Brokaw: The Amount of Money Spent on This Election Was ‘Terribly Obscene’ and ‘Toxic’

"These elections are really local elections. It really does depend on the candidate and how appealing they are and what the issues are locally. I was watching some of the Kentucky coverage the other day, it was all about coal -- when Mitch McConnell was out there, for example, to protect our coal and that. So that’s the difference between that and a national election. The idea that we spent $4 billion on this election I find terribly obscene, quite honestly. Look, politics will always be driven by money. A famous California politician used to describe it as the mother’s milk but we've let it go toxic at this point. And it doesn’t represent the interest of a lot of people. I think it drives them from the process. They say, what does it have to do with me if they’re spending all this money on the ads that we see to drive theirs -- to narrow their interest."