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Unique advertising attempts. fitness fanatic richard simmons helped out californias exchange. by the way, this was said to cost in excess of $1 million. and then theres the new social media campaign using so-called mom jeans to break through to young adults and their parents. or this message from the wildly mocked character who came to be known as pa jam ma boy. putting the jokes aside, while a lot of the specific ads were paid for by outside groups, washington has set aside money in just the fi...

If we dont have a firm answer to that, who knows. theres ban lot of optimism, maybe pathways for permanent residency in some capacity. but before that question is even answered we go pack to the herman cain. is it a mote with the alligators? do we build a north korea/south korea border around mexico? what is it? >> sam stein, one would hope we have moved past the question of alligator-fillede eed moats buts a fair point that john stanton brought up that whats driving division over immigration re...

Deportations and whether or not the president can be trusted but not as much back and forth over the question of citizenship or quote, unquote, amnesty? >> well, legalization is a word that puts a lot of fear, shall we say, in the rank and file, specifically what you just mentioned about john stantons piece. but before youvend get to the concept of legalization which the outside conservative groups will be up in arms about, the leadership has to sell border security. this is why you tched on som...

Reportedly getting ready to throw in the towel on taking back the house of representatives in 2014 and focus their energy instead on holding onto a thin majority in the senate. the fighting spirit on the heels of a botched health care rollout and weakened presidential poll numbers isnt exactly high. said one pelosi donor, unless we have a george washington bridge fiasco in the house, control is not going to change. but the main reason for the democratic retrenchment is actually the same reason f...

Conservatives everywhere need to understand that the partys leadership has declared war on them. if they dont fight back, they will always regret it. were going to hang together or hang separately. let me bring in our company, politico senior congressional reporter manu raju and ruth marcus is with us as well. good morning. >> good morning. >> i think john boehner, manu, was pretty angry. it was a little like hes finally it with. is that whats going on here? >> yeah, i think there was a lot of f...

This bill to oppose, to recognize a deficit reduction -- >> how does this raise taxes? because he will argue to you that this does not raise taxes. >> if you fly on an airplane, youre going to pay more to washington. they like to call it a revenue, not a tax increase. one thing i did talk about is that it changes the rules and allows harry reid to push through a tax increase with only 51 votes. i just discovered this an hour ago. its hidden deep in the bill. i think theres -- youre going to see ...

Be about this, ruth. we should mention in the midst of all this, the chairman of the republican study committee, steve ska leacalise fired the p in charge of the people who oppose this deal. you wonder whats going on in the macro as well as the micro on capitol hill. >> right. those kind of inside fight leaking stories are always really delicious. but -- you know, its no surprise that the groups work hand and glove with leadership, sometimes with leadership, sometimes perhaps against the wishes ...

Bank rolling of elections going snow shower here to break it down is justin wilson from the center of union facts. justin, good morning, thanks for joining us? >> good morning, my pleasure. >> for the past several years, the line from the white house has been the supreme court decision on campaign finance allows big biopsy to buy elections. i think most people think that the majority of money spent by outside groups comes from big business. thats not the case though. >> you know. its such an eas...

Warmer than you were for a lot of this last week with. great news warmer air out there, at least tempe rarely parts of the east. little bit of rain, parts of florida will continue to see rain for much of the day. see some rain exiting part of the mid-atlantic and in towards the northeast over the next couple of hours and dry up mostly for the remainder of the day. out across the west is where all the action is a big powerful storm moving. in a lot of snow, we are going to be talking about areas ...

Supreme court and people who lived within the system and unlimited contributions are an inherently corrupt system they said in the 1970s. what caused the problem is not mccain feingold, but the citizens united decision which opened the door to unlimited contributions being spent in unlimited expenditures by outside groups. lets look at 2012. the parties and candidates spent some $5 billion. thats 80% of the expenditures that were made. the parties spent some $2 billion, not fact exactly that the...