so like what? you know, alex, i was on the campus the state farm stadium, on the actual campus of a sports book, it is the only super bowl stadium that has a sports book on the actual campus. i spoke to the ceo and he told me that there are more than 800 types of that you can make of this your super bowl alone. let s pull up the graphic, you can see some of the funny ones. you can bet on the game, you can bet on the final score, you can also place a bet on the gatorade color dumped on the winning coach. the length of the shortest field goal kick, the result the length of the national anthem. when you hear those record numbers from the american gaming association, 50 million americans are making about 16 billion dollars worth of beds. there are a variety of bets that you can make, i want to listen to our conversation with the ceo of that m g o. people have been betting on sports as long as there has
on us. you know, you ve got a day to look at the data, pore over it. as you said, all of our staffers, we re digging through it. my staff, we went through it. notably, there is actual language in the bill that prohibits the use of the funding for the border patrol for homeland security to be used by border patrol to secure the border. yet you have 18 republican senators who go ahead and say, yeah, i m going to side with democrats, i m going to vote for this lousy bill that s going to hamstring our ability to use the power of the purse to demand that biden secure the border and that crisis and ignore the fact that they re actually hamstringing them further. but it goes beyond that. it s not just the seventy five hundred earmarks, the 16 billion dollars, the six hundred and seventy million dollars in earmarks for richard shelby as he s walking out the door of the senior senate republican appropriator, it s the fact that you re giving more money to the tyrants at the fbi. they get a brand
who actually read the four thousand page one point seven trillion dollar spending bill that was passed. here was his assessment of the bill. we had 18 republicans who joined with democrats in the senate get on their fancy planes and go home. and we re sitting here trying to do the work of the people, not spend money we don t have, not drive up more inflation, not have seventy five hundred earmarks for 16 billion dollars for pet leptis projects across this country. what you see here on the floor of the house of representatives ,you make everybody ashamed. chip away represents a texas congressman joins us now to tell us more about the bill. chip, great to see you. and by the way, some people don t recognize the power of the floor. great passion, great speech. tell me the biggest concern you have about this one point, seven trillion dollar monstrosity. well, good evening, sean. merry christmas. great to be on . and look where to again in terms of our concerns about this bill . one p
16 billion dollars was just spent on these midterms. largely on negative ads. negative ads run by super pacs. given that the state of things, how do you pull back? right, i just talk a democratic candidate tonight who said, i m just not running against a republican, what i m really running against is dark money super pac. well, that s right, and unfortunately it was the supreme court case called citizens united that threw up in the doors to this sort of thing we re unfortunately not gonna be able to change the supreme court anytime soon in the constitutional amendment. very difficult to pull off. so it gets fact that they re really playing us, stephanie, because it s basic human psychology. there s something about fear and concern that motivates people more than hope. an uplifting message. and we have to understand that that is not right. and reward candidates, again who appeal to the best in us,
change when we realize that the word compromise is actually an act of statesmanship and not some sort of moral failing or sell out to the other side. because, in a system of checks and balances like ours, the only thing that we do to get anything done is by having principal compromise. so, i appreciate an applaud every point that you are making. but i have to turn it and get to the dark reality where we are. 16 billion dollars was just spent on these midterms. largely on negative ads. negative ads run by super pacs. given that the state of things, how do you pull back? right, i just talk a democratic candidate tonight who said, i m just not running against a republican, what i m really running against is dark money super pac. well, that s right, and unfortunately it was the supreme court case called citizens united that threw up in the doors to this sort of thing we re unfortunately not gonna be able to change the supreme court anytime soon in the constitutional amendment. very dif