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>> there's a big push in the democratic party around three issues -- the idea that you should go to college and pay no tuition and be debt-free. so debt-free college increase in social security benefits and making the minimum wage $12 or higher. i suspect that bernie sanders will push those three issues in debates and other candidate forums. so his role will be to some extent to try to push hillary clinton and make sure she at least thinks about these ideas and alex has reported she's already talking about the debt-free college idea. so i think his role will be seeing if he can get hillary to ...

Candidate forums and i don't think that all of them think that there. looking at candidates and look at them for what they're saying messaging, in the way they want to move forward. >> do you think that's going to be healthier? if you have a more diversion council in or will it be dependent on what that diversity brings in terms of what the candidates and ultimate victors stand for and represent on the council?

Television advertising, candidate forums, and gets out the vote initiatives. republicans criticized the plan saying it was an attack on americans' rights. during the 2012 election cycle tax exempt groups spent more than $300 million of the so-called dark money in federal electrics in 2006. in comparison, that number was $5.2 million. meanwhile, new polling suggests control from congress may be up for grabs. according to cnn, opinion research poll, americans now say they are sense aing split between the two political parties. republicans hold a slight lead within the poll's margin of error. i...

A price. >> there's a disconnect in washington, some republicans who had a previous shutdown and got blamed for it. i know we met with a congressional candidate who is running in a competitive republican primary. defund was a big message point. i'm sure it's a big applause line. back when they did these candidate forums. there is a potential this will be a deciding issue in republican primaries where there's little distinction between the candidates. defund or not -- they don't care. shutdown, there are people who don't remember the previous shutdown and they think they can thread the needle a...

Under the law as passed by congress and court rulings since 1913 to investigate anyone who wants this tax exempt status to make sure they aren't partisan, they aren't primarily political and they are not to benefit an individual. well, they suddenly get flooded with a doubling of requests and many of them come from groups who have now put out the letters they were sent asking for more information and those letters revealed that they said, well, we want to influence legislation. we are holding candidate forums. those are things that require the irs to investigate. so the mistake was not to inve...