to open the floodgates of corruption, whereas the conservatives think it s a protection of political speech, specifically under the guise of the first amendment. so bob, in this decision, what the justices were saying is it s not they didn t take away the amount of money per person you can give. they have removed the cap that said you could only give to x amount of people. now it s as many people as you want, and that s what they said was the first amendment issue. you think that this decision was wrong. why? i think it s horrible. i go back to the group i was working with was a plaintiff in the original campaign finance law and the aftermath of watergate, and then the decision made was to put individual contributions on $2,600 in a primary, $2,600 in a general, and an overall limit in the primaries. now, what they have said is okay, we re going keep the individual caps in place, but you can do almost anything you want everyplace else. you could go to the democratic
plity and say i want $500,000 donated there. what else do they have to do? they have given them free reign to do it. for roberts to say that leveling the playing field, the exact quote. leveling the playing field is not an acceptable interest for the government. i mean, it s not leveling the playing field in this country where all people are created equal, what is he talking about? and that dude from alabama, that shaun mccutchen, said that he was filing this thing in order to adopt conservative principles. by doing this, it s going to open up the ability to adapt conservative principles. are you done? there s not a limit unions have no limits, but there were limits on individuals. there in lies the problem. kimberly is right. it s all about the first amendment constitutional right to participate in the political process. what is going on is the left has
unions. the unions will donate with no limits. they can go ahead and do it. what the left has done, they have said, you know what? let s set up this apparatus that makes it so difficult to donate the way we re getting our donations, and they set up this intricate apparatus. what happened with mccutchen is he said let s eliminate some of them so more people can get involved. by the way, this doesn t just affect republicans and conservatives. this affects liberal s too. they can now donate. what is wrong with this, bob? in 2013-2014, filing for elections. $95,000 plus contributed, 73% were for republicans. 26% were for democrats. that shows you after you get through the ones you usually come up with union. no, no. you have to look at the unions. if you look at the top 52
with him a lot during the presidency. i got to know him well. we had a good relationship throughout. it got more tense as time went on. vladimir is a person who, in many ways, views the u.s. as an enemy, and although he wouldn t say that, i felt that he viewed the world as either u.s. benefits and russia loses or vice versa. he also had an interesting story about his dog barney and comrade vlad. our dear dog barney who has a special spot in my heart. i introduced him to putin. you really call that a dog. a year later, we visited him and he said, would you like to meet my dog? out bounds a huge dog. he said, bigger, stronger, and faster than barney. you kind of thought, is this symbolic of what he thinks? i took it in, didn t react. wow, anybody who thinks my dog is bigger than your dog is an interesting character. i like that story. it kind of gives you insight into the personalities, and it seems like they actually shared more than a cordial relationship, there was
help millions more. democratic senator barbara boxer of california will join us coming up in a moment. but first, let s get some news from the supreme court. hey, rich people, want to buy an election? how about a few of them? come on in, the water s fine. that s the gust of today s supreme court in response to a challenge brought by the republican party, an alabama businessman, shaun mccutchen, republican national committee chair praised today s ruling as, quote, an important first step toward when free speech is allowed to flourish, our democracy is stronger. house speaker john boehner had a similar reaction. what i think this means is freedom of speech is being upheld.