international hotel. i hope you know the hotel, most beautiful building in las vegas. but can he build a turnout for nevada s still newish caucuses? new found status as first in the west on the road to the presidential nomination, but only a caucus since 2008 and takes when both sides went for someone not being the nominee, mitt romney and hillary clinton both won. of course hillary clinton sort of won. obama got the delegates. our panel is back with us. our addition, no better person to use in nevada or less shy about talking to about to tell us why his state matters, jon ralston, host of ralston live airs statewide on pbs station and writes a column on the reno journal, a newspaper not owned by sheldon adelson. john, good to see you. hi, chuck. we ll wait to when sheldon buys the flash from you
no personal interest in the paper. but two sources tell fortune today, the day after the debate that it sheldon adelson. if fortune s reporting is borne out, it would seem that sheldon was intent on no one ever knowing and didn t want anyone talking about it because wouldn t want to be a distraction from the robust, inspiring, small d democratic process, by which we citizens pick our president in this country. wouldn t want to distract from that. joining us now is john ralston, the host of ralston live, former columnist for the las vegas review journal. it s great to see you, my friend. nice to you have back. always great to be with you, rachel. we ve got two anonymous sources to fortune, a sort of cryptic quote to cnn last night.
distraction from the robust, inspiring, small d democratic process, by which we citizens pick our president in this country. wouldn t want to distract from that. joining us now is john ralston, the host of ralston live, former columnist for the las vegas review journal. it s great to see you, my friend. nice to you have back. always great to be with you, rachel. we ve got two anonymous sources to fortune, a sort of cryptic quote to cnn last night. what do you know or what do you understand about this? do you think that sheldon adelson just bought the biggest paper in the state? i think sheldon adelson is involved, rachel. it was my guess from the beginning because he fit the profile. who has that much loose change lying around and $140 million