picture if you want to take away the voting rights of thousands of citizens we're going to call the koch brothers what is the koch brothers role in florida's war on voting and will governor scott listen to the department of justice and stop the voter purge also most people were depressed by the new job numbers that came out friday republicans were surprisingly cheer for the failing economy really make them happy that and more in the monday politics annele and over the last several months republicans have been trying to take america back one hundred years a time when women were considered the property of the republicans don't stop trashing women and women's rights women have the last laugh coming out of member elections. you need to know this state of florida told the justice department what it can do with its letter demanding governor rick scott end it is illegal purge of democratic voters in the sunshine state and that's shove it the state has until june sixth to respond to the letter but already the florida secretary of state's office has responded to it by saying we're going to contin

heads of koch industries. they are the third and fourth richest man in america. we know about bill gates and warren buffett. these are number three and number four, combined wealth of $50 billion. they have put more money in -- by the way, i have to say this. they do some good things, particularly david koch was the wealthiest man in new york city. you thought michael bloomberg was. know, david koch. but he is a big support of the metropolitan opera. metropolitan museum of art, cancer research centers around the country. but most of their money goes into political activities. and they are everywhere. the heritage foundation in washington, d.c., koch brothers. the cato institute, when it started, koch brothers. some of you may know now that koch brothers, data went its own independently and the koch brothers are now suing the cato institute to get it back to be a total control koch brothers operation. people, americans for prosperity, an active political organization, all funded by the koch brothers. freedom wo

>> here's one important detail of the koch meetings. the person who hands out the grands to the think tanks, these two gentlemen named richard fink -- they also double as the chief lobbyists. their man job is to advance to the business interest. it's for the private business interest of that multinational conglomerate that is koch industries. >> we get in trouble sometimes when we're trying to trace what's going on with koch money. private industry or private individuals giving money to public concerns is part of what america is. is there something different about what's going on with koch? >> there is. when you look at their fill an tlopic, it's very much with an elite set of people. we know what they're in there talking about. the deregulation. about making sure that things like the estate tax are not renewed in the next congress. they are exclusively looking at things that benefit a very small portion of people and that's why they don't want it to be out there in the public. >> so, what's wrong with that? if i'm a wealthy person, i'm

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guess where that organization gets much of its funding that's right the billionaire oligarchy the koch brothers it just so happens the koch brothers are also funding the american legislative exchange council alec which has churned out numerous voter id laws to make it harder for largely democratic voters to vote all across the country and here's what the founder of alec had to say back in one nine hundred eighty about his agenda. now many of our christians have what i call the cuckoo syndrome good governance they want everybody to vote. i don't want everybody to vote elections are not won by a majority of people they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now going to liberate in the elections quite candidly go drop out go bowling populist go down he said that as he was running the reagan campaign in one nine hundred eighty so just how coordinated and how well funded is this effort to block democrats in the polls in november and seal a presidential victory for wall street's favorite politician mitt romney here's shed more light on this is panda hair co-direc

brothers and wisconsin other than all that money they gave to help governor walker keep his job koch industries actually has an energy firm with about three thousand workers in wisconsin last year scott walker's budget contained within it a little known provision that would allow the sale of state owned power plants without bids. why on earth would governor walker who talks nonstop about wanting to save money want to not sell power plants to the highest bidder and then there's the mining bill that was the cause for a big statewide fight go give a tech tectonic is a mining company that wanted to do business in wisconsin but only if the major changes took place changes that would make it easier to do their job so the mining bill was introduced to essentially loosen regulations in a major way i won't bore you with the details but basically it's far fewer rules on mining itself having to do with the environment and transparency even the permit in process itself one example within the bill the once required public hearing you know when they discuss all the environmental impacts gone contr

to the kochs. what is your response. >> this has nothing to do with liberals. it has to do with the republican party that cares more about themselves and their power than our own country. it turns out that he represents the republican party which is why i think the republican party is going to get their just desserts in november. this is not good for america. when you decide ordinary americans must not know who is influencing politics, that's about keeping power for those 1%, and the republican party, in fact, represents the 1%, they don't give a damn about the 99%, and that's surely going to be clear by the election. >> howard, what do you think the billionaires want? i mean, are they just having fun with this election cycle? what do they want? >> they want control over america, the way they had in the 1920s when they drove us into bankruptcy. the way they had in the 18 -- late 1800s after the civil war. they want to control this. they want to make more money. frankly, this is not object america.

we have william koch, the other koch brothers, not charles or david. he's 72.mney's super pac. then you have the marriotts richard and bill junior, the marriott fortune. $1.7 billion and $1.6 billion and $1 million to romney's pac. is this a representative of those who are in that category, and why are they doing it? why are they giving insane numbers to romney. >> they're all billionaire. $1 million is little insane to them. they all have real financial stakes. mitt romney is talking about getting rid of the inheritance taxes, preserving the bush tax cuts preserveing the carried loop hole, it's in their commonality to get this guy elected. >> cenk: is it just taxes or other interests to help that helps them financially to get mitt romney elected. >> jim davis the ceo of new balance. new balance wants a defense contract. they make shoes in the united states currently. soldiers are given a stipend. they can get their nikes made in korea. new balance wants to be the shoe of the military, and he and romney goes back in days of boston. he was on romney's gubernator

to the kochs?s your response? >> this has nothing to do with liberals. it has to do with the republican party that cares more about themselves and their power than our own country. you couldn't find very many tea party people who agree with senator mcconnell. the fact of the matter is this is bad for america and mcconnell has put his party ahead of his country. i think that's wrong and i think the american people will punish that at the polls in november. >> this is the most vocal republicans have been supporting these billionaires who are throwing money in there. senator mcconnell is accusing, attacking democrats because they want republicans to disclose campaign donations. do you agree? >> well, there are a lot of republicans who said this. i heard karl rove say he's for disclosure. i don't know where senator mcconnell got his position. this is not a particularly republican position. it turns out that he represents the republican party which is why i think the republican party is going to get the

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how many stories have networks run on the koch brothers about the evil koch brothers and how their moneyying the country. the koch brothers gave $4 million. 1/7th of what george soros gave. he is giving an interview decrying what he does-- >>> i know there are groups that he has donate the money to, public integrity. npr, i think he gave a lot of money to. what about media matters, is he funneling monies through the groups? what about the center for american progress? what about the groups that are out there trying to silence conservative speech -- can we directly tie him to those? >> tens of millions to all of these groups, media matters got another $1 million from him. this is part of a soros machine. you wonder where the far-left gets all of its money. you are looking at it. there are others. but you mentioned some people. you mentioned boone pickens, foster freeze, the koch brothers, harold simmons. kigive you a half dozen more conservative donors, put them all together and they don't equal george soros. >> sean: all right -- [overlapping dialogue] >> sean: he's trying to influence.

know but but shouldn't there be at least the appearance of impartiality should scalia not be doing koch brothers gigs and shouldn't clarence thomas' wife not be you know e-mailing people at the day the bush v gore gets taken by the court and saying hey you want to job in the bush administration before bush has even been given the presidency but that's a different question that's about the appearance of impartiality what i understand i'm going to what i understand i have said that something's actually an opinion to don't agree with because of the tone or whatever but that's an impeachable offense if you're talking about impartiality or actual misconduct it's not a high crime or misdemeanor that's why we have life terms i don't think he should be impeached people can have their opinions and there's only nine people on the supreme court people to have strong opinions and everything seems to be five for not impeachment impeachment is too much more rubble after the break. thanks. wealthy british style. sometimes. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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you have a piece which i love the title, "inside the koch world convention."l me what it says. >> well, the kochs for several years now, twice a year have been holding these summits where they bring together major conservative donors with operatives from a number of groups, not necessarily only those that we immediately identify as koch-affiliated groups, but a wider network of groups in the conservative community and top dignitaries, top political officials, rising conservative stars, and have these conferences where they kind of lay out some of the strategies that they'll be pursuing in the coming elections and ask for money, and they raise it and they're raising more and more of it, so much so that they now have a goal of spending about $400 million in their efforts in the run-up to 2012. at this convention in a couple weekends in san diego, they could potentially, if the donors are enthusiastic enough, rise up over that $400 million effort in a truly historic spending binge in the run-up to 2012. >> i know you've done a ton with money and politics, a lot o

and i am denise koch. and i'm with tim williams. this sailabration is going to include fireworks, it's going to include music. there's a lot of food around here, let me tell you that. obviously the ships that you can tour for free as you were saying. >> that's right. >> it's really a wonderful event. you should try to come down in the next week. >> that's right. and the weather has played a pretty nice role so far. ships came in with a nice breeze. the blue angels have been practicing all afternoon. so the weather is really just a perfect background for all of this. and for more on how it's going to play out for the rest of the weekend, we send it in to bob turk. take it away, bob. >> it is a beautiful afternoon. and it will continue well into the weekend and beyond for father's day. take a look at temps now. up to 80 degrees. that's the highest i've seen. the dew point is up a little bit. humidity at 47%. east winds at 7. occasionally, we've seen gusts at 30. 77, elkton and easton, patuxent. 78 in hagerstown. ocean city with the wi

you wrote a remarkable piece on the koch brothers who seem to be amazing their own political machine,dreds of millions of dollars in the dark of night. is there a secret handshake when they get together with their buddies and raise $400 million? what are they up to and what is their game plan. >> in the conservative movement this is setting aside the arguments made primarily by liberals and opponents of this explosion of outside money and politics saying this is a di di torsion of our democracy you hear a lot of conservatives are established g.o.p. operatives who are worried that kochs are trying to claim expanding role and republican infrastructure the kochs came up and were libertarian activists and funded think tanks and advocacy groups that took positions that were outside of even the g.o.p. mainstream. now they're moving into it, largely driven by their enmity towards president obama, and there are some operatives who are allies saying thanks but no thanks. we're worried you're trying to take some of our vote by form of our donors who the kochs are actively recruiting through the

right to spend unlimited amounts of money by our politicians and this buyout is well underway as the koch brothers shelley eight and some in the u.s. chamber of commerce have pledged to spend more than a billion dollars to defeat president obama and progressives around the nation so what happens now here to answer that is congressman alan grayson of congressman with guts dot com fame former representative from florida's eighth district who's now running for congress to reclaim his seat congressman welcome thank you thanks for joining us this is does this decision surprise you some respects yes because it shows what lengths the goal that's taken over the border right when oh it's going to go this is what they're done is they've shown a disregard for the basic principle of federalism. what this case involved was whether the montana constitution and the rule regarding the restraint of money and politics that was separate and apart from what the us constitution says now we have fifty states fifty different constitutions the montana screamer was construing montana law and here the supreme cour

cut for billionaires also explains why so many millionaires and billionaires like foster freeze the koch brothers shelley adelson are willing to spend millions to hundreds of millions of dollars to get round me and the republicans elected in november these are actual campaign contributions. there in the past it's a pretty simple premise if i'm a billionaire like shelly adelson or a wall street guy who are in a billion dollars a year and there are a bunch of them who literally bring home that much money every year and i know that if mitt romney and the republicans win i'm going to get a twelve percent tax cut why would i invest in there cause a twelve percent tax cut on a billion dollars is one hundred twenty million dollars that you get to keep in your pocket. that he's willing to invest one hundred million dollars on getting romney and the republicans elected so if his investment works out and his income next year is a billion dollars each show a net profit of twenty million dollars on his investment in romney and the republicans and eight also is actually worth around twenty five billi

an economy and he's running for president he and his donors like sheldon adelson karl rove and the koch brothers believe we have an economy so that he and his buddies can get filthy rich and stay that way that's why corporations share of tax revenues has plummeted since reagan it working people's share of tax revenue that we pay in taxes has increased that's why the top one percent of seen their income skyrocket two hundred seventy five percent since reagan if the rest of us have seen our incomes barely grow that's why unionization rates have fallen since reagan and along with those rates the middle classes income has also dropped forty nine million americans in poverty forty five million americans on food stamps fifty three million americans without health insurance. in those situations prosperity stipple stability and contentment for the vast majority of us are pretty much nowhere to be found and this is all happening because we have failed to take a step back and look around we fail to ask ourselves that fundamental question what is the purpose of an economy if progressives are going

and private unions is growing, and there is nothing we're ever going to do to get people like the koch brothers to embrace unions. but for all the same employers out there the reform-minded, 21st century unions can be a parts near in creating a competitive workforce. samuel gompers the founder of of a said the worst crime against working people is a company that fails to operate at a profit. he was later asked what labor wanted. he famously said we want more. we hasn't more schoolhouses and less jails. he more books and less arsenals. more learning and less vice, more leisure and less greed. labor unions want broad prosperity for all americans not just for their members. the key for labor survival in the 21st century will be delivering on that promise. our next case larry cohan has been the forefront of skill building for. thank you so much for coming inside "the war room"." >> my pleasure. >> let's start with wisconsin. how did you explain what happened last night? >> first of all it was definitely a dark night, not just because of the outcome, but when you look at figures that three

the koch brothers realize this and poured a ton of money into this wisconsin case. part of that went into americans for prosperity. look at who they use and for what purpose. >> i'm a state employee. while i'm paying some of thigh insurance and retirement costs now, i know i have better benefits than most. working together we saved thousands of jobs, like mine. >> we kept the cost of government in check. >> and property taxes saw their smallest increase in 15 years. >> in fact, my property taxes actually went down. >> how did we do all this? >> one big reason is wisconsin' reform plan. >> we saved hundreds of millions. >> and we put taxpayers back in control. >> those savings helped to avoid massive tax hikes and layoffs. >> get the facts. >> get the facts. >> get the facts, at www. www.it'sworkingatwisconsin.com. >> cenk: it's amazing. these people are yeah, destroy my healthcare and my pension and cigarette smoking is great for you. ironry. we'll bring on glenn greenwald. tell me why the koch brothers cared about wisconsin. >> they cared about it on a couple of le

and with their marching orders from the koch brothers the republican governors have gone off in search of these public employees that they can fire and they found a few turns out that finding nameless faceless do nothing bureaucrats in government is actually pretty hard to do rick snyder rick scott scott walker john casey chris christie paul le page a whole bunch of republican governors who are funded in part by the koch brothers have been on a crusade to find and fire public workers a k. a government employees and more a k. usually unionized government employees so what they find first off many government services are already been outsourced michigan for example fired a bunch of government i.t. workers had to hire them back as private contractors so you know some some politically connected people could make some money because the state actually needed its computers to work ditto for roadworks septic systems water systems all around the country so what were they left with nothing more than those people who make up the majority of state and local government employees firefighters cops a

it is important to understand the koch, particularly david koch, said it would go all in, do whatever they could to make sure scott walker was reelected because he was running an agenda they approved of. what they learned from wisconsin is, this approach works. they are highly engaged with the fall elections. i think -- when we talk about the fall elections, we focus on the presidency. remember, the fall elections will see a bitter and intense battle for the u.s. senate. it is in for the take a look at what happened in wisconsin and recognize -- important to take a look at what happened in wisconsin. there are groups that khadr the big senate races and have a profound impact. -- there are groups that could go into big senate races and have a profound impact. >> john nichols, there were primaries held in other states yesterday. the sale of about montana? california? >> we had a small scale super tuesday yesterday with primaries from the east coast to the west coast. two democratic members of congress were defeated in primaries. this the california primary between brad sherman and howar

because scott walker is getting money from these billionaires he serves these billionaires like the koch brothers and jerks it's cetera we have my on tape saying to one of his billionaire donors we're going to do a divided congress strategy we're going to go after the public you know employees first and then later we'll go out for all the unions and he's doing this to crush them so that the average working guy gets less money and those billionaires get more money and a question is are they going to be able to buy this election and right now they poured in about thirty one million dollars to scott walker tom barrett only as four million now there's outside money that supports both sat thirty one to four is a gigantic disparity and it's basically a question of whether we're going to allow them to buy the governorship of wisconsin but so in that sense i think of as an interesting point to bring up is yeah there's a lot of money flowing into this election a lot of outside money two thirds scott walker's money comes from outside of the state but then if you look at recent polling you know he'