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Time, to borrow from star wars lexicon, there is a disturbance in the force there. Like, he is shaken. I mean, heres the front page of the daily news, Talking About Poor Donald. Of course, theyre talking about him coming off the forbes list. If you want to understand donald trump, weve said this from the beginning, just understand the money. The money. I still think a lot of these criminal investigations and the possibility of going to jail, too abstract for him. But him sitting there, the possi...

In deep disarray, reading about some conservative organizations and republican campaigns these days, one is reminded of eric hoffers remark, every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. it may be that major parts of american conservatism have become such a racket, that a kind of refounding of the movement as a cause is necessary. frank rich joins us in just a moment. capella university understands rough economic times have led to an increa...

Information for gullible and overexcited conservatives to people who can part them with their money. right? and if you are a person who has long been struck by and fascinated by how similar the conservative be afraid direct mail that asks for money looks to the kind of direct mail that tries to scam your grandmother out of her save remember fred thompson and the reverse mortgage thing? yeah. it is amazing to see. if you have been watching this over time is one of the amazing things about it is h...

For about six years. jonathan according to rny filings with the election commission, $59 million was spent with vendors in the five weeks leading up to election day. of that amount one-third went to a single telemarketing firm which just happens to have been founded by current rnc chief of staff jeff larson. >> its sort of a closed loop world here where -- >> unbelievable. >> you have people working for the party but they have side contracts with the party and then no matter what happens, no mat...

Said leading up to the election because they talk a good game and they have to have the, you know, bravado and whatnot. now, they really want to be back in power. and theyve got to sit down and hammer out whats going to get them there. the problem is, the party cant decide. half of them think its because mitt romney is too liberal and wasnt enough of a kind of d distinction from obama and half of them think he was just a lousy kacandidate for others reasons and maybe may should have gone with --...

Eric coffers remark. he quotes every great cause begins as a movement becomes a business and e venn usually degenerates into a racket. it may be that major parts of the american conservativatism h become such a racket that a refounding of the movement as a cause is necessary. quite an indictment. but hes really sighing that what the conservative movement that we saw from the days of william f.bucley, jr., has gone to business and is now becoming a rack et and can they turn it back into a movemen...

The latest analysis. jim. >> david, you know, theres no question that al qaeda leadership and the ability to conduct major operations like the one carried out on 9/11 here in the united states has been severely weakened by a very aggressive, longstanding, long-running campaign by the u.s. particularly the cia which has stepped up its predator drone strikes in western pakistan in the past year, year and a half. and as leon panetta, the director of the cia, said, in an extraordinary revelation, pu...