you can see it in "koch brothers exposed."obert greenwald, the president of brand-new foundation, gatereat to see you on the "young turks". >> great to be with you. >> talk to me about what they are doing with social security. why are they targeting it? what's wrong with them them? >> we don't have enough time for that. but -- >> like a three-part series. >> you have a month? but on social security what we discovered and we have been reef searching this for over a year is that this is athe best example i have ever seen of the echo chamber. they fund, as you said almost 300 papers from think tanks and literally the words from those think tanks are put in the mouths of groups they fund like americans for prosperity. they know you hear it in the mounds of the pundits and worst of all the elected officials who they pay for, ryan and others, are saying the exact words that come from the think tanks so you can see it all across the spectrum and they fund every step. >> it's amazing how they have bought the entire system. but, you kn

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the koch to push and climate change denial this is a particularly fascinating. you know. past corporate friendly c.e.o. this nation well a bunch of other companies also find out in eighty one of the night publicly is very much along the lines of saying we need to deal with climate change we believe it's me and me believe it control carbon emission and so on and so forth but yet secretly finding this organization which all over the country is passing resolutions a state legislator saying that there is no such thing as being the global warming fighting any sort of efforts to limit carbon emissions requiring schools it's really interesting requiring schools to teach both sides of the global warming debate so that means. the science is legitimate and they'll teach now in science and science classroom basically propaganda saying this isn't exist and so you know we're catching it on the act here and a bunch of groups they got together and started to call on. this day and it was worried that it really does believe in global warming you shouldn't be funding this organization that

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can i go back to the koch brothers for a second.h brothers fascinated me and you are from wichita. and one of them still lives there. >> yes. >> and the other one lives in new york. the richest man in new york. >> but also the richest man in wichita. but they intrigue me for a number of reasons, but they were not the biggest donor behind right-wing -- the coors family but the koch brothers were different. they aren't these kind offer can kermugen types. they also give normal philanthropy things. and one of the brothers has written a management book. they come across as very sensible, normal even-keeled people. hey, they are kansases for goodness sake. >> and there is a constitutional amendment to overturn citizens united. >> thank you thomas frank and bill press, i'm optimistic. you can catch bill's show "full court press" every week angd morning at 6:00 eastern right here on current tv. and up next they wall the white house correspondent dinner, the white house version of the s par, but brett was not invited. and hell hath no fury

one of the koch brothers has cancer. right? or had cancer?n he is giving to foundations as well. right? >> he is giving to foundations. he is giving to medical centers to cure or help people who have cancer. >> that's a wonderful thing. but it's an even more important thing that he should clean up the act of his industry. they should go beyond the law that they have manipulated to the lowest possible level. and he should stop it at inception. >> that's what's happening. >> let's talk about the formaldehyde a little bit because that's another case where there is a little bit of good news because they lost on that one, too. tell me what they were trying to do, why, and what happened with that. >> what they triedy to do is consistent. any regulation that would protect people that would cost them any money at all in this sense, they are similar to wal-mart. they will fight anything that is for the greater good but not for the narrow economic good. they have won a lot. they bought the house energy committee up. they own them. it's another section

there is no question there is absolutely zero question that the koch brothers the koch brothers funded groups the bradley foundation all these groups are behind scott walker if we listen to you and we know that because we have we know that because david koch himself has said that he is supporting scott walker here all these phony five one c three five a one c four groups that we believe are illegally coordinating they send out non-profits not for profit and they go ahead and they put ads that are exactly what made with scott walker's campaign message actually water or did it with the party republicans put out these phony organs like alec is one of them but they also have these big news organizations constantly comment wisconsin reporter and the tiger institute all these bacon phony things that are meant to fool the public into believing that this is in their interests you are exactly right without the corporate forces behind scott walker the irony is he goes everywhere and tells the lie that he's out of state or says are coming again. he is going to outspend us i don't want to leaven i

policies cost of that ad was just part of the five hundred million dollars in corporate cash if the koch brothers and other american oligarchy pledged to commit to the two thousand and twelve election to defeat president obama but there's also something else that might be working against progressives a new study out of the university of arkansas suggests that conservatism might be the nation's default ideology but researchers found that when americans don't have enough time or energy to give sufficient thought to a particular political issue it tends to accept the conservative argument more often but that raises another question what exactly is conservatism in america what is a conservative russell kirk the founder of the modern conservative movement is famous essay the essence of conservatism wrote conservative is not by definition a selfish or a stupid person instead he's a person who believes there's something in our life worth saving conservatism indeed is a word with an honorable meaning but i mean almost forgotten by americans until recent years abraham lincoln wished to be known a

americans with prosperity, it's funded by david and charles koch. so let's watch what they're up to. these ads. >> $1.2 billion to a solar company that's building a plan the in mexico. $500 million to an electric car company that created hundreds of jobs in finland. and tens of millions of dollars to build traffic lights in china. president obama wasted $34 billion on risky investments. the result? failure. american taxpayers are paying to send their own jobs to foreign countries. tell president obama, american tax dollars should help american taxpayers. >> think progress. a progressive organization disputes the facts in this ad. among other complaints, it says two of the ads claims about jobs in mexico and finland are based on false stories by conservative bloggers. the koch brothers don't like any green industry, period. they don't like alternative fuels. they're out spending millions and millions of dollars to trash any effort to get an escape route down the road in the future from oil and gas. >> this is a two-for for the koch brothers. they don

sounds like the koch antrorse. doesn't it.ted that the protest against alec was part of a larger effort to shut all of us down and said, any and all support you guys -- meaning the bloggers -- can provide would be so help put in, not just to us but to average people who don't know much about this fight. >> this isn't just a story about bad publicity. it is about the legislators who are alec members pushing through the alec member's company model legislation. let's look at one state, wisconsin to see how this works. state legislators there added a budget amendment that gives a tax break to big tobacco using language that was lifted word for word from alec model legislation. so it turns out to beac 0 companies r. j. reynolds and altria, the parent company of phillip morris sit on alec's corporate board. wouldn't you know it, one of the bill's sponsors, alberta darling reportedly received a thousand dollars check from altria in 2010. so now for an inside view of how alec is manipulating a wisconsin legislature, i am joined by dem

the national urban league and color of change are launching a movement to have the koch brothers shoot first laws repealed it was my mayor michael bloomberg speaking out on this issue yesterday. it's now clear that these laws have undermined the integrity of the justice system and done real harm to publicly they have some confusion in police departments about wins and make arrests they have made it more difficult for prosecutors to bring charges in cases of deadly violence and these stand your ground states have seen a major increase in so-called justifiable homicides these laws have not only made our have not made our country safer they have made us less safe as mayor bloomberg pointed out in a press conference on wednesday and as this chart shows states that have passed shoot first laws and seen a massive increase in so-called justifiable homicides making communities as he said less safe but doesn't this evidence plus the death of trayvon martin prove that these laws are dangerous to our communities and should be repealed or offer his take is no aspirate c.e.o. and host of the truth

the koch brothers and the americans for pros tear ti is dumping into eight states to take down presidentm y and what about the interest to control the senate races. and back in the ussr, and are mitt romney and the ideologues trying to bring back the cold war and bring back russia? the republicans can't wait to get in power and back to the cold war and yet it seems that these people can't wait to have another war to fight. we know thoo tat the republican have a goal to defeat obama, but do you believe they started from the first day of the inauguration. and funny is money, and so the tough crowd at the white house dinner, but we have a comedy writer who came up with gags like this for president obama. >> others say i'm arrogant, but i found a really great self-help tool for, this my poll numbers. we are gare going to look back some past moments as we get ready for the next evening which you can watch right here. and also, let's talk about what we treasure as a democracy, and we begin with the angry money. both men are msnbc political analysts. i was struck this morning by a small item thi

the story of alec being funded by the koch brothers is well known and it seems that between the koch brothers and the late joseph coors and richard mellon scaife and the sarah safe skate foundation there's a few hard right wing folks out there who are quite well known and have been funding these things for thirty forty years you know the heritage foundation and the cato institute and the alley and things like that is there and that's that's incredible depth you know a lot of deep. very deep pockets that have brought a lot of money out and change the face of america in the last thirty forty years is there much breadth to it is there much with i mean if these if this small number of very very large funders were to stop funding these organizations with the right wing machine guy up and blow away or is there just a never ending supply of of rupert murdoch's out there. well i hate to come on to your show and be so cynical but i think traditionally a lot of the the financier's work limited to some of these you know the korean escapes and a koch brothers but now it's so much bigger corporat

shield became the latest member of the american legislative exchange council to sever ties with the koch brothers funded corporate think tank in just one month alone this month now it has lost eleven members after several progressive groups organized a campaign against its corporate sponsors the exodus of alec members comes on the heels of a new report by progress missouri documenting thirty pieces of legislation introduced in the missouri general assembly over the last decade that were written by alec and as many as forty state lawmakers with financial ties to alec and the backlash against alec has now made it to the pages of the new york times the times editorial board took on alec in an article titled embarrassed by bad law. laws alec has been operating since the early one nine hundred seventy s. but it's only just now receiving the sort of attention that it deserves and all this exposure and pressure coming from progressives is starting to pay off and use breaking this afternoon alec decided to dismantle its task forces that write legislation for so called non economic issues and mea

i'm denise koch. >> and i'm vic carter.ere's what people are talking about tonight. >>> two jet planes crash into homes. three people in the homes are still unaccounted for. tara mergener has the latest from virginia beach. >> reporter: this was the scene just moments after a navy fa-18 fighter jet crashed into a two- story complex in virginia beach. the thick, black smoke filled the air while the tail smoldered in the rubble. witnesses could tell the aircraft was in trouble. >> it was like a skittering where it was popping and then stop. and then we just saw the plane go down. >> reporter: another eyewitness said this photo of the jet was dumping fuel. its nose was angled upward, apparently to slow its speed and then just fell from the sky. >> the front end of the plane just went down and then, boom. >> shortly after takeoff, the aircraft suffered a catastrophic mechanical malfunction. >> reporter: both pilots ejected moments before the crash and parachuted down near the ground landing by the wreckage and the apartments. h

it is the david koch -- funded by dade koch at any rate.hey have -- they tell you all about the -- here it is. right. good. david h. koch hall of human origins. >> amazing. >> bill: at the end of the exhibit, your ainformed that levels of carbon dioxide are higher today than they've ever been before but of course paid for by the koch brothers, the smithsonian has nothing about why that's happening and that's the smithsonian. >> it is a fascinating exhibition. i just saw it a couple of months ago and you know, was walking through, got to the end and saw that and hadn't actually seen the sponsor. and i was just surprised. i said -- it is like this discovery channel thing. what's the next piece? it is just very fuzzy. it says this is happening. it kind of gets very fuzzy. and then at the end, you see the sponsor and of course, you know koch industries has been one of the leading advocates against legislation to cap carbon emissions. >> coral, i want to ask you it does strike me, this is a huge issue for democrats or even evangelical christians

have you tried to reach out to the koch brothers or others like them? what has the response been from them? >> you know, we haven't reached out to the koch brothers or we actually haven't reached directly out to allek either. we know where alec stands and where the koch brothers stand on democracy. they have made it very clear how they stand on who should vote in this upcoming election. they have made it clear on issues of our environment or issues of public education. they have made their voices very clear. we have always made this campaign about public facing corporations, that every single day, come into black communities and ask us to buy their products or use their services. we want to know where they stand on democracy. we want to know where they stand on how our democracy should work and who should get to participate. >> rashad, are you going to announce another company tonight or tomorrow? >> we will be -- i hope that tomorrow morning, i can announce some corporations that have made the right choice. but at this point, we are at a place where th

using as evidence a campaign press release by little linda lingle that appeared on a website run by koch political operatives. all all of that was right except the very end there were it was a web site owned by coke operators but why a reporter isn't owned by coke operatives and their public reports story that was the source of my information didn't explicitly say that it was i got that wrong and reported it wrong in my commentary and i'd like to apologize to the white reporter and most importantly to you for my roni is jumping to conclusions and state is a fact something with us and so. it's thursday so that means it's time to get he science we need another reason to be afraid of the dentist a study released this week in the american cancer society's journal cancer reports that there is a link between specific kinds of dental x. rays and the most common type of brain tumor study found that people with the meningioma type of brain tumor are more than twice as likely as people without the tumor to have had right wing x. rays at some point their lives studying polluted both modern exposure

you mentioned the koch brothers.k about this in my new book, "the obama hate machine" is all about the koch brothers' operation and the smears against this president and the organization behind it and the points behind it. and one of the things i point here is if you look at how the koch brothers have spent their money, they have spent more money than anybody else together in american politics but it's all to their self interest. >> right. >> because they are buying politicians who are going to vote to get government off of the backs of the oil and gas industry so they can pollute more and make more money. >> that's exactly right. >> their money is making the spin for me, me me. right? >> they are could benservatives who strongly believe in some of the corps values and you and me disagree with them but that's not what the koch brothers are. they are not doing this because they care about choice or gay rights or any of those things. they are doing this because it's an investment so they can make money. >> that's all a

. >> has he forgotten about his koch brother bosses.e forgotten about his phone call with the koch brothers. he's forgotten he's bought and sold by them. we may they may have the power but we have the people. the people are the ones to vote. not only has he been sold out to the koch brothers but he's moved our numbers where he's put more people from work to welfare in our state. this guy is not for the people. he's not done what he needed to do for wisconsin. >> a report came out today that the milwaukee police and firefighter unions in the city of milwaukee are endorsing scott walker. they endorsed him in 2010 and they are back endorsing him again. i understand the state unions are upset about this. >> it's not anything that's surprising. they endorsed him back in the original election. they got exempted. it was largely seen as political payback for them. here we have they are coming up with the receipt to say we're here with you again. it's nothing more than a political ploy. political payback for him. >> the senate is now at 16-16, c

a koch brother but he can't take a call from a constituent like myself.tion. nobody likes recalls. it costs the state money. people are sick and tired of having these koch brother ageneral dagenda and these billionaires coming in. we just can't have that. >> mahlon good to have you with us. >>> we'll show you the tape, next. stay with us. i went to a small high school. the teacher that comes to mind for me is my high school math teacher, dr. gilmore. i mean he could teach. he was there for us, even if we needed him in college. you could call him, you had his phone number. he was just focused on making sure we were gonna be successful. he would never give up on any of us. >>> coming up, you won't believe what president obama said about the republican war on women. we'll play you the tape, next. >>> tomorrow is the white house correspondence dinner. i'll show you why this year's host has some big shoes to fill. don't forget to tweet us. stay tuned. the game? i think it's final seconds, ohh, shoots a three, game over. so two seconds ago... hey mr. and mrs. h

brothers in particular david koch he's seventy one years old with his hand in several organizations including americans for prosperity and freedom works the money he spends is actually just too much to count out of that money of course did help fund the tea party its message and also many of those conservative republican candidates who won their elections back in two thousand and ten the koch brothers has have championed the causes of less government and also a lot of people just unsure how much power they actually have it seems on many fronts to be limitless and also things of course will stop at nothing to see that president obama this november is defeated and i think one thing a lot of people will be watching is what george soros decides to do he is also an eighty one year old man you've given about thirty million dollars in two thousand and four two thousand and six and two thousand and eight to democrats and of course of big time donor to obama's two thousand and eight presidential campaign if he gives again he may well be up against a whole lot of donors supporting whoever the

including americans for prosperity and freedom works the koch brothers a doling out of money is simply too much to count and some of that is of course of course i want to fund the tea party its message and many of those conservative republican candidates who went on to win elections in two thousand and ten because brothers have championed the cause of less government and a whole lot of people are still unsure just how much power they have it seems on many fronts to be limitless and it seems they of course will stop at nothing to see that president obama is defeated i think the one thing a lot of people will be watching is to see what this man does eighty one year old george soros he gave thirty million dollars back in two thousand and four two thousand and six and two thousand and eight to democrats and also a big time donor to obama's two thousand and eight presidential campaign if he gives again and how much something people are wondering and if so he will be up against quite a few other donors who a lot of people right now believe will be supporting mitt romney one of the biggest do

the $200 million is money pledged by the infamous koch brothers.he ad portrays mitt romney as someone who is in the pocket of big money and special interests. and i know this is going to shock you, he is. and so is everyone else. but it is all legal. only in american. literally. after the koch brothers check out a few more of mitt romney's big money donors. first up julian robertson the funder of tiger management, he has $2.5 billion in his piggy bank and has already given $1.25 billion to romney's super pac, which is called restore our future. up next, ken griffith of sitdale. he recently quipped that the wealthy have insufficient influence in politics. i'm serious. he really today that. and then there's the hotel heirs, the brothers and prominent mormons, richard and bill marriott. and between the two of them they have about $3.3 billion, and each has donated a million dollars to mitt romney. here to discuss the negative influence of big money in this year's elections is adam smith, from public campaign action fund. adam is joining us tonight fro

two of the koch brothers three weeks ago at a meeting of conservatives pledged $30 million and -- and50 million respectively to beat president obama in the november campaign. karl rove has $200 million most of it coming from the oil industry. so you are getting a tsunami of cash pouring in, and we know it has a huge impact. in 97% of the cases the candidate with the most money wins. the oil industry is now the richest industry in the history of man kind, and that's why you see all of these -- these republican presidential candidates -- some of them are very smart people, people like jon huntsman who is a smart, thoughtful man but all of them were forced to reverse their initial positions and say oh there is no such thing as global warming. and if there is, we're not causing it. it has nothing to do with the oil industry, because that's the only way they will win this election with all of this money. hl mankin said it's very hard to convince a man of a fact if the existence of that fact is going to diminish his salary. and in the cases of these political figures, they know they are not

he had some choice words for outside tea party funders, namely the koch bother's backed group.ake a listen. >> we have got outside groups coming in here that are just vicious and awful, and they don't tell the truth. and that has been really hard for me to take. >> it's not just hatch, jon huntsman said yesterday that extremists had driven the republican party so far to the right that even ronald reagan wouldn't get elected today, and huntsman said neither could do he. >> could you be nominated by the republican party of utah today? >> the answer is no and that's a sad commentary on where we find ourselves today. i think jeff it is an angry moment we're experiencing now in politics. >> still the tea party is now seeing it's popularity wane a bit. a washington post poll finds that 41% support the tea party, and 45% oppose it. for incites on how the tea party actually operates, and how he was affected by movement on the right, we are joined by former pennsylvania senator, arlen speck for, who joins us to talk about the state of the republican party and american politics, which he

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turned out when he headlined a $10,000 a plate event in oklahoma put on by the billionaire coach -- kochrothers. >> walker go home! walker go home! >> they didn't stop walker from finding big money in oklahoma and elsewhere. bob perry the texas financier he cut two, $250,000 checks to walker at the event. two. this is not just about wisconsin, however. what happens there could have major implications for other state races. republican oklahoma state senator david holt when he was at that event summed up the sentiment saying: that we can do this. hum. now we turn to madison, wisconsin and kathleen falk. she is the democratic candidate for governor and hoping to become the state's first female governor. i'm so glad to be able to welcome here inside "the war room." thanks for joining us. >> it's an honor to be with you governor grandholm. >> it's exciting to have you here and have you follow tammy baldwin. and of course as you know this gubernatorial issue has captured everybody's attention. scott walker has been raising hundreds of thousands of dollars from these conservative donors includi

gets passed off to through alec through the american legislative exchange council they can put the koch brothers funded gets passed to one of these meetings where the legislators are sitting literally next to lobbyists republican legislators state representatives and state senators state is everyman sitting next to lobbyists one on one. the legislators pay one hundred bucks to be there and we case of virginia the state paid over two hundred thousand dollars to send their legislators these alec needs and the rabi is can pay anywhere from twenty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars to sit next to that legislature and they have equal votes. the republicans have a lobbyist equal votes a democratic congressman from wisconsin are poked him paid a hundred bucks and went to an alec meeting came back and told us the story. would be principally do is it if it could be getting serious for a corporate lobbyist or legislators they get you to gather they have you write legislation they have cast stores interestingly are made up of half were displayed in half an industry lobbyists when you needed

of firefighters police officers and teachers it's an ideology this is corporate polluters like the koch brothers should have free reign to dump toxic chemicals into our air and water and the c.d.c. and the e.p.a. shouldn't even exist much less be able to find out why cases of autism as bum on young americans are skyrocketing ultimately it's an ideology that if fully implemented would lead to the death of the united states as we know it whereas the occupy movement simply wants to bring back what's already been tried in america and what's worked for almost a century regulations on wall street fair taxes on the rich in corporations a strong social safety net and an end to the corporate and billionaire corruption of our government the occupiers want of middle class in america again so which movement should really be getting the pepper spray treatment for the police the occupy or the tea party. actually neither should free speech is free speech but the fact that occupiers around the country are facing this sort of constant brutality really says something about the state of america right now

two cases typically brown v board of education which they just absolutely went nuts this was daddy koch he went crazy on this he was running the john birch society or funding it or whatever one of the founders of the john birch society and back in the fifty's and after nine hundred fifty four when when the earl warren court said oh it we've got to integrate the schools to comply with the constitution the koch brothers went crazy and you see these saw these impeach roll war and billboards all over the country the other are the other one that they talk about judicial activism which you know is in their mind because making laws is roe v wade and there's actually an argument that could be made because the court in roe v wade said well there's three trimesters of pregnancy and it kind of arbitrarily are somewhat arbitrary what science has changed over the years defined these three periods and came up with specific rules for each of those three periods now if the court was not activist and this is the conservative argument but as i said i think that there's an element of truth and not just fo

the more rude i wantrudimentary problem, alec. >> koch brothers. >> totally. >> the koch brothers knowut a lot of corporations that funneled alec, they don't know all of the crazy stuff alec is doing. >> now they do. now a lot of them are dropping out. >> now, they are dropping out. if you, you know, carl if you can look up the alec's done offer list and if there is an illinois or chicago-based company, you know, you should let them know, you know, what they are sending their money to so they can make an informed choice. >> what's interesting is that alec has said that uh-oh with all of these corporations dropping out two days ago, they said, we're going to get out of this non-related stuff. i mean they remember formed by the koch brothers. >> yeah. >> to fight energy and environmental stuff that would impact their oil and gas business. >> sure glenn. >> they then they get into the stand your ground law, immigration laws voter suppression laws and that's where now, there is a backlash so it proves what you are saying is that people get out and people raise hell, you can make a differen

press release and the hawaii reporter is part of the watchdog dot org network which is run by former koch operatives and the franklin center one of the many right wing front groups that folks are so here we have a partly funded chamber of commerce running an ad portraying republican linda lingle as a moderate using as evidence a campaign press release by a woman linda lingle that appeared on a web site run by koch political operatives. in other words it's total hogwash but again that's the only way republicans can win just like they can only win when they lie about their opponent and strategy goes all the way back to nine hundred seventy two republicans lied about democratic presidential candidate george mcgovern george mcgovern rist his life during world war two flying dozens of bombing missions over europe he received the distinguished flying cross for saving his entire flight crew after an emergency landing and since mcgovern ran out of platform to end the vietnam war in one thousand nine hundred eighty two republicans painted him like some kind of crazy heavy water and it is true the