flipping things. and the burning question i just had to ask about her father. be honest, have you ever had a word with him about his hair? also, only in america, could a 6 3 asian american kid from harvard come off a bench and save a nba team. why everyone in new york has lynn sanity. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. a cry country in crisis. police a cinderella story to only happen in america. we begin with presidential politics. rick santorum blasting barack obama on middle eastern policy. imagine a president obama with four years and no one to be accountable to. imagine what he can do. imagine what damage and destruction he can do internationally. to our friend israel. who stands and pleads with us to help. here now to talk about the republican race and the humanitarian crisis in syria, a man that s reported from all over the world. dan rather. welcome back. glad to be back. you have covered many presidential races. put it in some perspective f
election commission. that would make it the most expensive election season in american history. but here s the dirty truth about american history. money always seeps into politics, and it has been going and going and going for a long time. take president mckinley s campaign at the turn of the century. even know that guy? railroad and steel barron s gave him the then insanely kingly sums of $6 million for his 1896-1900 presidential win. that would be a lot of money even now. president nixon was given $2.5 million by one guy, an insurance executive when he ran for president in 68 and 72. just two examples of what happens every time. over the years laws on campaign financing has tightened. but yet this is the strange thing. make it harder and you say you can t give money here and then it goes there, and more money gets spent every single time. even with the mccain bill that was passed in 2002 which required limits in two candidate, guess what, a lot of cash has found its way i
was by leveraging up assets and flipping things. and the burning question i just had to ask about her father. be honest, have you ever had a word with him about his hair? also, only in america, could a 6 3 asian american kid from harvard come off a bench and save a nba team. why everyone in new york has lynn sanity. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. a cry country in crisis. police a cinderella story to only happen in america. we begin with presidential politics. rick santorum blasting barack obama on middle eastern policy. imagine a president obama with four years and no one to be accountable to. imagine what he can do. imagine what damage and destruction he can do internationally. to our friend israel. who stands and pleads with us to help. here now to talk about the republican race and the humanitarian crisis in syria, a man that s reported from all over the world. dan rather. welcome back. glad to be back. you have covered many presidential rac
that s what the pro santorum super pac red white and blue just told outfront about its cash raising today. the donations pouring in for the candidate who exceeded frankly everybody s expectations last night beating mitt romney in a three-state sweep. santorum met with potential donors in texas today and he s actually headed to california to meet even more potential deep pocketed donors. he s not stopping there. he just sent out another e-mail asking for money. here s what it says, we have it. quote reagan got on a roll winning in north carolina and a slew of states after that, the conservative base rallied to him despite all odds. he went all the way to the convention. clearly, rick santorum feeling pretty good. we re doing really well and we feel like going forward, we re going to have the money we need to make the case we want to make. okay, making the case though and winning are two very different things. former pennsylvania senator is lagging behind his rivals when
that the president is doing this at all because it represents 180-degree shift, a total reversal in his prior position on super pac money. listen to what he said back in october of 2010. thanks to a gigantic loophole, these special interests can spend unlimited amounts without even disclosing where the money is coming from. we don t know where it s coming from. is it from the oil industry? we don t know if it s from banks. we don t know if it s insurance companies. could be coming overseas. we don t know. they won t tell you. they don t want you to know. they don t want you to know. they won t stand behind what they do. this isn t just a threat to democrats. this is a threat to our democracy. president obama in october 2010. here he is a few weeks earlier identifying some of the groups that he considered culprits in talking about how democrats might oppose their influence without becoming just like them. every one of these groups is run by republican operatives. every s