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koch. the ones they think of was that part brothers, charles is from wichita, kan. from where koch industries based and david lives in new york, the wealthiest residents in manhattan. there are two others koch brothers, people don't talk about the. bill koch and fred koch. you hear about them in my book, but mostly you don't hear about them much in the headlines. >> host: why not? >> guest: they are not as political as charles and david allegiance some ways they are losers in a huge family struggles that took place over the years, an epic dynastic struggles for who was going to control but family company, koch industries, a huge privately owned company that the koches have jumped 4 years is the biggest company no one ever heard of. company that almost every american probably comes into contact with. you don't know you do probably, but if you by dixie cups, staying after carpets, vanity fair napkins, georgia pacific lumber, so many of others, you are a consumer of koch industries, the epic fight among these four bullies who would have control of the company the father
koch. the ones they think of was that part brothers, charles is from wichita, kan. from where koch industries based and david lives in new york, the wealthiest residents in manhattan. there are two others koch brothers, people don't talk about the. bill koch and fred koch. you hear about them in my book, but mostly you don't hear about them much in the headlines. >> host: why not? >> guest: they are not as political as charles and david allegiance some ways they are losers in a huge...
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dimensions the koch brothers are strict libertarians, the government is evil. do they hold that view towards national defense? i suspect not. >> guest: they are not libertarian's when it comes to national defense, they want to see less spending. >> host: jane mayer is that our guest for the last three hours, 1988 "landslide: the unmaking of the president, 1984-1988," "strange justice: the selling of clarence thomas" came out in 1994, turned into a war on american ideals" in 2008 and "dark money: the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right" is her most recent book. we appreciate your time. wikipedia >> guest: thank you for having me. >> when i tune in on the weekend, new releases. >> the best television for serious readers. >> un c-span they can have a longer conversation and go into this subject. >> booktv weekends, they bring you offer after officer after author and spotlight the work of fascinating people. >> here is a look at the current best-selling nonfiction books at powell's book store in portland, oregon. topping the list
dimensions the koch brothers are strict libertarians, the government is evil. do they hold that view towards national defense? i suspect not. >> guest: they are not libertarian's when it comes to national defense, they want to see less spending. >> host: jane mayer is that our guest for the last three hours, 1988 "landslide: the unmaking of the president, 1984-1988," "strange justice: the selling of clarence thomas" came out in 1994, turned into a war on american...
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. >> and one of the problems we have is when you take on the billionaire class and the koch brothers and wall street and the military industrial complex and the pharmaceutical industry, that is a little bit of opposition. >> yeah. and they're not a big fan of your politics. >> most of them are not a big fan of my politics. >> right. >> so what we have to determine right now is i know there are millions of people who are disgusted with the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality in america, the high unemployment, the fact that we are the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people. people are disgusted with this citizens united supreme court decision that allows billionaires to buy elections. so i know that people feel strongly about those issues. >> right. >> but in terms of putting together a campaign, what i have to ascertain is can we build the kind of grassroots movement that we need? can we raise, not as much money, obviously, as our opponents, but enough money to run a strong campaign? >> isn't it ironic that you're the preeminent voice
. >> and one of the problems we have is when you take on the billionaire class and the koch brothers and wall street and the military industrial complex and the pharmaceutical industry, that is a little bit of opposition. >> yeah. and they're not a big fan of your politics. >> most of them are not a big fan of my politics. >> right. >> so what we have to determine right now is i know there are millions of people who are disgusted with the grotesque level of income...
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writing up the koch brothers was my idea. i was turning a corner in manhattan and i looked up at lincoln center, grew up in and there was a david coke's name.tm and they had done a story abouto it ten years earlier and i knew there were putting money into the keep party at that point which i looked around and said does anybody in manhattan have any idea who these brothers aret i think this story there i started digging. at that point the koch brothers were busy say they have nothing to do with the tea party.iv they were not funding it, they were not behind it, they were not giving me an interview, so i just went to one of the meetings they are having, big weekend rally and is filled with the tea party people and so they were training and giving training sessions to the tea party so their own political organization was deeply embedded and trying to organize the tea party. when i asked the women who was in charge there, she was from taxes and i said so you guys supporting the tea party and she said oh yeah.tea we were in the te
writing up the koch brothers was my idea. i was turning a corner in manhattan and i looked up at lincoln center, grew up in and there was a david coke's name.tm and they had done a story abouto it ten years earlier and i knew there were putting money into the keep party at that point which i looked around and said does anybody in manhattan have any idea who these brothers aret i think this story there i started digging. at that point the koch brothers were busy say they have nothing to do with...
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it doesn't matter how much money the koch brothers spend. we'll continue with our message, and all we want them to do is their jobs. >> the distract of the democrats open the next two weeks -- the strategy of the democrats of the next two weeks -- [inaudible] >> a lot of the pressure is being applied by you folks if think the stories have been commendable, recognizing how important an issue this is, and i'm going to try to go home and make sure that you have more to talk about. i'm going to do an event or two or three in nevada. we already have locations where we will do them. i think they'll be good events, and my caucus is doing it around the country. one day i'm going to be traveling traveling andry have to do it from long distance but we're going to have a day of -- we have a petition signed by lots of people and we'll join with that. >> were you able to gauge from judge merrick any level of confidence that he is going to get headquarters gate vote? what are his thoughts on -- >> he his -- this is something that is new for him. he was ap
it doesn't matter how much money the koch brothers spend. we'll continue with our message, and all we want them to do is their jobs. >> the distract of the democrats open the next two weeks -- the strategy of the democrats of the next two weeks -- [inaudible] >> a lot of the pressure is being applied by you folks if think the stories have been commendable, recognizing how important an issue this is, and i'm going to try to go home and make sure that you have more to talk about. i'm...
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but here are two recent media appearances by the koch brothers. >> some days it seems like all of david$100 million to help support the ballet. he gave 185 into m.i.t., 20 million to the american museum of natural history, an entire wing to new york presbyterian hospital and $65 million for fountain says a metropolitan museum of art. >> you are not well liked primarily because of your very conservative politics. describe your political point of view. >> well, i am basically a libertarian. i am a conservative on economic matters and i'm a social liberal. >> host: you support. you support a woman's right to choose, a conservative candidate, many of them do not have those views. >> that is their problem. i do have those views. but i want these candidates to do is support a balanced budget and i'm very worried if the budget is not balanced that inflation could occur in the economy of our country could suffer terribly. >> candidates you support her because of fiscal policies. >> that's exactly right. and really focus on economic and fiscal issues because of those go bad, the country as a who
but here are two recent media appearances by the koch brothers. >> some days it seems like all of david$100 million to help support the ballet. he gave 185 into m.i.t., 20 million to the american museum of natural history, an entire wing to new york presbyterian hospital and $65 million for fountain says a metropolitan museum of art. >> you are not well liked primarily because of your very conservative politics. describe your political point of view. >> well, i am basically a...
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whether it is trump or somebody else with the environmental crimes of koch industries and the koch brothers relentless assault against environmental regulations? that is my question. >> guest: it is an interesting question because people think of donald trump as being not a koch candidate. the kochs said they dislike him behind the scenes, he is not reliable in terms of their point of view, but he does share a lot of their positions including about global warming and about environmental matters. those positions are incredibly important to koch industries. koch industries has a terrible record on environmental pollution, has the biggest judgments of any company in terms of pollution judgments. the biggest creator of toxic waste in the country according to epa statistics. it is not up to me to tell democrats how to run their campaigns, but to me as a reporter it is worth pointing out donald trump carrying but fossil fuel industry when he takes these positions and other polluters. i don't think it is a smart political position for anyone to take. if you look at coal in this country the vast ma
whether it is trump or somebody else with the environmental crimes of koch industries and the koch brothers relentless assault against environmental regulations? that is my question. >> guest: it is an interesting question because people think of donald trump as being not a koch candidate. the kochs said they dislike him behind the scenes, he is not reliable in terms of their point of view, but he does share a lot of their positions including about global warming and about environmental...
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what motivates the koch brothers? are there other motivations as well? >> there is what fills in the back story a small group of wealthy donors was hoping to break down the campaign finance limits with a history one after the next after the next so there was more to it with that concerted effort but in terms of what motivates those koch brothers it is hard to know the answer but i believe after spending so much time that they are urged to the believers with their ideology and if you look at that ideology there is almost no daylight with their self-interest. what is good for pope industries is truly good for america and what is good for industries does it could for their bottom line. to see themselves as job creator and they want to shrink government and want to get the regulations off the backs of businesses with environmental pollution in problems to push back. >> but it is in their self-interest. >> we were talking about how you were not able to interview the koch brothers so what is a question you would ask the most of you have been curious about? >>
what motivates the koch brothers? are there other motivations as well? >> there is what fills in the back story a small group of wealthy donors was hoping to break down the campaign finance limits with a history one after the next after the next so there was more to it with that concerted effort but in terms of what motivates those koch brothers it is hard to know the answer but i believe after spending so much time that they are urged to the believers with their ideology and if you look...
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>> well, notice he was once a member of the koch brothers team. he is not there anymore. and as you noted, the koch brothers clearly don't want to have anything to do with donald trump. and given what i saw back in 2011, the fact that he is on donald trump's campaign says a lot about both men. the two men are very similar. >> liz, let me bring you in, this morning on the "today" show as well as at his rally yesterday, donald trump said i don't want to ruin this man's life. he's a father, and this is a part of who i am. i'm loyal, and i'm loyal to america. and tying in somehow his loyalty to the country despite it's been pointed out he made a number of products outside of this country. and tying it into this cory lewandowski situation. what are your thoughts? >> the most classic victim trainingtrope. saying we don't want to ruin this man's reputation. this man has a family. when to jonathan's point, corey lewandowski, there's footage of him attacking a protester from a couple weeks ago. there is a lot of evidence out there showing he doesn't have this perfect reputation. t
>> well, notice he was once a member of the koch brothers team. he is not there anymore. and as you noted, the koch brothers clearly don't want to have anything to do with donald trump. and given what i saw back in 2011, the fact that he is on donald trump's campaign says a lot about both men. the two men are very similar. >> liz, let me bring you in, this morning on the "today" show as well as at his rally yesterday, donald trump said i don't want to ruin this man's life....
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i just think it's worth pointing out that the leaders of the fossil fuel industry, the koch brothers, have just paid to put up an ad praising senator sanders. there are a lot of different powerful interests in washington. i've taken them on. i took on the drug companies, i took on the insurance companies. before there was something called obamacare, there was something called hillary care and i worked really hard to get comprehensive health care reform and they beat me. >> we're going to move on -- >> i have a long record of standing up to special interests and i will continue to do so. >> we're going to move on to the next question. [ audience boos ] >> you have 30 seconds. >> there is nobody in the united states congress who has taken on the koch brothers, who want to destroy social security, medicare, medicaid and virtually every federal program passed since the 1930s more that bernie sanders. and i am proud that the gentleman who is head of goldman sachs, now, he didn't give me $225,000 for speaking fees, he said i was dangerous and he's right. i am dangerous for wall street. [ ch
i just think it's worth pointing out that the leaders of the fossil fuel industry, the koch brothers, have just paid to put up an ad praising senator sanders. there are a lot of different powerful interests in washington. i've taken them on. i took on the drug companies, i took on the insurance companies. before there was something called obamacare, there was something called hillary care and i worked really hard to get comprehensive health care reform and they beat me. >> we're going to...
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when i talk about money in politics, what i talk about is the koch brothers and billionaires spendingeds of millions of dollars along with wall street to create a situation where politics -- politicians will be elected who represent the wealthy and the powerful. >> one of the issues that the koch brothers and their networks have supported in a way that has been very effective is an issue concerning veterans. you were the former chairman of the veterans' committee in the senate and in that capacity you worked closely with senator john mccain on a number of issues. he's praised you in this campaign. you've talked about your ability to work with him on veterans' issues, but right now senator mccain is pushing a proposal to effectively privatize large parts of the va, which is something that the koch brothers and their network have pushed. what's your response to that? do you have plans to try to stop him on that given your relationship. >> of course, disagree. what you have a group called the concerned veterans of america. they appear on stations like cnn time and time again without bein
when i talk about money in politics, what i talk about is the koch brothers and billionaires spendingeds of millions of dollars along with wall street to create a situation where politics -- politicians will be elected who represent the wealthy and the powerful. >> one of the issues that the koch brothers and their networks have supported in a way that has been very effective is an issue concerning veterans. you were the former chairman of the veterans' committee in the senate and in that...
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." >> host: author jane mayer, when we talk about the koch brothers, who are we talking about? >> guest: well, we are talking about interestingly two of the richest people in the world, probably the richest their brothers in the world, certainly in america who are very strong political views and have taken fortune over the last 40 years to try doing a america. they spent in very targeted ways in interesting ways to try to change the whole direction of american politics. poster what are their names and where are they located? re guest: charles koc nd the ones people think of as the coke brothers and in wichita kansas where the family industries are based into david lives in new york and is the wealthiest president in manhattan. there are two others, bill and fred but mostly you don't hear about it in the headlines. >> host: why not? >> guest: they are not as political and in some ways, they are losers in a huge family struggle that took place over the years
." >> host: author jane mayer, when we talk about the koch brothers, who are we talking about? >> guest: well, we are talking about interestingly two of the richest people in the world, probably the richest their brothers in the world, certainly in america who are very strong political views and have taken fortune over the last 40 years to try doing a america. they spent in very targeted ways in interesting ways to try to change the whole direction of american politics. poster...
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i understand that he and the koesh koch brothers are good pals.red to spend $900 million in this election cycle, that, my friÑnds, is not democracy. that is oligarchy, and we will change that. i know that our republican friends and elected officials tremble at the idea of large numbers of americans participating in the political process. i've got bad news for them. that is exactly what is going to happen in this country. but when we together have the courage to take a hard look at the real crises that we face it is not only a corrupt campaign finance system, it is a rigged economy. whether you are a progressive or a conservative, you cannot accept the reality that today now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. it is not acceptable that the 20 wealthiest people own more wealth than the bottom 150 million americans. it is not acceptable that one family the walton family of walmart, owns more wealth than the bottom 40% of the american people. today all across this country and wisconsin and vermont and virtually every state we have peo
i understand that he and the koesh koch brothers are good pals.red to spend $900 million in this election cycle, that, my friÑnds, is not democracy. that is oligarchy, and we will change that. i know that our republican friends and elected officials tremble at the idea of large numbers of americans participating in the political process. i've got bad news for them. that is exactly what is going to happen in this country. but when we together have the courage to take a hard look at the real...
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when we have nationally a situation where the koch brothers and a handful of other billionaires -- oh, and i forget -- i hope i didn't offend the governor -- i understand, i understand that he -- he and the koch brothers are good pals. i didn't mean to -- but when you have the koch brothers and a handful of billionaires prepared to spend $900 million in this election cycle, that is my friends, is not democracy. that is oligarchy, and we will change that. i know that our republican friends and elected officials tremble at the idea of large numbers of americans participating in the political process. i have got bad news for them. that is exactly what is going to happen in the country! but when we together have the courage to take a hard look at the real crises that we face it is not only a corrupt campaign finance system it is a rigged economy. whether you are a progressive or a conservative you cannot accept the reality that today the top 1/10th of 1% now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90%. it is not acceptable that the 20, 20 wealthiest people own more wealth than the bottom
when we have nationally a situation where the koch brothers and a handful of other billionaires -- oh, and i forget -- i hope i didn't offend the governor -- i understand, i understand that he -- he and the koch brothers are good pals. i didn't mean to -- but when you have the koch brothers and a handful of billionaires prepared to spend $900 million in this election cycle, that is my friends, is not democracy. that is oligarchy, and we will change that. i know that our republican friends and...
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he's made it a point of pride to position himself against wealthy funders including the koch brothersat went to their gatherings. i'm sure he would seize on this for his independent. there's no question it does involve heavy persuasion advertising. in addition, they have a huge amount of ground troops now. they have built up huge organization across the country. those are people that have identified voters and prepared to mobilize voters if engaged. >> all right. thanks for your time. >> my pleasure. >>> much more ahead. stay with us. >>> officials in france say they have foiled a terrorist attack which was at an advanced stage of planning. officials raided a home outside of paris after arresting a french national this morning. french authorities called it a major arrest but also said there are no known links between the thwarted plot and the attacks in belgium. also tonight, u.s. officials are saying the names of two of the attackers, two brothers have potential terror threat u.s. databases. belgium authorities said the brothers were known as petty criminals and not as potential terr
he's made it a point of pride to position himself against wealthy funders including the koch brothersat went to their gatherings. i'm sure he would seize on this for his independent. there's no question it does involve heavy persuasion advertising. in addition, they have a huge amount of ground troops now. they have built up huge organization across the country. those are people that have identified voters and prepared to mobilize voters if engaged. >> all right. thanks for your time....
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[laughter] senator sanders: i understand that he and the koch brothers are good pals. when you have the koch brothers and a handful of billionaires prepared to spend $900 million in this election cycle, that, my friends, is not democracy -- that is oligarchy. and we will change that. [cheering] senator sanders: i know that our republican friends and elected officials tremble at the idea of large numbers of americans participating in the political process. i've got bad news for them. that is exactly what is going to happen in this country. [cheering] amy: bernie sanders giving a victory speech in madison, wisconsin after his landslide this weekend. the corporate media hardly paying any attention. winning all three caucuses in hawaii, andell in in washington state. we will have more on his campaign in a moment. when we come back from break and women's history month, we will be speaking with angela davis about the race and much more. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "waking up" on democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in this women
[laughter] senator sanders: i understand that he and the koch brothers are good pals. when you have the koch brothers and a handful of billionaires prepared to spend $900 million in this election cycle, that, my friends, is not democracy -- that is oligarchy. and we will change that. [cheering] senator sanders: i know that our republican friends and elected officials tremble at the idea of large numbers of americans participating in the political process. i've got bad news for them. that is...
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he's made it a point of pride to position himself against wealthy funders including the koch brotherscandidates that went to their gatherings. i'm sure he would seize on this for his independent. there's no question it does involve heavy persuasion advertising. in addition, they have a huge amount of ground troops now. they have built up huge organization across the country. those are people that have identified voters and prepared to mobilize voters if engaged. >> all right. thanks for your time. >> my pleasure. >>> much more ahead. stay with us. ♪ every auto insurance policy has a number. but not every insurance company understands the life behind it. ♪ those who have served our nation have earned the very best service in return. ♪ usaa. we know what it means to serve. get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. [engines revving] you can't have a hero, if you don't have a villain. the world needs villains [tires screeching] and villains need cars. ♪ it's my job and it's i takealso my passion.rises. but with my back pain i couldn't sleep... so i
he's made it a point of pride to position himself against wealthy funders including the koch brotherscandidates that went to their gatherings. i'm sure he would seize on this for his independent. there's no question it does involve heavy persuasion advertising. in addition, they have a huge amount of ground troops now. they have built up huge organization across the country. those are people that have identified voters and prepared to mobilize voters if engaged. >> all right. thanks for...
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- you know about the koch brothers.rt group of people. ok. koch brothers and a few other billionaires will spend approximately $900 million to buy this election for candidates who are going to represent the wealthy and the powerful. when you have -- when you have one family and a few other billionaires spending more money in an election than the entire democratic party or republican party, that is not democracy. that is oligarchy and we are going to stop that. \[cheering] now, when i talk about some of the differences between secretary clinton and myself, this is one of those differences. and i'll tell you why. secretary clinton has a number of super pacs. one of her super pacs recently reported that they raised $25 million from special interests, $15 million from wall street alone. now, every candidate in the history of the world, democrat, republican, when they receive huge amounts of money from wall street, or the drug companies, or the fossil fuel industries, what they always say, not going to impact me. and our que
- you know about the koch brothers.rt group of people. ok. koch brothers and a few other billionaires will spend approximately $900 million to buy this election for candidates who are going to represent the wealthy and the powerful. when you have -- when you have one family and a few other billionaires spending more money in an election than the entire democratic party or republican party, that is not democracy. that is oligarchy and we are going to stop that. \[cheering] now, when i talk about...
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he's made it a point of pride to position himself against wealthy funders including the koch brothersd the candidates ta wha went to their gatherings. i'm sure he would seize on this for his independent. there's no question it does involve heavy persuasion advertising. in addition, they have a huge amount of ground troops now. they have built up huge organization across the country. those are people that have identified voters and prepared to mobilize voters if engaged. >> all right. thanks for your time. >> my pleasure. >>> much more ahead. stay with us. am i seeing double? no ma'am. our at&t 'buy one get one free' makes it easier for your staff to send appointment reminders to your customers... ...and share promotions on social media? you know it! now i'm seeing dollar signs. you should probably get your eyes checked. good one babe. optometry humor. right now get up to $650 in credits to help you switch to at&t. you can't breathed. through your nose. suddenly, you're a mouthbreather. well, just put on a breathe right strip which instantly opens your nose up to 38% more than cold med
he's made it a point of pride to position himself against wealthy funders including the koch brothersd the candidates ta wha went to their gatherings. i'm sure he would seize on this for his independent. there's no question it does involve heavy persuasion advertising. in addition, they have a huge amount of ground troops now. they have built up huge organization across the country. those are people that have identified voters and prepared to mobilize voters if engaged. >> all right....
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there has been a lot of back and forth between her and the koch brothers.k that her story is really ended up pushing charles koch to talk about his politics, his motivation. you have seen him discuss it a lot more publicly in recent years. i did an interview with him last april, and another late last , look, ihich he says am all about trying to defend my positions here as a libertarian. i am a free market person and believe in limited government, and that's why i am engaged in politics. it is a very interesting debate. >> at the same time, releasing his own book. a management of book. he did one before, and so this management-up, his philosophy, how he runs his company. he thinks the way he runs his company can help everyone live better lives. to harry ino republican, welcome to the conversation. >> i was going to bring up the koch brothers. every time they bring up the koch brothers they forget about george soros. the other statement is i have is that my wife is a democrat. i am a republican. i told her to vote for s sanders, annotate why. the more money t
there has been a lot of back and forth between her and the koch brothers.k that her story is really ended up pushing charles koch to talk about his politics, his motivation. you have seen him discuss it a lot more publicly in recent years. i did an interview with him last april, and another late last , look, ihich he says am all about trying to defend my positions here as a libertarian. i am a free market person and believe in limited government, and that's why i am engaged in politics. it is a...
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before we knew what the koch brothers were they had done their damage. because in 2008 they realized, "we don't care about washington. "we care about the governorships. "because what's going to happen is "we're getting ready to have the decennial, "and we're going to gerrymander the hell out of "these congressional districts." it isn't an accident, in texas, in alabama, in ohio, they've all followed the same play book. - [voiceover] funding for overheard with evan smith is provided in part by: mfi foundation, improving the quality of life within our community. also by hillco partners, a texas government affairs consultancy. and by the alice kleberg reynolds foundation. (fanfare)
before we knew what the koch brothers were they had done their damage. because in 2008 they realized, "we don't care about washington. "we care about the governorships. "because what's going to happen is "we're getting ready to have the decennial, "and we're going to gerrymander the hell out of "these congressional districts." it isn't an accident, in texas, in alabama, in ohio, they've all followed the same play book. - [voiceover] funding for overheard with...
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that the leaders of the fossil fuel industry, the koch brothers have just paid to put up an ad praising senator sanders. you know, there are a lot of different powerful interests in washington. i have taken them on the i took on the drug companies if i took on the insurance companies. before there was something called obamacare, there was something called hillarycare. and i worked really hard to get there. and health care reform. record of standing up to special and i will continue to do so. >> can i just -- please. >> ago head. >> you have 30 seconds, senator. >> there is nobody in the united states congress who has taken on the koch brothers who want to destroy social security, medicare, medicaid, and virtually every federal program passed since the 1930s more than bernie sanders. and i am proud that the gentleman who is head of goldman sachs sachs. he didn't give me $225,000 for speaker fees. he said i am danger us. he is right. i am dangerous for wall street. >> the republican party continues to be at war with itself. gop presidential front-runner, sh off three more wins is pleading
that the leaders of the fossil fuel industry, the koch brothers have just paid to put up an ad praising senator sanders. you know, there are a lot of different powerful interests in washington. i have taken them on the i took on the drug companies if i took on the insurance companies. before there was something called obamacare, there was something called hillarycare. and i worked really hard to get there. and health care reform. record of standing up to special and i will continue to do so....
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i just think it's worth pointing out that the leaders of the fossil fuel industry, the koch brothers, senator sanders. there are a lot of different powerful interests in washington. i've taken them on. i took on the drug companies, i took on the insurance companies. before there was something called obamacare, there was something called hillary care and i worked really hard to get comprehensive health care reform and they beat me. >> we're going to move on -- >> i have a long record of standing up to special interests and i will continue to do so. >> we're going to move on to the next question. [ audience boos ] >> you have 30 seconds. >> there is nobody in the united states congress who has taken on the koch brothers, who want to destroy social security, medicare, medicaid and virtually every federal program passed since the 1930s more that bernie sanders. and i am proud that the gentleman who is head of goldman sachs, now, he didn't give me $225,000 for speaking fees, he said i was dangerous and he's right. i am dangerous for wall street. [ cheers and applause ] >> we're going to mo
i just think it's worth pointing out that the leaders of the fossil fuel industry, the koch brothers, senator sanders. there are a lot of different powerful interests in washington. i've taken them on. i took on the drug companies, i took on the insurance companies. before there was something called obamacare, there was something called hillary care and i worked really hard to get comprehensive health care reform and they beat me. >> we're going to move on -- >> i have a long record...
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because there are four koch brothers and they broke into two teams of two. the 22 teams have to have litigated against each other for lease 20 years because they were fighting over who is going to get the bigger share in the family company and the family fortune. it got so brutal that they hired private eyes on each site to look into each other's garbage. so it's a company that is remarkable. it's remarkably successful and remarkably hardball playing. the standard oil of our time. >> in my assessment humor the attempt to destroy you occurred the two outlets one in particular was so anxious to get something out of the hits on line of the word koch that the headline and think with smear job gone bad or gone wrong. >> there is one that said smear disappears. the truth is that was the "new york post" and the "new york post" kind of did a good job. they could have just said that's weird and gone away. they did not. kid kelly who covers the media to "new york post" thought that strange, here's this reporter didn't plagiarize t
because there are four koch brothers and they broke into two teams of two. the 22 teams have to have litigated against each other for lease 20 years because they were fighting over who is going to get the bigger share in the family company and the family fortune. it got so brutal that they hired private eyes on each site to look into each other's garbage. so it's a company that is remarkable. it's remarkably successful and remarkably hardball playing. the standard oil of our time. >> in...
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the koch brothers.ve been big backers of his. does he hang out there in the atmosphere, the anti-union ledge sliecher he signs. is that something that motivates democratic voters in the state? >> there's no question that's something that motivates democratic voters, but to go to what ruth said, i think the manufacturing argument that sander used in other areas of the nation didn't work well for him in that way. i think illinois and i think that ohio are examples. ohio is very similar to wisconsin. and it hopefully will with all of the work that we're doing on the ground, turn for hillary because the turnout that hopefully will happen in our area of the state. i think that scott walker will matter arguably more in those republican primaries and not as much. it is something that motivates us, but we're concerned about jobs. we're concerned about the justice issues, the things that matter, the things that hillary has been consistent on and has been, frankly, a champion. so i think those are going to be the
the koch brothers.ve been big backers of his. does he hang out there in the atmosphere, the anti-union ledge sliecher he signs. is that something that motivates democratic voters in the state? >> there's no question that's something that motivates democratic voters, but to go to what ruth said, i think the manufacturing argument that sander used in other areas of the nation didn't work well for him in that way. i think illinois and i think that ohio are examples. ohio is very similar to...
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i was going to bring up the koch brothers as well. ery time they bring up koch -- made, they forget his money in oil. other statement i have is my wife is a democrat, i'm a republican. i told her to vote for sanders and i'll tell you why. i have neighbors -- i told neighbors to do the same thing. the more money they can spend on the democrat side, the less they will have for a presidential election. if anyone wants to keep giving that kind of money, fine. trump doesn't take that much money. him,s why and supporting so is my wife and a lot of my neighbors. i'm in a democrat city. they voted for obama the first time, but not the second time. everybody is catching on that things aren't going that great in this country with the democrat party. as far as trump is concerned saying he's a wild card maybe that's what we need. he may be the best president we have or the worst. i will take a chance on him before a socialist and a woman worth $255 million criticizing rich people. host: what you make of his analysis? guest: it's fascinating to me
i was going to bring up the koch brothers as well. ery time they bring up koch -- made, they forget his money in oil. other statement i have is my wife is a democrat, i'm a republican. i told her to vote for sanders and i'll tell you why. i have neighbors -- i told neighbors to do the same thing. the more money they can spend on the democrat side, the less they will have for a presidential election. if anyone wants to keep giving that kind of money, fine. trump doesn't take that much money....
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. >> like so many things that he says is just factually incorrect and koch brothers make sure everyonean get together. the problem is if you don't have strong property rights -- stossel: they have pipelines over the country and they have never used imminent domain even the koch brothers? >> they advocate for keystone pipeline. public uses a public park not a casino like trump wants to build our huge thing is world-class. as cronyism and not respecting property rights. stossel: thank you trevor burris. next, something good about trump. donald trump made it possible for me to stay here after city for me to stay here after city government wasted millions trump (two text tones) now? (text tone) excuse me. (phone tone) again? be right back. always running to the bathroom because your bladder is calling the shots? (text tone) you may have oab. enough of this. we're going to the doctor. take charge and ask your doctor about myrbetriq. that's myr-be-triq, the first and only treatment... ...in its class for oab symptoms of urgency... ...frequency, and leakage. myrbetriq (mirabegron) may increas
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[ laughter ] but the truth is if they stood up and did the right thing the koch brothers and the big moneyy people would not fund their campaigns. that is how corrupt our current campaign finance system is. >> jimmy: i know you have to getu've got a big rally there. i thank you for stopping by. i wish you a lot of luck. senator bernie sanders, everybody. we'll be right back with tom hiddleston. [ cheers and applause ]mmm. friends. tonight, i present to you a very special bottle. it's a nice, robust italian. vine-ripened tomatoes. i cannot wait.s let it breathe. introducing classico riserva. extra virgin olive oil, vine-ripened tomatoes, a hint of basil. classico riserva uses ingredients. new classico riserva. open a bottle of the good stuff. anyone else care to smell the lid? hmmm. y! so get to kohl's... and take an extra 20% off with your friends & family savings pass! shop friday night owls and saturday early birds... and dress them upff dresses kid's dressy apparel... and new shoes for the whole family. for him - save 45 to 55% and tie. and pick up a new spring handbag at 50% off.
[ laughter ] but the truth is if they stood up and did the right thing the koch brothers and the big moneyy people would not fund their campaigns. that is how corrupt our current campaign finance system is. >> jimmy: i know you have to getu've got a big rally there. i thank you for stopping by. i wish you a lot of luck. senator bernie sanders, everybody. we'll be right back with tom hiddleston. [ cheers and applause ]mmm. friends. tonight, i present to you a very special bottle. it's a...
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. >> like so many things that he says is just factually incorrect and koch brothers make sure everyone is if you don't have strong property rights -- stossel: they have pipelines over the country and they have never used imminent domain even the koch brothers? >> they advocate for keystone pipeline. public uses a public park not a casino like trump wants to build our huge thing is world-class. as cronyism and not respecting property rights. stossel: thank you trevor burris. next, something good about trump. donald trump made it possible for me to stay here after city government wasted millions trump stossel: one reason some people support donald trump is his business success. they say it would be good to finally have a president who knows how to run a business and run it well. >> i'm really rich. stossel: trump brags about as well. >> my whole life is about money. it was greedy. i wanted more money, more money. stossel: but now he says he wants to be greedy for united states. he's going to make a country rich again. actually america's richer now more than ever but that's another story.
. >> like so many things that he says is just factually incorrect and koch brothers make sure everyone is if you don't have strong property rights -- stossel: they have pipelines over the country and they have never used imminent domain even the koch brothers? >> they advocate for keystone pipeline. public uses a public park not a casino like trump wants to build our huge thing is world-class. as cronyism and not respecting property rights. stossel: thank you trevor burris. next,...
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that was a direct appeal to koch brothers. the last half of the speech was the people that are middle east hawks, who had been looking at rubio as their hope. so what you saw tonight was ships passing in the night. you saw cruz still out there sporting for the money people, whether they're business or foreign policy people and not really the people trump has been going after. i disagree with ben ginsburg, but i understand what he has to do professionally. if you see trump, he's won over 20 states tonight, with 22, perhap 2s 23 tonight. how do you deny a guy in cleveland with 30, 35 states? how do you say you didn't win? we have this other system called the second and third ballots and guys like ben will find a way to pick a nominee. i just don't think republican party can sell this as the regular means of voting. it's just going to really drive the trump people out the door. with trump leading the way, perhaps to a third party move, which will be pretty popular because he'll look like a victim. let me bring in joy reid, what d
that was a direct appeal to koch brothers. the last half of the speech was the people that are middle east hawks, who had been looking at rubio as their hope. so what you saw tonight was ships passing in the night. you saw cruz still out there sporting for the money people, whether they're business or foreign policy people and not really the people trump has been going after. i disagree with ben ginsburg, but i understand what he has to do professionally. if you see trump, he's won over 20...
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an official from the koch brothers' political umbrella group saying the brothers have decided not toe primary at all. >>> our next guest says donald trump and his inner circle have never advertised the fact they've been running a general election strategy from the moment he jumped into the campaign. here to talk about what he reported trump's unorthodox campaign and success, host of media buzz howie kurtz, joining us from the site of the fox news debate tomorrow in detroit. howie, great reporting. i think some people suspected they were hearing this but couldn't believe it. you confirm it and went further. it's remarkable. i don't know that ever being done before, do you? >> no, interesting strategy, and based on my reporting, this is done quietly and deliberately by donald trump. the feeling by the camp was taking a hard line out of the gate on illegal immigration he created a hard line on the right and positions that would appeal to general election voters not just republican primary voters, for example, coming out against george w. bush in the iraq war, for example, coming out for
an official from the koch brothers' political umbrella group saying the brothers have decided not toe primary at all. >>> our next guest says donald trump and his inner circle have never advertised the fact they've been running a general election strategy from the moment he jumped into the campaign. here to talk about what he reported trump's unorthodox campaign and success, host of media buzz howie kurtz, joining us from the site of the fox news debate tomorrow in detroit. howie,...
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. >> like so many things that he says is just factually incorrect and koch brothers make sure everyoneher. the problem is if you don't have strong property rights -- stossel: they have pipelines over the country and they have never used imminent domain even the koch brothers? >> they advocate for keystone pipeline. public uses a public park not a casino like trump wants to build our huge thing is world-class. as cronyism and not respecting property rights. stossel: thank you trevor burris. next, something good about trump. donald trump made it possible for me to stay here after city government wasted millions trump ♪ i don't want to live with the uncertainties of hep c. or wonder whether i should seek treatment. i am ready. because today there's harvoni. a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. harvoni is proven to cure up to 99% of patients who've had no prior treatment. it's the one and only cure that's one pill, once a day for 12 weeks. certain patients... can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. with harvoni, there's no interferon and there are n
. >> like so many things that he says is just factually incorrect and koch brothers make sure everyoneher. the problem is if you don't have strong property rights -- stossel: they have pipelines over the country and they have never used imminent domain even the koch brothers? >> they advocate for keystone pipeline. public uses a public park not a casino like trump wants to build our huge thing is world-class. as cronyism and not respecting property rights. stossel: thank you trevor...
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. >> like so many things that he says is just factually incorrect and koch brothers make sure everyone can get together. the problem is if you don't have strong property rights -- stossel: they have pipelines over the country and they have never used imminent domain even the koch brothers? >> they advocate for keystone pipeline. public uses a public park not a casino like trump wants to build our huge thing is world-class. as cronyism and not respecting property rights. stossel: thank you trevor burris. next, something good about trump. donald trump made it possible for me to stay here after city government wasted millions trump got it done. say, unnecessarily complex. limiting where you can earn bonus cash back... then those places change every few months... please. it's time you got the quicksilver card from capital one. quicksilver earns you unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere. doesn't get much simpler than that. what's in your wallet? i don't want to live with the uncertainties of hep c. or wonder whether i should seek treatment. i am ready. because today there's
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there would be no way to go on. >> the koch brothers have a huge arsenal of money.re not going to deploy their money against a donald trump nomination. they will not play in the primaries. is that a blow to the anti-trump coalition? >> the anti-trump coalition is not lacking money. it shows there is not unanimity. if you have major figures, in fact, some of the major figures, willing to sit it out. >> zach wolf, thank you for that. we lost his feed. >> we played the role. >>> the next week is march madness here on cnn. sunday is the next democratic debate in flint. followed by "race for the white house." next tuesday is the next super tuesday night. wednesday brings another democratic debate in miami. thursday is the republican debate in miami. a week of political events here on cnn. >>> caught on camera. a student kicked and slapped by a school officer. what investigators are now revealing about the stunning new video. that's next. on books at laqu om. u alert the second his room is ready. avo: so he knows exactly when he can settle in and practice his big pitch. a
there would be no way to go on. >> the koch brothers have a huge arsenal of money.re not going to deploy their money against a donald trump nomination. they will not play in the primaries. is that a blow to the anti-trump coalition? >> the anti-trump coalition is not lacking money. it shows there is not unanimity. if you have major figures, in fact, some of the major figures, willing to sit it out. >> zach wolf, thank you for that. we lost his feed. >> we played the...
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sanders: oh, you know the koch brothers. [laughter] sen.ders: they and their billionaire friends are prepared to spend $900 million on this election cycle. [booing] sen. sanders: their goal is to elect candidates who, of course, will represent the rich and the powerful. when you have a handful of billionaires -- a handful -- spending more money on a campaign than either the democratic or republican party, that is not democracy, that is oligarchy. [cheers and applause] >> [chanting] bernie, bernie, bernie. sen. sanders: our first fight is to overturn the citizens united decision. [applause] sen. sanders: our fight is to make sure we have one of the highest voter turnouts in the world, not one of the lowest. [applause] sen. sanders: our job is to end republican voter suppression. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: you have cowardly republican governors who are working overtime, trying to make it harder for people to participate in the political process. our job is to make it easier, not harder, to increase the voter turnout. [cheers and appl
sanders: oh, you know the koch brothers. [laughter] sen.ders: they and their billionaire friends are prepared to spend $900 million on this election cycle. [booing] sen. sanders: their goal is to elect candidates who, of course, will represent the rich and the powerful. when you have a handful of billionaires -- a handful -- spending more money on a campaign than either the democratic or republican party, that is not democracy, that is oligarchy. [cheers and applause] >> [chanting]...