a kind of insane criminality. in nixon s eyes if the president said it s legal, it s legal. he said that. we have it on record thanks to you and the washington post. thank you, john dean, i think you are the world s most famous and important whistle blower. when we return, let me finish with a big lesson we haven t learned from watergate. the millions of dollars of dirty angry money flooding into politics at this moment. you re watching hardball the place for politics. my cut hurt!
i want to bring in mark preston to talk about with what all of this means. i guess in a way mark, we knew that things were partisan. that s not surprising. but if you look at how pew researchers measure this, 48 different ways of measuring how we feel about politics over the years, and they find that we re more divided than ever. almost double over the past 25 years. why? you know suzanne, talk about a comprehensive study that pew has done now, you know, there s a lot of reasons. and what s interesting is that it shows that not only are we more divided politically but also seeing a growing middle. you know, a grow withing number of folks not aligning themselves entirely with the democratic party or the republican party. i think what you see is frustration out there right now on how to lead forward. i think you might be able to tie in the fact that social media has become so prevalent in helping organize people, you know, ten years ago we didn t have facebook or twitter or t
dark about who is bank rolling the candidates, we have answers. you know the super pacs are groups that can raise unlimited money and they re major players, but get ready for this, infederal election commission tells us out front that this might cost $11 billion. twice as much as 2008. and that jump, thanks in no small part to super pacs. there are more than 300 of them already. so today we pored through hundreds of pages of super pac tument, and that was only for a few super pacs and the pro romney super pac called restore our future raised nearly $30 million last year. there were a group of donors who gave $1 million each, and one is jewel whereulian robertson. he s been a fan since the last election and he told me that mitt is quote the smartest guy and extremely decent. marc andreessen was also on the donor list. he told me today, quote, i think he gets it with respect to the economy in a way that the others don t. the super pac for newt gingrich, winning our future, rake
suggest. we have will cain who is a columnist for the blaze. i like the tweed. thank you. the actual professor though is next to you and that would be the former virginia congressman tom davis is back with us. i said a long good-bye to you yesterday and i m like, oh, he s back. we loved having you. he is also the former chair of the republican house campaign committee. and he teaches political science now. and ron brownstein is the editorial director of the national journal and he is with us as well. let s move on to the state of nevada because the state of florida is over. it is next. the state caucuses are this weekend. mitt romney is going to head west with new momentum after this big win in florida. he won 46% of the vote. newt gingrich was at 32% of the vote. second place sfin anybody. 13% for rick santorum. 7% for ron paul. rick tyler joins us this morning, senior adviser to winning our future pac and former gingrich spokesman. nice to see you, sir. good morni
the s&p 500 fell 53 points and the nasdaq suffered the biggest percentage lost, 131 points. movers potentially safer investments. money flooding into u.s. treasury bonds and gold. a record price of almost $18.30 an ounce. the housing market, meantime, doesn t look better today. sales of existing homes and july sales fell unexpectedly, 3.5%. a rise of 2% to 3% expected. tougher lending stands and that is it from cnbc. now i m going to head you back to hardball. welcome back to hardball. president obama, does he need to focus more attention on unemployment in the black community, nearly doubled that rate of the rest of the country? congresswoman maxine waters