adelson just spent so much money trying to defeat. mr. adelson's company denies any wrongdoing.nd as a very rich man, mr. adelson stands to pay a whole, whole lot more in taxes now that mr. obama has won a second term. and mr. adelson says he intends to double his spending on conservative causes with a particular focus on anti-union measures in the states. labor unions played a big part in mr. adelson's conversion to democrat to republican kingmaker. he fought with members picketing outside his hotel in las vegas. he tried to fight them in court, until find the supreme court declined to take his case. in testimony for the nevada state ethics commission, future democratic congresswoman and unsuccessful candidate shelly berkeley said adelson had told her, "old democrats were with the union and he wanted to break the back of the union, subsequently he had to break the back of the democrats." that fight, the war with labor changed sheldon adelson from being just another social liberal on the sidelines of politics to sheldon adelson, contributor on an historic scale to republicans wh

washington post reports that adelson is flying to washington d.c. to meet with republican leaders in surprise hopes of changing the foreign corrupt practices act currently president obama's department of justice is investigating adelson for violating that act as it's been suggested he was bribing officials in china to get its casinos built and chinese control territorially. which is of course probably why adelson spent so much money to defeat president obama because a republican romney administration would bring with it a new republican attorney general and a new republican justice department to find out prosecuted or might just settle out of court for a small fine to make it all go away this is the life of the rich and powerful in america being in trouble with the law they just buy a few politicians and get new laws to protect themselves used to call bribery but today thanks to the supreme court's citizens united decision it's called business as usual. now and the people who get left behind when billionaires like sheldon adelson own our politicians

sands corporation, over to the venetian, adelson's flagship, to meet with sheldon adelson. what they talked about, but bobby engine dal, john casic, and really high up on the short list of procespecte 2016ers. after the meeting we heard sheldon adelson expressed to confidantes he was favoring for 2016, a candidate with executive experience. all those guys fit the bill. incidentally, they were also visiting with him. >> great. professor, in this wall street journal article, adelson dismisses the president's winning margin as i'm quoting him a rounding error. he says sitting at the end of a giant conference table in the venetian casino adelson grabbed his calculator and began way. what's that come up to, he said? look. 0.002%, absolutely nothing. are we beginning to see how mr. adelson may have lost those $150 million on a single bet there? >> no question. he's engaging it with what bush called fuzzy çmath. the suspicious of his calculations there, my daddy used to say this, if you missed it by a dime, might as well be a dollar. the reality is if it's 0.002s or 200%, you los

tonight i've picked a quote from sheldon adelson's new book. madison wrote, "a popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both. knowledge will forever governor ignorance. and a peep who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." they were pretty smart back then. for more, let's turn to karen finney, msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications director. karen, 49% of republicans think a.c.o.r.n. stole this election. we've got a lot of work to do, don't we, houston? >> yeah, we sure do. >> what do you make of this? >> you know what, ed, the point that you were just making, i mean, it's funny and it seems ludicrous, but at the same time, we know that the kind of misinformation campaigns that fox news and this right-wing, sort of smear machine engage in, it can be very dangerous. i mean, earlier in the show, you talked about people who were calling in to members of congress, asking if their disabled child wa

well, for sheldon adelson, losing an election cost $150 million.eople in charge of writing the laws may have broken his promise. priceless, should i say. tonight in our survey, i asked you, will radical republicans ever agree to a tax hike? 11% of you say yes. 89% of you say no. >>> the great thomas jefferson once said, a properly functioning democracy depends on a well-informed electorate. if he was right, new polling shows that we are in deep trouble. karen finney weighs in on the factually challenged republicans, next. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills. olaf gets great rewards for his small business! pizza! [ garth ] olaf's small business earns 2% cash back on every purchase, every day! helium delivery. put it on my spark card! [ pop! ] [ garth ] why settle for less? great businesses deserve great rewards! awesome!!! [ male announcer ] the spark business card from capital one. choose unlimited rewards with 2% cash back or double miles o

it's very very wealthy billionaires who for whom checks of one hundred million dollars a sheldon adelson wrote just like you know ten bucks to you and me you know and so it's not so much corporation because they're actually constrained by the marketplace for example we saw that the what was the the this chain that the olive garden people you know they they put out something about how they were going to fire people to avoid having to give them health insurance or something their sales went way down and so pleased right exactly so there's there's a discipline that keeps corporations from from doing too much in this area but

think tanks funded by conservative billionaires like adelson, and the koch brothers. are scores of them. all over the country, and the ideas that they come up with get full-throated backing from media outleting like fox news and the dredge report and then those ideas get turned into laws using model legislation like we saw yesterday, the michigan right to work act, and alec right to work act, that's the american legislative exchange council, and in michigan respect lawmakers lifted from alec suggested union busting law word for word. these guys have the funding, the infrastructure, the message, the media, the boots on the ground and they are out to decimate progressive political power centers which are the unions. so back with me now, is michael moore. thanks again for sticking around. i just want to get your take on this because we have seen these billionaires infiltrate at the state level in sort of an under the radar way and getting these small victories which are not so small when they add up. what can every day citizens do to be able to push back on this? >> hum.

will you know do various things but my friends the koch brothers and people of that sort sheldon adelson they're writing checks for tens of millions of dollars put for political action committees to my knowledge of the buffets of the world and the people that sort or not they don't have political action committees they're not putting their money where their mouth is and plutocracy i mean the the merger of corporate and state interests was defined by mussolini as fascism you people use that word people think hitler hitler was not a fascist he was a cult leader in spain and italy they understood that mussolini dissolved the parliament to some is probably a better again he replaced all the elected representatives with the with the represent as the largest corporations in each congressional district. how are we not almost there right now but we're certainly getting there but in a way it's not really corporations it's individuals it's very very wealthy billionaires who for whom checks of one hundred million dollars a sheldon adelson wrote just like you know ten bucks to you and me you know an

it's very very wealthy billionaires who for whom checks of one hundred million dollars as sheldon adelson wrote just like you know ten bucks to you and me you know and so it's not so much corporation because they're actually constrained by the marketplace for example we saw that the what was the the this chain that the olive garden people you know they they put out something about how they were going to fire people to avoid having to give them health insurance or something their sales went way down and so right exactly so there's there's a discipline that keeps corporations from from doing too much in this area but there's nothing to stop charles or david koch from simply writing i mean there. billion dollar fortunes all you do is raise some revenue. i'm really at a loss to know exactly how to deal with this situation that we've gotten ourselves into it is a tough one i'm curious what your thoughts are eric holder suggesting national voter standards if we were going to shift the topic here and the problem. i'm guessing you saw earlier the clip of paul always saying you know our leverage i

system well you said nobody wins but it seems that somebody does the koch brothers or with kelly adelson his way i mean he's you know. real quickly your thoughts on that we just have to say no you're absolutely right i mean michigan best example michigan chamber of commerce the big business front group six they call for a so-called right to work a lot of question in the six days later he gets past sixty is after they called this a change their position and that's how powerful these people are and how they're winning it's amazing thanks for joining us tonight is and we'll be back with you again toward the end of the show thank you very much. after the break we'll be visited by the ghosts of christmas future and see what could happen to america and the world if we fail to address global climate change. the worst you're going to think the only white house to give it to the radio guy and for mateo minestrone last thing i want you to watch what we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. the more. important thing. for. the long. term. the automatic big picture is christmas

it's very very wealthy billionaires who for whom checks of one hundred million dollars as sheldon adelson wrote just like you know ten bucks to you and me you know and so it's not so much corporation because they're actually constrained by the marketplace for example we saw that the what was the the this chain that the olive garden people you know they they put out something about how they were going to fire people to avoid having to give them health insurance or something their sales went way down and so right exactly so there's there's a discipline that keeps corporations from from doing too much in this area but there's nothing to stop charles or david koch from simply writing i mean they're each worth twenty billion dollars they could spend a billion dollars to write by an election it would be nothing to them nothing. and isn't that antithetical to democracy at the end of the day or to a republic to a functional well functioning republic it certainly seems that way but i don't know how you get around the fact that we do permit free speech i mean it is i mean why the u.k. they have a w

six and seven hundred million dollars and that in this last election we had one billionaire shelley adelson who bragged about spending over one hundred million dollars we had karl rove talking about spending over one hundred million dollars you've got the koch brothers and various front groups that might have spent as much as two hundred million dollars it seems like three people you know or four of the koch brothers as to you know spent almost as much as john mccain did to become elected president how can we call that a democracy and that's just the beginning i mean i was like in twenty some odd billionaires that largely funded the republican party nationwide in this last election. now i mean you're absolutely right i think you know that the entire system just got broken and he needs spirit from the ground up and you know there's some people who look at the election and say oh well that big money didn't work because you know the republicans were defeated but that doesn't really look at the whole picture i mean think about it this way if the republicans are raising this much money from a ha

how much did sheldon adelson spend on this election?> cenk: shooting his girlfriend and then going down the stadium and shooting himself as well. we'll give you more details on that in a second. what everyone is talking about is bob costas' reaction during the sunday night football game. first he started out unobjectible, poignant and he usually is. >> in the aftermath of the unphattible eventsunfathomable events in kansas city. this really puts everything in perspective. if so that perspective has a short shelf life since we'll hear about the perspective we'll regain the next time ugly reality intrudes upon our games. those who need tragedies to recalibrate their sense of proportion with sports would seem to have little hope of truly achieving perspective. >> cenk: i love that. it goes beyond saying he's right, this gives us perspective, and then we forget that lesson. but it applies to the lessons learned from any of these tragedyies. speak of any tragedies the other side said you politicize things. >> ensures more and more domestic d

sheldon adelson, there is a poem about him, too. >> jennifer: wait. a poem about sheldon adelson but i think you can sing it. >> you can sing it. [ laughter ] >> jennifer: tell us about what inspired this "dogfight the 2012 presidential campaign." great for a stocking stuffer for christmas. but it is also very thoughtful. the campaign inspired you obviously. >> i did run in 2008 called deciding the next decider and i had a couple of candidates and poems left over from there. i did one on mitt romney in 2008 which was yes mitt, so slick of speech and slick of garb, he reminds us all of ken of ken and barbie. so quick to shed his moderate regalia, he may like ken be looking genitalia. >> jennifer: ooh! [ laughter ] >> so, i was already sort of -- and people ask me that in 2008, sort of the way they would ask somebody who would -- made a -- done the palace of versailles in beer cans or something. why did you do this? what possessed you? they usually say i had these beer cans around. >> jennifer: you were inspired obviously by the substance of the candida

by the way, i saw on the news last night sheldon adelson, the guy with the casinos in las vegas he iser again. he said i will spend $100 million against labor because they realize and these guys all talk together the karl roves, the norquists. >> the koch brothers. >> these people all talk to each other and figure out, how are we going to take over? and what the hell went wrong? they were so convinced that they had the money, that they could win this race now they think we have to go after labor because they are the problem. >> that's why we lost ohio that's why we lost michigan. >> i want to make sure president hoffa that our listeners and viewers understand exactly for working families what right to the work legislation means. because, you know, they do this all the time. they give these fancy positive sounding words. >> we call it right to work for less. >> that's what the president calls it. >> that's what we call it. the south, you compare michigan which is, you know until this recent event, it's almost a 10,000 dollar difference between mississippi or oklahoma and what people ma

adelson, how much money are you going to spend on the election? >> i did not touch her. she ran back into me. she just grabbed our camera. >> i know you were against the war in iraq, that is ok -- but you thought the war in afghanistan was -- was ok -- you thought that was worth doing. we did not check with the russians to see how they did there for 10 years. [laughter] but we did it. it was -- you know -- it was something -- to be thought about. >> when david koch sat down last night as a member of the u.s. delegation, i went over to ask a question. >> do you think unchecked concentration of wealth will undermine democracy? >> i could not quite hear you. i am deaf in one ear. >> we are not doing any interviews. >> president obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans. [laughter] [applause] and to heal the planet. [laughter] my promise is to help you and your family. >> one of the first acts of civil disobedience at the democratic national convention took place on tuesday just outside the time warner cable center. >> we are here to ask president obama, who we

that is part of the way sheldon adelson will double his spending and he is going to throw that money behind anti-union initiatives at the state level. it's also why republicans in general don't like unions since republican governors have tried to weaken unions. since the elections of 2010 we have seen this in indiana and wisconsin. republicans tried to do that in ohio too. and voters repealed the anti-union law by 22 points. today republicans succeeded in taking away union rights. they succeeded in weakening unions in the cradle of american labor, in michigan, in walter reuther's home. it didn't even take them all that long. >> mr. speaker, i have a question of final passage of senate bill 116. there are 58 aye votes and 52 nay. >> having voted for, the bill is passed. >> the michigan legislature today finished what they started out of the blue last week. they passed a pair of bills to take union rights away from public employees, and this is important, from workers in the private sector. you can see the reaction from supporters of union rights today at the capitol. more than 10,000

many are responding to sheldon adelson.thought he was betting on a sure thing but a rigged game, but the people called the odds and won. and daniel tweets, he doesn't think adelson wasted his money because stimulus is good. keep sharing your thoughts on facebook and twitter. >>> coming up, as world leaders pile on praise for outgoing secretary of state hillary clinton, speculation just brews about a 2016 campaign. i'll ask michael tomasky if a presidential run is in her future. and what does it mean for the dems? pretty heavy lifting for such a lightweight. [ female announcer ] olay regenerist. [ male announcer ] marie callender's puts everything you've grown to love about sunday dinner into each of her pot pies. tender white meat chicken and vegetables in a crust made from scratch. marie callender's. it's time to savor. in a crust made from scratch. when you take a closer look... ...at the best schools in the world... ...you see they all have something very interesting in common. they have teachers... ...with a deeper know

the guy took too much of sheldon adelson's money. >> there is a guy who tried treading water with leadd jan brewer is thinking of running for president in 2016. >> if we can find her. >> she recently met with super pac donor sheldon. bone finger, what a great idea. two local arizona tv stations were told governor brewer was out of the state on private business. where in the world is bone finger? >> she's out of the state for an entire week and i think they certified the election earlier this week and she wasn't there to certify the election. that's a pretty big thing the governor needs to do so they had to have the secretary of state do it. >> stephanie: maybe she's in china trying to help out adelson with his troubles. >> apparently she visited a soldier in walter reed yesterday. she's in the d.c. area. but they won't -- she won't say why she's out of the state for the entire week. >> i would love to see her debate hillary. >> stephanie: governor, your opening statement? >> ahhh. >> happy to be here. >> stephanie: all right, governor, thank you. >> 18-second moment of silence at the v

adelson is scheduled to travel to washington, d.c.t one republican leader to push for changes to the anti-bribery law. why does bribery have to be illegal? [ laughter ] >> wow. >> stephanie: oh that is just -- >> i'll give you a hundred if you make this law go away. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: who could be so uptight about bribery. that's delightful. >> did i say a hundred? thousand. okay. a million. 10 million. >> stephanie: all right. 17 million -- 17 million -- see i'm talking and sheldon and 17 million just rolled off of my tongue. >> you probably have over a thousand dollars worth of music. >> stephanie: right? and what happens if you have a power outrage or a virus or chardonnay incident. >> or your computer turns into a bag of glass. >> stephanie: right. carbonite, do it. it will take care of backing up everything for you. set it up once it is so easy and all of your files are backed up automatically and continually. you don't have to think -- forget about it. for $59 for the entire year -- >> that's cheaper than a bag of vipers

. $150 million adelson donated, these groups across the country, only one senator dean hellor of nevada actually won his race. >> look at that. senator marco rubio is taking a second crack at science. he's trying again. he's clarifying an answer he gave gq last month when asked about the age of the earth. rubio took some grief for saying in part he was not qualified to answer. >> he's not a scientists, man. >> calling it one of life's great mysteries. >> that and like why is hair growing on my knuckles. >> we should ask him. at a breakfast yesterday, mark allen gave the senator a chance to explain his answer. >> so how old do you think the earth is? >> let me tell you the answer i gave. the answer i gave was trying to make the same point the president made a few years ago. that is there is no scientific debate on the age of the earth. it's established at a pretty definitively, at least 4.5 billion years old. i was referring to a thee lodgeal debate which is a pretty healthy debate. >> that's good. >> rubio said he wished he had explained his point more clearly in the gq article and joke

las vegas casino mogul sheldon adelson and his wife poured more than $95 million into super political action committees that helped republicans, including mitt romney. >>> this sounds more like a plot out of a tom clancy cold war novel. a rove navy sailor is suspected of telling top-secret submarine tracking technology to the russians. nbc affiliate reporter andy fox with wavy has this story. >> reporter: robert hoffman appeared in court wearing a t-shirt with a rooster on it with the words "born to fight," in reference to cock fighting. mr. hoffman, did you try to sell government secrets? just a big smirky smile from hoffman, who retired a year ago and is trained as a navy cryptologic technician. he is able to find submarines using sophisticated direction-finding technology. the indictment reads hoffman had access to top-secret information which could cause exceptionally grave damage to national security. on october 21st, hoffman is accused of delivering secret information to people he believed to be officials with the russian federation on how to track u.s. submarines using the tech

right movement which is funded by cranky billionaires like the koch brothers karl rove and sheldon adelson labor unions which have historically been the vanguard of the progressive movement have been crippled and independent media including print radio and t.v. which used to carry the voices of average working people across the nation through locally owned radio and t.v. stations have been bankrupted and sold off to large corporate media outlets that spew lies in this information to promote the billionaires agenda essentially the progressive counterbalances in america which for several generations kept in check the corporatists who wanted to destroy f.d.r.'s new deal and lyndon johnson's great society they were held in line in the democratic by the democratic party they've been removed. when ronald reagan busted patco in one thousand nine hundred one he didn't just kick off a three decade assault on labor unions he also kicked off a three decade assault once progressive democratic party this is solid is now reaching its peak as republicans and president obama prepared a car of up the crown

all know it was a tough election for mitt romney but it was an even tougher election for sheldon adelson because you know mogul who spent more money on this election than any american in any election in history actually spent more than we all previously thought according to republican fundraisers able to drop as much as one hundred fifty million bucks into the selection and today he has absolutely nothing to show for it is currently facing two federal investigations into his international business where it's allegedly violated the foreign corrupt practices act by bribing chinese officials had previously ended that he was supporting romney to in hopes of putting an end to president obama's justice department investigations ultimately he failed however thanks to the supreme court citizens united decision we the people have an even more serious problem with our democracy than just an eccentric billionaire spending a. fortune to divert attention away from his own problems we now have to worry about foreign entities meddling in our elections as investigative reporter leaf fall of the nation u

course he's given tens of millions to the republican party there's foreign casino magnate sheldon adelson who spent more money than anyone in the history of our elections trying to get republicans in office he wants to make sure the united states justice department can get its hands on him across the border in billionaire . but. understanding the republican party in this way answers a lot of questions about how that party is behaving today why the republican intransigence on capitol hill as our nation hurdles toward self-inflicted economic wounds good question well it's because residents of billionaire astin don't give a damn about the so-called fiscal cliff or the debt limit billionaires taxes are going to go up because they'll pay the same income taxes the working people do they have their carried interest in their capital gains loopholes so you know like romney their income taxes are kept out at less than after that of working people billionaire and standees could care less about cuts to social insurance programs like medicare and social security with billions in their bank accounts an

about that are being talked about are basically republican or conservative or catering to the shelly adelson right wing they're sort of there are some of that but there's there's. a mood that extends to democrats as well that this is not this is not a partisan issue their constituency is deeply embedded in the republican party evangelical conservatives christians united for israel etc that are that are not just pro israel but pro settled there pro occupation they're not actually pro israel at all they're pro armageddon they're call them religious lunatics who yearn for the apocalypse but they're but they they pose as pro israel and in effect they are you know legislated for. pro israel in the democratic party he's embedded a part of the mainstream jewish establishment that is uncritically pro israel or with very limited criticism of israel and you've seen a congressional leadership that was quite a lot and on the subject many of them jewish american democrats howard berman gary ackerman others going and being replaced by people of whether republicans or democrats who frankly are less less in

casino magnate sheldon adelson after vowing to spend $100 million to defeat president obama.on post said that he actually spent $150 million. >>> the word "election" was the number one search on yahoo! this year, but don't worry because kim kardashian was still the most searched person, just in case you were. >>> and president obama and former president clinton were part of a golfing foursome sunday but no cameras were allowed. these pictures are from when they played last year. it's believed to be the president's third time hitting the links since the election. >>> finally, birther tate tried to force occidental college to release president obama's student records. the judge said no, told her, quote, evidence is not stuff printed from the internet and ordered her to pay the college $4,000 for its trouble. >>> and that is your morning dish of "scrambled politics." >>> and now for a check on wall street this monday morning. the dow opens this week at 13,025 after gaining 3 points friday. the s&p was up a fraction. the nasdaq lost 1. overseas, the nikkei added 12, and the hang