politics. a different marketplace where candidates sell not just their idea but critics say they sell themselves. hat in hand to billionaires. chief national correspondent jake tapper shows us the price of politics. presidential hopefuls this weekend pressed the flesh at nascar, a farmer s market and for five of them the weekend was spent with fat cats at a koch brothers backed retreat at a saint regis report in california. you are here because you love america. reporter: and american politicians love them. money helps. money helps. i m playing by the rules of the, of the game. the way, the way it is laid out. if people don t like it that s just tough luck. reporter: with no contribution limits on super pacs 2016ers are seeking sugar daddies. you have to raise $100,000 every single week for a full year to raise $5 million. for a sugar daddy you get a $5
very quickly have those candidates talk about where they stand, they had, several minutes to answer a series of rapid fire questions and introduce themselves to the folks who haven t been paying as much attention to them who haven t been giving them seeing them on the air a lot. so very interesting forum. interesting that trump wasn t here. so far nothing that seems to affect his poll standings. thank you very much. a lot to talk about with john king and senior political reporter nina malika henderson. the fact that donald trump wasn t at the event. new hampshire voters usually want to see and hear from candidates directly up close. is it a big deal for him not to go? it has then t been a big deal so far that he does things in an unorthodox way. if you are donald trump you think the debate is later this week. the forum is sponsored by union leader, the state s largest newspaper a big conservative voice. it has a history of wanting republican presidential candidates to come in and
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she won t do one with me. until after the election. she s afraid of the truth. she s running. and i think it s catching up with her, chris. okay. we made her name here. anyway, thank you very much, jim graves running against michele bachmann. nia-malika henderson of washington post.
steve king, allen west. oh, democrats think, wouldn t it be loverly? with me now, jim graves, running against michele bachmann. and nina malika henderson. stay with us. we re going to show you how we created her. she was our frankenstein s monster, you might say. i want you to look at this and tell me how you re going to deal with this person and defeat her. how many people in the congress of the united states do you think are anti-american? you ve already suspected barack obama. is he alone? are there others? how many do you suspect of your colleagues as being anti-american? what i would say, what i would say is that the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look. i wish they would. i wish the american media would take a great look at the views of the people in congress and find out, are they pro-america or anti-america? i think people would be would love to see an expose like that. well, mr. graves, i hate to