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General electric. you know, we have talked a number of times about jeffrey imelt, the guy that runs g.e., the ceo over there, he is the top outside advisor for president obama. there he is pictured right there. >> right. hes on the jobs council. >> yeah and one of your friends from the fox business network, charlie gasparino has a story today in "the new york post" that talks about how mr. imelt is disillusioned with our president. >> i talked to charlie at length about this yesterday and report...

Primaries. he is an interesting character and he has potential. >> would he be a good president? >> he embraced the birther thing. he had problems. this morning i went on "open secrets," keeping track of everyones gimmicks and he had $418,000 in federal political giving, and he gave $196,000 to democrats, and harry reid and george mitchell the last three democrat senate leaders he has given money to and kennedy was a ben fatter and gentleman biden and he called pelosi great and gave money to the...

Enterprise leonard leo. leonard leos a man who also has strong ties to the judicial crisis network. thats the right-wing organization which helped block scores of obama judicial nominees and was key in the pr blitz to outright deny a hearing to president obamas last supreme court justice pick, judge merrick garland. helping mitch mcconnell effectively steal that supreme court seat. leonard leo is also connected to the dark money organization called bh group which according to the non-profit watc...

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Always said we are about its -- we want to create a virginia, an america that works for everybody. and, we need to focus our efforts as conservatives, as republicans, on putting forth our conservative solutions so that they can help solve the problems for so many working middle-class families. that, that may not have the opportunity that we have. i know there is a lot of long faces here tonight. and it is disappointing. sure. >> cantors loss shows limits of big money and incumbency, as well look...

And, we need to focus our efforts as conservatives, as republicans, on putting forth our conservative solutions so that they can help solve the problems for so many working middle-class families. that, that may not have the opportunity that we have. i know there is a lot of long faces here tonight. and it is disappointing. sure. >> cantors loss shows limits of big money and incumbency, as well look over the race, we can see he outspent his opponent not by double, quadruple, but by 25 times. eric...