this is a bit of sheldon adelson and his own words. and his wife recently donated and additional $13 million to a group in israel that sends young jews on free trips to israel. adelson is known for giving very few media interviews. in one of these few interviews posted online, he talks about the funding of the program. >> how many tours has it been already? >> a total of about 240,000 kids. >> a bunch of them have probably decideed to move to its request record 14,000 kids. it is a goal, but certainly a worthwhile end result. >> what would be the other goals? we hear these kids are ambassadors sort of to the jewish nation in the state of israel. if israel did not have these kids were there were no people, no jews that lived here that would advocate [unintelligible] israel would have to send people back. we have a ready-made ambassadorial staff. all we have to do is get them to come here and follow-up with israel. >> that sheldon adelson talking about his funding of taglit- birthright israel, which sends young jews on free trips to isra

sheldon adelson, this is a fortune 500 company, but it's his company. he owns a majority of the stock, he runs it. what the e-mails show is he has his hands on many, many aspectses of it. he's right in the middle of all this. that's unusual. you don't see that very often. he obviously faces potentially, the investigatorerize going to have to look at his actions in the context of everything we're talking about. >> steve, this is a fascinating piece. i'm sure it took a lot -- it took a lot of investment to get the resources necessary to do this. thanks for helping us understand it. >>> all right, a number tonight, a data point about american politics that will amaze you. it's about you and what you're not doing in droves. >> plus, we have a best new thing in the world today. now with more heart' warming cheating than ever before. please stay with us. >>> ladies and gentlemen, the republican presidential primary is over. just ended. the very last state wide nominating event happened this weekend in nebraska. it was a nebraska state republican party convent

. >> your investigations show it benefitted sheldon adelson. did i get anything wrong describing them? >> it's pretty close. it's pretty close. >> what did i mess up? >> i think just to be clear, you know, what actually happened here is there were several assets that connect other things. in the ipo the key issue is they wanted to retain a ferry concession. it delivers the gamblers right to the doorstep of the casino, and somebody else wanted it and it went to court in macau and they were losing time after time again. they are clearly going it to lose again when the gentleman who was in charge of macau, the chief executive, this man who works closely with lionelal vez issued a decrease, saying, nothing, the las vegas sands will keep their concession. that was crucial because the people that investigate in this country want to make sure the gamblers would be brought to the door accept. i think ultimately they have to figure out what all that adds up to. >> when potential violations are investigated, do u.s. investigators what's happening in the

the election, 17 angry old white men will wake up and realize they just bought the country. >> sheldon adelsonelson is a gop who is trying to fund the races. now he and his wife have reportedly dropped $5 million into the yg action fund. young guns. the fund started this year with with about $55,000. it was created to help young guns like paul ryan and kevin mccarthy. but it will probably go to this young gun, house majority leader eric cantor could really use the help in the first place. the latest poll shows that he could have a fight on his hands this november. 43% of the likely voters in cantor's district said he should be replaced. 41% want to send him back to washington. that's well within the margin of error. $5 million could swing the vote in cantor's favor, but his buddies in the senate killed the disclose act, so we'll never know if adelson bought the leadership in congress or not. i'm joined tonight by tom perriello, former congressman from vergeverge, now the president and vceo for the american progress fund. $5 million in a congressional race is a heck of a lot of money, isn't it?

sheldon adelson is hawkish on israel. you're pretty hawkish. what has he got?olicy? anything that would justify a voter switching sides down there? >> the short answer is no. and at least we know who sheldon adelson is because he's not hiding behind these irs c4 organizations that don't have to disclose their donors. that's why we have the legislation trying to get it considered. it was blocked with a filibuster. in order to disclose the names, just like all the rest of us have to disclose our contributors, why should they? but it's because they can hide behind that masquerade and therefore, they can give their billions of dollars and not be known. if you required a lot of those donors to put their names out there like everybody else has to, they wouldn't do it. >> in pennsylvania and other states now, you can't vote if you are a little person, a regular person, a regular human being in this country as an american, and you want to vote, you have to get a photo i.z. card and issued by the government and you have to walk in with that photo i.d. these people can w

sheldon adelson's interest becomes -- >> sheldon. >> stephanie: a guy named sheldon and a guy named grover>> weird version of near and far. near and far right. >> far right. [ laughter ] >> far right! >> stephanie: mary in l.a. hi you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: hi, stephanie. >> stephanie: hello. >> caller: listen, about the tax returns... everyone seems to be assuming that romney is scared of what the american voter will find. i think he might be equally scared if not more so of what salt lake city will find. >> stephanie: what? what are you implying? [ ♪ dramatic ♪ ] >> caller: he's given a lot of money to the mormon church. no doubt about that. but he's given his 10% tithe? and is some of this offshoring tithe avoidance not tax avoidance? >> stephanie: my, my my, aren't you a little troublemaker? >> my first blush answer is no. i think he actually gives more than his dad did. i think like 19% at some point and his dad had a higher tax rate than mitt did. so mitt could give less money and it would cost him even less. >> stephanie: look what i found. [ ♪ "world news ton

we'll expose the hypocrisy ahead. >>> and why is billionaire sheldon adelson dumping $5 million intoric cantor's pac? i'll ask former virginia congressman tom perriello. >> they are the young guns. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." the obama campaign is hitting mitt romney i think where it hurts. they're out with a new commercial that some are calling the most effective political ad of 2012. it hits romney on everything from his outsourcing of jobs to his offshore bank accounts. take a look. oh beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain for purple mountains majesty above the fruited plain america america god shed his grace on thee and crown thy good with brotherhood >> let's bring in new jersey republican assembly leader john bram bramnick and catherine crier and keith boykin with us tonight, who just published an article called the swissboating of mitt romney. pretty good. and leader bramnick, i have to ask you first, have you ever seen a belter ad? how in the world would you counter that? >> stipulating he won't be on the idol and he's not got a great singing voice, but

at t time the ents we write b in 2008, sheldon adelson had made a huge bet on macao.s constructing billions of dollars worth of casinos and mall and other things. and he was running short of money. the financing was in doubtment and they needed to raise some money. and they looked to do it a couple of different ways. one was to sell off some luxury pardon mes that they had built there. for that they needed permission of the authorities in macao. and the other was to go and have an ipo. so a stock in their new subsidiary inacao known as china nds. in both of those things they needed some favorable rulings from local politicians. and they weren't getting them. and it was at that moment that they hired a man named lionel alvish as an outside council. he is a lawyer, a very well plugged in guy in macao. he is got three different posts. he's an advisor to the executive who kind of ruled macao kind of like macao governor or president you pite call him. a member of the macao legislator and also a member of the committee within the mainla china that advises e ruling cmunist p

money-man sheldon adelson violated a foreign bribery law. >> ifill: plus, hari sreenivasan talks with author william dobson about the techniques modern day dictators use to control protesters. they have really developed excellent crowd control techniques where they would move the crowds through with street cleaning equipment, cleaning the same street corner again and again and again. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: president obama and governor mitt romney are broadening their critiques of one another as their nominating conventions approach, with a political battle now fully engaged over j

you brought up that you know, he's over there with sheldon adelson and his fund-raisers in israel.ney adviser says the president is not anglo-saxon enough sheldon adelson is on record as saying i wore the uniform of the united states unfortunately. i wish i had been in the israeli army. do you hear that in the press anywhere? >> yes. the romney campaign has denied this comment about anglo-saxon tradition but the telegraph, the london telegraph that reported it has stood behind this and said look, this was a romney advisor. he basically bordered on a slur against the president. he said we understand the anglo-saxon heritage. we -- the white house doesn't understand the history of the special relationship. sort of implying somehow the president -- you know, doesn't understand the special relationship with britain. i think again the president's record speaks for itself. hen such a leader for this country on security and foreign policy. and you know while everybody talks about this election being about the economy and it certainly is, people have to remember that big foreign policy dec

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he's taking advantage of sheldon adelson's money. >> that's one of the questions being raised.illions of dollars by a single individual, how do your actions no the have the color of influence that that check is buying. we should ask those questions. i would hope that romney has more character than that. but we don't know. to take this money keeps you open to these attacks. >> jennifer: do we believe that these advise are giving money not expecting thing in return? >> no. in terms of the republicans more emphatically than the democrats, that's usually to buy a deregulation of everything from you know, workforce safety rules to environmental rules to bust unions and a couple of other things. it's to ease the way of any kind of business. >> jennifer: our system is being hijacked people. it's being hijacked by billionaires who have their own agendas. >> sheldon adelson has pledged to spend $100 million. >> jennifer: he's just one guy. for him being a multi billion dollars--$100 million, what are they saying, it's like $20. >> just one house. >> jennifer: thankclara jeffrey and tim

it's amazing sheldon adelson is spending $10 million and $10 million. in 2008 and 2007, george bush was on his knees. his company was two seconds away from being bankrupt. he probably owed more to president obama for being able to write those checks because obama righted the country from the impending disaster that wasn't caused by him at all. but sheldon adelson was two seconds away from going bankrupt. >> in terms of your politics, not just thinking about the election but the last term and what has happened with congress going from democrat control to republican control, are there things that you want to be happening that aren't happening, things that you want the president to be doing that you're urblging him to do or think he should do that he's not doing? >> he's doing a fantastic job. it's just trying to communicate it. you inherit all of the problems and people think even if you fix it, it's never fast enough. so i'm very happy with what the president is doing. and when i think of the competition, i get happier every minute. i'm thrilled. and i h

>> that is the analysis some have suggested perhaps as sheldon adelson has become such a prominent figure in kingmaker in republican politics, perhaps to go to the speaking across the street in las vegas, steve wynn wants to get into the action. these guys to like to exercise their influence. >> you talk about several others three who are these people? >> you see the different industries that people are coming from riyadh the chicago real estate magnate. and york financier and hedge fund manager, a dallas industrialist. karl rove has a particular strength in texas or he worked for many, many years. he helped nurture george w. bush and help him get elected. governor of texas, then was beyond his presidential election as well. he is very, very strong in the texas energy industry, knows many wealthy people there. he is, by all accounts, a terrific fund-raiser. and someone -- wealthy people enjoy talking about politics with him. this is not a science. this is an art. it is a question of personal relationships. karl rove is very skilled and those things. >> what about his relationship with rom

so you could have two weeks before the election someone like sheldon adelson or someone step in drop a half million dollars in election race and flip it like that do you think that we're going to see the effects of citizens united more on the congressional levels and even said senate races the than in the presidential election is going to be a lot harder to swing that election when you know we had such an enormous change structurally in the political fund raising scheme of things since citizens united because of also another supreme court case that was decided right around that time and the role of non-profits i mean we're not even talking about that so i think it's really i think the congressional level certainly and at the presidential last level it's going to be interesting because like in chicago in the new obama campaign they're saying well we're going to do you want fundraiser but now we're going back into rallies and they're hoping that that's where they're going to actually make a difference those charity groups the five zero one c four as those with the biggest star will soo

or simply purchasing our politicians you think mitt romney won't do exactly what sheldon adelson tells him to do when it comes to israel in the middle east and our foreign policy after it all some purges him with tens of millions of dollars of course the world and you think they were deregulate our environmental regulations here or at home when the koch brothers make millions of dollars by that deregulation that pollute our air of course they will get the serious is never something that. you have a mitt romney that's the reason he wants to keep this under wraps to or you know everything that that is taxes as well which is you know i'm with you there that if you have some to hide probably that's why you're fighting against transparency thanks for joining us tonight. thank you. our we've got to take a quick break but we'll be right back. yeah. let's not forget that we have an apartheid regime right now.

we're following a blueprint that newt gringrich and sheldon adelson put together, so we know it works's real. this is going to be the deciding factor. >> eliot: it seems to me that the white house--i don't know if they view it this way or if the way the policies have been rolled out. but they've had two separate prongs. one has been affirmative affront to the base, immigration and same-sex marriage and those things have have solidified the base. and then there were some who were put off by the lack of leadership in the white house and now they're getting it right. then on the other side of the ledger they're going right to the argument that mitt romney would make, saying hey, we can take you on your turf, and it seems to be working. >> one thing that the administration is doing very well is focusing on the gender gap. mentions about defunding planned parenthooded contraceptions, all energizing the women on the base. >> eliot: it seems as though on the issue, the issue of choice continues to be one where the nation is pretty well evenly divided. i've been wrong. i thought a couple of y

he does an interview here but with an israeli paper one owned by sheldon adelson. on his side. they're so much on his side they have descriptions like in. the u.s. is currently consumed with an it's coming presidential elections. americans must choose between obama, whose approach and achievements are contentious and romney, who is considered a gifted businessman they're definitely on his side but he still screws it up saying this indecipherrous things. president bush urged has any mubarak to move towards a more democratic posture but president obama abandoned the freedom agenda and we are seeing today a whirlwind of full mutt in the middle east in part because of these did not embrace their history in a more peaceful manner are you now telling me that obama did not pursue the freedom agenda? and they became free. how is that against the freedom agenda. mitt in the for another fail. i'm begin to go wonder if this guy knows anything about forepolicy. let's bring in michael hastings from the notebook, covering the campaign for buzzfeed michael. first question for you

maybe sheldon adelson does, but most of the supporters in the united states both jewish and not jewish as the palestinian leader said, you don't hear palestinians speak this way. they're attuned to the reality. what mitt romney was doing was as though he went as some foreign leader came to the united states and said if i just talk to dick cheney, i'm really going to understand america. >> yeah. >> it doesn't work that way. he's getting in the middle of israeli politics in a way he has no idea what he's doing. >> well, before the day was out, the white house had waited. here's deputy secretary. let's watch him. >> one of the challenges of being an actor on the international stage particularly when you're traveling to such a sensitive part of the world is that your comments are closely scrutinized. for meaning, for nuance, for motivation. there are people who have looked at those comments and are scratching their heads a bit. >> howard, let's talk about what this means. first impressions are important. he won't have another chance to do foreign trip before the lerks. and we haven't got t

casino owner sheldon adelson foster frees bob perry and buyout investor harold simmons. their legislative ally mitch mcconnell insisted the act was intended. >> to create the impression of mischief where there is none. and to send a signal to unions that democrats are just as eager to do their legislative bidding as ever. >> eliot: and yesterday with republicans voting in lock step with the disclose act failed 51-44. senator reid voted no as well to reoffer the bill today. when debate began arizona senator john mccain joined mcconnell and claimed the bill was a gift to the unions but new york senator charles schumer insisted republican objections had been accounted for. >> we tried to make it as narrow as possible. we tried to deal with all of the objections we heard about labor unions and other things. >> eliot: good try chuck but no sale and vermont senator bernie sanders, my guest in a few moments had it right when he described what the act's defeat would mean. >> billionaires say look, it is great that i own an oil company. great that i own a coal company. great that

he's going to have a fundraiser, reportedly sheldoned sheldon adelson the billionaire bankroll somethingng to be there. obviously romney with meet with his friends members of the knesset. he'll do all the right things. meet the right people. a lot of it will be out in the open in front of the cameras because that's who the trips are supposed to be for. i'm sure his campaign is telling him now don't say anything dumb. don't say anything before vetting with us first. stick to the script. and the mistake in london is one thing around the olympics. the mistake in israel is quite another. there may not be much of an upside there but if he us does have another gaffe another misstep in israel, the lens is even brighter, and the spotlight is even brighter on him and the problems worse. >> eliot: if you do it once, you can be forgiven. but one in israel and then poland, some would say he really can't get his lines back. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> eliot: romney seems to have hoped his trip to the london olympics would help him bask in the glory of the olympics that brought m

romney sat at the right hand of sheldon adelson, the casino billionaire who says he will spend $100 million or more to defeat president obama and elect mitt romney the next president. while sitting next to sheldon adelson, who is currently under justice department investigation for allegations of bribing foreign officials to advance his chinese gambling interests, mr. romney asserted something quite strange about something quite sensitive. he attempted to describe wildly inaccurately the economic disparity between israelis and the palestinians who live under israeli control. he described that economic disparity as about 2-1 when really it's about 20-1. but more importantly than wildly getting his numbers wrong, mr. romney also said that the comparative wealth of israelis and the comparative poverty of palestinians is due to culture. he said, quote, culture makes all of the difference. so if you're an average dude living in the west bank and you make less than the average dude living in tel aviv, you can blame your inferior culture, mr. palestinian. after everybody and their mother freaked o

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