president bombers uh... re-election team has decided that they will in fact
encourage
uh... super packs on the democratic side
now this reverse a pelo help decision
by president obama that he did not want encourage his supporters to donate two
super packs
in the two thousand made election he'll serve arson decision to take public
financing he decided not to take it
here a seven and fifty million dollars on his own
use that had a lot more money than john mccain
and that was an interesting issue back then but even in that election
he very much discourage people from
uh... doing independent expenditures on his behalf now that was partly out of
principle
and partly cuz they want to control the message better it or if it goes up
independent groups they won't be able to control as well
their control freaks adult bomb a white house no bomber
reelection campaign
uh... and and and then there is an election campaign as well
uh... and you we saw that through over and over again last three years the
white house but in this case they thought
we are so
swamped with money here
that we don't have a choice and they point to not just all barmer verses
rahman we've shown you those numbers recently on the show as it was raising
more money
the way you could the super pax et cetera romney catches up because obama
has a large amount of
designated just himself right just his campaign
when you quote independent expenditure expenditures like the co brothers groups
call rose two groups of every crossroads grocers g_p_s_ which combined just those
two groups have fifty one million ozzie already rates
okay
when you put those into the pot well then
uh... the obama side gets swapped
they only have nineteen million dollars in their super packed
and what this uh... decision is doing is saying hey you know what
of course is always the split the baby here
president obama nor his spouse no or the vice president norris vows
well actually go to raise money
for the super packed but other administration officials other
reelection
at campaign officials
can go
and but then like mit romney doesn't give a speech et cetera saying basically
this packers are seal of approval and then when they go to raise the money
they will leave the room
while so that's not forget it
the whole system is buttons start
of decisions sites this question what is well within what do you know out of the
summit password
his campaign shared jim to siena says
both side is this is grossly hypocritical
well on the side of are we had to do it is david axelrod
so let's go to put number one
who have the bottom line here
is that uh... the we could look the the citizens united decision was a bad
decision from our perspective it did open the floodgates but now all of the
rules are what the rules are you've seen the impact already the super packs of
spent
over forty million dollars in these republican primaries ninety nine percent
of the on uh... negative ads we see karl rove the co brothers and others talking
about raising you know obtain collectively upwards of half a billion
dollars to try and defeat of the president and we were faced with the
situation as to whether we could afford to play by two sets of rules and the
answer is obviously no for the president's going to continue to fight
for waste to reform that system in the future but that's not going to happen in
this campaign here we have to live in the world as it is not as good as we
wanted to be
well i have agree with that i get very green and partner say
but apart or a says all of this president zedillo leak and reverses is
united really
all weekend is nothing at all
what's the legislation is offered to river citizens united
was them and then he's backing alright silt squat nothing
president obama campaign are changing that system
and he is not a damn thing about it
on the other side of axelrod is russ feingold
who of course is trying to get money out of politics is that a whole
uh... group dedicated to that whole issue
and what is his take on this is is quote
dom approach it will lead to scandal and they're going to be a lot of people
leaving corrupt
conversation or having corrupt covers issues
about huge amounts of money
level one dave regret today went down the row of what is effectively legalized
in remarks system
strong words they only get stronger he also said
quote but also think the guts the president's message
and the democratic party's message
and then finally all that was a strong enough he said quote this is dancing
with that
so uh... former senator feingold specifics
eminently clear out
so who i agree with
uh... everybody who watches the actors knows i miss a final right
padding-bottom express that in this case
believe it or not i believed that that backs or on to the president's
reelection team is right
but within the in
numbers kavya
that here's a pic if i'm not a political action you think i will unilaterally
this our moms at all on principle
uh... you know i want to take the high road in on the go ahead not collect
super back money
while mit romney comes in eg just destroys me polarizes me with negative
ads with all the super back money to the race for me
uh... the wall street guys in the oil billionaire as a setter all know why
that's not how i roll
no i i'd be if he's got a club i'll get to clubs and will go to war okay
box here is that you know is that the apt
but then you got to turn around and say hey listen if i wanna reelection
might central focus
will be to make sure that i did campaign finance reform
because that's what your promises last time
you said he would do it he said he would change the way what's yours
in fact larry lessig has all these great quotes from the president is going to
give you some here
he said back in april two thousand when he was running for president
but let me be clear
this isn't just about ending the failed policies of the bushes
it's about banning the failed system
in washington producers those policies
for far too long
through both democratic and republican administrations
watching his allow the wall street cues lobbyist and campaign contributions
touring this system and get its way no matter what the cost ordinary americans
use absolutely right it he said one more thing quote
all less were willing to challenge the broken system in washington
and stop letting lobby issues their clout to get their way nothing else is
gonna change
he was absolutely right about that and then what do you do about it
not
a damn good
leg
if he's want to say hey you know what
i'm not going to health care are not going to do it's energy all client in
all these things are enormous and what another new any of it on side of the
first and most important thing
change the way washington works
we're going to have an amendment this takes money out of politics otherwise
the super pasadena bike every politician going forward if he did that
and then he says but in this election active disarm
alerting the super back money
and we hope it is for the last time if you vote for me then we could have a
conversation