and yes, at one point, when he gave the gift, charles koch said the problem had always been a shortage of talent. as part of this project, you'll see this going around campuses around the country, koch and the donor network are establishing, donating heavily we have them in weight force faculty and students are trying to get transparency about theirs. it's an uphill battle. western carolina university, the faculty and student were overruled i believe by the administration. really funny sampling it. what did you scrape these training institutes. they are training institutes for high school students, for teachers, training institutes for faculty come from different places, and there are training institutes for federal judges. i did get into that. i give a hint of the legal store but you can become one of his colleagues, a colleague is a crucial entrepreneur in law economics and built george mason to law school around that, and he ran the summer camp, that at one point and i believe by the early 1990s had trained 2/ two-fifths of all the sitting federal judges in the united states. 4040%

found healther skeeter on the chair a series of letters from a blowup that happened after charles koch started investing massively in george is mason university and, in fact, some of the people connected with operation engaged in what confidential whistle-blower identified as probably illegal activity in its violation of the tax codes. [laughter] and so that was also pretty heart stopping. in any event once i brought home hundreds and hundred was documents that i copied there and a put them together with published work and sources i found myself laying down piece was a puzzle sometimes to be honest literally nauseated me when i saw the scope of the operation being guided by this individual which i started to follow out the -- the career tray are ject rei that led out of this training center that they established at george mason saw that people coming from this program, the talent pipeline were staffing all of these major institutions of the coke donor network funded world it just was -- shocking. took into account measure of this product i saw something tells that the formal of governm

few people one of them came to feel profound contempt for charles koch in its operation. he was a libertarian, so this is not like me an outsider talking about this. what i'm about to redo comes from a person who ran the foundation in virginia and he was deeply involved in this cause, but he got more and more disgusted after the turn of the new century after wealthy people are taking over what was supposed to have been a movement of ideas. the conclusion opens with the unheated whistleblowing and then we can go on to the discussion. it is a contradiction in terms to remain the self-governing intellectual in the private mason janik retribution. messiahs don't entertain doubt. i suspect the change underway if it didn't bother others about themselves, have bothered him about himself. we also know once the people settled then in this corner at george mason university economics apartment of south korea's school of law, maybe the whole university after they settled in and took over at george mason university, broad concern turn into contempt and disgust until he came to despise

warren buffet about to turn 87, and charles koch soon to be 81, and george soros all on the list.. the dow down 28 points. the index is negative for the month. it's 10% higher for the date. oil sinking 2%. hurricane harvey heads into the gulf of mexico. about half of the u.s. oil and refining production output there sits in the path. we'll be watching this storm for you. gas prices, $2.35 for a dollar of regular. you don't want to miss white house advisor kellyanne conway tonight on lou dobbs. thank you for having us in our homes. we really appreciate it. connell: it's all about weathering the storm for president trump. when we talk about storms there is two of them. one is literal and the other is political. we want to check out a tweet from matt drudge from earlier today. trump facing first serious crisis with hurricane harvey. 130-mile-an-hour winds. texas coast, 25 inches of rain houston. it's about to get real. as harvey threatens texas and the oil that goes along with it. it's expected to make landfall by

under the age of 50, here are some of the names, berkshire rar rent if you have fete, carl icahn, charles kochat's why i'm not a billionaire, i'm just too young. thank you. dagen: what do you think of the list? dagen: those are men who don't know how oh to have fun with money. >> i wonder what they do to start unwinding their fortunes. dagen: cut every american a check which you've got. send a nice little check to every single american. >> in my attempts to fundraise for different groups i've had the pleasure to meet some of these guys and people who are billionaires and my constant observation is that part to have way they got to be billionaires is that they are actually might tighter with their money. dagen: even giving -- >> they will write the big check occasionally if it's particularly what they want but they are very careful about what they spend their money on, very often they will make a big noise but they will get other people to write checks or whatever it is, but there's not a lot of giving it away spontaneously. dagen: you brought up ken, great contributor to new york medical cente

look at them carl icahn, charles koch. here, shelled dan adelson, george soros, warren buffett. the real striking finding -- stuart: i'm laughing because you couldn't read it. liz: because i couldn't see it. i had to look at the prompter. people over 80 maybe up 4% of the population. irs determined they control $1.2 trillion worth of wealth. that is the total number of people, they control $1.2 trillion worth of wealth. look at people under age 50 or below. they basically control about the same amount. stuart: you couldn't read the screen because you were staring at the sun during the eclipse. liz: i thought i was getting free lasix surgery. i made a mistake. stuart: at my advanced age i don't care glasses and don't care contacts. i still can read fine print on stocks tables. liz: british dna. ashley: i guess. i'm blind as a bat. stuart: this is a very, very serious story. here it is. tropical storm harvey, it is barreling towards the gulf of mexico. it is barreling towards texas. it could bring 20 inches of rain or more t

$400 billion mark this week, the hollywood reporter reporting that well known gop backers charles and david kochlberg's upcoming ready player one. your thoughts on these gop-ers investing in hollywood films. >> i think it's fantastic, especially because they're investing in awesome films, the good guys were good guys, the bad guys were bad guys and it was a very good movie film, not just something that's trying to teach us some sort of lesson, only what they want you to think. if they're going to the invest this good movies like this, we could actually have a conservative voice. maria: you don't usually see that kind of partnership. >> they'll lambaste you in public, those hollywood liberals, but they sure will take your money. >> that's right. [laughter] >> a year ago i wouldn't have had a clue what swj meant. [laughter] >> what does that mean? >> social justice warrior where everything is an aggression, everything is a micro-- >> your hand gestures are myoaggression. [laughter] maria: good stuff. joy, great to see you. appreciate it. stay with us, we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ restlessness... extre