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Five conservative justices voted in citizens united to effectively allow an unlimited flow of money in politics. and that turned out to be amazing news for sheldon addleson, the las vegas casino magn magn magnet worth a billion dollars. a few hours after we learned republicans were cutting coasts, politi politico broke the news, in addition to the money he'd already sent to maintain the house in the senate, addleson is dropping tens of millions more to save the republican congress. it's frankly surprising he's not spending even more than that because republicans have been very, very good to sh...

Of us. and our side has to be up, not agonizing, but organizing to make sure that we battle on every single state and every single district to make sure that they cannot, in fact, implement a plan of voter suppression as hard as they try. >> all right. senator ed markey, thank you for making some time tonight. joining me now political reporter alex izenstat, co-wrote the scoop on -- and mariner perez. and alex, let me start with you, adelson has been the single biggest donor. what's the thinking behind the latest set of checks he's writing? >> republicans are facing a brutal midterm environm...

Go around. at least in theory. in practice, not really, in 2010, as you might recall, the five conservative justices voted in citizens united to effectively allow an unlimited flow of money in politics. and that turned out to be amazing news for sheldon addleson, the las vegas casino magnet worth a billion dollars. a few hours after we learned republicans were cutting coasts, politico broke the news, in addition to the money he'd already sent to maintain the house in the senate, addleson is dropping tens of millions more to save the republican congress. it's frankly surprising he's not spendin...

More, as you mentioned in your intro, he's already given $55 million and we hear that this additional infusion of cash, this eleventh hour infusion of cash is well into the tens of millions of dollars. you're already seeing the effects of it. you know, this week the senate leadership fund, one of the groups that adelson is giving to started air dropping millions more dollars in tv ads, on democrats, and you're seeing the same happen in the house. so the effects, potentially, are already being seen here. >> what i always think about sheldon adelson is he's underinvested. they got $1.2 billion f...

He's aggressively lobbying for a license. trump is trying to help. in february of 2017 during a meeting at mar-a-lago, trump raised adelson's casino bid to shin shinzo abe. he's leveraging the u.s. policy to push the business interests of a single megadonor. as one source told pro publica, the japanese were credulous he would be so brazen. using their money to fund campaigns is one prong of the gop electoral strategy for the midterms. there's their ever present effort to prevent certain people from voting, spearheaded by people like this. >> i'm so conservative i blow up government spending. i...