they make a copy and bring them to the fec.they cannot put them on the website until they scan every single page on to the website. >> we are in the middle of the year. go through the process. if somebody spends $1 in the indiana senate race, when is the first time i can find that on the website? >> it should be every quarter after they announce that they are running. the most recent forms covered january, february, and march. those forms came out in mid april. >> the last quarter when you are running, you do not see that until the campaign is over? >> right. >> we talked about this earlier, the citizens for responsibility and ethics, legistorm -- do you have to pay for that information? >> i don't think so. i think that is free. that is congress's internal spending, committee expenditures, tvs, flowers. got to house.gov and look for the clerks' page. >> we talked about the "wall street journal" analysis that your researcher helped you on. the other thing is the freedom of information act that you cite periodically. how does th

i went through fec records and -- s.e.c. records and i was looking for what addresses, what houses or buildings were the biggest source of campaign cash to any candidate. >> you mentioned fec records. is that available to everyone? >> it is the agency that watches over campaign contributions. fec.gov is the website. anyone can go to the website and it is fairly easy to navigate. anyone can go there and try to look up who is donating to which candidates. >> you say the paw family in daly city, california. somebody tipped you off that this was happening. >> right. >> would that be somebody who was against hillary clinton? >> yes. there is nothing wrong with getting all the tips you can get from someone who has an agenda. there are few nice people who walk around telling you about a story to write. everyone has an agenda. as long as you know what their agenda is and as long as the facts are right, that is a story you can write about. you have to be very careful in getting tips and not carefully checking them out and writing sto

that is the most since the mid- 1970s when the fec started keeping records.is 700 more than the 2008 eltion. and so, it is an interesting indicator. i think it is another sign that there is a lot of unrest and it is particularly on the right. most of the candidates, most of the surge in candidates are on the republican side. we found about twice as many republicans as democrats. so, i think it is just another sign that folks on the right are not happy. some of them are willing to pony up thousands of dollars to try to run. it was nteresting to see what kind of people are running. we call a number of them, and a lot of them are first-time candidates, regular fol who have never run for office before. but they wanted to make a point. some of them are more seasoned politicians, who sense some blood in the water with incumbents and think that maybe ey can catch the wave with the tea party movement, or an anti-washington mood. host: ben evans, one of the folks you spoke to is the 59- ye-old accountant who made his first run for congress in georgia. he says is a mil

that is the most since the mid- 1970s when the fec started keeping records.t is 700 more than the 2008 election. and so, it is an interesting indicator. i think it is another sign that there is a lot of unrest and it is particularly on the right. most of the candidates, most of the surge in candidates are on the republican side. we found about twice as many republicans as democrats. so, i think it is just another sign that folks on the right are not happy. some of them are willing to pony up thousands of dollars to try to run. it was nteresting to see what kind of people are running. we call a number of them, and a lot of them are first-time candidates, regular folks who have never run for office before. but they wanted to make a point. some of them are more seasoned politicians, who sense some blood in the water with incumbents and think that maybe they can catch the wave with the tea party movement, or an anti-washington mood. host: ben evans, one of the folks you spoke to is the 59- year-old accountant who made his first run for congress in georgia. he say