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There wasn't a single negative advertisement on television because all political ads on tv are banned by law. and each political party was allowed to spend around $30 million, just a fraction of what u.s. presidential nominees normally do. >> may god bless these united states. >> reporter: britain has much stricter rules on campaign spending than the u.s. but the last time i checked, it was still a vibrant democracy. in fact, many other democracies have such spending limits. >> that's what we believe in. that's what we will deliver. >> reporter: and it's not just campaign finance where the u.s...

Bill. there have been a lot of concerns about the caps put on the defense bill because of spending limits. is that a concern to you or do you side step hose spending caps? >> well, the caps are a concern but we found a way to add to the overseas contingency account so that we in the house budget and the defense bill on the floor right now meet exactly the amount that the president last asked for. it's $611.9 billion. and we meet it exactly. so there are differences in how some of those funds get categorized, but the total, there is no difference. and so to have members of the president's party...

Of it subcontracted out to private contractors. that's very troubling. >> that's always the dog whistle right there. one of the reasons i wanted to do this and really talk about the true cost of war is part of what strax me is we talk about how much it costs to send men and women to war but they never calculate or think about when those young men and women come back, and are in their 20s and will need care for many, many years, what does that cost? that's never factored in to or discuss. >> you're saying long-term thinking wasn't deployed when we invade iraq? >> i'm just putting it out there. ...

A budget, which, you know, an omnibus they say this is the worst way to do it because all the gets stuffed in there. careening from one price to another, this is really good policy. >> i don't know, tracy, aren't we careening anywhere? >> i think we feed first of all term limits because everyone is just buying tear next vote and someone is going to get all the salmon farmers now to vote for them because we got all the money through spending limits. it's so ridiculous and stupid. it's got so out of hand t. fact that this is as good as it gets is a pathetic statement to the united states of amer...

Was supposed to do. now, target's ceo has issued a statement saying, hey, it's okay to shop at target. we figured out the problem. we just won't tell you what the problem is right now. so i think a lot of attorneys and a lot of consumers are very curious as to what exactly the mistake was. >> you mentioned the ceo. we know that target announced they're working with u.s. secret service. working with the doj on investigating this data breach. and where does target go from here? >> well, target has to take a look at their security measures. they're working with the secret service because the secr...