all right, now here is how adelson built their own political coffin. you remember that money he gave to gingrich? do you know what he did with it? he devastate the romney in the primaries, making him unpopular in the first place ads about bain. he made a whole movie called king of bain. this is what adelson's money brought to the republican party. >> mitt romney, the king and c.e.o. of bain capitol his mission, to reap massive rewards for himself and his investors. >> mitt romney, them guys, they don't care who i am. >> you going to be on the hit list. you know that. >> he took foreign seed money from latin america and began exploiting dozens of american businesses. >> they fire people, cut benefits. >> that was a gingrich ad, an ad adelson paid for. they built their own coffin. how's that for awesome? they grossly misspent their money. a quote from "the new york times": >> oh, that's interesting. so you great businessman wound up paying so much more. there might be a reason behind this. kevin drum explains in mother jones: >> aha! there we have it. th

a chance to go back and say listen we want investigations we want to keep up the investigation of adelson all these billionaires who wanted to buy their way out of investigation they didn't succeed and now we need to continue putting pressure on them there needs to be some people that are made an example of color over one of them yeah absolutely gerrymandering your thoughts on it and what's going on in florida actually you're in florida right now first i'm curious today just a few hours ago mitt romney conceded florida but we still don't have numbers is this is this a remnant of the jeb bush katherine harris voter suppression efforts that got put on steroids by rick scott it's something we feel like we always have to do in florida rick scott set out to make this process as confusing as he possibly could and as you point out one thing he did as he did it with jeremiah entering gerrymandering is care is care is carried out for a very single purpose and is to make sure that your political opponent can never be reelected it's almost always racially discriminatory there's never a high ground r

saw him burned down on the air on fox news it was because he realized he had gone to people like adelson in freeze and said listen he scared the hell out of tom he said if we don't win though we'll never win again we're all in and he scared him to death talked about the demographic change that's taken place in unless they win they'll never win again he actually scared them and they came up with three hundred four hundred million dollars worth of money and and now they're asking the question coral what did you do with the money it's a very tough question that he has days he's in or he's under big big pressure right now he may be yesterday's news well and shelly adelson he's been investigated by the by the justice department right now i mean this is this is just like you know jimmy hoffa given the half million bucks to richard nixon in fifty nine sixty to stop the sun valley land investigation and then when nixon didn't win the election and sixty of the first thing bobby kennedy did was reinitiate that investigation i mean it's just it's like whoa and i think tom you know he's worried you

and as for sheldon adelson, a friend tells the "wall street journal" he will keep on keeping on. quote, he wouldn't lose sleep over the amount of money he spent, the person said, adding he is disappointed but not discouraged. >> of course not. it's four hours of the casinos in macao. >> not go. are for giving. the billionaire donors are here are lived one operative told "the huffington post." there is holy hell to pay. karl rove has a lot of explaining to do. i don't know how you tell donors we spent $390 million and got nothing. if you were to spend $354 million on a race and got nothing, what would your next move be? >> i wouldn't spend it again. what happened here i don't think the money was spent well. it was spent on tv, and after a while if you eat too much lobster, eventually the lobster doesn't taste good. >> i never reached that. >> the tv ads were so pervasive that people stopped listening. they stopped listening. interestingly in pennsylvania governor romney went from 12 points down to 3 or 4 in the polls, though the polls weren't accurate, 3 or 4 in the polls without

all of the -- adelson is not going to go away. they'll change their tactics. >> stephanie: no.g lost all of that money. >> stephanie: yeah. even a gambler is like all right, i'm out! getting up from the craps table. >> the chat room wants to remind you if you don't get rid of the pot soon, you're going to turn into -- >> a loser town guy. >> stephanie: okay. out by the dumpsters. >> marijuana ignore is receipts by the -- cigarettes by the waterfall. >> stephanie: 45 minutes after the hour. oh boy. vacation week. why are we even here? it is a short week. >> yeah, boss. >> we should have bill press filling in for you. >> yeah. >> stephanie: what's your favorite dangerous '70s toy? >> not that again. >> stephanie: okay. 45 minutes after the hour. right back on "the stephanie miller show." >> this is all very strange. >> i agree. something's not right. >> announcer: it's "the stephanie miller show." from silver screens... to flat screens... twizzlerize your entertainment everyday with twizzlers the twist you can't resist. [ male announcer ] you like who you are... and you learned s

in this no holds barred electoral contest so let's meet a few of them all right first up sheldon adelson his worth more than twenty billion dollars any ranks twelfth on forbes four hundred richest americans list he's a casino mogul who made a lot of his fortune building casinos in macau china and he's given more than seventy million dollars to help mitt romney win this election that's more money than any single person has ever spent in an election in our nation's history in fact it's three times more so what does a dozen stand to gain from a mitt romney presidency. i don't know about two point three billion dollars that's how much it all soon will save under mitt romney's tax plan which gives people like eight also and mitt romney himself massive tax breaks on income dividends capital gains and a state's similar romney administration errors also stand to gain an additional nine billion dollars once the guy croaks. president obama's justice department is investigating a sin for corruption and bribing foreign officials to get his casinos built in macau so for a dosen an investment in mitt

you saw the sheldon adelsons. it is not clear to me all of his money, he backed a sequence of losers. somebody ed he was 0-9, all of the money simply bounced off of voter's consciousness. what will those funders say next time? >> you would have to ask sheldon adelson what he thought? i did meet some of these characters at some of the conventions. had a nice long talk with foster friess but what i think they're getting is somebody to listen to them, a place to put their money where their mouth is and where their values are. they may value that more than winning any particular race. >> eliot: even a consultant whom i rarely -- business models, go instead of giving it directly to a political campaign, build a grassroots organization. do something that will mobilize voters. >> koch brothers essentially tried that. >> eliot: let's switch to the other side of the aisle. thankfully the president won. we have an agenda. will climate change be on the agenda as we go forward? >> said that in his speech. he also mentioned vo

what did the sheldon adelsons get for their hundreds of millions of dollars in tv advertising? >>> here is a tweet from alec baldwin. it's been making the rounds -- you know your party is in trouble when people ask did the rape guy win and you have to ask which one. the notorious comments didn't merely embarrass republicans, exposed them. it shows too many of them think like they do. anyway, that will kill that will cost them the white house again and again and a lot of senate seats this time and next time. >>> now that president obama has won re-election and can't become a one-term president, is there any chance republicans will actually accept him as their president and try to work with him instead of just rejecting him wholesale? >>> let me finish with my hope the president, his party, and the party can get down and do some dealmaking for the country. this is "hardball," the place for politics. you can prevent gas with beano meltaways, or treat gas with these after you get it. now that's like sunblock before or sun burn cream later. oh, somebody out there's saying, now i get

nearly $1 billion was spent against democrats by people like casino magnet, sheldon adelson. along with the billionaire industrials, the koch brothers, we'll never forget them. and they'll probably be back again. they outspent the democrats 3-1 and had the opportunity to define the election on their terms. the american cross roads super pac spent $300 million on advertising in swing states. they did not influence a single election outcome. and of course, this was it's exactly what he wanted to destroy, labor unions, and he failed. we will go back, i believe this, that we will go back, you know, coming up in 2014 and 2016, and beyond, and we will point to this election. we now have the template, the first presidential election of citizens united in this new era of raising money and it's fallen from the sky, and we will tell ourselves as liberals and progressives, we can defeat this. this is not a center-right country. this country wants to invest in its people. and i'm talking about teachers and the president of the united states wants to invest $4 billion in education. that'l

out, whether this is going to be seen as a lot of wasted money on the part of folks like sheldon adelson. >> what is the danger of this, richard, in terms of this all of this money? or will it be rethought if, in fact, the president is deterred? >> well, a lot of promises were made to those super wealthy people that it would be affected. they are going to have to go back after all, most of them are super wealthy people and ask were those promises ever delivered? never mind about who wins. every dollar that they have spent has gone less far than the campaign. they don't get the same ad rates. so a dollar of the koch money is not the same as the obama campaign. they get lower rates as the romney campaign does from tv stations. that's just the facts of life. it's the rules of the game. so if you are super wealth they, you have not moved the dial and they are probably not going to take back the senate. they've got to ask themselves, why did i waste 20 million, 30 million of personal fortune? maybe it's chump change for them. i suspect even billionaires find 10, $20 million hard to swallow. >

casino republican sheldon adelson gets around $50 million into super-pacs and campaign. so, we ask you today or maybe asking himself today? >> how was the money spent? >> by paying bills. that's how you spend money. >> guess how many of the eight candidates adelson supported? how many won? new details about the final hours of the romney campaign and what happened to staff members that it tried to use their campaign credit cards to get home election night. it's just one of the things we thought you should know, and you can join our conversation anytime. we're open 24/7 @tamronhall and @newsnation. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare... now's a good time to think about your options. are you looking for a plan that really meets your needs? and your budget? as you probably know, medicare only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. so consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement plans, they pick up some of what medicare doesn't pay.

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adelson doesn't have anything. that is the sands corporation. does anyone remember the last time frank sinatra sang at the sands? i mean right now it's an old funky hotel. motel six doesn't have that many bed bugs and he said i was just at the sands. where does the sands get these millions in billions? the sands corporation at that little footprint, that piece of dirt in vegas but all their money is from macau, from china. you don't operate in china unless you are actually fronting for the princelings of the politburo. we know where that money has come from and we know why mr. romney, don't we? don't we? barack obama just put massive tariffs on auto parts from china and for all the china bashing that mr. romney is going to be doing tonight, take my word for it, he refused to back the tariffs on auto parts is almost all the auto parts come from a company called delphi owned by? now, so now give world happy that romney is sold 30 with chinese money on mike the reality's family money. if the chinese indonesians. interestingly you will read in the b

adelson laughs off $70 million.worth i believe at greater than $20 billion. but we also read in politico today that other romney donors and -- >> that's right. i think there is a mix there, and there are folks who believe that karl rove and that the koch brothers operation, americans for prosperity, did spend their money as effectively as they could given the circumstances, and then there are others who really do want answers and who are probably less inclined to give that amount of money again because they think along the lines of what michael was just explaining, that these television ads were really infective, that this money was ill-spent and could have been spent better. i think we could see two possibilities. we could see something like we saw in 2004 where the big democratic donors gave so much money to try to unseat bush. when they were unsuccessful they basically packed up their checkbooks and went home and still haven't come back off the sidelines. or we could see them doubling it down. i have talked to so

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some of these people that are spitting out this money, wynn had a $750 special bonus, and sheldon adelsonof lvf took in an extra $1.2 billion because he wants the money now instead of paying more taxes on it. buat will be interesting is, how the bond market reacts, because in corporate bonds now with this adjusted yield, it almost equals out with the dividend payments that people have been going after in some of the conservative stock plays. > round 2: banking on optimism? the financial etf xlf has traded between $14 and $16 for months now. will the bankers bounce or bust? > > go ahead. > > i like it where it's trading here. look for a breakout above $16. my target on it is $18. it has been in this range since february, so it looks like it wants to do something as the volatility continues to decline- > > the vix keeps going down, does that mean the market is going higher? > > the june $14 call is trading for roughly break-even - it's about $200, and it's really only got 20¢ of time value with that much time. > > xlf, i have not exactly favored this trade, but i haven't been playing it to

new gingrich sponsored by sheldon adelson. running for president. but it would be adelson supporting. >> this is from a night student. this is if zeeveziss mitt. >> you. >> what's your opponent of the grover grover no tax wist? >> on the issue, it is true that we are at a mistoirk low of revenue to g.d. and it has to come up because the country with $16 trillion in debt where both countries that to be fixed. we have to get on to a seuss tainable economic pitt. snow in essential principle of conservatives, garry goldwater said. but definite reduction first. does he have to pay the bills? you to have a prescription medicare cover, you have to pay for that too. and so we should understand something about the republican party over the last 10 years. it's been a big spending party. it just doesn't want to pay for any of the -- pay for any of the spending. so a reset of traditional conservatives requires that we be reality based on the fiscal condition of the country and understand that the years of progresslegacy now career -- require it. as opposed to t

a lot of them a lot of their money shelly adelson made in macau in you know offshore outside the united states arguably the largest contributor the largest donor to republican causes in the united states is taking foreign money into the united states to buy campaign to buy an election at the same time that he's been investigated by this administration's justice department for corruption and if his guy wins in all probability that that investigation gets dropped with four on one of the same doesn't isn't as bizarre as it was saying he's going to get really tough on china. i don't think so you know he's also over and. trying to build a multibillion dollar a casino over there but it's not his money he's putting in he wants the spanish people who are already extremely hard hit by they were sturdy program over their. money for him to read a show you know it's. yes. i think it's there it's really important what you said jim which is that just about the very small number of people contributing this money i remember i did a story when this first happened and i went into sort of time to a bunch

in more detail i'm joined by joined now by chris cox a campaign organizer at jobs for justice josh adelson salon dot com contributor and labor journalist. and also j.d. to cheerlead managing editor editor for reason twenty four seven news welcome gentlemen. so josh i'm going to start with you wal-mart is downplaying the protests saying now they're touting that they have great profits how the protests accomplish anything. absolutely so we've seen two very different messages from wal-mart in the public from the beginning they've been dismissing strikes is dismissing the workers as a fringe meanwhile behind closed doors they've been paying workers to sit in mandatory meetings and be lectured to about why they shouldn't participate why they shouldn't get involved in the labor groups are wal-mart why they shouldn't go out on strike what happened is that we saw five hundred some workers according to organizers go on strike anyway despite wal-mart publicly saying they could face consequences anywhere in the world that you see people take a very risky action that could result in a risk to their jo

fact of the one of romney's all the biggest campaign contributor for romney and his children sheldon adelson is a close friend of the our whole right wing israeli are close to the likud so it's only a one sided job if only those who are very very clear it's been very clear now for more than four years asserting that obama and netanyahu are not famous friends we've seen romney certainly pandering more towards israel during his campaign over the past couple of months before it got out of time mr brisk i must ask you one quick question the issue of afghanistan the graveyard of empires a place where mitt romney wants to keep the wall going your thoughts on that. well with respect to american military intervention and american military warfare i even believe that romney although he has this hawkish policy i think that romney also will be forced to reconsider any american military warfare any american military steps because basically the american public is fed up with any wars whatsoever how romney in the when it comes to wars and the military option for example when it comes to the military optio

the person i am happy for is shell done adelson. they spent $600 million to ensure that this weird crews station -- crustation was adamant obama not win. he didn't get the senate guys and didn't get obama. >> they should have paid me. i think it would have been better if i ran around the states with signs. they invested so much money in these places that i don't know what they were doing with the money, but it didn't work. none of these ads worked. none of it worked. >> maybe that's a good thing. maybe we are spending too much money. i want to talk about this libertarian guy. i think he, woulded for ron paul. getting a lot of attention. he wrote a blog that he is going to boycott democrats. this is what he wrote: all of my family and friends and even close family and friends who i know to be democrats are here by dead to me. i vow never to speak to them again for the rest of my life or have communications with them. they are in short the enemies of liberty. they deserve nothing less than hatred and utter contempt. >> you know what t

music ♪ ] >> jennifer: for all the talk about the $53 million that republican casino mogul sheldon adelson losers like newt gringrich and mitt romney, we shouldn't forget about how much money citizens united allowed outside groups to spend on this campaign and on the republican side how miserably they failed. according to the campaign donor watchdog group sunlight foundation, the karl rove-backed american crossroads super pac had a return of investment of 1.2%. according to sunlight, 1.29% of the money spent had its desired outcome. they spent $104 million, but one won only two of 19 races. now rows crossroads gps had an return of investment of 14.4% and they and the it's sister organization, they only came ahead in seven of 60 races. ouch! that's just really poor investment by all these alleged business experts. we already knew that money can't buy you love, but it's also nice to know that it won't buy you votes. here to joining someone who knows all about donors, wade randlett is a prolific fundraiser for democrats and founder of bay area democrats and part of silicon valley's bipartisan

>> guys like sheldon adelson and the koch brothers and even my good friend, steve cohen had a guy whoup bad candidates like mitt romney like linda mcmahon. i said this as a woman congressman, we've talked about this. they love to do that story oh, the gender gap is gone. i knew it wasn't going -- this was the year of the woman, was it not? >> well, certainly. with tammy baldwin and clair claire mccaskill, of course. and the new hampshire -- >> stephanie: tammy duckworth elizabeth warren. >> i knew i had some conversations with tammy. what a great person, a great american. just been -- it's been an inspirational day. >> stephanie: congressman, i have to say personally, i could not have been happier to see joe walsh and allen west go -- somebody particularly virulent, nasty, obstructionist republicans in your body. what do you think? >> well, absolutely. and these are the flamethrowers. and that's -- people have asked me all the time, what do you think -- where do you think the american people are? i said the american people are rejecting craziness. they don't want loud people in the go

. >>> as you know, nevada ca sin sino millionaire air aire sheldon adelson spent $100 million of his own money and out of that, he elected no one. you know who else spent $100 million of her own money and nothing show for it, linda mcmahon. she was trying to get a senate seat in connecticut trying over two elections and lost both times. this time, linda mcmahon tried to make it look like she was running on the same ticket as president obama which was a very nice try but connecticut apparently knew she was not and lost by 12 points. she lost the women's vote by nearly twice that margin. lost overall by 12 but lost women by 21. linda mcmahon despite being a woman running against man had a gender gap problem among the worst of all the republican candidates this year. boy, did republican candidates this year have a gender gap problem. look at this. florida senate race, republican connie mack lost to democrat bill nilsson by 13 points overall but 20 by women. in missouri, republican todd akin lost to claire mccaskill by 16 points and women, 22 points. tom tom smith in pennsylvania lost 18

had adelson not kick in the money for newt gingrich, he would have been out of the race a long time ago. if not for foster freeze, rick santorum would have been out of there. romney had to move to the right to nail down the nomination. it made it more difficult, more awkward for him to go back toward the center to win a general election. if you are going to say two issues -- one of them might not be fair. the automobile bailout, i do not know how much of that was political and conservatives not liking government interference and how much of it was a harvard business school, harvard law our school -- harvard law school thinking that that would have been a better long-term route for the auto companies that may not have been political, that you them go bankrupt. the other thing is the politicization. you cannot tell me that the mitt romney from 3 or four years ago would have had any intention to go as strident as you did on immigration and how badly the heard him the look and how he performs. -- that hurt him when you look at how he performed. one percentage point more of the vote this tim

you can't stay at sheldon adelson hotel. can't stay at steve wynn's hotel either. >> cenk: i love this one. the ridiculous efforts to get black voters. >> it's a big lie that democrats are for black americans and republicans are against black americans. abraham who freed the slaves was a republican. >> cenk: and so was alexander the great if we're going back to history--awesome. and the elbow of the day who's head is it going to land on? you'll love it. it's go time. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> obama: it's good to be back. >> romney: if the president is re-elected he still will be unable to work with the people in progress. >> our top priority is defeat president obama the second time. >> i can't thank president obama enough for his personal concern and passion. >> people are dumpster diving, and what they're going after here is the food. >> this is america folks. it is not supposed to be this way. >> job reports appear relatively good news. >> i think it would be helpful to have a president who actually understand job creation. >> ohi

sheldon adelson poured gargantuan sums of money. he really didn't get anything back for it. some how the public does not seem to have responded the koch brothers haven't yet and maybe tomorrow will be the shocker but they haven't won any races they've dumped the money in. is it overrated? >> i would argue that it has had a great effect, just not the effect that the donors expected. they would help drag out the process giving to a super pac against mitt romney and his relationship and time at bain capital. this was something that really hurt mitt romney, with foster freeze giving all this money and ultimately left him a weaker candidate so when they rallied to defeat president obama which they said was their overarching goal, it may have been too little too late, and they actually worked against their own self interest. >> eliot: you make a great point. i think the impact he had may not have been the one intended but there was a significant impact. i would point out $2 billion, that sum of money but we found out that consumers in united states spend $7 billion a year on potat