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Dollars that are going into these corporations as the direct result of citizens united that are going into these pacs and that these pacs have no accountability to anybody. they can distort the facts, they can -- they can essentially lie, have candidates be off message. and the worst case scenario have increasing racial anxiety like we saw in the -- >> arthel: increasing what? >> racial anxiety like we saw in the ricketts plan, the potential to increase racial anxiety and other kinds of fears. so i think the super pacs, i think voters are going to be turned off to super pacs in general because...

Gotten this aggressive this early? >> i'm not. i think we all pretty much saw this coming. and i don't know if you all saw this today, but joe ricketts who's now become infamous because of the ricketts plan, now he's decided launch attacks on reverend wright, he decided to do attacks on obama as an anti-colonial tribes smith. >> mitt romney is denouncing he has no connections. i'm not sure where that plays in. >> it plays in because he's putting up millions of dollars and will be part of the campaign. i didn't say he was linked to mitt romney. i'm pointing out the campaign is nasty. >> he's no...

Fiscal conservative and an out spoken critic of the obama administration. he is not an author or funder of the ricketts plan. his proposal was one of the several submitted, but an approach to politics that mr. ricketts never suggests. it should be noted that on page 46 of the proposal, with your preliminary approval in the new york meeting. so ricketts apparently presented some kind of preliminary proposal. we have not yet received a response. meanwhile, mitt romney denounced a plan after a campaign event in flr florida on thursday. >> i want to make it clear i repudiate that effort. i think i...

>> as you know, you need more than good tv ads, you need pollsters and different vendors. we talked different vendors and asked for recommendations of who we would work with. i understand she never discussed the plan with them. they never discussed the plan and was not aware of it at all. i'm not trying to be critical of it. i'm trying to make sure people understand we didn't request the plan, we didn't approve it. we had nothing to do with the suggestion of reverend wright. we are interested in working with you. we need to see a proposal. we gave no permission, no funding. no dollar has been ...

Not anything based on these types of matters. so, i'm not going to judge "the new york times." i will say, i feel like it was a bad idea. to call it the ricketts plan is unfair. the family is an open and welcoming family and committed to responsible, honest dialogue. they are incredibly generous. it's deeply hurtful and unfair to the family to have anybody suggest they want to do or support anything like this. it's just not try. >> brian, it's willie geist. good to have you on this morning. i want to bring up something you said a minute ago. on page 46 where it reads with your preliminary appr...