and boys club augusta national and new calls for women to wear the green jacket. will a ceo change the masters course? and play ball. opening day 2012 is here, new stadiums, new lineups and new chances. get your peanuts and crackerjacks grab a seat. the first pitch just hours away. but we begin in dallas. as many as 13 tornadoes danced around the city, tore through the suburbs. so far no fatalities but emergency crews are fanning out to see if anyone is trapped at the wreckage. today s dallas morning news describes the onslaught as fast and fierce. it show as twister surrounded by debris. and the star telegram shows rubble. in arlington texas, at least 150 homes were destroyed. good morning. good morning, carol. it s amazing how widespread this damage was. that s a bedroom if you can t make it out behind me. they are going through places like this to make sure no one is trapped or injured. look at that. oh, my god! violent weather whipping across north texas spawn
white house aide to president clinton and kind enough to stick around after his hosting duties on up. ezra thank you both for being here. i want to ask this question about money. shouldn t it be, here we are 2008 was the biggest money year, 2012 it looks like bigger. yit seriously, what s going on in america when you can t buy an election. what is this madness? what has happened to the american dream where you can inherit an enormous amount of money, be rich and make money. i think what political scientist wos say that there is a saturation point, an amount of money if people have seen your ads and heard your message. that s true when you re all over tv on every cable newschannel, on the late night shows. there s not much new that mitt romney can tell people about himself. a lot of the money will tell them things about rick santorum,
clip. but it s the super pacs that are dom mating the airwaves. that s fine. what i think what i think happened, you reach a saturation point. i think that happened in alabama and mississippi. we took a dip in those states as the barrage started. but it rings hollow that mitt romney is the conservative in this race. i mean, it s laughable to any conservative that followed what is going on in this country over the past 20 years, and who has been leading the charge on conservative issues like welfare reform and health savings accounts and reform of our entitlement programs. you know, that s rick santorum, not mitt romney. he s been adding intaitlement programs. we are waiting to calling the races. but the other issue on the horse race, if you were president tonight, one of the big issues on your plate would be what s going on in afghanistan. especially after the weekend. if you are president, what would you be thinking for afghanistan?
system. that s not an exaggeration, and it s frightening prospect in 2012. no doubt. finally go ahead, ezra. one thing i would add to that, though, because people look at elections over linearly. the obama campaign will end up having a lot of money. a couple of months ago they re the first to get near a billion bucks or a5 hundred million. they re going to get there. the obama campaign will have a lot. you hit a saturation point. you hit a point where every voter in every swing state sees these ads 10, 20, 30, 50 times a week. the amount of real sort of increemental value out of there backs less so. the other point we should make here is obama has come out for a constitutional amendment to get money out of politics or limit campaig campaigns. it does represent a new sort of a new way to square the circle. on the one hand i have to
finally go ahead, ezra. one thing i would add to that, though, because people look at elections over linearly. the obama campaign will end up having a lot of money. a couple of months ago they re the first to get near a billion bucks or a5 hundred million. they re going to get there. the obama campaign will have a lot. you hit a saturation point. you hit a point where every voter in every swing state sees these ads 10, 20, 30, 50 times a week. the amount of real sort of increemental value out of there backs less so. the other point we should make here is obama has come out for a constitutional amendment to get money out of politics or limit campaigns. it does represent a new sort of a new way to square the circle. on the one hand i have to recognize the system is what it is, and i have to participate in it. on the other hand, i m willing to sort r consider fairly extreme remedies to get the money out of politics once and