kim barker, welcome back to >> where do you want me to start?his group is, how the judge ruled, and what are the implications for this country? >> western tradition partnershi@ is one of the social welfare nonprofits that are supposed to have social welfare or helping the community at large as the primary purpose. they are allowed to do some politics, but it is not supposed to be what they're doing primarily. there were very involved in 2008 in the state elections in montana. after that, montana investigators began to investigate and found about two years ago, this was a political committee and its donors should be public. a lawsuit in sued, as it often does with this group. for the last two years, it has been making its way through court. the suit came of what the supreme court that in effect made citizens united apply to all 50 states. this happened this last june. it is been a group that is not really big but has pledged about its way in terms of impact the a-punched its way in terms of impact nationally. we look at documents available in mon

i have kim barker, a reporter who writes about campaign finance joining us.nks for coming back. >> thanks for having me. >> you have been doing fantastic. what is your sense of what the surprises are in this campaign and the post citizens united world and what are the predictions come true? >> a couple points. number one, you thought corporations were going to be spending a lot of money and giving money to the super pacs. you are not seeing that and seeing the donors come forward. one reason could be that you are seeing the spending by dark money groups. >> we don't know -- >> right. you have some sort of sense, for instance, that aetna gave millions of dollars to a group called american action network. that was accidentally leaked. >> oops. >> you can see why a corporation doesn't want these donations to come out. with target for instance. >> tell the target story. it happens before this campaign got revved up. >> right. >> it kind of, it was like in baseball when you throw a fastball. it was a brushback pitch. >> target gave money to a candidate, i believe