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Why would he drop out? and even jeb bush who has been raising money hand over fist he has been raising the bulk of that money for not his campaign but his superpac. jeb bush and his superbapac on track to raise $100 million by the end of this month. say you're not doing that great in the polls but have tens of millions of maybe hundreds of millions of dollars, why would you drop out? the money is being raised in unexpected ways during this election. it's contributing to the way the entire republican field is shaping up and it's not just that perspective candidates are raising unprecedented amo...

To these new super pacs. that's the big development in 2016. >> the idea these are outside groups. if you look at it right now, jeb bush has not declared he's a candidate. so he has his outside group, which is the right to rise super pac. he can show up at the events and raise money until he declares. this weekend, sunday monday he's going to be in miami with some of the biggest donors for the right to rise super pac. they're going to give their donations, they're going to meet his campaign staff. but when he actually announces, they're going to have to sever ties. >> which gets into the issue...

Posing with famous people. likes to travel with planes owned by donors. used campaign and funds to pay for these is under scrutiny. >> do you want to answer questions? >> reporter: questions keep coming for aaron schock now facing allegations he broke house ethics rules by not disclosing he took a photographer with him on the trip to india last august as part of his work to support clean water initiatives. >> more people own a cell phone in this world and have access to a toilet. >> reporter: the dallas based photographer jonathan link traveled to take photos of schock and the global poverty p...

And we'll see a lot of push back. we see states moving toward disclosure and i think that will be interesting. but one thing i think the case exposes, we have unlimited donations, often secret, by outside groups, incredibly restricted limits with contributions and that is the heart of what the supreme court has to decide. >> the way the rules are now, if you're running for congress or the u.s. senate or, frankly, the presidency, you're at an unfair advantage because an outside group can control the campaign message more so than you can. that's weird. that's not fair. >> if you're a millionaire...

Rougher and tougher than a campaign might. >> the outside group, michael bloomberg wants to change the conversation in a campaign. he successfully did that in that one special election in illinois. he flooded it and basically made the race about guns, even though nobody in that campaign at the time really wanted to have that. that's one way to do it or do you go to the candidate. >> what happens is you're transferring power to these individuals, like a mike bloomberg or a david plouffe or karl rove who sets up one of these groups. you're transferring power from the candidate you vote for to so...