is charles koch and irina. they spent a lot of money philanthropic klay. and koch industries the employees are known for taking a special interest in the community with the local organizations even among people who do did not like their politics who thought they were the koch they have spent here forever why do they suddenly get so much attention? but everybody has a position no question. people who like them and others are not fans. >> you have done excellent job to describe the actions and strategic decisions of the koch brothers but have not focused on what motivates them currently to do what they do. with power and justice. >> to understand what plays out today you have to look at the history. charles for decades this has spent his project even more than david even though david been studying the face of their political activity is he set out decades ago touche change people's minds than the political culture of the united states says your politics sort academia that is the mission he has been on but i do th

i thought i would give you a picture of the political evolution of the koch family and you can grill me as much or as little as you want it seems that they exploded onto the seat following the election of broccoli, but many, many decades and of making i will take you back on the journey i went to through. i found that to understand charles and david coke the place day cannes from ideologically requires me to understand their father. fred is the patriarch growing up in the panhandle of texas his dad was the newspaperman and a democrat. and ends up going to m.i.t. majoring in chemical engineering. into balance around the united states with oil refineries and in the mid 1920's to forms a partnership which is eventually called winkler koch engineering company. when the first become prevalent there is a huge national thirst for gasoline. to develop a process for refining oil that takes more cassette of each barrel of oil. then they sell the process with of start will refineries. thises similar to the universal oil products which is basically composed of the major oil companies of that day

koch brothers, charles and david, are a nightmare that democrats wish to wake up from. this year is no different. in key races like carolina, they have bought 9,000 ads hammering the opponent of thom tillis, a republican candidate who shares the free market political wishlist - cuts in government spending, taxes and a repeal of obama care. the billionaire brother are expected to spend $290 million these midterms, mostly through their complicated web of dark money organizations. >> there are plenty of other organizations that are nonprofit 501c4 social welfare groups linked in some way, form and fashion to the koch brothers - directly or indirectly. >> the cock brothers have master master mastered seminars to raise cash. shannon adelson was a part attendee. he spend 2012 and committed $10 million to karl rove's g.p.s. nonprofit. the meetings known to raise as much as $50 million a pop. the democrats have taken on their own hush-hush affairs to rake in money from big-time donors. launched in 2005, the democracy alliance aims to: attendees include billionaire financial sur

the koch h is that brothers and other republican billionaire spend more than the democrats. and time is a very rich guy to do -- he is trying tom is a very rich guy and what he is trying to do is to protect this planet from climate change. i think there's more of an equivalence between what he the koch and what brothers believe which is not utilize t we should more fossil fuel -- but if you look at the koch brothers a 1980 and i have, on the ballot an -- they have an agenda and it is an extreme right-wing agenda. so, having said that, i myself to overturn need citizens united and move the public funding of elections. to happen for you -- and uses sound like you saying this, anyways -- unless you can find the infrastructure, you are considering running as a democrat. what needs to happen to get you into the race? hillary clinton runs unopposed? as a because elizabeth warren is not necessarily interested this time around? you into s 7 to get the race -- what needs to happen to get you into the race? if i run -- you know, i have been politically successful here in the state of

so the koch brothers and he want to eliminate all campaign finance legislation, all regulations, and have a situation where the billionaires will say to somebody, you want to run for governor of california? here's a check of a half a billion dollars. you work for me. no longer independent expenditures, we own you completely. >> i read one account that says chevron is spending over $150 for every, quote, "likely" voter. what do they get back for their investment? >> well, what they're going to get back, clearly, is a city council which will be less attentive to the environmental needs of that community. they are the largest employer. they have -- as you've mentioned a moment ago, there was a terrible fire there a couple of years ago. people there are very concerned about the environmental impacts of chevron, and they will get a much more docile city council if they win. >> chevron would tell you they're just protecting those interests they have there. and that they will also tell you that they create jobs and pay taxes there for public services. >> do they create jobs? of course they

the companies like exxon and the koch brothers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the pastsince 1997, in a conservative, deliberate effort to persuade americans that global warming is a hoax, and they have used advertising, and they've set up these forn think tanks on capitol hill and stocked them with these forn to be acco scientists that we call biostitutes, and slick pr flacks and voodoo committees and this men age reof kind of sociopaths agerie of kind of sociopaths. >> sorry i can't paths? >> sorry i don't paths who are putting though their own interests, their own financial interests against the lives and health of the society as a whole, people who are essentially anti-social. >> does that apply to everybody who works in the coal and oil you didn't that they are all bad people? they are all sociopaths? >> no. of course not. most people who work in the coal industry, for example, coal miners, there is about 80,000 coal miners left in america and most of those people are living in communities where they are desperate for jobs. and this is what they are trained for and

[laughing] ♪ >> we're koch industries. not just an energy company.n your food, in your pants, and in your home. and if there is way to monetize your thoughts, we'll find it. all while backing 17 shadow organizations, to buy elections from pennsylvania avenue to main street. neil: nothing bad about that, right? now on twitter and facebook, let's say a lot of you aren't really finding too humorous. mike tweets, koch brothers feed more american families than jon stewart ever will. i bet he would feel different if george soros was his sponsor. it is their money and mr. due wart needs to take a chill pill. mark writes jon stewart that anyone is buying advertising on for his pathetic show. bob, the koch brothers create jobs and have the same freedoms of speech and religion as stewart. liberals are supposed to be tolerant. david what is wrong with this guy. money is money no matter what your politics are. what is wrong with chris christie telling a heckler to shut up. >> so listen, you want to have a conversation later i'm happy to it, buddy, but until that

i will say where the koch brothers line of attack was effective, even though it was a distraction to their overall message was that it depressed the republican donor base. if you talk to a lot of republican fundraisers, a lot of republican groups what they said by going out there and demonizing charles and david koch what harry reid did is he scared republicans into giving money because they didn't want to find themselves the subject of the same brutal attacks. >> it didn't work. rich donors gave more than before. you know why not have a populace message. it was stupid. harry reid -- if democrats allow harry reid to continue to run the senate -- >> they should have done the elizabeth warren strategy. >> yes. >> of a strong populace message, talk about the middle class, talk about what's happening to working class americans. >> republicans should too. that's the message. now, of course you know to do it a little different way than elizabeth warren would do it. >> how would she do it that's wrong. >> the tanks and going up to rich people's houses and throwing them out in the street lik

the steyer brothers have been compared to another set of politically-minded siblings, the koch brotherso have spent millions backing tea party candidates and conservative causes. >> i don't actually know the koch brothers. >> i didn't think you would. >> i definitely think there has to be differences in the sense that those guys are doing something that is consistent with their self-interests. and -- >> when you say "self-interests" what do you mean? >> they are basically pushing stuff that is very good for private enterprise and specifically oil refiners. very consistently, very aggressively, and sometimes very intelligently. i see that as we are on very different trajectory in terms of how we think about it, who we think we're representing, and what we're trying to accomplish. >> but steyer does have an agenda, one that leans to the left. he spoke at the democratic convention in 2012. >> big things are happening. thanks to president obama, america is laying the foundation for the way we power tomorrow. >> he and his wife have given more than $11 million to super pac's he founded, and

the koch brothers? that person that is supposed to be a democratic person? no. host: how do your organizations get money? is it mostly from individual campaigns? guest: i've worked in democratic politics for almost 20 years at this point. and our firm, ds political only works with progressive candidates and democratic candidates. so, i assure you if they are ads from our firm, it's for a democrat. we are a private company. we actually bootstrapped ours. -- ourselves. our entire staff worked in democratic politics for a combined 40 years. you know, we all used to do door knocks, recruit volunteers for campaigns. and i think it actually takes a sensitivity to democratic campaigns and democratic candidates and the democratic constituency to be able to serve candidates the proper ways even with new technologies. host: what's the ballpark budget to do what you guys do each cycle? guest: well, i mean this is expensive stuff. so being able to have the right partnerships means that, you know, it's in the millions. host: mr. beach as well? guest: we are a partisan compan

my guess is, with all of the money from the koch brothers coming up and the other fossil fuel industriesey will continue to ignore scientific evidence of climate change. i think we're going to be more of a defensive mode tried to prevent that than having illusions at this point of doing good things. >> senator sanders, your state the obamacarewith website. it has caused a very major issue, particularly in vermont because of the quest by governor shumlin and many others to make from the first single-payer state. can you talk about the significance of this and what it will mean? >> it is honestly a negative. in a strong advocate of a single payer system. i think if you want to provide quality care to all people, and that is the approach you have got to go. clearly, it is not a good thing for state government not to be able to run a website which is accountable. that is a negative. i hope despite that, we will go forward and be the first in the country to pass a single-payer. one argument that even governor shumlin has used is that obamacare is complicated, and that is not the ultimate answ

she has brought up this koch brothers think so many times that i actually had my staff checked.koch brothers have contributed approximately 1.5% of all of the money i've race for this campaign. in the meantime, sure, i'm a teacher. i haven't been working, obviously during the summer and then i had to leave my job to campaign full time, because doing answer citizens like to hear from and see and have to medication with those who represent them. they are concerned that representative custer doesn't host town halls and never has. and they never see her. she can afford to sit there and not have a salary and run attack ads worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. i cannot. >> if i could address the issue about my interactions with the constituents, because i'm really glad to ring up my schedule. we have and live events. it is funny -- we have endless events. it is funny two-year her talking it isme traveling -- funny to hear her talking about me traveling the district. we hold our events in town ands, but also in congress your company visits that we've had dozens of. we do roundtables

he attended the secret koch gathering last june over the summer.benefited from a lot of that dark money and outside court nation that we were discussing earlier. >> we have to leave it there but i thank you both for being with us. we will continue to follow this tonight, doing a live broadcast on the midterm elections beginning at 7:00 eastern standard time from the studios of democracy now! in new york, covering the country. lee fang's recent investigation is "mitch mcconnell's freighted ties to a shadowy shipping company." he's also blogged about how "if the gop takes the senate, climate-change deniers will control key committees." he is a reporting fellow with the investigative fund at the nation institute, and blogs about money and politics at the the republic report. thank you to john nichols, political writer for the nation,'s latest book is "dollarocracy: how the money and media election complex is destroying america." democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@de

he attended the secret koch gathering last june over the summer.benefited from a lot of that dark money and outside court nation that we were discussing earlier. >> we have to leave it there but i thank you both for being with us. we will continue to follow this tonight, doing a live broadcast on the midterm elections beginning at 7:00 eastern standard time from the studios of democracy now! in new york, covering the country. lee fang's recent investigation is "mitch mcconnell's freighted ties to a shadowy shipping company." he's also blogged about how "if the gop takes the senate, climate-change deniers will control key committees." he is a reporting fellow with the investigative fund at the nation ñnstitute, and blogs about money

neil: what is the deal with jon stewart blessing the koch brothers advertising on his show. a lot of you not too happy. >> so to welcome them to "the daily show" advertising family. we did make minor adjustments. [ laughter ] >> we are koch industries, not just an energy company, we're in your food, in your pants and in your home. if there's a way to monetize your thoughts, we'll find it. all while backing 17 shadow organizations to buy elections from pennsylvania avenue to main street. neil: nothing bad about that, right? on twitter and facebook, let's say a lot of you aren't finding it too humorous. mike tweets -- meanwhile, what is wrong with chris christie telling a heckler to shut up? >> so listen, you want to have the conversation later, i'm happy to have it, buddy. until that time, sit down and shut up! >> i said there's nothing wrong with it except that christie does it all the time. so it kind of loses the impact. bobby agrees -- . neil: by the way, i don't know what you're saying about lizy, none of us are twisting his words, james, i played the words, word for wor

the koch brothers invested in attack adds. a huge contrast. [ ♪ music ] >> this is kind of a seasonal thing. people are interested. it's hot out. it's grilling season. very special last night. it was pretty heavy rain. it's spotty. a lot of people - one thing i learned from the job that i already knew, is that your income level or socioeconomic status has nothing to do with how considerate a person you are. and you have people in public housing, and people in mansions up north don't pay any attention to you at all. most people are grateful to see the pizza man. and i kind of figure if they aren't, that's their problem, not mine. >> i had retired from politics in disgust in 2010. i came to the conclusion that i do not have the level of immorality that is required. fast-forward to two weeks into filing, and the state party - nobody has filed . >> it's like you have to have someone in the race. >> one nice thing about being libertarian is i don't have to do bait prep. you know. it's like mark twain said, if you tell the truth you

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koch brothers do own a lot of canadian tar sands. they are the largest owner. that color is right about who benefits. we have also seen the results of pipelines. keystone 1, 14 links in one year. a brand-new pipeline. these things leak. cindy cannot tell the caller's that the pipeline will not leak. because it is tar sands -- we have this experience from kalamazoo, michigan, from the leaks -- that we know how to clean this up. four years, $1 billion later, that river is not cleaned. guest: those 14 leaks were all within five to 10 gallons, which is less than reportable quantities required by the environmental protection agency. this is the first keystone pipeline. now that we have all these lines, we will start talking when hundred 50,000 miles of pipe is going to start to look. that first -- the orange line going down -- i am not sure the map is up -- the orange line, they are all contained within the pumping stations. pumping stations are an aspect of a pipeline that are positioned along the pipeline route to make it move. to make it slow. it is not that the

so democrats doubling down according to politico on their attacks on the koch brothers.hes have worked. have they? i feel like both sides are back in their corners and we're back where we were to kind of an on-ramp of getting nothing done again. >> from the democratic side they -- they have a villain to run against and it being the koch brothers. that when their base, helps bring out money to their coffers. they think it had some effect in michigan and the michigan senate race where gary peters ran way with that race. i'm not so sure that was the case in michigan. there was a pretty weak republican candidate on the ticket which helped gary peters a lot. the challenge for democrats is what their message is going forward. certainly they can attack the koch brothers and maybe that will work in bringing out those donors to fill up their campaign coffers but what is their overarching message to get back to the senate majority and take back the white house, running against the koch brothers is not enough. >> katy? >> let's talk about this lunch that's happening with congressio

this have think in the area of oakland at seventh and mayor koch street. the glass window of chanel was shattered giving steves access to the expensive bags. passengers still thousands of dollars worth of merchandise the. windows have been. boarded up been >>i cannot believe this. really? >>pam moore surveillance cameras did capture images of one of the burglars, police are having a difficult time finding an exact description, he was wearing a black cap face mask and gloves. the vehicle was white is the only description. >>the weather is looking great pre-holiday. mount tam cam shows some storm weather coming and afterwards but we have more coming up after the break cocoa or eggnog? toasty or frosty? exactly the way you want it... until boom, it's bedtime! your mattress is a battleground of thwarted desire. enter the sleep number bed. don't miss the ultimate sleep number week going on now. he's the softy. his sleep number setting is 35. you're the rock, at 60. silent night not so silent? sleep number's even got an adjustment for that. give the gift of amaz

havenstein signed a pledge to the out of state koch brothers to repeal medicaid expansion and he should live up to the terms he signed. >> mr. havenstein, a short response? >> again, i've never suggested that we repeal medicaid expansion law. the only two pledges -- the most important pledges to me are the pledge of allegiance and the pledge never to spend money, right, that the state doesn't have. and frankly that's a pledge i call 2.0 that the governor can't sign because she's spending money that we don't have. >> thank you both very much and i pledge to move us on to a different topic now and for that let's go to kiki. >> thanks a lot, paul. this is a question for both the candidates tonight, two parts to this question. governor hassan, 2/3 of the money raised by increasing the gas tax has gone to the expansion of i-93. where will the money come from to repair the many red-listed bridges and substandard state roadway? and mr. havenstein, you oppose a tax so how would you pay for i- 3 and the other infrastructure needs? >> i opposed gas tax when passed and there's a reason why, it's t

if you are the koch brothers you are in kansas and look at the prairies and see the instruction of your business model because wind power is coming. they want to kill it and keep us addicted to coal and other fossil fuels. we need a big debate. the next generation, the younger generation demands that we have this debate for their children and their grandchildren. >> it sounds like we hearing from the "new york times" the need for some kind of deal here. is there going to be some kind of larger energy issue? you are saying you have a key road here. >> we are absolutely going to bring this up next year. we are going to have more than 60 votes and we may get to even 67 votes. >> you need 290 in the house, as well. >> understand there is a number of options here. we could combine it with other energy legislation or work with an appropriations measure. we are going to get there. we are picking up more -- >> what will you give up to get the 290 in the house and 67 in the senate? you know you are going to have to negotiate to get more votes. you don't have the 67 in your own body. >> there are

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of koch industries.y don't care about any of that stuff. they want to see us getting things done and that's why my hope is that mitch mcconnell and john boehner will come out with a unified agenda so we can move things forward quickly. >> ron, you're right that there is this discontent with leaders on both sides and you did see that in the voting. you also saw in the voting overwhelming support for progressive ballot measures on things like increasing minimum wage or defeating the person hood amendments to the substance of it is very much toward progress. the leaders in both our parties, i think, have a lot of self-reflection to do and a lot of sleeves to roll up. >> all right, so the both of you -- i think we're hearing that we all feel that compromise needs to be made. now, the question is if we can actually make that happen. tracy sefl, ron bonjean. thank you for joining us. >>> republicans took senate, mitch mcconnell will be the next senate majority leader but can he keep the rank and file in line?

. >> and he has made terri lynn land a clone of the koch brothers. let's move over to minnesota, another 9:00 closing, and that is a house race between rick noland and stewart mills, republican. a lot of people have suggested that stewart mills looks like brad pitt. he has been caught playing with his hair. does that matter? >> it does matter because it's funny. michele bachmann in minnesota retiring, so people will be spending a lot of time looking at the minnesota house race. >> we'll look at the results of the new york house race. >> michael grim has been hounded by indictments. >> throw him off the balcony, and he might still win. >> and his local paper endorsed him. >> he's from staten island and they have made hay out of it. he may win this race. >> shocking and disappointing. >> coming up we'll go west to utah. mia love tries to become the first black female in congress again. >> your next word is prior. >> prior. >> from spelling bees to shark nadeau. we look at the best and worst political ads of the season. >> welcome back to a special elec

credited for turning thomas-koch around. she'll be replaced by the current chief operating officer.ngela merkel says more economic sanctions on russia are unavoidable. she says nothing excuses russia's involvement in the crisis in ukraine. a russian minister said earlier this week that the sanctions are set to cause the economy about $40 billion this year. and the owners of british mobile operater e.e. says talks will steyer rant talks with b.t. about a potential sell. analysts believe that b.c. would have to fork up around 10 billion pounds for the u.k.'s biggest mobile network. b.t. said on money it's also in talks with a company in spain which owns o-2 the rival network. let's see if there will be a deal done. we've seen lots of them in the telco sector this year. >> lot going on there. >> thank you very much indeed. time for us to turn our eyes on what's happening online where the news is up next here on france fwrans. -- "france 24." >> hello and welcome to the web news. we pick up the stories making the headlines. coming up on today's show, the reaction to the grand jury decis

the koch brothers and just as many losers.hn and i each picked one winner and loser who we do not think are getting enough attention so far from last nights results. who is your under discussed winner of the evening? >> the medical for goal -- metaphorical winner is snoop dog . great advocates of marijuana in general. marijuana legalization on the ballot in alaska. passed in oregon. the exit poll last night asking people if they would like to see marijuana legalized in their state or not. i think not only do we have two more states doing the right and proper thing to legalize marijuana but we can see this within 10 or 12 years it will be legal within every state of the union. >> you could have picked the entire borough of brooklyn. my winner is john boehner. he is a partner and ally. he would like to be part of getting stuff done for the good of the country and because he wants to have the reputation. now a lot of the pressure is off of him. no longer in opposition to-against -- to-one. he has an ally against mitch mcconnell,

we believe that the west's koch abuse into the process will grow now. -- contribution to the process will grow now. we have heard many beautiful words of encouragement. these are appreciated, but being a worker, i must tell you that worldpply of words o nthen the market is plentiful but the demand is falling. [laughter] [applause] deeds follow words now. the decision by the congress of the united states about granting economic aid to my country opens a new road. decision, iderful thianank you warmly. i promise you that this aid will not be wasted and will neve3rr be forgotten. ladies and gentlemen, from this podium i am expressing words of gratitude to the american people. they who supported us in the difficult days of martial law and persecution. it's they who sent us aid. they protested against violence. today, when i am able to freely address the whole world from this elevated spot, i would like to thank them with special words. it is thanks to them that solidarity soared across borders and reached every corner of the world, and thanks to them, the people of solidarity were never

you have, for example, the koch brothers that would give money early on to candidates they don't know gets in when it's much more saturated. how does that play into this. >> i think it shows you can have a lot of impact, if you get in there. one thing we're trying to do is encourage everyone to do that, not just the koch brothers or those who know how to use the system, get in and influence races. this data that not only tells us donors and candidates will help everyone for the next cycle, we hope, get in there and get involved in these races so it's not just big donors with -- >> i think it's a super cool idea because, you know, as things stand we would have to have a constitutional amendment to change really the landscape of money in politics. this way you're putting powerful tools in the hands of ordinary citizens, which is a great thing. you also have something really fun on your website, which is you can put in your name and see how liberal or conservative it is on the spectrum. i tried this. we tried it with toure. there is literally no name more liberal. >> yeah! all right! i l

and another candidate the youngest woman ever elected to koch. >> starting now on the decisive victories, and the surprises and the angry electorate. >> good wednesday morning, i'm t.j. holmes. >> i'm reena ninan. we begin with the republican party taking the top prize in the midterm election, taking the senate. >> the gop picking up the six states they needed and then some. tahman bradley has more tonight new political landscape in washington. >> it was a blowout. riding an anti-obama wave, republicans seized control of the senate and tightened their grip on the house. >> the experiment if big government lasted long enough. it's time to go in a new direction. >> as expected, the gop picked up arkansas, south dakota and west virginia. but they also won hard-fought races in north carolina, colorado and iowa. iowa was a real zing to president obama, it was the state that launched his political career. >> there are a lot of disappointed people tonight, including me. >> and republicans won in michigan, florida and wisconsin, knocking off the democratic governor from illinois, and capturing t

after all the adds, the koch dollars, the hog castration, the clinton visits and the cold shouldering of the president, it all comes down to people at the polls. we are just a few hours from the first results rolling in, and the key races that will decide control of the united states senate. the earliest signals will come from some of the tightest races here on the east coast. polls close at 7:00 p.m. in georgia where democrat michelle nunn and dave perdue could be headed for a runoff. then we'll see whether kay hagan can fend off thom tillis. and here in new hampshire, the last votes will be cast by 8:00 p.m. in the battle royal e between jeanne shaheen and scott brown. a win for shaheen give democrats one sigh of relief. some say republicans need to gain six seats and install mitch mcconnell as majority leader or install someone else as majority leader. my colleague luke russert put the candidate in a candidate in one of tonight's marquee races, iowa republican joni ernst. >> do you support mcconnell for leader? >> i'm not there yet. i have to win an election. >> ernst has called pr

if you look at the koch brothers -- these guyshave want to into social security. they want to in medicare and medicaid. they want to end the epa. they have an agenda. it is an extreme right-wing agenda. having said that, i myself believe that we need to overturn citizens united and move the public funding of elections. >> what needs to happen for you -- whatunds as i needs to happen to get you into the race? if elizabeth warren gets an? if hillary clinton runs unopposed? what needs to happen to get you into the race? , i have been politically successful in vermont. i won my last race with 71% of the vote. -- is the message that i'm going to deliver, does it resonate? is there grassroots support to take on big money interest? here's what i would be telling people. a there support for investing trillion dollars into our infrastructure to create 13 million jobs? my republican friends don't support it. they talk about all the money we are spending. that iselieve necessary. we are the only country in the world it does not have a national health care program guaranteein

corporations can be asked not only for unlimited amounts of money, millions of dollars in the case of the koch brothers, but they can also be kept anonymous, those contributions, and that is a real tragedy i believe that has changed the nature of the game so that money is just too much -- there is too much money in these campaigns. i did not feel comfortable being money.re asking for >> what are you going to miss about capitol hill? >> besides the reporters? [laughter] my friends and my staff. i have a very good staff and i have a lot of friends in the senate. i will miss our house. we will miss capitol hill, we like living on capitol hill, we are urban people. the city of detroit has always been my home back home, we have wonderful neighborhood here. we have wonderful neighbors. there is a wonderful eastern market where we love to shop. there are some things here that i will miss. i won't miss the excessive partisanship and i won't miss the business, and the unwillingness that some do not have to compromise. i will miss that, but i will miss my colleagues and it is a great job, so i am not le