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Why would he drop out? and even jeb bush who has been raising money hand over fist he has been raising the bulk of that money for not his campaign but his superpac. jeb bush and his superbapac on track to raise $100 million by the end of this month. say youre not doing that great in the polls but have tens of millions of maybe hundreds of millions of dollars, why would you drop out? the money is being raised in unexpected ways during this election. its contributing to the way the entire republic...

To these new super pacs. thats the big development in 2016. >> the idea these are outside groups. if you look at it right now, jeb bush has not declared hes a candidate. so he has his outside group, which is the right to rise super pac. he can show up at the events and raise money until he declares. this weekend, sunday monday hes going to be in miami with some of the biggest donors for the right to rise super pac. theyre going to give their donations, theyre going to meet his campaign staff. bu...

Posing with famous people. likes to travel with planes owned by donors. used campaign and funds to pay for these is under scrutiny. >> do you want to answer questions? >> reporter: questions keep coming for aaron schock now facing allegations he broke house ethics rules by not disclosing he took a photographer with him on the trip to india last august as part of his work to support clean water initiatives. >> more people own a cell phone in this world and have access to a toilet. >> reporter: th...

And well see a lot of push back. we see states moving toward disclosure and i think that will be interesting. but one thing i think the case exposes, we have unlimited donations, often secret, by outside groups, incredibly restricted limits with contributions and that is the heart of what the supreme court has to decide. >> the way the rules are now, if youre running for congress or the u.s. senate or, frankly, the presidency, youre at an unfair advantage because an outside group can control the...

Rougher and tougher than a campaign might. >> the outside group, michael bloomberg wants to change the conversation in a campaign. he successfully did that in that one special election in illinois. he flooded it and basically made the race about guns, even though nobody in that campaign at the time really wanted to have that. thats one way to do it or do you go to the candidate. >> what happens is youre transferring power to these individuals, like a mike bloomberg or a david plouffe or karl rov...

I think when the story initially broke, the president went under cover and finally came out last friday trying to come up with ways to salvage the program by window dressing, forming a website, for instance, an outside group. and the problem fundamentally is hes failed to explain these programs which are lawful, which have saved lives, which have stopped terrorist plots. he has not adequately explained them or defended them. and now hes in a bit of a mess, and ill it will you why. because on the...

It took an ig report for them to fess up to it. but interestingly enough a left wringing was given information by the irs. an outside group given information on conservative groups by the irs. an outside group that was sympathetic to what the administration wanted to do could get information on their ideological opponents out of this agency which is supposed to be completely nonpolitical. theyve tried who similar stints at acc, at the acc at the fcc. if you disagree with the administration they ...

Response back. essentially, the argument is that the people donating money, they are going to -- they will have voluntary -- you will know who they are. they have to report and there will be a small army of -- small donors also contributing but, tamr tamron, a big contradiction is this is something president obama said he wanted to get rid of. you go back to president clinton, george w. bush, they gave access but president obama promised to be different and this is something that his campaign rh...

Business as usual. any outside group on any issue that sees there to be an opportunity to use that issue to get lever and for their own issue, and they dont like eric holder will. so this is business as usual. but the challenge for each of us in congress is to try to stay focused on whats really at stake. theres a very important congressional principle here of oversight. this is where my view is i wish mr. issa would have worked with committee democrats because we support an investigation and su...

Language. >> this sounds like "lord of the lord" theme. concorde dance of the music with the tone that the producers are trying to get across is skillfully done. that is common, again, whether the ads are pro-administration or antiadministration. >> welcome to the radically altered landscape of political messaging in 2012 when slickly produced spots are less and less likely the handiwork of top tier candidates or the democrat a republican national committees. >> we look back to 2002 or 2000. can...