four key facts, will not change, have not changed, will never change. we have the transcript. there was no quid pro quo in the transcript. >> you gave 1,200 bucks to barack obama? >> i have no reason to question that. >> and you gave 2,000 bucks to hillary clinton? >> that's correct. >> why so much more for hillary than the other two? >> because i've been giving a lot of money to charity recently because of all of the poor people in the united states. >> i yield back. thanks for bringing down the gavel hard. that was nice. >> back now with our legal and political team. joining the group, scott jennings and paul begala, both cnn political commentators. paul, obviously you're a democrat. how do you think the republicans did today? >> you could see the two strategies. the democrat strategy is to elevate. so they had these terrific constitutional law professors and the more you hear about james madison, the better it is for democrats. this elevates this into something large and important. and the republicans had the opposite. if the democrats want to elevate, the republicans want to