John Hayes

Foster Friess, a wealthy Wyoming investor, is bankrolling the pro-Rick Santorum Super PAC the Red, White and Blue Fund, but he s not the only sugar daddy flooding the presidential race with unfettered sums of cash. To combat the Super PACs, Up panelist Rep. John Sarbanes, D-Md., says he has an alternative route in gathering funds for his own re-election campaign.

Singing superstar Whitney Houston died Saturday night in Beverly Hills at the age of 48. In mourning her loss, MSNBC's Chris Hayes is joined by his Up panel -- including Rep. John Sarbanes, D-Md., Fordham University Law Professor Zephyr Teachout, former economic advisor to Vice President Biden Jared Bernstein, and New York One s Errol Louis -- to share their reactions to Houston's death and the impact her music continues to have on their personal lives.

Notre Dame Law School's Rev. William Dailey joins the Up panel of Columbia University Professor John McWhorter, Salon's Rebecca Traister, former Essence Magazine editor Michaela Angela Davis, and the Nation's Richard Kim on the contraception debate, sharing the Catholic church's objection to the 'gravely immoral and unjust' birth control coverage requirements.

The Republican establishment piling its attacks onto Newt Gingrich, and things got even more heated at the latest debate. NBC News Special Correspondent Tom Brokaw, New York Magazine’s John Heilemann and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes weigh in on The Last Word.