the country. extended warfare with your own side is madness in politics and in hip-hop. civil wars, perhaps the cruelest of all war, because it's impossible to win without destroying a part of yourself. that does it for "the cycle." "now" with alex wagner starts right now. >> it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. it was republican primary season. it's wednesday, august 6th, and this is "now." >> republicans cannot afford interparty fraticide. >> the national tea party groups may have lost their last chance this year to unseat a republican senator. >> we cannot afford a fractured party. >> senator pat roberts beat out tea party challenger milton wolf. >> unity must happen.

>> this happened in kansas. >> what's going on within the republican party here in kansas? >> people are so irritated at what the president is doing, they want somebody to throw a brick. >> republicans' proi approval% 19%. >> we haven't made our case on why republicans should take control. >> they have made obstruction their mode of governance. >> they want somebody to throw a brick. >> republicans cannot afford interparty fraticide. >> the headlines coming out of the primaries was kansas senator pat roberts and his victory over tea party challenger milton wolf. something he accomplished with the help of a superior bank account and a steady tack even further to the right, especially on anything wreaking of amnesty. roberts called for harmony.

>> republicans in kansas nationally cannot afford the kind of intraparty fraticide. we can't afford to waste scarce resources and energy telling ourselves apart. >> the gop cannot afford intraparty fratricide. on don't mthe basic ten aents o government. that thing is a lusty hatred for president obama. case in point, kansas governor sam brownback. since 2010, brownback has embarked on a radical agenda that forced drastic cuts to public services. an experiment so disastrous that last month over 100 current and former republican officials endorsed his democratic opponent.

as expected, brownback won his primary last night, but his long shot republican challenger, jennifer wynn, who raised just $13,000, got an astounding 37% of the vote. not exactly a ringing endorsement for governor brownback, who was asked about discontent within his party. >> what's going on with the republicans in kansas? >> well, i think a big part of it is barack obama, that a lot of people are so irritated at what the president is doing, they just are -- they want somebody to throw a brick. >> so republican primary voters are mad not because brownback's grand experiment is a colossal failure but because obama. brownback's democratic challenger paul davis is not having it. >> the state of kansas is facing a budget deficit of well over $1

billion from sam brownback's tax experiment. we simply can't afford to do that. it means cuts to schools. cuts to transportation. all those kcritical serviceses that the people of kansas depends upon. >> paul davis proposing the fiscal nightmare inflicted upon the state is actually the work of the governor of the state and he is not alone. just hours ago, standard & poor's cited this decision to reduce kansas' credit rating. the governors association clearly concerned about this news of paul davis', that the fault lies with governor brownback. they are clearly worried about governor brownback's future. and rushed out an ad slamming paul davis the only way republicans know how. >> paul davis helped organize kansas for obama. then obama was a delegate at the national convention. four years later after the failed stimulus, massive

bailout, record debt, a stalled economy and the obamacare disaster, paul davis was right back at the democratic convention as obama's delegate. don't delegate kansas to an obama liberal. >> joining me now is correspondent for the upshot at "the new york times" josh farrow and political columnist for "the washington post" dana milbank. someone should tell brownback that brick is heading in his direction. it's fairly unbelievable he answered that question by referring to president obama. >> i believe he would give that answer to the question. it's the same thing you see in the ad. the thing in a red state like kansas if you're an embattled republican governor is you try to nashalize the race as month as possible. try to get people not to pay attention to the state budget. kansas has had a republican party at war with itself for decades. it predates what we're seeing nationally in the republican party. the party had a strong moderate wing. brownback's side won the fight within the party over the last few years. there's still a lot of moderate

republicans left in kansas. it's not most of the party but it's enough for him to lose 37% of the vote in the primary. to have a serious challenge at peeling off voters in a general election. >> not only are there moderate republicans left in kansas, they are emboldened by the disaster created for them by their republican governor. >> i don't know if it's a member of ideology but just a matter of arithmetic here. sam brownback is right that somebody needs to throw a brick but he's the one would threw the brick by creating this enormous deficit that's causing these downgrades. the whole idea was this was going to create some curve of new growth it the job growth in kansas is barely half the national average, so it just hasn't worked. i think he's once again gone through this notion of sort of faith-based accounting, that you just cut taxes, you cut taxes and everything is going to be just fine. so the people who are bolding now and going over to the democrats aren't -- they are

moderates but they don't need to be moderates. they're just saying we've looked at the math and the thing just doesn't add up. >> kansas revenue is $340 million below what it was projected to be in 2014. the governor of course cut the tax rates, individual tax rates, by 25%. s&p joins moody's in downgrading the state's credit rating. not good news for the fiscal conservatives pushing this economic plan. >> not only did they have that kind of tax rate, they actually completely got rid of the tax on small businesses. if you own a company in kansas, you pay -- your company doesn't pay income tax and you also don't pay income tax. it was a giveaway to a specific class of taxpayers. it was supposed to create this rush of jobs into kansas. >> it didn't. >> state income taxes aren't that large. like the theory with the laugher curve where you cut tax rates and generate more revenue is a plausible argument when you're talking about 70% income tax rates at the federal level but that's not where we are. getting rid of a 4% income tax

is not going to draw so many people into kansas that you get a mass imgrowth in jobs. the governor, his tax people are claim, it's a thing that had to do with this federal change. we will hit the revenue projections in the future. i don't think people are really buying that. >> or willing to give him the benefit of the doubt given where the state is at right now. >> it was their revenue projections. they're the ones who said this will generate so much additional business activity that there won't be that much of a hole in the state budget. >> the problem with in policy space no one can hear you scream. the vacuum that republicans have created. brownback is an instituted fiscal policy. the republican party can't get behind anything. so you end up with, and let's pull up the word cloud, word clouds like this. which is part of an nbc news/"wall street journal" poll that asks republicans, what would republicans want their protest signs to say. stop abortion. follow the constitution.

impeach obama. stop government handouts. a lot of stop, stop, stop. not a lot of proactive policy signs. do this good thing. move the ball forward in this way. and that's effectively sort of where the entire party is at. >> well, except that in kansas, we do have the example of -- >> well, yes. >> we know what you're opposed to, guy, so what are you for. so here's a republican legislature, republican governor, nobody's stopping them. these are the policies they put into place. they put the state $1 billion into arrears. actually causing declining job growth compared to the rest of the country. you can try to blame obama but your neighbors are doing twice as well as you are, it's very hard to say obama has particularly picked on kansas even if his grandfather came from there and is the second cousin of the guy would just lost to pat roberts. >> continuing on the obama meme,

it's that president obama is going to be out of office -- >> it's especially ridiculous from brownback, given he's the one that created a lot of this inner party fighting. because why is this group of 100 republicans out there endorsing brownback's opponent? because he was tacitly in primaries for races over the last few years, pushing out establishment republican, including the president republican of the kansas state senate who lost eye primary to a more conservative guy. that's one of the people there endorsing paul davis. if brownback is concerned about fighting within the republican party, he maybe shouldn't have gone for as much skorveed earth as he did with his own state's republican -- >> interparty fratricide, thy name is brownback. with the exception of kansas, the republican party has very little to offer on their platform, very little they can

agree with. there is a lot the democrats can agree on. the hill makes the point that democrats are throwing the kitchen sink at republicans. i will read an excerpt. there's always a danger of throwing too many issues at voters. if everything is a problem, it's hard for the voter to see how realistically the democrats will resolve all of this. especially in an era of political gridlock. do you think there's any truth to that? >> i think there is some logic to that. this, i think, has been a fair criticism of president obama's leadership. he'll do an event and then move on to the next one. whereas if he were able to pound away at an issue over and over again, whether it's immigration, whether it's gun control, whether it's tax reform, he might be able to get more done. to say that anything could be done with this congress any time over the next three years is always going to be a bit of a stretch. he could use the bully pulpit in more of a concentrated way. that was a "pick your issue."

is it unemployment, the minimum wage, and just stick with that. >> so many things to choose from, it is quite literally an barsment embarrassment of riches. of the after the break, a thorough investigation of torture, the cia's detention program and spying. but most of the substance is redacted. i'll talk with the intercept's jeremy sayhill about the report. honey, look i got one to land. uh-huh. (vo) there's good more... honey, look at all these smart rewards points verizon just gave me. ooh, you got a buddy. i'm like a statue. i just signed up and, boom, all these points. ...and there's not-so-good more. you're a big guy... ...oh no. get the good more with verizon smart rewards and rack up points to use towards

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i am absolutely committed to declassifying that report. as soon as the report is

completed. we will declassify those findings so that the american people can understand what happened in the past. >> that was president obama nearly five months ago. the report he is referring to, the senate's 6,000-page report on the cia's detention and integration program. the one that reportedly concludes that the cia's use of water boarding and other harsh interrogation methods produced little to no valuable intelligence. report that asserts the cia repeatedly misled the white house, our congress and the american people on the program. that report has been complete and ready for declassification for over four months now. and yet has still not been made public. by the looks of it, that is not going to happen any time soon. yesterday, one week after receiving redactions to the report from the white house and the cia, the chair of the intelligence committee, senator dianne feinstein, said she would

not make the report public with the current redactions. in a statement, the senator wrote that serb redactions eliminate or obscure key facts. she added this process will take some time and the report will not be released until she is satisfied that all redactions are aprpropriaappropriate. pseudonyms weren't the only things that were blacked out. u.s. officials familiar with the redacted document told "the washington post" that the administration's strict out material that showed pieces of information long attributed to detainees had actually come from other intelligence sources. an official familiar with the contents told him he was spectacle of the redactions. the story is partially about in as anames and places. essentially, it just becomes a bunch of verbs.

something was done but nobody did it and it wasn't done anywhere joining me now is author of the book "dirty wars investigative reporter for "the intercept" jeremy skayhil. ways the downside there? >> let's remember, president obama used this term torture. yeah, we did torture some folks -- >> yeah, this is last friday. >> the tone we're getting from the white house -- let's remember, we're talking about heinous acts of torture. the tone from the white house is on the one hand, yeah, we tortured some folks, killed some folks. on the other hand, what they're basically doing is allowing these potential criminals, people who could potentially be indicted if we want to follow the rule of law in this country regarding torture. by redacting it, they are covering up not only the crime but for the individual criminals. my understanding there is

somewhere in the ballpark of 200 people employed by the cia part of this program. this should be a massive criminal probe. a dictatorship of the executive branch of government when it comes to national security policy. this administration has continued the bush administration's assertion essentially when you're in the white house you can control all of this. that's not true. there's a reason we have three branches of government. there's this whole story about dianne feinstein is at war with the cia. the cia and dianne feinstein have certainly had a very cozy relationship. but for her to be on the warpath against them is very significant. >> i feel the pushing of the envelope is consistent with feinstein who has been incredibly combative, at times accepting. this seems like a bridge too far. >> remember, senator of oregon has sort of implied he might use various procedures to put this

report on the public report. if it gets pushed like this, if dianne feinstein jumps into that camp, the white house has a serious problem on its hands. >> you assert that this threat, this presidency has exceeded the bounds of authority. the atlantic talk, about the expectations when obama first came into office ending the bush era torture program and how that has in a way served a a smoke screen. drawing on the credibility he gained to present what the bush administration did in more flattering terms than reality justifies. even as he tib continues lettine cia continue to press much of the cia torture report. that is a pretty searing indictment. >> i not only agree with that, look, as far as this is playing out with dick cheney can't stand obama and obama is weakening the country. there are probably few people in this country more happy in this

country than dick cheney. out there in wyoming fly-fishing. but privately he knows had a republican won, a john mccain won, they would have never been able to continue the torture program, albeit through different means, expand the drone program. obama has cleaned up the empire, so to speak, for the cheney/bush program when it compaes to thes core issues and he's the chief defender of the people they illicitly authorize to torture people on behalf of the american taxpayer. >> i wonder if terms of the long-term trajectory of this. there is, insofar as this president has not sought to prosecute folks that may be guilty of war crimes or may be criminals. or even prompting closer examination of what exactly happened in the rendition program. he therefore sets the table for another president to take up the program in another egregious way. >> if the republicans win the

2016 election, the democrats are going to have very little ground to stand on in trying to say you can't assassinate american citizens who haven't been charged with crimes. the whole thing could expand from there. the obama justice department has intervened in civil lawsuits brought by the families of guantanamo prisoners who died under mysterious circumstancings. the obama justice department has intervened and defended people like donald rumsfeld. saying if they did all of the things, even if they killed all of those people, it would have been within the official scope of their duty. this white house has just picked up from where bush left off. if you throw into that, the prosecution of whistle blowers and the use of the espionage act, obama's looking like bush 2.0 more and more every day. >> i'm sure the administration would argue that the president is not at all a continuation of, you know, the bush -- >> in some ways, he isn't, certainly. >> there's a broader narrative emerging in the final years of

this administration regarding secrecy, regarding monitoring. i want to get to a piece you have in the interception. which is a big story on the president's -- this administration's secret terrorist track system. and there are more people on the administration's terror watch list not connected to any known terrorist group than there are from al qaeda, from hamas and from hezbollah combined. how and why then are they on the list? >> well, you know, there are two sort of main -- what we call watch lists. one is what people generally refer to as -- that has about 700,000 people. those are people who have been designated through a certain process as known or suspected terrorists. very flimsy standards. there's a massive classified database called tide. you could end up on there because your phone number is in the phone of somebody who we s suspect may be talking to someone. what that's essentially saying is the government has 300,000

people who are categorized as not having any known connection to a real terrorist organization but they're on there anyway and that means the government can go and connect their bio metric data, can get pass board information on they, can build a profile on you, even if you're in there on very flimsy evidence. i think the purpose of the program is to use to pressure people to become informants for the fbi or cia. they say, you're on our terrorist list. we want you to start keeping your eye on at the mosque and if you see something, tell us. you look at what happened. so part of this is there are real terrorists in the world. we by all means should go after those people. what i hear from law enforcement people, particularly in the fbi, is that they're flooding us, drowning us in names of people that have no actual connection to data.

>> let me ask one quick question. you have this information about the terrorist watch list which was presumably given to you by some source high up. saying the white house and cia are redacting too much. the closed door policy is actually -- i wonder if you think there's a parallel here. the closed door policy and lack of transparency is actually leading to more leak, to media outlets. >> there's radical overclassification. this is an administration drunk on secrecy like the bush administration was. think we're going to see more whistleblowers coming forward in part because of edward snowden. i think courage breeds courage. this administration is wild with its overclassification of information that should be available to the american people. >> author and reporter for "the intercept," jeremy scahill. thank you. the botched execution, why this time was different, coming up next. a card that gave you that

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early this morning, missouri carried out the first u.s. execution since the botched one last month. the missouri department of corrections says convicted rapest and murderer michael worthington was pronounced dead shortly after midnight. ten minutes after the process began. his attorneys had pressed the supreme court to delay his execution, setting a series of problematic executions in which the inmate took two hours to die. both the high court and the state declined. missouri differs from many other states in its use of a single drug, pentobarbital, for execution, rather than the cocktail used in arizona and other botched case. it's not clear if other states will switch. states like ohio stopped using it because the maker of the drug initiated efforts to stop the use in executions. now to get the drug missouri has turned to questionable compound

pharmacies which refuse to name suppliers and operate under a veil of secrecy. he was one of more than a dozen death row inmates bringing a federal legal challenge over missouri's execution protocols. just ahead, remember the crisis at america's southern border? remember how congress did not about it? well, in the mean tie, things down there have gotten worse. buzz feed's john stanton joins me for the latest coming up next.

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southern border is increasingri being met with deportation and deterrents. "the new york times" reported on the new use of isolated emergency detention centers like the one out in the new mexico desert. ones that a homeland security spokesman being used to ensure more timely and effective removals. that is a diplomatic way to put it. an immigration lawyer based in albuquerque describing the detention center as a big deportation mill in the middle of nowhere. that lawyer is among those who say the administration is making it difficult for the 600 women and children held at the center to press for asylum. using harsher language still, another immigration attorney, a former president of the american immigration lawyers association, told vox.com that the hearing process is a spit show. she used a stronger expletive. a process in which judges won't let lawyers say anything during the hearings. detainees who clearly deserve

asylum are being denied it. and no one will explain the legal basis for the decision. the center opened in late june and saw 209 deportations in its first month. according to "the times," the pace would have been faster except for the fact that nearly two-thirds of mothers expressed fears that they would face violence back home and have been held for a sigh lum reviews. asylum reviews that appear to be as broken as the rest of our immigration system. joining me now is washington bureau chief for buzz feed john stanton. you've been doing great reporting on this particular subject. i want to talk about the latest headline you have for buzz feed. government declares undocumented immigrant child and mother a national security threat. what is that all about? this is supposed to be a humanitarian crisis. is the administration responding in kind? >> they've seized on a 2003 decision by john ashcroft in denying an immigration request,

an asylum request by a haitian man where he basically said following the events of september 11, we are declaring that mass migration in large numbers of people coming into the country at once to be a national security risk and therefore going to deny this man's bond. in the last few weeks, we've been told administration lawyers have begun to use this memo to argue that the mothers and children at this facility are national security risks, that they need to be sent home, because they're arguing while providing them a bond or allowing them to stay in the country any longer than is absolutely necessary will increase illegal into the country. they want to bring a harder hammer down in making these claims. >> aside from the harder hammer classifying women and children as national security threat,

there's also the sort of court proceedings themselves. the fact that lawyers are not allowed to speak during hearings. that there's one lawyer for every 120 immigrants. if you do get to trial, what is the likelihood of adequate legal counsel? >> not much at all frankly. i sat in on a proceeding yesterday. and the lawyer was clearly stressed. he obviously was working on a case he had just sort of been handed. there were -- he gave no sort of respond to the state's opposition to his bond request. these are all people working pro bono. a lot of them are not getting any kind of lawyer and they're being thrown into a situation where they are in many cases sub par translators and they're dealing with legal language that they've probably never heard in their lives. the judges move through these things very quickly. 45 minutes is what it takes to get through a hearing on a bond

request, which, you know, doesn't really give the migrants very much time to try to make their case. you know, as long as they remain in these facilities, it makes it that much more difficult for them to also build an asylum case. it's harder to get ahold of people back home to file out an affidavit, get police records, anything like that. >> the case to be made for asigh loom is a difficult one, especially if you've come with little more than clothes on your back. "the times" also reports on the types of cases and types of asylum or the situations a lot of these families are fleeing from. one salvadoran woman gave a detailed account of her flight from gang members who camped out on the roof of her house and harassed her, threatening to assault that which you hold most dear, which is her daughter. the officers interviewed this woman and her daughter and did not find her claim to be credible. an immigration lawyer said it's

hard to make the case that with your 11-year-old daughter present that she's going to be raped and killed if you go home. the complexities here beg for a more nuanced and certainly slower approach. as the vice president said just a few moments ago, you know, part of the problem is there are no re, sos here. so who is left to defend themselves folks? >> pretty much themselves. there are some nonprofit attorneys trying to help. but it's difficult. these facilitysters are middle of nowhere. there's a lot of hucksters that will take a lot of money from people and not do anything for them on asylum cases. the law is written very toughly. even if you can make some kind of a case, it's still very difficult. >> why put the detention center hundreds of miles away from any city? is that because of outcry from state and local officials?

that would certainly seem to exacerbate what is already a bad situation. >> i think it's because a lot of folks don't want them in their communities. there's a cynical school of thought that it is harder to keep an eye on what's going on. >> thank you for your time. coming up, billionaire industrialist charles coke has never had to rely on food stamps or other forms of social safety net programs. but billionaire industrialist charles coke seems to think he knows an awful lot about them. ♪

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president went to the hard-hit east coal country in eastern kentucky to play offense for democratic senate candidate allis allison lunder grimes. >> where were you when you gave that speech and he took the selfie? yes, that fancy farm. i thought to myself not one time did allison's opponent even give her the dignity of mentioning her name. >> there's another name, whose approval rating in kentucky sitting at 28%. the current president of the united states. but hey, out of sight, out of mind, at least for 2014, as howard writes in the huffington post. as far as democrats in kentucky are concerned, bill clinton is still president. joining me now is national political reporter with "the new york times" amy chosak and

former governor ed rendell. do you think there's a difference between obama democrats and clinton democrats? >> it looks like everyone is a clinton democrat at this point. bill clinton is the democratic party's go-to surrogate for 2014. think that's often the case with the sitting president, they're the one getting beat up and he can come in as the elder statesman. there's also no place bill clinton is more comfortable than stumping for his friends and people he feels passionate about. >> allison lunderson grimes is a friend of the clintons. how difficult is this, that she is, you know, cut of the same cloth as the democratic president bill clinton but not necessarily the same clth as the current president obama? >> i think allison has to and she's done it already set out some policy differences between

her and president obama and she's got to relate more to president clinton who's extremely popular. when i was in west virginia in 2000 as dnc chair, they said, give us president clinton. this is a hillbilly state. bill clinton's a hillbilly. that's the genius of bill clinton. in new york and l.a., he can talk to elites. in boston and philadelphia, he can talk to academics. in arkansas and west virginia and kentucky, he relates to ordinary hillbilly citizens who work in the coal mines, work on the farms. she's distancing herself on policy from the president. she hasn't said anything negative about the president personally. and she uses the popularity of bill clinton, who really does relate. i've seen him relate to people in west virginia and people in western pennsylvania and, boy, he talks their language. >> he is a man for all seasons and perhaps all colors of states. amy, you know, in terms of the role he will play if hillary announces that she is indeed

running for president, does he sort of act as an intermediary for hillary to distance herself from this administration? or do you think ultimately by the time -- as jonathan proposes, by 2016, it's just as likely that clinton will want to align herself with president obama as anything else. >> maybe, but when ed rendell was explaining the line that allison lunder son groin groi go walk. maybe the economy swung back around people around feeling so anxious. >> governor rendell, when you talk about the, you know, sort of blue collar/white working class and the relationship that clinton has to them, one wonders, you know, what will it take for democratic to regain this part of the country. can they? especially when, if you look at, for example, kentucky, right, and we're talking about coal

country, the jobs in kentucky were disappearing long before the epa started creating rules to clean the air. in kentucky, there is the highest lung cancer rate in the nation, which is 22% above that of mississippi. there are good things that are part of a progressive democratic platform, and in some ways, it's sort of reason butting up i guess against cultural dictates. >> yeah, i think you're absolutely right. there's no question. that in eastern kentucky, particularly, people are under ing economically. not just because of the changes in the coal industry. you're absolutely right to identify it. if i'm campaigning there, if i'm allison lunder son grimes, i talk about employment compensation. how many kentuckiens have had their employment comp run out? i talk about raising minimum wage. we know raising minimum wage will cause all wages to go up. you talk about income

inequality. you talk about the things that are necessary to make this a faye e fairer country. because poor whites have the same problems as poor blacks and poor hispanihispanics. >> the secretary's performance on colbert last night. growing ever more comfortable. how do you grade her performance generally speaking in this latest turn? >> i thought it was fun. i thought she was a little scripted. it was obviously a prepared episode. it was fun but i also think she could have done well if she was less scripted. she's very good at being witty. on the daily show, she was great. had really quick funny remarks. i think that's part of her personality the country needs to see more of. >> you could actually tell that was an entirely rehearsed back and forth. >> yes. >> go ahead, governor. >> you know what happened to politicians who are impromptu

all the time. >> gaffes we can talk about for weeks. >> they get in trouble. >> they become fodder for the media. "the new york times" amy chosic and governor rendell, thank you. after the break, charles coke, one-half of the special interest brothers coke has a new message for welfare and food stamp recipients, you are all addicts. that's next. ugh. heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing.

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the things you really want. get the lg g3 for $199.99. > charles coke has a new op-ed in the panges of "usa today." coke who was himself born to millionaire oil tycoon fred coke laments the struggles of everyday americans. koch writes, union campaigner and civil rights icon martin luther king jr. i agree with martin luther king,

there are no dead end jobs. every job deserves our best it the king to which he is referring. the one from april '67. >> even if it calls your lot to be a street sweeper, go out and sweep streets like michelangelo painted pictures. sweep streets like beethoven composed music. sweet streets like shakespeare wrote poetry. sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, here lives a great street sweeper who swept his job well. >> so has charles koch had a late night conversion? not exactly. the way you create those jobs, the ones that celebrate street sweepers, is by cutting the initiatives that help people keep them. writes mr. ek could, costly programs such as paying able bodied people not to work are addictive disincentives. by undermining people's will to work, our government has created

a culture of dependency and helplessness. the program to which charles koch hyperlinks in that sentence, federal food assistance, is not only one of the most effective poverty prevention efforts in our nation's history, but it's one that specifically helps people who have jobs. the majority, 58%, of able-bodied recipients of food assistants are employed. even higher for families of children. if charles koch is so deeply troubled by the culture of dependency, he might focus his efforts elsewhere. perhaps towards a sector he knows best, petroleum. companies like exxon mobil which received over $6 billion in tax sub dies from 2010 to 2012. or to royal dutch shell, a company that collected over $2 billion in government handouts last year alone. or maybe mr. koch would be most

satisfied looking a little bit closer to home to his own company, koch industries, which of course has received $89 million in corporate welfare from state and local governments alone, most since 2009. how's that for a culture of dependency? that's all for now. i'll see you tomorrow. "the ed show" is up next. good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show." live from minnesota. i'm ready to go. let's get to work. >> the highest court in the land. the conservative justices of the court threw a bunpunch at organd labor. >> there is a cost to collective bargaining. >> i will end the government's favoritism towards unions. >> they get sweeter deals. >> this is legalized stealing. if you're allowed to force people into