john wonderlich, if you would like to answer some of her questions. guest: we saw the media attention around the meeting between reince priebus and donald trump. one can imagine if bernie were what the summit would be like between bernie sanders and debbie wasserman schultz. i'm sure there would be as much media attention and questions around how that would function. if you're interested in parties, the political we collect invitations to political fundraisers. you can see the way politicians are marketing themselves to potential donors for $2000 to attend a breakfast or box seats for a concert. host: thanks for putting sunlight on the issue of campaign fund-raising. john wonderlich with the sunlight foundation. you can also follow him on twitter. thank you for being here. "washington journal" continues. we will hear from leo shane who covered the passage of the $610 billion defense authorization bill, the bill that says pentagon -- sets pentagon programs and policy for the next year. your comments and calls ahead on "washington journal." our campaign

host: our guest is john wonderlich, policy director of the sunlight foundation, talking about campaign fund-raising. the number for democrats, republicans, all of this. -- and all others. on our republican line, florida, brian, hello. caller: that is the independent line. maybe i missed the number -- misdialed the number. gather, these businesses get the opportunity to hand this money to politicians. once these politicians get this money, they pass these bills that benefit these businesses. here is the funny part. the seems corrupt to me on its face. haveis exactly why we these two guys, trump and sanders, who are holding on for dear life to win this election because this has to stop. you look at what happened yesterday where these votes changed about contacting lgbt rights. you look at those same 200 senators -- i'm sorry, 200 house numbers that voted not to protect the citizens, but to protect the businesses. these are the same 200 people reignoted to give free over just one entity i can account for that i am sure is the tribal nations, so they can hand them free money as they waltz

john wonderlich will join us to discuss fundraising for the 2016 campaign.get an update on the defense authorization bill with leo shane. the house rejected an amendment that would have barred federal defense contractors from getting work if they discriminate against the lgbt community. you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. >> is friday morning, may 20, 2016. the morning and welcome to "washington journal." congress left washington ahead of the legislative break. the president meanwhile, departs from washington this weekend and stops in vietnam in japan. we are a week away from the start of the memorial day weekend, please start of summer unofficially and the start of the travel season. and with long tsa linesz in the news, we thought we would ask about your thoughts on, are they worth the wait for your summe