>> no time. >> we're trying to follow karl rove and children adelson down the hall. -- sheldon adelson down the hall. how much money are you going to spend on this election? >> get off me. >> he is just walking. >> i did not touch her, she ran back in to me. she just grabs our camera. this woman grabbed our camera. >> there was a loud noise from the sound of "democracy now!" video camera hitting the ground. mike burke attempted to question the billionaire casino sheldon adelson the woman described as his daughter grabbed the camera from hany massoud, then attempted to take the camera into a private suite. she then drop the camera on the ground. our senior producer mike burke joins us to describe what happened. explain. >> we were on the fifth floor of the tampa bay times forum, the site of the republican national convention and hany massoud -- was that most of the day walking along the hallways or the corporate suites are, try to find politicians and campaign donors and various other people to speak with. you're the end of the evening, we were walking down the hall where we see sheldon

that's not sheldon adelson's things over the years. point of that meeting putting it bluntly kissing the ring. they understand how important sheldon adelson's spending to those on the right is going to be in this election. they wanted to make sure that he had a chance to hear from the pick for vice president. >> eliot: in a way it's more likely that the right wing groups the koch brothers and sheldon adelson their universe will be happier. mitt romney was not their first choice. in a way i have a sense that they will look to ryan to be their voice in the white house should the romney-ryan ticket win, of course, because he'll be carrying their loyalty and would have worked with them over many mother years than mitt romney. >> that's true. it's policy and personality. paul ryan everybody ised in the choice with chris chikolo head of the club for growth. he was on the staff committee for the freedom works the tea party organization that is active around the country. he received an award for those brands of americans for prosperity. he has

because, you know sheldon adelson, a major contributor to mitt romney's election effort, is pressingthe release of israeli spy jonathan pollard, a major republican donor and associates of adelson and romney tell "the daily beast," romney has rejected the request so far, telling adelson he would have to review the relevant intelligence material accessible to him, as president before granting pollard clemency. this is perhaps what we call the chickens coming home to roost or the vague threat of a horse head being left in his bed if he doesn't do something about this. sheldon adelson has given mitt romney $10 million. >> isn't just intelligence stuff going to be enough for romney here? he's held hostage by a lot of people. he owes a lot of people favors. again, his unwillingness to put himself out there and take any political risk speaks poorly for him as a governor, i don't mean as the governor of massachusetts, but as someone who wants to push ideas forward. he seems to have no ideas of his own. the idea that he's resisted adelson so far, i mean, the devil gets to play the fiddle for

ryan was there to meet with sheldon adelson. you know all about him.y contributed sheldon adelson already contributed more to this presidential campaign than any single donor has ever. more than $50 million. plus he's given an additional $10 million to karl rove crossroads gps. he said he'll spend as much as it takes to defeat president obama. you can do that if you're a billionaire. as if that was not enough, adelson is now calling in his wealth friends foracacp. adelson invited three dozen potential donors to meet paul ryan in a club which is a private casino and dining room on the hotel's 36th floor that only be reached by guarded elevator. it was built primarily for asian high rollers with six- and seven-figure credit lines. they spoke with congressman ryan with his budget ideas. and even the guest list included wealthy potential donors in in an intimate setting the romney campaign called the event a finance meeting. so they could bar journalists from covering it. the journalists gathered outside of the casino along with protesters. protesters. [ p

after the break sheldon adelson and see casino mogul turned republican bankroller is throwing half a million dollars much of our from outside the united states at a congressional race in new jersey is buying and selling congressional seats with foreign money really passing for democracy these days alas the man getting all of a dose and his dirty money. i'm lauren mr. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. here is mitt romney trying to figure out when they. call. a. far left doesn't want the usa to defeat terrorism. neighborhood. ok a liberal and a. whole lot. of the congress because you know the corporate media distracts us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that sells us. facial stick garbage because that breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break the second. this is day forty nine years ago the reveren

sheldon adelson is top of the pile.e's put $36 million into the pot so far, more than 10% of all super pac donations. adelson has also donated more than any other contributor, more than the next four super pac contributors from both parties combined. all of them except for one is a republican. but don't feel bad about his bank account. adelson is a very wealthy man, worth about $24.9 billion, according to forbes. so $36 million is the equivalent of $112 donation made by the average american family. this is a man whose bank roll is largely built on a bet that his macau casinos would pay off and they have. his company generated $91 million from its casinos in las vegas and pennsylvania. properties in macau brought in four times that amount, $429 million. he's a friend to china, it's been good to him, unlike the man he's supporting. >> it's good to trade with other nations, good for us to be able to trade. it creates jobs for us, but we have to make sure that when nations like china cheat, we hold them responsible and make

after the break sheldon adelson and see casino mogul turned republican bankroller is throwing half a million dollars much of our from outside the united states at a congressional race in new jersey is buying and selling congressional seats with foreign money really passing for democracy these days alas the man getting all of a deal dirty money. it is easy to. see. it all started here for going global and now it's cooling myrow. loggy and. choose your place take your stuff. and needs to. make your statements. split into more. coupons through the law and. keep. saying. this day forty nine years ago the reverend dr martin luther king gave his most famous speech telling three hundred thousand americans gathered together at the lincoln memorial here in washington d.c. that he had a dream. here was dr king's dream in his own words are have a dream. but one day. this married someone will grow up and live out the true meaning of it. we're all good news self-evident that all men are created. forty nine years later this day today republicans are meeting in tampa florida to turn king's dream ba

sheldon adelson does not even think there is such a thing of palestineen.tside of the jewish mainstream. >> jennifer: david? >> governor, as you pointed out at the outset, israel is important to american jews. but that's number six or seven. president obama has a stellar pro-israel record. and also this is a brand new thing that visiting israel in your first term as president is a litmus test. two presidents in history has done this. one of them is president carter. this is not something that we expect our president to do in the first four years as president. >> jennifer: you guys are awesome guests. i would love to have you back and further this conversation. unfortunately we're out of time. that is peter beinart from the daily beast and david harris from the national jewish democratic council. thank you so much for joining me inside "the war room." coming up, if you can't show a commercial on tv that says drinking beer makes you smarter then why can you show this? after all, there is a same amount of truth in both of them--none although it would be sweet

adelson is not just a shark in las vegas. this is a man who's bank roll who's for tune is built on whether his casinos would pay off. and pay off they have. its properties have brought in $429 million. so adelson is certainly a friend of china. >> it's good for us to be able to trade. it creates jobs for us. but we have to make sure that when nations like china cheat we hold them responsible and make them accountable. >> now, it's not just adelson who's bringing baggage to his millions. take fofter freeze. you might remember he got the candidate into a little bit of 2rub8 when he weighed in on contraception back in february of this year. back in my days they used bayer aspirin. the gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly. >> the question is all this mayhem worth all this money? "outfront" tonight, dave. >> i'm against wealthy people attempting to influence elections. but as long as it'sdoabl'm gog to it. so when you hear that o 100 peope accountle for 5 enall thedonation toss super pacs and tis one given 10

paul ryan goes in to vegas to cash in from sheldon adelson. we sent epic after him. >> i don't know about you, but when i come to las vegas, i expect to lose money. not paul ryan. he is coming here tonight because the owner of this casino sheldon adelson has promised to put $100 million behind the republican ticket. >> not just that: we want to show you how paul ryan is a bought man, how he does the bidding of the people who give him political contributions. we are going to prove that case later in the show. by the way, the guy running against paul ryan also on this program. how is that possible? you will see in a little bit. then, the tsa said that they were tracking pairterrorists. apparently they have moved past that and now they are profiling blacks and latinos. >> now more than 30 tsa officers cataloguean airport say the method is promoting racial profiling. >> blacks and latin 0s? what do they have to do with terrorism? we will tell that you terrible story later in the show. my god, nbc hits the bottom of the barrel. >> a big blank slate

you saw sheldon adelson, who pledged to give $100 million to the republican cause. of course, david koch was a member of the new york delegation and said he may give as much as $400 million. >> in their meetings, celebrations were going on behind the scenes? >> absolutely. it was not on screen for the most part. >> arun gupta, your covering not only inside the convention, but outside as well. >> essentially, a military zone, a war zone outside the convention that was certainly part of the strategy. protests were extremely limited. they were spirited, but maybe 500 to 1000 people at mess. it was quite remarkable. when you're moving with the protesters, there were blanketed by the media, then it was in his police bubble and surrounded by this surveillance. i think that was the intention. at one point, i happened upon the westboro baptist, the guys who hate fags bunch -- >> explain which you mean. >> an extremist religious group. it is basically one family. they show up at high-profile events with signs of lycee "gode hates fags." they show up at u.s. soldiers killed i

first of all, adelson has very hard hawkish views on the middle east. he owns a newspaper in israel. he's a close friend of netanyahu. when romney goes, his only mention of the palestinians is one that inflames a lot of people and i think that, you know, one set of questions for romney is, what about a two-state solution, do you support it? do you not support it? not one that the obama campaign is likely to -- >> a report this week that talked about sheldon adel son's interest in macow. >> there's two federal investigations of the sands, which is adelson's corporation. it's been publicly reported by the sands. there's another one related to money laundering, not against adelson personally, but the casino which he runs looked the other way when one of the big associates of the mexican drug cartels was spending over $100 million as a whale at the casino. and another set of questions that ought to be asked is the romney justice department going to aggressively pursue these investigations? can romney pledge that the incident of his single biggest donor won'

luxury suite with a guarded elevator at adelson's venetian hotel. as the meeting went on, hundreds of union protesters lined up outside, calling out the ryan budget. a budget paul ryan will talk about with billionaire donors but not with average middle class working americans. tonight in our survey i asked you which is the bigger outrage, joe biden's comments or suppressing the minority vote. 3% of you say biden's comments, you're really worried about that. 97% of you say suppressing the vote. >>> up next, he helped make michele bachmann into a right-wing star and now he wants to join her in congress. we'll introduce you to a republican congressional candidate allen quist. stay tuned. he's a dandy. >>> and to the big finish tonight. where do all these radicals come from? michele bachmann's mentor in minnesota wants to join her in congress. and you know what, he just might get his wish. this is going to be a tough night. former state representative turns soybean farmer allen quist. he won the republican primary in minnesota's first congressional dist

>> sheldon adelson has made no bones about the fact he would like to show president obama the door.be at the front of that list. he's put a lot of money into this race. about $20 million into newt gingrich's failed campaign. he donated 10 million to a super pac. they say they're not raising money, which is why the doors will be closed. >> have they said what the difference between the two? >> they said the fact they are not going to be slis itting donations at this event. this is the nevada finance team looking f looking for where they're going to put their resources. because of paul ryan's really lack of foreign policy experience, sheldon adelson cares very much about the state of israel. if he has any sit down time with paul ryan, we might suspect they get around to talking about israel and try to bring paul ryan up to speed on what sheldon adelson would like to see. >> in my part of the world, we call that a prospecting event. quickly, what is next for our candidates? ron, i'm going to start with you. >> reporter: well, tomorrow paul ryan is off to ohio, back where he went to col

sheldon adelson, his billionaire trip totor, on an ego jerusalem, wanted to have a fundraiser there.ever meventioned the peace thewo states. always hear charles approvinggly quoted a u.n. document. thpalestinians a among the educated and most entrepreneurial of the people en that entire region. mitt romney -- the reason the upset is in the entire he had tan thre press.ns from the barack obama, a rookie when he the trip in 2008, at a cference every place him at. >> -- every place he went. >> the press hates to be ignored. >> we deserve attention, and when we don't get it, we about it. grade hisrip.ot went to israel and said that jerusalem should be the capital. it is a question that the u.s. has always fudge on. the use of the word "culture" good to hear people after the his remarks to explain what he ant, but the word is loaded. i have heard it before to d differences between african-americans and whites. it can have some very nasty implications. let me finish, please. that is not what the romney he meant, and i explanation, and i read as well.ent he mean at the time? know.t term and

united and we're seeing these astounding sums poured into the race. $30 million so far by sheldon adelson predictions he may go up to $100 million. the americans for prosperity has put out it's going to spend as much as $150 million. much of that is believed to be koch brothers money. so we're seeing the sorts of sums that we have not seen for quite some time. and so in some respects, this is a coming out party for the mega donors like david koch and sheldon adelson, and they're being much more public than they have before. but it's also noteworthy because congress back in 2007 after the jack abramoff scandal imposed new ethics rules that were supposed to put tight curbs on these types of events. in fact, lobbying entities were barred from throwing parties for a member of congress. but sure enough, clever lawyering and some interesting ethics rulings, interpretations of that, have thrown open the bar so we're basically back where we started. instead of honoring individual members of congress, the lobbyists are honoring groups of members of congress. the congressional yacht caucus, the okl

and what romney did was he went and catered to sheldon adelson, never mentioned the world palestinian state, never mentioned the word palestinian, and said america should never publicly criticize israeli policy which would put him at odds with even old past republican presidents since israel begin building the settlement. i thought on the foreign policy terms, it was simply absurd. >> bret, you said that this trip actually made you warm to mitt romney for the first time. >> yeah, for one thing there seemed to be an aspect of sincerity and conviction in what the governor was saying, which you don't always hear from him on many other issues. i think he really believed what he was saying. perhaps we ought to give him the benefit of the doubt. going to what peter just said, i'm not sure that what was in play here was the jewish vote in the united states, although that might have been part of the political calculation. i think israel has become an -- a hugely important issue to tens of millions of american christians. that's an aspect which romney can distinguish himself in temss of his fo

he had children adelson on an ego -- sheldon adel sent on an ego trip with him there he never mentioned the peace process. you always hear trellis approvingly quoting -- charles approve beagley quoting a u.n. document. the palestinians are among the best educated and most entrepreneurial of the people in the entire region. mitt romney -- the reason the press is upset is the entire trip, he had taken three questions from the press. barack obama, already when he made the trip in 2000, at a press conference every place he went. >> the press hates to be ignored, colby. >> we deserve attention, and when we don't get it, we complain about it. i am not going to grade his trip. he went to israel and said that jerusalem should be the capital. it is a question that the u.s. has always hedged on. the use of the word "culture" -- it is good to have people after the fact revise his remarks to say what he meant by it, but the word is loaded. it is a loaded term. i have heard it before to explain differences between african-americans and whites. stycan have some very na applications. let me finish, pl

luxury suite with a guarded elevator at adelson's venetian hotel.e meeting went on, hundreds of union protesters lined up outside, calling out the ryan budget. a budget paul ryan will talk about with billionaire donors but not with average middle class working americans. tonight in our survey y asked you which is the bigger outrage, joe biden's comments or suppressing the minority vote. 3% of you say biden's comments, you're really worriy eied about that. 97% of you say suppressing the vote. >>> up next, he helped make michele bachmann into a right-wing star and now he wants to join her in congress. we'll introduce you to a republican congressional candidate allen quist. stay tuned. he's a dandy. ♪ why not try some place different every morning? get two times the points on dining in restaurants with chase sapphire preferred. those little things for you, life's about her. but your erectile dysfunction - that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in yo

some people took it that way. >> the worst thing for romney was having sheldon adelson at his side. a huge donor who is buying all these ads -- that is unseemly. >> when romney talked about culture, he was not and it was. he cited a book by an economic historian at harvard who said -- he wrote a book in which he talked about culture as the ultimate element. nothing new. the reason i quoted the un document is because that is the last place that you would have expected a discussion -- a big report chiding the arabs for the corruption, the lack of women's rights as the ultimate -- >> he also cited a book by dan senor as the basis for the statement, talking about why israel was a big success. he did not cite culture as the reason. he cited conscription and immigration. by doing those two things, israel gained the advantage. >> what about the tax cuts? the brookings tax policy center said that those cuts would increase government revenue and put the burden on middle and lower classes. >> here is a totally bogus issue. obama is attacking romney basically for being for tax reform, because

luxury suite with a guarded elevator at adelson's venetian hotel.n, hundreds of union protesters lined up outside, calling out the ryan budget. a budget paul ryan will talk about with billionaire donors but not with average middle class working americans. tonight in our survey y asked you which is the bigger outrage, joe biden's comments or suppressing the minority vote. 3% of you say biden's comments, you're really worried about that. 97% of you say suppressing the vote. >>> up next, he helped make michele bachmann into a right-wing star and now he wants to join her in congress. we'll introduce you to a republican congressional candidate allen quist. stay tuned. he's a dandy. okay, here's the plan. you have a plan? first we're gonna check our bags for free, thanks to our explorer card. then, the united club. my mother was so wrong about you. next, we get priority boarding on our flight i booked with miles. all because of the card. and me. okay, what's the plan? plan? mm-hmm. we're on vacation. this is no plan. really? [ male announcer ] the united

i don't think sheldon adelson is really going to hurt among voters.hink it's pretty inside baseball and it's certainly not going to hurt him on voters within the next 90 days unless something really goes down. all you have to do is really look back at the clinton years. there was all kinds of funny business going on with their donors and it didn't -- >> behind closed doors. >> all the hurt is erased by $10 million worth of aid for the campaign. >> absolutely. you take your lumps and go cash your check. not a bad plan. >> we will see. coming up, another fast and furious sequel. house republicans file a suit against eric holder, frequent foil and witness of darrell issa. >> have you and your attorneys produced internally the materials responsive to the subpoenas? >> we believe that we have responded to the subpoena. >> no, mr. attorney general, you're not a good witness. a good witness answers the question asked. let's go back again. >> we will discuss issa's suit and pursuit when the ranking member of the oversight committee, congressman elijah cumming

casino magnate sheldon adelson is among the richesttmen in phe world.ht his company is under the watchful eye of the united state's department of justice. &padelson is a hhgh-profile republican donor, and the c-e- o of vegas sands.according to the wall street journal, federal investigaaors have reason to suspect the "vegas ssnds corporation" failed o report millions of dollars. the money is thought to have been laundered through adelson's casinos by two vegas high-rollers.investigators also have reason to suspect the money came from drugs and illegal kickbacks.the journal reports that adelson is not a target of the invessigation. there are a lot more stories about the race for the white hhuse on our website... including hhw new voter i-d laws... could delay the results of the election in november.read that by gging to fox-baltimooe dot com... and click on ote-2012 in the "hot topics" section at the top of the screen 3 pigs> nee warnings aboot the swinn flu......aad how it can spread... at state and county fairs...in about 10 minutes on f

as for shellen adelson, he is going to meet paul ryan very soon.nd it's no doubt that he is a hit for the big conservative donors and he will bring in the big buck. >> in fact andy it looks like there has been a pac that was created just to defend paul ryan. my guess is they are going to go to the koch brothers the adelsons to fill up that money. >> without a doubt just as governor scott wilson has been catapulted to celebrity status paul ryan has been in that place much longer than walker. >> so fascinating. andy krol i know you have been really great on wisconsin. i wanted to initially get you on to talk about the senate race. but we'll have to have you back. coming up mitt romney and the republicans may be suck running with paul ryan's budget now, but that doesn't mean they have to tell the truth about it. and then later, brett ehrlich makes a visit to the loser's locker room. >> what effect is romney's vp decision having on so, you guys grew up together. yes, since third grade... what are you lookin' at? not looking at i anything... we're not g

with casino magnate, sheldon adelson and his wife, miriam, who have given millions of dollars, mrs.have her own pavilion at the convention called woman up. >> she's got a pavilion, karl rove, who's been raking in six, seven-figure checks also has been all around town. it's definitely true that this year, there's a real imbalance between democrats and republicans when it comes to collecting checks in very large amounts. it's a real shift from the 1990s, where the clintons, and bill clinton was really the master of collecting what was then called soft money checks, from donors. republicans often were playing catch-up. this time around, it really is the republican party and mitt romney that's been able to attract these sums in large amounts. and there is really no shame here in tampa, in celebrating the donors. and feeding them in these -- in pavilion pavilions, as you said. >> indeed. michael isikoff, final question to you. is this all just the consequence, the coming to fruition of what happened with citizens united? is this where all of this originally stems from? >> this is the fir

ryan was secretly flown to vegas for a closed door meeting with billionaire casino mogul sheldon adelson now a dosen is currently under federal investigation related to allegations that he bribed the chinese officials for favorable casino contracts and there are also those reports that it also has a history of doing business with chinese crime games with the tree ads so why was it so important for paul ryan to fly out to meet this guy well because so far this election. is spent more money to defeat progressives than any other single singular person anywhere in the country or the world he's spent fifty million bucks on the cause already and he's promised to spend more than one hundred million dollars or whatever it takes to make sure romney wins and obama loses that's why paul ryan's first order of business as the republican candidate for vice president was to stand before a bill said in person and promise to be a loyal lapdog promise to kiss the ring there's no question about it it's going to be hard for progressives to win in november with people like sheldon adelson willing to dump the

so you could have two weeks before the election someone like sheldon adelson or someone step in drop a half million dollars in election race and flip it like that do you think that we're going to see the effects of citizens united more on the congressional levels and even said senate races the than in the presidential election is going to be a lot harder to swing that election when you know we had such an enormous change structurally in the political fund raising scheme of things since citizens united because of also another supreme court case that was decided right around that time and the role of non-profits i mean we're not even talking about that so i think it's really i think the congressional level certainly and at the presidential last level it's going to be interesting because like in chicago in the new obama campaign they're saying well we're going to do you want fundraiser but now we're going back into rallies and they're hoping that that's where they're going to actually make a difference those charity groups the five zero one c four as those with the biggest scare will so