Asa Hutchinson: “I reject the idea that money always controls in politics. In fact in my campaign, I spent $100,000 less than my opponent…”

“I reject the idea that money always controls in politics. In fact in my campaign, I spent $100,000 less than my opponent and I won. We can cite many examples of that. I do not think necessarily that when we have contributions to political parties that there is always corruption. But let me ask the gentleman from Texas, and I think he would agree with me, that whenever $600,000 is given by the Loral Corporation in soft money to the Democratic National Committee which is followed by a waiver of the transfer of technology to China, that that is a legitimate concern by your constituents, that they are concerned about that and the influence of that money, which is soft money, does the gentleman agree that there are people in his district that are concerned about the propriety and the appearance of a quid pro quo of getting something in exchange for $600,000?”