two thousand and twelve presidential election was the most expensive in history in the center for responsive politics total spending or all races reached approximately six billion dollars outside groups those groups not technically affiliated with the candidates official campaign accounted for a billion of all expenses even scarier many of these groups funneled an unknown amounts of money into so-called shadow money organizations that don't have to report their figures to the federal election commission it could even be foreign governments could have been osama bin laden throughout american history big businesses use its economic might to manipulate the political process to its advantage but with the supreme court's two thousand and ten decision in citizens united versus federal election commission the corporatocracy won its greatest victory the supreme court struck down centuries of legislation and ushered in a new era of unfettered corporate interference in our democratic commons when you take money out of politics and restore integrity to the election process what's the best way to do that joining

committee between two thousand and eight and two thousand and eleven that's according to the center for responsive politics and that actually makes him the largest party recipient of monsanto funding as of late so what should we make of all of this since he is the one that actually put this part into the bill. this is perfectly typical of the kind of thing that monson does now and the biology chemistry and agriculture industrial giants have spent tens of millions of dollars hundreds of millions of dollars in fact lobbying washington and paying for campaign contributions etc and i think we all know that the person in charge of all associate the f.d.a. back in one hundred ninety two when the general policy was created was bugged out his former attorney and later my sandoz vice president and now the u.s. food safety czar back at the f.d.a. even the u.s. secretary of agriculture don't sack the biotech governor of the year when he was the iowa governor and gave monsanto an award in year two thousand so we have a situation where there's key people in the obama administration who are basically month sentiment or

help of monsanto why would he do that you might ask it could be because according the center for responsive politics senator blunt received nearly sixty five thousand dollars in campaign contributions monsanto between two thousand and eight and two thousand and twelve in fact one has been the largest republican recipient of funding for months and so in recent memory the good news here is that this provision that protects months and zero from judicial oversight expires after a year the bad news is that this little provision with a big impact is just a symptom of a much larger problem in america today right now any corporation with money to spend can team up with elected officials and slowly but surely tear away at our governmental protections it's really not even lobbying it's investing these companies will often make far more in profits than they spend on buying legislators like senator blunt it's an investment that has a measurable return investing in politicians it can be hugely profitable for generations corporations of flooded our democracy with mountains of corporate cash by an offer alike that

according to the center for responsive politics he spent more than $90 million trying to help republicansthe last election. he lost that bet and now his company could be in hot water with federal regulators. the company's sec filing indicated likely violations related to bribery law. they put out a news release titled . . . it calls the wyoming times coverage of the reporting inflammatory and defamatory. we'll be watching how this further influences adelson's political spending. coming up there is a saying -- they are saying you believe in something, and then there is going to the mat for it. daryl hannah has proven herself an environmental lead words and deeds. and why is the sports world so far behind the curve when it comes to the lbgt movement. and the message of hate continues. we'll take you behind the scenes of an exclusive current tv documentary. it's monday night in "the war room," and we are just getting started. billy zane stars in barabbas. coming in march to reelz. to find reelz in your area, go to reelz.com the chill of peppermint. the rich dark chocolate. york peppermint pa

in that ad, but the "daily beast's" john avlon looked at the figures compiled by the center for responsive politicsess what they found? palin spent $4.8 million this last election on consultants. consultants. the one she's dumping on. i suspect those consultants are more than happy to hear palin knock them as long as she keeps paying them. in fact, what do you want to bet it was a consultant who told her to make that video? what do you think? ♪ shimmy, shimmy chocolate. ♪ we, we chocolate cross over. ♪ yeah, we chocolate cross over. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing fiber one 80 calorie chocolate cereal. ♪ chocolate. it will if it's new outlast stay fabulous foundation. it's a primer, concealer and foundation in one for all day flawless skin. new outlast stay fabulous from easy, breezy, beautiful covergirl. >>> welcome back to "hardball." more than one republican has recently suggested it's time for the gop to stop being the stupid party. well, less than two weeks after the party's autopsy conceded they need to reach out to women, gays, and minorities, a republican member of the united states congre

evil consultants in that ad, but the "daily beast" looked at the figures compiled by the center for responsive politicsguess what they found? palin spent $4.8 million this last election on consultants. consultants. the one she's dumping on. i suspect those consultants are more than happy to hear palin knock them as long as she keeps pays them. in fact, what do you want to bet it was a consultant who told her to make that video? what do you think? let's go. from the crack, off the backboard. [ laughs ] dad! [ laughs ] whoo! oh! you're up! oh! oh! so close! now where were we? ok, this one's good for two. score! [ male announcer ] share what you love with who you love. kellogg's frosted flakes. they're gr-r-eat! >>> welcome back to "hardball." more than one republican has recently suggested it's time for the gop to stop being the stupid party. well, less than two weeks after the party's autopsy conceded they need to reach out to women, gays, and minorities, a republican member of the united states congress violated the new don't be stupid rule using a racial slur in a video interview. longtime alaska cong

elections are getting more and more expensive every cycle, the center for responsive politics has comehe 2012 election cycle. and are you ready for this? $6.3 billion, with a b. it was the most expensive election ever. it cost $2.6 billion to pick the president, $3.6 billion spent by candidates for congressional races and other groups. that's a lot of money. >>> and the first lady as a covergirl? she's on the cover of "vogue" magazine. we're hearing that she wore her own clothes, and this is not the first time for mrs. obama. she graced that cover back in 2009, as well. >>> coming up, the brain trust is here. we're going to take a look at what rob portman's turn on same-sex marriage will mean for the gop, if anything. >>> first, though, there's a former hacker here. he's talking right now, trying to mac my executive producer. we'll talk about why we need to worry about the cyber attack that's being waged on our nation's computer systems. you're watching msnbc, the place for politics. first kid you ready? [ female announcer ] second kid by their second kid, every mom is an expert and mo