nomination there offered a choice of a colt assault rifle or a handgun. raffles like these have drawn thousands of entries, scooping up voter information like e-mails and phone numbers along the way. the question is can bloomberg s millions help energize supporters on gun control in the same way? can an infusion of $50 million rival the nearly 150-year-old nra? here to discuss whether a billionaire can change the course of gun control politics in america, we have basos michael jr., msnbc contributor, patrick murphy. blake zeb from salon.com. so i guess i ll start with you, pia, you are sort of you re
hearing testimony in the case. and it appears the u.s. attorney is making progress. joining me now is criminal defense attorney brian weiss who has experience with political corruption cases and salon.com s joan walsh. thank you both for being here tonight. brian, let me go to you. david wildstein, camped out for days. what does that tell you. did he get immunity? well, i think it means he won the race to the courthouse. in a situation like this, immunity grants are like life preservers on a sinking ship. unfortunately there aren t enough to go around sometimes. and the fact that mr. wildstein, as you reported in your intro, has been camped out, closed quote, at the u.s. attorney s office tells me he is meeting with prosecutors so that he can be sanitized, and maybe get a dose of scotch guard before he goes in the grand jury. you do not throw a potential
denying liability. duke told us those are two separate issues. duke also spent almost $500,000 in campaign contributions and nearly 6 million in 2013 lobbying. the list goes on and on. with freedom industries, massive chemical spill into west virginia s elk river among the most memorable. the point is, if these companies were already spending millions to protect themselves, just think what can happen now that the sky is the limit and in a world where corporations are also considered people. the question is, is there any hope for greater justice when corporations/people are in charge of themselves? here to discuss that question with me, a woman whose name is synonymous with fearlessly taking on big business, consumer advocate and environmental activist erin brockovich. thank you so much for being here. hi, joy, thanks for having me. so i want to show a video of you actually visiting, investigating the site of that west virginia spill, and salon.com, they put this point
what it didn t win was the election. you can expect to see more and more of these clever political ads as they rely on the varl nature of the internet, exposure that is free and more likely to be seen as more and more americans fast forward through commercials on their dvrs. dvr users skip 50% of commercials. in this world viewers are more and more numb to television commercials where they ve seen so many generic political ads over the years they probably blur together as white noise at this point. in this world is the only way for a candidate to break through, to actually catch the attention of voters, coming up with a demon sheep video and squeal at? to talk about it, i want to welcome joan walsh from salon.com and msnbc contributor josh beier, and our ad man in the group, jimmy siegel, welcome
inclined to go to the polls, more likely to go to the polls as driven by young voters. marijuana legalization is poised to be on the ballot in oregon and alaska. more in 2016. could that be a motivated force to help youth turn out or more strategies they could exploit. we have david burrstein, founder of youth voter engagement generation 18. a politics writer at msnbcs crystal ball and brian boiler, writer at salon.com. catch him there while you can. i think he s got something else in his future. we are talking millenials here and trying to get them to the polls. the first question, i looked up before the show, what is a