families wanted. so to me right now we really are in an epoch battle. i m with you on where we need to go on money. we re still not there. we re still in the world of you can spend all the money you want. it s gotten worse because you can raise it in other ways, don t have to tell who s got it. it s gotten so terrible. we ve been talking about new york state, that if something ran against gillibrand, they probably would have run. one of the people talking about running before back in i think it was january or february said, if you run, you could win. the person said i d have to raise $30 million or $40 million out. i got a calendar out. that means i would have to raise $300,000 a day between now and election time, and that s just obscene. there s no way i could do that that s right. money is keeping good people out of politics. they re not running because of the money. who does the people s business? the kind of folks i worry about, they don t have $300,000 to put into anybody
how do you stop that from happening? i don t think it made that much of a difference in the presidential race, first of all. 200 to 1? john mccain could have had five times as much money and it wouldn t have made a difference. he had an opportunity to get their message out. there s too many people that can t play now and too many people chasing money from unions, corporate interests across the boards. this would mean the house, the senate and the president? everybody. i like four-to-one matches. one other point, joe. the money this would cost is half the money we spend on elections and freedom and democracy overseas. let s spend some money here i guarantee you barack obama has his goal set now a billion dollars in 2012. that s going to be run the same way it was before. that s the system as it is.
movie coming out. it doesn t matter me. i don t care why people give money. i just want them to do it. especially right now. you look at the kids this money is going to help. it s fantastic. look at the kids. it is a remarkable gift. i don t care who is giving it or why they re giving it. they need to be saluted. i think zuckerberg has done something great. you know what? let s match it dollar for dollar. the dogs weren t good yesterday. you have to tip your cap to cory booker, the dynamic young mayor of newark. he built a relationship with mark zuckerberg. a lot of people is saying why is mark zuckerberg from california donating to newark, new jersey. cory booker got $100 million for his city. we have cory booker coming to our new orleans inknow investigator s conference that the daily beast sputing on. we also have as our headliner general mcchrystal who, as we saw today, has been cleared of
president obama pushed military advisors for an exit plan out of afghanistan, never got one and finally developed his own strategy. senior white house officials seem pleased by the portrayed press. press secretary robert gibbs said, i think the book portrays a thoughtful vigorous policy process that led us to the strategy to get us to the best chance of after achieving our objectives and goals. forbes is out with the list of the 400 people richest in the u.s. microsoft s bill gates remains at the top of the list for the 17th year in a row with an estimated wealth of $54 billion. rounding out the top three, warren buffett and oracle chief larry ellison. interestingly facebook ceo mark zucker burg didn t qualify as a billionaire ranked higher than apple s steve jobs. doing a lot of good with that money. let s look at sports.
elizabeth, how important is it to get money out of politics from your standpoint, from the fights that you ve had in washington? for 30 years we have watched a financial services industry that has figured out new ways to squeeze money out of middle class american families. and congress basically has done this during a large part of it. and so it s got to be that this relates to money. b i will say this. we got this agency through at a time when everyone said, you can never do it. all the money is on one side. all the hurt is on the other. you ll never get this through. the industry itself, the industry lobbyist announced on the front of the new york times, we will kill this agency. yet it went forward because it became just obvious enough this was something that american