Individual of 123,000 all the way up to about 3. 5 million if you look at the amounts an individual can contribute to and party,didates committees, combined. A major influx of big money into the political process. Our organization has estimated about 1 billion to political spending in the next election. And is that a good thing, a bad thing, a neutral thing . Think its i think its disaster for our democracy. Why . We already had a system in which the wealthiest few are able to exert so much more elected systemr and our elected representatives than the rest of us and a like this just makes a bad situation worse. Donald mcgahn, do you agree opinion . No, i dont. Why . Upon a fewed assumption that i dont think are necessarily true. First, the idea that theres going to automatically be 1 billion of new money in elections is frankly, with all respect, ridiculous. People in this country can spend on their owney independent of candidates already. This has been the case for years going back to
School was happy place. Reporter its a Program Designed to give kids a head start in life but a half century after it began some people are questioning whether it should continue. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy Chris Christie is doing serious damage control and 24 hours after a bridge scandal threatened to derail his promising political career the normally contentious governor held a press Conference Thursday apologizing saying the buck stops with him but christie said he did not have any knowledge of the scheme to close lanes on the busy George Washington bridge and learned of the top aids political vandetta wednesday morning and fired two for their roles but it doesnt end with his apology and the u. S. Attorney a job christie once held announced a federal investigation is now underway and erica has more and erica we may learn more about the different roles people played in the scandal today. Absolutely, that is right, new Jersey Assembly will release
Year . Plus meeting america. Kevin tibbles travels to the small town in iowa that hosted cold war leader nikki ta khrushchev. Why are there new fears of a cold war in that same place today . From nbc news in washington, meet the president with david gregory, substituting today, chuck todd. As you can see, its been a busy week. Its going to be a busy week. But were going to start with ukraine. In the last 24 hours, a new flurry of diplomatic activity to the find a solution to the showdown over ukraine. John kerry turned his plane around to meet this russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in paris today. President obama just returned last night from a trip overseas where he was trying to get europeans to take a stronger tact against vladimir putin. Our people and our homeland face no direct threat trt invasion of crimea. Our own borders are not threatened by russias annexation. But that kind of casual indifference would ignore the lessons that are written in the cemeteries of this continent.
Cold war leader nikki ta khrushchev. Why are there new fears of a cold war in that same place today . From nbc news in washington, meet the president with david gregory, substituting today, chuck todd. As you can see, its been a busy week. Its going to be a busy week. But were going to start with ukraine. In the last 24 hours, a new flurry of diplomatic activity to the find a solution to the showdown over ukraine. John kerry turned his plane around to meet this russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in paris today. President obama just returned last night from a trip overseas where he was trying to get europeans to take a stronger tact against vladimir putin. Our people and our homeland face no direct threat trt invasion of crimea. Our own borders are not threatened by russias annexation. But that kind of casual indifference would ignore the lessons that are written in the cemeteries of this continent. The well, on saturday, lavrov stated again that russia has no intention of invading ukrai
Down to, do you normally wait to look very in to pick your candidate, or are you waiting to see a few more campaign ads . Give us a call. Central, it is democrats, call 202 5853880, you can catch up on all social media pages on twitter. Atemail us journal cspan. Org. A good set of morning. A few recent headlines on the issues of undecided voters. Here is one. To the detroit, a recent column theathleen gray, who writes key to victory in november is undecided voters. She writes under its undecided voters are like gold. To this headline for the Bangor Daily News under crush of negative ads, undecided voters in maines second restrict appear district a pure key. Appear key. This is from the politico polling center. A few races with undecided voters. Here is the colorado governors race with 8 undecided voters in that race. The Colorado Senate race before that, 9 undecided voters. Minnesota governors race has 4 undecided voters. To an octoberng 14 through 16 survey. Senate race has undecided