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President and the congresswoman running for u.s. senate. adelson will be involved. he wants mitt romney to be elected. he is not thrilled with mitt romney. he wants obama to be unelected. he is dedicated to defeat shelly berkley. >> thank you, jon. speaking of money, charles and david koch are spending a reported $400 million during the 2012 elections to take down president obama and democrats. directly ahead? the group fighting back against the kochs. r meresuane aou

My man out in vegas pointed ou paul ryan dan did pronounce nev correctly. adelson is moving money everywhere. >> i was talking to one of his associates, close associates just yesterday, he's already spent about $42 million to try to defeat president obama, reports of up to 100 million, i have asked how much is he prepared to spend? the answer, whatever it takes. >> he's spreading it around. he had the one for newt. and obviously he put eight figures into there. but he's also doing house candidates. where else? >> $10 million he and his wife donated to the romney superpac. the coke brothers, am...

Is likely to -- >> a report this week that talked about sheldon adel son's interest in macow. >> there's two federal investigations of the sands, which is adelson's corporation. it's been publicly reported by the sands. there's another one related to money laundering, not against adelson personally, but the casino which he runs looked the other way when one of the big associates of the mexican drug cartels was spending over $100 million as a whale at the casino. and another set of questio that ought to be asked is the romney justice department going to aggressively pursue these investigations?...

It is a very unlevel playing field but a piece of the republican strategy. the supreme court opened the flood gates to that kind of money. it is going to dramatically alter the way this race turns out. will it determine it? nobody knows. it is going to give the republicans a gigantic advantage. paul ryan really is a powerful fund-raiser for those very large donors who want to see budgets like the one that paul ryan's put forward. >> i might note just a poychb information, patricia, that paul ryan is attending his first fund-raiser such being vice president at the venetian hotel in vegas where ...

What is happening here? this is the first nfl team to pony up some cash. >> there has been a long relationship between sports owners and politicians, but this obviously is the first time that anybody has stepped out and used these new superpac tools. but for decades, there's been this sort of cozy relationship between -- >> a lot of these rich people are accused of wanting something in return, whether it's adelson, that if you put out that kind of cash, you want something in return. what could the arizona cardinals want, what sort of influence could they be, i don't want to say buying, but wha...