to superpacs which can take as much as he is willing to give. when the superpac came along, i realized i could just write a check tanned is a lot more effortless and that seems to work. santorum doesn t believe he is trying to buy influence. if he was in it for access, he wouldn t be supporting a guy tho is 1% in the polls. reporter: they say passionate donors by friess are outgunned by those seeking influence. there are a lot more giving because they believe in something, they far outnumber the people that give for access. the people that give for access give much larger dollars. according to a nonpartisan watchdog, so far, superpacs have raised $315 million and spent almost $100 million. much of it, on ads. those ads still leave republican candidates far behind the
who is in friess-greece this is line in a town. people wanting to withdraw over the weekend a billion dollars in total. what is happening over there. imagine going to atm around the corner in the united states, not pulling money out of your account or limited to the equivalent of 60 euros a day. 66 u.s. dollars a day. 500 ever the country s 7,000 atms already run out of cash. government says we ll replenish those with what money i m not sure talking about them being out of money. this is a tragic situation for the people of greece but it is tough to feel sorry for them andrea, when they have put people in power that have promised not to curb spending in the country and not to address the country s debt issues. they have continued on a path just quite frankly unsustainable. it is. i have to ask you you ve got a brother there right now. he is visiting.
santorum accusing the media of a double standard. it started when one of his backers made a controversial remark about birth control. my gosh, it s such inexpensive. in my day, they used bayer aspirin for contraception. gals put it between their knees and it wasn t that cos costly. friess did apologize today and dade sars greta: still, senator santorum is getting asked about his supporter.
time? i asked him about it myself last night. yes, president obama didn t get the same with reverend wright? this is a silly episode in a much more serious issue about santorum and contraception. the foster freiss joke people can realize was a corny joke. offcolor but it wasn t a serious issue. i would not have been a big deal. had not contraception been a bigger issue not only with the president s mandate but the statement that santorum made about contraception. it s fair to say that rick santorum has talked more about contraception than is prudent for a person running for president. it is coming back to bite him now. greta: what about the double standard he raises? he says we rain on his parade about what the supporters said and suggest a double standard when reverend wright said outrageous things and there was not outrage by the media or wasn t covered much. it was a big deal when it
of the troops carrying it out. [ speaking foreign language ] syrian troops, they re apparently taking aim on the people of homs. looking at this video one day after the syrian ambassador to the united nations said there s no armed conflict in syria. you can hear one of the men saying over the radio, the situation is good. as with almost all of the video coming out of syria, cnn cannot independently confirm what it appears to show. much more on the video and the story it tells ahead. the arrest, court appearance, and charges against a 29-year-old man accused of planning a suicide bombing at the united states capital. jeffrey toobin joins us to talk about that along with tom fuentes with new details just b those. what have you lurjed about the suspect and his alleged plot? the details we re getting this man, this suspect identified as a 29-year-old moroccan national seem to escalate during the points in the operation when he was working with people he thought were al qaeda