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Democratic platform has a point to overturn citizens united. there's a fear they cannot win the arm's race. >> they joined it, a. b, my problem is less that democrats as a party are going to be imperilled but the things i stand for. making sure poor people have access to amazing bountiful wealth and flourishing that is american society. >> that is not on the minds of shelly. >> the point is, that gets written out. you can have a situation where you receive partisan e quill rib yum but they are still playing the game within a certain sector of the electorate, the top 1% they have to get money f...

Come out of the election and take a measure of all the work, getting the numbers of the irs, getting more information about what we don't know from the secret, dark money operations and try to find ways to reporm the system. >> let me make one distinction that is important. one thing that is surprising about citizens united, it doesn't seem to have tipped the scales. democrats are still -- here is outside money for the top ten -- >> three to one, isn't it? >> yes. they looked like they were going to keep the senate, now they are going keep it in spite of the money. counter factually they have ...

A blind trust. that blind trust, i never fail to point out which is run by his family attorney which does not meet the threshold for actual blind trusts where they're stipulated by law. bob herbert. >> we found out that the congressional research service, a highly respected operation has drawn a report that it did that shows that there was no correlation between top tax rates and economic growth. why did they withdraw it? because of pressure from senate republicans. that's the republican party, get rid of -- lower top tax rates and jobs will be created. this report said no. but now that report...

>> the republicans obstructed? >> there hasn't been an attempt for new appointments. five of the six commissioners terms are expired. they are continuing to serve. you have three republicans that have a certain viewpoint led by one commissioner who believes there should not be regulations. >> this is the guy that does campaign finance. >> doesn't believe there should be restrictions. >> can i slightly defend josh a little bit? >> slightly. >> in the essential i think the surprise about citizens united is how little effect this money has had on the result. there's a certain point where you reac...

Allow the initiative process. >> and the criticism that has been lobbied against the proposition 29 is that it's basically a bad piece of legislation and creates more bureaucracy and effectively california which is facing severe budget shortfalls an none of the money would go to solving the budget crisis, but funding cancer research, and proponents say that cancer research is a worthy thing to be funded. an excerpt from the london ti.a prop 29 makes sense, but it is not going to make sense for the state to get into the medical research business tune in to the when california can't afford to re...