amy: christopher leonard, how ..ey made their wealth in many caseses, it was off the tribes.ive american explain their business model and why native american reservations were so important to them. >> so this is a pretty remarkable story from koch's early years. this company has always been deeply involved in the f fossil fufuel business. back in the 1980's, koch was the largest collector of crude oil in the u.s. that means koch was the company that will go to an oil well, collect it, and deliver it to market. what u.s. senate investigators discovered and the fbi discovered in the late 1980's was koch industries was systematically underreporting how much oil it gathered. to put it in simple terms, koch would show up at the well, take 100 barrels of oil, and leave a little ticket is headed had really taken 98 barrels of oil. it is getting two barrels without paying for it. formerviewed senior koch vice president or the oil gauger who collected the oil. i.e. reviewed -- i reviewed transcripts from senior koch executives. what it clearly showed is for years koch was systematical

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business reporter christopher leonard with us tonight. christopher, we've seen big companies before and we've seen entities with huge political clout before. is it fair to say we have never seen a company this big with this much political clout before? >> well, i think that's absolutely fair to say. you saw in the introduction how deeply imbedded this firm is in everybody's lives. and it is also one of the largest companies in the united states with annual sales larger than that of facebook, goldman sachs and u.s. steel combined. so, the corporation itself is massive, but the political network that is really run out of the ceo's office of koch industries is unlike any political network in the united states. over 40 years, charles koch has patiently built one of the most effective political lobbying machines in the country. it has one of the largest registered lobbying shops in the united states. it has a constellation of think tank that seed washington, d.c. with ideas. it has one of the largest donor networks in the nation. and then, fin

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joining us now to talk about this is christopher leonard. ed the business and political activities in his new book "kochland." christopher, good to see you again. we only spoke less than a week ago on this. you tweeted this morning he was a large man who lived a large life and will be dearly missed by the many people who loved him. we didn't talk so much about david koch when you and i spoke last week because charles koch has been running koch industries. tell me a little bit more about david. >> yeah. you know, david his whole life has actually lives in charles koch's shadow. david and charles formed somewhat of a partnership or a truce, if you will, back in the '80s to sort of co-own koch industries. and ever since that time david has been very active in both building a corporation and building a political influence network that is literally unrivalled in corporate america. when he passed away this morning, david koch owned about 40% of koch industries which made him one of the richest people on earth. >> wow. he was also -- he was very dir

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