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Out. my understanding is what we're looking closely at is some of the super pacs. which have no limits on contributions are going to hold back until their campaigns are going to release their figure. then super pacs will come in and put out their number. so you have a sort of back-to-back showing to have a full impact of what candidate "x" and "y" are going to have on hand. >> all the money week. i'll close with this. the koch brothers are famous now in politics for their deep pocketed support of republican candidates and conservative causes. and the candidates just watch them so they're eeger...

Much bigger victory in the states that would basically guarantee they would control congress for a decade. that was a genius moment of recognizing the political leverage there. then there was transforming that idea in to an actual plan to do it. so there's this little group that very few people have heard of, the republican state leadership committee and they go to work with this red map idea and they raise money nationally from deep pocketed but fairly typical republican donors. they raise a little over $30 million for the quiet project. instead of applying the money to congressional races an...

Gun owner. but here's the thing. about 70 million americans own guns. that makes around 65 million who aren't card-carrying members of the nra. so the nra doesn't really get its power from its membership dues. it gets its power from the deep-pocketed corporations that have contributed nearly $52 million to the organization in the last eight years alone. the nra spent that money pretty well. they've ushered in expansive conceal and carry laws, censored word about gun crime, tied up federal regulation, and effectively blocked the renewal of the 1994 ban on assault weapons with high capacity maga...

From 1998 to 2007, exxonmobil gave millions of dollars to organizations that cast doubt on the scientific validity of climate change. >> it's obviously why they want climate change not to be true. as long as climate change is not true, then we can keep selling coal, natural gas, and oil. so remove the cause and your business is preserved. >> in 2008, exxonmobil announced they would discontinue contributions to groups that could, quote, divert attention in the important discussions on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner. in ...

Backers of the climate denial movement was exxonmobil. its annual reports show that from 1998 to 2007, exxonmobil gave millions of dollars to organizations that cast doubt on the scientific validity of climate change. >> it's obviously why they want climate change not to be true. as long as climate change is not true, then we can keep selling coal, natural gas, and oil. so remove the cause and your business is preserved. >> in 2008, exxonmobil announced they would discontinue contributions to groups that could, quote, divert attention in the important discussions on how the world will secure t...