Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120818:13:55:00
Poverty's role in this campaign. >> we know when money is speech, millionaires and billionaires get mega phones and the middle class gets muted. we know that because we crunched the numbers from the fec data that came out. and the adelsons have given a $36.3 million to super pacs. that's a rounded error for them, 0.3% of their net worth. and it would take $321,000 middle class families giving the equivalent amount of net worth to equal the same political voice the two people have. >> 321,000, that's a jaw-dropping statistic. >> i learned two things. my book "dead wrong" is the number one amazo...