this money a lobbyist feel like i can tell you to protect their business if you go back to when mccain feingold was passed you know john mccain and russ feingold on the floor of the senate were talking out loud about the fact that and where i do my radio show were in an office building is two blocks from the from the hart senate building and we've got a half a dozen of these offices in our building constantly running into senators and congressmen in the in the elevator where they have to go off premises and so. there and dial for dollars four and five hours a day five days a week all of them but none of it were republicans so like it democrats don't like it give them half a chance to get money out of politics they will do it they passed mccain feingold but the supreme court came along and said nope nope we're going to let the billionaires run the show but and now they're back to dialing for dollars i don't think a but i don't think anything's changed let's go back to the willie horton era let's go back and look at this with that vote the swift boats that is you know what i'm talking about that

elections you can go to a series of laws passed out of the watergate area and then more more recently mccain feingold laws that the supreme court basically just wiped away with this decision so historically it was a very profound decision that's dramatically change the game and brought us back to where we were in the sort of robber baron era in the late eighty's and let's go back to that robber baron erika's on the flip side corporate personhood isn't really a new concept you were telling me earlier that this actually goes back to the eight hundred concept i mean this is one of the elements of this ruling is affirming corporate personhood that corporations are people therefore they have access to the bill of rights they have free speech rights as well this was in the first case that a for a firm corporate personhood you can go all the way back to eighty six city clark county versus other precipitous railroad a simple tax case that the railroads had tried to turn into a corporate personhood case and tried to carve out this. place for them in the bill of rights and they succeeded thanks to a pretty tri

elections you can go to a series of laws passed out of the watergate area and then more more recently mccain feingold laws that the supreme court basically just wiped away with this decision so historically it was a very profound decision that's dramatically changed the game and brought us back to where we were in the sort of robber baron era in the late eighty's and let's go back to that robber baron erika's on the flipside corporate personhood isn't really a new concept you were telling me earlier that this actually goes back to the eight hundred concept i mean this one of the elements of this ruling is is affirming corporate personhood that corporations are people therefore they have access to the bill of rights they have free speech rights as well this wasn't the first case that a four affirmed corporate personhood you can go all the way back to eighty six city clark county versus other perspective railroad a simple tax case that the railroads had tried to turn into a corporate personhood case and tried to carve out this place for them in the bill of rights and they succeeded thanks to a pretty t

going to rule on just like with citizens united you know it was supposed to be about it about mccain feingold and it turned out to be about something all to give it was about compulsory unionization of public workers in a very specific instance in cases where in this state you're if you're a relative care if this was the case that was brought might be required but all that yes we relied on the results of way attention to the specifics of the case because i had an actual in a minute. american standing up for his or her actual american rights these are people saying we shouldn't be forced to join this union because i'm taking care of my uncle i shouldn't need to join and going to actually read here about right i actually read the it's only ninety pages you know that the pleadings in the core yesterday were a whole bunch of the year yesterday and the attorney for the anti-union group the found mr harrison brought this thing forward was saying essentially in fact was asked you know right up front are you saying that you know public unions should not exist that public employees should have the rig

signed on to draft or to co-sponsor is always with democrats, whether it's mccain-lieberman, mccain-feingoldre is a long list. it's always with the other side. we need to go to washington. we don't need somebody to play for the other team. we need somebody to fight for our team. we need to win touchdowns. >> you have are just giving me rhetoric. i've asked you a very simple question. is opposing obamacare not good enough for you? >> okay, everybody is telling me obamacare is the law. let's look at what happened. they fought that. they bought off deals in back rooms to make it law. >> i'm talking about john mccain's vote. >> not support of the american people. they pushed it through. nancy pelosi said i'm going to push this through regardless of what the marine people say. >> stock talk about the american people. you haven't been elected to anything. you can't talk for the american people. the american people wanted gun control bills because -- >> i'm the chairman of legislative district 30 republicans here in arizona. i'm a precinct committeeman, a state committeeman. have i been elected, an

you know, for example, mccain-feingold campaign finance reform actually made things worse than it was before. so anyway, so you always have to be careful with that. anybody that hasn't asked a question yet first, and then we'll double back. yeah, pack there. >> -- back there. >> there's been a lot of discussion in recent years about the political opinions of young people. have you actually seen an increase in turnout among young people, or is it just that a small amount of us are more vocal with social media? >> it's picked up some. maybe not as much as a lot of the popular press would suggest, but '08 picked up some and the proportion picked up some. the thing that i've noticed, um, with millennial voters and the institute of politics at harvard's done a lot of survey work in this area, but, um, i've spent a decent amount of time on campuses the last three or four years, and my impression looking at the data as well as anecdotal is that the millennial generation's kind of an interesting group. that unlike conservatives, they don't hate government. but up like liberals -- unlike liber

for example, the mccain-feingold finance reform made things worse than before.you always have to be careful with that. anybody that has not asked a question yet first, and then we will double back? >> there has been discussion in recent years about the political of young people. have you seen an increased turnout in young people, or is it that a small amount of us are more vocal? >> it has ticked up some, maybe not as much as adjusted by the popular press. but 2008, the proportion picked up some. the thing i noticed with millennial voters and the institute at politics at harvard has done a lot of work in this area, but i have spent a lot of time on campuses, and my impression looking on the data, as well as anecdotal, is the millennial generation, is an interesting group. unlike conservatives, they do not hate government, but unlike liberals, they do not love government. their experience with government has been it does not work very well. it is not very effective. and so this is a generation that at least on economic role of government, in that narrow sense, is

you know, for example, mccain-feingold campaign finance reform actually made things worse than it was before. so anyway, so you always have to be careful with that. anybody that hasn't asked a question yet first, and then we'll double back. yeah, pack there. >> -- back there. >> there's been a lot of discussion in recent years about the political opinions of young people. have you actually seen an increase in turnout among young people, or is it just that a small amount of us are more vocal with social media? >> it's picked up some. maybe not as much as a lot of the popular press would suggest, but '08 picked up some and the proportion picked up some. the thing that i've noticed, um, with millennial voters and the institute of politics at harvard's done a lot of survey work in this area, but, um, i've spent a decent amount of time on campuses the last three or four years, and my impression looking at the data as well as anecdotal is that the millennial generation's kind of an interesting group. that unlike conservatives, they don't hate government. but up like liberals -- unlike liber

but i'm going to ask the question of resource been tea party candidates and the impact of the mccain-feingold limitations on political party, unlimited donations to the local donations post since united, the rise of the old super pac movements. entrance of the tea party goals, to win primaries or to influence moderates in congress, seems to me the availability of resources is a huge factor because if i'm a member of congress, moderate, and looking at the possibility of not just an opponent, some opponent, unfunded opponent, now looking at some kind of super pac coming in may be recruiting a credible opponent and funding that happen. in terms of their day power and terms to move forward and stay prominent, resources seem to be a factor. just a comment on the. i don't know if anybody has studied that but i'm interested in that point. >> i would just add on computer dramatic republican you better watch what you say during the campaign for the lead up to the campaign or you could be calling, even by accident on a challenge that you don't expect community look around the landscape and see there's

and so, you know, i remember when he fought mccain-feingold and was standing up for the first amendment, and i was very proud of him. i really was. but that's the first and last thing that i can remember. so, no, i wouldn't personally vote for him. >> host: len is calling from cedar hurst, you're on booktv with mark levin. conclude hi. >> caller: hi. i think that mark would probably call me a kook along with that first caller. i think the persons that she was referring to were the koch brothers, amongst most. you know? the koch brothers are the ones that fund the heritage foundation which pays for half of this guy's commercials, and they're the ones that fund other organizations that buy his books that create them as bestsellers, and then they give them away because nobody would really want to spend the money on them. [laughter] and the koch brothers are the people who pay for the buses that take the tea party people to their rallies because they really -- and they also now are paying the people who organize, who hand out the leaflets, people who don't necessarily even know that they're

and so, you know, i remember when he fought mccain-feingold and was standing up for the first amendment, and i was very proud of him. i really was. but that's the first and last thing that i can remember. so, no, i wouldn't personally vote for him. >> host: len is calling from cedar hurst, you're on booktv with mark levin. conclude hi. >> caller: hi. i think that mark would probably call me a kook along with that first caller. i think the persons that she was referring to were the koch brothers, amongst most. you know? the koch brothers are the ones that fund the heritage foundation which pays for half of this guy's commercials, and they're the ones that fund other organizations that buy his books that create them as bestsellers, and then they give them away because nobody would really want to spend the money on them. [laughter] and the koch brothers are the people who pay for the buses that take the tea party people to their rallies because they really -- and they also now are paying the people who organize, who hand out the leaflets, people who don't necessarily even know that they're