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But as our own rafrple maddow has documented, the current presidents festivities were nowhere as big as obamas. funeral inaugural balls. no big acts. his crowds as we know quite famously were far smaller. all of which raises an important question. >> why did they raise so much extra money? this is a strange thing. $107 million, and now in all likelihood, theyre just sitting on tens of millions of dollars that were left over from something that wasnt that big and wasnt that expensive. >> but ther...

Inauguration. where did all the money come from? we started to get answers last week when the inaugural committee released its required filings with the federal election commission. now, the largest single donation at $5 million was from sheldon aidleson. $250,000 from billionaire kelsey warren, whose company is building the dakota access pipeline. a half million, perhaps somewhat surprisingly from citgo petroleum. but when a reporter for "the huffington post" started digging into some of the le...

Notice, in the debates lately, mr. trump has really been focused on his positions, his policies and his principles moving forward. when i say "back to normal," i mean we are back to normal. as long as no one attacks donald trump, donald trumps not going to attack them. he is seriously focused on national security, getting the border secure and the economy. so mr. trump really wants to focus on that, tamron. >> let me go back to a tweet from mr. trump in october. he tweeted out sheldon adelson is...

But the big issue is money and turnout. and what has democrats really alarmed about the 13th district special election in florida is that the coke brothers werent even involved. but they are spreading huge amounts of money in other races. and, you know, the last time, in 2012, and just a couple of other big hitters, like sheldon aidleson were providing hundreds of millions of dollars. >> right. >> so the democrats have to figure out thousand use their small donor base to try to compete with the ...

We were just to tone players in the media lan like super pacs. you know that sheldon aidleson pent $100 million of his own money last year on negative ads? youve got to really dislike me to spend that kind of money. i mean thats oprah money. you could buy an island and call it nobama, for that kind of money. sheldon would have been better off offering me $100 million to drop out of the race.

People that know my body best, the gentlemen of the republican party. >> immigrant rights are not civil rights? >> no, i think civil rights are for blacks. >> do you feel like you have been utilized enough? >> i do. absolutely. >> youre going to have to answer some questions. >> when is the election? >> who is the president right now? >> can women vote? >> really gives you a sense of what it must have been like to grow up in mitt romneys house. >> i dont know how it is that sheldon aidleson got ...

These men are not really doing mitt romney much in the way of favors, are they? >> depends on who their audience is. this is going to be a base election. meaning mitt romney has to excite his base to ensure they come out. >> hes been exciting his base for six years. how much longer does he have to go on and try to do this? >> hes got to do it until the voting -- until the polls are closed across the country. and so -- but also remember donald trump and sheldon aidleson are not exactly for mitt r...

i want to bring in mark preston to talk about with what all of this means. i guess in a way mark, we knew that things were partisan. thats not surprising. but if you look at how pew researchers measure this, 48 different ways of measuring how we feel about politics over the years, and they find that were more divided than ever. almost double over the past 25 years. why? >> you know suzanne, talk about a comprehensive study that pew has done now, you know, theres a lot of reasons. and w...

Should be spending their own money and that campaigns should be controlled by candidates. all of that is good. the undisclosed bit, though, dont you think thats kind of corrupting for democracy? >> well, listen, i mean corrupting for democracy, we just had a trial in, you know, north carolina about exactly that with john edwards where we saw, okay, you dont have to worry about just the money thats actually being reported and going into the campaign, now theres this whole other million or so, you...

Unfusion coming to his super pac from casino magnet sheldon aidleson. >> heather: thank you very much. >> gregg: president obama using his weekly address to push for manufacturing here at home, adding that the road to economic recovery begins inside americas factories. >> we need to strengthen american manufacturing. we need to invest in american made energy and new skills for american workers. and above all, we need to renew the value that has always made this country great. hard work, fair pla...