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Gambling, in this particular case, where one person gets to determine who's going to be the best-funded candidate for president? do we really want to have an adelson primary? >> but that is how this is shaping up, for sure. you see who's going there, chris christie, fresh off this report on the bridgegate scandal. i want to play what he said to abc about his style and how it plays in new jersey and in iowa. >> i think they love me in iowa, too, diane. i've been there a lot. i think they love me there, too. >> sounds like a confident candidate, to me, andy. but i wonder if, a, if bridgegate mig...

Willing to forego ideological purity for a winner. joining me, andy kroll and jonathan alter, who is author of "the center holds: obama and his enemies." good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> we're talking the tenth richest man in the world. he's willing to spend his money, jonathan. could he be the most influential person in the election, at least on the republican side? >> absolutely, along with the koch brothers. what's happened is we've gotten so used to this. these guys spend all this money is about three years old, that we forget how alien it is to democratic traditions. sheld...

Katsinburg doesn't have adelson dollars. >> no, not himself. the democrats do like to go courting big donors, but there's a very important distinction to keep in mind. the problem is not money in politics, it's being money in politics, so in the last cycle, barack obama raised a billion dollars, but the average donation was well under $100. the republicans, mitt romney, raised about $750 million, their average donation was well over $1,000. so the question is, what kind of democracy do we want to have, one based on small donors or large donors? and so it's not money itself. it's large donors t...

shiny button just like this one and you knew if you pushed it, you could lift 900,000 people out of poverty just like that. you'd push it, right? but hold on, there's a catch. what if by pressing that button, you might also be eliminating 500,000 jobs or as many as a million or none? and there's really no way of knowing until you push. in fact, you might not know until long after you push or you might not ever know. would you do it then? that's the question we have to ask when we debate whether to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, as a bill introduced by congressional...

Noujsment -- announcement that paul ryan says that the next immigration vote may not be until october, and some say he is speaking his mind, so where does this immigration reform sta stand? >> i think it is not too big of a surprise that the house is not going the vote on immigration bills until october. july is almost all but gone for congress, a nd they are out in august, and in september, we are going to have to deal with these budget issues that we talked about earlier. it does push the deadline further back, and i think that it is really going to be up to both the supporters of immigratio...