indictment are almost never actually safe. counselor, correct me if i m wrong, other when there is an earnings call and a stock takes a tumble, or skyrockets up, when there is an event that cause as stock to tumble or soar, doesn t the s.e.c., don t the feds kind of rewind the tapes two, three days and look for any large blocks of stock, any significant movement of stock? and you ve got guys like this member of congress. don t they understand people are watching and listening? well, it is interesting. finra, which is the sort of nonprofit arm funded by congress has algorithms that goes back and looks at all of these things. and that s where a lot of these investigations begin. but, you know, it was a small, small stock generally speaking. it was 50 cents when this occurred, or when this information was relayed to him. it was very difficult to trade in the united states. it was only over the counter. it was not on a larger exchange because it s an australian stock. so i think it was
watching and listening? well, it is interesting. finra, which is the sort of nonprofit arm funded by congress has algorithms that goes back and looks at all of these things. and that s where a lot of these investigations begin. but, you know, it was a small, small stock generally speaking. it was 50 cents when this occurred, or when this information was relayed to him. it was very difficult to trade in the united states. it was only over the counter. it was not on a larger exchange because it s an australian stock. so i think it was it seems, if you can put yourself in his mind-set, it was almost instinctive, like i got this information, i got to tell my son. i can t sell my shares, which is laid out in the indictment as to why he can t, including the fact that his shares were in australia and there was a moratorium on trading them. so i m just going to tell my son. and then his son took it and told everybody else. but this guy was on the board of
couple groups. in addition to afp and they are spending at different levels and different places around the country, they have a nonprofit arm. right. they have various different avenues so it s hard to track. a lot of republicans a long time feared getting cross wise with the koch network. they don t want to be on the wrong side of them. so there is something still in the republican party that shows that they have an influence over a lot of lawmakers and it s made them kind of try to do this balancing act where they don t anger trump too much but they don t anger the koch network too much. that s becoming increasingly hard to do. it s not impossible right now. sean, good to talk to you on this. thanks for joining us, thank for your reporting, a reporter with the washington post. a store we brought yesterday, a federal judge blocked the plans from 3-d guns being made available today following a lawsuit by eight states attorneys general. the company that published the blueprints
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
jon huntsman got help within the family. jon huntsman, sr. gave his super pac nearly $2 million. it s likely a lot of them we won t know because if a super pac creates a nonprofit arm their donors can remain anonymous of the $53 million that super pac spent on ads. 29% were positive and 71% negative. here a sample from the romney and gingrich campaign. who has more baggage than airlines. newt was fined for ethics violations. mitt, claims to be pro-life but here is what he told voters of massachusetts when he was running for governor. i will preserve and protect a woman s trite choose. you may know that steven colbert his on own super pac. he pulled down nearly a million