that will save sheldon adelson $8.9 billion.n adelson family, if romney is elected it will cost the american government over $11 billion. but you're worried about big bird? you're worried about big bird? now do you know that p bs, it only gets $22.3 million. so, how much would sheldon adelson's tax breaks fund corporation for public broadcast broadcasting corporation for public broadcasting? 25 years for just one person's tax breaks or pbs you could fund for nearly 500 years if you just take away the extra tax breaks sheldon adelson would get under the romney administration. you want to talk about priorities? that's mitt romney's priority. i'm going to take sesame street away from all the kids in the country. i'm going to take pbs away from all of so i can give sheldon adelson the breaks he wants that could actually fund pbs for 500 years. that's republican priority. now when we come back did president obama take it easy on mitt romney because fox news and conservatives kept calling him an angry black man? really interesting con

your graduations to sheldon adelson the caliph and the casino mogul who's made a fortune in china and is now the record holder for the most money spent in an election here in the united states at least that we know about according to politico adelson has funded seventy million dollars of the republican party so far this election more than tripoli in the previous record of campaign spending by any single individual and while adelson hasn't shied away from the spotlight and is in fact proud of his attempts to buy the election for mitt romney there are a lot of other right wing millionaires and billionaires in the shadows who are also spending huge amounts of money that we don't know about you won't hear their names you won't see their faces but they're sure to have a profound effect in november if not on the white house than on the congressional and senate races across the nation and we can thank the supreme court citizens united decision in two thousand and ten for making it all possible. according to a new report by the sunlight foundation more than three quarters of the four hundred

your tax cuts for sheldon adelson cost $2 billion.ot having the conversation about big bird and cutting down his nest until we talk to the other guys first. on the essence of that, the obama campaign is right. >> when we come back, the republicans are so loathesome they've now got a lobby to make sure that we are not protected from cancer. >> we have 15 homes in this area and maybe 11 people have died or more with cancer. >> the koch brothers are killing me and my family. >> and how are they buying politicians to do it? you'll find out in the next segment. and then, the romney girls. they found women in favor of romney. >> the guy i'm voting for is not even christian he's like mormon. just to show you how open-minded i am. they're doing this this corruption based on corruption based on corruption. >>that's an understatement, eliot. from silver screens... to flat screens... twizzlerize your entertainment everyday with twizzlers the twist you can't resist. [ ryan ] it doesn't get any better than endless shrimp at red lobster. you can mi

your tax cuts for sheldon adelson cost $2 billion.ot having the conversation about big bird and cutting down his nest until we talk to the other guys first. on the essence of that, the obama campaign is right. >> when we come back, the republicans are so loathesome they've now got a lobby to make sure that we are not protected from cancer. >> we have 15 homes in this area and maybe 11 people have died or more with cancer. >> the koch brothers are killing me and my family. >> and how are they buying politicians to do it? you'll find out in the next segment. and then, the romney girls. they found women in favor of romney. >> the guy i'm voting for is not (vo) always outspoken, now unleashed. joy behar. >> on my next show, rain pryor go dancer mom, richard pryor for a dad, and a madame for great grandmother. hello, paging dr. freud. ♪ lord, you got no reason ♪ ♪ you got no right ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i find myself at the wrong place ♪ [ male announcer ] the ram 1500 express. ♪ ♪ it says a lot about you. ♪ ♪ in a deep, hemi-rumble sort of way. guts. gl

groups and spends twenty thirty fifty one hundred million dollars it could be an individual like sheldon adelson who's put in twenty thirty million to romney's campaign the democrats are a stop from complaining about it because they go get money from the george soros isn't super rich in hollywood and of course the media and some sentence joyce said because where's that money spent on advertising the t.v. advertising you know rates and they make huge amounts of money off of carrying these ads but i want to go back to i think to the central point you made these critical issues not being debated the most important one to me is the president's claim of unilateral authority to go to war whether it's in libya or if you're in iran and yemen. and this the last time there was a serious debate a presidential campaign in one thousand twenty turned on league of nations in the united states and that was an issue over whether the president wilson was going to through the league of nations be able to unilaterally commit the united states to go to war without congressional authorization and when we think these

perhaps to try to make their candidate seem very close to netanyahu after it was so clear that sheldon adelson was supportive of newt gingrich earlier so they were trying to put a very pro israel pro netanyahu face and message to mitt romney so i think that there is a that there is some sort of divergence from the truth there in terms of the narratives with both of them now i think tonight what we see are both of them trying to make the case to florida voters specifically florida voters because of their twenty nine electoral votes and the high jewish american population in florida that both of them have as they would say no daylight between themselves and . who's government is that i think that i'm sorry. i was going to say that i think that when you look at polling however you see that jewish americans actually vote the way that most americans vote sure israel is important to them but it's not the first second or third item that they are voting on when they cast their ballots they vote on economic issues they vote on social issues they vote on the things that all americans vote on so i think

pension because as it turns out he holds shares it does of the las vegas sands corporation owned by sheldon adelson a major of romney backer this is according to the illinois hedge fund their pension fund excuse me that he earned as a state senator as reported by the huffington post so. there are other things in there today that aren't exactly where obama would support domino's exxon marlboro i think. it's fair it's the president he's a smoker smoker sort of you are deadly but like you know what i don't really care what he has i don't think you should have any of that stuff in there i think you should have only t. bills now if it's a huge you point and that's really if you're going to be thinking on such a huge amount of that put your money where your mouth is if you think that the u.s. government solvent is going to have good finances going out and you know what you should be forced to stay invested in those treasuries all the way through maturity can't sell them. that is a great plan for any federal pensions i wonder how they break down we're going to look into that as well that's a great point a

least see us the koch brothers would have to see us people like herman cain would have to see sheldon adelson individuals like bob perry from perry homes had to see us so our you know our visual aspect we got what we needed and then then after that we actually marched down the beach about a mile and a half in total to get to go directly behind the home of david koch we stayed within the distance between the actual water line and the high tide mark because that's considered public domain there and while they're having this giant gala we actually were be able to project their voices into the backyard they were forced to listen to us the entire time while they're eating dinner so i thought was a fairly effective protest it got a lot of media coverage it got a lot of mainstream media coverage in places that we don't usually expect like c.n.n. and the new york times actually ran seven different articles on it was exceptionally effective and the fallout though was something that was unique and that was that the koch brothers decided to go on a p.r. attack against myself and my friends within the pr

court our elections are up for sale to the highest bidder be it a billionaire casino mogul like sheldon adelson or a massive transnational corporation like koch industries and employers can now use the power of their position. as the holder of the paycheck to implicitly coerce their employees to vote or lend support to whichever politician the c.e.o. wants or face consequences on the job many companies are doing exactly that including murray energy in ohio westgate resorts and the koch brothers georgia pacific corporation and mitt romney himself is encouraging employers to use this tactic it was june two thousand and twelve conference call with the national federation of independent businesses revealed and here it is i hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections and whether you agree with me or you agree with president obama or or whatever your political view i hope i hope you pass those along to your employees nothing illegal about you talking to your employees ab

we just learned the top donors romney's campaign is sheldon adelson, age 79, the owner of the las vegas and casino empire. $34.2 million so far. second on the list is simmons, 81, and the owner of the dallas- based conglomerate company. he has donated $16 million. now to the obama campaign. the number one donor is jeffrey theenberg, 61 years old, o of dreamworks animation. donated 2.56 million. 78, is thes, h two, founder of a , tonology company, qualcomm million. it's very clear the romney campaign is getting a smaller of donors bought in bigger amounts. obama campaign is getting more amounts.t in smaller both of these campaigns will be more money coming or three next two s as we are just 18 days away from election day. back to you. >> thank you. knew w learning we're who what and when when it comes to on the u.s.ttack consulate in libya. the cia station chief in libya reported within 24 hours the attack in benghazi was carried by militants and not a mob t over an anti-muslim movie. for days the obama a mop fortion blamed attack that killed the ambassador and three other americans. the

. >> there were no sheldon adelsons around to write the check. there were no private equity markets, correct? >> yeah, that's what's so bogus. my opponent called me un-american for voting it. whatever his thinking is there. but if we had not done the structured bankruptcy and taxpayer investments in the auto industry, nobody else was stepping up. it was too high risk. no billionaires, no hedge fund companies, no investors wanted to put big money in the auto industry because it was billions of dollars and the risks were too high. there were better places to put your money than in this industry. so it had to be done. you can argue around the edges, but this made a huge -- this state right here would have been in a depression, but it's now seen an unemployment rate drop 3.5%. it's going in the right direction. >> why is romney doing this? is he doing it because he's just in trouble with, you know, white workers in ohio and the lunch bucket democrats out there paying attention? >> i don't know. i don't know why he was against it. his dad was a car gu

george would never have been seen with the likes of sheldon adelson or donald trump.egardless of the spit take it causes from your father's old friends as you try to wrap yourself in the mantle of your father's integrity, the fact is funds must be raised and the romney campaign announced that just last month in september they raised $170 million, which is a lot but is $10 million less than the obama campaign raised. the campaigns are closely matched with what they are raising. where the president and democrats are getting swamped is by the money spent by outside groups. the dark money. money spent outside the campaign. since labor day the spending on the presidential election by outside groups, the proportion of that spending that's been pro-romney and anti-obama is almost three quarters a huge majority of the dark money spending is republican money. that's what's swamping the democrats. what the money is being spent on is tv ads. by the middle of august this year, we had already seen the same amount of spending as we saw in the entire election cycle in 2008. with all

the koch brothers have launched a $3 million campaign in michigan and sheldon adelson is running an ad three states and karl rove and american cross roads and cross roads gps bought $17.7 million in ad space in just eight key swing states woult a ground game it's hard to go up against that. >> that's right. and it's chump change and it helps make crystal clear that the choice that president barack obama is putting in front of the country and why they are discouraged or confused and that's why building the relationship and the block cap pens and volunteers that are pulling the vote, driving with vans to get people to early vote in ohio and milwaukee as we speak. it's so incredibly critical. >> mary kay, jamal simmons, thank you both for your time tonight. >> thank you. >>> coming up, uncovering the republican effort to suppress the vote in florida. there's a leak to the ugly past and we're revealing it tonight. the chairman of the florida republican party tells it all. next. [ male announcer ] red lobster's hitting the streets to tell real people about our new 15 under $15 menu. oh my g

certainly puts the campaign spending in perspective even though sheldon adelson promised to commit $100 million to romney's (vo) during the debates, it's hard to know what candidates are thinking. unless, of course you've stood at the podium yourself. with governors granholm, spitzer, and vice president gore, watch the only truly experienced presidential debate coverage. >> eliot: all jobs are not created equal. in the aftermath of the cataclysm 200860% of the jobs lost were middle-wage jobs. as we've bounced back only 22% of the new jobs fall into that category. most of the new jobs are distinctly lower wage level, accentuating the pain felt by the middle class. but diagnosing the problem and solving it are two completely different things. last fall the president proposed the jobs act to cure the jobs crisis. the bill was filibustered in the senate before pieces were broken out and watered down with a few passing. meanwhile governor romney has been campaigning with a plan of his own. >> romney: that's why i've a five-point plan that gets america 12 million new jobs in four years and ri

sheldon adelson is reading "the amateur," a book filled with -- it's a terrible book.reading this to get his understanding of obama. the guy who he wants to spend $100 million to beat. it's the big shot bubble. these are people and no one tells uh you you're wrong, that's crazy. it goes back to the debate. one of the best stories for why incumbents do poorly is for four years no one told them they're wrong, doing terrible. out's a great job, sir. to have a guy get in your face on the debate stage and rip into you is a new experience. >> you could argue the reverse of that, too. obama has to run on facts and answer to facts where mitt romney can say, i'm going to move the oval office to the top of the washington monument and there will be soda in the water fountains. >> he has to defend his record. that changes things for incumbents as well. >> mitt romney said on wednesday, mr. president, you are not entitled to your own facts. both sides said it. now there is an argument over what the facts are. when we talk about bipartisanship, how do you reach compromise? >> it's a

this mostly applies to me, cenk and michael because you don't gamble as much but between sheldon adelsonic american supposed to stay in vegas. >> you can go to atlantic city and stay stay at trump's. >> by the way steve wynn is an idiot who put his elbow through a $139 million picasso painting. you want to take his advice on anything? >> he's regular guy. >> i told my employees don't get between me and my picasso. when we come back, we're going to do our state by state breakdown, who is going to win who is going to lose, again surprising results here. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> cenk: well, we're going to give you the numbers on nevada who is winning and losing, republicans or democrats. really interesting. then later in the program in studio pauley shore on politics. >> do you think it's weird that obama got osama just the name. isn't that weird. only on current tv. so vote and vote smart. [ voice of dennis ] allstate. with accident forgiveness, they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident. smart kid. [ voice of dennis ] indeed. are you in good hands? [ male announcer ] red lo

. >> he's following the example of sheldon adelson who spent in excess of $100 million and i guess their disdain drives them to reach into their own pocket to do anything. things that they hope they can injure this president. it's one of the most nasty things about this whole thing. >> did it amaze you he talked about rape not being legitimate? if you're raped then you can't have a kid. they said the senator go fetch. it's dog language in this midst of this environment when everybody is listening for that stuff. >> i think the damaging thing not only for todd akin in that race is that democrats are able to connect him to everyone else in the party. >> who wants to be in that party? >> see women very differently. >> don't you wish we could have more debates? >> honestly i don't. the debates have been controlled to such an extent. if you were moderating it would be like a zoo. >> you got to be in that chair. >> they never let the bull in the ring the second time. you're saying basically they're too rehearsed. >> i think they moved the needle in ways that we didn't think. >> we're getting o

i thought i heard somewhere the sound of sheldon adelson and maybe john bolton choking on a pretzel lastight. the neocons must not be happy with that new language. it's the case that the country is weary of war. he knows if he's going to win over the undecideds left in the battleground states, he can't come across like someone who is going to jump into more foreign entanglements. it's an untenable political position at this point. >> i just want to get to iran on this political question, the politics of this thing. i don't know who is more likely to strike at iran if it looks like they're getting close to having a weapon. i wouldn't put it past obama. i think he knows it's essential we do something to prevent that from happening. we have no idea how much of a hair trigger they would have in using it. we have no idea. they're not even like the pakistanis, who are scary enough. it seems to me if you're calculating this election who is most likely to strike, i would do it this way. i would say who is most likely to do it in a way that considers the consequences, they're ready for the reacti

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and then, of course, there's the elephant in the room which we would be sheldon adelson out of nevada was given him and his wife and discovers that would've given somewhere somewhere north of $70 million to various super pacs supporting romney an earlier supporting gingrich. so that's a lot of money, you know, and that's a huge gamble to make. you have to wonder at the end of this whether folks feel like they deserve something for all that money. i don't know. that's just the money we know about. >> sheldon abelson telling the press all he wanted was a lock at a white house chanukah party spent that doesn't sound very bad. >> shade -- sheldon adelson is the subject of an investigation or serious wrongdoing in china. is also been very vocal about decisions he takes for israel and he wants is a candidate takes a guy goes position to give expect he will want some return on investment. >> one thing that i think is interesting that you are not seeing in the super pac donation, super pacs have to say who their donors or pick your not really seeing the level of corporations coming in and giv

. >> mitt romney, how do you retort that when someone talking about you in town with sheldon adelson and i'm walking with children of israel? how do you counter that? i want to play this new ad out, governor romney, the apology tour. let's get your thoughts on that. >> the president began with an ap apology tour of going to various neighbors of criticizing america. i think they look at that skau weakness. >> that's the new ad today. apology tour from the guy i agree with all the positions on everything, foreign policy. it would be funny if it were not so important to all of us. this is the come back the day after. >> the president said when fact checkers look at this issue, he's not on an poll he jie tour. he never apologized for american values and beliefs and for our position in the world. i think that it goes back to this very sort of black and white view of the world that the romney camp is presenting versus this kind of more nuanced, multi-polar vision that the president is presenting. >> does it go to the point of mitt romney still slightly strajdzing the fence. yesterday he wa