Jimmy Carter
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Presidency. >> the nra is obviously -- democratic senator ron widen released a letter where the nra claims that the sum total of foreign money from russian addresses was $2512.85. that is a lot less than say $30 million. >> right. so first of all, if russia funneled money to the nra, they didn't do it in an open way. they are not stupid. they have been doing intelligence operations with their security service and so forth. >> do they have a theory of how it was done? >> well, the nra accepts dark money now. remember the citizen united ruling. so if money came to the nra, one could presume that...
Threats to dash threats of violence, intimidation, that -- disclosure of who we are, who our donors are and vendors are, would pose racing to us, will can be -- can be an opt-out procedure. courts recognize thads in other circumstance. >> absolutely. other than that, criticizing people for taking a position in an election is not the same thing as chilling speech. that's just wreg democratic accountability. so it is not the same thing to say i disagree with this person's political spend organize well, that's an interesting message but the fact it is brought to me by a huge powerful interest who...
Like the entities and backed legislation to provide more disclosure for these entities and had condemned the citizen united ruling. but after recent respects show how badly the super pac backing obama is getting outrage by the g.o.p. super pacs, the president sent the signal that he will allow his surrogates and even cabinet members to help raise money for the super pac. >> greta: so maybe, maybe this is sour grapes, he doesn't like them, but he himself has been successful raising the money but not the super pacs and he wasn't going to take public financing -- and -- he was going to take publi...
On the show, and from the reaction we got last night and today, we seem to have touched a nerve here. this is what big money in american politics looks like. in 2008, the groups that spent the most money on elections were chamber of commerce, freedom's watch and nra on the right, and to the left, two unions. service employees international union, which you may have heard described on fox news as, you know, the root of all evil in the world, and the wisconsin founded public sector union that we talked about earlier, afscme. the only top five big spenders for democrats in 2008, only top five big...