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A democrat. to have somebody come in and basically just -- do we even know if this person had a particular knowledge of john separate? why did they pick him? >> when i asked him that, he didn't really know. his idea was look, if you take out the budget committee chairman, you going to undermine the entire fiscal policy of the entire democratic policy, especially the president, president obama. he thought it came down simply to that. it was obviously a big trophy in 2010. >> the funny thing is, i'd say funny in the worst way. spratt made sure there was a budget every year in the house. he came ...

Organization, we're not going to be involved in electoral politics. don't worry. they get that, that designation from the irs. therefore, they don't have to divulge the names of their donors. they quickly get one $4 million donation from one ammon muss donor and immediately go on the air against 11 democrats with just brutal ads. their real focus was john spratt, one of only three committee chairmen taken out in 2010. you know, they accumulate all of these different complaints to the sec, the irs, saying these guys are just breaking the law, breaking the law and then what happens? 2011, they j...

Says it's going to be a $25 million organization. it's going to have the backing of all these different industries, but they go to the irs and they say we want to be a non profit social welfare organization, we're not going to be involved in electoral politics. don't worry. they get that, that designation from the irs. therefore, they don't have to i divulge the names of their donors. they get one donation from one anonymous donor and immediately go on the air against 11 democrats with just brutal ads. their real focus was john spratt, one of only three committee chairman taken out in 2010. yo...

>> and they're also trying to confuse connie mac with his father. thank you very much. senator nelson. a moderate democrat. turning now to jonathan, thank you for telling us about how this works, where people go in almost like a hit squad. they go into a state like south carolina, go after a guy like john spratt. again, clean as a whistle. budget chair. budget hawk. no liberal. and they kill the guy and you still don't know even know who put the $4 million check on the table. >> yeah, john spratt has no idea. this is a group called the commission for hope committee. hope growth and opportunity...

Business and there's nobody to go over. >> so there's nobody coming on the air saying my name is this, and i paid for this ad. they simply learned all these terrible things about a good guy like john spratt and i mean that. he fit that district pretty well for a democrat and then to have somebody come in, do we know if this person has a particular knowledge of john spratt? why did they pick him? >> when i asked him that, he didn't really know. his idea was look, if you take out the budget committee chairman, you going to undermine the entire fiscal policy of the entire policy, especially presi...