like sheldon adelson said today that he believes in gay marriage. and like, this is -- even david koch says that he believes in gay marriage. the easy, liberal, verities seem to come very easy to these people, just as long as, you said, it doesn't impinge on their bank account. >> it's hedge fund liberalism. >> yes. the other thing that's interesting, when you think about where wealthy folks are, with respect to the obama administration. and we saw all the data on wall street, the pendulum swinging away from barack obama towards mitt romney, how much of it is genuine self-interest in the sense of, just something as simple as the amount of taxes they will pay? >> i would say all of it. i really would. i would say all of it. the banks have two choices. four years ago, they had the choice between barack obama and they knew exactly who he was going to appoint in terms of ben bernanke and timothy geithner, the combination of the team that had saved the world from utter financial collapse. and that's what they knew they needed. and john mccain, on the oth

and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture sheldon adelson as you know tycoon who helped bankroll the romney campaign is i know i should even though as a man isn't in the white house why is adelson meeting with republican lawmakers does he have ulterior motives and. today hundreds of low wage workers took to the streets in new york city protesting for better working conditions and better salaries we'll talk to someone who took part in today's events asking where he sees the fight for a living wage going from here and later in the show we'll have a your take my take live segment your chance to call in and ask a question or make a comment drive on the air. fred first you don't succeed bing bing again you have the republicans top oligarchy foreign casino magnate sheldon adelson is already offering to fund the next election for republicans apparently to protect himself from criminal prosecution adelson spent one hundred fifty million dollars on republicans in the two thousand and twelve election more than anyone in american election history and now he's promising to spend dou

adelson wrote just like you know ten bucks to you and me you know and so it's not so much corporation because they're actually constrained by the marketplace for example we saw that the what was the the this chain that the olive garden people you know they they put out something about how they were going to fire people to avoid having to give them health insurance or something their sales went way down and so pleased right exactly so there's there's a discipline that keeps corporations from from doing too much in this area but

adelson's sands corporation, over to the venetian, adelson's flagship, to meet with sheldon adelson. we don't know what they talked about, but bobby engine dal, john casic, and really high up on the short list of procespecte 2016ers. after the meeting we heard sheldon adelson expressed to confidantes he was favoring for 2016, a candidate with executive experience. all those guys fit the bill. incidentally, they were also visiting with him. >> great. professor, in this wall street journal article, adelson dismisses the president's winning margin as i'm quoting him a rounding error. he says sitting at the end of a giant conference table in the venetian casino adelson grabbed his calculator and began way. what's that come up to, he said? look. 0.002%, absolutely nothing. are we beginning to see how mr. adelson may have lost those $150 million on a single bet there? >> no question. he's engaging it with what bush called fuzzy çmath. the suspicious of his calculations there, my daddy used to say this, if you missed it by a dime, might as well be a dollar. the reality is if it's 0.002s o

adelson they're writing checks for tens of millions of dollars put for political action committees to my knowledge the buffets of the world and people of that sort are not they don't have political action committees they're not putting their money where their mouth is and plutocracy i mean the the merger of corporate and state interests was defined by mussolini as fascism. people use that word people think hitler hitler was not a fascist he was a cult leader but in spain and italy they understood that mussolini dissolved the parliament to some is probably better again he replaced all the elected representatives with the with the represent as the largest corporations in each congressional district. how are we not almost there right now. but we're certainly getting there but in a way it's not really corporations it's individuals it's very very wealthy billionaires who for whom checks of one hundred million dollars as sheldon adelson wrote just like you know ten bucks to you and me you know and so it's not so much corporation because they're actually constrained by the marketplace for ex

tonight i've picked a quote from sheldon adelson's new book. madison wrote, "a popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both. knowledge will forever governor ignorance. and a peep who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." they were pretty smart back then. for more, let's turn to karen finney, msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications director. karen, 49% of republicans think a.c.o.r.n. stole this election. we've got a lot of work to do, don't we, houston? >> yeah, we sure do. >> what do you make of this? >> you know what, ed, the point that you were just making, i mean, it's funny and it seems ludicrous, but at the same time, we know that the kind of misinformation campaigns that fox news and this right-wing, sort of smear machine engage in, it can be very dangerous. i mean, earlier in the show, you talked about people who were calling in to members of congress, asking if their disabled child wa

how much did sheldon adelson spend on this election? >> cenk: shooting his girlfriend and then going down the stadium and shooting himself as well. we'll give you more details on that in a second. what everyone is talking about is bob costas' reaction during the sunday night football game. first he started out unobjectible, poignant and he usually is. >> in the aftermath of the unphattible eventsunfathomable events in kansas city. this really puts everything in perspective. if so that perspective has a short shelf life since we'll hear about the perspective we'll regain the next time ugly reality intrudes upon our games. those who need tragedies to recalibrate their sense of proportion with sports would seem to have little hope of truly achieving perspective. >> cenk: i love that. it goes beyond saying he's right, this gives us perspective, and then we forget that lesson. but it applies to the lessons learned from any of these tragedyies. speak of any tragedies the other side said you politicize things. >> ensures more and more domestic

sheldon adelson, there is a poem about him, too. >> jennifer: wait. you have a poem about sheldon adelson but i think you can sing it. >> you can sing it. [ laughter ] >> jennifer: tell us about what inspired this "dogfight the 2012 presidential campaign." great for a stocking stuffer for christmas. but it is also very thoughtful. the campaign inspired you obviously. >> i did run in 2008 called deciding the next decider and i had a couple of candidates and poems left over from there. i did one on mitt romney in 2008 which was yes mitt, so slick of speech and slick of garb, he reminds us all of ken of ken and barbie. so quick to shed his moderate regalia, he may like ken be looking genitalia. >> jennifer: ooh! [ laughter ] >> so, i was already sort of -- and people ask me that in 2008, sort of the way they would ask somebody who would -- made a -- done the palace of versailles in beer cans or something. why did you do this? what possessed you? they usually say i had these beer cans around. >> jennifer: you were inspired obviously by the substance of th

by the way, i saw on the news last night sheldon adelson, the guy with the casinos in las vegas he is starting all over again. he said i will spend $100 million against labor because they realize and these guys all talk together the karl roves, the norquists. >> the koch brothers. >> these people all talk to each other and figure out, how are we going to take over? and what the hell went wrong? they were so convinced that they had the money, that they could win this race now they think we have to go after labor because they are the problem. >> that's why we lost ohio that's why we lost michigan. >> i want to make sure president hoffa that our listeners and viewers understand exactly for working families what right to the work legislation means. because, you know, they do this all the time. they give these fancy positive sounding words. >> we call it right to work for less. >> that's what the president calls it. >> that's what we call it. the south, you compare michigan which is, you know until this recent event, it's almost a 10,000 dollar difference between mississippi or oklahoma an

that is part of the way sheldon adelson will double his spending and he is going to throw that money behind anti-union initiatives at the state level. it's also why republicans in general don't like unions since republican governors have tried to weaken unions. since the elections of 2010 we have seen this in indiana and wisconsin. republicans tried to do that in ohio too. and voters repealed the anti-union law by 22 points. today republicans succeeded in taking away union rights. they succeeded in weakening unions in the cradle of american labor, in michigan, in walter reuther's home. it didn't even take them all that long. >> mr. speaker, i have a question of final passage of senate bill 116. there are 58 aye votes and 52 nay. >> having voted for, the bill is passed. >> the michigan legislature today finished what they started out of the blue last week. they passed a pair of bills to take union rights away from public employees, and this is important, from workers in the private sector. you can see the reaction from supporters of union rights today at the capitol. more than 10,000

well, for sheldon adelson, losing an election cost $150 million. but controlling the pursestrings of people in charge of writing the laws may have broken his promise. priceless, should i say. tonight in our survey, i asked you, will radical republicans ever agree to a tax hike? 11% of you say yes. 89% of you say no. >>> the great thomas jefferson once said, a properly functioning democracy depends on a well-informed electorate. if he was right, new polling shows that we are in deep trouble. karen finney weighs in on the factually challenged republicans, next. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills. olaf gets great rewards for his small business! pizza! [ garth ] olaf's small business earns 2% cash back on every purchase, every day! helium delivery. put it on my spark card! [ pop! ] [ garth ] why settle for less? great businesses deserve great rewards! awesome!!! [ male announcer ] the spark business card from capital one. choose unlimited

las vegas casino mogul sheldon adelson and his wife poured more than $95 million into super political action committees that helped republicans, including mitt romney. >>> this sounds more like a plot out of a tom clancy cold war novel. a rove navy sailor is suspected of telling top-secret submarine tracking technology to the russians. nbc affiliate reporter andy fox with wavy has this story. >> reporter: robert hoffman appeared in court wearing a t-shirt with a rooster on it with the words "born to fight," in reference to cock fighting. mr. hoffman, did you try to sell government secrets? just a big smirky smile from hoffman, who retired a year ago and is trained as a navy cryptologic technician. he is able to find submarines using sophisticated direction-finding technology. the indictment reads hoffman had access to top-secret information which could cause exceptionally grave damage to national security. on october 21st, hoffman is accused of delivering secret information to people he believed to be officials with the russian federation on how to track u.s. submarines using the tech

adelson labor unions which have historically been the vanguard of the progressive movement have been crippled and independent media including print radio and t.v. which used to carry the voices of average working people across the nation through locally owned radio and t.v. stations have been bankrupted and sold off to large corporate media outlets that spew lies in this information to promote the billionaires agenda essentially the progressive counterbalances in america which for several generations kept in check the corporatists who wanted to destroy f.d.r.'s new deal and lyndon johnson's great society they were held in line in the democratic by the democratic party they've been removed. when ronald reagan busted patco in one thousand nine hundred one he didn't just kick off a three decade assault on labor unions he also kicked off a three decade assault once progressive democratic party this is solid is now reaching its peak as republicans and president obama prepared a car of up the crown jewel of the new deal social security insurance until a new counterbalance is stronger than

adelson the casino mogul who spent more money on this election than any american in any election in history actually spent more than we all previously thought according to republican fundraisers able to drop as much as one hundred fifty million bucks in the selection and today he has absolutely nothing to show for it is currently facing two federal investigations into his international business where he's allegedly violated the foreign corrupt practices act by bribing chinese officials it also had previously ended that he was supporting romney to in hopes of putting an end to president obama's justice department investigations ultimately he failed however thanks to the supreme court citizens united decision we the people have even more serious problem with our democracy and just inks. billionaire spending a fortune to divert attention away from his own problems we now have to worry about foreign entities meddling in our elections as investigative reporter leif ali of the nation uncovered the nation's largest oil lobby group the american petroleum institute which spends evilly in our

adelson who spent more money than anyone in the history of our elections trying to get republicans in office he wants to make sure the united states justice department can get its hands on him across the border in billionaire . excuse me. but. understanding the republican party in this way answers a lot of questions about how that party is behaving today why the republican intransigence on capitol hill as our nation hurdles toward self-inflicted economic wounds good question well it's because residents of billionaire astin don't give a damn about the so-called fiscal cliff or the debt limit billionaires taxes are going to go up because phil pay the same income taxes the working people do they have their carried interest in their capital gains loopholes so you know like romney their income taxes are kept out at less than after that of working people billionaire and standees could care less about cuts to social insurance programs like medicare and social security with billions in their bank accounts and a lot of it offshore already have their retirement their health insurance coverage a

casino magnate sheldon adelson after vowing to spend $100 million to defeat president obama. the huffington post said that he actually spent $150 million. >>> the word "election" was the number one search on yahoo! this year, but don't worry because kim kardashian was still the most searched person, just in case you were. >>> and president obama and former president clinton were part of a golfing foursome sunday but no cameras were allowed. these pictures are from when they played last year. it's believed to be the president's third time hitting the links since the election. >>> finally, birther tate tried to force occidental college to release president obama's student records. the judge said no, told her, quote, evidence is not stuff printed from the internet and ordered her to pay the college $4,000 for its trouble. >>> and that is your morning dish of "scrambled politics." >>> and now for a check on wall street this monday morning. the dow opens this week at 13,025 after gaining 3 points friday. the s&p was up a fraction. the nasdaq lost 1. overseas, the nikkei added 12,

the guy took too much of sheldon adelson's money. >> there is a guy who tried treading water with lead boots on and didn't work out for him. >> right off the oak street beach. >> stephanie: near oak park. okay. speaking of sheldon adelson dave in arizona says -- [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] steph, i heard jan brewer is thinking of running for president in 2016. >> if we can find her. >> she recently met with super pac donor sheldon. bone finger, what a great idea. two local arizona tv stations were told governor brewer was out of the state on private business. where in the world is bone finger? >> she's out of the state for an entire week and i think they certified the election earlier this week and she wasn't there to certify the election. that's a pretty big thing the governor needs to do so they had to have the secretary of state do it. >> stephanie: maybe she's in china trying to help out adelson with his troubles. >> apparently she visited a soldier in walter reed yesterday. she's in the d.c. area. but they won't -- she won't say why she's out of the state for the entire week.

adelson and others who have been fighting unions for years. they now in the heartland in michigan with republican majority in a lame duck session of the michigan legislature they are pushing through anti-union so-called right-to-work legislation. >> eliot: look we certainly don't want to appear as though we're ignoring the other multitude of factors that relate here. technology globalization. as you point out as the percentage of workers in unions has dissipated. only 7% are in unions in the work force the power of unions has withered and the negotiating power of workers has diminished compared to their employers capital and that, of course, has been reflected in wages. that's basic economics. >> it is also politics, eliot. because as the percentage of workers and unions have declined unions themselves have had less political clout to do things in washington to get things done on behalf of average working people. so, for example as globalization and technological change has affected the structure of the work force there's been no loud, organiz

many are responding to sheldon adelson. addelson thought he was betting on a sure thing but a rigged game, but the people called the odds and won. and daniel tweets, he doesn't think adelson wasted his money because stimulus is good. keep sharing your thoughts on facebook and twitter. >>> coming up, as world leaders pile on praise for outgoing secretary of state hillary clinton, speculation just brews about a 2016 campaign. i'll ask michael tomasky if a presidential run is in her future. and what does it mean for the dems? pretty heavy lifting for such a lightweight. [ female announcer ] olay regenerist. [ male announcer ] marie callender's puts everything you've grown to love about sunday dinner into each of her pot pies. tender white meat chicken and vegetables in a crust made from scratch. marie callender's. it's time to savor. in a crust made from scratch. when you take a closer look... ...at the best schools in the world... ...you see they all have something very interesting in common. they have teachers... ...with a d

. >> we are trying to follow karl rove and sheldon adelson as they are going down here. mr. adelson, how much money are you going to spend on the election? >> i did not touch her. she ran back into me. she just grabbed our camera. >> i know you were against the war in iraq, that is ok -- but you thought the war in afghanistan was -- was ok -- you thought that was worth doing. we did not check with the russians to see how they did there for 10 years. [laughter] but we did it. it was -- you know -- it was something -- to be thought about. >> when david koch sat down last night as a member of the u.s. delegation, i went over to ask a question. >> do you think unchecked concentration of wealth will undermine democracy? >> i could not quite hear you. i am deaf in one ear. >> we are not doing any interviews. >> president obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans. [laughter] [applause] and to heal the planet. [laughter] my promise is to help you and your family. >> one of the first acts of civil disobedience at the democratic national convention took place on tuesday j

even when sheldon adelson gave all this money to newt gringrich, he at least did it through a super pac so you knew he was giving money to newt gringrich, and you could make an assessment. >> eliot: has the irs indicated they're interested in this? like the sec and other areas of your jurisdiction, you pushed the fed, the irs could do much more, do you think they will? >> they have not. i think they will. i think they may need some encouragement from other federal actors, but they are--they really have not dealt in this area. they have not ruled on the definition of how much they are allowed to spend. we're going to close the gap in new york and hopefully they will close it. >> eliot: my guess they will be pressured, and the white house will look at them and say this is not a partisan thing. this is a matter of what not for profits are not supposed to do. get off your whatever, and irs should do it. eric schneiderman, thank you. this will shed light in the darkest corners of our political arenas. [ female announcer ] what would you call an ordinary breakfast pastry that's been wrapped i

the king of all dividends this quarter, sheldon adelson, he gets $1.2 billion from that sands corps dividend. his tax savings alone could be more than $340 million. of course, as tyler mentioned, all shareholders benefit from dividends, many of the ceos and owners reduced themselves from these dividend votes but the companies tend to have higher insider ownership. the average inside ownership for these dividend payers is around 27% that's much higher than the overall average of 7%. yes, tyler, good for shareholders but even better for the large shareholders. back to you. >> this, of course, all driven by the tax hike. you got to say those people who say taxes really don't make that much difference, it does change behavior. >> absolutely s seeing the market, not just in these dividend bus people selling stocks. >> houses. >> selling houses. >> businesses. >> george lucas saving up to $200 million selling his company. so, you know, yes, we are seeing all that income going into 2012. that means the tax nan 2013 is going to get a lot less than they really expect. we don't know what it really mea

politico reports she met with billionaire republican fund-raiser sheldon adelson. the speaker strips four house republicans from their committee s seats for not being, quote, team players. what does that mean. the first read team digs into it. we have mark murray up for you. a bipartisan group of govers say the sooner it's resolved the better off the states will be. the two governors will join me, one a republican. there's a new report president obama is considering. vogue editor anna winteror to be the next u.s. ambassador to the uk or france. do you believe that report? it's our gut check. be sure to check out our "news nation" tumblr page. you'll see behind the scene pictures and we got this picture of wynton march sal less yesterday in the house. [ female announcer ] a classic meatloaf recipe from stouffer's starts with ground beef, unions, and peppers baked in a ketchup glaze with savory gravy and mashed russet potatoes. what makes stouffer's meatloaf best of all? that moment you enjoy it at home. stouffer's. let's fix dinner. yeah, the cisco ucsc series serve

well, politico reports governor brewer has met with casino magnate sheldon adelson amid talks she may run for president, yes, in 2016. stop laughing. he was such a big help to mitt romney, i suppose jan brewer might be the right logical choice next. after all, he's only spent, what was it? $150 million on this election? john? >> go ahead, john. >> go ahead, ana marie. i'm dumbfounded by the fact -- >> you're speechless? >> i'm speechless. >> why? >> jan brewer, presidential timber. are you out of your mind? there's no way. i mean -- >> i say jan brewer 2016. ana marie cox and jonathan capehart. thank you so much. >>> next, is this the week the president picks susan rice as his next secretary of state or has he preferred someone else? stay with us. [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus presents the cold truth. i have a cold, and i took nyquil, stay with us. but i'm still "stubbed" up. [ male announcer ] truth is, nyquil doesn't unstuff your nose. what? [ male announcer ] it doesn't have a decongestant. no way. [ male announcer ] sorry. alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms p

look at sheldon adelson. he contributed so much to so many republican candidates and at the end of the day only one of his candidates won. the koch brothers as well. but they're coming back. they're going to stay involved. >> and if i were a democrat, or a democratic leader, i'd say that's a great thing. because they are fueling a split in the republican party right now. they are, their organization, americans for prosperity, a lot of what they've done over the past few years has created a great sort of sense of unreality among republicans. >> in what way? >> they push forward the tea party, which is now a huge problem for the republican leadership, and they say they're going to keep doing that. so from the democratic point of view that is actually a good thing. i'm not saying everything they've done has been unsucce unsuccessf unsuccessful. they supported a lot of important institutions on the right. but right now -- >> and also a lot of important institutions in new york as well. >> yes. their philanthropy