on girlfriend visa, fancy hotels, one of the things that hasn t been covered is super pacs and legislators contacting super pacs themselves to solicit for donations. i was talking to campaign finance watchdogs. if they look into this, they re going to find some impropriety with other lawmakers much farther than menendez. watch for that if that s happening. his colleagues will love that. sure. thanks, senator. dan? i ll pick up with jonathan s topic, which is the rollout of hillary clinton. couple of things. one, we know they ve spent a lot of time putting a staff together and a lot of those people have been reported. what i m hearing is that when they launch, this staff is going to be even much, much bigger than we at this point imagined, that they have done a huge amount of hiring. the other is the discussion that s going on about the presentation of hillary clinton, not just in terms of the biographical aspect or the messaging, but the kinds of events they re going to do.
in fact, i was talking to some campaign finance watchdogs today who said they have never seen anything like it. we re accustomed to the koch brothers coming in with governor walker. they said they spent a lot of money in wisconsin. they re going to spend more. they come in big in congressional races. they came in big against senator tammy baldwin. but now what they re doing is coming in to a tiny community like the iron county board race and sending flyers to the neighbors of folks who run in what have almost been uncontested races, slamming and smearing local folks who want to serve on the county board. and the reason that they re doing it is because there is a great big open pit mine. the county board is going to make a decision about that mine. and the koch brothers want to see deregulation. they want to see dirty industry, which not in this mine, but in green bay, wisconsin, they re in big all over the country. so they re promoting that interest there. and in kenosha, which you men
many are looking at the gop presidential candidates with a fresh eye. did rick perry do anything to damage his status as the frons runner? i ll ask newt gingrich about his performance as well. stand by. he s joining us live. plus, a brazen taliban attack on the united states embassy in afghanistan. some insurgents may still be on the loose now. we have new pictures and information coming from kabul and some top california politicians are trying to figure out what, if anything, is left of their stolen campaign war chest. a well-known democratic campaign treasurer stands accused of swindling more than a million dollars in campaign donations. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. rick perry may have walked away from his second presidential debate feeling battered and bruised. the tea party face off proved to be a very tough test for the texas governor. less than 24 hours after the republican candidate stood on stage with me in tampa, reviews still are coming in about
america coming together, an outside group aligned with democrats and backed by george sor soros. the fine was $775,000 a paltry sum compared to the $137 million the group raised. penalties aside, campaign finance watchdogs believe the floodgates are open and outside cash and influence are only getting bigger. well, chuck, obviously the $305 million that got spent, that s the most ever and that was just in a midterm. that outpaced spending in a presidential election for the first time. i m a believerer that outside groups can have influence on midterms and house and senate races. i m more skeptical they can have more influential on a presidential. act is a proof positive of that. because guess what? kerry lost. up next, our pac show just keeps going. we have a panel of washington heavy weights and an indiana guy, too. we ll talk about how the job numbers will play out on the