bloomberg bonnie quinn spoke to the attorney general leading the fight against the fec. xavier becerra. >> it's beginning what i hope is win.ht we can that means lot of people in this country will no longer have access to that internet the way they've expected it. we all want choices. we want the freedom to choose. if you get rid of net neutrality, all of a sudden, you go toward a system where the have it all. >> what about the idea that the signed anjust executive order to make it easier for companies to put areas.and in rural >> it won't work. a companyy would invest money in a rural area where you can't make that much money? people.en't too many instead of going into the higher income areas of the country or areas. populated that's exactly why you need to have net neutrality so there's by theng of the system providers of the service. terms of water or education, electricity, we don't tol companies that get dispense water or electricity or places that get to provide kids.ion for our you decide where you want to go based on money. we know where they'll go, where there's

fec is in charge of civil enforcement authority.ey don't have to prove violations beyond a reasonable doubt, for example. whereas the dep of justice, they're in charge of criminal prosecutions. that would mean a criminal trial where they would have to prove violations of the law beyond a reasonable doubt. burden of proof is different in both cases. what we're calling for at this stage is an investigation. that's the job of both of these agencies early on. it looks like there was a violation here. there are a couple of differences, important differences in the factual scenarios between donald trump, stormy daniels, and john edwards prosecution that was mentioned earlier in this segment. namely that with respect to john edwards, there was no evidence in the record there that miss hunter, john edwards' girlfriend at issue in that matter, that she was about to talk to the press, that she was about to go public before an election. john edwards' lawyers made a big deal of that, they did so successfully, leading to a deadlocked hung jury.

i'm not sure the fec will. but they can sue the fec if it doesn't go forward. >> larry noble, thanks so much for joining us. >> my pleasure. >>> as these reports surface, by the way, the first lady of the united states suddenly cancelling her trip with the president to davos, switzerland this week. what's behind that? new questions. stay with us. liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. your body was made for better things than rheumatiod arthritis. before you and your rheumatologist move to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. it can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections,

so they want the department of justice, they want the fec to investigate.re are a lot of questions here. wolf, that probably need to be answered, and certainly, where did this money come from? if all of this is true, and we should note, michael cohen, the president's attorney at the time, is not denying that there was -- that money was exchanged. he's denying there was an affair. let's say if this money was exchanged, there are reasonable questions that need to be asked about why was this done basically a month before the election? the president, mr. trump, is now the president. there could be all sorts of blackmail questions, so certainly, a lot of people have raised the issue that the fbi probably would need to look into this and should look into this. >> the allegation that there was money provided a month before the election through some llc in delaware. that was first reported by the "wall street journal" the other day, so jeffrey toobin, do they common cause and others who see an in kind campaign contribution, do they have a case? >> if we were functi

manning, who filed with the fec on thursday said she will run for maryland's a u.s. senate seat as a democrat challenging incumbent did the democrat ben carton. yesterday, manning announced her run on twitter releasing her first campaign ad. we don't need more or better leaders. we need someone willing to fight. we need to challenge them at every level. we need to fix this. we don't need them any more. we can do better. you're -- right we got this. >> meanwhile, utah governor gary herbert told the "new york times" that mitt romney has privately told friends he's running for senate herb hasenat. romney is seens as an early favorite to fill orrin hatch's seat. and in wisconsin, randy price has raise dollars $1.2 million for his campaign. brice raised the money through 102,000 contributions, averaging $24 to $25 each. according to fec filings, contributions from new york and california topped prices donations with wisconsin donors coming in third. >>> the former governor of virginia teased the potential presidential run over the weekend. the democrat who just finished h

3 should the fec look into it?hink there is the issue that needs to be answered about in-kind donation, but the political question is do people care, and the answer is there is a scandal du jour. there used to be soup du jour, with this president there is a scandal du jour. it's like going to the butcher shop, you have to take a number and a lot of us care more about russia and his racist comments and fixing immigration rather than if he got spanked on the butt with a "forbes" magazine. what i want to know is who was on the cover? we are on the level where it doesn't matter anymore because there is so much. >> are we -- >> we are at this point, that these things are -- this is all very up fortunate. >> look, allison. what is your magazine of choice, matt? >> to get spanked on the butt, ana? >> i would want your picture on it, is that a deal? >> oh, my goodness gracious! >> i think this is an outrageous waste of time. >> did you think it was an outrageous time for john edwards when there were reports about john edwa

>>> also a brand-new filing with the fec that the trump campaign allegedly broke the law with that hush money. a new break in that story, and a special beat report on what we were just discussing, the d.r.e.a.m.ers and how donald trump is breaking with bipartisan consensus about immigration law. i'll explain later in the show. i'm ari melber. you're watching "the beat" on msnbc. i no wondering, "what if?" uncertainties of hep c. i let go of all those feelings. because i am cured with harvoni. harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. it's been prescribed to more than a quarter million people. and is proven to cure up to 99% of patients who've have had no prior treatment with 12 weeks. certain patients can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. before starting harvoni, your doctor will test to see if you've ever had hepatitis b, which may flare up and cause serious liver problems during and after harvoni treatment. tell your doctor if you've ever had hepatitis b, a liver transplant, other liver or kidney problems, hiv or any other medical condi

i would just add to that, with the base, also there's a part of the base that i think would see an fec investigation or a trial as an attack on the president by the deep state or establishment over something that's long ago been litigated, over something that he denies in a way that would make this politically only >> jeffrey, go ahead. >> but just think about the parallel universe we are in. let's change some names. president obama personal lawyer paid the porn star for silence? what a great story that would be? who george bush paid money to porn store. that would be earthquake. this is whatever. it's unbelievable. >> it's because people shrug and say it's donald trump what do you expect. another thing i would add is that you haven't heard anything from the first lady on this. you haven't heard anything from her. she is not going to davos. they didn't publicly wish each other happy anniversary yesterday. so what. the point is she has kept very silent about this. and so people kind of shrug. and conservative evangelical group is giving him a mulligan, why shouldn't everyone else? these

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lot of activity from the sec at in these names, they should be careful in using their power but the fecc is needed to protect investors from people that would take the money went from them. someone out there is certainly praying on investors and they are not taking any action on any other companies in the bitcoin universe and yet the notion of a tweet just sort of sticks in the craw because they haven't done much besides tweet. >> i think eric is dying to jump in here. >> i don't apply debt that it is not paying attention, they came out with a statement last week alerting investors to the risks of cryptocurrency investments, telling a market that it is vigilant, pursuing potential enforcement acts and making people and reminded people that weis not as anything that can do, a buy or be working of market. even if the fcc finds fraud and pursues it to it's very end. be no money left at the end of the day. >> that is not what the job is. the job is to do more than that. the job is investor protection, and promoting efficient and competitive capital market is another one of their jobs and th

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-- i can to think with the fec that enforcement division should be more powerful but there is a way to empower career civil servants to enforce some of these laws with oversight from the political appointees. i don't think it's impossible for that to become oge, but i ao respect your point of view as having run oge and it doesn't have to be within oge. >> that's a thought. >> i do, actually. i think there's something to be said for a culture of voluntary compliance and for people, a lot of agencies try to come and take her in a financial sector try to combine like supervision with enforcement, and the sort of confessor role and then the enforcement role here i think that's a larger discussion of how well that works and maybe they should be disaggregated. on conflict of interest for the president, that is were i do disagree. i think the reality is that the president is uninvolved in the vast majority of government decisions, that even some very high-profile decisions, the president is supposed to stand up like whether to prosecute people i know that is not the current occupants philo

the complaint is baseless along with the allegation that president trump filed a false report to the fec. now paul, when my producer asked why it was baseless he said he would explain in due time. what do you think of that? >> he sure will. if he's continuing to represnt the president. or has involvement with the campaign committee. he'll be explaining himself. he sounded nervous to me. >> okay. why do you think that sounds nervous? >> overly defensive. in my opinion. it's cheer from wall street journal he set up an llc and they made an $130,000 payment to stormy daniels lawyer. that has been reported and confirmed. he's declaring that seemingly declaring none of it happened. >> yeah. what do the doj have to prove. ha evidence do they have to find? >> they have different enforcement authority. civil authority. doesn't have to prove violation beyond a reasonable doubt. the department of justice is in charge of criminal prosecution. that would mean a criminal trial to prove violations or of the law beyond a reasonable doubt. so burden of proof is different in both cases. and what we're cal

you're asking the fec to investigate this contribution or whether it was a contribution.are -- they have been very slow about this kind of thing. they can take years, even, to look into this stuff. >> they sure have been slow. i'd use the word dysfunctional. that's one of the reasons we sent it to the department of justice as well. they both share authority when it comes to our campaign finance laws. they both have a job to do it. and stormy daniels, whose real name is being protected on this show because who wants to live the rest of their life with this story with donald trump. she was in south carolina entertaining voters in a club in south carolina which voted overwhelmingly for donald trump. and this is the kind of thing that trails the trump presidency these days. >> the piece of the story that baffles me is vice president pence from jerusalem insisting that these allegations are baseless. how would he know? why does he keep repeating these things so confidently without the knowledge. he's being led into positions where he says false things. he's a good christian, i

this op-ed was by former fppc and fec chair anne raffle and two law professors from u.c. davis and abbey wood from the university of southern california. a the october commission meeting, members of the public and the commission expressed interest of having staff look into these proposals and analyze whether or not they could be possible action items for the commission to take. so, as a result, we followed up with anne ravel and we had a meeting in our office on november 20 that commissioners lee and chu were present at as well as a lot of our staff members to look at different aspects of how these proposals could possibly be implemented and this memo sets forth some of the major proposal and what staff believes would be the best way forward on these. starting on page two, the major proposele that staff believes is worthwhile to do further analysis of is a concept of a kind of archive wherein online platforms think of facebook, twitter, and other websites that provide advertising space or other areas for people to spread political communications. these kind of platforms w

>> this is his history, and he drove the fec into the ditch to prevent it from the election law, so whatld stop this man from undermining the department of justice's independence. there was a report he went to find out about a fisa warrant, something any white house counsel would not do. the role of the white house counsel is to keep the white house out of trouble, and it's an imposing figure that makes president's nervous, and that's not don and he's over his head in that job and i question whether he has the character he needs to be able to do that. >> what are you saying? what are you calling for with don mcgann? >> don mcgann should go back in time and undo what he did. >> thank you very much for expressing your strong feelings to us this morning. appreciate talking to you. >> thank you. >>> we are following a lot of news this morning, so let's get right to it. >>> "the new york times" published a blockbuster story about president trump's efforts to keep control of the russian investigation. >> it speaks to the very depths of deprivilege tea of the white house. >> i have never heard

technology, and they would become as an of complying with fec rules.hey also made other comments that were interesting. moviepass said it had surpassed 1.5 million subscribers. it is a service where you pay a monthly fee and you can go and see as many movies as you want, as long as they are not amc theaters because they are not participating. other theater chains have not been big fans. the company has a goal of 3 million subscribers by august. they have been growing pretty quickly. they also talked about having no more cash to burn within 60 days. cash neutral to the overal business, also interesting. bitcoinf you are a owner -- what is the crypto link? julie: there will be some sort of initial point offering. i can only guess at what that would be. there are situations where ipos make sense. instead of your monthly fee, would you instead invest? i don't know exactly how it works. the mere mention was enough. gettingo talked about more revenue for studios that are paying them for data. that would be a part of their kapstream. -- their cash stream. jul

. >> whether there was an fec violation.l dough hcohen paid fo with his own money, i doubt that, karen mcdougal. who was paid by national inquire irto not tell her story, that look maybe like a third party pay. in this case, i know donald trump like to pay for much himself but this might be the rare case he does pay with his own money. >> there's no denial on the record that the money was paid. >> not only that but michael cohen, trump's personal attorney, released stormy daniels's statement. it's almost a finger in the eye if you're trying to make the case that you did not make a deal with someone, why do you release their statement? maybe they would release their statement. it also sounded like it was written by donald trump. i don't think that, but somehow people take on this guy's lin go. >> we could all take take on his lin go. we could all write a donald trump statement. >> trust me, rachel. >> i want to underscore one last thing you said there. if the national enquirer bought the story, paid that woman $150,000 to mak

>> whether there was an fec violation. if michael cohen paid for it with his own money, i doubt that. karen mcdougal, who was paid by "national inquirer" to not tell her story, that looks maybe like a third party paid. in this case, i know donald trump doesn't like to pay for much himself, but this might be the rare case where he does pay with his own money. >> again, there was no denial on the record that the money was paid. >> which is why she was trying to sell her story as an alternative. it's interesting. there's a market for everything. the market price for a porn star selling her silence about donald trump seems to rage about 130 to $150,000 depending on the date in early october or november. but after november 8th it would have dropped. >> so she's telling you that she is in negotiations to try to get an mda, try to get money out of trump in exchange for her silence. she's talking to you and other media outlets to get her leverage. it also sounded like it was written by donald trump. i don't think that, but somehow

so congress passed a law in 2012, among other things, that required the fec to auction off more spectrum to cellular providers. as result, forced them to take another look at all of their rules relating to spectrum, including the rules related to tv white spaces. ofre is a whole network manufacturers -- chip manufacturers, manufacturers that make the components for the devices that make tv white spaces work. they're ready to go. they're ready to produce at scale. but they need to know. they need regulatory certainty, so that they know their will in fact be a market for their product, if in fact they go ahead and do so. we know the technology works. we think it can be a sustainable business. it's what we're trying to prove with our pilots. and we'd love to work with some of you governors to make this happen. >> great. we'd love to do that. i've had some discussions around the net neutrality and i think it would have a positive effect. i think it would expand net neutrality into some different regions and provide kind of a balance. governor walker, you had a question? >> i did, i had a que

and that was investigated as an fec violation, which is what you were getting at tonight. >> yeah. whatever you think about, you know, the president and his, you know, pants and stuff, the issue of money here matters. particularly when one of these alleged payments happened a month before the election. another one around that same time. these are both very credibly reported payments, $130,000 payment, $150,000 payment. if the "national enquirer" made that as an inkind to the trump campaign, that has implications. the $130,000 that hasn't been denied, we have no idea of the source. but a month before the election, there's potential criminal campaign finance implications there. so again you don't have to care about the sex part of it to know this could be a serious story for the president. >> i think it's one of the stories because there's a sex part of it we're distracted from the strike zone of the story you found, which is where the focus should be. >> i put on like as me to bag and glasses with the aviator sides on it. no distractions. >> you've read more of it than i have. >> i

but facebook formally opposed it when lobbying the fec. how the company will prevent ads that practice housing discrimination. and he does not publish the metrics facebook will use to determine if it's even winning this battle against fake news and election interference. any one of those specific goals would be a place to start. without a measurable goal, as i think silicon valley knows well, there is no way to measure improvement. peter destructor put it simply. what's measured improves. which brings us back to what we might call the zuckerberg standard for new year's resolutions. because we checked. and all ten resolutions that he has done had specific numerical goals. 50 states, 25 books, 365 miles. numbers keep people honest. you either visit 50 states or you don't, and we all know. whether facebook protects against abuse or interference will always be debatable without specifics. and you know when facebook does not settle for those kind of vague words, when it does demand numbers? when facebook wants to make money. it's very specific

according to the daily beast, a check of fec records, steve wynn donated more than $2 million to republicancampaigns and interest groups since 2001. he co-hosted the president's celebration at mar-a-lago. you saw that in the report. do republicans need to cut ties with him? do they need to speak out now? >> i think in this day and age when we are in the midst of the me too movement and there's awareness on this activity, they need to seriously look at it. certainly, when this came about with harvey weinstein, republicans were screaming for democrats to distance themselves from him and return the money. many of them did. i commend them for doing so. because it goes to show that you shouldn't be standing with someone that's facing these types of allegations. >> before you move on to your next thing, withhat do you mean take a look at it? >> i think clearly if there's this multi-million dollar payout, there's there there. i think with this going on, i think the republicans should separate from him. i don't think he should have a high profile position with the republican party. anyone who did a

. >> what about rises to the investigation that actually takes hold and yes, fec can take a long time. this will be happening and operating in parallel to the season that we're in and so the way people interpret it and the way people see it will not be purely as a matter of was this an inappropriate use of funds and people will be arguing over it in the political sphere. >> thank you, guys. cara, matt, patrick, thank you very much. >>> we have a lot ahead. the first lady was going to go switzerland, to davos to the world economic forum with the president. she's not going. why? >> we are moments away from the opening bell on wall street. christine romans joins us with a preview. good morning. >> speaking of davos, the president will be on his way to speak even as though he's announced a couple of big tariffs that are making news on washing machines and solar panels. some whispers of protectionism potentially and that's something they're talking about in global circle, but for stocks mixed. the futures are mixed and maybe if you'll get momentum you'll see record highs again. all-time hi

according to "the daily beast," a check of fec records, steve wynn has donated more than $2 million tons and interest groups since 2001. last week, wynn co-hosted the president's inaugural celebration at mar-a-lago. you saw that in miguel's report there. do republicans need to cut ties with him? do they need to speak out now? >> i think in this day and age when we are in the midst of the me too movement and there is a heightened awareness on this type of activity, i think they need to seriously take a look at it. certainly, as you said, when all of this came about with harvey weinstein, republicans were screaming for democrats to distance themselves from him and return the money, and many of them, and i commend them for doing so because it goes to show that you shouldn't be standing with someone who is facing these types of allegations. look -- >> before you move on to your next thing, what do you seriously take a look at it we are that seems like you're giving yourself some wiggle room there. >> no, clearly if this is this multimillion dollar pay, there is some there there, but i thin

states were suggesting that they should engage in approaches like ohios and all of the way to the final fec report where south dakota suggested clarifying the nvra that's helpful to the states here and hava was passed and it had two provisions and it had the clarifying amendment on the one hand and it had the related provision stealing with statewide maintenance which is effectively a comparable decision. i think we have both of those together. >> you get the notice, as i understand it, if you miss just one collection. >> that's incorrect. if you have no voter activity over a two-year period which would include one general election and one off-year election and any primary elections, as well. >> are there other states who do it just like ohio? >> there are many states who i think around eight, that use failure to vote as the trigger for the notice. i don't -- some use two. some use three years some use four years, and the problem about my friend's position on the other side is it would not only outlaw on other states and those who use failure to vote, it would outlaw any state that takes in

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senate side to change that. "50 senate lawmakers have endorsed the legislative measure to override the fecc's measure just it leaves supposed -- it leaves voters just one vote shy." resolution aims to overturn the fcc's decision and prohibit the agency from passing similar measures in the future. it has the support of all 49 republican senators and one democrat, susan collins of maine. they must recruit one more republican member to their ranks and it must be signed by president trump to take effect. john, deerfield beach, go ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call. the one thing i don't hear anybody asking democrats, and i think it is the most important when theseat happens people are now documented? what happens in the next three to five years with three to 5 million more? what do the democrats have planned for that? do they plan to stop it or let it happen? from arkansas, you are next up, on our republican line. caller: yes, i just have a few things to say. i am sick about all these black african slaves. my relatives were irish slaves. they are white. the democrats need to get off o