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Bridgegate, or will we hear more about it? >> david sampson is still hanging out there. we haven't seen the end of it. there will be more and more and more things that come out. but the killer for him is his fiscal record. the fact that our economy lags behind the rest of the nation. he really hasn't done a good job for the people of the state of new jersey, and that's going to be brought out by his republican opponents. >> in some way, jersey has been the kind of anti-texas. when perry ran, perry got to say, look at all the job growth and gdp growth. and there were lots of way to parse those ...

Triangulated in part, he could do it, because wall street and corporate america were giving so much money to the democrats. now, wall street and corporate america, big corporations, are giving almost all their money to republicans, and where are the democrats getting their money from? from environmentalists, from very, very wealthy individuals, who are in favor of gay rights, or the environment. a lot of women now are economically much more powerful, and women's groups like emily's list. labor is actually more powerful than it was, although labor continues to shrink, a lot of money is availabl...

Triangulated in part he could do it, because wall street and corporate america were giving so much money to the democrats. now, wall street and corporate america, big corporations, are giving almost all their money to republicans, and where are the democrats getting their money from? from environmentalists, from very, very wealthy individuals, who are in favor of gay rights or the environment. a lot of women now are economically much more powerful and women's groups like emily's list. labor is actually more powerful than it was, although labor continues to shrink, a lot of money is available f...

Maintenance, right, and the citizens united or post-citizens united world. hillary and bill could go out and shake the tree and raise more money than even anybody on the right. that makes her a very powerful force. >> she's a powerful force no matter what. but money isn't the question here. it's really two sides of the same coin. yes, she can raise a lot of money. yes, she's very wealthy. there's just no dispute about that at all. the question is, will voters pick her? eric cantor, you know, you can outspend somebody 20 to 1, you can outraise them 20 to 1 and still lose. >> but the cantor anal...

The only nonconservative groups that cracked the top ten were the public employees union, sciu, and the teachers union. that's it. unions are the only competition republicans have in electoral politics. post-citizens united, conservatives look at this and smell blood. i mean, compare this to '08. they have knocked the unions down to sixth and seventh place. without unions essentially all of the big money in politics would be right wing money. all of it. that is not hyperbole. all of it. unions are the only players. they are the only fish of any size on the liberal side. and, you know, it is ni...