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For the third quarter. hillary clinton raised nearly $29 million. bernie sanders not far behind with $26 million. sanders got a lot of his money from much lower contribution levels. that is significant. broader fund-raising base there. for the republicans, ben carson raised nearly $21 million. outpacing everyone. jeb bush had $13.4 million. ted cruz just over $12 million. this is money raised by the campaigns only. doesn't include super pacs. one interesting note here, donald trump raised about $4 million, even though he doesn't go out of his way to ask for much money. i think on his website, ...

Information. viless than a minute left. i want to give folks, what tax benefits and deductions remain that folks should consider to just try to get back whatever they're having to pay in? >> okay. you know, the mortgage deduction is still in place. for most people, we are talking about the people who are not in the higher income brackets. okay? so the mortgage deduction does remain. charitable contributions, which most people may not be able to make in lower-income levels right now. so as far as the tax deductions are concerned, some of the things that might benefit people if you can, if you c...

Right now in maryland democratic governor martin o'malley taking a lot of heat for wanting state workers to kick in more for their pensions. shannon bream is live in washington with more on this. what exactly is the governor proposing here? >> reporter: let's take a look under his proposal employees who stay at the current contribution levels will have lower pension benefits if the future or they could choose to increase their contribution from 5 to 7% and they will maintain the future benefits. vesting would take ten years instead of 5. early retirement would be bumped up from 55 to 60. thous...