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  • WITH A NET WORTH OF LESS THAN

  • $100,000.

  • JOINING US NOW, DAN ALEXANDER.

  • WHAT TO MAKE OF THIS?

  • >> EACH ONE OF THESE PEOPLE HAS

  • THEIR OWN STORY.

  • YOU CAN LEARN A LOT BY LOOKING

  • AT HOW SOMEBODY MADE HIS MONEY.

  • BETO O'ROURKE, MOST OF IT CAME

  • FROM HIS FAMILY.

  • JOHN DELANEY, HE MADE A LOT OF

  • MONEY IN THE BUSINESS WORLD.

  • EACH OF THEM TELLS THEIR OWN

  • THING.

  • DAGEN: JAMES?

  • >> WELL, I AM ALWAYS DISTURBED

  • BY HOW MANY PEOPLE SEEM TO GET

  • VERY WEALTHY IN POLITICS AND

  • ALSO WE SEE ELIZABETH WARREN,

  • SHE AND HER HUSBAND ARE HARVARD

  • PROFESSORS, NET WORTH,

  • $12 MILLION.

  • YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THE TAX

  • BENEFITS THIS INSTITUTION GETS.

  • YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THE KIDS

  • PILING UP DEBT TO GO TO THESE

  • SCHOOLS.

  • IT MAKES YOU SHAKE YOUR HEAD.

  • $12 MILLION.

  • THAT'S THE NET WORTH FOR A FEW

  • PROFESSORS?

  • >> I THINK THAT THAT WAS

  • SURPRISING, TO SEE HER UP THERE

  • TOWARD THE TOP OF THE LIST.

  • ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT WAS

  • SURPRISING, ESPECIALLY THE

  • BOTTOM OF THE LIST, IS HOW

  • VALUABLE GOVERNMENT PENSIONS

  • ARE.

  • YOU CAN STAY IN GOVERNMENT FOR

  • YEARS AND JUST BECOME A

  • MILLIONAIRE BASED ON THAT.

  • SO THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN IN MOST

  • OTHER CAREERS THAT YOU MIGHT

  • ENTER BUT IN GOVERNMENT IT CAN.

  • DAGEN: GO AHEAD, LINDSEY.

  • >> WHAT I FOUND INTERESTING

  • ABOUT THIS REPORT IS YOU HAVE A

  • TRANSPARENCY SCORE FOR EACH OF

  • THESE CANDIDATES AND YOU NOTE

  • THAT NOT ONE OF THEM HAS

  • ANSWERED EVERY ONE OF YOUR

  • QUESTIONS.

  • SO WHO WAS THE MOST TRANSPARENT?

  • WHO WAS THE LEAST TRANSPARENT

  • WITH YOU WITH REGARDS TO --

  • >> IF YOU PUT AT THE TOP OF THE

  • CLASS, THE PEOPLE WHO DID THE

  • BASIC THINGS, SO THAT'S

  • ELIZABETH WARREN, PETE

  • BUTTIGIEG, JOE BIDEN, THESE ARE

  • PEOPLE THAT RELEASED THEIR TAX

  • RETURNS, FILED FINANCIAL

  • DISCLOSURES, THAT SORT OF THING.

  • IN EVERY ONE OF THOSE CASES, WE

  • CAME BACK AND SAID THERE'S THIS

  • MAJOR QUESTION.

  • FOR BUTTIGIEG, HOW MUCH STUDENT

  • DEBT DO YOU HAVE, THAT'S A BIG

  • THING DEMOCRATS TALKING ABOUT

  • WHAT THEY'LL DO WITH STUDENT

  • DEBT.

  • THIS COULD AFFECT HIS PERSONAL

  • FORTUNE.

  • HE WOULDN'T ANSWER IT.

  • ELIZABETH WARREN, ON HER

  • DISCLOSURE SHE LISTS THE THREE

  • LARGEST ASSETS AS A MILLION

  • DOLLARS PLUS, SHE WOULDN'T

  • SPECIFY HOW MANY MILLIONS OF

  • DOLLARS THEY ARE.

  • WHEN WE STARTED I THOUGHT THAT

  • IN ORDER TO CONTRAST THEMSELVES

  • FROM TRUMP, A LOT OF THE

  • CANDIDATES WOULD TRY TO BE AS

  • OPEN AS POSSIBLE.

  • AT THE END OF IT, WE FOUND THEY

  • WERE MORE TRANSPARENT THAN TRUMP

  • ABOUT FINANCES BUT NONE OF THEM

  • WERE TOTALLY OPEN BOOKS.

  • DAGEN: IF YOU'RE RUNNING OF N A

  • SOCIALIST PLATFORM, YOU CAN'T

  • APPEAR TO BE THE CAPITALIST THAT

  • YOU ARE.

  • AGAIN, IT WAS LIKE BERNIE

  • SANDERS, HE FINALLY MAKES A BUCK

  • IN HIS LIFE AND HE RUNS OUT AND

  • BUYS -- WHAT IS IT A LAKE HOUSE

  • THAT WAS WORTH WELL INTO THE SIX

  • FIGURES.

  • I'LL JUST POINT THAT OUT.

  • >> WHAT'S I THINK BOTHERSOME,

  • NOT JUST BERNIE'S CAPITALISM HIP

  • NOT JUST BERNIE'S CAPITALISM HIH

  • NOT JUST BERNIE'S CAPITALISM HIP

  • CONSIDER

  • CANSIDER

  • CAPIIDER

  • CAPITAER

  • CAPITALISM,HYPOCRISY -- YOU MENI

  • CAPITALISM,HYPOCRISY -- YOU MENN

  • CAPITALISM,HYPOCRISY -- YOU MEND

  • CAPITALISM,HYPOCRISY -- YOU MENJ

  • CAPITALISM,HYPOCRISY -- YOU MENH

  • CAPITALISM,HYPOCRISY -- YOU MENN

  • HE DELANEY STARTED TWO PUBLIC

  • COMPANIES, BY FAR THE

  • WEALTHIEST, $200 MILLION OF NET

  • WORTH, COMPARED TO SOME OTHERS

  • THOSE LOOK LIKE HONEST DOLLARS

  • THAT HE'S EARNED BUT THAT ALSO

  • SUGGESTS HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO

  • STAY AROUND FOR A WHILE, UNLIKE

  • SOME OTHERS WHO ARE BUMPING

  • AROUND WITH LOW POLL RATINGS,

  • BECAUSE HE'S GOT THE ABILITY TO

  • SELF-FUND.

  • >> YOU SEE THAT ALREADY.

  • IF YOU LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF

  • MONEY THAT HE'S RAISED AND THE

  • PERCENTAGES PUT IN PERSONALLY,

  • FAR HIGHER THAN THE REST OF THE

  • CANDIDATES AND DONALD TRUMP

  • HASN'T PUT IN ANYTHING.

  • HE'S USING HIS MONEY TO PUT IN

  • REAL MONEY TO SUPPORT HIS

  • CANDIDACY IN WAYS NOBODY ELSE

  • REALLY IS.

  • WE'LL SEE TOM STEYER, WHEN HIS

  • NUMBERS COME OUT --

  • >> I PUT DELANEY AT THE TOP.

  • BUT STEYER NOW ENTERING THE RACE

  • IS WEALTHIER.

  • DAGEN: PART OF IT IS THEIR

  • MESSAGE KIND OF CAREFULLY

  • CRAFTED AS IF YOU HAVE A LOT OF

  • MONEY YOU'RE SOMEHOWIEVILLE

  • MONEY YOU'RE SOMEHOW EVILLE

  • MONEY YOU'RE SOMEHOW VILLE

  • MONEY YOU'RE SOMEHOW ELLE

  • MONEY YOU'RE SOMEHOW EVIE

  • MONEY YOU'RE SOMEHOW EVIL,

  • BECAUSE MAYBE IT LOOKS BAD IF

  • YOU MADE MONEY IN YOUR LIFE,

  • WHETHER A GOVERNMENT JOB OR

  • CAPITALIST ENDEAVORS.

  • THE EVIL RICH ARE THE ONES WHO

  • ARE GOING TO PAY FOR ALL THESE

  • PROGRAMS.

  • YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS.

WITH A NET WORTH OF LESS THAN

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