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good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. and "outfront" tonight, exposed super pacs drop the fig leaf. after months of being in the dark about whose bankrolling the candidates, we have answers. now, you know that the super pacs are groups that can raise unlimited money and you know they're major players this election season. the federal election commission says this election might cost $11 billion. twice as much as 2008. and that jump thanks in no small part to super pacs. there are more than 300 of them already. so, today, we poored through hundreds of pages of super pac documents,...

dark about whose bankrolling the candidates, we have answers. now, you know that the super pacs are groups that can raise unlimited money and you know they're major players this election season. the federal election commission says this election might cost $11 billion. twice as much as 2008. and that jump thanks in no small part to super pacs. there are more than 300 of them already. so, today, we poored through hundreds of pages of super pac documents, really only for a few of the super pacs. the pro romney super pac called restore our future raised nearly $30 million last year. now...

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You can make into a campaign issue or is it so many sort of steps removed from these sort of immediate kitchen table issues that it's not really going to register one way or the other as you come down the stretch in november? >> i think it's part of explaining washington is too often driven by the people that can write seven figure checks. with campaign finance it wasn't perfect before but at least those checks were capped out at $2,400. we're talking about being able where i come from if you have something you believe in you put your name on it and stand by it. all disclose is saying is, hey,...

Issue or is it so many sort of steps removed from these sort of immediate kitchen table issues that it's not really going to register one way or the other as you come down the stretch in november? >> i think it's part of explaining washington is too often driven by the people that can write seven figure checks. with campaign finance it wasn't perfect before but at least those checks were capped out at $2400. we're talking about being able to blindly spend money. where i come from if you have something you believe in you put your name on it and stand by it. all disclose is saying is, hey, you g...