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Votes, they are selling decisions. >> yes. i think the model, the way we always think of the influence market in d.c., is that its like bribery. that you have these outside interests that are in effect bribing our politicians. and that certainly can take place. i think the bigger problem is more akin to extortion. where the politicians identify wealthy companies or industries and basically mark them for extortion. they introduce pieces of legislation or they threat uncertain things that put thos...

The politicians identify with companies or industries, and they basically mark them for extortion. they introduce pieces of legislation or they threaten certain things that put those entities in a position to where they have to play ball. >> reporter: one person who knows all about this fully legal form of extortion is the former president of shell oil usa, john hofmeister. >> i realize that there is a price to participate in the political process. what i never know was what a huge price it was ...

That no one will get a perfect bracket. i dont think we need to worry too much about mr. buffett. >> one of the fun things about this whole thing is that you have made a you tube video explaining these odds. it went viral yesterday. youve been, im sure, getting hit up by everybody. so do you have any mathematical tips to increase our chances? >> well, actually, its kind of a tangential tip. i would say have fun with it. the odds are so slim, have fun with it. if youre in a bracket, you just want...

Verizon has no choice and i bet at&t has been hit up and every single phone company in america has about hit up. >> neil: what if companies -- you heard google -- theyre just asked for this information, and without anything, they just go ahead and give it. stand on. on. they can go to court and fight it. >> neil: everyone is afraid. >> not that theyre afraid. its that the law has been twisted into a pretzel and its difficult stop these things? >> neil: what is happening? what is going on? >> i t...

Bill: they have taken a punch, havent they, janice? >> they have. were still talking about extreme heat and tropics this weekend. florida could get hit up to a foot of rain. bill: triple digit the here in new york. digging that. see you, janice. bit of context. this was the heaviest two-day rainfall in duluth, minnesota, in 150 years. 50 miles of pavement either damaged or destroyed. if you poured that much water in an area one quarter of the size of duluth, it would equal about 2.7 billion gall...

Top strategist, he qukwiped the other day that mitt romney must watch "mad men" and think its the evening news. >> oh, boy. >> another story popping up this morning, the debt for the newt gingrich campaign has tripled since the last time they reported it. part of the reason he went so far into debt, we discovered in talking to people who had worked for him, talking to his vendors, he wanted to keep up the illusion of a big time campaign, so he was spending big on charters, security detail. calli...

Convoy have a hard time making it all the way out here. without either getting hit up or stuck. here it comes. >> we have four to five millimeter rockets shot at us by taliban that missed spot. struck the area around here. resulting in afghan civilian casualties. we are going out to a town, one of the three local towns. pretty good relationship with the elders. with the people. >> we brought him in and treating the wounds. >> we go out and talk to people. food, hand crank radios. >> one day, the...

Right on the border. convoy have a hard time making it all the way out here. without either getting hit up or stuck. here it comes. >> we have four to five millimeter rockets shot at us by taliban that missed spot. struck the area around here. resulting in afghan civilian casualties. we are going out to a town, one of the three local towns. pretty good relationship with the elders. with the people. >> we brought him in and treating the wounds. >> we go out and talk to people. food, hand crank ra...

Taken a full slate on this. people try to take different cuts at it, but theyve always kind of stopped short of pulling the full monty here, and thats what i think is both bold and in many ways brilliant about it. because, really, that is the only way. and what would surprise a lot of people is how many people would actually agree with this approach. candidates hate raising the money, the donors hate being hit up for the money, the system is awash with the money. and i can tell you as the greedy...

The republican party adopted newt gingrichs ideas they would be in a better position in 2010? >> basically saying if it had any ideas theyd be in a better position in 2010. look, i think the presidents hit up on the republican weakness. the fact that they have now publicly said repetedly that they want to go back to george w. bushs policies, and the fact theyve put forward no ideas whatsoever in the congress in the last year and a half, and stopped all obamas ideas means that this is the right l...