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This 180 and was starting to do president obama's bidding, something that he's denied and every single person that the inspector general has asked has denied, that's a bit much. he could have had breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week with barack obama, but right now we have zero evidence. and, indeed, what he was doing was trying to prevent a fraud on the taxpayer because most of these 501c4 groups were not social welfare groups. none of them have come forward and said we were welfare groups, they're just saying we were picked on. there were liberal groups that were picked on too. so i...

Sides, transpartisan investigation. of what is going on with the money sloshing around in our system in the guise of these political welfare groups. i think that's key. and i do think bob is absolutely right. cuts across everything we've been talking about today. faith in government in crisis. and we're witnessing people working really hard who hate government to discredit government and people you know, the irs story. you can see the cranking up, if you can call it of emails now, fueling the anti-government conspiracies, but we got to look at the 501 c 4s, across the board how they're used. >...

Big corporations looking to influence campaigns. instead of donating to super pacs, they are instead pumping millions of dollars into tax exempt organizations that are immune to disclosure requirements. these organizations are set up as 501 c 4s. that's the federal designation for welfare groups. they outspent pacs by 1 1/2 times. i know we talk a lot about the effects of citizens united, but actually this particular phenomenon was happening well before that ruling came down. i know the sort of democrat argument is to repeal citizens united and this will save the world, but what would you do a...

Groups to give, and one of them, and i quote, said because it will be more under the radar. obviously, the obama campaign is trying to push the pressure on romney folks or crossroad, gps, excuse me, to know that they're going to have to disclose at some point. nobody is buying this line that they're welfare groups. >> let me say this, i was going to say, to mark's point, having full disclosure of everything and direct giving to the candidates would be better than what we have now. but what would be even better is not to have massive amounts of money and influence. that's the part that really t...

Some point. nobody is buying this line that they're welfare groups. >> let me say this, i was going to say, to mark's point, having full disclosure of everything and direct giving to the candidates would be better than what we have now. but what would be even better is not to have massive amounts of money and influence. that's the part that's really troubling about this. what are these people getting for their money? what is it that they want? and that's the part that whether they're anonymous or they're fully disclosed, the people have no idea, and we feel very cut off from having influence w...