reverse himself, and we have seen that has been difficult to do. a lot of the democratic donors feel just on principle very uncomfortable with the idea of giving to the super pacs. is that why there is no oprah here? if i am looking through the forbes list, you know, i m like, okay, where is oprah? we have bill maher there and what about bill gates who has individually maxed out the kind of $2,500, but hasn t given to as far as we can tell to the super pacs some kind of enormous amount? well, that is part of it, but at the fundamental level it is the idea that money is speech that is the real problem, because essentially, and going back to the shelly adelson example, one guy writing a $5 million check is a lot more speech than the $250 donors, and even if 1,000 of them vote, still their will was overturned by one guy writing a big check. that is the fundamental problem. and sure we can have the war of i ll get big donors and you will get them, and we will spend a
tie. doesn t change the delegate count. mitt romney saying in his statement this, the results from the iowa caucus revealed a virtual tie. i would like to thank the iowa republican party for their careful attention to the caucus process. people might want to talk about that a little bit and recognize rick santorum for his strong performance in the state. great start to defeating president obama in iowa and else where in the general election. he leaves out a big thing which is, really, is he 34 points behind rick santorum and does it matter? let s get to shannon travis in des moines this morning and also bring in our panelists. let s start at the far end this morning. roland martin, finally, has joined us here. ron brownstein back with us, again. shannon, update us here on what happened and what the implications could be. this is a bombshell. let s say that. this was already, soledad, the closest vote in iowa caucus history and mitt romney, we thought he claimed iowa and the
came out a couple of days ago and joins us live. good morning. there are dozens of states considering laws banning sharia law from their states. you have this guy writing in the new york times don t be afraid of it. well, the american people are right. the spread of sharia in the united states is the concern of my new book stop the islamization of america. the argument put forth by stern in the new york times, a pro sharia argument is an analogy between sharia law and jewish law. he did not address one tenant of the sharia law and he fails to mention that jewish law is voluntary. there s no compulsion in jewish law. there s no compulsion in cannon law and he doesn t address the fact that women are given half of a man s making that stuff up. or the oppression of nonmuslims under the sharia or the death penalty your honunder sharia. let me read the interpret.
money. i just love the camp and i grow up wanting to go there all the time. i loved it. how large is the college? about 12 thous under. it has to come down to numbers. if there is a lot of people there, i tend to think it is a better experience, but i could be wrong. there are many colleges in america, greg. what is your criteria? gill lum answered that gillum answered that. he would be happy to tell you. so, do you want to go to catholic high school? i wept to a small, catholic high school. i said, no i want to go to a big state school where i can go to the football games and paint my chest and major in beer. at which point my dad had a heart attack. this is a guy writing his recommendation to college. of course he did go to that
news. i wish mark were here. ambassador huntsman does appear to potentially be viable as a candidate to run against obama in two years. you said you wished halpern were here. as as meachem can t no, halpern was knocking it down. i wish halpern was here. every time, that name comes up. he hisses and i know. like this. a little behind the scene. like we re so stupid. sitting next to me, halpern is going yeah. i m sure it s it s unprofessional. i don t think journalists should do that. but i notice, though, he must have john meachem, going to you now, he must have known something was coming. because yesterday when huntsman s name came up, he backed off a little. this is a guy writing game change ii. he s got a leak like a sieve or