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Thanks for joining me tonight, lisa. >> thanks for having us on. >> lisa, what is the tax component, the irs component of this money that went into the herman cain campaign to get it started? >> well, tax law bars charities like prosperity usa which was founded by mark block, last year, from spending their money to help campaigns. basically to be a bank or a credit card for political campaign like mr. cain's. and so there are significant consequences. the charity could be shut down. there are could be sanctions. we've asked for both. >> this was a koch brothers funded group, americans for pros...

Thanks for joining me tonight, lisa. >> thanks for having us on. >> lisa, what is the tax component, the irs component of this money that went into the herman cain campaign to get it started? >> well, tax law bars charities like prosperity usa which was founded by mark block, last year, from spending their money to help campaigns. basically to be a bank or a credit card for political campaign like mr. cain's. and so there are significant consequences. the charity could be shut down. there are could be sanctions. we've asked for both. >> this was a koch brothers funded group, americans for pros...

One that has the guys with the real badges that can cause you a lot of trouble if you cross their lines, right? >> that's right. we think the irs should take a very close look at the porous boundaries between the herman cain campaign, between block's americans for prosperity network as well as its prosperity usa, prosperity 101, wisconsin prosperity network. you name a prosperity group, he's founded it in wisconsin the last couple years. it's like whack a mole with the prosperity name. the fact is if they gave $100,000 in advance of mr. cain's appearance there, that would be more than the cong...

One that has the guys with the real badges that can cause you a lot of trouble if you cross their lines, right? >> that's right. we think the irs should take a very close look at the porous boundaries between the herman cain campaign, between block's americans for prosperity network as well as its prosperity usa, prosperity 101, wisconsin prosperity network. you name a prosperity group, he's founded it in wisconsin the last couple years. it's like whack a mole with the prosperity name. the fact is if they gave $100,000 in advance of mr. cain's appearance there, that would be more than the cong...

Cope brothers. you remember thspeech that cain gave on friday about prosperity founded by the two oil billionaires, david and charles koch, he embraced the koch brothers saying they're brothers from another mother, getting a big response from the crowd. but the koch brothers and their group of americans for prosperity had financial dealings and was helping to fund prosperity usa. so there does -- could be or what looks like a money trail going from the koch brothers' outfit to the group in wisconsin to the campaign. union groups around the country will be closely watching a critical vote in ...