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Yes, there's always been money in politics, but look at the explosion of it over the course of the past couple of election cycles, in particular 2012. lesley, do ordinary people still have a voice when there's this much loud spending going on? >> i think you mentioned a point about the 915,000 political ads. what wasn't added to that is it's a 44% increase from 2008. you wake up in the morning, your twitter feed is full of political ads. the truth is, all your mailings and everything else, i do want to reiterate it is on both sides. there's transparency that the public skepticism about this is...

I have four mothers who found themselves pregnant with children. somehow through the angst and misery of that experience, some of those women found a way to love and adore the children they bore from rape. i don't doubt the compassion or judge the choice of a survivor who carries a rep pregnancy to term. the whole point is choice, consent. mr. mourdock, the violation of rape is more than physical. rapists strip women of our right to choose, of our right to say no, of our right to control what is happening to our bodies. most of our assailants tell us it's our fault. they tell us to be silent. ...

It? the very people whose ancestors who already won that fight, people who have been historically disadvantaged. i think of my grandfather, a farmer who wore a turbine and beards. for years he was denied the right to vote. when he was able to win the fight in the 1960s, we couldn't keep him from the votes. my father lifted him into a wheelchair to take him to vote. he wouldn't say who he was voting for. the right is absolutely sacred. the fact that in 2012 we are having to fight the powers that be to keep those very communities, my community, latinos, african-americans, other historically disa...

Reverend al sharpton. tell me what you mean by that? >> that was a slightly taken out of context sentence. what i actually said, if -- when voter suppression becomes apparent and we're doing a very good job of moderating it, we have been successful of coming down an stopping it. the best exam of of this is where we were a year ago. across the country, state legislators were imposing laws that restricted the rights to vote. the civil rights community along with the voters who did their own job in ref wren da and the department of justice and we've blocked and blunted some of that. now we've b...

Misinformation that's going to happen out there, there are a number of trained legal workers all across the country oovps that will be there to help voters should something like this arise. >> lesley, i have to say i'm disturbed by the spanish-speaking aspect of this. in part, because there was a time, not so long ago when republicans were very much trying to get the latino vote and we doing, in fact, a very good job of it, particularly under george w. bush. i'm all for it, i'm all for you convince african-americans or young people or women to vote for you. i am not all for you suppress the vo...