the koch brothers, i'm lessed and lucky to work with charles and david koch. charles and dived are aligned ith the groups, as well, freedom partners and others. koch industries and freedom partners interested in reform? guest: we have a vision based on also on society of mutual benefit, where people succeed by helping others succeed. we look at different issue necessary our country and ociety and try to remove barriers to opportunity when we see them. so, for example, in the criminal huge e system, there are barriers to opportunity, for many americans, particularly the it creates aged, major poverty trap, for andrations of americans now it is unjust. we try to eliminate injustices criminal justice reform is of course, always rotecting and enhancing public safety. we want to again, make sure we rights ystem of equal and justice and make sure we with dignity and respect in the system, obviously people accused of crimes, it also includes law includes the d families of all of them. more just to have society and have more of a redechltive and restorative and sense o

the koch brothers, i'm lessed and lucky to work with charles and david koch. s and dived are aligned ith the groups, as well, freedom partners and others. koch industries and freedom partners interested in reform? guest: we have a vision based on also on society of mutual benefit, where people succeed by helping others succeed. we look at different issue necessary our country and ociety and try to remove barriers to opportunity when we see them. so, for example, in the criminal huge e system, there are barriers to opportunity, for many americans, particularly the it creates aged, major poverty trap, for andrations of americans now it is unjust. we try to eliminate injustices criminal justice reform is of course, always rotecting and enhancing public safety. we want to again, make sure we rights ystem of equal and justice and make sure we with dignity and respect in the system, obviously people accused of crimes, it also includes law includes the d families of all of them. more just to have society and have more of a redechltive and restorative and sense of crim

that, for the benefit of our radio listeners, $51.5 billion for david koch of new york.t family, $40 billion. the family taken together, it's chose to $200 billion. >> it's not oil anymore in texas. [laughter] stuart: arizona, mark schoen, the vice president of u-haul, he's worth $3 billion. richest guy in arizona. got it. >>> now, primary voters are heading to the polls in texas, arkansas, kentucky and georgia today. first of all, georgia. michael williams, he's looking to ride his -- you can see it right there, the deportation bus with. he wants to ride that straight into the republican nomination for governor, but it's a crowded field. he's taking on four others, and that's just in the gop primary in georgia. move to arkansas, the incumbent governor is asa hutchinson. he faces a challenge from jan morgan. president trump tweeting his support for hutchison ahead of today's race. there's the tweet. he, the president, supports asa hutchinson. there's a democrat primary in kentucky's 6th district to take on gop representative andy barr, there's also a runoff election in t

appearing today on booktv you make any mention in your book "i know best" anything about david and charles koch and their views on things and libertarianism and so forth? >> host: what do you think of their viewed, keith? >> caller: um, i work for one of their companies for five years. and i don't particularly -- i'm not particularly in agreement with the way they see things. >> host: thank you, sir. >> guest: as i have said on the show already, and as our host has mentioned, too, i am libertarian. don't believe in any ideology completely because i think that's dangerous. you let hung by it. i think the koch brothers are very often misunderstood and it's interesting that they favor the gay marriage for a long time, and when i -- in liberal circles and they start attacking the koch brothers, say say to them they for gay marriage years and years before obama and there's a shocked look on their face and they don't believe me. i say go to google and look it up. >> host: mike is calling from north arlington, new jersey. good afternoon, mike. >> caller: good afternoon. my question has to do with poli

the test in trump town is whether harold hamm and charles and david koch are happy. and they are. polluters are free to pollute for free. and climate change gets scrubbed out of official communications. big spending polluters are happy, happy, happy. and that's why scott pruitt remains as e.p.a. administrator in the trump swamp. it doesn't have to be this way. the words of woodrow wilson are still true today about legislative oversight. he said, it is the proper duty of a representative body to look diligently into every affair of government and to talk much about what it sees. it is meant to be the eyes and the voice and to embody the wisdom and will of its constituents. well, our constituents, my constituents anyway, are not just the big polluters, like harold hamm and the koch brothers. the polluters may have billions to spend in politics, which they do, but they have very different interests than the millions of regular americans who look to e.p.a. to protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the climate we must inhabit. where are the eyes and the voice and the prese