this incredibly cruel and shocking budget but further cuts public services basically is that if david koch won his campaign for vice presidency back in one thousand nine hundred eighty when he ran a libertarian candidate trying to kill public education trying to get basic health and human services for ordinary americans this budget is part of the fulfillment of david koch's dream but i'll give you grant i think me the argument that he's been running basically a shadow government behind the republican party for years ever since election reagan and i'm wondering your thoughts on. we can talk about ohio if you have any knowledge of this or or maybe lisa you do i understand john case it's the current governor who used to be a sales guy or a senior partner i guess or a manager with lehman brothers the firm that went down and then ohio lost hundreds of millions of dollars or well over one hundred million dollars in that lehman failure that he wasn't directly involved with that but i mean did the citizens who are really realize that this guy was a failed banker and hostler of. you know according

calls and even if it's a fake david koch and he feels like an important guy and he'll squash and destroy there's a lot of peasants out there that's fire fighters out there i'm saying need to get some wins though ok overthrow. scott walker and then move to the koch brothers then move to new york fed then move to the fed in washington get some wins on the scoreboard get some points on the scoreboard because very ballots present zero monarch's or hundred points they got all the points presence of go up and speaking of winning charlie sheen secret silver investor a person writing under the name charlie sheen the disgraced sitcom actor they call him follow the comment with the commodity futures trading commission last week and he recommended the agency adopt a more conservative position limits on derivatives tied to silver it's not as though silver bugs already a crew prone to conspiracy theories about speculators and market manipulation needed more reasons to worry but in charlie sheen's march first memo the writer asked to see f.t.c. to readjust its proposed position limits and silv

i had a phone call from david koch. that lasted 20 minutes. i was finally able to break lose to be here with you today. i do want to correct one thing, bob. i was not third in the republican primary. i was second. >> oh good. >> yeah, that's a story that is often told. i worked hard to be second. not that it means a darn thing. when you come in second place, there's no prize. or third or fourth. one the realities of politics. i think all of you have a copy, at least i hope you do, of the book "simple government." 12 things we really need from washington, and the trillion that we don't. i hope that you have a chance to read it. i hope you'll stay up and read all 228 pages. i hope you give a cursory review of it. it many ways i'm being asked the question not once, not ten times, but 100 times, are you going to run for president? no matter how i say it, there's 100 ways people report it. i'll try to say it's very much an option that i'm considering. i'm seriously and genuinely contemplating it. but i'm also wanting to make sure that people unders

possibly violate other campaign finance rules or ethics rules in his conversation with the fate david koch if you will you know walker alluded to g.o.p. senators g.o.p. lawmakers in some areas sort of being under attack or wavering about their support on walker's sort of union busting budget repair bill and so as walker you alluded to these people could use some support he was attempting to conspire to to to to get a big donor to bring some money in in a way that was along wisconsin it's got the ethics laws that's what the democratic party is looking at you know or was he coordinating with these this massive donor to run some ads or some kind of support campaign for these on the fence republicans very interesting what lisa how long do you think that that was constant fourteen will be able to hold out and and given that the governor was successful today in blocking people except the fact cast of the tickets from getting in what does this portend for the future i also understand that there was a there was something very recently where the the chief of police in or of was capitol police or wh

the right name to get walker on the phone because that once he thought he was talking to the real david koch he gave his two cents on everything about the union battle in wisconsin take a listen to some of the snippets from this twenty minute long car. in the first domino yes this is their normal. what i know what else can we do for you dan. let's stop worrying about you know them because the other day there are seventy thousand probably two thirds were against the bill were there were seventy thousand people are always there's been you know fifty to thirty thousand a day but i remind all our lawmakers with a side and a half million people stay here just because a bunch of guys you can job of the workers of the union goes to be the rest the people in your district with so one thing for your question is the more groups that are. encouraging people not to show up at the call. and. i'll tell you what scott once you cross these bastards out fly you out to cali and really show you the time that would be. here are not my gear now is thoughts on tape and if you're interested you can find the entire

granted david and charles koch had a silver spoon in their mouth when they went to private schools and private colleges and were born into a very wealthy family so it's interesting to get into the psychology of the cook rather said when they're basically hiring these p.r. consultants to place these types of articles you know in the weekly standard article they don't disclose that the weekly standard is owned by one of the coast best friends will ensure it's another billionaire that the weekly standard editor michael goldfarb is currently working for koch industries hoping to promote their political image so you know it's an interesting article but it again is just pushing this kind of self pity for the koch brothers yeah i definitely have no pity for them and if they really look at some of obama's policies i think they might realize that they're probably closer than they think gentlemen thank you both for joining us tonight but now. it's time for show and talents night's program and last hour we asked for your opinion on what's happening in libya now the nato is taking over command we

i was detained for a few minutes, had a phone call from david koch and that lasted nearly 20 minutes. [laughter] but i was finally able to break loose and get here today to be with you. i do want to correct one thing, bob. i was actually not third in the republican primary, i was second. yeah, i want to get that -- that has been a story that is often told, so i've worked really hard to be second. not that it means a darn thing because when you come in second place, there is no prize. or third, or fourth. one of the realities of politics. i think all of you have a copy, at least i hope you do, of the book, "simple government: 12 things that we really need from washington and the trillion we don't," and i'm hope you have a chance to read it. i'm sure you'll stay up late tonight and read all 228 payments of it. -- pages of it. i truly hope at least you'll give a cursory review of it. in many ways i'm being asked the question not once, not ten times, but 100 times: are you going to run for president? and no how matter how many difft ways i say it, there's about a hundred different ways pe

country that made it possible for them to become so rich and petty for example that if charles and david koch were billionaires and had just an average salary like the rest of us their homes from old newspapers knick knacks and broken toys and antique appliances and disrepair stacked so high to the ceiling they could barely walk through their living rooms hoarding is already it's time to call these guys out in general across the board for what they really are mentally and emotionally sick it's time for the rest of us to do an intervention and it wouldn't really be all that hard all we have to do is roll back the reagan tax cuts. as the big picture for more information you can visit our website arben dot com also check out our youtube page at youtube dot com slash the big picture r.t. and r.t. dot com and don't forget democracy begins when you get out there when you get active tag your it show up. or listen to this. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around the world. we are going to the future of coverage. less. for your social policy outlook a shift your phone on called t

finance rules by asking for support from beleaguered republican colleagues phone man he thought was david koch on a prank call a few weeks ago seems like everything republicans want to do nowadays moscow through the koch brothers former chairman of the house energy committee congressman henry waxman said it like this when describing environmental regulation. although it seems to matter is what koch industries think science is niall partisanship and the rising power of special interest are deeply intertwined and they feed off each other koch industries benefits immensely from the rollback of the u.p.a. regulations. so it backs republican candidates who advocate this position and it funds so is that the case whether it's environmental or labor policy the republicans have to first ask permission from the koch brothers and what can we do to advance progressive policies in the face of a billion dollar headwind to speak to this i'm pleased to welcome from capitol hill california congressman henry waxman congressman welcome to the program used to be with you thank you back in one nine hundred ninety

the part about so given even given how scott walker was bragging to the guy that he thought was david koch about how he was going to lure you guys back see just you know pull switcheroo and pass the bill i'm assuming the eve guys are assuming that he's still got that up his sleeve and he's planning on it given that i mean and feel free to correct me if i'm wrong are you guys planning on returning it was constant any day . we like we will soon at this point we're focusing on the package this bill passed and what's in it what it contains we look we left three weeks ago with the intention of bringing attention to this trojan horse and all the provisions that were in it bringing attention to the people of wisconsin of what this bill we do to workers' rights to no bid contracts for public utilities and politicizing thirty seven positions as well as the attacks that medically medicare senior care and two hundred others are changes and trying to jam through in about seventy two hours we try to bring attention to that we were successful so we degree we never thought possible you know everyone in w

masters union message if you don't think that by the way to either show we call scott which we call david koch or scott walker's master well i mean you're of authority on poodles i'm just wondering i know you're unions gave four hundred million dollars to democratic candidates in the two thousand election cycle would you admit that that makes democratic politicians poodles for unions so then what you're saying and i don't entirely disagree with. shepard smith was right when he said if you look at the ten largest campaign contributors in american the last cycle seven of them were billionaires or large corporations they all gave the republicans three of them were unions and i'll give you democrats if we can just get rid of the unions they'll be no more democratic party we can have one party rule the billionaires make up like a fortune like bandits and you know all the people that they've promoted didn't and not not do very well so i think i just don't understand what you have against billionaires. i what why is it ok for a you need to get my feeling that it is not a billionaire in a nation where

getting together and that this is a ground plan we know that the phone call from the koch brothers or david koch that the phone call he made it very clear that this is an organized effort to go after unions so i wish that he would be more honest and i wish that the media framing was more honest in that respect with caroline help me she's a professor of politics at the dental college and that does it for now but of course for more on the stories we covered go to our website aren't you drop us a don't forget you can stream all the shows live on that website out for.

getting together and that this is a ground plan we know that the phone call from the koch brothers or david koch the prank phone call he made it very clear that this is an organized effort to go after unions so i wish that he would be more honest and i wish that the media framing was more honest in that respect speaking of honesty are so are all these economic decisions whether they be at the state or federal level are they just sort of based on the short term because of the political cycle because either way the thing to be playing politics here. and great observation dean i mean what we're talking about is a long extended recession caused by the liquidity crisis of two thousand and eight which was ultimately caused by corporate greed those folks got bailed out main street did not get bailed out and now are trying to balance a bad spot at the federal level and in all fifty states almost at this point on the backs of the poor and the working class and it's an obvious transfer of wealth from the public sector to the private sector from the working class of the middle class to the wealthy we've se

the right name to get walker on the phone because it once he thought he was talking to the real david koch he gave his two cents on everything about the union battle in wisconsin take a listen to some of the snippets from this twenty minute long prank call. the first . yeah. yeah well you know what else could we do for you. but worried about. yesterday there were seventy thousand probably two thirds were against the war seventy thousand people. fifty to thirty thousand but i remind our warriors because five and a half million people stayed you know just because a bunch of nerds you can jump off of work or the unit rolls at me the rest the people you district want think your question is. more groups that are encouraging people not to show up or to call me. and tell me haim firm i'll tell you what scott once you cross these bastards out fly you out to cali and really show you a good time car that would be out there. if not my get knowledge starts on tape and if you're interested you can find the entire prank call on line but let's get back to the issue at hand here i guess the walker didn't

host: forbes is estimated to be worth $17.5 pill billion and david koch, a board of directors. guest: george soros has given more in individual donations. particularly to 527's. he gave 34.2 million in political channels compared to just $4 million from the koch brothers. they have a clear willingness to give through their organizational industries and the americans for prosperity and other things they have set up. i would be surprised if george soros was giving as much as they are willing to put in in the cycle, but he is certainly capable of it. host: after watergate we saw the creation of the s.e.c. where you had candidates accepting donations. we have had candidates saying no to matching dollars. they still have to abide by the restrictions and how much they can raise per individual. now we have these outside groups that really are taking the place of these restrictions where there is very little control, if any. guest: it has really moved them out of this area where they have influence over a race or sear yiffs races. and it has taken some of the money away from the partie

temporarily took down the website of the koch funded group americans for prosperity and now in a press statement and on a said that it's come to their attention that david and charles koch have quote a long attempted to assert american democracy their actions to undermine the legitimate political process in wisconsin are the final straw and the statement goes on to say that in a world where corporate money has become. lifeblood of political influence the labor unions are one of the few ways that citizens have to fight against corporate greed and anonymous cannot ignore the plight of the citizen workers of wisconsin or the opportunity to fight for the people in america's broken political system so not only is the list of groups anonymous is targeting growing but apparently so are the anonymous ranks joining me now are two people affiliated with anonymous connie a participant in op was constant an anonymous source within anonymous now scotty i'm going to start with you because you are in wisconsin and so i'm just curious what is it that made you want to participate in what they're doing. basically. we need all the help we can get here. the voices of it pr

i think that was brought out in his pseudoconversation supposed to be david koch he was out there to driveway destroy the working men and women and basically the middle class and a sad day for our state but we move forward and continue the fight. >> you called the governor a liar. those are pretty strong words. >> it's true. you know, he says one thing and he was more interested in doing press conferences than negotiate. he never personally negotiated ever. and he never really brought forth a proposal. it was always like if you talk to the state senate leader, he'd have to check with the governor. right now, we're in wisconsin and dealing with one person rule. i think that is a sad day. each body should have their say. >> let me ask you this. what is going to be the reaction of the public workers today when they see and read exactly what happened last night? would you encourage a massive statewide strike? >> no. i don't believe a strike is the way to go. the governor's goal, i believe, is to privatize. if you do leave your job, that might be what he is going to do. i think a safer be