there making their voices heard this election a new analysis of super pac donations by the center for public integrity finds the just ten donors are responsible for fully one third of the two hundred two million dollars in super pac money raised so far the selection of those ten dollars seven are individuals and four of those are billionaires leading the way as casino mogul sheldon adelson dished out twenty six point five million dollars so far most in new gingrich's failed campaign others in the list include billionaire texas home builder bob perry we spread his six point seven million dollars around between mitt romney and karl rove's super pacs libertarian pay pal co-founder peter thiel who bankrolled ron paul's campaign with two point seven million and banks are foster freeze who propped up rick santorum for a couple million bucks and then there are the anonymous donors out there with the american people will likely never know about spending tens of millions of dollars on right wing super pacs these massive amounts of corporate and billionaire spending in our elections should worry all americans w

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. >> executive director of the center for public integrity discusses their report which ranks of 50 states according al0 states according to the most and least corrupt state governments. damien paletta talks about the cost of the disability program. >> this week on "q & a" a talk with the united states youth program held at the mayflower hotel in washington, d.c. [applause] >> good morning. i want somebody in the room to please tell me what this program is all about. we have some viewers out there in c-span that want to know. who wants to do that? >> this is the united states senate youth program. two delegates were chosen from each state to represent, it shows our leadership and an interest in public service. >> i need to know your name and where you're from. >> i am callie porter from oregon. >> who would like to add to that? what did you do? >> number one, we met the president. >> the big deal. where did you meet him? >> at the white house. he got off the helicopter. he met us. we took a picture with him. he talked to was a little bit and answered questions. >> were you nervous at? >> o

>> well, not just fairly extreme right wing conservatives but the center for public integrity has justne an analysis of where cross roads is getting its money from. and the vast majority, if i understand the center's analysis correctly, the vast majority are undisclosed and they are over $75,000 a piece. you contrast that with the contributions that at least the obama campaigns and super pacs are getting, the average amount and it is quite a stark contrast. i think for romney, he has a couple problems. one is the gordon gecko image. second this question of trust. whether you can trust what he says given that he's taken so many positions on so many issues. the third problem i think he has in addition to the demographic groups that ana marie touched on, whether he has a credible argument on the economy. the data shows, my one complain with the white house is that they haven't prosecuted this argument effectively enough. the data shows very strongly that the recovery plan of the president's has worked very, very well. we cited the data the other day on the show. i think the data is very m

he is a senior writer for the center for public integrity which is a nonprofit, non-partisan investigative news organization. in 2001 he published a real page turner. to the o'neal and the democratic century. his writing has received a slew of prizes including last night as you may know when jack receive a los angeles time book price for biography for clarence darrow. [applause] here are our panelists and off we go. before we get into the theme, who knows if we will stick to this scene or not? i have been looking for threads. having a devil of a time. i thought if each of you might begin we will start with you, dick, perhaps talking about how and why you got into writing about the berlin airlift especially considering the books that preceded it. >> there are two reasons. one was that jim wrote about eisenhower. i originally planned on that. i learned that he and evan thomas, former editor of newsweek were doing eisenhower and my agent said you must be out of your mind. the real reason that i wrote that book was on abu ghraib. i was so disturbed about the way america was -- what america was

host: talk about the center for public integrity and what you do their. guest: we are 22-year-old investigative news organization. we do major projects, getting data and documents, and then doing an investigation. those investigations show all over in the washington post or the new york times or "the huffington post" or npr, and the news hour. people use our work. right now we have a big project looking at money and politics in the super pacs. that is an area where we see a lot of money. host: where do you get your funding? guest: from foundations primarily and individuals. we also have some ads on our website and some revenue streams, but those are small. its foundations and individuals who believe in this. we don't really take corporate money or anonymous money. we show where the money's coming from and that is how we are supported. host: back to the phones. al is on the republican line for mare island. good morning. caller: >> if you could tell me where does road island rate? second, the bloody seyantes radio program -- buddy seya nt -- seyantees radio

of the health ratings center looking at doctors pushing back against medical tests and center for public integrity executive director looking at all 50 states and how they rank in terms of things like campaign finance and lobbying disclosure. and talk to damian paletta "wall street journal" financial reporter. that's all for today. thanks for being with us. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012]

. >> tomorrow on "washington journal" executive director for the center of public integrity discusses their report that brings all 50 states according to the most and least corrupt state governments. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> the british house of commons is in recess. the questions returns april 18. on tuesday, christine lagarde said the u.s. can move more slowly. she warned that the so be possible. >> thank you but for your leadership over the last decade and your love of the craft . our guest speaker is someone who attracts a dazzling array of superlatives. charismatic. collaborative. a firm. it tough. smart. smart.

for his generous support of our center. the ford foundation also for its general support of over activities and particularly today's conference we are grateful. the public welfare foundation is supporting our conviction integrityproject and we think them and also the manhattan district attorney's office are partnering with us on that. i bet you think the farm executive director designer who is now a private disk, but he was instrumental in planning today's event and invited all these great panelists obese eat today. my sister, laurie or a cd has worked tirelessly to get this entire event running and running smoothly i owe huge debt of gratitude to distinguish group of panelists thank you all very much the time you devoted to give to this effort and all of you for coming. so c-span is here and i want to tell you that, just so you can be excited by, but also if you choose to ask a question, if you are thereby can then change to have c-span area on television asking the question, so you are aware of that and you can decide if that affects your ability or desire to ask the question. so in terms of today's event, i've had several people say to me recently, what great timing for you that the tree and three martin st

for his generous support of our center, the ford foundation, also first general support of all of our activities and particularly also today's conference. we are grateful. the public welfare foundation is supporting our conviction integrity project and we think them and also the manhattan district attorney's office for partnering with us on that. i would like to thank the former executive director of the center, anthony barco who is nonprivate pack despite its instruments instruments in tiny today's event and invited all these great panelists to be seen today. my assistant, laura merritt cd was worked tirelessly to get the entire event running and running smoothly by jo a huge debt of gratitude to you and extinguish group of panelists and presenters i thank you all so much for the time you have devoted to get get two days after. and all of you for coming. the c-span is here and i wanted to tell you that just so you can be excited by it, but also if you choose to ask a question, you are thereby consenting to have c-span show you on television asking that question. you can decide if that affects your desirability to ask that question. in terms of today's event, i've had several people say to me recently, what great timing