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His huge lists of potential donor taz he can tap into came from his push for impeachment and for environment and climate. and he's been pushing these things for a long time, for years, and collecting names of people interested in these topics. and now his campaign is renting out those email lists and tapping those same people for donations, basically saying, tom steyer was heading up these efforts, now he's running for president. >> shane, you mentioned it's the early states where the ads are running on tv where he is popping a little bit in the polls. not really seeing it nationally yet. what...

Elizabeth warren right there but i can tell you what he said about his republican challengers. he said "i'm at 94% approval in the republican party and i have three stooges running against me. one is mr. appalachian trail who was actually in argentina for bad reasons." mark sanford there he's referring to. "another is a one-term bad congressman from illinois who lost in his second term by a landslide then failed in radio. the third is a man who couldn't stand up straight while receiving an award. i should be able to take them." shane, it is interesting. we were talking earlier. these republi...

If he does get into is they debates, at least, because of the money, obviously. but it seems the message, you talk about somebody with his background, billionaire investor, you might think would have more of a mike bloomberg kind of message. this is somebody running on impeachment, running on a very aggressively liberal agenda, backed by potentially $100 million. >> right. and as shane's reporting notes, he believes that he is actually the outsider here. he's saying that some of the other progressive candidates, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, are the establishment. because they are from ...

Attack. and they are basically trying to draw a line between this group of women who are progressives and trying to align the whole democratic party with this progressive group and saying that they're out of line and really he's saying that they're unpatriotic and un-american. he was criticized soundly for this attack on those women earlier this month. being called racist tweets. but the fact his campaign is now using this as a strategy to raise money shows that this is not going away. >> and shane, it does, it does seem to be an indication that this is a name aoc the group of congresswomen pr...

He also points out the foundation's remaining $1.75 million will be distributed to other charities approved by the ag and a state judge. well, with us to talk about it imperil atkins, washington bureau chief for "the boston herald," shaken gold maker, he's been covering this story all day. and barrett ber jess, attorney with the eastern and southern district of new york for good measure. welcome to you both. shane, what are the contours? how big a story is what we witnessed happen today? >> i think it was a significant story, but there is more to come in this lawsuit, especially those things w...