of days. reports the president ha...

I know him. he is a patriot. somebody who has done extraordinary work both in the united states senate. somebody who served this country with valor in vietnam. >> i can tell you there would be very little republican support for his nomination. at the end of the day there willle be very few votes. >> praise from president obama and deep concern from senator lindsey graham over the man likely to be topped for the top job at the pentagon. the announcement expected to be made in the last couple of d...

He is a patriot. somebody who has done extraordinary work both in the united states senate. somebody who served this country with valor in vietnam. >> i can tell you there would be very little republican support for his nomination. at the end of the day there willle be very few votes. >> praise from president obama and deep concern from senator lindsey graham over the man likely to be topped for the top job at the pentagon. the announcement expected to be made in the last couple of days. reports...

People who want to work, dont have the freedom to work. they are forced to join the union, forced to pay mon tote union and the unions spend the monoa political party they dont agree with -- thats not freedom. thats not liberty. thats not pro-choice. why wouldnt you support the right of people to choose? >> thats an out-of-context descringz of the problem. the problem is without unions, there is no counterforce to big business-- its legalized theft -- >> give me a chance. there is no counter f...

Point? >> certainly they dont have a tradition of independently stepping in. wikileaks describing the defense minister as mubaraks poodle. it is not clear that they would act independently. at the moment it does appear that they are not on the same page as the president. suleiman was the head of egyptian intelligence, which in many ways was a counter force to the army, under president mubarak, the working for the interior was well over a million. that includes policemen and the many basically pa...

Them as a counter force against what they see will be the indian encroachment in afghanistan. so they see the afghan taliban as perhaps carving out a sphere of influence in southern and eastern afghanistan, when the fighting stops, and afghanistan is carved up or the end of the war comes and there is some kind of solution. pakistan wants to have its influence in afghanistan, and it will be probably with the afghan taliban and the harkani network, which is mentioned a lot in the reports we publis...