more than $18 million has been spent by all of these dark money groups. our new analysis found that the top 15 organizations account for 75% of that surge of secret money and elections. we were really shocked that it was such a concentrated play. e groups that are supporting democrats, republicans, neither side want to be left behind and we have seen a surge of opaque organizations now active in election after election, year after year at, and most of the 15 organizations are still active in the 2018 midterms. host: if you have questions for our guest about this topic, his investigation, (202) 748-8000 for democrats, (202) 748-8001 for republicans, independents (202) 748-8002. you said 15 organizations, the top of the list, the u.s. chamber of commerce. how much of their interest in getting this money? guest: the chamber of commerce plays in politics in a number of different ways. they have a political action as theee and they ranked number one dark money spender since citizens united. the chamber alone has spent about $130 million on ads that are independ

we mentioned dark money, they have accused her -- she talks about how she is against dark money. her campaign material is often ending up in television ads paid for by democratic leaning dark money groups. on this particular thing, it hinges on how you define insurance companies. fromare taking this number the center for responsive politics. when that is bracketed out between car insurance companies, life insurance, health insurance companies, property insurance. fact thatt to the hawley realizes he really does need to combat this attack from mccaskill about the pre-existing conditions. host: before we leave you, tell us about the president's event tonight and what do we know about it as far as the format and who will be speaking? give us the details? you will see hawley on the stage. i don't know that the lineup has been disclosed. the president was scheduled to go to missouri last week and had to postpone that because of hurricane florence. every time trump has come to missouri, it is quite a show. he is going to springfield, missouri, which is going to be very important for th

those groups that has hidden contributors and yet they are running ads that are against so-called dark money. it is the height of hypocrisy. i think what we need to focus on is make sure that we have instantaneous notification on the contributions that the candidates are receiving, like all the lobbyist money that jon is receiving. he is the number one recipient of lobbyist contributions across the nation, more than chuck schumer, more than nancy pelosi. these are the kind of things people want to know. who are entering in and trying to affect our elections? john: we are going to go into the open discussion period and we will make this a little bit shorter. a chance for each of you to follow up on something that you've already mentioned to this point. sen. tester: i think you can take a look at the ads on tv, how many are paid for by dark money groups, the vast majority are his ads paid for by folks who we don't know who they are. he has lobbied some of them to get them to try to run ads in the state of montana which, by the way, is illegal. is tried to do everything to get our lawse spirit

they are running ads about fighting against so-called dark money. it is the height of hypocrisy. i think we need to focus on getting instantaneous notification on the contributions that the candidates are receiving, like all of the lobbyist money that jon is receiving. he is the number one recipient of lobbyist contributions across the nation. more than chuck schumer, more than nancy pelosi. these are the kinds of things that people want to know. >> thank you mr. rosendale, will going to the open discussion. now, we would try to make this a little shorter since we went through this a little earlier. a chance for some of you to mention something. sen. tester: if you look at the ads on tv, how many are paid for by the dark money groups, you can see the vast majority of his ads are by folks who we don't know who they are. he is actually lobbied some of them to run ads in the state of montana, which by the way is illegal. he is tried to do everything to get around of our spirit of campaign laws. i, on the other hand have supported time and time again efforts in washington dc to try an

dark money they swim in. blood for someone and she's going to sit and blame herself as part of the problem really own up honestly and say look i this is you know i'm like i'm part i mean i don't want to but are going to be part of the solution until she says that but just pointing it all at republicans rather. yes koch brothers all responses over the years in george soros are absolutely to blame for a lot of dark body problems but then you can't get like you can't then start working with them and protect you're going to fix the problem it's also interesting that all this too is that kind of like you know this this convenient patriotism versus loyalism kind of it's in an august piece for the new republic. democracy is democracy really dying and then he goes on the state that the case for optimism is easy to make in good times when conditions are dire conditions are dire nihilism looks like it's playing both sides again it's like yes it's which way is the wind blowing and that's the bush side yeah you know and

more than $18 million has been spent by all of these dark money groups. analysis found that the top 15 organizations account for 75% of that surge of secret money and elections. we were really shocked that it was such a concentrated play. e groups that are supporting democrats, republicans, neither side want to be left behind and we have seen a surge of opaque organizations now active in election after election, year after year at, and most of the 15 organizations are still active in the 2018 midterms. host: if you have questions for our guest about this topic, his investigation, (202) 748-8000 for democrats, (202) 748-8001 for republicans, independents (202) 748-8002. you said 15 organizations, the top of the list, the u.s. chamber of commerce. how much of their interest in getting this money? guest: the chamber of commerce plays in politics in a number of different ways. they have a political action as theee and they ranked number one dark money spender since citizens united. the chamber alone has spent about $130 million on ads that are independent of a

and dark money yes to blow. for trump when all the dark money in the world couldn't win her not one but two election it's a great point and the thing is like democrats and republicans both i mean they just . dark money they swim and packed. their life blood for someone and she's going to sit and blame herself as part of the problem and really own up honestly and say like look i this is you know like i'm part i mean i don't want to part of our government to be part of the solution until she says that but just pointing it all out republicans saying like all koch brothers and yes koch brothers all responses over the years in george soros are absolutely to blame for a lot of dark body problems but then you can't get like you can't then start working with them and protect we're going to fix the problem it's also interesting that all this too is that kind of like you know this convenient patriotism versus nihilism kind of thing it's you know in an august piece for the new republic with the showing. democracy democracy

before we start into the details, to find dark money. >> dark money means secret money. there are opaque organizations, secret organizations that are spending tens of millions of dollars in elections without include -- without the -- without disclosing their dollars. changed dramatically in 2010 when the supreme court issued the citizens united versus federal elections commission pulling. if you are a candidate running for office or a political party or political action committee. of the road iss you have to disclose to your donors -- disclose your donors. [applause] >> thank you all very much. veterans and friends, welcome to america's department of veterans affairs. i stood in the oval office and placed my hand on a bible that was carried into battle 100 years ago by my wife's grandfather. old, a teenager from the rural carolinas. he was one of 2 million young americans called across the .cean to perform deeds ordinary american men and women who never put their uniforms away, and who remind us every night that it was their sacrifices that allow us to sleep soundly. pre

before we start into the details, to find dark money. >> dark money means secret money. there are opaque organizations, secret organizations that are spending tens of millions of dollars in elections without include -- without the -- without disclosing their dollars. changed dramatically in 2010 when the supreme court issued the citizens united versus federal elections commission pulling. if you are a candidate running for office or a political party or political action committee. one of the rules

for as much as democrats like to lament dark money, money that comes from 501-c-4 organizations.are undisclosed. they are popularized by the citizens united. we areat talking about democrats who apparently deplore dark money. but they have set up not one level, not two levels, but three levels of secrecy in setting up this project, demand justice is a project of the 1630 foundation, those are both c-4s and partnered with hillary clinton's onward c-4 as well. all of their filings are obscured within each other's tax returns and we can't see them. >> you have spoken about how some of this could, and i say could, backfire on the democrats. i will do new polling on the weekend. >> it's not a surprise there are groups on the democratic side.y this oppose this nominee. there are groups on the republican side. we are here because a professor wrote a letter and senator feinstein wrongly held that letter. but that's why we are here. and i think the public wants some certainty here. real questions have been raised. even president trump says the professor's testimony was credible and i thin

the shadowy dark money front group that the network is spending tens of millions of dark money to push for your confirmation, they clearly have big expectations about how you will rule on dark moan. the nra poured millions into your confirmation, promising members that you will break the tide. they clearly have big expectations on how you will vote on guns. white house counsel don mcgahn admitted there is a coherent plan here where the judicial selection and the deregulatory effort are the flip side of the same point. polluters have big expectations for you on their deregulatory effort. finally, you come before us nominated by a president named in open court as directing criminal activity and a subject of ongoing criminal investigation. you displayed views on executive immunity from the law. if you are in that seat because the white house has big expectations that you will protect the president from the due process of law, that should give every senator pause. tomorrow we will hear a lot of confirmation ed kit. it is mostly a sham. you know the game. you coached judicial nominees to ju

influence our elections, the trump administration announced a new rule opening the floodgate to more dark money and foreign money in american politics. dark money groups used to be required to disclose their donors to the i.r.s. with this new trump rule, they won't be required to disclose at all. so, mr. president and colleagues, here is what this all means. over the next two months, while political ads flood the airways, millions of americans are going to wonder how much of this stuff is paid for by law-breaking foreigners and special interests because of the new rule the internal revenue service and law enforcement, they are going to be in the dark as well. there are a few reasons why this new rule is unjustifiable and undemocratic. first, it got no debate in the finance committee where we have jurisdiction over the tax code. it got more debate on the senate floor. i do recall my republican colleagues bemoaning what they considered to be anticonservative political interference by the internal revenue service, even when none was found. now, with a republican administration in office, they are

show that those were the same funders, because they are engaged in what is called, as you know, dark money funding. they don't report their donors. but i would be prepared to make a pretty substantial bet that there's enormous overlap between the judicial crisis network campaign for your confirmation and the federalist society donor group to the extent that we're aware of since so many of them are anonymous. hypothetically, should the american people have concern about the role of very, very big spenders and influencers doing things like being involved in the selection of a supreme court nominee and running dark money campaigns to support the confirmation of a nominee? is there any cause for concern there as a general proposition? >> senator, there are a lot of pr premises in your question. >> i'm not asking you to accept them as true. i'm asking you to accept it as a hypothetical. if there were very, very significant, big special interest funding behind the organization that was responsible for select iing you and recommending to the president that he nominate you and, again, from a very

show that those were the same funders because they are engaged in what is called, as you know, dark money funding. they don't report their donors. but i'd be prepared to make a very substantial bet that there is enormous overlap between the funders of the judicial crisis network campaign for your confirmation and the federalist society donor group to the extent that we're aware of it, since so many of them are aanonymous. hypothetically, should the american people have concern about the role of very, very big spenders and influencers doing things like being involved in the selection of a supreme court nominee and running dark money campaigns to support the confirmation of a nominee? is there any cause for concern there as a general proposition? >> there are a lot of premises in your question that i'm not sure about. >> i'm not asking to you to accept the policemenis as true. it's a hypothetical. if there were very, very significant big special-interest funding behind the organization that was responsible for it, selecting you and recommending to the president that he nominate you, and aga

. >> i understand the potential hazard there is that the unleashed power of unlimited political dark money then becomes like a ratchet, the obstacle to solving that problem and i hope you can understand that as a matter of political principle. >> i do understand the concerns about money in the political system. when i worked for -- in the time it takes all of you and when i worked for president bush in the 2004, 2003 and 2004 time frame and how many fundraisers he had to do and going back to the september 11th point and time and burden on the presidency, he had to do a lot of funderationing. >> it has gotten easier, you can set up 501 c-4 and drop tens of millions of dollars in and like that, the public doesn't know who is behind it, only very few people are in on what the deal is. so it has gotten easier since president bush, but not better. >> well, i think for some members, particularly in the house, if you are running for re-election and a third party group comes in against you, and you have to go out and fundraising and spend more time, as far as i concern, part of the concern over ye

show that those were the same funders, because they are engaged in what is called, as you know, dark moneyfunding. they don't report their donors. but i'd be prepared to make a very substantial bet that there's enormous overlap between the funders of the judicial crisis network campaign for your confirmation and the federalist society donor group to the extent that we're aware of it since so many of them are anonymous. hypothetically, should the american people have concern about the role of very, very big spenders and influencers doing things like being involved in the selection of a supreme court nominee and running dark money campaigns to support the confirmation of a nominee? is there any cause for concern there, as a general proposition? >> well, senator, there are a lot of premises in your question that i'm not sure about. >> i'm not asking you to accept the premises as true. i'm asking it as a hypothetical. if there were very, very significant, big special interest funding behind the organization that was responsible for selecting you and recommending to the president that he nomina

when you think dark money, that is what funds these campaigns. it is not terribly dark, we know who is spending the money on the campaigns, but they can pass it through knowing if your corporation x and you give $1 million to the ballot measure, then you know, nobody -- the average voter will not look at the advertisement on television and go back and find out has been paid for by corporation x. let me give you an example of corporate spending. there is a ballot measure in florida that would limit the number of casinos that can be built in the state. and this ballot measure is being funded in part by the seminal indian tribe, which has a number of casinos around the state, and by the disney corporation, which does not want anymore casinos taking away their entertainment dollars. host: scarlet, good morning. a democrat. caller: thank you for allowing me to speak this morning. please give me information on amendment one in missouri. guest: which one is that? the gerrymandering. guest: ah, yes. caller: election support. guest: good question. this is

he's talking about dark money. again, dark money being behind the federalist society and other organizations that have been putting conservative judges on the court. in both cases, i get the sense that they think they're not stopping the nomination, but they are raising questions both about the integrity of the nominee and whether or not there's a shadow or dark money hand behind him pushing him on president trump even and secondly about the court again being influenced by money in terms of which cases come before it and whether the court is being pushed in a direction that is not in keeping with the true interests of the american people. >> all right, judge. favorite federalist paper. >> i'll take madison. we have a government because men are not angels. look, there's three audiences here. one is senator paul, senator collins and senator mccall. the second is the general public. i'm with chris wallace. i have tooth picks keeping my eyes open during senator whitehouse who i thought was going to be aggressive. he pu

>> for as much as democrats like to lament dark money, these are contributions that are unlimited torganizations and undisclosed. these groups were popularized by the great decision and citizens united. we're talking about democrats who apparently deplore dark money, but they have set up not one level, not two levels, but three levels of secrecy in setting up this project. demand justice is a project of the 1630 foundation. those are both c4's. and it's partnered with hillary clinton's c4 as well. that means all of their filings are obscureded within each other's tax returns and we can't see them. >> some of this could, and i say could, backfire on the democrats. >> look, i don't think it's a surprise that there are groups on the democratic side that genuinely oppose this nominee and the entire list of federalist nominees and groups on the republican side. we are here because a professor wrote a letter and senator feinstein wrongly held that letter. and that's why we're here. and the public wants certainty here. even president trump said the professor's testimony was credible. and i

chair, we're talking about all this dark money and efforts going on the other side.got an email from organizing for action. y'all would know that as the legacy campaign of president obama. telling me to oppose you because you're going to deny reproductive rights, deny health care coverage. advance climate change and in a bad way and end gun violence prevention. i don't know near as much about the institutions of government as let's say senator sasse, but i'm pretty sure once get confirmed on the bench you're not going to be able to file a bill to do any of that. what you may end up doing is finding out we got lazy, we didn't work hard enough, we didn't understand the constitution, we didn't reach across the aisle to create enduring value which is largely the reasons why people get frustrated with you. they want you to do our job. justice gorsuch sid numerous times in his confirmation hearing, it's not my job to do your job, mr. senator. if you're frustrated and worried about the prospects of somebody being able, denied coverage, for preexisting conditions, then les f

. >>> michael beckel of issue one and the findings of the group's investigation into dark money spending. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7 eastern monday morning. >>> a discussion about cold war espionage and counterintelligence during the truman and spit -- >>> let's talk about who we have today, i am very excited to have mr. lee lacey. he is an assistant professor in fort leavenworth. he teaches an advanced operation course to mid-level military officers. he is a graduate of the university of arkansas, received a masters from webster university. he is been published in several academic journals on topics of intelligence, history, leadership, and education. he has served 28 years as a military intelligence officer and that service included two tours in the balkans. first we have doctor sam or shay. i have the pleasure of having an office a few doors down from the same every day. sam has a phd in history from ohio university and he also received his ba from ohio state and his ma from ohio university. i would like to begin this program by welcoming doctor ruth shea to the sta

we mentioned dark money earlier and they accused her while she talks about a she's against dark money and her campaign material is often ending up -- ♪ ♪ [applause] >> my name is joe biden and i am joe biden's husband and i'm delighted you all are here. i know this is highly unusual what i'm about to do but before we begin i'd like my entire

dark money into our politics.ssouri. one of the reasons i thought this was interesting is because from what i see on the ground and among pretty much every woman i run into, including republican women, they are very weary of kavanaugh. back in 2012 kavanaugh ran against aiken and it shows how far we've fallen, that trump's own record of sexual assault could not be disqualifying. the political culture has shifted and not just in missouri. it's nationwide. >> we talk a lot about suburban republican women and how they might be swayed to vote for democrats. >> i think every place is a combination of different voter blocks. it's unwise to focus on one. i do think women are fed up. it's not necessarily something that will translate directly into support or nonsupport of a political candidate because every candidate is complex. for example if you're pro-life that might be your issue and you may be bothered by these allegations but you still may vote for them. i think women are fed up. i think people are fed up. i think i

then big business and partisan groups funded the judicial crisis network which runs dark money criticalcampaigns to influence senators in confirmation votes, as they've done for gorsuch and now for you. who pays millions of dollars for that and what their expectations are is a deep, dark secret. these groups also fund republican election campaigns with dark money and keep the identity of big donors a deep, dark secret, and of course 90% of your documents are to us a deep, dark secret. then once the nominees on the court, the same business front groups with ties to the koch brothers and other funders of the political machine file friend of the court or amicus briefs to signal their wishes to the roberts five. who is really behind those friends is another deep, dark secret. it has gotten so weird that republican justices now even send hints back to big business interests about how they would like to help them next. and then big business lawyers rush out to lose cases, to lose cases, just to rush up before the friendly court, pronto. that's what happened in the fredericks/janus episode. bi

massachusetts loved -- so in 2016 went dark money flooded into the state to support a referendum thatwould increase the charter school the initiative was resoundingly disputed by voters by a 2-1 margin. it's not only in massachusetts that public schools are beginning to be defended by their local communities. there's a wonderful blogger by the name of jennifer berkshire who has a tremendous podcast that i would recommend to you. called have you heard? is also writing the book and she's been traveling the midwestern states to talk to local communities about how they feel about their schools. one of the places that she visited and spent some time is is -- you may remember that wisconsin is where governor walker and the republican legislature stripped the states public-sector unions of their bargaining rights. what is less well-known is at the same time they also stripped just under $600 per pupil, excuse me 600,000 people from education. what jennifer hirscher has found is that from affluent communities wisconsinites became tax-free for their schools. truly grassroots movement. in newar

but massachusetts loves its public schools so in 2016, when dark money flooded into the state to support a referendum that increase the charter school cap, the initiative was resoundingly defeated by voters by a two-to-one margin. and it's not only in massachusetts that public schools are beginning to be defended by their local communities. there's a wonderful massachusetts blogger named jennifer berkshire who produces a terrific education podcast called, have you heard. she's also working on a become. and she has been traveling mid-western states they delivered the presidency to donald trump to talk to local communities about how they feel but their schools. one place she visited and spend time in is wisconsin. you've may remember that wisconsin is where governor walker and the republican legislature strip the state public sectorowns of bargaining rights. what is less well known is that at the same time they stripped just under $600 per pupil -- they cut $600 per pupil from education funding. and what jennifer berkshire has found is that from poor rural districts to more affluent commun

show that those were the same funders, because they are engaged in what is called, as you know, dark money funding. they don't report their donors. but i'd be prepared to make a very substantial bet that there's enormous overlap between the funders of the judicial crisis network campaign for your confirmation and the federalist society donor group to the extent that we're aware of it since so many of them are anonymous. hypothetically, should the american people have concern about the role of very, very big spenders and influencers doing things like being involved in the selection of a supreme court nominee and running dark money campaigns to support the confirmation of a nominee? is there any cause for concern there, as a general proposition? >> well, senator, there are a lot of premises in your question that i'm not sure about. >> i'm not asking you to accept the premises as true. i'm asking it as a hypothetical. if there were very, very significant, big special interest funding behind the organization that was responsible for selecting you and recommending to the president that he nomin

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we're talking about all this dark money and efforts going on the other side. i got an e-mail from organizing for action. y'all would know that as the legacy campaign of president obama. telling me to oppose you because you're going to deny reproductive rights, deny health care coverage, advance clie mma change in a bad way and end gun violence prevention. i don't know about the institutions of government as say senator sass but i'm sure once you get confirmed you won't be able to file a bill to do that. what you may do is find out we got lazy. we didn't work hard enough. we didn't understand the constitution. we didn't reach across the aisle which is largely the reasons people get frustrated with you. justice gorsich said numerous times in his confirmation hearing, it's not my job to do my job mr. senator. if you're frustrated and worried about the prospects of something being denied coverage for pre-existing conditions then let's fix it. that's why i filed a bill a a couple of weeks ag a couple of weeks ago. a couple of weeks ago. a couple of weeks ago. a cou

have contributed to our effort that is what other problems we see in politics is the influx of dark money people are not willing to identities so we aim to be transparent in addition many candidates don't acceptal contributions from the political action committees because the corrosive nature of money in politics one of the recent by that dysfunction and gridlock. >>host: one more call go ahead. >> caller: neck i really applaud what you are trying to do but the demographics that you point out to 40% independent or more we need to do something the two parties are so polarized right now so what is your background that caused you to get into this? how do i get involved? and a general comment, both parties seems to be tax-and-spend the other raises taxes and spend more had we get out of the vicious cycle before a balanced budget amendment? i have been involved in government from a business perspective andpe i realize we have a government of the lawyers final lobbyist filled by corporate executives. >> thanks for the question the work we are doing has been a journey ever since getting involved

here five years and i have seen the culture of washington change because of the obscene amount of dark moneyuring into our political process, corrupting our political process, rigging the system. this nomination will have an affect on that. i've seen americans all over this country, it's the bipartisan work that i've done with senators on the other side who feel entrapped by a broken criminal justice system, one that is -- we know disproportionately targets black and brown americans. where many americans believe we have a system that now treats you better if you're rich and guilty than poor and innocent. these issues are in the balance now. everyone who is concerned about these issues and more are wondering what the story of america is. we have this great leader, a man named king who said the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. there are so many americans who fought for these fundamental rights, family members who they remember, union organizers, activists, women's rights activists who fought for, struggled for and died for many of these rights. the right for wome

the shadowy dark money group is spending tens of millions in dark money to push for your confirmation. they clearly have big exceptions about how you'll rule on dark money. the n.r.a. has poured millions into your confirmation promising their members that you'll break the tie. they clearly have big expectations on how you'll vote on guns. white house counsel don mcgann admitted, there is a coherent plan here. where actually the judicial selection and the deregulatory effort are really the flip side of the same coin. big polluters clearly have big expectations for you on their deregulatory effort. finally, you come before us nominated by a president named in open court as directing criminal activity and a subject of ongoing criminal investigation. you displayed expansive views on executive immunity from the law. if you are in that seat, sir, because the white house has big expectations that you will protect the president from the due process of law, that should give every senator pause. tomorrow we'll hear a lot of confirmation etiquette. it's mostly a sham. you know the game. in the b

laws, lift restrictions on dark money in politics, oppose financial protections, for families and consumers undermine environmental justice, and his views on so many other issues will undoubtedly stifle any ability to move forward on concerns affecting our community and cause irreparable harm to the everyday lives of americans and to our immigrant communities for generations to come. we are here today urging the senate to defeat kavanaugh's nomination for the supreme court of the united states. and with that, i want to yield to my distinguished colleague, representative loui ivative lui. >> first of all, over 70% of the american people believe that a woman's reproductive system is hers, to decide. and that this is decided. if you allow kavanaugh he will overturn roe versus wade. for someone a little older than my colleagues here, i was born in 1953, when separate but equal was the law of the land. i don't want to go back to a time when women are in the kitchen, blacks are in the back of the bus and gay people are in closet. and latinos like me don't have voting rights, we don't even have th

deep dark these groups also fund republican election campaigns with dark money and keep the identity of big donors a deep dark secret andct of course 90%f your document are to us a deep dark secret. then what the nominees on the court with ties to the coke brothers and on their funders of the political machines for a of the court for amicus briefs to signal their wishes. who is really behind those friends is another deep, dark secret. tit's gotten so weird the republican justices now you can send him back to big business interests about how they'd like to help them next and w then big business lawyers rush out to lose cases, to lose cases, just to brush up before the family court pronto. that is what happened in the friedrichs janice episode. the u.s. chamber of commerce is the biggest corporate lobby at the moment for big coal, oil, tobacco, firmer, guns can you name it. i miss your writing the chamber 19 out of 10 cases that weighed in on. since 2006 had given the chamber more than three quarters of their total votes. this year in all civil cases they voted for the chambers position

and a third is, the lady that talked about george soros, there is all kinds of dark money in our political system now. and a lot of this goes back to the citizens united and mccutchen decisions which opened the floodgates to anybody being able to contribute as much money as they wanted to and to whomever they wanted to to fix elections. there is fault on both sides. >> well, rob, can you go to your first point again? and explain that a little bit. >> okay. if you go back, if you look at the dred scott decision, for example, the kruk shank decision in 17 i believe it was 1777, or excuse me, 1877, excuse me and citizens united votes, and i could name any number of nominations. frankly i don't think clarence thomas should be sitting on the court right now for what he did when he was on the eeoc. that kind of got glossed over because the concentration on the anita hill controversy. and i would point out that he's sitting on the supreme court right now. justice scalia has been accused of violations of the judicial canons and some other justices have, too. but the judicial canons do not apply to

they don't want americans to investigate dark money.y don't want americans to close the loopholes which allow for an intervention in american elections. we're not doing that. they don't want us to change our basic reliance on fossil fuels because fossil fuels are the source of the power of the russian elite. we're not doing that. on all the basic issues, including investigating cyberwar itself, which would seem to be absolutely fundamental since the cyberwar of 2016 was a violation of american sovereignty, on all of the basic issues it's actually striking how they're winning. we've just gotten used to the fact that they're the new norm. >> professor, that really is quite chilling because you are describing a supine west. the part of the world with the rule of law, with all sorts of checks and balances and institutions that are meant to maintain as america has always called itself the exceptional nation. exceptionalism. what are you saying about that, then? >> i think in order to be exceptional you have to behave exceptionally. part of o

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i found out he supported dark money coming in the campaigns which is anybody knows, there is more darkoney coming into these campaigns in there on of there campaigns than ought to be. for those reasons and all the reasons brought up last week, i made a decision yesterday to vote no on judge kavanaugh. i don't think he has the merits nor the background to meet the needs of the supreme court and i certainly don't think he understands the challenges we have in montana from a fourth amendment privacy standpoint. >> thank you senator. rosendalebill -- mr. ? >> i would like to say i am disgusted with how this has progressed. here we have dr. for two clearly experienced some tragedy in her life and then we have the judge, a commendable honorable man who has served -- who has served extremely well over the past years and he was smeared as well. what disturbs me as much is that this all could have been avoided. we have the senior member of the democratic party dianne feinstein who withheld information for 60 days that this could of been conducted in a fashion that they could have gathered infor

before this last week, and placed it on the fact she worried that brett kavanaugh would condone dark moneys to say, allow 501 c4's to spend money and political. >> money and politics how horrible never happens? how horrible. >> a woman has a bigr war which of the than republican opponent in indiana donnelly tried to place in it more amorphous unfit because of record but look, it will hurt, it will hurt one way or the other, think about heidi high camp north dakota if she supports cav will enrage left of her party lose a couple points over there will go vote for a green party candidate for throw away ballot if you are a democrat in red state no easy explanation to -- to be in favor of cav and you will pay a price if you are against him similar larly blue state ease for a commensurate to say against him, and very did i to be for him. >> i tell you what, my in box meal filing up with people say if republicans reject kavanaugh after these they will lose, i will not vote for them, this is what they say, and they will deserve to lose. do you think that is in fact what will happen? >> that is why

before this last week, and placed it on the fact she worried that brett kavanaugh would condone dark moneyaigns that is to say, allow 501 c4's to spend money and political. >> money and politics how horrible never happens? how horrible. >> a woman has a bigr war which of the than republican opponent in indiana donnelly tried to place in it more amorphous unfit because of record but look, it will hurt, it will hurt one way or the other, think about heidi high camp north dakota if she supports cav will enrage left of her party lose a couple points over there will go vote for a green party candidate for throw away ballot if you are a democrat in red state no easy explanation to -- to be in favor of cav and you will pay a price if you are against him similar larly blue state ease for a commensurate to say against him, and very did i to be for him. >> i tell you what, my in box meal filing up with people say if republicans reject kavanaugh after these they will lose, i will not vote for them, this is what they say, and they will deserve to lose. do you think that is in fact what will happen? >>

. >>> a supreme court decision could force dark-money groups to disclose the names of their donors.e midterms the high court let stand a federal judge's earlier ruling. the names of donors to nonprofits' political campaigns will have to be reported starting today. some loopholes remain such as ads that focus on issues instead of candidates. supporters of the change like democratic sec commissioner ellen weintraub call it a victory for transparency. dark groups expressed disappointment but said it is confident it can navigate the morass and comply with the law. >>> take a look at this crazy video. burning up, if you will, the internet right now. firefighters in british columbia versus a firenado. crews trying to extinguish it when the firenadic o snatched u the hose. it was more than 300-feet high and threw burning logs across the fire-control line for 45 minutes. they eventually got the hose back, but it was melted. british columbia is experiencing one of the worst fire seasons on record. >>> cnn meteorologist pedram javaheri monitoring the flooding ongoing in the carolinas, now tur

. >> we have a lot of dark money in politics, even in san francisco where we have probably some of the stronger campaign finance law. and, you know, even though we're limited to $500 perdonation, somehow, we have candidates who come in with, you know, .5 million. i'd like to see more public financing available at a lower level, but on top of that, you know, i would like to see more accountability coming from the ethics commission to track where these donations are coming from. personally, i have a very people-based campaign, so i'm not taking any corporate dollars in my campaign at all. >> thank you very much. and mr. mar? >> i -- i'm proud to have qualified for the city's public financing matching program, and through that, i've agreed to a voluntary spending cap of $250,000, and i'm able to get city matching funds for my campaign. by qualifying, we've been able to show that i -- or my campaign or i have broad base support, i'm in the neighborhood in the city from a large range of small, individual donors, so that's a key part of my campaign. i do want to say, though, that the city's

big republican special interests using the unlimited dark money power the supreme court gave them to mount tv ad campaigns for supreme court nominees. big republican special interests funding frequent flyer -- so-called friends of the court offering constant instruction and encouragement to the five republicans on the supreme court and big republican special interests on the winning side of those 70, 5-4 partisan victories, the fruits of their political labor. people are catching on. the record of this is undeniable, and as i said, it will be a disaster for the court. i yield my time. >> i think i should try to clarify about the calendar that senator whitehouse put up there. the entry has six boys listed for july 1st, 1982. it says go to timmy's house for squi's with judge, tom, pj, bernie and squi. dr. ford said there were four boys there. the calendar entry lists six, plus kavanaugh. that's seven. that's the wrong gathering. two allegations made by my colleague are incorrect. first, i never terminated an fbi investigation. i didn't have any authority to open or close an fbi investi