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How to finance campaigns. there arent a lot of functioning democracies around the world that work this way, where you can basically have millionaires and billionaires bank rolling whoever they want, however they want and in some cases undisclosed. and what it means is ordinary americans are shut out of the process. and democrats arent entirely innocent of this in the past. and i had to raise a lot of money for my campaign. so i -- theres nobody who operates in politics that has perfectly clean h...

Functioning democracies around the world that work this way. where you can basically have millionaires and billionaires bank rolling whoever they want however they want and in some cases undisclosed, and what it means is ordinary americans are shut out of the process. >> ordinary americans have been shut out. but today the president went after the political bullies. he went after the secret money. and made it clear hes fighting for our democracy. joining me now, richard wolffe, msnbc.com executi...

Now the conservative court is gearing up for yet another decision that could change the way we do politics in this country. today the justices heard oral arguments in a case thats being called citizens united on steroids. sean mccutcheon, ceo, is the plaintiff in the case of mccutcheon versus federal exchange committee. now this man claims aggregate contribution limits violate the first amendment by limiting an individual donors political expression. mccutcheon is now challenging the aggregate l...

Citizens united. >> it would say anything goes. there are no rules in terms of how to finance campaigns. there arent a lot of functioning democracies around the world that can work this way. where you can have millionaires and willion airs bank rolling who ever they want and however they want in some cases undisclosed. and it means that ordinary americans are shut out of the process. and you know i had to raise a lot of money for my campaign. so, i -- there is nobody who operates in politics who...

And rios mayor under fire over security lapses suggests almost mockingly more problems lie ahead. protests are not a problem, he says, they are a part of functioning democracies. the pope started his day in the southern city of operacita, a visit to the shrine of the virgin mary the 16 inch statue found by fishermen in the early 1700s is revered here. he encouraged the faithful to resist earthly temptations. "the dragon evil is present but does not have the upper hand" he says. "our young people...

You end up with republics without functioning democracies and immigrants coming to our country from haiti and venezuela and so many places coming here saying americas democracy functions. that might not be the case according to experts if we continue down this road. >> frank, i want to follow up with you. the president putting a time period on this seems to also be ominous in terms of creating an expectation by date certain something that will happen. thats the fabric of what became so combustib...