i mean, david koch is one end of the spectrum.me balance, these people have been marching. people have been march zblg >> martha, if this was such a great provision to open up the money that goes to the campaigns, it makes incumbency i think protected more. if it's so great, why not campaign on this before the midterm elections? we're going to spend $1.1 trillion, in one bill. you won't be able to read it. now vote in the midterm election cycle. they know that people are disgusted by what's happening in washington. >>> i want to turn to the torture report released this week on the hill. i just want some very quick impressions and i'm going to start with laura. >> i think we have to remember the way we felt after 9/11. i didn't like everything i saw in this report. i think it was a one-sided report. in the light of the day, it looks really stark. well, it's not going to be done going forward. i think if someone kidnaps your kid and you know he knows where your child is, you wouldn't give him a big mac, you would probably push him u

just ask billionaire industrialist david h. koch. he's got the david h. ( applause ) a at the metropolitan museum. the david h. koch balie theater, and the natural history museum's david h. koch dinosaur wing. the "h,," of course, is for humble. and getting your name plastered everywhere is the closest we can come to importality. but as one platinum family recently learned, immortality doesn't last forever. >> if you're a fan of avery fisher hall at lincoln center, get ready for the sound of a new name. the concert space will undergo major renovations costing a half billion dollars. major donors will have to be courted to pay for it, and that would include naming rights. the lincoln center is paying avery fisher's children $15 million to drop his name. >> stephen: they gave up the naming rights to avery fisher hall for a lousy $15 million? for that kind of chump change you can't get the naming rights to daryl hall. folks, the lesson i take from this is that somebody out there can make a ton of money by selling the naming rights. and platinum daddy wants i

also on the list was david koch who along with his brother have been vilified by donating money to thehere's a sliver of the senate majority leader's opinion. >> a radical billionaire attempting to hijack our democracy. meanwhile families are expected to sit on the sidelines and watch as two brothers try and fix every election in america to their liking. the koch brothers are willing to do anything, even exploit americans suffering from cancer. it's time that the american people spoke out against the terrible dishonesty of these two brothers who are about as un-american as anyone i can imagine. >> the brothers revealed he lies, david koch reveals where he lies on the political spectrum. >> you are not -- very conservative politics. describe your political point of view? >> i'm basically a libertarian, i'm a conservative on economic matters, and i'm a social liberal. >> you support gay rights, you support a woman's right to choose, a conservative candidate, you support, many of them do not have those views. >> well, that's their problem. i'm -- i do have those views. >> all right, bob,

about the people who run these oil companies, particularly people like lee raymond, people like david kochnd charles koch and the people who run these big think tanks on capitol hill, the american enterprise institute, the competitive enterprise institute, the cato institute, marshal institute, clever people who are deliberately lying to the american public, deliberately deceiving people in order to make sure that the industry that the high level people in an industry continue to collect their income. so, it's not, you know, it's not the lower tiers of the industry that i would say are bad people. i don't think that at all. i think they are just regular people who are like the rest of us trying to make our way in the world and survive, but i think that the people who are kin i e i'ving to lie to the american people iving to lie to the american people, with this massive propaganda campaign, those are sociopaths. >> you wrote recently corporations that deliberately, purposely and system at including sponsor climate lies should be given the death penalty. explain what you mean. this? >> yeah.

comes from my pac pals at americans for prosperity, funded by billionaire industrialist charles and david koch. they're like the olsen twins of factory run-offs. americans for prosperity has even sent out these actual helpful absentee ballot applications to democratic districts. now, they had to rush these to print, so some people complained about inaccuracies, but it's minor stuff, like instead of instructing do you send your ballot to the local municipal clerk, where ballots are officially collected, the address on this is "absentee ballot application processing center," which, and this is interesting, does not exist. but i'm sure the koch brothers were going to hand deliver those ballots to the proper location once they've separated them from the mail sent to wisconsin family association and wisconsin right to life, the two other conservative groups to use that anonymous po box. because why else would they go to the trouble to give democratic voters helpful instructions like, "mail in your completed absentee ballot, which must be received by your city clerk before august 11th." here's a lit

senatorial races, and the organization americans for prosperity, backed by the oligarchs charles and david koch, who added at least five republican senators to their portfolios. and why not? the conservative majority on the supreme court wrote the prescription: exercise all the free speech you can buy. that's prompted the watchdog journalist harvey wasserman to write this week: "the gop/corporate coup d'etat is nearly complete." but not quite. look at what happened in richmond, california. richmond is a city of more than a hundred thousand in the bay area. chevron, one of the biggest and most powerful companies in the fortune 500, has a refinery there, with big pollution problems. after that refinery erupted in fire two years ago, the city, led by mayor gayle mclaughlin, sued chevron for what it alleges is a long history of negligence. what's more, the city is making chevron pay an additional two hundred million dollars in taxes and other payments to make richmond, once a danger zone of poverty and crime, a better place to live. this election year, chevron came out with guns blazing, spending m

charles and david koch are the biggest spenders but they are just two of the well known billionaires who have spent billions of dollars to benefit mostly republican. jors soros is one of the leftists who have put their money behind the democrats. i am joined by darrell west, vice president and director of brookings institution. crust. good to have you with us. you quote forbes that american billionaires who controlled a trillion dollars in assets 10 years ago have seen fortunate more than double since then. they feel a lot to spend on the candidates and the issues that they care about. but there has always been wealthy people interested in influencing politics. past? >> today is different from the past in the sense that there are more rich people. the people who are wealthy have more resources and these individuals are pioneer can much more actistist models of politics. for example, the koch brothers spent an estimated $290 million just on the 2014 election and helped to get the senate back for the republican party. >> but as you said, there are more of them than there used to be. do

soon to be former senate majority leader, calling charles and david koch one of the main causes of climate not just a cause but one of the main causes. >> they have a machine in their basement. tinkering with it. -- 28 times. tinkering billionaires and weren't for those meddling kid they would have destroyed the planet. >> as you're reading names off paging nurse cratchet one flew over the cuckoo's nest. jack nicholson are you kidding me? g of q, i don't know, i used to read them as a kid. they don't even know anything anymore. >> as a kid? >> young man with the poke can dot ties. >> grow up and wear cufflinks and my initials on my sleeve, yeah. they have lost all they don't do that well anymore either. but it is not it is not unusual, guys. you go on newsstand and look at general news magazines out there and these they take these shots. i wonder how any young person ever votes for a republican anytime because it is a amazing. anything they pick up from a "gq" to "rolling stone," so overly biased they would call themselves journalists is a shame. >> katy, you write every single week. you k

then next best i would say is ironically david koch. ttle center and gets behind someone like jeb bush, he could put his billions in a way. he can't be too far right. david: i think you're absolutely right. i think that is precisely what they are doing, what the pr folks around him are doing, trying as best they can to move him more to the center now. if they succeed he could be even more influential then he has been. who does that leave. gary, phil, that is you right? i'm sorry, you said forgive me, pope francis. gary, go ahead. >> correct, for me central banks. they are the driving force behind asset prices going higher over the last few years. and now you have japan in a big way, european central bank, china lowering interest rates. a direct correlation between markets and their moves. and i suspect they're going to continue if not even go further into the printing of money. and we may end up with some sort of a 1999 before it all falls out. david: wow, let us hope not. let us hope not. saved the best for last. gary kaltbaum, thank yo

by conservative businessmen charles and david koch.ebbie wasserman-schultz got into hot water when she made this comment. >> scott walker has given women the back of his hand. i know that is stock. that is direct. but that is reality. what republican tea party extremists like scott walker are doing is they're grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back. and it's unacceptable. >> and while gq says crazy democrats are in short supply this year, they did offer up rob blagojevich and anthony weiner as past examples. megyn. >> thank you, trace. we'll be right back. but first, coming up on "hannity". >> you said that al qaeda was defeated. islamist terrorism, which you wouldn't call islamist terrorism was defeated. welcome to the real world. now afghanistan's just fine. well, you know, the war he just concluded ain't over. auto insurance premium every month on the dot. you're like the poster child for paying on time. and then one day you tap the bumper of a station wagon. no big deal... until your insurance company jacks up your rates. you f

. >> david, it's amazing to read these documents. you see companies--i focused on koch industries and disney. you see these companies in what they call restructurings, creating corporations in luxembourg, dissolving companies, passing assets from one company to another company and then passing it back. then suddenly you see stock, share turn in to debt, turn in to credit, turn in to credit. it's a circular transaction, and it creates and the structures end up having five to ten companies in tiny luxembourg that these big corporations move money through, essentially. >> it doesn't sound very simple. it sounds complex and complicated. what is the payoff? luxembourg has a tax rate that is not particularly low at 29%. what are the special treatments that disney and koch and so many others are getting. >> you're right, luxembourg does not have a low tax rate in and of itself, it's 29%. but what they do is they submit these quote comfort letters showing the transactions that they will take to set up a system in luxembourg, anchored by a finance company or bank. they get agree