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Campaign come down? >> reporter: well, i think it depends on whether he has to change any part or evolve his explanation again. as we noted and you noted with chris -- >> the problem is, will they stick by him if something else comes out? it's always the something nellis these scandals, we all know, that ends up taking a candidate apart. >> charlie, they're claiming, mark block is claiming at least that they had their best fund-raising day yesterday because the supporters were rallying around him when he was under attack. >> yes. we heard him at an event for the national journal this morning s...

Campaign finance story you are talking about out of wisconsin is really interesting. what it boils down to is a group called prosperity usa which was founded by mark block, the famous smoker from the ad, it is a nonprofit organization. and under federal law and election dlau law, nonprofits are not allowed, they are forbidden from giving money to capitol hill campaigns and what ended up happening is prosperity usa spent almost $40,000 on charter, plane charter ipads and other expenses for the friends of herman cain. and that money was disclosed by prosperity usa by not by cain or his campaign....

What it boils down to is a group called prosperity usa which was founded by mark block, the famous smoker from the ad, it is a nonprofit organization. and under federal law and election law, nonprofits are not allowed, they are forbidden from giving money to capitol hill campaigns and what ended up happening is prosperity usa spent almost $40,000 on charter, airplane charter, ipads and other expenses for the friends of herman cain. and that money was disclosed by prosperity usa by not by cain or his campaign. >> there could be some koch brothers funding in the prosperity operation.

I'm joined now by msnbc's senior political analyst and "time" magazine editor at large mark halper halperin. mark, you can run but you can't hide. >> well, eric cantor's getting a taste from the left of what a lot of democrats got during the rise of the tea party movement. as he goes to these events, he's a believer in free speech, he wants to make a play on college campuses, but at this point in our history, if you're a conservative republican and you go to a college campus, you can be expected to get some people to come in and protest, sometimes civilly and in a non disruptive way. in this c...

Like he did yesterday, i think you're going to see much more criticism on the process side of it, which he is, i think, entirely deserving of receiving, and that is just as karl said, the contrary statements, evolving story, the unpreparedness. remember, this is a guy who's selling himself as a business executive and that was his appeal as an outsider, as a can-do guy, a problem-solver. this is a pretty big problem and he hasn't solved it. >> jemal simmons, as an operative, you've been on your share of bad days like this. you watch this evolving story. is this a case -- i'm not asking you to r...