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good morning. welcome to way too early on this monday, october 10th. thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin the show with the war in ukraine. overnight, multiple explosions rocked the capital city of kyiv for the first time in four months. according to the mayor of kyiv, explosions went off near the center of the city in an area that includes the historic old town as well as several government offices. the number of casualties is not yet clear. ukrainian media is also reporting explosions in several other cities including a refuge for many people fleeing the fighting. air raid sirens sounded in every region of ukraine except russia annexed crimea the past four hours. yesterday russia also launched a missile attack that hit a residential building, killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens more. at least ten children were hurt in that attack. according to the ukrainian air force, six missiles were launched from russian occupied areas in the city. the ....
Party, particularly to mitch mcconnell s senate spending groups, then you have this sort of perfect storm in which hearings aren t going to be real because everybody s strings are being pulled by the same donors. it s hard to solve that problem unless you put the lights on and show where the dark money is coming from and everybody has to be accountable. i m so glad you mentioned mitch mcconnell. it s a piece of poetic something that the supreme court was such a political dead weight that he remains minority leader of the u.s. senate. senator whitehouse, thank you for spending time with us and talking about this. thanks for having me on. joining our conversation joyce vance and charlie sykes. they are both msnbc contributors. ....
Eight district or a similar situation on the other side that reshuffled the map a little bit, and these parties are having to make in some cases very difficult last minute calculations about where their money is best spent. and speaking of fundraising, axios is reporting that democrats are bringing in huge amounts of campaign cash. where are they spending it? yeah, i mean, across the board you see on the senate side, democratic candidates have been good at small dollar funding. rafael warnock in georgia, mark kelly in arizona. and they re all really strong fundraisers. on the republican side, in contrast, you see their washington outside based spending groups, party committees are putting up the big dollars. the difference there is this money on the democratic side is going directly into their most ....
Campaign. doesn t count for outside spending groups. jeb bush is cutting back on some spending. donors have yet to see a return on their spending and a more frugal operation ahead. staffers were taking pay cuts and the candidate will be taking more commercial flights and stay in cheap hotels. bush s campaign reported a strong 13.4 million this quarter out pacing cruz and rubio. his super pack reported raising more than $100 million last quarter will spend big in the plans. the concern with the bush campaign just this week is they re putting all this money into adds and the numbers aren t moving. let s not forget $20 million by ....
the supreme court always rejected that argument money isn t speech. in the case that upheld contribution limits they struck down expenditure limits on the ground the ability to spend as much money as you can to deliver a message is fundamental. i was going to point out we spent the past two year with the left griping about this dark money going into these independent spending groups. they should be celebrating because this is an opening for more of the money to be distributed more widely to candidates without affecting that base limit. also to give more money to the political parties which is more accountable, also disclosed, and has potentially moderating influence. colin s last point is new. the political parties were disadvantaged by citizens united. both democrats and republicans are going to get much more money into their party organizations than they had previously. i think that is going to be good for american politics if the parties are more engaged. ....