that he has personal wealth to maintain himself in his race. that is what he s getting hits on already, bernie sanders saying it s not good for billionaires to get involved in politics, elizabeth warren and others saying we have grassroots donations, putting together things for the people, not corporations, not big-money you walk into the race with an people.out he is ready on hand with the amount of money, the top 4 or 5 have raised on their own, they don t like this idea of a billionaire jumping in. they are right not to like it. but i can t see the point, that he has longevity and the money but to what end? what is the point? the only person who benefits from this is the president. in his own way, tom stier is doing his best to boost the donald trump economy by hiring consultants and putting money into marketing and advertising industry and keeping the economy going. that the only benefit i can see from this. we will see the makes one of the debates. thanks for the preview.
yes. which is a different dynamic than the fight among progressives potentially with elizabeth warren. what s the strategy going in? i remember watching him next to hillary clinton, he gets testy sometimes. he s passionate. he is a passionate person. he is indeed. i will absolutely give you that. but, i mean, what is the what is the thinking behind the scenes about how he needs to come across to voters tonight? listen, there is a theories of change that bernie sanders believes in which is that when you build movements and the people get involved in the process things can change. how did amazon workers get a living wage increase to $15 an hour? how did disney workers get an increase to $15 an hour? he has been fighting building political pressure for this. how is he funding his campaign, bernie sanders? grassroots donations because he isn t going to be bought and paid for by corporate executives. when you look at other candidates how are they being funded? how are their camp
at some point, there s got to be some sort of winnowing of the field. this is a very fair process the dnc is putting in place, which allows for transparency, encourages grassroots donations, and at the same time, ensures we don t have a debate stage with 20 people going into the mid-fall to early 2020. there you go, makes sense. the first debates are on msnbc. adrienne elrod, thank you very much. thank you, mika. coming up, the supreme court rules on one abortion case but sidesteps the wider issue. what it means for the future of roe v. wade. tlhere s big news out of missouri which may lose its last remaining abortion clinic and become the first state without a legal provider since roe v. wade. we ll tell you about that just ahead and bring in former missouri senator clair mccaskill for her take. we ll be right back.
together for some time. there are a million different pieces of this. some of the big headlines include making election day a federal holiday and requiring tax return disclosures for presidential and vice presidential candidates. voter registration done through the dmv and make it compulsive. there is measures including the value of grass roots donations, limiting the strengths of big donations to our election process. this is a complete over haul of how we find our system. why were republicans oppose to it and why won t it be brought up in the senate? mitch mcconnell does not want it to be. mitch mcconnell has been and he ll not dispute the sentence, the most aggressive foe of campaign finance reform in the united states government during his career.
qualifying rules to debate in 2020, one of the ways the democratic party decided that this year a candidate can qualify to make the debate stage is by pulling in a lot of grassroots donations, pulling in donations from at least 65,000 different people in at least 20 states. bernie sanders appears to have already done that and more, not just on his first day, but in the first few hours of his first day. so he at least knows that he ll be on the stage already. here we go. bernie sanders is back doing grassroots funding again and already, but that is not the only echo of 2016 we re seeing right now as the democratic primary gets under way in earnest as democratic candidates are starting to roll out their campaigns. there is another shadow campaign that is definitely already under way, and that story is next. ory. [ bah ]