dollars as possible this weekend in palm springs. the koch brothers are spending and organizing the spending of more money than almost anyone in history to influence american politics. they also fight vocifero to limit real reporting on how much they spend, how they spend it, and what the impact that spending has on our polity. they want to influence american politics. and they are influencing american politics. but they do not want on known for what it is that they do. and at one level this is one small fight about one group pushing one laughably terrible policy from florida. but this is also about how american politics works now. and whether it stays in the light or whether it is allowed to go underground. because how they are working their side of politics now is millions and millions and millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars that are intentionally made difficult to trace, funneled to networks that build networks that you can disown when you want to if you want to. do
no ball game has been won in the first inning. if we say i don t know what s going to happen, that would be profound or accurate, if we say we re going into a death spiral the issue is we don t know. we re not there yet, it s not about saying it s been three weeks and we should shut the whole thing down. we need to set deadlines for what we re going to do and set them in advance. the tem tags and before he was a journalist i used to design and build networks for banks, the temptation is to keep slipping things and see if they don t get better. the problem is if we don t have young healthy people and made it really difficult and frankly with the back end problems with the insurers are having, if people think they have signed up and they haven t, then you end up with a huge mess in say, february, that s extremely hard to fix. total chaos in the markets. what we want to do, here are the goal posts that we need to hit. if we don t hit them, we need to
internet analysts are warning that the bad guys are winning. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. supporters and rivals always knew this day would come, when he kicked off his second presidential campaign. after all, he s pretty much been running since he lost back in 2008. today romney declared that he s ready to take on president obama. when barack obama came to office, we wished him well and hoped for the best. now in the third year of his fourth year term or his four-year term, we have more than slogans and promises to judge him by. barack obama has failed america. before romney can have a shot at beating president obama, he must face his republican opponents in the lead off primary state of new hampshire. that s where romney announced and candy crowley is there. we all listened to the speech carefully. does he sound like the front-runner for the republican nomination right now? reporter: completely he sounded like the front-runner. not a mention of any