>> first up sean parnell of the center for competitive politics. mr. parnell, thanks for sitting down with me today. >> glad to be here. thanks for having me on. >> stephen: should there be any limit on how much money corporations can give to influence our elections or to give directly to campaigns? >> i don't think so. money enables free speech. and if you are going to limit the ability of money to be spent to promote political speech are you necessarily limited political speech. >> stephen: i say if the founding fathers didn't want money in politics, why did they put their faces on our money? (laughter) >> that's a pretty good point. >> stephen: thank you. >> if you look at the first amendment it says freedom of speech. so we work to ensure that the first five words of the first amendment, congress shall make no law is, in fact, the way that, you know, things go. >> stephen: and what is the rest ruff that sentence? >> there is no rest of the that sentence. >> stephen: what is the rest of the first amendment. >> the first amendment, congress shall make