you go back to grover cleveland. this is all happened. but this is -- [everyone talking at once] >> if you are making as part of your politics, which newt gingrich absolutely does, that you are a social conservative, you stands for these values, then i think it's -- otherwise i say we should stay out -- [everyone talking at once] >> as he did lead the republicans to power in washington. he's seen . and people are still resisting mitt romney, and what is it was the republican governor of nebraska who sent to do with that. [everyone talking at once] >> of the woman voter is the man voter and the instance when the sociology reports that women cheat as much as men do. >> there's a lot of -- [everyone talking at once] >> south carolina governor nicky haley fought back those kinds of charges, and the voters clearly said no, they were not interested in that. and -- democrats supported bill clinton and -- earlier point -- [everyone talking at once] >> feels like a cheap shot. appears as a late shot by abc and cheap shot in bringing this up. altho

carefully restrained creatures of the law and servants of the people and quote that president grover cleveland said they should be we especially our politicians are quickly becoming the servants of the corporations the president has less than sixty days to make a decision in the case keystone x.l. pipeline republicans who are owned by the oil barons have even started up a countdown clock to remind him and so he makes the right decision the decision he was elected to make by we the people and doesn't bow to the unelected oil barons who think they get whatever they want america now that they can spend as much money as they'd like in our elections. do what's right mr president and the rest of us will do what's right and fight back against corporate personhood and the citizens united decision that made it possible for these oil barons to threaten a sitting president of the united states and corporate personhood now go to move to amend or. that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website to tom hartman dot com free speech dot org an r t dot com als

pushed for it on the contrary many presidents have condemned it and going all the way back to grover cleveland in eight hundred eighty seven the year after the santa clara county decision in the supreme court where he said that corporations had become the masters of the people and that their iron heel was on our neck in his state of the union address in eight hundred eighty seven as obama mentioned in his state of the union address in twenty ten when he called out the supreme court for the citizens united case and sam alito said there and sat there and mouth not true when president obama predicted exactly what has happened over the last two years this explosion of corporate money and billionaire money coming into our political system and wreaking absolute avick. this money power which has taken over congress we must take back and the only way we're going to take it back is through movement politics it's not going to happen through the political parties they're captive of all this money right now politicians democratic and republican a republican would love to not have to spend thirty to sevent

in 1888 grover cleveland who was the national popular vote winner lost to the republican benjamin harrison. benjamin harrison carried plenty of the 25 states and once again because of the implementation of jim-crow, the black vote was suppressed in the southern states where grover cleveland won. there was only 100,000 votes difference between the two end the black vote had not been suppressed, in my mind it is pretty sure that the person elected president, rutherford b. hayes would have been elected president. let's get to the 2000 election. there were 1 hundred five million votes cast in the united states. margin of difference, popular vote was a little over 500,000 votes. i can tell you any expert on voting equipment can tell you and i happen to be an election official in georgia in the 2000 election when they were using punch card equipment and i'm an election official in virginia today. that 500,000 the difference is within the margin of error of the voting equipment that was in use in the united states. what does that mean? at a different recount had been done that -- nationally, it m

in 1888 grover cleveland, who was the national popular vote winner, lost out to the republican, benjamin harrison. harrison carried 20 of the 25 states and once again because of the implementation of jim crow, the black vote was suppressed in the southern states where grover cleveland won. so, again, there was only 100,000-vote difference between the two, and if black vote had not been suppressed, it is, in fact, i think in my mind pretty sure that the person who was elected president, rutherford b. hayes, wouldn't have been elected president. so finally let's get to the 2000 elections. there were 105 million votes cast in the united states. the margin of difference in the popular vote was a little over 500,000 votes. now, i can tell you and any expert on voting equipment can tell you, and i know about this because i happen to be an election official, county election official down in georgia in the 2000 election when they were still using punch card equipment. and i'm an election official in virginia today. that 50,000-vote difference is within the margin of error of the voting equipment