for president. right. what does that mean i can stop the strategist from spending that money. you can as the candidate. the donor if the treasurer of the super pac is, let s say, your accountant. yes, of course. then you basically control how that money is spent. so instead of saying we ve got to go up on the air in iowa and the treasurer of the super pac is my accountant. now, this is why you re seeing the super pacs that are numbered by private equity funds, like keep the promise 1, 2 and 3 because they re each designated by a certain donor or family or couple of donors that basically control how the money is spent. this is an evolution away from the first super pacs. of course. which raised a ton of money but were controlled by strategists and ad guys. after 2012 when people got their to use a wall street term that i love, their faces ripped off. that s right. by the donor class because it was a massive redistribution of wealth from basically slightly p
you can stay in the campaign forever. you can use your super pac and do things that outsource certain things to your pac and have a campaign for longer. at the same time, the super pac controls the money and we re seeing more and more that donors are setting up accounts so that they control the super pac. it s literally their account. basically. so you can see that money in the super pac but it s not necessarily available to be spent by the strategists running the super pac unless the candidate can deliver. so those big totals you re seeing in some of these pacs. how does that work? so nick confessore is running for president. i like nick confessore, we went to high school together, right? from new york city, fellow new york dude. i set up a super pac, confessore for president. right. what does that mean i can stop the strategist from spending that money. you can as the candidate. the donor if the treasurer of the super pac is, let s say, your accountant. yes, of course
smiling, he s not clapping with joy? hum. well, once he was informed that the person over his left shoulder, the president s left shoulder was in fact the republican speaker of the house ochocinco tweeted, quote, just read some of your tweets and you seem pretty angry, kind sir. i can you see you on tv but air not smiling. hope you re okay. seems like he is a first-time viewer. the final verdict from ochocinco the president s speech was awesome. up next, president obama kept secret a daring navy seals raid that freed an american who was held by pirates over in somalia. details on that incredible mission coming up next. you re watching hardball only on msnbc. savings. savings? progressive was the first to offer online quoting. you can do better. first to show comparison rates. ding! the name your price tool. oh! gosh, don t mind if i do. who was the first to offer pet injury coverage? we were. and when did you know you wanted to sell insurance? i said i wouldn t cry. um.
library released the last of his presidential tapes. they were from two days before he was killed. and included a conversation on an issue that haunts so many of us. what would jack kennedy have done in vietnam. would he have done what his successor lyndon johnson did, create an american war in vietnam involving troop levels of 500,000 soldiers? would he have allowed the word eska tlit where we lost 58,000 american soldiers? it s a question i ve been asked again and again traveling the country for my new book jack kennedy elusive hero. the day he died he d given a speech that morning in ft. worth that said, quote, without the united states, south vietnam would collapse overnight. those were his very words that morning of november 22nd, 1963, with lyndon johnson at his side to the city s chamber of commerce. without the united states, south vietnam would collapse overnight. so was he ready to introduce american combat troops or was he going to limit our role? was he going to do what l
prediction. charlie, i couldn t figure out the democratic primary or i would have just joined the president early on. i m not very good at this. the bottom line here is there is no fundamental difference between newt gingrich and governor romney on the things we care about on the whole issue of how we deal with foreign policy, on how we deal with the domestic policy. this is a republican fight but substantively i don t see any fundamental difference between the men. wow. a long fight on the republican side by the way is good news for the obama/biden ticket. while millions watch the president s state of the union address last night, there were close to 800,000 tweets referencing the speech. here s a fun look at the stream of consciousness from chad ochocinco, wide receiver for the new england patriots. quote, not being rude but if they stand up and clap on every statement obama says, this could go on well over three hours. and later he tweeted, quote, anybody notice the guy over oba