october 2010. thanks to a gigantic loophole, they can spend unlimited amounts without disclosing where the money is coming from. we don t know if it s from the oil industry, if it s from banks, 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, that was october 2010. here he is a few weeks earlier identifying some of the groups he considered culprits and talking about how democrats might oppose their influence without becoming just like them. every one of these groups is run by a republican. every single one of them even though they re posing as nonprofit groups with names like americans for prosperity, the committee for truth in politics, or americans for apple pie. i mean, i made the last one up, but but this is why look, this is why we ve g
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
proposition 8 or prop 8, the state s ban a same-sex marriage, is unconstitutional. dan simon live in san francisco. dan, you ve been talking to people there. how have they been reacting to the news? reporter: obviously they re very happy about it. they expected this, quite frankly, and we should point out a little more than three years ago, a majority of california voters said they were against same-sex marriage. well, in this case the federal appeals court said the majority doesn t rule that proposition 8, which defined marriage between a man and a woman, is unconstitutional. from here, brooke, most observers think this case will be headed to the supreme court. it does not mean the fact that same-sex marriage got a victory today that couples can start getting married tomorrow. this ruling is effectively put on hold while this appeals process continues. brooke? so ultimately we ll be looking for the next big step to be the u.s. supreme court. dan simon in san francisco. d
his harshest critics. some 14% of persons now compare and contrast that with wall street, amazing bonuses, $135 billion in bonuses for 2010. the message from the president there to the chamber of commerce is that there has to be work together and this olive branch was really about jump-starting jobs. two years, big business and obama were at odds, the boiling point when obama accused the conservative chamber of commerce of refusing to disclose the millions it spent on campaign ads to defeat democrats. they ve got names like americans for prosperity, or the committee for truth in politics or moms for motherhood. actually that last one i made up. the chamber pushed back on health care reform, corporate taxes and government regulation.
american crossroads fund rubric or the committee for truth in politics or these others, they re going to have a tremendous influence over the future. okay. stay with me. axelrod did not offer proof of the claims that have become a democratic talking point in the final weeks before the crucial midterm elections. republicans have dismissed the administration s concerns as bitterness over expected losses next month arguing that the campaign finance rules are the same for both sides. in fact, according to an analysis come piped for the hill, democrats have raised more than $1 million for the political action committees affiliated with foreign companies. so democrats have done it as well. over the weekend, the new york times likened the secret donation claims to the tactics used during richard nixon s re-election campaign. that contrasts with an article from the washington post on the obama administration s lack of oversight, wroting, senator