right, no that's what he spent. the super pacs spent $25 million. romney alone is like give the candidates a $2 million edge over the super pacs and that won't last long because all of them are going to start relying more on the super pacs to run their ads >> i'm curious where does the obama financing compare to the republicans? >> in classic obama style he's completely blown nem -- them out of the wear. he's spent over $70 million. he's spent all that without going on air very much. so obama's taking a lot of his money and he is building the infrastructure. gwen: well, that's the question. the infrastructure for the general elections, that's what incumbents do. is anybody else going to have anything left over to build infrastructure for the general election? >> it does ant pear at this point that this republican primary has the same dynamic the democratic primary did four years ago which was that obama got strongser as the primary went on. if romney remains the front runner he's getting weaker, not stronger and we haven't seen that light go off whe

all the money was spent the way congress said it should be spent. you haven't read any bad stories about any of the $48 billion you spent. what we did, we put 65,000 americans to work building roads, bridges, transit systems around america. now, if you use that as a gauge -- >> how much could you have spent effectively? >> a lot more. >> let me just tell you, i argued strenuously for $200 billion. we had done a great deal of due diligence on how much money could be spent. it wouldn't have ended when it did. we would have spread it -- it would still be going now. >> sure. >> we believe we absolutely could have spent $200 billion more effectively than some of the money was spent. we all know that package was put together as the president was coming into office. actually a lot of it was put together before he was ever in office. he was at a distinct disadvantage. i remember that debate so clearly and the arguments being made it would take too much time. my argument was if you tell the states there is this money, and right now with the economic downturn

and texas congressman ron paul spent the day courting voters around las vegas. all four will need to raise and spend ever larger amounts of money to keep going. new financial reports released last night show the role that independent outside groups, the "super pacs," are playing. according to the federal elections commission, pro-romney groups raised more than $30 million by the end of last year. those supporting newt gingrich raised more than $2 million. and that doesn't include $10 million the former house speaker's super pac received from a single wealthy nevada couple in january. groups supporting ron paul and rick santorum brought in a little over $2 million combined. the super pacs grew out of a supreme court ruling in 2010 that lifted restrictions on corporate and union spending in federal elections. the numbers are big: $40 million spent just by those outside super pacs so far. but candidates are also raising money the old fashioned way. mitt romney: $57 million, more than his closest competitors combined. that's ron paul at $26 million, newt gingrich at

to date, about $45 million in superpac money has been spent on campaign 2012. much of it, scott, pouring into those negative political ads. >> pelley: curious, armen, was there a standout among the wealthy donors? >> absolutely. harold simmons the texas billionaire. he gave $8.5 million, $7 million of that money went to "american cross roads" a superpac that karl rove, the former bush advisor, cofounded. you'll remember mr. simmons was the man behind the veterans... swift boat veterans for truth ads that helped sink john kerry's political campaign in 2004. >> pelley: armen, thank you very much. a new gallup poll out today finds that mitt romney is leading newt gingrich nationally for the first time in more than a week 31% to 26%. romney hasn't had much time to savor his big victory last night in florida, however. jan crawford tells us he spent much of today explaining a controversial comment. jan is in nevada, which is holding caucuses on saturday. jan? >> reporter: scott, romney was actually taking a victory lap on the morning news shows when he started talkin

they spent the next two years in an encampment ground. they never moved back in. >> by the time people left there were gardens and flowers so it looked a lot better. it wasn't just tumble weeds. >> reporter: inturnees tried to keep a regular life. they sent their children to school. >> i'm sure it bothered them alive but they were very good about not passing that on to me. and i think a lot of other parents did the same. they tried not to make their children feel something was wrong. >>> the hajiwara's were just one family among thousands who had to leave their homes. though there was no evidence they posed any threat how could this happen in the home of the free and home of the brave. part of the reason why was that americans were scared. on the move of december 7th. a japanese fleet staged a stunning surprise attack on the u.s. naval base on pearl harbor in hawaii. suddenly the united states seemed naked and vulnerable. if the japanese could bomb hon -- honoluu lu why not san francisco. several were sited off the coast and one sub actua

spent just over half. bruce leshan trying to figure out why maryland has spent so much. >> they have a $36 million budget. they spent $30 million already. >> on what? >> you can't figure it out? >> no. >> rain is one thing. >> on snow removal? $30million? >> i thought it didn't snow much. >> lots of people want to know how maryland could have blown through almost its entire snow removal budget during one of the mildest winters most people can remember. >> that's crazy. on what? >> makes no sense to you? >> none at all. why? >> they say they have -- when they have a bad forecast, they have to get people in place and ready to take care of it. >> a maryland state highway spokesman insists there have been plenty of iffy forecasts. >> they are saying 2 to 4. so i guess we see what happens hopefully we get plenty of it. >> crews have been put on stand by 14 times and that costs plenty. >> 95% of the time it didn't materialize, but we have to be out there 100% of the time. >> imagine if we said we would have gott

the last ten years we spent $28 trillion. and then, again, the argument moving forward is according to the president's last budget, he was looking to spend $46 trillion in the next ten years and the house budget would have spent $40 trillion. if you've heard about the $6 trillion in draconian cuts, that's what we're talking about, the difference between $46 trillion versus 40. but again, i'm an accountant. i can do the math easily. neither 46 or 40 is less than 28. we're continuing to grow government. the next to last chart is -- this is the really eye-popping one. compares the total liabilities of the united states to the total net private assets. and these are last year's figures. i haven't revised the chart and i'll tell you the new numbers are. but last year, according to the trustees and the balance sheet of the united states, the total federal liabilities, the unfunded liability of medicare, social security, total debt, and the liability to federal retirees was $99 trillion. it's an incomprehensible figure. but if you r

i spent this morning going through four different districts. i experienced many of the pot holes in those districts. this is wonderful. it has been a long road. many years of wanting to get this measure done. in 2009, mayor newsom and i proposed this out of the work of capital planning. we did not have enough support. we knew where one might region were not able to pass it during the recession in 2009. we knew we were not able to pass it in 2009 because of the recession. mayor lee and i were a bit distracted last year. i want to thank supervisor w iener for stepping up and doing the work to get the bond measure passed. it is not easy. i want to thank him for the fund-raising work he did, for being such an able spokesperson all over the city to explain why we need to do this. we all know that in addition to the bond, your elected officials as well as everyone who's part of the capital planning committee and city leadership, we know we need to find an ongoing source to make sure the money we get is going to be a down payment on keeping our roads

we spent a few pennies. just spent a couple days there. wanted to plant our flag and made sure our supporters knew we appreciated their support. tuesday will be a big day for us. we feel like we can improve our results here in col ol and minnesota which we are heading to later tonight and also missouri which is going to vote on tuesday. we feel very good. we are working in maine, too, not necessarily a state i am spending time in i haven't visited but we have good supporters helping us out. >> i understand the point of not spending money or a lot of time because it was home court if you will for mitt romney. if you look at what you say on the trail, you are the true conservative in this race you look at the entrance polls, very conservative you get 10 percent compared to romney's 51 percent. those who say is a true conservative the main quality in a candidate you get 19 percent behind ron paul and newt gingrich. for the folks in nevada which is a swing state they don't buy on to the line you have been seeing in the trail? >> we really didn

and texas congressman ron paul spent the day courting voters around las vegas. all four will need to raise and spend ever larger amounts of money to keep going. new financial reports released last night show the role that independent outside groups, the "super pacs," are playing. according to the federal elections commission, pro-romney groups raised more than $30 million by the end of last year. those supporting newt gingrich raised more than $2 million. and that doesn't include $10 million the former house speaker's super pac received from a single wealthy nevada couple in january. groups supporting ron paul and rick santorum brought in a little over $2 million combined. the super pacs grew out of a supreme court ruling in 2010 that lifted restrictions on corporate and union spending in federal elections. the numbers are big: $40 million spent just by those outside super pacs so far. but candidates are also raising money the old fashioned way. mitt romney: $57 million, more than his closest competitors combined. that's ron paul at $26 million, newt gingrich at

all the money was spent the way congress said it should be spent. you haven't read any bad stories about any of the $48 billion you spent. what we did, we put 65,000 americans to work building roads, bridges, transit systems around america. now, if you use that as a gauge -- >> how much could you have spent effectively? >> a lot more. >> let me just tell you, i argued strenuously for $200 billion. we had done a together before he was ever in office. he was at a distinct disadvantage. i remember that debate so clearly and the arguments being made it would take too much time. my argument was if you tell the states there is this money, and right now with the economic downturn there was a lot of contractors available at favorable rates. did you find in that $48 billion you got -- >> we got bids below what we anticipated which gave us additional money. and also, jobs done way ahead of schedule also, because there was a pent up demand with contractors and availability of workers and the great partnerships that we have with the states, whether it's the gov

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he spent a lot of money.f million people voted and got to them and gingrich was in no position to do that. newt found out that florida is not south carolina. northern part of the florida but the rest is diverse like ohio, most diverse state in the country. the thing i walked away, hop of the people voted didn't like their choices. >> sean: it was 39 to be exact but who is counting. >> but romney performed well with the people he needed to. he performed well with women and in other areas. that speaks a lot to his ability as a candidate. >> sean: ten days ago it was the opposite. >> you take him out of south carolina and he wasn't bruised. he came out and stronger and he.... >> sean: south carolina newt was down double digits and came back and won by double digits. romney is down by double digits at the start of ten day period and he turns it around with two good debated performances. >> $17 million. >> sean: i would agree with that certainly i think if newt had the same debate performances i am not sure the re

will be spent on adding buses oreille cars. that's what that transit headway improvements and service expansion means. so on a line that is heavily used, we will be able to add service to that line and this money may also be used to maintain and repair those cars, rail cars or buses. line b there, transit reliability improvements, that refers to more traditional capital projects like for example the physical b.r.t. lane separation that will be on van he is or geary. on 16th, bus and right-of-way exclusive travel pass for buses on 16th. so then about 2% would go to regional transit providers like bart to upgrade their cars to increase capacity. bart moves a lot of people in the city. a small portion will go to perch d, bike, and transit programs. we would like it to be larger, but the modeling does not show that those programs have a marked effect on transit. and then this is probably the most important slide for business owners and developers. this piece of the proposed fee rates that you see in front of you. i think the most i

a report shows we spent $50 billion to shopping online.the ninth quarter of year to year improvement. >> and the nevada wildlife commission delayed a decision whether to ban bear hunting at lake tahoe. this wildlife video shows how they scare the bear as way. nevada started hunting them ask it touched off a huge public outcry because most of the bears live near lake tahoe. critics say there is too much potential for conflict and state officials were expected to vote on saturday as reported whether to ban the hunt this year a committee will look into it first, we'll stay on the story and follow up as soon as we get new information. >> and the rain storm come together bay area in the next couple days expected to bring a little bit of snow and that is bad news for ski resorts because they need a lot but they say weather is just part of the problem. and you'll see, biggest obstacle is public percent yepgs. >> ski resorts are suffering from an image problem, many have spent time and money making snow. and still, no many customers seem to be sho

how did we really not have a lot of big money spent. there was plenty of big money spent in an election with ranked joyce voting. let's be honest about this. rank choice of voting does not serve our citizens. runoffs have their problems, but by and large, when it comes to the essence of democracy and an educated electorate and the final point that supervisor farrell has made so hard, nine are here. supervisor olague has not yet stood for election. a majority of the electorate didn't vote for us. it just is not right. with less than a majority of the electorate voting for them. ranked was voting is a flawed system. runoffs are not perfect, but they are an improvement. does this need be in the charter? there is nothing in the charter amendment -- it doesn't need to be in the charter. just as a factual point, there is one company that claims they can tell more than three candidates and they can only count 10 right now. the company has not been certified and the last thing we want to do is empower a sole- source contract. by the way, if thi

we spent a few pennies. just spent a couple days there. wanted to plant our flag and made sure our supporters knew we appreciated their support. tuesday will be a big day for us. we feel like we can improve our results here in col ol and minnesota which we are heading to later tonight and also missouri which is going to vote on tuesday. we feel very good. we are working in maine, too, not necessarily a state i am spending time in i haven't visited but we have good supporters helping us out. >> i understand the point of not spending money or a lot of time because it was home court if you will for mitt romney. if you look at what you say on the trail, you are the true conservative in this race you look at the entrance polls, very conservative you get 10 percent compared to romney's 51 percent. those who say is a true conservative the main quality in a candidate you get 19 percent behind ron paul and newt gingrich. for the folks in nevada which is a swing state they don't buy on to the line you have been seeing in the trail? >> we really didn

we have already spent about that much. a quarter of all millionaires pay lower tax rates than millions of middle class households. you have heard me say it, warren buffett plays a lower tax rate than his secretary. i don't need a tax break, we don't need to provide additional tax cuts for negotiation who are doing real, really well. do we want to keep these tax cuts for the wealthiest americans or do we want clean air, education, care for our military. asking a billionaire -- warren buffett's doing fine, i'm doing fine, we don't need to tax breaks, you need them. you're the ones who see your wages stall. the ones who -- we don't begrudge success in america, we aspire to it. i want everybody here to go out in and do great. i want you to make loads of money if you k that's wonderful. ---and given where our deficit is, it's just a matter of math that folks like me are going to have to do a little bit more. because americans understand if i get a tax break i don't need and the country can't afford. one of two things is going t

number one, the republicans in the house and those who are criticizing the amount of money being spent need to either put revenue on the table to cover more spending or stop, all right? and either you say here's where we're going to find you more money or you live with, again, what congress passed, what the republican house passed. this is the number. now, then d.o.d. says, well, you can't tinker with it or it'll change. i think there is an overall strategy and that overall strategy is somewhat dependent on where the money is spent. it's completely wrong to say if you make any one change that strategy tbs out the window. i don't think that's true. obviously you can look at it and say i like your strategy, i know we've got to live with this number, but i think the cut here shouldn't be here, it should be there. that's the role of congress, i think to exercise that oversight or possibly it's the role of congress to say you know what, we got a brand new strategy. we got a brand new strategy that either lives within this budget and here it is or it goes beyond the budget and here's the rev