good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, big, big, big politics. according to the federal election commission. that would make it the most expensive election season in american history. but here s the dirty truth about american history. money always seeps into politics, and it has been going and going and going for a long time. take president mckinley s campaign at the turn of the century. even know that guy? railroad and steel barron s gave him kingly sums of $6 million for his 1896-1900 win. that would be a lot of money now. president nixon was given $2.5 million by one guy, an insurance executive when he ran for president in 68 and 72. just two examples of what happens every time. over the years laws on campaign financing has tightened. but yet this is the strange thing. maybe it harder, you can t give here, but then it goes here and more money gets spent every single time. even with the mccain bill that was passed in 2002 which required limits in tw
election commission. that would make it the most expensive election season in american history. but here s the dirty truth about american history. money always seeps into politics, and it has been going and going and going for a long time. take president mckinley s campaign at the turn of the century. even know that guy? railroad and steel barron s gave him the then insanely kingly sums of $6 million for his 1896-1900 presidential win. that would be a lot of money even now. president nixon was given $2.5 million by one guy, an insurance executive when he ran for president in 68 and 72. just two examples of what happens every time. over the years laws on campaign financing has tightened. but yet this is the strange thing. make it harder and you say you can t give money here and then it goes there, and more money gets spent every single time. even with the mccain bill that was passed in 2002 which required limits in two candidate, guess what, a lot of cash has found its way i
outfront tonight, big, big, and bigger money in politics. upwards of $11 million will be spent on this year s election, according to the federal election commission. that would make it the most expensive election season in american history. but here s the dirty truth about american history. money always seeps into politics, and it has been going and going and going for a long time. take president mckinley s campaign at the turn of the century. even know that guy? railroad and steel barron s gave him the then insanely kingly sums of $6 million for his 18 - 1896-1900 presidential win. that would be a lot of money even now. president nixon was given $2.5 million by one guy, an insurance executive when he ran for president in 68 and 72. just two examples of what happens every time. over the years laws on campaign financing has tightened. but yet this is the strange thing. make it harder and you say you can t give money here and then it goes there, and more money gets spent ev