we at koch, charles koch had a respect for all ten amendments in the bill of rights.omise for all americans. the bill of rights enacted over 220 years ago and still remains the foundation or it should of our free society. and it provides a blue print for free and prosperous society that we still think can work for everyone especially the most disadvantaged among us. an the rights contained in the bill of rights, they cannot be taken from an individual by government because theer are our natural rights -- our natural and unalienable rights from our creator and not given to us by the government. that is an important point to remember. and we believe that everything at koch, business, philanthropic, government policy, we must help everyone improve their lives and this is particularly true in the criminal justice system and the bill of rights is focused on criminal justice issues and particularly the fifth amendment said we need to make sure before we take anyone's life liberty and property you have to have a due process of law. the sixth amendment guarantees the life of

we knew from 2007 he was getting money from the charles koch foundation, american petroleum and exxonmobilwe said, show was where he is getting his funding from. we got a spreadsheet back. we said, we want to see the communication with these funders. years go by. we got some e-mail. in the e-mail, showed there were contracts. we said, let see the contracts and let see the proposals. we finally got those. it is a very rare window into this universe. an amazing moment, actually, probably the most important investigation that greenpeace has done on climate denial. what we discovered is that these contracts are explicit in keeping the funder quiet, keeping the funder of secret. in the case of the southern company, one of the largest polluters of the country massive utility that stretches from georgia alabama to mississippi, owns some of the largest coal plants in the world, and in the country, burns powder river basin coal, trains going a mile long entities plants every day and up into the atmosphere. we want to keep a is in the dark about climate change and willie soon is one of their ponds a

he is being paid by a coal utility, by the foundation associated with charles koch.submitted at least 11 papers, and didn't disclose these payments. >> reporter: dr. soon hasn't responded to questions about green peace's documents. >> the harm is the lack of transparency, when the public is trying to decide if this is a problem, scientists telling you don't worry polar bears are fine, and that's poisoning the debate. >> reporter: doctor soon says variations in the sun's energy play a bigger role in global warming than human beings burning fossil fuel. the smithsonian says it doesn't agree with that. and will soon reveal its own ethics and disclosure policies. >> we are joined by a filmmaker from the film "merchants of doubt." he joins us from los angeles. we should point out your film is based on the book "merchants of doubt". thank you for joining us tonight, sir. >> hi it's actually inspired by their book and takes a look at people who are creating doubt about science when we actually know that the facts are very clear from tobacco, where for 50 years, we understan

so charles koch who is the second of the four koch brothers returns home -- she attends m.i.t.l. he returns home enjoys the birch society of russia because his dad is an influential member. really seems to take to it. he found the bookstore down the street from the koch family home where he carries a section on austrian, free-market economics. to review an idea of how diehard the koch and were about communist map at one point, i heard one story from a family friend who recall strolling up to the koch family home in the mid-1960s. he's carrying a copy of is hemingway's the sun also rises. he knocks on the door in his eyes flicker over the cover of this book and the visitor can tell there is something wrong. finally he asks okay what is the quick response to lately well, hemingway was a communist in his literature is not allowed inside her home. so this visitor actually have to leave his copy of hemingway on the stoop in order to enter. that is how serious they were about communism at that point. >> here's a look at some books being published this week. >> chuck mccutcheon inside

. >> reporter: the koch brothers charles and david, are the election season nightmare democrats wish they could wake up from. they spent roughly $290 million in the 2014 midterms mostly through their complicated web of dark moneyisations. that is campaign spending by non-profits that can't easily be tracked or sourced. >> there are other organizations that are nonprofit, 501(c) 4 social welfare groups linked in some fashion to the koch brothers. directly or indirectly. >> reporter: they have pioneered the use of billionaire caucuses. closed-door seminars to raise cash from donors. past attendees include sheldon adelson, supporting pro-israel causes spending $100 million in the 2012 presidential elections with meetings raising as much as $50 million a pop. the departments have taken on hush-hush affairs to rake in money from big timers. launched in 2005, vocracy alliance aims to: attendees include bill soros and tom steyer who donate some 73 million in the 2014 midterms. some worry that dark money will allow the rich republican or otherwise to advance their interests above others. >>

. >> with the koch brothers i have spent time with both david and charles and they have paid me to speaksaid they gave the money to charities. issing fehr doing something terrible david is a more visible brother and once ran for office and is in the society pages. charles stays in kansas to grow the company more than 100 fold that is real wealth creation with products that we want. and he preaches free markets and is against subsidies even for his own company's he would get rid of them. you should like jim. >> will creation may be a good thing. i don't dispute that but that doesn't entitle anybody to control the outcome of the political process. john: they are pro immigration and anti-drug or less defense spending, there were just praised by attorney-general folder for their campaign to jail if you were people with criminal justice reform why is the left so bad? >> they represent the ones that are donating by far the largest amount of money. john: but the unions devote much more. >> $1 billion is $1 billion. >> average question and the statistic. >> but they're hardly a singular force an

so charles koch, the second of four of the koch brothers returns home from come he attends mit as well, he returned someone joined the society largely because his dad is an influential member. like he really seemed to take to it. he found the john birch society bookstore down the street from the koch family home where he curates section on austrian economics, free market economics, and to get an idea of how diehard the koch's were about communism at that point, i heard one story as well as -- from the koch family friend who recalls strolling up to the koch come home sometime in the mid 1960s. is carrying a copy of ernest hemingway's the sun also rises, and he knocks on the door charles koch answers and his eyes flicker over the cover of this book. the visitor can tell that there's something wrong, and find the as okay, what is a? and charles responds respond very politely, you know welcome hemingway was a communist and you can't go is literature is not allowed inside our home. so this visitor actually asked to leave this copy of hemingway on the stoop in order to enter. that's a seriou