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Well. this is going to be a tough race. >> is there money in that race the same as there was in pennsylvania? >> that's the question. i'm watching whether emily's list decides to get involved, a pro choice woman democratic. if there's a belief from some of the independent expenditure groups that she has the chance to grab that mantle and run with it and win in a red district which trump won by 20 points just like that conor lamb district as well, whether she'll get that support and that kind of money that's going to make all the difference to whether or not she has the chance. supposedly her o...

>> wow! and yet next year, at least ten republican house incumbents next year are likely to face women challengers, which might have something to do with this. politico reported this week that the national republican congressional committee is trying to head off any todd akin legitimate rape-style comments in next year's midterm elections by tutoring members on how not to run against women. susan, i mean, all of us were just squirming like, oh, right! they said that! and so you and i were talking in the break, of course you would tutor a candidate about how to run in any election, but part of ...

Supreme court and people who lived within the system and unlimited contributions are an inherently corrupt system they said in the 1970s. what caused the problem is not mccain feingold, but the citizens united decision which opened the door to unlimited contributions being spent in unlimited expenditures by outside groups. let's look at 2012. the parties and candidates spent some $5 billion. that's 80% of the expenditures that were made. the parties spent some $2 billion, not fact exactly that the parties are starving for money. on former speaker's comment, he is pointing to the problems in th...

Me that if they could match reagan's total of 40% of the jewish vote as reagan got in 1980 they would consider that to be a real success. the other factor, though, is that this is a campaign season where we're seeing more unregulated money than any election since watergate. so in that sense, you have a number of these independent expenditure groups, some bankrolled by the billionaire casino executive where you're seeing a lot of this independent money trying to make the case that barack obama is not a very good president for israel. >> i'm looking at the article right now and you say privately...

People do. >> we believe our democracy belongs to the people not to big money and not to big corporations. thanks to citizens united, corporations may now spend their profits without limit to influence election. they can give unlimited funds to super pacs, and other independent expenditure groups. >> let's -- post citizens united analysis by the "the washington post" showing the unions outspent corporations by a ratio of three to one during one recent election period. >> it's conceivable that what the union movement does on behalf of the democratic party would approach somewhere between a half...