host: final comments, kim barker? guest: yes, it seems exhausting to raise money the entime you are in office. host: thank you both so much. guest: thank you. host: that's all for "washington journal" today. we will be back tomorrow morning when the guests will include william march joining us from tampa to talk about the convention coming up. also we'll hear from ken jones. we also will hear from the founder of the group fighting poverty in tampa called starting rights now. that's all starting tomorrow at 7:00 eastern time on "washington journal." we leave you with the -- a view of the site of the republican convention which will get underway over the next couple days. have a good morning. >> watch gavel-to-gavel coverage here live on c-span. next "newsmakers" with congressman sessions. [captions performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> congressman sessions, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> also joining us, national little editor for politico

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superpacs on 2012, and the discussion of unregulated money in this year's campaign with bob biersak and kim barker, "washington journal", sunday at 7:00 on c-span. >> the 2000 republican convention was held in philadelphia and the nominee was texas governor george w. bush, son of president george herbert walker bush. governor bush selected richard cheney as his running mate and that election would ultimately be decided by a supreme court ruling. here is his speech from early august 2000. mr. chairman. mr. chairman. thank you all. >> [applause] >> thank you! >> mr. chairman, mr. chairman, delegates and my fellow citizens, i proudly accept your nomination. [applause] thank you. thank you for this honor. thank you for this honor. together, we will renew america's purpose. >> [applause] >> our founders defined that purpose here in philadelphia. ben franklin was here. thomas jefferson. and of course, george washington. or as his friends called him, george w.! >> [applause]

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. >> schieffer: kim barker, a longtime investigative reporter and foreign affairs correspondent, noworking for the watchdog group propublica, is with us this morning. she's been looking into these super pacs and other organizations that have become key players in this campaign. these groups, of course, have really opened the floodgates with money. they have spent over $130 million, i think, it is, already, kim. but you have come up with some reporting that really sheds a whole new light on how this stuff is working, how this money is being funneled into nonprofit organizations, which are getting a tax break for putting some of these commercials on the air. so just, first, tell us, who are these groups? and what is it they're doing? i'm not sure i quite understand this. >> well, that's a very good point. i think a lot of people don't really understand this. they're the groups that have these innocuous sounding names like "americans for america," "citizens for the future." these kinds of names. and specifically, what i was focusing in on was not necessarily its super pacs, but their no

year's campaign, with bob biersak from the center for responsive politics and politico reporter kim barker>> for a countdown to the convention, this continues until our gavel to gavel coverage of the republican convention starting monday at 2:00 p.m. eastern and the democratic convention starting september 4th. every minute, every speech, live. on c-span. c-span radio. and online at c-span.org. featured speakers include former florida governor jeb bush this monday night, new jersey governor chris christie with keynote address tuesday, paul ryan accepts his vice presidential nomination wednesday and thursday night, presidential candidate mitt romney. these are online hubs to watch video feeds, share clips, add comments and connect with our viewers, at c-span.org/campaign 2012. >> astronaut neil armstrong died today from complications resulting from recent heart surgery. he was 82 years old. in july 2009, perform armstrong spoke at an event at the smithsonian air and space museum in washington, commemorating the first moon landing by apollo 11. this portion is about 20 minutes. >> our final