arguments in the mccutcheon case senate majority leader mitch mcconnell sent over his and picked lawyer bobby burchfield to do something about it on behalf of mcconnell burchfield as the justices of course nine justices to scrap all limits on the amount of donations an individual can make to candidates during and the individual election cycle if the court accept the connell's argument any congressman could fund his campaign with the money for one single donor and avoid all the time spending spent attending dinners or making phone calls to rich people in his district similarly senators could run their campaigns with just a few big donors in fact mcconnell as the court threw burchfield to allow mega rich donors like you know the guy who spent one hundred fifty million bucks on behalf of republicans the last election to have the total and unrestricted freedom to own their own politicians mcconnell wants the court to take a more extreme position on campaign finance than is actually at stake in the mccutcheon case but thanks to the supreme court's doctrine of money is speech is actual

yes walks around with mitch mcconnell by the way just a quick one here the jim de mint who runs the the heritage foundation also runs the senate conservatives fund which is a super pac and he told the washington post yesterday mitch mcconnell just got a an opponent for his race to be the secretary of state in kentucky alison grimes grimm's is going to run against him and he told he told the newspaper mcconnell said a long successful political career but this time should this could be a time to pass the torch they're basically saying he should hang up his boots and retire in the minute we have left your thoughts on mitch mcconnell retiring i think you know it's the same as a snowball's chance in hell that he's it is only good on the one issue which is the one issue you hate campaign finance apart from that he's a season where you know the issue of doing anything is right up obama from look at me i was in favor of him having a tea party challenger which didn't come to fruition but you like to see mitch mcconnell primary yeah rand paul put an end to that by supporting mcconnell but i.

from owning politicians mitch mcconnell the republican senate majority leader from kentucky is joining them is asking the court to strike down even more campaign contributions it's pending on how the nine justices on the supreme court decide because for at least the five right winners our democracy could continue on as it is or fall even further down the path toward all out oligarchy but first a little background believe it or not most members of congress actually hate raising money sure they have to do it to run their campaigns or election cycle but it's a pretty boring time consuming process in fact it can be downright humiliating in fact a leaked power point presentation put together by the democratic congressional campaign committee for rookie congressman recommended that they block off around half of their ten hour work day for. fundraising activities so on tuesday while the supreme court was hearing arguments in the mccutcheon case senate majority leader mitch mcconnell sent over his and picked lawyer bobby burchfield to do something about it on behalf of mcconnell burchf

do you have karl rove and mitch mcconnell when we talk about conservatives we talk about republicans trauma republicans talk about the republican party well i mean karl. eyes upside down stars why do you think mike tell you right now that mitch mcconnell is in a very tough race and because he's in a tough race that even in a race he had to actually judge has now been announced don't tease it. and we will get to that but connell couldn't be in a tough race and you know this and karl rove is only very difficult and karl rove is in a situation where i will tell you right now someone in karl rove's organization told me that they are looking for a tea party person who they could back to the helt just to demonstrate their bonifay days with the tea party to sort of mend fences and not only that i mean look this guy just lost three hundred million dollars other people's money on various is that he widely shot we should really so it has given him a lot more of those skills and well maybe maybe not that still to be seen as to what his spending power will be in the twenty fourteen a

going to run for against mitch mcconnell in kentucky but she has publicly flirted with the idea shall we say and just in case karl rove who apparently has a few hundred million bucks left over from some previous activity or maybe raising more he's running this is a piece of. grandmother says she's a hollywood loop but isn't. actually join an obama family radical hollywood liberal who's right at home here in tennessee. is this a new that's a great it's the service doesn't have to be this is the new face of politics in america is like trash people before the military and i just got to this and i did what i did ironic is that you know i was knocked by people on the left that all you have no political experience i have been a secret service agent for twelve years had managed operations in foreign countries with foreign ambassadors own the business eccentric century could read that c.v. online but they actually attacked me for saying oh you don't have any political experience and yet there are people in the democrat will not all of them people of democratic party who are actually goi

anyhow moving take a look at what harry reid had to say about mitch mcconnell and organizing for action of yesterday. to the tea party leader. that would be mitch mcconnell all of these are going to turtle matthew bevan a kentucky businessman and tea party favorite is expected to primary mcconnell in the twenty fourteen senate race in the same time that he's going to have to run in a general election against a real democrat and so mark how do you see this thing play out and what do you think. how do you think mcconnell is changing his behavior right now because he's up for reelection when mcconnell's had a tough time of it is you know he's in there he's the he's he's got to be a national leader he's got to run the house he's got to represent his party at the highest level most visible level but he's still also got to go and get reelected with a very high constituency of tea party people who are supported in the past and a lot of it comes down to where he gets his money to you know people are moderates independents a lot of them will go vote but they don't necessarily send any mon

leader mitch mcconnell decided to block the nomination of tom as president obama's nominee for secretary of labor and just days after that decision senate republicans also decided to delay a confirmation vote on president obama's nominee to head the e.p.a. gina mccarthy. of course this obstruction of presidential nominees is nothing new by the republicans senate republicans since the day obama took office and mitch mcconnell said his number one job was to basically destroy this presidency have had one strategy sabotage the obama presidency by blocking the people he selected to work in his administration and by filibustering any sort of legislation that he supports for example with obama's cabinet nominations center republicans killed the nomination of susan rice to be secretary of state a delay of the nomination of republican chuck hagel to be secretary of defense they delayed the nomination of john brennan to be cia director and today had been delayed the nomination of jacob lew for treasury secretary and right now thanks to republican blocking efforts there are currently eigh

person we just want to be like hard ass about it i mean basically mitch mcconnell shove this down barack obama's throat in my opinion i think you know everybody saying oh the republicans lost the republicans got screwed i think connel or maternal whatever mitch mcconnell might have lost the war battle and won the war because i think that what he did was he took a bite out of presidential power here ridiculous for why well first of all you know all you need to know is that when reid gave his press conference he said i was been told by one of my colleagues not to gloat have you ever ever in your life met a politician who didn't who didn't claim victory i mean i know i know john saner when he got the sequester is that i got ninety eight percent over there wanted now cordray one o three hours getting cordray was a disaster because the consumer financial protection bureau spun out of treasury only upon the confirmation of its first director so the care they were starting to average consumer and so the congress was the republicans were unable to get reforms of this rogue agency which is

minority leader mitch mcconnell threw his support behind it were his right to work for a right to work for less states receive on average fifteen hundred dollars a year less fewer benefits experience more workplace accidents and deaths but here's the thing basically what right to work for less laws say is you're in a union shop you're getting the benefits of the union but you don't have to pay the dues what i don't understand is why you know if i went to a exclusive club that mitch mcconnell rand paul was a member of and i guarantee you they are and i walked into that club and i said i'll have a glass of champagne and i'll have a couple of those or d'oeuvres yeah i'll sit here in this nice couch and i'll have a cigar and the fellow comes over and says excuse me sir there's a private club you have to pay dues and i said no it's a right to right to smoke cigars and drink. champagne law that's been passed chris what what do conservatives not get about being a member of a club and dues to that here is the deal tom i'm glad you set it up like this ok you have your club you know you're not a

come in and work with minority leader mitch mcconnell to abuse the filibuster he did but in any case he had a sizable majority but it was there was this remarkable thing that happened you know right about that time the president is elected and all of a sudden there's this tea party express across the country and you know we're we're we're did this come from i mean one of the narratives that has kind of taken hold on the left i think is that. the tea party was this astroturf group you know done for economic purposes but really what they were doing is they were drawing on mostly white racists or you know the first black guy in the white house holy cow we can't have that kind of thing. to what extent is that narrative true versus it was really a genuine astroturf organization or i guess i guess that's an oxymoron but. i mean what is it what happened here i think it's a combination of a lot of factors and what's interesting in the book or at least what's new and novel is that. you know there's always been a kind of friction in the republican party and there was a tidy relationship betwee

way was already in the law oh yeah and mitch mcconnell's home state of kentucky got two point nine billion dollars almost a thousand dollars a person to build a dam during a speech at the white house today president obama reflected on the republican shutdown in the damage it's done to our economy. but let's be clear there are no winners here. these last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on our economy we don't know yet the full scope of the damage but every analyst out there believes it's slowed our growth. right now the best estimate of how much the shutdown has cost our economy is around twenty four billion dollars that's about the same amount of money needed to cover a head start the children's health insurance program and the wic program when women infant and children's combined economy got a jump start when federal employees went back to work today but here's the scary thing come january we might have to go through this all over again president obama the democrats held a strong line on obamacare and the budget over the past two weeks a much stronger line t

want to live without that power of the filibuster when he's in the minority but when mitch mcconnell the majority leader the first thing is going to. go away not we can only hope i doubt it but we could only hope i don't know about said it three or four times the scuttlebutt is the scuttlebutt is that the president plans to nominate some very innocuous neutral people that won't disturb the political or ideological makeup of the court and this problem is likely to go away they're not actually looking for a fight he wants to build a claim he got some one point. meanwhile kerry reid says i stare down the republicans this has been the issue all along it's. you say makes three miss they will be phillip us how can this not be ideological though when this i mean this is the court that anything that has to do with the federal agencies or for so e.p.a. rules national labor relations board rules clean water act i mean you name this why you don't really stream us on the court but but if he is putting on if his own agenda is being thwarted and he puts people on the court who might vote against his a

harry reid and minority leader mitch mcconnell over filibuster reform over the weekend reid stood by his plans to invoke the so-called limited nuclear option or as republicans would call it the constitutional option which would allow fifty one senators to change the senate rules instead of the sixty seven that are normally required in acting the limited nuclear option would dislodge many of these stalled obama administration nominees and would take away much if not all of the republicans power to filibuster non judicial nominees in sunday's edition of meet the press. harry reid said this about using the nuclear option. changes we're making are very very minimal what we're doing is saying look american people shouldn't president obama have somebody working for him that he wants that fifteen people that we found closure on their pending they've been waiting an average of nine months nine months is that good is that do we want to continue that so we're and today in a speech at the center for american progress harry reid echoed those same claims it's my friend. it's time to mcconnell. an

now that if mitch mcconnell becomes a majority leader he's going to change the rules are set up so i've heard righteously so that is that we disagree on this but the truth of the matter is these leaders here already said they were going to do it you know the problem with the problems with reid is that he just wants mcconnell to fail and he wants mcconnell to lose an election it's mcconnell who said that his entire job is to make obama fail i don't like where you're being this idea that he is saying oh my god you know what you're absolutely off you know. disorientation a new a.c.l.u. study has found let's talk about the. new a.c.l.u. is going to has found that on average this is this is actually pretty horrific horrific stuff on average an african-american is three point seven three times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than a white person even though blacks and whites use marijuana at similar rates i actually thought whites used we used more right here in the nation's capital to study study found i think i think whites do is just. so i want to believe it and in

filibuster into a talking filibuster. off the table because presumably mitch mcconnell had entered into a gentleman's agreement with him how do you think this is going to play out it's going to be a disaster that is going to be a disaster for obama for the next four years harry reid was a miserable failure there's no other way to say it he knew exactly what was coming at him can you imagine sitting in a room with a bunch of republicans listening to them say look you can trust us you can ignore our history ignore what we've done for these last four years you can trust us the problem with harry reid is he's too damn old for the job i was just with harry reid he came to you came to los vegas on a program that i put on several months ago and he was he was so weak in his presentation up in front of the in front of this group of people i had to ask the people who brought him to please get him off of the stage because he is so weak and he's a weak leader and that's why the by allowing the filibuster reform not to take place all he's done is he's created four more years of gridlock disaster obama

calling him a little mitch mcconnell here is they're not filibustering president obama's nominees because they don't like the people there filibustering them because they don't like the national labor relations board they don't want there to be a consumer protection bureau mark well this is a lousy way to do is this is just a bad way to run a country and both i agree to something in there that we have i think i will go way back and find even worse examples back to duels and also rather than you but there is sort of a lack of statesmanship statesmen and states women who really come in and tried to have some civility and i wish it was more there that the filibuster i agree with adam on this that this is a football that goes back and forth and the main problem here is too many of these people if not all of these people are constituents to their party or their their constituents is their party first and second to the people that they represent and then you have these ridiculous procedural things that speaking of speaking of which sarah palin says she may she's thinking maybe of runnin

in the united states senate mitch mcconnell if my information is correct tomorrow is going to go to the united states supreme court and basically on bended knees say please would you rule so that billionaires can give me and my friends in the republican party more money with fewer restrictions is that actually what's that pretty much senator mcconnell tomorrow is going to make a extraordinary argument and the court's giving him ten minutes to make that case normally mr mccutcheon the republicans would have thirty minutes they only have twenty minutes the other ten minutes will be given to mr mcconnell in his capacities for the court and his argument is that he should that there should be no limits on contributions to political candidates he should be able to go out and solicit a check for as much as he needs and as much as he wants from one or two political donors from three or four political donors who. clearly have a vested interest in more than you know a rubber chicken dinner and a photo with senator mcconnell they have an agenda and that's why they're going to open their checkb

and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell have called it a nonstarter what's with that let's say you ask david alaska director of communications for the new york republican state committee david welcome back good to be with you tom i've got my purple tie and let's see if we can forge some compromise ok well it might be i mean what do republicans hate the most about obama's plan is that the cutting the top tax rate from thirty five to twenty eight percent is a closing the loopholes look we love both of those things here's the problem republicans want the president to revert back to where he was just two years ago when he said that he was amenable to coupling corporate tax reform with personal income tax reform so this president's been preaching that we need to do what's right for the middle class so let's do across the board tax cuts not just for corporations but for small businesses for individuals and families let's jump start the economy not just give some tax breaks to let me get this straight he's offering you a one pizza pie which you said you really want and you're saying b

found he may he may find this interesting believe it or not i find something the mitch mcconnell and i agree on back in one nine hundred eighty seven he told c.-span that he was against the abuse of the tax code by five a one c four groups take a look. or restrictions now on the kinds of activities that for example the five zero one c three and four going to charitable organizations can gauge on that are being abused not just by people on the right but most of the so-called charitable organizations who are involved in political activity in this country who are. judgment involved in arguable violations of their. tax free status so isn't time that we just enough already if you're engaged in politics i thought i'd say even the political parties if you're engaged in politics if you're promoting politics if you're hustlin politics we're not going to subsidize you by paying for your your roads in your police and your fire we're not going to give you tax exempt status absolutely that may be worth revisiting these to these exemption laws may be worth revisiting but that doesn't make this scand