washington correspondent jeff zeleni and our senior washington reporter mallika henderson. past candidates have been reluctant to endorse superpacs but i guess that s history, right? president obama was the biggest idea. he talked for years about how he didn t like the superpacs then suddenly game in in 2011. i remember it very well when he decided to start speaking out for them. hillary clinton s been kam paining since the very beginning over the last month saying we need to limit the amount of money in politics but now she is in fact speaking out, urging these wealthy donor to give to her. she s in los angeles today for three big fund-raisers. she ll be talking to some of those big donors. explain for viewers who don t know what a superpac is. allows you to write as big of a check as you want to fund to help elect the candidate. you can t work with the campaign. it s sort of like a big brother to help you on the side to kind
get these unlimited funds. if you re a grassroots donor or activist on the ground you might feel like hey, why s this guy sitting on the sideline why isn t he in this thing? in some ways hillary clinton ran into this problem as well donors saying we want to see her out there, we want to see what the product looks like before we put some big money in. but for now, he s waiting. he s going to be able to rake in huge amounts of money but also people like marco rubio who are in the race are able to say, listen i m not waiting on the sidelines, i m a sure thing right now, why don t you invest in my candidacy. vermont senator sanders announced he s running against clinton for the democratic presidential nomination. he was here with me last week right after his announcement. he said he s not going to play that game he s not going to support want any money from those superpacs, he doesn t want any of those billionaires he s got a strong position against that kind of fund-raising. but impre
now that these are the rules, we re going to play by the rules and benefit from the rules to even the playing field because republicans certainly don t play by the rules, have been able to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for these superpacs. a lot of very rich people with a lot of money. i asked bernie sanders if george soras, for example, who s a left wing fund-raiser, if he were to come up with a huge sum of money, would you take that he said no. he s got a principle position. see if it stays like that. all right, guys thanks very much. still ahead, there s breaking news coming into cnn from yemen. we ve got the details when we come back. vo: today s the day. more and more people with type 2 diabetes are learning about long-acting levemir®. as my diabetes changed it got harder to control my blood sugar. today, i m asking about levemir®. vo: levemir® is an injectable insulin that can give you blood sugar control for up to 24 hours. and levemir® helps lower your a1c. levemi