he lost the moral eye ground. >> ken vogel. an important story transforming american politics. folks don't appreciate. it may not be sexy but read the book! it's got a -- >> trivia time. dwight eisenhower. congratulations to today's winner. we'll be right back. so when we asked the guys at composites horizons to map their manufacturing process with sticky notes and string, yeah, they were a little bit skeptical. what they do actually is rocket science. high tech components for aircraft and fighter jets. we're just their bankers, right? but financing from ge capital also comes with expertise from across ge. in this case, our top lean process engineers. so they showed us who does what, when, and where. then we hit them with the important question: why? why put the tools over there? do you really need those five steps? what if you can do it in two? whoo, that's an interesting question. ideas for improvement started pouring out. with a little help from us, they actually doubled their output speed. a hundred percent bump in efficiency. if you just need a loan, just call a bank. but

msnbc political analyst david corn is still with us as is ken vogel of politico.you? >> we get nervous about unnamed sources. i think the two writers have enough writing on this that if they're wrong, they know that there's a consequence to that and they're highly motivated to have gotten it right. the rest of it, i think the idea that they're going after david samson is not surprising at all. the idea that paul fishman the u.s. attorney, is going to try to use that specifically to go after christie is what's news and what should be alarming to the governor's office right now. >> and we're talking about a few things here, not just the bridgegate scandal. we're also talking about shady dealings potentially. what is it likely or possible, i should say, that christie may have actually broken the law on? >> the thing that seems -- i mean, right. in a sense bridgegate, sort of the hash tag #bridgegate has been a broader scriptor of what's going on here, it's never been just about lane closures. it's -- one of steve's producers described it as the tape on the door on th

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here with us now is reporter for politico ken vogel.million, one suspicious vehicle, and a pimp." now that is a title. >> that is the title of the book. >> tell us who's -- >> we're intrigued. >> so let's talk about the pimp. who's the pimp? come on. how's this pimp involved in big money politics? >> whose car was stolen? >> the car was mine. it was a rental that was told suspicious. they don't take super kindly to having the privacy of these events breached. >> what happened? they trash your car? >> no. but they followed me out to the car and reported it to the riverside as suspicious. >> was it flashy? >> politico only goes with the best economy. >> it was an '87 taurus. >> and the pimp is a security guard who threw me out of a democratic fund raiser on the sidelines of the democratic national convention in charlotte who happened to have been a former police officer who was convicted of running a prostitution ring out of his squad car. so we got both sides there. >> that's big. let's talk though. more seriously, this really is about t

ken vogel writes about a well-funded democratic operative looking to beat the koch brothers at their is purportedly telling his party that there is no problem in spending millions of dollars on politics while simultaneously attacking the koch brothers for doing the same thing. according to the article -- >> look at that hair. his hair is as crazy as mine. >> not quite. it's in the ball park. >> it's getting close. >> according to the article, democrats are facing a fundamental strategic question. are we really that different from the kochs and do voters really care? >> you guys at politico have been writing stories about democrats ringing their hands and also this group that has gotten together. i don't remember the name of the group you're writing about. you said they're going to raise gazillions of dollars and their goal is to out-koch the koch brothers. >> we have all these multimillionaire, billionaires who want to put money into politics and they're tortured about it. should we do it by saying the cokoch brothers are criminals. it's hypocritical. if you care about politics, you

in "big money" ken vogel, a reporter for politico, reports on the impact the citizens united decision has had on politics and democracy. look for these titles in bookstores this coming week, and watch for the authors in the near tush on booktv -- future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> here's a look at some of the upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. this weekend booktv is talking with authors and publishing executives at the publishing industry's annual trade show, bookexpo america, in new york city. watch booktv in the coming weeks to see these interviews and more. on june 7th and 8th, we're live from the printers row lit fest. that weekend also features the first sacramento black book fair. and on saturday, june 21st, the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library will hold their 11th annual roosevelt reading festival which features numerous author talks on the 32nd president. look for our coverage on a future weekend. and let us know about book fairs and festivals happening in your area, and we'll be happy to add them to our list. e-mail us at booktv@cspa