hotel for the bundlers.en though it's skrekt who they are, presumably, if you stake out those spots, you will be able to start to put together a list of who the secret romney bundlers are. they're going in the vip room, right? as we get closer to the launch of the convention, a lot of republicans are already in tampa, but we're starting to learn more, sort of hour by hour, including from good reporters like michael isikoff. starting to learn more and more awh about what is going to happen at the convention and what places in downtown tampa are key to the movement of power and influence around the republican nomination for president. physically here, the one farthest from the right, the miriam adadleson pavilion. remember when the young guns decided they were going to paint themselves pink and call themselves women friendly during the war on women kerfuffle? they decided the way they're womaning up for the republican convention is they're naming a pavilion at the convention, at the rnc, for sheldon adelson's

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big bundlers. taxpayer money wasted. we didn't have the shovel ready jobs and so tens and hundreds of millions of dollars poured down the drain. >> deeper than that when you had state senator obama this company raised money for them and then when ran for the senate they gave him the company gave him $395,000 worth of donations. employees of this company gave that. the department of justice also cleared a merger of a company with this company in maryland. a $7.9 billion merger went straight through you. >> sean: so we have big bundlers and donors to obama. they he get access and taxpayer money, stimulus money and grants. and then the money keeps flowing back to obama in terms of more donations so it is a big circle. >> and the companies are clearly getting is sweet heart deals. this are companies trying to compete with exelon. >> but they can't. >> saying we can't raise money the way you can. philadelphia, we found out about president obama and the white house trying to skew the regulations, the epa regulations to an oil

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chiefly argonaut ventures, whose top executive, billionaire george kaiser, was an obama bundler in 2008wly released emails show lew did not follow the recommendation of his own analyst... who urged the white house to forget restructuring and cut its losses there and then... advice that, if heeded, would have saved the taxpayers nearly 400-million. "doe's and omb's reviews of the solyndra application were rushed and the quality of those reviews was negatively affected by political considerationsa"aa&" the report found, adding --- "treasury and omb staff believed that doe's decision to subordinate the government's interest to two sollndra investors was not proper and questioned whether this decision was consistent with a provision in the energy policy act of 2005..."stearns says: i think there obviously is a sense of favoritism here and tried to cater to their contributors and i think ultimately if we find there is a case of untruthfulness, we will refer to the justice department.rep degette says: chairman stearns has been on a witchhunt for months over this. it's unfortunate when a loan

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. >> the romney campaign is the first in many years not to release the names of their bundlers. >> reporter: and as the romney victory council members left the yacht, secrecy seemed to be the order of the day. how much money have you pledged to raise? >> sorry, i don't really have time. >> reporter: what's your name, sir? >> uh. >> reporter: can't say your name? >> no. >> reporter: are you embarrassed about being here? >> not at all. got to run. thank you. >> reporter: whoever they are, and whatever they want, they are expected to help raise almost more than $800 million to elect mitt romney as president. brian ross, abc news, tampa. >>> and brian ross will be back on the money trail next week in charlotte for the democratic national convention, stay tuned. >>. >> the white house took a veiled shot at romney's acceptance speech with a spokesman saying he's surprised the nominee didn't mention the 70,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan. romney was, according to the associated press, the first republican nominee since 1952 to not mention war in his convention speech but mr. romney did mention iran

law is a bundler for mitt romney it's like they're robbing us of our votes and then putting a robber in charge of the courts and now the cost of getting an idea what's really happening is that alec in these states are violating the twenty fourth amendment was passed back in one thousand nine hundred sixty three and it explicitly forbids poll taxes today the attorney general of the united states going off prompter and speaking his own mind call out this truth the republicans find so uncomfortable. many of those without i.d.'s would have to travel great distances to get there and some would struggle to pay for the documents they might need to obtain them. we call those poll taxes. so what can we do well is a simple solution if we passed a constitutional amendment saying the voting was a right republicans could no longer limit the right to vote similarly voting machines that put our vote into the hands of unaccountable corporations operating in secret would end now is the time to amend the constitution and say corporations are not people. people are people and they have the right to vot

global hey couldn't be because he was a big bundler for obama now it's just a little different again it's all the same yeah i agree obama's been wimpy on wall street but i guess what i'm asking is would it be worth with mitt romney i don't think so i think you'll be just as bad and you know this because you have congress and they're all in it together it's not going to change much what could become much worse how much worse could romney make it than obama in terms of helping out his wall street bodies is he going to give them more money yet just like obama would if we have another financial crisis you'll see the fed dump more dough into it so i don't think it will be much of a difference and you mentioned congress i have to ask you because. tween the last time i spoke with you and now we've seen jamie di men on the hill twice and if you want to get have any kind of evidence that would make you feel like no one has a political will to go after wall street just watch politicians pretty much like lining up to praise jamie diamond so i'm just wondering if you have any thoughts there abou

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there is, there are board members on exeln bundlers for obama and back and forth. back and forth. crazy. this one here, but i'm waiting for them to do this. i can't wait until obama says maybe we'll release spr. that will be pure political -- >> dana: in the article that ran yesterday i read, bain capital where mitt romney, firm mitt romney found has been part of for a while, the steelworkers union head, gerrard said in the article our experience with bain they strip and flip and walk out as much as they can. to me was like handed them a talking point to use, because would carlisle be different from bain? >> greg: the difference the left can become righties when they want. president obama could actually invade cuba. and media would be okay with it. we still have gitmo. drones can go out and kill as many people as you want. if this were bush, of course, there would be hell to pay. it's interesting, because when the left needs to get something done, they go conservative. so shouldn't that teach them a lesson, don't be left? we're in trouble with the economy? then the

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the top executive, billionaire george kaiser was obama bundler in 2008. newly released e-mails show lew did not follow recommendation of his own analyst who urged the white house to forget restructuring and cut losses there and then. advice if heeded would have saved the taxpayers $400 million. doe and omb's review of the solyndra application were rushed and the quality of those reviews with negatively affected by political considerations, the report found. adding treasury and omb staff believe that doe's decision to subordinate the government's interest to two solyndra investors was not proper and questioned whether this decision was consistent with the provision of the energy policy act of 2005. >> there is a sense of favoritism and they are trying to kateor to the contributors. ultimately, if we find there is a case of untruthfulness, we will refer to the justice department. >> chairman stern has been on a witch hunt for months over this. it's unfortunate when a loan like this comes out because taxpayers lose money but it doesn't mean you get rid of th

he won't explain his campaign funding as to who his bundlers are. and he won't explain his policies like the tax policy issue that came up with most of the tax cuts that he's proposed going to benefit the wealthy. so not only is he awkward and uncomfortable as person as a candidate, there's a lot out there that we still don't know about him that all points in the wrong direction. >> now, i think, michelle, that's what compounds the problem. when you look at the fact that we don't know how many foreign bank accounts he has, his record as a job creator at bain that he told us to look at his record as bain to find that he is a job creator. how many jobs he's sent overseas as a result of his involvement in bain. and how much he paid in taxes. and at what rate. now, he points us to private sector, his entrepreneurial skills. then when we start looking he says but i'm not going to discuss them. i'm not going to disclose them. then you see this lifestyle. all of this compounded i think is what has created this image. i don't think it's the fact that anyone

oh, we call it the bundler. let's say you need home and auto insurance.information once, online... [ whirring and beeping ] [ ding! ] and we give you a discount on both. sort of like two in one. how did you guys think of that? it just came to us. what? bundling and saving made easy. now, that's progressive. call or click today. -oh, that's just my buds. -bacon. -my taste buds. -[ taste buds ] donuts. how about we try this new kind of fiber one cereal? you think you're going to slip some fiber by us? okay. ♪ fiber one is gonna make you smile. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing new fiber one nutty clusters and almonds. >>> time now to look ahead to the week's top stories. it will be a week packed by campaign events. look back on one of hollywood's biggest weddings of the year, our correspondents tell you what you need to know. we begin tonight with the president's plans for the week. >> i'm dan lothian of the white house. this week, president obama heads back out on the campaign trail, flying west of nevada, a state hit hard by the mortgage crisis. he'll also

not just disclosure on his tax returns by the way, but who is raising money for him, his so-called bundlers. he left office in massachusetts with the hard drives from his computers with all his records because he said he didn't want opposition researchers looking at it. he did the same thing when he left the olympics. he has a penchant for secrecy and he thinks he can play by a different set of rules. no, i don't accept his word on what his taxes say. let the public see it. let them understand what's in those tax returns. they say, well, we don't want to do it because the opposition may make issues about it. well, that doesn't give me much confidence about what's in those tax returns. let the public make their own judgment. >> let's turn to vice president biden. he obviously -- i don't know what your view of this will be. i'll ask you. he appears to have dropped you guys right in it, with this phrase about putting everyone back in chains. let's listen to the offending quote and get your reaction. >> he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rul

and billionaire george kaiser was an obama bundler in '08.u did not follow the recommendations of his analysts urged the white house to cut its losses and advice if heeded would have saved the taxpayers. and reviews of the solyndra applications were rushed and the quality of those reviews was negatively affected by political considerations the report found adding treasury and omb's staff sub bort-- i think there's a sense of favorism and trying to contribute to their contribute-- cater to their contributors. and chairman sterns has been on a witch hunt for months over this. it's unfortunate when it loan like this goes south because the taxpayers do lose a lot of money. but that doesn't mean you get rid of the whole program. >> the white house said this report produced, quote, zero evidence of political favorism and that president obama still believes it was the right decision to invest in clean energy technologies, in washington, james rosen, fox new news. >> and we are continuing to keep an eye on the latest military threat out of iran. appa

they will be given vip access to bundlers who have raised $250,000 or more. an outside pac party honored billionaire david koch. there'll be another lobbyist featuring billionaire sheldon adelson. and meetings for mega donors by karl rove super pac and romney super pac. it seems like the big rich guys are clearly going to have a convention and an environment of their own. >> right. i guess they say that the best parties are always in the vip rooms. and that seems to be the place to be at this convention. but the republican national convention, let's face it, is never a display of populism and of kind of ordinary folk. i do believe from these reports that this convention is going to be exceptionally weighted in the other direction. i don't know how much of that we'll get to see, but we'll be looking for it. >> now, when you look at the fact just average people that we have heard throughout this campaign, just seeing them constantly say he's out of touch with everyday americans. and certainly this perception of the big money events feed into that. listen to ord

oh, we call it the bundler. let's say you need home and auto insurance.formation once, online... [ whirring and beeping ] [ ding! ] and we give you a discount on both. sort of like two in one. how did you guys think of that? it just came to us. what? bundling and saving made easy. now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> all right. let's turn to cnn's chad myers. latest advisory in right now. >> for the past two hours, you have been saying, gathering strength, gathering strength. there it is. went from 60 to 65. they did find a 60.5 miles an hour wind with a hurricane hunter aircraft flying through it right now. they will be in this storm with hurricane hunter planes for the duration of it. there won't problem ably be 10 minutes there's not a plane trying to find something in or out of this, move north-northwest at 15 miles an hour. there we go. if you're keeping track at home, 24.1, 82.6 to the west. gusts are 70, here and there, fairly irrelevant when you talk about gusts. let's go to where that is. i'd put that 30 miles west of key west in the