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Big money backers to go far? and in mercer it seems he has at least one really strong person. >> there are three pots of money now in campaign politics. small donors medium big donors. people who write these campaign checks and billionaires. could he get the bread and butter group. if he has the grassroots fund-raising and a couple billionaires, he may not need -- >> the middle class of donors is getting squeezed like the middle class everywhere. >> that changes the game substantially. you only have a few of these guys. >> let's talk about norman braman. my support will be substantive, he's a ...

Is that the case? take a listen. >> the combined trends of increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the american dream, our way of life, and what we stand for around the globe. studies show we actually tend to trust each other less when there is greater inequality. greater inequality is associated with less mobility between generations. rise not rising inequality is bd for our democracy. ordinary folks can't write massive campaign checks or hire high priced lobbyists to write laws to tilt the playing field in their favor. so people get the bad taste that the sy...

In equaliequality and decreasin mobility pose a fundamental threat to the american dream, our way of life and what we stand for around the globe. studies show we actually tend to trust each other less when there is greater inequality. it's associated with less mobility between generations. rising inequality and bad mobility are bad for the democracy. ordinary folks can't write massive campaign checks or hire lawyers to secure policies that tilt the playing field in their favor at everyone else's expense. so people get the bad taste that the system is rigged. >> all right. let's distract the am...

Not just because we tend to trust our institutions less but studies show we actually tend to trust each other less when there's greater inequality. and greater inequality is associated with less mobility between generations. that means it's not just temporary. the effects last. it creates a vicious cycle. for example, by the time she turns 3 years old, a child born into a low income home hears 30 million fewer words than a child from a well-off family. which means by the time she starts school, she's already behind, and that deficit can compound itself over time. and finally, rising inequality...

Groups, they've actually made the koch brothers who had this group americans for prosperity and others higher profile than sheldon adelson. >> right. >> right now. but, you know, it is something where people want in this era, where the names can be transparent, people want folks to know who's giving money, who's writing big campaign checks, things like that. and so it is something that will come on. i will say on the george soros he so far from a lot of the numbers i've seen has pretty much stayed out of the presidential cycle so far and eight out of the nine biggest super pac donors right now...