was unsealed by the special counsel in february. what zamel is reportedly pitching according to your reporting sounds a lot like what we believe the russian government did. is that coincidental? is there some overlap there we should understand? i think it s close to coincidental. i m pretty sure this is a different operation. there may have been some coordination between the uae and russia. that s certainly something mueller s looking into. but i have to say, if you take a step back, if you are someone who wants to set out to influence an election outside the campaign finance structure, in this new world we now live in a way that that s quite easy to do and it s social media. you can go on social media. nobody s regulating that space. you can do all kinds of mischief. it can be totally anonymous. basically, if you re a foreign government and wanted to try to influential an election, it s the first place you would turn. so it s not improbable that two different foreign governments mig
indictment of russian individuals and businesses that was unsealed by the special counsel in february. what zamel is reportedly pitch, aacord according to your reporting, sounds a lot like what we believe the russian government did. is that coincidental? is there some overlap there we should understand? i think it s close to coincidental. i m pretty sure this is a different operation. there may have been some coordination between the uae and russia. that s certainly something mueller s looking into. but i have to say, if you take a step back, if you are someone who wants to set out to influence an election outside the campaign finance structure, in this new world we now live, in a way that that s quite easy to do and it s social media. you can go on social media. nobody s regulating that space. you can do all kinds of mischief. it can be totally anonymous. basically, if you re a foreign government and wanted to try to influential an election, it s the first place you would turn. so
basically wealthy individuals spending their money in order to encourage people to vote, i don t think there s a way to prevent people from spending their money like that. if there was a way we have limits. we did for citizens united. 1974, the unraveling of a campaign finance structure, infrastructure that led to buckley versus vallejo. the supreme court equating money with speech. there are many ways to carve out first amendment and maintain a democracy. i don t think you can have a democracy with citizens united with dark money and what we are witnessing in terms of the pollution of our already polluted political system. why is anything inevitable in this regard? i think money may be anonymous to us, to voters, the dark money coming in. we don t know who is putting that money in. but, i would imagine the candidates know who is putting in $10 million or $100 million. i think
and i think that if you had a campaign finance structure in place that really took disclosure and transparency seriously, there wouldn t be so much i think systemic disregard for these rules. i mean, it s a slap on the wrist so many times for campaign finance lawmakers law breakers and particularly when you ve got the media touting obama s use of new media, twitter, facebook, and online solicitations, we really need to make sure that there are security protocols that are being followed, because so much more of this money is flowing in online. shannon: michelle malkin, we know you re on it and many others are watching as well. thank you very much. you bet. shannon: breaking development necessary texas where wildfires have already burned more than a million acres. right now more than 15 major fires are raging across that bone dry state, hundreds of homes, up in flames, and hundreds more threatened. we re going to talk to one official forced to evacuate
i m talking about businesses that create jobs and businesses that create jobs want an environment where they can create more jobs. organizations like the chamber of commerce and republican governor s association is supporting a business environment. they want lower taxes, less regulations so businesses can create new jobs. wasn t it lack of regulations on the banks that allowed the banks to precipitate the recession and deprive our country of lending and available credit? is that the deregulation you re talking about? i would argue it s the government in the form of fannie and freddie and their liberal you may argue that. if you look at the relationships between the bank and government, it s clear what has happened. what do you think of these relationships? i think you referred to the bush administration s policies as liberal. talking about liberal policies in the run-up. you had a lot of time. i ll jump in. companies and individuals in the current system can give a lot of