you, brian. sandra: michael bloomberg shaking up the 2020 race over the weekend. he made it official launching his presidential campaign with a 30 million dollar ad blitz. rivals wasted no time seizing on his billionaire status. we do not believe that billionaires have the right to buy elections. that is why we are going to overturn citizens united. [applause] that is why multi-billionaires like mr. bloomberg are not going to get very far in this election. sandra: let s bring in america s newsroom a-team david avella, mary anne marsh and tom bevan. co-founder and publisher of real clear politics. mary anne, what does it say about the field that bloomberg is entering the race?
presidency or vision of conservatism, is also possible that the white house doesn t to him much although drudge is mainly aggravated in a very good one as you say. i m not sure about that part but i do think it is in this media impeachment ukraine environment it would be harold for anybody who is not just running, you know, a rnc website to ignore fact that there s a lot of negative press tht there. just avalanche this have kind of impeachment information to not cover it or to, you know, put some sort of spin on it that doesn t exist would be a disservice i guess to his readership and his reader hip ship is sll enormous 21 million visit a day it look like projections not 9 to 30 million dollar in revenue. obviously, theen guy knows what he s doing but i m just saying matt, i ming having people comp to me and they say jesse you know what s beginning on with drudge?
be a russian spy and to push her interest. i think mueller is probably looking at the nra as a conduit. there are two kinds of conduits, one for political influence. that s what we saw in the butina case. s they used her as a spy, an unregistered foreign agent. and she used with some success the nra as a vehicle to get access to powerful policy makers. i think there s probably questions about was that done on a more broad scale. was the nra similarly exploited to gain influence with the trump campaign and administration. and there s also possibility it was used as a vehicle to funnel money. a lot of money changes hands, 30 million dollar from the nra to
one of the top oligarchs to vladmir putin. paul manafort and he had been business partners for some time. they had a bit of falling out. by the time manafort came to run the trmp cump campaign, he owed maybe as much as $30 million. he owed 30 million dollar to putin s close buddy while running a presidential campaign. we know for earlier mueller filings that his partner, manafort s partner, a former russian military intelligence officer with current ties to russian invery wetelligence was between during the campaign. we don t know the fuel breadth of this relationship.
monies we spend. being account, neil. i wish you are right. i am right. okay. fine. all right, neil s gang is looking into where the $120 billion bucks we shell out every year to fix roads is actually going. that s at the bottom of the hour, but up here first, the administration hoping the magic of star power and a $50 million dollar ad blitz will be a slam dunk for obamacare. will it just be another slam on us? the taxpayers? edroom in tallinn, estonia and the southbound bus barreli down i-95. this magic moment it is the story of where every great idea begins. and of those who believed they had thpower to do more. dell is honored to be part of some of the world s great stories. that began much the same way ours did in a little dorm room 2713. this magic moment