tom i just want to correct you upfront it's an easy mistake to make actually work for the center for public integrity center for public integrity thank you very much where does your interest in exposing corporate corruption and greed come from and what attracts you to this field of reporting. you know it as a reporter i try not to come into things with sort of big picture ideas or with an ideology of what's happening. you know i was just reporting on. what was going on at individual lenders individual mortgage companies individual financial institutions and you know as i was doing that i came to see that one of the things one of the questions that maybe at first not consciously but then later consciously that it was really asking is how do you in a large institution how do you get thousands of people who may be spread out branches all over the country even all over the world how do you get them to tell a lot to tell lies to fuel your business model. either either tell lies or sort of accept the party line ignore or condone these lies how does this happen so that's kind of been the focus of my work ov

nbc news partnered with the center for public integrity to look at what some have called a growing problem in this country, dirty surgical instruments sometimes making their way into surgeons' hands and thus, patients' bodies. our chief medical editor dr. nancy snyderman has more. >> reporter: like most patients john harrison put his faith and trust in the surgeon standing over him in the operating room. >> i had to have surgery to repair my shoulder. i was not worried one bit. >> reporter: two weeks after rotator cuff surgery, john was back in the hospital with a life-threatening infection. the cause? a dirty surgical instrument. and a new report says surgical tools contaminated with hidden blood, tissue or other debris are showing up with alarming regularity. >> it is a job that cannot be given to robots because the robot doesn't have the critical thinking to say this is still dirty. >> reporter: at a hospital in virginia, which is not the hospital where john was treated, sharon greengolden has made her sterile processing department a model for what should be happening across the country

how money has shaped the campaign so far, we turn to: john dunbar, managing editor of the center for public integrity, which has been tracking the spending; and eliza newlin carney, staff writer for "roll call." welcome to you both. john dunbar, start by telling us what we know based on these reports about who is behind all of this money coming spot campaign. >> with the, they're mostly wealthy individuals. there's a lot of corporations, a number of corporations, but we're seeing a continuing trend of, you know, basically rich people making extremely large donations. >> ifill: were they not able to do that before? >> no, not this way. they're able to give a contribution to-- by giving a contribution to a superpac they can actually affect the campaign in a way they couldn't before. the contribution limits to a candidate are $2500. there are no contribution limits to a superpac, and yet a superpac can run an ad that's just as effective as something that would be run by a candidate. >> ifill: are the superpacs outspending the candidates right now? >> ? n some cases they are, and i think what's interesti

i want to thank the center for public integrity.vestigation. >> very important reporting. you would think they should be certified, people cleaning the instruments. >> we went to the university of michigan where they have the money in the bowels of the hospital to have a big reprocessing plant, but as you look at community hospitals this becomes an expensive process. and then a third party to do it. frankly, this is a shared responsibility where the ball is being dropped. who pays? the patient pays. >> again, out comes down to money. >> first, do no harm. at the end of the day, no matter who you are in the medical system, first, do no harm. >> important reporting this morning. thank you. >>> still ahead, the royal secret kate middleton just revealed for the first time. first, these messages. ugh, my sinus congestion, and it's your fault. instead of blaming me, try advil congestion relief. often the real problem is swelling, not mucus. advil congestion relief reduces swelling due to nasal inflammation. so i can breathe. advil congest

how money has shaped the campaign so far, we turn to: john dunbar, managing editor of the center for public integrity, which has been tracking the spending; and eliza newlin carney, staff writer for "roll call." welcome to you both. john dunbar, start by telling us what we know based on these reports about who is behind all of this money coming spot campaign. >> with the, they're mostly wealthy individuals. there's a lot of corporations, a number of corporations, but we're seeing a continuing trend of, you know, basically rich people making extremely large donations. >> ifill: were they not able to do that before? >> no, not this way. they're able to give a contribution to-- by giving a contribution to a superpac they can actually affect the campaign in a way they couldn't before. the contribution limits to a candidate are $2500. there are no contribution limits to a superpac, and yet a superpac can run an ad that's just as effective as something that would be run by a candidate. >> ifill: are the superpacs outspending the candidates right now? >> ? n some cases they are, and i think what's interesti

support the republican candidates, we are joined by john dunbar, managing editor of the center for public integrity's i-watch news. >> brown: next, we turn to john, welcome back to the program. >> thank you. >> warner: first of all, remind us, how did we get to this point at which the super pacs supposedly not affiliated with the candidates have in one month raised more than the candidates' total? >> well, i believe someone who is seeing the value of that, i think it's directly related to the fact that you can give as much money to a super pac as you want. whereas the candidate, you're limited to $2500 for the primary. >> warner: so this is what was enabled by the citizens united supreme court case. >> right. citizens united and a lesser known decision after that called speech now created these super pacs. what they are is political organizations that can accept unlimited donations from billionaires, corporations, labor unions and use that money to try to defeat or support right now it's mostly attack a candidate in an election. >> warner: let's start with gingrich who at least the balance is the mos