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the cover story "fine print." that contingency we'd like to avoid. this is a problem. it's self-evident why they do it. it's working. they are making a lot of money. you say we can beat it. help us. >> there are some ways to beat it, but we are like david and goliath. i'll start with the bad news. the good news is there are groups that are trying to help. there's an online data base of every contract. they are trying to push the translation button. they are using computers to do it because it's publically billions of pages. make it to a ninth grade level. >> i could locate the user agreement and whatever it is. >> it's called transparency labs. >> is that a website?
constitution. let's look at the republican primary where private corporations coined as super pacs are having a bigger impact than the candidate's campaigns themselves. or the obama campaign saying they need a bigger pushback to fight the mud slingers. while it's off to an amazing start, i don't think the grass roots effort to pass a constitutional amendment will be enough by itself. i'm a street fighter who thinks results. when you're up against these and is look bied against every reform effort ever, it's time to fight fire with fire. here's a modest proposal to get money out with gusto. let's create our own super pac in support of our constitutional amendment to get money out it's sole purpose will be to carpet bomb with negative ads
the rules being what they are, the campaign has made clear they cannot disarm in a circumstance like this. >> you could unilaterally pass transparency legislation right now. couldn't you? can anybody say get money out? the mega panel joins us. karen finney, susan del percio and jimmy williams. we know the game is being played through the mechanism. we can pile it on all we want. the real problem is the failure of the president or any of the lead candidates to actually dot right thing, which is immediately pass super pac transparency legislation right now in our congress. >> that's absolutely true. here's the other political fact.
>> it's a website. they are just coming online yno. >> the interesting thing is we pay good money out of our taxes to our politicians to represent our interests in this country to do things like making sure that business doesn't -- business creates value for customers. they are going to do that. this clearly is not creating value for customers, but it's making somebody money. where is the federal and state government when it comes to regulating and/or creating more transparency for fine print? >> there's been a lot of progress on the regulation front, but what the companies do, they turn it around and say the government made us do it that's why social security so long. dodd-frank is going to add hundreds and hundreds of disclosure items on to any financial document that you have to deal with. >> so basically, you walk in and you're the government.
it is tuesday, which means a little auction 2012 action in america. it is auction season. they are the caucuses of colorado and the ones of minnesota. a primary they are selling off in missouri this season. the interesting thing. only colorado and minnesota award any delegates. that doesn't even happen tonight. it's more auctioning off a point of view that could lead to delegates. in the the meantime, from one race to the bottom to another. not even a full day after telling matt lauer he's worried about the influence of the secret money in the super pacs, the president in his campaign had a reversal urging supporters to donate to the pac supporting him. their reasoning not fair for the republicans to do it. you can't blame them. >> this decision was made. i point you to the campaign statements about the fact that
legal recourse beyond the absurdity of apple or costa cruise or whoever it is. >> because judges will have a certain level of just common sense about this. they will look at that and say that makes no sense. people died here. >> amazing that anybody would have the audacity to hide behind the fine print with something like that cruise line. i did not know that. congrats on the reporting. thank you for the good work. defending america. is that on your card? attack of the fine print. thank you for your defense. still ahead, fighting fire with fire. david goodfriend's solution to get money out of politics right after this. sweet, nutty crunchy nut.
lehman. fine. make my day. >> that's called hot spotting white-collar crime. thank you. >> it's what makes possible honest business. >> you have to have the regulatory cops on the beat. and they took the cops off the beat. >> after the break, former new york city police commissioner, he knows the value of preventing people from stealing money. the ultimate guide to solve problems using the hot spotting techniques he made famous. i'm here to unleash my inner cowboy. instead i got heartburn. hold up partner. prilosec can take days to work. try alka-seltzer. it kills heartburn fast. yeehaw! time out. sweet. [ female announcer ] with charmin ultra soft, you can get that cushiony feeling while still using less.
say, which is as an american citizen who appreciates the fact that my uterus is not a preexisting condition and they are fighting against racial profiling and getting us out of iraq, i want him reelected. they realize most voters get this is what the rules are. those are my personal priorities. a if that's what we have to do to get him reelected. he's been more, i think, publically transparent and more publically opposed to and taking steps against citizens united than i think the others have. >> so the only thing i would say in response to that rationalization of it is that while all those things, i wouldn't contest any of those things, he's also super vising the largest crime wave in the history of the world as our financial institutions run around sucking money out of it. whoever the president is, if he doesn't intervene, we'll never