democrats? what s it going to mean for elections? well, when you talk about the big ten party, i don t know what exactly it will mean for them. only 700 people gave at this level for the 2012 election. so we know whether it s 2014 or going into 2016, this doesn t impact most of the 312 million people that reside in this country. it really doesn t. this was a decision for a few. sean mccutcheon is a ceo in alabama who was worried about maxing out to his local party or state-based party in alabama. this really doesn t impact a number of people. he wants to protect free speech, he said. unfortunately this is not free speech. this is the speech that you pay for. most of us aren t in this game. dave weigel, are we now going to see candidates just basically pushing to appeal to these large donors? we re already seeing that. but we have to look forward in the future, the near future, as
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era and his new single about mlk. but we start this hour with breaking news on the search for malaysia airlines flight 370. australian officials overseeing the search say that signals detected by a chinese ship and reported by chinese media earlier today are consistent with the kind of signals that could be emitted by black boxes. a ship detected a pulse signal in the south indian ocean. the chinese press indicated that at this point it s not clear if the signals are related to that missing jet. australian officials leading the international search are still trying to verify the source of these reported pings. but if a connection to the missing plane is found, this could be a major breakthrough. the pings emitted from the voice and data recorder are critical in finding that missing aircraft. the pinger s batteries are expected to die as early as this weekend. and the chinese are saying that they spotted a number of white floating objects in today s search near the investiga
hearing testimony in the federal criminal probe into the george washington bridge scandal. drunia s lawyer confirmed to abc news his client was, in fact, a witness today, and only a witness. the attorney emphasizing that, i m not going to get into the specifics as to what would be discussed in the grand jury. i would say, though, that mike is a witness and we have been assured that he continues to be a witness throughout these proceedings. abc news reports that 23 jurors were impanel at that federal courthouse in newark today as part of this federal investigation led by u.s. attorney paul fitchman. the investigation had been looking into whether or not chris christie or his aides may have violated federal law last year and michael druniak has already met, this is important, he s met with federal prosecutors before, in fact, his lawyer told bloomberg last february that, he met prosec e prosecutors working for u.s. attorney paul fishman in newark, new jersey. what s diff
now the conservative court is gearing up for yet another decision that could change the way we do politics in this country. today the justices heard oral arguments in a case that s being called citizens united on steroids. sean mccutcheon, ceo, is the plaintiff in the case of mccutcheon versus federal exchange committee. now this man claims aggregate contribution limits violate the first amendment by limiting an individual donor s political expression. mccutcheon is now challenging the aggregate limit on donations to federal candidates, political parties and political action committees. president obama weighed in on the case at the press conference this afternoon. the latest case would go even further than citizens united. essentially, it would say anything goes. there are no rules in terms of how to finance campaigns. there aren t a lot of functioning democracies around