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a koch brothers summit in d.c. he got a hero's welcome. >> i am the koch brothers brother from another mother. yes. i'm hatheir brother from anothe mother. >> plus willard shows today that eases 100% on board when it comes to protecting the 1%. >>> and a texas judge may keep his job despite this horrific videotaped beating of his daughter. is this justice? we'll talk about it. we'll be right back. >>> willard mitt romney says corporations are people. so no wonder his economic plan is all about tax cuts for the rich. that's next. >>> we're back to talk about republican economics. as i like to say, it's where corporations are people. and real people don't matter. unless they're rich. today mitt romney rolled out his plan. and more than his economic plan. he's serving red plaet to the tea party and calling for cuts to, well, just about everything. >> the national endowment for the arts, the national endowment for the humanity, the corporation for public broadcasts, amtrak, the easiest cut of all, i will repeal obama c

: david and charles koch are both in their 70s.n. in march, charles did respond to criticism in this op-ed. he wrote, even when such policies benefit us, we only support the policies that enhance true economic freedom. and today, supporting those policies is easier than ever. a year ago, the supreme court gave the green light for unlimited corporate spending in our politics as well as anonymous spending in our politics. >> reporter: so as the 2012 campaign heats up, you can bet the koch brothers will be front and center, or at least their wallet will be. randi kaye, cnn, atlanta. >>> and it is a busy week for the contenders. we'll tell you where they'll be when we come right back. [ male announcer ] this is lois. the day starts with arthritis pain... a load of new listings... and two pills. after a morning of walk-ups, it's back to more pain, back to more pills. the evening showings bring more pain and more pills. sealing the deal... when, hang on... her doctor recommended aleve. it can relieve pain all day with fewer pills than ty

. >> i am the koch brothers's brother from another mother.es. i'm that brother from another mother! and proud of it. >> wow! indeed he is. while cain may be seeking solace among friends as he battles a sexual harassment scandal, the same friends are now the subject of scrutiny. take mark block, better known as the disheveleded smoking man in the infamous ad, but it got the campaign off the ground that may pose a bigger problem. in a case filed hours ago, block now faces legal charges over some $40,000 that his koch brothers off shoot, prosperity usa paid to the cain campaign in its early days. gosh, legal charges, a sexual harassment scandal, it really hasn't been a good week for herman. why does he keep on smiling? the hits just keep coming. cain faced serious criticism on foreign policy missteps on china. >> i do view china as a potential military threat to the united states. they indicated that they are trying to develop nuclear capabilities. >> you probably knew that china developed nuclear weapons in the 1960s. cain apparently did not. w

of the koch brothers.his is evidence piece number 56 of why this conservative base likes herman cain, because he will say these things you're not supposed to say. the conservative base, there's nothing nefarious about the koch brothers political activism. >> donna, what do you think about the coke brothers? the democrats make them sound to be the right wing equivalent of the billionaires funding some of the left wing organizations out there. >> first of all, let's help that at some point in his short presidential career herman cain will become a consistent candidate because, wolf, if he says it today, he could chang it tomorrow and god knows that the right-wing tea party would like to applaud inconsistency, then they should get ready for mitt romney because he is the darling of inconsistency. but, look, the koch brothers, they're antiunion, antiworkers right, anticollective bargaining, antiteachers, antifirefighters. i could go on. mr. cain has been a spokesman for the koch brothers. he has traveled on the

you need to know this the koch brothers got occupied over the weekend as the koch brothers holes hosted their annual americans for prosperity convention on friday night hundreds of occupy d.c. demonstrators marched to the event to join in as well so while the tea party crowd was wooed by the likes of herman cain. mitt romney and g.o.p. t.v. see fox news talking heads inside the washington d.c. convention center roughly five hundred american patriots peacefully assemble outside the convention to demonstrate against the koch brothers cage of the convention was interrupted by ninety nine percenters who managed to sneak in but as usual with the occupy movement it didn't take long before there was a violent backlash against the patriotic occupiers according to reports a sort of lexus drove right into a crowd of demonstrators running over two people and then running over a third as a tried to flee d.c. police excuse the trying to flee d.c. police officers stopped the vehicle but let the driver go shortly after but no criminal charges instead police ended up arresting members of occupy d.c. wh

is it the waltons, is it the kochs, is it murdoch? there's a pretty long list of millionaires and billionaires who are the 1%. we want people to understand what they're doing, how they're doing it and the reason our economic crisis today is not an accident. >> yeah. well, the facts are about the 1%, the average wealth of the 1% is 225 times bigger than average household in america. ceos make almost 200 times as much as regular employees. ceos at the top 500 companies receive an average of $11 million in 2010, half of americans earn less than $26,000 in 2010. so it's going to be very interesting to see how this works for you. i imagine the koch brothers are the best example you can find, but there are a lot of people in the media that are movers and shakers that will end up on your list. great to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. that's "the ed show." listen to me on sirius xm radio

global now talk about the cook game max the koch brothers and am a flow book friends today and daniel dicker but an oil trader and c m b c contributor wrote on the huffington post that on october third koch brothers pulled out billions from an off global they had eight accounts with m.f. global and had them for decades just like jealous lines he had his accounts for decades and he lost all of his money the koch brothers managed october third they were warned that this was coming down they pulled their billions they saved their billions and the article from daniel dicker on huffington post says quote for those still battling the excesses of two thousand and eight and those. occupying last this is then another proof of the inside fixed operation of the financial markets when banks go wrong betting big with other people's money losing they can be sure of a bailout that guarantees their bonuses and businesses and when firms are tailspin into disaster the richest and most financially influential partners are sure to get a phone call a heads up to save their assets believe regular people wi

koch brothers, check. koch brothers again, check, check. who's missing?ink about the ragged edge of politics in the 2000s, what's the first far right republican name that pops to mind? what's the first name that pops into your head? cheney. no, not that cheney. and, no, not that cheney either. this time it's mary cheney, interestingly. and her group, alliance for america's future which is based in cleveland. i'm sorry, based in columbus. i'm sorry, actually based in virginia. not ohio. based in virginia and they don't reveal any of their funders. they do reveal their spending, sort of. they promised to spend over seven figures trying to get ohioens to vote yes on issue 2, vote yes on kasich's union stripping thing. over the next few days, citizens united, americans for process t prosperity and make america great, it's so new it doesn't have a logo, and the mary cheney thing and other conservative groups, like dick armey freedom works group, all of those groups will be spending millions and millions of dollars in the next four days in ohio to try to flip t

one crisis and ka blooy, koch brothers money or not. which means the nomination really is mitt romney's. unless he finds a way to light himself on fire now too. a former chairman of the republican party will join us next. t in. but as his dentist, i know that to do that, he needs to use the brush more dentists use. oral-b. trust the brush more dentists and hygienists use. oral-b. life opens up when you do. now there's no need to hold back. new revolutionary scope dualblast obliterates strong food odors leaving your breath minty fresh. hey. [ male announcer ] so there's no trace of evidence... new scope dualblast. >>> just ahead for the interview tonight is michael moore. also, michael steele is on his way. stay with us. >>> i believe i have a good sense for where you cross the line relative to sexual harassment. >> live free or die. victory or death. bring it. >> if more allegations come, i assure you people will simply make them up. >> today has been awesome, girl! this has really been a great day. >> the only other allegations will be

i am the koch brothers' brother from another mother. yes. i'm their brother from another mother.ud of it. >> that's the response to the scandal, so far. today in washington, another watch dog group has asked the irs to look into the alleged illegal funding of the cain campaign by unknown donors funneling it through a koch brothers-linked organization. again, while his campaign manager was running a state chapter of the koch brothers' conservative activist group americans for prosperity, the group's own financial records show it apparently illegally funding herman cain's campaign, illegally paying for campaign stuff. for things like herman cain going to a koch brothers event in oklahoma and herman cain's campaign manager, the smoking guy, being flown to d.c. to meet with one of the koch brothers and the head of americans for prosperity group, tim phillips. tim phillips has been a guest jack abrahamoff, who wen jail, he is now out of federal prison and promoting his new book about his crimes. abramoff did in washington is he got guys like tim phillips and ralph reed, remember ralph

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to meet with one of the koch brothers and the head of americans for prosperity s.llips has been a guest on this show a couple times before. jack abrahamoff, who went to jail, he is now out of federal prison and promoting his new book about his crimes. among the things that jack abramoff did in washington is he got guys like tim phillips and ralph reed, remember ralph reed, the christian coalition guy, jack abramoff worked with those guys to dupe conservative voters into supporting the interests of jack abramoff's lobbying clients. so they'd get conservative voters who hated gambling, for instance, to oppose some specific gambling legislation. not because they were going to stamp out gambling by doing that but that would help eliminate the competition for the casinos the guys were working for. ralph reed is supposed to be a christian leader. it couldn't look like he was being paid by the casinos. instead they laundered the money through ralph reed through a conservative activist group to make it look like it was all politics and not just money. the group they launde

now they're involved in funding the tea party so this is an interesting story line there with the koch brothers they seem to be able to manipulate politics and market simultaneously there's only one on their level in terms of manipulating both politics and markets. well you know i'll tell you something i met with the head of m. and a for goldman sachs told me he said if you really want to look at something you should look at the koch brothers because the things that they are doing are beyond description and when someone and i happen goldman says i assume that he might know what he's talking about the koch brothers they're very very secretive and recently they pulled out of cushing oklahoma where all the oil is kept in the united states they actually just got rid of all their assets or you know they at least don't have a name in there anymore i'm assuming they're leasing space so that they don't have to be associated with the game but i'm pretty sure they're still in there they're just don't want anyone to know about it and. they like to do everything very privately so finding the tea p

funded heritage foundation the koch funded cato institute of the koch funded you know this that or the other thing freedom works and dick armey and all that it looked to me like this nation was going to flip right hard right in fact as the result of this economic crisis we had the paul ryan budget for example shredding the social safety nets you had the republicans fighting financial regulation all of this stuff looked to me like a right wing populist but a right wing populist which is what germany and spain italy saw after the great depression of the one nine hundred thirty s. the one thousand twenty's and thirty's and then along came occupy wall street and with occupy wall street it's another populist revolt as it were but this time it's not hard right i'd say it's middle left an occupy wall street is people reaching out saying you know we're not going to bail out the banks and we're not going to have any you know basically anybody running our lives in email. and eighteen year old student can now back down the republican governor of kansas who used to be a very powerful senator frank

brothers convention participate in the koch brothers convention who were upset that the human chain was blocking their way and they finally just lost their cool but because that story was repeated many times they put pressure on the police chief in washington d.c. to declare that occupy d.c. is no longer a peaceful movement that really annoyed the people in the camp and then they had a new outlook toward law enforcement when law enforcement then began coming to camp to look for a suspect in a completely unrelated case but there was a new kind of confrontation and really the second most disturbing situation i've ever seen was at occupy d.c. just a few days after the police chief made that statement so it's really it's a complex and delicate dance and to have news news organizations political organizations disguised as news organizations trying to inject their political agenda into the relationship of law enforcement to the community i think it's irresponsible and i think we should hold them accountable not just on the right by the way but also on the left you talking about g.o.p. t.v