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Misspoke or does in fact stick by what he said in the debate. it was striking that that exchange between the two candidates ended with mr. romney insisting that we will -- everybody will look this up. we will go to the record on this. >> i thought the biggest key in that answer was the president talked about private equity money. it wasn't available. it wasn't there. there were no taker. no one from wall street, no one -- no adelsons, and no bain. no one was willing to stand up and say, you know what, we believe in the american workers and we're going to manufacture vehicles in this country. t...

He's walking back that statement or whether or not mitt romney misspoke or does in fact stick by what he said in the debate. it was striking that that exchange between the two candidates ended with mr. romney insisting that we will -- everybody will look this up. we will go to the record on this. >> i thought the biggest key in that answer was the president talked about private equity money. it wasn't available. it wasn't there. there were no taker. no one from wall street, no one -- no adelsons, and no bain. no one was willing to stand up and say, you know what, we believe in the american wor...

Million raised. is that a sign that the democrats have finally overcome their ambivalence about super pacs? >> nothing like fear to focus the mind. and i think that as democrats have seen this is a close race, i mean the thing that's been mostly motivational i think for a lot of democrats is that i think everybody agrees that mitt romney had a convention that was not up to the same standards as the democratic convention. stumbled through the last couple days and even still this race is basically tied, the president ahead a little tiny bit. this is going to go close to the election day. knowing...

Poverty's role in this campaign. >> we know when money is speech, millionaires and billionaires get mega phones and the middle class gets muted. we know that because we crunched the numbers from the fec data that came out. and the adelsons have given a $36.3 million to super pacs. that's a rounded error for them, 0.3% of their net worth. and it would take $321,000 middle class families giving the equivalent amount of net worth to equal the same political voice the two people have. >> 321,000, that's a jaw-dropping statistic. >> i learned two things. my book "dead wrong" is the number one amazo...

The money they've donated? >> a donor might have a lot of reasons for giving money. it's hard to look into their heart and predict what the reason is. but we know that he's said, one, the reason he put a lot of money into the newt gingrich super pac was to help his old friend, newt. he wanted to see this campaign go on for a while, back when there was a primary campaign. he's also a huge hawk on israel. and it's clear he wants somebody in the white house who shares his views on israel. and finally he's battled heavily with trade unions in his hometown of las vegas. it's soured him on labor. th...