and president biden did last night and laid it all out there. he said senator sinema is against raising corporationings tax. senator manchin is against a medicare expansion. those were things that we knew but hearing the president lay it out and where the fellow senators are on this holding up the process is really powerful and impactful for a process where people complain they don t know where the colleagues stand. there s power in president biden laying that out. at the same time i have heard ranging degrees of optimism to be done by the end of the week and seems difficult to believe given what senator manchin said yesterday and president biden said last night but i think what s clear on the hill is there s a momentum that hasn t been here before so whether it s at the end of the week. could be a long friday or bebleed into next week and see
those words are meaningless. let s move on to the question about finding a larger business to acquire or merge with your brand. we would like to know what the larger corporationings or companies are looking for in smaller companies, when they are thinking about acquiring or merging them into their own. so how do you figure this out? well, i think big companies are looking for the same thing the small companies are, that s a partner that can really leverage each other s capability. an example wouldble a small company that has an innovative product and a larger company that has a distribution channel to scale it. so that s i think a very typical partnership you might see with a larger company. like any sale, you have to understanding where the pain point s. so you can t go in with the idea of i know how we can help you. you need to know how they think you can help them. there s a lot of reasons companies are merging or
chief of staff. implying she may somehow be working on behalf of the muslim brotherhood. now, you would think to make a charge like that for sitting members of congress to make a charge like that, that they would have some actual evidence, right? you would think that. but the truth is they don t have any direct evidence. what they have are allegations of past connections of relatives of hers that are tenuous best. has called for bachmann to produce credible evidence. so bachmann produced a 16 page letter she sent to the congressman. we re going to walk you through the lonngic she lays out in thi particular case. mother, brother and late father are connected to the muslim brotherhood. let s start with abadin s father, who s dead, by the way. a professor of social science. now, bachmann attributes this information to 2002 law review article out of brickham young university. according to that article, professor abetin s institute had the support of another man who was a former g
many of these very same foreign corporationings. what are are they buying? it isn t free speech, it s bought speech. and the republicans have a right to know. you raised the issue of outsourcing, not connecting this just to the idea there may be foreign sources, influencing american elections but they may be self-interested foreign sources that want to influence the elections because they want more outsourcing of american jobs and they want to support candidates who will do that. that s an important next peek f piece of this in terms of messaging. are you hearing that from democratsome. i think you will hear it from democrats and you ll hear it in questions about trade policies. i mean you don t get something for nothing. when they put up campaign contributions, they want something in rush. when foreign corporations are trying to influence it, you can bet they want something in return. this should be illegal. it should be disclosed and it
you on your efforts. we continue to support any effort to develop real business in this country as opposed to game-rigging by corporationings. i m dylan ratigan. and hardball is up right now. the mouse on the republican floor, let s play hardball. good evening, i m chris matthews in washington on this holy thursday. leading off tonight, the elephant in the room, sometimes a mouse is enough to scare an elephant. today, the mouse on the floor is the sex club scandal, that little rodent of a store that i that s causing such a big scare in the republican party. it s got them running for the trees. tony perkins family research council and of course, sarah palin are both running from the republican national committee. and now a group of big-name republicans are starting their own group to compete with the rnc. a group that could starve michael steele s rnc of money. how bad will this get for the