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Probably one in four dollars spent by outside groups are going to be from, who knows. anonymous money. i think it's interesting. i don't think people are talking about it near as much as the super pac. >> they have all the headlines. >> the dark money, the groups that are counted as 501 c 4s. justice kennedy made a point about the importance of disclosure. we are now seeing that violated to the nth degree. >> there are hundreds of hilarious lines by kennedy, but the most hilarious is, look, we always have disclosure. everyone will know who is giving money. it will act. >> they can figure it ou...

Spend it on tv adds. and here's the challenge that the obama campaign knew they were confronting over the past year. it had to be all the outside republican money. the super pacs, 501 c 4s, flooding the airways and the haul of over $181 million, by the obama campaign and the dnc, it gives them the potential to almost go one-to-one parity against the romney campaign and all the republican outside groups. so this is all just about being able to be even on the tv ad wars with 30 days left in the presidential campaign. one thing worth noting on the billion dollar number, that's when you add the ob...

Law and potentially some others. we have seen alec begin to back away from sort of this. >> the american legislative exchange counsel, 40 corporations have left. we at common cause have filed the whistle flower complaint. they claim they are a charity, 501-c 3, not the c-4s that don't have to disclose their donors. alec says we are an educational charity. we don't spend a dollar on lobbying. they have this bill that's being pushed out across the country stopping eligible people to voting. >> that's why it is important to report like yours which exposes this. these movements are very careful to...

Big corporations looking to influence campaigns. instead of donating to super pacs, they are instead pumping millions of dollars into tax exempt organizations that are immune to disclosure requirements. these organizations are set up as 501 c 4s. that's the federal designation for welfare groups. they outspent pacs by 1 1/2 times. i know we talk a lot about the effects of citizens united, but actually this particular phenomenon was happening well before that ruling came down. i know the sort of democrat argument is to repeal citizens united and this will save the world, but what would you do a...

Of them. i'm hoping if the campaign doesn't hit back hard as it ramps back up that there are some superpacs and messaging c-4s that message back on what is from one end insensitive to racist undertones we've heard through an entire gop primary season. and if that doesn't happen, i think there's a missed opportunity because there are a lot of americans, not just those that are black or disenfranchised that don't want to hear somebody running for president using that kind of racist language to represent any citizen of the united states. >> absolutely. and the fact that most people on food stamps...