People have great wealth and wealth gives more power, as has been said. But the effect of this amendment would be to embody into our law by changing substantively, changing and limiting the First Amendment in a way that at the least we are going to have years and years of litigation. But i do not mind that personally. What we are going to have beyond that is a significantly diminished ability to have this sort of ongoing confrontation at length that we have in our electoral process. The 2012 election in my view was a good example of this system working. There was lots of money out there. There was lots of speech. People heard, sometimes more than they wanted to, but they heard the views of the parties and had a chance to vote. That is way the system ought to work, and that is threatened by this legislation this amendment. Professor raskin says the Supreme Courts decision in Citizens United eliminated the provision that kept trillions of dollars in corporate wealth flowing into federal
Thank you so much for spending part of your sunday with us. Im shannon bream. Nice to be with you at home. Its a busy sunday. Welcome to americas election headquarters from washington. Roughly 20 hours into the month came the first october surprise of this election season. The New York Times reports donald trump may have avoided paying taxes for nearly 20 years. This based on a 1995 tax return leaked to the newspaper. Now, trump is facing scrutiny. The times facing a potential lawsuit. Peter doocy is live outside trump towers and how the campaign is reacting this sunday. Hi. All y all weve seen is three pages of a tax return from 1995. They reveal it would have been legal for donald trump not to pay federal income taxes for 18 years after 1995 because thats a year he lost more than 900 million, and thats just how far the law works. You lose that much money, you dont pay taxes for that long. This was first reported by the New York Times, whose reporters admit they dont really know where
The headlines. I am leland vittert. And gillian turner. President trump has issued a fresh and now this morning that he asked former fbi director james comey does not investigating his former National Security adviser general michael flynn. The president treated i never ask me to stop investigating flynn, just more fake news covering another lie. Live with us now from the white house to give us more on that. Hi, gary. High comment transport could not be concerned about now that these close to the investigation telling a baby knows everything with investigators and that none of that. However, Court Documents in the term transition were aware with russian officials with previous suggested and today top democrat said they now believe there will be a lot more shoes to follow this investigation. General flynn not a minor character here. I think this is very significant the fact it is a factual basis for the plea is something he wasnt not being as a rogue agent. What we are beginning to see
Welcome to americas news hq from washington on this sunday. I am leland vittert. Back here for a second day for slutty but no dice. And Kristin Fisher in for Elizabeth Prann and this makes all about immigration that is exactly where it ends. President trump is playing up immigration in a Major Campaign issue in las vegas yesterday. The president blasted democrats saying they were weak on border security. Ellison barber has more details the white house for President Trump has been blasting democrats on this all week. The president though publicly three times yesterday. He talked a lot about immigration at the rally in las vegas. With former governor mike huckabee. He said the u. S. Needs to move towards a merit pay system. This morning he treated democrat asked a lot dont resist. Doing a far better job than bush and obama but we have strengthened security at the border. Two days ago the president seemed to encourage inaction on capitol hill to eating republicans should stop wasting thei
States Supreme Court, judge Brett Kavanaugh. He has suffered the meanness, the anger. Molly we have kevin cork reporting from the white house on all this. Reporter as you heard judge kavanaugh say emphatically, i will never quit, never. Its that resolve the white house is banging on in the face of continuing allegations from the democrats. But those allegations frankly has opened the door for supplemental Background Investigation as mike pointed out just a moment ago. The latest news includes the fbi reaching out to the attorney of the accuser debra re mires. Its even indication the probe will go further than the allegations made by dr. Christine blasey ford saying that Brett Kavanaugh as a High School Boy tried to rape her. President trump the vote for judge kavanaugh is a vote to reject the ruthless and outrageous tactics of the democrat party. Mean obstructionists, mean resistors. Democrats have spent every minute trying to overturn the results of the last election. Reporter the pre