you said every candidate should agree not to sign a tv deal or a book deal for two years after they re running. tell me about that idea. well there s no way that s enforceable, but you have these issues that, you know some people are in this race a little bit more legitimately than others but i just completely reject the idea that this is a problem to be solved. this is a tremendous journalistic opportunity. i mean you have serious ideological disputes going on on the republican side of things. different ideas about education policy common core, foreign policy interventionism, surveillance. and as journalists we complain about the influence of hundred on politics and complain about barely distinguishable candidates who don t have interesting policy ideas and what we have are interesting debates that affect the entire country and even candidates who seem maybe too us a little less legitimate might have really good ideas on a particular policy issue. it s not like the primary is being
very big dollars. sheldon adelson, casino magnate, gave $10 million to the koch brothers, americans for prosperity. you guys reported it first. obviously, americans for prosperity is already spending lots of money and spending money on health care, i know on ads. now, you followed the koch brothers and sheldon adelson very closely. is this the beginning of the spigot being turned on? it could be. what s interesting, these are two sort of poles of the big money on the conservative movement. on the one hand, you have adelson who is a neocon, his big issue is the defense of israel. on the other hand, you have the koch brothers who sort of have a more libertarian based conservetism that eschews foreign policy interventionism, they opposed the iraq war. the fact you have them coming together really shows a coalescing of the big money on