>>> back to talk about not just the koch brother, the slash, koch, romney vision for the future, buthat our vision for our economy should be is dr. jeffrey sachs, rejoining us from new york. dr. sachs, we were leaving off on this issue of what should the united states do to create jobs in the american economy. in that op-ed, david koch also said that america's economic freedom index shows that america is slipping in itself freedom rankings. actually that freedom index comes from the heritage foundation, but they -- they say that we're getting beat on freedom by switzerland, australia, new zealand, canada ireland, all of those advanced countries also happen to have higher average taxes as a percentage of gdp than we do. and most of these advanced countries also have higher quality of life indices. and that gdp tax comes from the heritage foundation as well. what does it tell you about the relationship between quality of life maybe even freedom and taxes? >> well, i'll tell you another index where america is getting beaten by a lot of countries, and that's the so-called transparency in

shook hands with david koch.hile "democracy now!" was there and capture the handshake on video, the pool feed the networks showed, cut away to show to in this as a women supporters, and an overhead shot of the convention center. then it came back to romney shaking hands further down the aisle as he ascended the stage. this is significant because of how powerful david koch is for mitt romney. originally, did not have his support, it went to newt gingrich, who also saw in the suite of sheldon adelson last time in the night before. mitt romney went to shake his hand. he put his hand on the shoulder last night as he is coming to give his acceptance address, and pointed at him read >> the triumph of karl rove. you do have a real [unintelligible] between the establishment and the tea party and karl rove really embodied the establishment. romney was much more of an establishment candidate, not a tea party favorite. you had rove quietly behind the scenes. romney never really caught fire. he rarely got 20%, maybe 30% of v

remember david koch one of the koch brothers ran for vice president under the libertarian ticket. here is what he dreamed about. he ran against ronald reagan in 1980. here was his platform. abolish social security, welfare, the federal reserve board, minimum wage laws corporate taxes and the f.b.i. and ci. a and limits on campaign spending. paul ryan, the new david koch pushes for about 90% of that. you know he would gut the f.b.i.'s budget so that even goes. i don't think he has spoken out about the federal reserve board yet. all other checklist that david coke dreamt -- david koch dreamt about, at a hands-off my health care rally put together by the tea party, et cetera. listen in. >> i have got to tell you the ideology that treats our constitutional right like the revokable privilege from the government instead of inemtable rights by our creator, we are going to reject it in congress. we are going to reject it in the supreme court and this november, we will reject it here. i care so much the fourth amendment. let's do wiretapping all day long. where is my paycheck? where do i g

i think it is the goal of the koch industry the koch brothers to basically reduce government as low asliminate taxes as much as possible. >> jennifer: and get rid of anybody who would compromise that in their way. senator tim owens from kansas joining us by phone. thank you so much for joining us. stories like senator owen's are not just happening in kansas. since the 2010 elections state legislatures have become a much deeper shade of red. take a look. this is what the map looked like pre-2010. and then post-2010. you can see this change across the midwest and even into new england, which is a total surprise. the trend is continuing at the state level and the national race as well. for example in missouri yesterday, representative todd akin who played up his tea party credentials won the republican primary and will take on claire mcasks skill. in nebraska, deb fischer who esquire described pulling her state party somewhere right of the oozie. and we're going to explore this more. joining me now from washington to talk about how the shift to the right is playing out in kansas and acros

tea party is to get millionaires elected to congress and have them cut taxes and regulations for koch industries and other polluting corporations while fighting organized labor and people like me who are protesting the iraq war and the main agenda of the coax libertarians again funded and trained by the koch brothers is to keep intact the power of big money over our government cut taxes and regulations on billionaires and polluting industries while fighting organized labor and people like me who are protesting the corporate takeover of the united states of america. three generations of americans all duped by the same billionaire family three generations buy into the idea that what's best for industry and billionaires are best for america and that our government is our enemy rather than something that our nation's founders fought and died to create for all of we the people and increasingly it's not just the koch family the walton family whose combined wealth is greater than forty percent of all americans funded a covert multi-year campaign to rename the estate taxes the death tax and l

freedom works and for people under forty they're funding libertarian think tanks like the charles koch foundation which was renamed as the cato institute and the reason foundation were david koch is a trustee which happily embraces a new generation of young people with the idea that freedom means the freedom to buy politicians and the freedom to pollute for the young people of course the libertarians throw in the freedom to smoke dope and hire a hooker but those are really just bones being cynically tossed to young pot heads and young proteges of dick morris but the koch's have been inside the libertarian movement from its beginning thirty two years ago this year david koch was the libertarian party official candidate for vice president of the united states of america through a pretty incredible it's all true the main agenda of the coax john birch society was to enhance the power and control of our government by big business and billionaires while fighting organized labor and people like me who are protesting the vietnam war the main agenda the coast tea party is to get millionaires el

david koch is worth $25 billion. every year he invests that money like everybody would and he gets money in return. let's say he took really conservative estimates okay? investments, i should say. he would make just 5%. if all he had to do is making 5%. he would make $1.25 billion in investment income every year. the current capital gains tax that's 15%. it's outrageously low but it is what it is. paul ryan wants to make it 0%. so they pay nothing at all. if paul ryan is part of the white house, and he gets capital gains to go down to 0%. david koch alone saved $187 million every single year. now, for a four-year term you put it together, david koch would save $750 million. you put in $100 million, and on one provision of one tax code alone you get back $750 million. that's why they bribe the politicians. what is outrageous is that we allow them to do it. that's why we can't have these billionaires coming up saying, i'll give unlimited money to these guys because they'll get the tax breaks and we'll have to pay the b

this is good. >> we ran into david koch found founder of the koch industry. >> talk to us about paullike paul ryan. he's a superstar. >> what do you expect to hear in his speech. >> reduce the national debt and keeping us as a country from going bankrupt. >> how is citizens united effected this year's campaign. >> pardon me. >> how much money are going to spend on this election, mr. koch? >> cenk: once again, i got to go, i got to run dawg. amanda, we talk a lot about how there is not much going on in this convention, and it seems useless. but we might be wrong. it might be at these parties they're making the real decisions about policy if romney wins. >> they clearly are no doubt about that. citizens united changed everything. the coverage used to be how they were going to effect voters and do the gears of democracy. now so much more money is coming into it. our ability to cover it has not caught up at all. >> cenk: yes john? >> you can't stand up for main street when you're on all fors for call street. we saw the strategy beautifully done. you saw them dangle red meat for social co

of the koch brothers.the right-wing corporate funded americans for prosperity hosting a celebration in honor of their benefactor, david koch, along with fellow republican zillionaire donor art pope. the event is being called "a salute to entrepreneurs building america." a salute to entrepreneurs. it should be noted that both david koch and art pope who are the two men being saluted at this entrepreneur event, both of them became fabulously wealthy by inheriting companies by their fathers. they both were born very, very, very wealthy and then inherited dad's business. those are the entrepreneurs we're saluted for building america. republicans whose inherited wealth, who inherited wealth and then used it to build political influence for themselves. we're saluting them at the convention, incidentally, that will nominate the son of michigan's governor who was also the head of american motors who is a second generation presidential candidate, mitt romney, who is still refusing to disclose his tax returns. after

>> well, he's received over -- koch industries pac has given him over $100,000.ustry energy pac to him. he attends their biannual little meeting they have which is a closed-door sort of thing. and as a matter of fact, his voting record reflects those sort of priorities. like he's -- leading advocate of the keystone and is -- as you said, he's -- not an advocate of dealing with renewable energy. and at the end of the day, this is why i'm glad that paul ryan's on the ticket because we have clear choices. we have a person who is koch brothers back and who is -- bad on renewable energy. for fossil fuels. gets tons of money from them. is a devotee of ayn rand. americans will have a good opportunity to make a clear choice. >> now, when we look at the fact that the koch brothers are going to spend $200 million in this campaign, $65,000 already to paul ryan, i mean, he is definitely one that's receiving a lot of support from them and all of his policies, major things that he stood on that i just outlined, are absolutely in line with the plans, policies, and things advoca

, zach dissed the koch brothers.g on the koch brothers bad side? >> i don't know, think about all the people who have dissed the koch brothers as we've had the koch brothers as a national target and it's funny that the only person who has made them take attention is a comedian. >> jennifer: see, i like that. i do that to the koch brothers all the time any way. but i guess they really--they never had a press statement about me? i'm kind of bummed about that, but zach galifianakis, boom. he gets a couple of paragraphs of a press statement as a result. you've arrived. >> who knew that the koch brothers had feelings feelings? we never knew. apparently they're almost human. >> jennifer: and they called--what are they called in the movie? the motch brothers. >> the motch brothers, yeah. >> jennifer: a play on their name. so michael jordan, another bit of action on the campaign front. he's always stayed out of politics. he's holding a fundraiser for president obama. i completely love this. this is my favorite fundraising ev

a little help is one way to put it the koch brothers when tim griffin remember this guy resigned after we caught him caging we have the physical evidence and i had corroboration from a u.s. prosecutor david iglesias of new mexico. griffin hours after a b.b.c. broadcast resigned from the u.s. justice department in tears self was involved in firing prosecutors had him self appointed and then immediately had to resign in disgrace ahead of what should have been an indictment in fact bobby kennedy. wrote the book billionaires in balad bandits with me his offer fessor he said this you know griffin should be in jail with his coconspirators rove and probably his assistant matt rhoades who is the campaign chairman for it and mitt romney so how does this guy in the back in congress two thousand and ten the coax give him one hundred and sixty seven thousand one hundred eighty three dollars that's one of the biggest single gifts from any one interest to a congressional candidate ever he gets that hundred sixty seven thousand listen your average congressional candidate will wash your car for a hund

koch brothers are funding a constellation of groups including american prosperity, where one of the koch brothers will be honored, so we know they are in town. the significance is, both the koch brothers, other super pac donors by paul singer a billionaire hedge fund-type from new york, is here having private briefings. you can book private briefings with him condoleezza rice and other officials. so the super pac donors are becoming hubs for other big donors to go ahead and meet with these elected officials. the koch brothers are funding the faith and freedom coalition, the american future fund, all of these names are spending millions of dollars blanketing the airwaves with election ads. just talk a little about the koch brothers, they are the biggest private industry or the biggest private company -- own the biggest private company in the u.s.. they are in energy and oil fields, oil refining to paper towels, you name it. there are big in trying to do regulate the energy sector. they don't like these tough epa laws -- if you could call them tough. certainly, they won a romney/ryan presi

organization from freedom works which split from the koch brothers organizations quite awhile ago so we are an independent organization and the ron paul supporters are themselves very independent of all of those groups so so freedom works then is more ron paul mind you would say that is of a ron paul mind yes there are mostly libertarians who work there and tea partiers grassroots conservatives people who really believe in limited government all we really care about is economics and if you fit the bill for limited government economics then you can be a freedom worker ok interesting what you think of the r n c street in iran also or i think it's disgusting i think it's terrible i think that it's causing a rift that the mitt romney does not need right now the ron paul delegates who were at the convention knew that they were not going to win the can the nomination for ron paul they really wanted was that ron paul would be given his due fifteen minutes of speaking time for the and a little bit of respect for this ten term congressman who served as an air force fly. surgeon and serve his

in fact, he has a long and deep relationship with the koch brothers and the right-wing think tanks.lain it to us. it's an interesting story. >> it's important to remember that back in the bush years in the second term there were a subset of donors and activist who is had become exasperated with what they viewed as the bush's administration departure whether it's deficit spending or medicare part-d. around this time, 2005, 2006, you saw these seminars that cook brothers were convening. these are not the same donors who were contributing to the republican national committee. these were different donors. at the same time paul ryan was participating in some of the grassroots events organized by some of the off shoots like americans for prosperity which has a lot of grassroots now. it had it's fourth chapter in wisconsin. over time as he became the house budget chair in 2010 after being the ranker for a couple of years, all of a sudden he was in this position of great influence. quite surprisingly too people who might have watched miss voting record for the bush years, he southedvoted fo

. >> osgood: manhattan island's ed koch. ,,,,,,,,,,,, >> osgood: how is he doing?al question to ask the former mayor of a mostly island city who made how am i doing his personal trademark. this morning's rita braver talks to ed koch. >> new york, new york, it is a wonderful town! >> if you come here six months and you find later on that you walk faster and talk faster and you think faster, you are a new yorker. >> hi, everybody. >> i am ed koch. can i say hello. >> and ed koch is the quintessential new yorker. >> good morning, ma'am, how am i doing? >> thank you. >> thank you all. >> as mayor from 1978 until 1990 -- >> nice to say hello. >> he got to know every aspect of this island city. >> that is right. island city. >> we have five bureaus, actually four of them are on islands, manhattan, staten 89, brooklyn, queens. only the bronx is on the mainland. and they are all different. >> so you are an island boy. >> that's right. >> koch, a centrist democrat who still gets recognized more than 20 years after leaving office. >> hello. >> hi, how are you. >> i am good,

. >> osgood: manhattan island's ed koch. i was trapped. no way out.sport was nowhere to be found. i knew, then and there, that i needed wheels asap. thats alpha, sierra, alpha...pickle. ahem! sis here's in the military, so i can join navy federal too. he's getting a great rate - so now he can drive himself to laser tag. it's a real sport. no, its not. 4 million members. 4 million stories. navy federal credit union. >> osgood: how is he doing? that is a logical question to ask the former mayor of a mostly island city who made how am i doing his personal trademark. this morning's rita braver talks to ed koch. >> new york, new york, it is a wonderful town! >> if you come here six months and you find later on that you walk faster and talk faster and you think faster, you are a new yorker. >> hi, everybody. >> i am ed koch. can i say hello. >> and ed koch is the quintessential new yorker. >> good morning, ma'am, how am i doing? >> thank you. >> thank you all. >> as mayor from 1978 until 1990 -- >> nice to say hello. >> he got to know every aspect of this i

the koch brothers have been around some time. organizations like libertarian organizations and the cato institute. they have been bank rolling a group called americans for prosperity, an advocacy group that backs candidates and causes. they were major players in helping the republicans win back control of the house. in this presidential election cycle they have been putting out a lot of ads criticizing president obama. yesterday i reported they will go up with a new campaign, $25 million worth. these gentlemen are major players in the campaign. they are dealing with senate balts, backing republican senate candidates. we saw them at a fund-raiser for mitt romney. they are major players. a lot of democrats villify them and say what they are trying to do is buy elections for republicans. >> paul, as for the attacks by galifinakis the koch brothers issued a statement saying, it's lau laughable to take political kbie dance or moral instruction from a guy who makes obscene gestures with a monkey in bangkok. that's a reference to "hango

and sheldoned a elson. >> the koch brothers without a doubt love it.e says all the right things. he is all about free market and employees of koch industries are the six largest donors to paul ryan throughout his career. he has spoken at their donor retreats. as for shellen adelson, he is going to meet paul ryan very soon. and it's no doubt that he is a hit for the big conservative donors and he will bring in the big buck. >> in fact andy it looks like there has been a pac that was created just to defend paul ryan. my guess is they are going to go to the koch brothers the adelsons to fill up that money. >> without a doubt just as governor scott wilson has been catapulted to celebrity status paul ryan has been in that place much longer than walker. >> so fascinating. andy krol i know you have been really great on wisconsin. i wanted to initially get you on to talk about the senate race. but we'll have to have you back. coming up mitt romney and the republicans may be suck running with paul ryan's budget now, but that doesn't mean they have to tell the t

we will speak with a scientist once funded by the right wing koch brothers. >> one, recognize how bad it is. the surprising answer is, so far it has not been very bad. >> years of denying global warming, university of california professor richard muller now says global warming is real and that humans are almost entirely responsible. bill mckibben on "global warming's terrifying new math." >> the key steps are to keep the oil and coal in the ground, not to open the arctic to drilling, not to put up that pipeline to the tar sands. >> all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president obama has reportedly issued secret authorization for the u.s. to support rebels seeking to overthrow syrian president bashar al-assad. citing unnamed u.s. officials, the reuters news agency reports obama has signed an intelligence finding directing the cia and other agencies to aid syria's armed opposition. the u.s. is said to be taking part in a nerve center backing the rebels from a secret base in turkey near the syrian border.

kind of poking at the koch brothers. hbo's "the newsroom" is too.'s listen to that. >> the answer is yes, the koch brothers have numbers, and submitted briefs to the court including the cato institute which they funded. they submitted a brief calling for unfettered speech. >> their brief said that finance law is prohibiting unlimited contributions trumped the first amendment. after the court ruled in their favor, these groups spent a lot of money to oppose efforts to provide transparency. >> ron, i'd like to ask you about this. some conservatives say this is like hollywood's blatant effort to control the campaign. >> it certainly is. you definitely see a huge bent here in the way of what hollywood is doing is using these movies as weapons during the campaign. if you just look at koch industries, they employ 50,000 hard-working americans and are being attacked by movie directors, producers, actors who donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to democrats in the hope of re-electing president obama. and that's their way of injecting themselves into the

of course, it's the koch brothers.further to the right the strings get more tighter and more controller and they end up getting what they want. last night was a victory for tet cruz but it also should be a victory for the democratic party. why? because as these republicans run to the crazy tea party right they're going to leave behind a huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent americans who make up the majority of voters. the ones who used to consider themselves now extinct moderate republicans. they are up for grabs folks. and the democrats and progressives have got to grab them. not just with their lack of tea party insanity, their lack of koch brother strings democrats and progressives have got to grab them with solid forward-thinking ideas with a vision for middle class resurgence with plans to invest in the people and the future of america. so con congrats, again ted cruz and the whole tea party gang, thank you for the opportunity for the democratic party and the progressives to reclaim the votes of the san

well, i'm with zach against the flakz working for the koch brothers.p next the drumbeat on the right to make paul ryan mitt romney's running mate is getting louder and louder. can romney appease their concerns by putting the golden boy on the ticket with him? you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. >>> hello, everyone. i'm lynn berry, and here's what's happening. the cdc warns a new strain of swine flu is spreading faster than first reported. 158 cases this week, all tied to contact with pigs. so far symptoms appear to be mild. the sikh temple where six worshippers were shot and killed has reopened its doors. attorney general eric holder will speak at friday morning's memorial service. >>> and a new report says airlines are more punctual and less likely to lose your luggage at any time since the government started keeping records. some good news there. now we'll send you back to "hardball." >>> what am i supposed to do? you won't answer my calls. you changed your number. i'm not going to be ignored, dan. >> i'm not going to be ignored. what

david koch. rolling stone reporter matt taibbi on "greed and debt: the true story of mitt romney and bain capital." what mitt romney represents, this economics that seized massive composition heading up toward a tightening of the bill everywhere else. >> all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from tampa. tropical storm as it is heading north after battering the gulf coast with heavy wind and rains. more than 730,000 people remained without power in louisiana and mississippi after isaac slowed to a crawl and lashed the area on wednesday. 60% of residents of new orleans have gone without power and some neighborhoods saw flooding, the city's rebuilt levees helped prevent a repeat of the mass devastation of hurricane katrina seven years ago. among the areas to see flooding was plaquemines parish, where surging waters flooded homes and businesses. goingon't know what we're to do, but we're going to stay

a liberal super pac is pushing back on koch in an ad of its own. >> the oil billionaire koch brothers billions on false attacks and smear campaigns to try to buy our elections. >> koch rarely speaks to the media but last night he responded to a cnn question. shann shannon, what did he say? >> reporter: well, i don't think we can underestimate how rare it is for the koch to say anything to the press. they pretty much operate behind closed door, private meetings. they held a private fund-raiser in july that a lot of press wanted to get into but couldn't. they keep press at arms length. the fact i was able to get a question to david koch yesterday at this event at the rnc in tampa was extraordinary. let me give you a bit of brief background. they themselves are staunch promotors of free market and free enterprise. they do a lot of philanthropic work. there was a fund raising e-mail that accused them of bankrolling $200 million to destroy the president. given that context i took that question to david koch. take a listen. >> we live in kaa country that believes in sprfree speech. i'm repu

joe koch has spent more time here than any of them.the volunteering to you is the right way to spend the retirement? >> yes. it's worth keeping me alive. >> hope is the real magic medicine here. hope and ice cream for breakfast. >> there you go. >> mark strassmann, cbs news, kissimmee, florida. >>> that's where we'll leave it this friday morning. before we go, after your local news on "cbs this morning," the latest on the race for the white house as mitt romney tackles medicare and his taxes. we'll get reaction from republican wisconsin governor scott walker. plus, gun sales across the country are at record highs. we'll see what's behind the increase and andy grammar stops by studio 57. at and more a little later on "cbs this morning." that is the "cbs morning news" for this friday. happy friday everybody. have a great weekend. appreciate you watching as always. i'm terrell brown. take care. i'm terrell brown. take care. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> we are on the scene of some breaking news right now in s

the koch brothers are part of the new $500,000 ad campaign. >> charles and david koch and their friends million to advance the agenda. it hurts the middle class. >> speaking of attack ads, there is one against ben quayle. >> how do you spell lightweight? >> spending well over $14.5 trillion a year. >> off by $8 trillion. q-u-a-y-l-e. almost forgot. >> spent $500 at chick-fil-a. then dennis kusicinich. kind words of colleagues meant a lot. he is on with thomas roberts in our next hour. >>> in our morning meeting, we had the "jansing & co." of the debate. which is better? apple or pc? if you are anti-apple, what else could buy for a single share of stock? leave me some comments. let me know what you think. straight ahead, mitt romney at odds with the rnc. the rnc chairman is our guest next. [ birds chirping ] [ engine revving ] ♪ hey, hey, hey ♪ [ tires screech ] [ male announcer ] with fuel economy that's best in class and better acceleration than camry and accord, you'll wish you had the road to yourself. [ tires screech ] it's our most innovative altima ever. nissan. innovation that ex

koch? >> reporter: as part of the skreefrt, secret effort, the romney campaign used a 150 foot yacht, registered in the grand cayman islands, to host the most elite fundraisers, the victory council, those promising to raise a million dollars or more. the campaign refuses to reveal the names of these people, as allowed under current law, making it hard to know what they might want from a romney administration. >> the romney campaign is the first in many years not to release the names of their bundlers. >> reporter: and as the romney victory council members left the yacht, secrecy seemed to be the order of the day. how much money have you pledged to raise? >> sorry, i don't really have time. >> reporter: what's your name, sir? >> uh. >> reporter: can't say your name? >> no. >> reporter: are you embarrassed about being here? >> not at all. got to run. thank you. >> reporter: whoever they are, and whatever they want, they are expected to help raise almost more than $800 million to elect mitt ro

paul ryan has taken $100,000 for his super pac from the koch brothers. global warming because they want to keep on polluting. i wonder if that has anything to do with it. the climate change in canada. only 2% of canadians don't believe in global warming. >> they have the same information as we do. we're swallowing the it's a cycle thing. >> cenk: no, i don't think they are getting the cycling thing. they don't get fox news in canada. >> i think you're serious. the same information exists but it's not being shared in the same a. >> cenk: ana, how much of this is the fact that we have a system that is captured by the people like koch brothers who have a financial incentive to pollute. >> that has a lot to do with it. but it has to do a lot with personal responsibility. people like to hear, it's not your fault. it's not a human thing. you don't have to change your lifestyle. don't worry about it. it's a earth cycle. i think personal responsibility has much to do with it as the koch brothers do. >> that is probably a very good point. we americans fall to the

. >> reporter: joe koch retired as a philadelphia mailman in 1989. >> hello!ree days a week, he still delivers gifts for children who need reason to smile. the 84-year-old has volunteered for nearly 20 years at give kids the world. you spent how many hours here over the years? >> well, over 20,000 now. >> reporter: okay, that's a full-time job for about 10 years. >> yeah. >> reporter: give kids the world is a charity resort that houses sick kids and their families while they visit orlando's theme parks free of charge. last year, more than 7,000 families came here for what is too often their last vacation together. volunteers like koch try to give them the best week of their lives. >> things have happened where the children never open their eyes or never even talked until they came here. i mean, it's a miracle. it's like a miracle place. >> reporter: 11 years ago, alyssa pietruszka came to the resort. she had been in hospice care with stage three kidney cancer. this is alyssa today. >> right when my parents got the news that i was diagnosed, i saw them cry real

economy and he's running for president not he and his donors like sheldon adelson karl rove and the koch brothers believe we have an economy so that he is 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 it 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 to

mean, what's fascinating about the broad koch network, it's only partly a koch network, mostly tax exempt groups that don't disclose donors. these are not super pacs that will register and file with the fec. they operate entirely in the dark money universe of groups that raise tons and tons of money, spend it on be issue ads but don't ever show you where the cash is coming from. >> the dark money universe, that's been one of the major themes of this campaign. i'm sure we'll be returning to that. nick confessore, appreciate the time. next up, how the electoral map is shaping up. one person disagrees with me. we roll on for wednesday, august 15th. >> what paul ryan is saying is we are trillions of dollars in debt due to what he is saying are the misguided policies of we are to assume barack obama. let's look how we went from a 1990s surplus to this enormous publicly held debt. $1.7 trillion of the debt comes from the bush tax cuts. two foreign war, that ain't cheap. medicare d plan, that was new entitlement spending. extra defense spending in there. more tax cuts. there was the t.a.r.p. ban