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We know who donald trump's donor is it's donald trump. donald trump thinks donald trump is the greatest person who walk the face of the earth. jeb bush wanted to raise larger amounts for his super pac. you've got a bunch of other folks on the stage with super pacs with at least one donor giving $1 million or more. these are folks who really owe someone a lot. when you're raising for your own presidential campaign there's a pretty sharp contribution limit. for the super pac, and these super pacs are independent, not -- they're not even independent in name only. carly fiorina has one named after...

Ruling. while the aggregate limits were still in place. that really didn't matter to him because he was giving his money to groups that support candidates. what the opponents of -- what the proponents of this decision, the supporters of the law say is now people can try to get around the individual contribution limit, by giving a whole bunch of money to other candidates and packs who will then funnel it to candidates. you're getting it around the individual campaign contribution limit. that was the essence of the argument in favor of keeping these laws. the supreme court said all those claims ...

Production. i give you money, you give me a favor. if it stands this way, you don't have a problem. so the problem that you are drowning out the sources. all the big money is going to come in and swamp the system. i would have hoped that the court took a step further and simply striked down contributions altogether. only one supreme court justice seemed to go that way. but every time looked at the this issue of the campaign spending, it has found it wanting. what's next, i don't know. it certainly won't be -- i don't think this court is prepared to strike down the individual contribution limit...

Among the cases that are argued and sort of maybe ready to be decided is for your audience, i think the most interesting one, would be this challenge to the aggregate contribution limit. this is a man who's challenging not the individual limit on how much you can give to an individual federal candidate, but there's a separate law that says once you get to a certain amount, adding up all the candidates you've given to, that's your limit. you can't give anymore. there's a challenge to that. there's another question about whether a state can ban affirmative action by constitutional amendment. we'...

Pac from big donors. that money can be spent on limited amounts. >> made clear that members of congress can raise money. hard dollar funds only. for super pacs. the super pacs have to spend money independent of that candidate. the contribution limit, $2,600 per election, relatively low. $5,000 per year can be given to the leadership pac. that means $30,000 over a six-year period. >> yet for that same cycle, you can only give $5,200 both primary and general for the two. what's that limit again? >> no limit at all, which is the best limit possible. >> at this point, you have the limited amount o...