$10 million to a superpac supporting mitt romney. >> jon: sheldon aidle son. holy ( bleep )! obama is working his ass off, six fund raisers a day trying to squeeze a me $3.5 million. meanwhile, romney has aidleson going, "hey, jean, why don't you pop off i check to romney for $10 million. you can sign it." "all right, mr. aidleson, i'll get right on it." sheldon aidled son gave $10 million for mitt romney inspect in the republican party i seem to remember his him backing another one. >> he gave $2001 million to a pro-gingrich pac during the primaries. >> jon: that guy! sheldon aidleson was the guy willing to spend an unlimited amount of money to crush mitt romney by bank rolling ads in the republican primary like this-- >> for tens of thousands of americans, the suffering began when nome came to town. >> i feel that is the man that destroyed us. ( laughter ). >> jon: but in retrospect, now i see we probably deserved it. romney 2012. ( laughter ) aidleson put out that ad and still donated $10 million to romney. imagine how much money he would give if he liked h

steve zune is on our panel then you're just a few billionaires were all the entire world carlos slim sheldon adelson just to name a few names if they want something they throw money at it but how does that affect mean you are going to all of that market and i including it as of happy hour but first take a look with mainstream media decided to miss. so i'm surprisingly the economy is still topic number one and as usual the mainstream media isn't giving you any real details about the economy they're not even making any connections between the love fest for jamie dimon on the hill yesterday and the lack of regulations on wall street or anything like that but no instead they are still going on and on about the back and forth between obama and mitt romney in mainstream media land the battle of words is all that really matters disappointing new jobs numbers came out this morning as john boehner is asking democrats what is being done about it he's been talking about a jobs plan that he would like to see that congress is the pleasure to be going back to that message today that he needs to remind peo

watching sheldon adelson, grew up in massachusetts. 66 years, has built up from nothing. >> well i guess it comes down to fair enough. it's legal. the supreme court, run by conservative republicans now said it's okay. it's legal. my question is this the kind of democracy that people fight for? is it what our founding fathers had in mind? and influence people by the millions just because they've got the money. does it bother you they have so many more votes than the average citizen? >> no. it does not that you get on television every night and influence people with your opinion. not at all. >> i didn't pay to get on. i'm not running advertisements and people can agree or disagree. these ads are not arguments. they are advertisements. relentless advertising campaigns and you can not escape. >> you can escape and don't have to watch. >> look, you're smart to me. rick, you know this. you run bombing campaigns. you cannot escape. look what happened to your guy newt when that money was turned on by mitt romney. you had him crying out of the

make policy sheldon adelson likes. one major difference in the campaign, one policy difference, a real difference is that while barack obama wants to raise taxes on the rich, mitt romney wants to cut taxes for the wealthy and for korpshzs and for profits corporations make over seas. overseas profits like for instance the ones sheldon adelson makes for his casinos. in the voting booth, someone like sheldon adelson faces a choice between a candidate who would raise his taxes and a candidate who would lower him and could make one person one vote decisions on which one he prefers. in this election, someone like sheld sheldon adelson also faces a choice on where to put his many, many, many, many, many, many millions. and does he want to put it with the lower taxes guy or the higher taxes guy? which is a good investment. which is going to give him a return on his investment? it should surprise no one the democrats super pacs like the counter parts to crossroads have had trouble raising money. the democrats super pacs count t

of bloomberg very think of the meg whitman in the world but romney but or romney but why is it in sheldon adelson interest what is the message that he wants to get out there if he is just just so desperately trying not to get obama re-elected hundred million dollars a lot of cash but i mean is he trying to curry favor or is he trying to what i'm asking you know what he well i think i think that he's trying to convince other people of his point of view which is that he doesn't think that i don't really know what its point of view would i want if it was saying that obama want to be like well he i mean there's a quote out there that children adults and accuses obama of running a socialist style economy so you there you get a sense of where he's coming from and he's trying to convince other people of that i think that him spending his money to convince the rest of the american people about that that's a positive thing for america well you know i think that's. like my friend over here i think that's an extraordinary point of view in a country that used to express the ideal of one person one vo

what does sheldon adelson want out of this?when i talked to him we wrote a story early on that we heard that he was going to give upwards of $20 million as much as $20 million to the super pac supporting newt gringrich. he called me up to yell at me saying that is not true. he and his wife gave more than $20 million although $5 million has subsequently been refunded. when i asked him why do you want to support newt gringrich? why do you see him president? he said, why do you like steak. he responded with a question. i said steak tastes good. he said steak tastes good and he wants newt gringrich to be president because he thinks he'll be the best president. when i pushed further it came down to loyalty. newt gringrich was his guy. there are issues where newt gringrich aligns with him. his pet issue is the defense of israel. in his mind newt gringrich was the strongest candidate in the republican presidential primary on that. but i don't see a lot of self interested economic motivation. the guy is extremely wealthy. he has made m

sheldon has been have boarded the brazilian tall ship. he has been on its for the last 24 hours. >> there could be possible delays. mta says major delays could pop up along the fort mchenry tunnel as well as interstate 75. the worst to cramp is on saturday and sunday. anyone headed to the city should find alternate routes. >> baltimore police are investigating after an owings mills man was found shot to death in his own car. the body was discovered around 6:00 p.m. last night in overly. >> the victim was found in his own car. it was a dark colored chevy impala. there are many questions about how and why he ended up dead inside. county police, rescue crews and homicide detectives crowder the parking lot arrau's 6:00 p.m. tuesday night. dad got me 911 call from someone reporting a man sleeping in a car -- they had gotten a 911 call from someone reporting a man sleeping in a car. >> when they arrived, they found the man was not sleeping, but instead had been shot multiple times the torso. paramedics declared in debt at the scene. >> they're

concerned about sheldon adelson giving a lot of money so that they can purchase ads we are then omitting the fact that people would like to incorporate create a nonprofit for profit whatever purchase a bunch of ads and start messaging on elections they should have the freedom to do so and try to influence the outcome of an election that's a perfectly american thing and to say that they need to be repealed in the course of doing so the most important example of anonymous speech influencing important outcome for america was the federalist papers and it had hamilton and madison and john j. had been exposed at that time they might have been drawn in court so i think the little we all know how they were not that kind of society anymore right i don't think you need i don't have to wrap it up i'm ok ari i think you're right it's how we got ahead of break and thank you so much. have to take another break but coming up next a sign is one step closer to standing trial in the u.s. and the i.a.e.a. and be a isn't just about the pentagon finding other provisions that are flying under the radar. wealt

where has sheldon adelson gotten all his money? from china. i think that's just a great irony of this. because of what the court decisions say, you can't really stop sheldon adelson. we should realtime report. when he gives $10 million we should know. >> thank you john raulston. i never thought of myself the way that rick tower said i have influence on how people vote. i don't think it works that way. i think people make up their mind. they argue with the television by the way. they don't just listen to it. thank you for coming on. please come back. >> thanks. >>> up next, do you think there's a gaping hole between republicans and democrats in this country? it's not just politics but also tv sports, cars, even coffee choices. wait until you hear about the coffee telling what the party is. it's fascinating research coming up in the place for politics. >>> time for the sideshow. how did a jerry mcguire throwback wind up in a town hole meeting this week? he's hanging in the balance. here it is. >> i am out here for you. you don't know what it's l

sheldon, we appreciate. we were able to get to to you mating. >> officials are asking residents to conserve water until tomorrow in northwest baltimore county, so pumping stations can fill up. because of downed trees, electric feeds to the pumping station were impacted. water is either out or very low pressure in areas in park heights, pikesdale, rans daltown,riser town. right now glendale is coming back to pikes mill. the city of annapolis is asking res debs to limit their water use. the city treatment plant is running on generator power and not operating at full capacity. residents should only use water for essential purposes. we are told the restrictions in annapolis may be affected until monday. >> well, a falling tree hit a car during the storm last night killing the driver. it happened shortly before 1:13 on harwood and richardson roads in harwood. the driver identified as 25-year-old kevin alan oh royian of edge water was pronounced dead at the scene. passengers hodges and matthew miller were taken to

nevertheless, millions coming from sheldon adelson. to win the white house. we know he'd like to see, you know, congress controlled by republicans. what else do we know is fueling his ability to open up that wallet and give so much money? >> the biggest motivator is him, just the fact of being able to defeat president obama. but on top of that, he is a very big hawk when it comes to israel, believes that the obama administration's policies have not worked, and he actually backed newt gingrich as you know very well, well before mitt romney. in fact, he put $15 million into that newt gingrich super pac that -- winning our future which allowed newt gingrich to keep on his presidential contest well after he finished in the fourth place finish in iowa. most recently we found out he gave a $10 million to the mitt romney pro super pac restore our future and then comes reporting that he is going to give money to all these other gop leaning super pacs and outside groups as well. >> let me play what mike allen from the politico website said toda

expenditures which said which they said could not be limited so to give an example you can limit sheldon knaidel sins ability to contribute to newt gingrich to five thousand dollars but the supreme court said you can place no limit on what he can spend independently the supreme court arguing that an independent expenditure could not possibly be corrupting and couldn't even give the appearance of corruption well you'd have to live in a theoretical world in which newt gingrich would be unaware that sheldon adelson had singlehandedly kept his presidential campaign alive to fall that rationale it is proved to be really quite fallacious reasoning and unfortunately citizens united instead of revisiting that decision. made it worse made a problem or a spy saying that corporations were essentially people for the first amendment could spend whatever they want and there's really no limit as we saw in the montana decision to that line of thinking it will open up indefinitely vast expenditures of money a lot of anonymous a lot of which we simply won't know where that where it came from either foreig

sheldon adelson.malkin and all of fox and their friends. >> michelle malkin is an interesting one. i would have taken her but i didn't think she was rich enough to actually leave the country and save on taxes but i would love to see her go. >> cenk: i hear you on that, brother. we have to leave it right there. when we come back mitt romney's chief of staff. who is it going to be? well, you might be surprised because of how brash it is. but then you'll also say what i'm going to say, of course! when we come back. >> our own energy resources. >> oil and natural gas. >> right here, right now. >> i vote. . what happened to george prescott bush. >> no, he was jeb bush's son. >> oh, that one. >> the ricky martin look-alike yeah. >> going in another direction. the direction away from his father. the airplanes are going to get from one part of the country to the other without any air traffic controllers. i mean this is ridiculous and mitt romney ought to know better. i stand with our public employees and cops

sheldon adelson.rl rove, michelle malkin and all of fox and their friends. >> michelle malkin is an interesting one. i would have taken her but i didn't think she was rich enough to actually leave the country and save on taxes but i would love to see her go. >> cenk: i hear you on that, brother. we have to leave it right there. when we come back mitt romney's chief of staff. who is it going to be? well you might be surprised because of how brash it is. but then you'll also say what i'm going to say, of course! when we come back. >> our own energy resources. >> oil and natural gasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasasas next, john fugelsang is filling on viewpoint with eliot spitzer. >>that was mitt romney showing once again his fearless fear of taking a stand that helps make him all things to no people. (vo) now, it's your turn. (vo) connect with the young turks with cenk uygur. >> it's go time. enttv

. >> talk may be cheap but political ads cost money, you'll not believe the new numbers from sheldon adelson and the koch brothers. and the country is still said to be waiting for our first black president. we will have the debate tonight. >>> today in cleveland, ohio, the president took up the fight for a second term in a way he has never done before. he said that the election was going to be about the economy and challenged anyone who wanted to return to the failed policies of the past to vote for mitt romney. the president portrayed the election as a chance to break a stale mate. >> what is holding us back is a stale mate in washington between two fundamentally different views of which direction america should take. your vote will finally determine the path that we take as a nation. not just tomorrow but for years to come. >> he did not dispute the economy is still in need of deep help. but he advanced the argument further. >> the debate in this election is not about whether we need to grow faster or whether we need to create more jobs, or whether we need to pay down our debt, the

let's say sheldon adelsons gives $50 million. will the public toss it off as one more piece of evidence that the game is rigged and we have become more cynical? >> i think it would have to be in that ballpark of giving, $50 million or more. it would have to be so obscene it would open people's eyes. this stuff is largely lost on people. it's sort of processed stuff. i talked to people who are advocates for stricter money in politics laws and they are of course aghast by what's going on. some of them can see it might be necessary for there to be a scandal along the lines of watergate where there is actually some sort of quid pro quo that is provable where some donor is getting something from the candidate they helped float in order for there to be the popular will to force the political will to change the system. >> vice president gore on your show this week talked about a constitutional amendment. >> that's what it's going to take. i think he is right. the only way you will get at a time is what ken is talking about, some sort of

sheldon dutes joins us live. you boarded in norfolk, virginia. how has the trip then? >> it has been great. we lost around 8:45 a.m. yesterday morning and we have been sailing of the chesapeake with the brazilian navy, actually on a ship that was commissioned by brazil's navy to show their nautical pride all over the world. they get invited to nautical events like sailabration, and a lot of people on this crew left brazil in march. they just left new york and made their way to norfolk, and that is where we met up with them. it has been a lot of fun. it has been absolutely beautiful. 4 give me if the wind is blowing really hard right now. it is when the outside world. we are with the sailors from the brazilian navy. they are very hospitable. we have quite a few demands for videos and so forth, and they have been accommodating. for a lot of them, it will be their first time in baltimore and they are excited to be part of our bicentennial event for the war of 1812. >> we can see you on the deck. >> can you see me? i am waiting. >> there you are. how much experience have y

coming up tonight on the big picture former gingrich campaign backer and billionaire casino mogul sheldon adelson is pledging unlimited donations to mitt romney's campaign is the american democracy dead when billionaires can funnel and list money into politics and take away the voice of the people also the world's richest man a man who doesn't have to worry about we're going to have it in job thinks you should work until you're seventy one hardworking americans deserve to have a retirement years without billionaires telling them what they can and can't do and the first hundred fifty five days of this year one hundred fifty four united states soldiers committed suicide the highest suicide rate in the last ten years what should our government be doing to better help our soldiers our current soldiers and our veterans overcome the horrors of war. you need to know that it was a dog and pony show on capitol hill yesterday as the senate banking committee called on j.p. morgan chase c.e.o. jamie diamond to testify on his bank's massive three billion dollar loss last month rather than asking tough

finally, we have sheldon siegel. and sheldon siegel is a corporate lawyer who has written a series -- i think seven books now, a fictional criminal defense attorney named mike daley who actually lives here in san francisco. and he's written a series of books and these becomes have been shown and transcribed and read throughout the world. so we're going to start now with a clip, a video clip and then we're going to go to the panel. >> i think it is our national novel. if there was a national novel of week, this would be it for the united states. i think it's the favorite book of almost everybody you meet. >> the first time in my life that the book had sort of captured me. that was exciting. i didn't realize that literature could do that. >> i remember reading a copy of my aunt's in jamaica queens. it was the first book ever written by a white writer that discussed racism in ways that was complicate and sophisticated. -- complicated and sophisticated. >> a touchstone in american literary and social history. it's a stor

sheldon dutes is live at city hall with the latest round. >> the public safety committee got an earful from the union and people concerned about those fire company closures. they are worried about their safety. >> you can see the fire house from here. >> he is grateful he only has to walk a couple of blocks to get help if his son has a seizure. >> it is a blessing. suppose it had not been here? for somebody else to come down here, have been too late because he was having a seizure. >> three companies of the city may shut down in an attempt to close the $48 million budget gap. no physical farmhouses will close, but people are still concerned. she worries about her predominantly elderly community. >> usually the truck will come and rescue you. but they are not here to rescue, we are just ended. >> we cannot do this with loess companies, no way. >> the cheek explain that the permanent company closures would provide more stability for the department and the rotating closures that are already in effect right now. >> the lesser of two evils is the better way to go. >> the council is expected

sheldon adelson is someone we know about because he is public about his giving, but there are a lot ofwhom we cannot know about. they can conceal their giving in a 5 01c organization that then gives the money to a super pac, that then spends it and it is very hard to trace it back to who originally made the investment and what they expect as return on their investment, if you well. >> one of the coach is a president obama's re-election campaign has openly criticized the president's decision to accept super pac funds. "democracy now!" spoke to former u.s. senator russ feingold of wisconsin after his appointment as co-chair of the obama reelection campaign in february. >> i think is a big mistake to go down the road of unlimited, undisclosed corporate contributions. that is not who barack obama is and now with the democratic party should be. i think it doesn't help him get reelected. i think it delivers the democrats as well as the republicans to corporate power and corporate domination. that's why progressives united and i feel this way. >> that is russ feingold. it wasn't hours after h

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how is it down there, sheldon? >> it is not too bad right now. this has been my home for the past 36 hours. i met the screw in norfolk, va. and sailed back to baltimore. it was an incredible experience. there were a lot of people on this tour. you can get a chance to see what it looks like inside. gregg's our voyage started around 8:45 a.m. yesterday morning. -- >> our voyage started around 8:45 a.m. yesterday morning. the name of the ship is portuguese for white swan. it was built in the late 1990's, but was inspired by clippers from the 19th century. the brazilian navy uses the ship to promote brazilian naval tradition and to promote brazil's navy abroad. they left brazil in march. so far, they have sailed to fleet week in new york city, but the chesapeake presented its own challenges for the group. gregg's it is a big day. -- >> if a big bay. >> i did not notice a difference, but it's just a testament to how skilled the crew was. and we passed by fort mchenry and they received a 21 cannon salute. and they received a hero's welcome at the inner

sheldon dutes has been reporting on these developments throughout the day and joins us live from county police headquarters in towson with more on the case and also a closer look into the officers background. >> officer laboard was a nine- year veteran and was released on his own recognizance after turning itself in this afternoon. it was determined he is not a flight risk or dangerous to the community. chris brown is not satisfied with the manslaughter charges in the death of his son. >> he murdered my child on another person's lawn with no regard for his life or the neighbors. >> the county state's attorney's office says the timing of the announcement has nothing to do with public pressure. >> the fact that he was an off- duty police officer had no bearing on the time it took to evaluate the evidence and to move the case for to the grand jury. >> his attorney declined to speak with us on the particulars of the case but we learned a lot more about officer laboard during the hearing. he has been with the police department for nine years and has a pristine record with the department. he

paulette frankl, "lust for justice," tony serra, and sheldon siegal. so before we take a break, i do have a surprise. a few years ago, i guess six or seven years ago, i met an amazing artist. i was visiting his home. and he had created this wonderful sculpture. i immediately recognized it as being clarence. it turned out that he had created a number of just amazing sculptures of trial lawyers. and he went on to do one of clara fults, the first woman attorney in california and became the leader of the public defender movement. and just by happenstance, he called me and had this idea of encapsulating one of the greatest trial attorneys of our times. so, bill? is he here? this is not a magistrate. [laughing] -- not a magic trick. >> i've never met tony serra, so i have to make use of the internet to get a sense of who he was and the imagery. what clearly came over was his passion for justice. and in some cases almost a rage for justice. and initially when i started the imagery with the clay, i tried to show this passion for justice, this rage. but then i

annette sheldon. when you come up please come and form a line behind the podium. dr. annette sheldon. ann dejesus. nicole agbayan. april chan. monica kenny. jacob moody. i will do this better next time, too. shenn afr shenna akino. somebody who writes like me. i don't know if it is devon swis -- don swistorski. we might be related, don. owen zeke. and jim marks. >> good morning. good morning, mr. mayor and to all of you it is a fantastic day in san francisco, isn't it? and aren't we glad we live in america where we have the freedom of choice. mr. mayor, you know a meeting like there couldn't happen in some countries so we are thankful for you to bring us together. i'm dr. annette shelton. i'm with the aids group and they have given me a transcript. i don't know how long it is but here is my agreement with you. when he comes to my two minutes wherever i am i'm going to finish the sentence and then i will e-mail it to you, mr. mayor, if that is agreeable. i would like for all of the members to please stand right quick for me. as i said i'm dr. annette shelton. i'm with