to exist on the fringes but has been elevated by people like don jr. retweeting it. first fund raising numbers of the second quarter are in and the pete buttigieg campaign said it s raised $25 million from 294,000 donors with an average contribution of less than $48. the want pain says it has more than $22 million in cash on hand. that s an eye popping number for a guy who s quietly having a good night in the debate. that s right, willie. it is enormous. and that comes from 400,000 donors over the course of the first and second period, so that suggests a real grass roots movement there for pete buttigieg. also it shows though that he s had a lot of success as we have reported raising money from more traditional sources of democratic campaign finance. you have silicon valley, hollywood, that s an awful lot of lgbt money in there too. so he s kind of spreading himself out in a pretty
statute. then using money he can legally get to and take that money and build a wall. that s what people want the president to do is to build this wall. dana: you don t see any problems that he didn t get the money from congress and said, i ll go around. i understand national emergencies. do you think the legal tkpwroupb will remain solid? yes, i do. this isn t money taken willie nilly. there are particular places to get it from. some of this money s coming from other places. he does need a declaration emergency to do it. this president is well within his legal and constitutional powers to do what he s planning on doing. dana: let s take another topic. this green new deal and the congressional budget office came out with an eye popping number, saying that it could cost between $53 trillion and $93 trillion, the number sounds so
brian stelter joins me now. nox knows about the settlement and renewed his contract. do you expect any additional fallout about this newest bombshell. they say they knew about the settlement but not price tag 32 million which is eye popping number. i think three impacts to this brand-new news story. o reilly is trying to find a new tv job and his people this is this is a plot to stop them from getting a new job. number two. fox is under federal investigation by the justice department. this is new o reilly revelation play into that? and fox is trying to buy sky in britain and they are worried about the scandals in america
even if the senate can get something done. what the senate would do and what the house has done will be incredibly different in resolving those two pieces of legislation will be lengthy and, frankly, pretty ugly. there s an unanticipated element at play here, which is it s not just this eye popping number about 20-some odd million people who might not have access. it s who they are. a lot of those people are trump folk. a lot of those people are going to be older people, white people, noncollege educated people from the states that made a difference for him. as that becomes more known, this is a real risky proposition, is it not? and if they get it passed in the senate and try to reconcile with the house as julie is talking about, you look at 2018 at the start, being a debate about the effect of a new health care plan, a trump health care plan which they will take to voters aace party, as they try to defend congress, which i think could be very difficult.
before. we have seen a drag on ayotte on donald trump as he struggled in the polls and she so she. it is a reversal of fortunes that hillary clinton is hoping to give a push to have the democratic senate. john and christine. thanks for that. eye popping number for obamacare. huge spike in premiums. the average premium for the silver plan will rise 22% in the states that use the federal exchange. the typical bill is $296 for a 27 the-year-old. still high. not 22%. now more than three quarters of policyholders will pay less than $100 a month. the trend here is worrying. why are these increasing? enrollees are sicker and more costly than expected. we heard this from several big