a $30 million check made out to gop aligned super pac with one hilarious caveat. as a federally elected official, ryan not permitted to solicit seven-figure political donations. when ryan left the room, norm coleman made the ask and secured the $30 million contribution. want to bring in firmer u.s. assistant attorney myra wiley. lonnie, i m going to start with you on donald trump s view on how shoelden adelson s giving works for the candidate you worked for, marco rubio. i like sheldon a lot. he has been a person i ve known over the years. we have a very good relationship. i m self funding. i don t want anybody s money. if sheldon donates to him, he will have total control over
cancer treatment centers of america. appointments available now. are you having a great year, viewer? i don t know if you are. do you know who is having a great year, thanks to trump and the republican party? sheldon addelson. not only did his company notch a fourth quarter windfall of $670 million as a result to the massive republican tax cut he also won big in his foreign policy, using the embassy to jerusalem, also a big addelson priority.
reason that you re basically purchasing this from the government. it s like a return on investment. the best return on investment. even for a guy in the casino business. $10 million and gets $670 million back. he has decided to invest three times as much so the republican congress will give hmm three times as much back. i thought norm coleman asked too low. you re up 670 in the quarter. cut us 100 here? we ll take half. there s nothing new about this. we ve got a long, long, long history of it. the real problem is that we ve opened the spigots with the citizens united case with the supreme court which unfortunately made a bad situation worse in terms of unfettered corporate spending to get candidates selected. and concentrated in the hands of the very rich lahnee. there is an argument that in some ways everyone is spending way too little. sheldon adelson is the perfect
my time is off. it s beautiful here. reporter: yeah, you like it? yeah. you come here, you lose money in this casino that helps the republican party in israel, so come here and lose. i hear donald trump is meeting with sheldon addelson today. what do you think of that? i think sheldon will do a lot of listening. here s a question for you. you re going to be on the undercard debate. you ve said you don t think that s a very fair setup. how do you break out of the undercard debate and get onto the main stage? i think what i said four months ago about national security, i ve been more right than wrong. events have proven me right. hopefully over time the closer we get to voting, people turn back and say that lindsey graham seems to know what he s talking about. tonight gives me a chance to make my case that the events have proved me right and my critics wrong and there s a way forward to prevent another 9/11 but we ve got to change our strategy, so i m going to really focus on
brooke, this is just it depends on what kind of candidate you are, how important this moment is for you. are you the kind of person who wants to be on that stage and see where the facebook questions are going to be, who wants to look at the lights that are going to cut you off at the end or are you a candidate like donald trump. he didn t come here to do his own walk-through, he sent his stachlt he s the kind of guy that likes to roll in kind of at the last minute and just sort of take that flow with him to the debate stage and not spend a lot of extra time hanging around. we know donald trump has other plans today. he s meeting with the mega gop donor, sheldon adelson so he s doing his own debate prep while the other candidates do their walk-throughs, brooke. all right. the theme of the debate tonight is national security. that will be front and center. and so we ll watch for that and talk to some folks who are getting seated, what they re looking for ahead of tonight. but specifi