buchanan's ideas and koch money.he money they are pulled together, they're pushing this system through in a way i actually believe might have appalled buchanan, too, because it is such a task use of the --itical system and of the grotesque use of the political system. amy: we want to thank you for being with us, nancy maclean, author of "democracy in chains: the deep history of the radical right's stealth plan for america." professor of history and public policy at duke university. when we come back, the epa's new water safety official is a lobbyist with deep ties to the dakota access pipeline. we will talk about that with the intercept investigative reporter lee fang. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "hold tight" by sinkane. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: we turn now to the latest move by the trump administration to undo president obama's environmental legacy. trump has already withdrawn the united states from the paris , change agr

of the new cycle the big the environmental activist has 73 million more than kochs.the kochs. warda you complaining about? >> billionaire verses billionaire does not help the doesn't matter what side but george soros would gladly get out of politics to support campaign finance reform. john: because the government is in charge. >> because they believe money corrupts the political process. john: look at the spending most assume republicans are richer but look at the numbers from the last election democratic party and the about campaign spent slightly more than the republican. >> that is the first time in my lifetime i think we don't like it when democrats play the same game. >> with the koch brothers i have spent time with both david and charles and they have paid me to speak at a few of their even said they gave the money to charities. issing fehr doing something terrible david is a more visible brother and once ran for office and is in the society pages. charles stays in kansas to grow the company more than 100 fold that is real wealth creation with products that we

were it not for the charles koch foundation, i know there are representatives from the charles koch foundation and koch industries who are in fact here. this is a very special moment for us. this is our first run at creating what will become i believe, an iconic and historic institution and it is the center for advancing opportunity. our founder, meredith, who hates to be called out, but i have to make sure, meredith, please stand. [applause] meredith was an executive at koch industries. the first time i've ever gone to wichita, kansas i met meredith and she has been a huge supporter on the business side for this event, in particular. it was her idea to be totally candid. she said i really think we should explore it. she wanted it on may 17, the anniversary. and i thought to myself, what is the significance of that? we always think 1954. i had never really paid attention to the specific date. this is her brain child because we both and all of us collectively, our organizations, the charles koch foundation, koch industries, the center for advancing opportunity, and, of course, the thurgood mars

i know there are representatives of the koch foundation and koch industries are, in fact, here. this is a very special moment for us. this is our first run at creating what will become, i believe, an iconic and historic institution and it's the center for advancing opportunity. our founder -- let me see, meredith who hates to be call out, but i have to make sure, as i said yoi don't typically call out people, but meredith, please stand. we have to shout. [ applause ] meredith is an executive at koch industries. the first time i've ever gone to wichita, kansas, i met with meredith, and meredith has been a huge supporter on the business side for thisser vent in particular. it was her idea to be candid and by the way she wanted it on may 17th the anniversary. she calleded and said may 17th, we need to have an event and i said and what's the significance of that, we always think 1954, but i had never paid attention to the specific date, but this was her brain child and all of of us collectionively, the koch foundation, koch industries, the center for advancing opportunity and the th

i think the koch influence has been largely overstated.hink they have allowed a more conservative republican party to emerge. that's the conservative party a lot of people didn't think trump was going to give them and he has ended up giving it to them in spades. >> heather: we will see what happens as we await that cbo report. >> jon: cnn is imposing new rules for its people and their russia coverage. what the restrictions are and what led to them. we are live at the supreme court where the justice has made some key dispersions including one on president trump's travel ban. the impact it might have and what it tells us about future rules. >> no surprise here that the supreme court not only did the right thing but was very telling, the overturned the injunction while letting us know they are going to decide the case in the fall. ♪ ♪ (vo) you can pass down a subaru forester. (dad) she's all yours. (vo) but you get to keep the memories. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. today's senior living communities have never been better, with am

percent up to fifty percent and that's by millions of dollars mostly coming out of the billionaire koch network now welded into districts and i don't know how he always has a selection but i don't know that you know just from the koch stein about how it's not only in dollars talking about outside money for handle when john has not raised a nickel in georgia but he's raised multimillion dollars from california that's a vast majority as has been coming in and twenty dollars contributions karen handel has got these these just you know but i didn't mean to litigate karen handel and johnson my quiet that was method to the larger question which is what we're discussing here which is do republicans i mean maybe democrats do this to i you know if in fact i'm sure they do you know particularly some of the more conservative democrats in the larger states but the republicans believe that they can legislate in a way that is. strongly disliked by the american people seventeen percent approval for this this legislation right now that eighty three percent of america doesn't doesn't want to doesn't lik

we get less than 3% of our budget from the koch brothers. >> i know where i'm getting my facts right. you're on the take. >> one of the points that needs to be made, there's a climate change industrial complex -- a multibillion dollar movement now that -- elon musk. why is he against us pulling out? elon musk has two major businesses -- >> and the koch brothers are $100 million and you know it. >> but they don't get government money, jeff. elon musk gets 4.9 million. >> the republican party in the congress, they finance the heritage foundation and the cato institute. >> i don't work there. >> and you have been taken over and i'm shocked that you're a correspondent for this network. >> he said that the coal mining industry was dead and we've seen a 16% increase just since donald trump was ee equity willlected. you're just wrong, jeff. >> let me move the conversation forward here. i want to put in an opportunity to get our other analysts into the conversation. let's listen to jim acosta. his exchange with the epa administrator, scott pruitt, and then we'll talk on the other side. >> why

are worth a combined four hundred billion and if you if you're feeling randy you can throw in the kochrothers for another hundred billion. these people are sick and also half of that list has generals like a sack of potatoes i mean. you would think with that. ramani a pioneer of some sort of gel removal process so. there's got to be something there but luckily no one is excited this is the silver and silver lining of this no one is excited about these insane numbers are right most people get i think i think pretty much everyone recognizes that when millions of people around the world struggle to eat or are dying from preventable diseases or are forced into what amounts to slavery with that's going on no one celebrates horrific greed gluttony and selfishness. a few of them was on the stock for a few years you have made a lot of money but not as much money as this guy founder and c.e.o. jeff bezos is now your second richest person on the planet bezos wealth climbing to seventy five point six billion dollars wow wow. wow wow wow wow wow this is a goddamn horror show any of it of yours don

when tom delay came in with newt gingrich, the big fossil fuel companies, the koch brothers, the oil companies, they have made a major bet so to speak, at the national level, on the republican leadership to put them in power. every year we delay action on climate change it is more profit for them, more bad impact on our economy and health but more profit. in the mid-1990's, we saw a change in the leadership in the republican party. since the election, in four states run by republican governors we made progress on clean energy and climate change. the public, very bipartisan but republican leadership in congress, starting with when newt and billy took over, and later leadership battles, clearly right now you see that marriage between the fossil fuel polluting interest and their .oney, led by the koch brothers their agenda is to keep their profits high and make sure we do not make progress. host: sj calling from alabama on the independent line. caller: can you hear me? host: yes. caller: i am just a regular guy. in school i learned -- this man, mr. karpinski said we have to have the las

they're doing the bidding of the koch brothers. >> interesting. is it only one side that does the bidding of big donors? let's take a look at the green lobby in this week's swamp wat watch. >> steve: every week they make us let. in 2013 in an effort to make solar energy more efficient, president obama guarantee $13 billion of your money to very solar companies. had he think they chose who got the cash? take a look at this chart. it looks at the amount a company spent on lobbying against the size of their loan guarantee. notice anything? the more you spent on lobbying, the more you got from the government. yes, indeed, those are the rules of the swamp. they also apply to the green lobby's favorite phase, the science. resident trumps epa administrator was slammed less than a month for replacing half the members of the scientific council. this is completely apart of the multifaceted effort to get science out of the way of the deregulation agenda, said one critic. it turns out, most of the academics who sit on the epa's board or not the objective scie

the koch brothers.minent financial interests against his decision to remove the united states from the agreement. for this toushing happen, most predominantly, coke industries. this has been a -- most predominantly, koch industries. this has been a devastating blow to environmental groups. from big banks to small businesses, they have come out forcefully against the decision. that does represent a marker of sorts and potentially a turning point in which you have prominent ceos, led, of course, by elon musk, actually working against the president's policy issues. while they have joined him on other matters, this would be the first time that they are bucking the white house. julia: it's interesting, isn't it? who is influencing donald trump here, the most extreme or conservative elements around him? we have had a comment from the viewer and i think it is quite relevant. which countries are providing funding to the paris climate agreement and what is the percentage of each contributor? again, to ask a ques

. >> james koch kinson had a happened written note when he opened fire on lawmakers. fox news confirmed the names on the list. they are representatives scott dejerlay. trent franks, jeff dunk sglin jim jordan, mel brooks and morgan griffith. the list was found in james koch kin son's van as he shot up the baseball practice at eugene simpson stadium park wednesday. the park will remain closed to the public through the wee weekend. this has been scary. >> laura stir lived in this del ray neighborhood for six years. >> in a city it feels like a small town. >> what is sentiment in this city that feels town? >> i think certain shocked. >> on friday night the fbi evidence response team came to the baseball field turned crime scene to look at the trajectory and the number of shots fired and direction which they originated. >> they need to take the time they need. it's not an inconvenience. we understand just thoughts and prayers go to the folks affected and they're families. >> eric was home when james hodgkin son took fire wounding steve scalise. capitol police officers dav

well, with the trump administration now all the way over in the fossil fuel brightbart, koch brothers, climate deniers corner, it now rests on the shoulders of the legitimate business community to come off the sidelines. they can't count on this administration. they now have to come off the sidelines themselves and do so in strength commensurate with the seriousness of the problem. if as a country we pitch ourselves and the world into the present worst case climate change scenarios, billions of people will suffer, and suffering people want answers and justice. it will become hard to defend to them our american system of democratic government against charges of corruption and our system of market capitalism against charges of indifference. government has been corrupted by fossil fuel interests, and too many companies are indifferent. you can't make a case without the facts to back it up. and american companies more than anyone else benefit from a world order where liberal democracies prevail. so the stakes for the american business community are very real. the political mischief of the

i blame the koch brothers. charlie: there's a lot of blame to go around, is there not?l: the republican party, john mccain in 2008 was for putting a price on carbon. and we can't get our republican colleagues now to acknowledge climate change and to do something about it because they're afraid of being primaried by someone from the right, that the koch brothers will put $10 million or $20 million behind. i know there's a debate going on in the trump administration and i don't know why today we had an announcement early in the morning and why this is being drawn out. i hope that the news we've heard isn't true. >> when you look at the -- what it says about america's leadership if you withdraw, and what it means for china, emerging as a global leader, not just a country that's interested in getting its own house in order. how do you see that playing out? al: again, i see it just in terms of jobs. just in terms of the investment in this technology that we need to deploy. and i don't know what happens after this administration. i'm hoping we have an administration that unde

conference of catholic bishops, and even members of the far-right koch brothers' political network, wholaim the legislation is not sufficiently conservative. this is vermont senator bernie sanders speaking monday on the senate floor. mr. sanders: mr. president, today's congressional budget office analysis of the trump mcconnell health care bill gives us 22 million reasons why this legislation should not see the light of day. truth istells us in that this bill really has nothing to do with health care. rather, it is an enormous transfer of wealth from the sick, the elderly, the children, the disabled, and the poor into the pockets of the wealthiest people in this country. amy: vermont senator bernie sanders and others have been advocating instead for a single-payer healthcare system, known as "medicare for all," although sanders has yet to formally introduce a bill. we'll have more on the congressional budget office's report, the republican health care plan, and mounting calls for a single-payer system after headlines. the u.s. supreme court has announced to allow for the partial impleme

, i mean an active supporter of politicians the way the koch brothers might be or others so yes i do talk about that in the book. interestingly jones was on the complete other end of the political spectrum. in fact was a big supporter of walter mondale when he ran for office and she classified herself as an independent. ray called her a patsy. he felt that she was way too left-wing for his tastes. she was smart enough to keep the tour itself while he was alive but the minute he died she let it all hang out and that's when she became a major peace activists. i write in the book about norman cousins, you rate -- may remember the saturday review editor who was quite as ray would call it bleeding heart. an old mcdonald's executive who i interviewed for this book just by the concept of norman cousins and the antithesis of a hard driving hard drinking businessman but that's the interesting part. that's what i find so fascinating about this story. they were very similar in some ways but they were so different in others and in politics not the least. >> thank you. >> thank you. that's a grea

. >> he did not remove home 34 koch is. >> is that mean you have the injunction?. >> i dunno what that could imply. >>. >> it has not happened i don't know that it has but i would note that panel's decision sites independent regulatory agencies and they thought that for cause removal of that amounted to what?. >> it is that power the president does have to make sure they are operating on the sleeve or competently so i agree with judge brown that they could exercise the power. >> i'm trying to figure out because i thought about this i have seen other commentary that says there is that for cause protection under humphrey's executor the only remedy available is back pay and they say there has never been a case and lots of commentators believe no court would have jurisdiction so how does that cut with our analysis? is that toothless protection or does that mean, how do we think about that?. >> it is a toothless but with respect to analysis of the separation of powers issue as long as the president can remove beneficial for cause be assured they are performing his or he

the put the koch brothers have created and funded.y research, cato foundation, reason foundation. senseave created a phony that you could get away with wrecking the planet. tom: can they get away with this? jeffrey: absolutely not. the whole world stood up and said this is the most absurd thing america has done. tom: love so much to get through. -- we have so much to get through. mr.fferent message for cohn on the white house. from new york and london, stay with us. jobs day. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: good morning. thank you to the huge response jeff's comment. calling the president an idiot we got some feedback on that. continuing, i believe there is a jobs report at 8:30 and we can look at the u.s. economy. the job report is a big deal. i guess it is not, but underneath it is a big deal. what under the headline numbers matters to you? rate andemployment wage growth. they have been going in different directions, or both going down at the same time, not what we are supposed to see. royal was part of the american economy and has been a

it is run in part by the koch brothers. they plan to spend 3$300 millio in the election.hey promised to set aside a fund to support gop congressmen who voted note on that health care bill. they do not like the one in the senate. how much does this outside money influence what is happening in the senate in because the koch brothers said they wanted a no vote on the house bill and that eventually passed. >> there are conservative republicans who are concerned that groups on the right are going to hammer them if they do support this legislation. so that is part of the equation that particularly the conservative members are taking into account when they are objecting to this bill on the basis that it doesn't do enough to dismantle obamacare. certainly they are going to find pressure from the white house to accept a compromise that maybe doesn't do as much to repeal obama as they were hoping to initially. the president sort of hit on it in that interview which is that no one is going to love this bill. that was sort of the sentiment we saw in the house and very few republican

cash from vladimir putin is no more traceable than cash from charles and david koch. one witness told us, a former republican national security official -- i quote him here -- it is critical that we effectively enforce the campaign finance laws that would prevent this type of financial influence by foreign actors. critical that we effectively enforce the campaign finance laws against foreign influence by foreign actors. the two best studies of russian influence in western europe in their elections and in their politics are the kremlin playbook by csis, the center for strategic international studies, and the kremlin's trojan horse by the atlantic council. both of them report that russia takes advantage of nontransparency in campaign financing to build its shadowy webs of influence and control. you leave dark money channels lying around, and it is likely vladimir putin and his oligarchs will find them. the trojan horse's report warns this -- i'll quote it -- the kremlin's blatant attempts to influence and disrupt the u.s. presidential election should serve as an inspira

change the physical state of their body without their awareness 7% to images your brain inco's both the koch is the only see one so the other is still captured yet the you are completely visually aware it does change the interpretation so when i make you feel more pleasant i change your physical sensation with the image that makes it more pleasant you see that neutral face as more trustworthy, a likable, a confident, intelligent, attr active but without your weirdness change the feelings to be negative for a pleasant or as less trustworthy or likable that changes the interpretation of the face. but actually it changes the visual image of the face that people actually see the face as slightsly les pleasant depending on how lead manipulated their physical state so there is good evidence to show when you create a simulation with your brain you're changing the firing not just their regions that are thought to be important but of primary sensor razor neurons that when we do these studies they lie completely still their eyes are closed and they are just listening to a brief prompt to create table

important to all of us as health care, we can see now the trump administration is during forth the koch internetworks agenda. it is a perfect microcosm of what i try to get that in the book because it shows us that the donor network is driving the republican party, rather than its own constituents. amy: as republicans attempt to

to really think when you talk about families like the koch brothers and the walton family and by the way, the trump family who would get a $4 billion tax break, do you really think ittle makes sense to cut programs that people desperately need? need to stay alive and givee massive tax breaks to the children of the wealthiest b family in this country? or the >> i will not comment on the specifics of the waltons of the coax, i'm sure they have done plenty of estate planning and they have both been philanthropic in their charitable contributions. been what this budget is about, and our tax reform is about creating 3% growth. what this budget is about is sending a message that the trump administration believes we should have a balanced budget. two, we make difficult decisions and i understand some of those programs, i agree with are quite worthy but we made difficult decisions to fund the militaryul to protect americans. americanan . . isrupt u interrupting we just don't have a lot of time. you made difficult decisions to give tax breaks to multibillionaires and to cut programs for worki

itself in order before it can start looking at what to do with the police next for now there peter koch and former metropolitan police officer thanks for your time again. thank you well so has been a another tragic night for london then after that van was rammed into worshippers close to finsbury park mosque and that mosque itself has long been controversial in the u.k. it became to be seen in the late ninety's as a center for extremism in the country back then it was accused of being linked to radicalism and its preachers connected to al qaida one a mom who was preaching there in one thousand nine hundred seven was this man the notorious abu hamza the most became a meeting point for various extremist figures before hamza was convicted and given a life sentence there were reports a nine eleven attack in the so-called shoe bomber a man who hid explosives in his shoes on an american airlines flight in two thousand and one were visiting that place of worship here's what we've previously heard from locals about the finsbury mosque. we i mean i live on the street i live . good lives in mine

. >> the koch brothers and their cronies. >> i think they should be in jail. >> private property. mob rules, that's our show tonight.

contract of the data trust the koch brothers americans for prosperity the cantor group and american crossroads the super pac founded by the former white house strategist karl rove it's still not entirely clear as to how exactly this much data ended up on a publicly accessible cloud drive but deep with analytics found alex said in the statement that we take full responsibility for the situation since this event has come to our attention we have updated the access setting. but protocols in place to prevent further access he also said that based on the information we have gathered thus far we do not believe that our systems have been hacked and the statement it's important to mention that gathering data on voters by election campaigns is a perfectly normal practice but the fact that all this information was accidentally dumped onto a public domain is a serious lapse and the biggest question right now is whether any party other than the cyber for a mob guard which found a leak did get access to it and would use it for nefarious purposes if it did. the reporting from washington d.c. well meantime w

contract of the data trust the koch brothers americans for prosperity the cantor group and american crossroads the super pac founded by the former white house strategist karl rove it's still not entirely clear as to how exactly this much data ended up on a publicly accessible cloud drive but deep with analytics found alex said in the statement that we take full responsibility for the situation since this event has come to our attention we have updated the access settings but protocols in place to prevent further access he also said that based on the information we have gathered thus far we do not believe that our systems have been hacked and of statement it's important to mention that gathering data on voters by election campaigns is a perfectly normal practice but the fact that all this information was accidentally dumped onto a public domain is a serious lapse and the biggest question right now is whether any party other than the cyber firm guard which found a leak did get access to it and would use it for nefarious purposes if it did. the reporting from washington d.c. and earlier today we

too many are too in tow to the big american dark money emperors, like the koch brothers but once you permit dark money to flow through dark money channels, cash from vladimir putin is no more traceable than cash from charles and david koch. the kremlin's trojan horses is a study of russian influence in western europe done by the atlantic council. russia takes advantage of nontransparency in campaign financing and financial transactions, the report says, to build political alliances with ideologically friendly political groups and individuals as well as to establish pro-russian organizations in civil society, creating a shadowy web of political networks which help to promulgate the regime's point of view. corruption is the grid on which the electrons of russian influence flow. in the forward to the kremlin trojan horse's report, kasorsky, former foreign minister of poland who has seen this up close described what he called the financial networks that allow authoritarian regimes to export corruption to the west. he warns, electoral rules should be amended so that publicly funded politi