the guest host this hour is john burke.rey bloomberg news editor who stopped sleeping on friday at 10 p.m. at night. inhave been trying to engage the process with the chief investor of pfizer, as esther zeneca saw them try to -- astrazeneca saw them try to sweeten the offer, i think that this may hurt science. we are down to harming science from astrazeneca. you have to be kidding me. >> the board did not just reject them out right, they said it is a little bit better of an offer. does this mean if the science is protected if the insect -- executives get more money? it is kind of an interesting weekend. >> where is the government? >> the government in the u.k. has come out, adamantly against the deal, worried about job cuts and science and here in the united states, if this deal were to go forward i think that you would have the government talking about the tax inversion issue and what kind of taxes would be produced on the u.s. treasury side. >> i wonder, jeff mccracken. when you look at this in the discussion over the job

their father, one of the founders of the john burkes society found this company then gave them $300 millioneath. they started with a massive advantage. when we have folks like them, who are heirs, who are able to perpetuate wealth, then we have an aristocracy. >> how do you fight it? what could beat all this money? >> as you said, progressives beat it in 2012. all of the oligarchs are busy trying to make sure average people can't vote. we still can in this country .every man and woman over 18 still has a right to vote. that's how they got defeated in 2012. and that's how they'll be defeated in 2014. the obama coalition absolutely has to go to the polls. >> when we allow people to donate as much as they want via campaign. the wealthy are having their say on both sides. largely on the right. >> how are they going to get their vote out on the left? >> well, that's an excellent question. that is up to every right thinking american to make sure that people know how important it is to go to the polls in the midterms. you know, one of the things that the koch brothers do is absolutely focus their

brad, svp of research and john burke meyer, senior staff attorney. new developments in google's reported talks with twitch, that popular streaming site for video games. the the price tag reportedly more than $1 billion, ranking it right up there with google's top five large acquisitions. remember youtube, 1.8 billion? nest, 3.2 billion? boy, motorola mobility, that was kind of a mess, didn't quite work out as well as google had hoped. why the big premium for the site or is it what we don't know about twitch? >> developing news on that front, variety reporting that google is imminently striking a deal to acquire twitch for a billion dollars. this is why everyone says it's so attractive, it gets 45 monthly unique million visitors and has them broadcasting on the platform each month. this is where the teenagers are. destination for watching and broadcasting, video game playing. in fact, according to several reports, twitch entertaining offers from multiple companies inlewding microsoft concern including microsoft. and another reason it's so attractive a

their dad was one of the beginners of the john burke society. think about that. so, mr. let me be very plain for all to hear. no one should be able to pump unlimited funds into political campaigns, whether they are democrat, republican or independent. as one political observer noted, we currently have a campaign finance system in place which compels each party to pick which billionaires they like best. what a shame. that's exactly why the system needs to change. there is absolutely no question the koch brothers are in a category of their own, in both degree and kind. no one else pumping money into the shadowy campaign organizations and campaigns like they are. there isn't even a close second, mr. president. they are doing this to promote issues that make themselves even richer. $100 billion is not enough for the koch brothers. no other individual has recreated the role of the national political party. that is what they are doing. they are re-creating the republican party. i say, mr. president, why not level the playing field for everyone. let's get this money out of our

. >> that was john erlichman, adam burke and david kirkpatrick.p next, twitter ceo dick answer the question if twitter will ever go mainstream. costolo already thinks it is. ♪ >> welcome back to "the best of bloomberg west." i'm emily chang. it is a different story with investors and analysts. quarter earnings report, shares plunged this week. slowedowth year-over-year. a lot of people are asking the question if twitter can ever be mainstream. told their ceo, who thinks twitter is already mainstream. i asked him why. >> a lot of people think of twitter as a product or just a website. the reality is, twitter is in front of people around the world every day, and it is all over tv. commissioner had tweets on air during his press conference the whole time. just a couple days after the oscars, over 3 billion views of tweets just about the oscars on twitter, but all across the web. the web, in air, on mobile, it is already embedded into the fabric of the culture, not just united states, but the world. in that sense, i already think of it as a mainstream

him for potentially settling and undermining their case that it's part of a witch hunt. >> john, can mary burkee? >> absolutely she can win the race. she's been all over the state of wisconsin. she hadn't somed since the day she was announced. cook is repped not only in washington, d.c. but those that noel in politics. absolutely, mary burke can win. >> all right. ruth and state senator, great to have you both was tonight. >>> coming up, congressman elijah cummings joins us with new information on the benghazi hearings. stay tuned. right back on "the ed show" on msnbc. making new york state number two in the nation in new private sector job creation... with 10 regional development strategies to fit your business needs. and now it's even better because they've introduced startup new york... with the state creating dozens of tax-free zones where businesses pay no taxes for ten years. become the next business to discover the new new york. [ male announcer ] see if your business qualifies. i began losing my sight tos an eye disease when i was 10.. but i learned to live with my blindness a long time

discussion say this, the disinformation campaign is being driven by the likes of fox news, the john burkes society, tea party faction and the christian right. we've had healthy debates on both sides of the common core debate. parents are outraged about it and also administrators like common core. we have had a healthy debate about it here. so it is fox news to blame for the problem of common core, not the implementation of it across states across this country, the way educators are not implementing it, it's been done by administrators, but it is our fault as fox news. >> here's the problem, again, there's legitimate debate about common core. this does not abate that debate. this shuts it down. this is another example of the left using bigotry to get people they disagree with to shut up. this is not inviting people to have a rational discussion about anything. it's saying, be quiet, you disagree with you, you're a bigot. >> we are trying to get the same kids to learn the same thing at the same time across the country, and have this uniform set of standards, but it doesn't work for everyone.

burke at 47%. in pennsylvania incumbent tom corbett is struggling to keep the keys to the governor's mansion with polls showing him trailing. however, the gop does appear toic maing inroads elsewhere. in oregon, johnin winning 49 prosecutes of the vote. gop representative dennis richardson is in a good position to make a strong challenge with the latest poll showing a race. all in all, it's shaping up to be a very competitive election cycle in state capitols across the country. guys? >> it's going to be close. thank you, derrick kitts. >> i'm surprised walker in wisconsin, tied 47/47. i thought walker was clear on that. >> well, he's had a contentious time in texas. he's been involved in controversy, he's a governor who has gone in there who has enacted an agenda. a lot of reforms. it's going to be a close race. i wouldn't count scott walker out of it. he's shown a lot of resiliency. >> she's a good candidate and pretty well-known. and steve said it, the structure of the race, it's a blue to purple state, and he's been controversial. so he's got a floor of support but also a ceiling. he's not going to get 55% of the vote here. once you're below that, you're in danger of losing it. same with john k