he's now working for coke sacks dot com which is the the public office of koch industries and his job is to kind of tailor the message and attack people that are coming after him so his focus right now is on robert greenwald for the film that he's producing his focus is on the new york times is focuses on and this n.b.c. and then to a lesser extent people like myself you know actually going after them and attacking them and what's so unique about it is that it's particularly bullish and it's particularly unprofessional now in my case i was convicted of nuanced overbroad terrorism statute that in two thousand and six called the animal enterprise terrorism that at the time the animal rights protection act and so he utilized this to essentially smear all the activists that were in attendance and to speak up on behalf of all the activists that were in attendance i was but one individual those present at the protest volunteered to help coordinate draft and distribute the press release but in terms of everything else that happened there were hundreds of individuals that helped make that act

coke industries is run by billionaire brothers charles and david koch. helped to bankroll the tea party movement and dozens of other right-wing causes. the cover letter by coke industries president and chief operating officer dave robertson said -- the package also included an anti-obama editorial by charles cooke and a pro-from editorial by david koch. cook industries and other corporations are legally allowed to pressure their workers to adopt political views at the ballot box because of citizens united supreme court decision. the ruling granted free speech rights to corporations effectively removing regulations preventing employers from politically manipulating their workers. in related news, florida billionaire david siegel recently informed his 7000 employees that a vote for obama would endanger their jobs. meanwhile, the coal company murray energy allegedly coerced its employees into supporting republican candidates. for more, we go to washington, d.c., where we're drawn by the author of the expos 8, mike elk of "in these times as good magazine. th

empllyees of koch industries receivvd a vooer information packet thissmonth. included compann's presidenttdavid robertson warring that if phere's a second obama term, than 50-thousand us employees and contractors may suffer the consequences including higher gasoline prices, runaway dissributeddat other been companies. thh ceo of westgaae it bluntly: if any new taxes are levied oonme, or my company, as oor curreet prrsident plans, i will have no choicc but to reduce he size of this company. and the head of thh murrry eeergy corporation blamed the obama admmnistration for recent payoffs at his company."yes, ma'am, president obaaa is resppnsibleeentirely for the closureeof that mine and the loss of those jobs."the progress calls these charges - and e--ailssby ceos outrageous. &pall the cards responsible or that person's job, pressuuing peally threattning their &peeployye to vooe a certain way, it's very undemocraaic." speakknn o independent business ownnrs has urged themm toocarry on to wii over votes. pnothing illegal about you talkinngto your eeployeess for the

two weeks ago, employees of koch industries received voter information packets full of company-endorsed republicans warning that "employees and conctractors may suffer the consequences of voting for president obama and other democrats." "realistically, the best they could do is file a complaint with the nlrb under nlra to voice their right as a unified group of employees." labor attorneys say this trend will likely lead to modifications on how the citizens united decision is applied to employees in the workplace. the ruling is only two years old. until then, private sector employees have far fewer protections against management retailitation than their public sector counterparts. as the presidential candidates warm up for tonight's town hall style debate, there is already a clear winner: broadcasters. more than $2.5 billion has been spent on political ads airing on television this election season. 67.2 million voters watched the first presidential debate. it's expected tonight's debate could top 68 million. behind the scenes, recent numbers show the romney camp outspending the president

you can't criticize the owners of koch industries on your facebook page on your personal facebook your personal facebook page and there was actually a guy we did a story on them last year and we quoted a georgia pacific worker a warehouse worker now he was called out called in to meetings with his supervisors where they try to mount over this and since he was in a union they couldn't quite fire him right away and they didn't want to fire the guy because you know he was quoted in an article but when he went to go get a promotion he got a perfect score in his evaluation he got a three point seven out of four and all great marks all the other analytics that go into it but they noted in his evaluation that he talked about politics too much on the job or so here you have this culture and now the koch's have also implemented a new policy which is that if you want to run for elected office or serve on the board of a nonprofit you have to get approval from your boss so if you want to be on the board of you local church you have to go to your supervisor and say hey i'm a member of the mormon ch

joining us now is nancy, the spokesperson for koch industries. i'm going to quote from the letter.lieve any decision about which candidates to support is as always yours and yours alone based on the factors that are most important to you. you're saying, i put it to you, nancy, with a smile on my face, the koch brothers are telling their employees get out there and vote for romney, right? >> it's just ridiculous, i mean, we've gone past the sublime to the ridiculous. i was saying i would say that i was shocked at the selectivity of their analysis of this letter, but i simply am not. it's been one thing after another, obviously, this election cycle. we're very proud of our employees, and we posted this on our website, i think on october 44h, in a completely transparent manner and we expect them to make the right decision. the right decision being vote for mitt romney. i can read these things and so can you, nancy, come on, now what, vote for romney. >> well, what it does, certainly says is that koch pac employees supported political action committee has supported mitt romney and we s

it a billionaire casino mogul like sheldon adelson or a massive transnational corporation like koch industries and employers can now use the power of their position. as the holder of the paycheck to implicitly coerce their employees to vote or lend support to whichever politician the c.e.o. wants or face consequences on the job many companies are doing exactly that including murray energy in ohio westgate resorts and the koch brothers georgia pacific corporation and mitt romney himself is encouraging employers to use this tactic it was june two thousand and twelve conference call with the national federation of independent businesses revealed and here it is i hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections and whether you agree with me or you agree with president obama or or whatever your political view i hope i hope you pass those along to your employees nothing illegal about you talking to your employees about what you believe is best for the business . because i th

two guys and i've heard of the koch brothers charles and david they have they have a company koch industrieswhich until citizens united made franken corp's citizens that could vote it was illegal for corporations to put money into political campaigns so they used a cutout called triad corporation and triad then had a front group called the coalition for our children's future which they used to savage twenty five democrats twenty five million dollars wiping out the democrats taking over congress for newt gingrich remember him without the brain in the loop super. illegal donations to campaigns and who set this up who is the third cut out nathan sproule in his operation so this goes way back that was a crime then they by the way the ninety's wasn't ninety's so i've been following these guys with cokes since back then so what they did was one of the things we talk about and billionaires and balance bandits is that what the billionaires do is they decriminalize their felonious behavior but it was still a felony crime when the koch's did this with sproull it goes way back then that's not it in we

alec, individuals and groups like the koch brothers. >> david and charles koch, the billionaire businessmen behind a vast industrialivists with an agenda. their companies and foundations have been alec members and funders for years. >> the koch brothers were among the two or three largest contributors to scott walker's campaign for governor of wisconsin. and the koch brothers get that if you really want to influence the politics of this country, you don't just give money to presidential campaigns. you don't just give money to congressional campaign committees. the smart ones, the smart players put their money in the states. >> hi. i'm scott walker. >>> it's state government that funds education, social services and it taxes. >>> if you want lower taxes and less government i'm scott walker, and i know how to get the job done. >>> and so the smart donors can change the whole country without ever going to washington, without ever having to go through a congressional hearing, without ever having to lobby on capitol hill, without ever having to talk to a president. >>> please raise your right hand and repeat after me. >

they found hundreds of corporations, from coca-cola and koch industries to exxon mobil, pfizer, and wal-marthink tanks and foundations. two dozen corporate law firms and lobbying firms. and some thousand state legislators a few of them democrats, the majority of them republican. >> alec is a corporate dating service for lonely legislators and corporate special interests that eventually the relationship culminates with some special interest legislation and hopefully that lives happily ever after as the alec model. unfortunately what's excluded from that equation is the public. >> in the wisconsin statehouse, democratic representative mark pocan is trying to expose alec's fingerprints whenever he can. by one count, over a third of pocan's fellow wisconsin lawmakers are alec members. >> when you look around especially on the republican side of the aisle, a lot of members of alec, front row, alec, when you start going down to the chair of finance and some of the other members are all alec members, in fact the alec co-chair of the state, row by row you can point out people who have been members o

and the organization that we've seen on the part of charles and david koch who are the heads of koch industries, they are the third and fourth richest men in america, people in america, both men. we know about bill gates and warren buffett, but these are number three and number four. combined wealth of $50 billion. they have put more money in -- by the way, i have to say this, they do some good things, particularly david koch who is the wealthiest man in new york city. you thought michael bloomberg was. no, it's david koch. but he funds the metropolitan opera, big supporter of it. the metropolitan museum of art, cancer research centers around the country. but most of their money goes into political activities, and they are everywhere. the heritage foundation in washington, d.c., koch brothers. the cato institute when it started, koch brothers. some of you may know now the koch brothers -- cato kind of went its own independent way, and the koch brothers are now suing the cato institute to get it back to be a totally controlled koch brothers' operation. people, americans for prosperity, the most

in response to these stories, koch industries released a statement that said "we make it clear aboutupport belongs solely to our employees based on the factors most important to them and this is in no way an attempt to intimidate employees." the statement also said many companies as well as labor unions provide similar information to their employees and their members. but you know, wolf, this discussion is going to continue on. some people saying it's not quite the same thing because in this case it's your boss saying, hey, look this is how you should vote and maybe your job is on the line based on the outcome. it's going to be an interesting discussion. i'm sure it will continue to, wolf, as we get closer to the election. >> lisa, thanks very much for that report. lisa sylvester working the story. >>> other stories, it's part of the election that might be debatable after all. jack cafferty is following that in the cafferty file. jack. >> debatable indeed. two down, one to go. that's the count when it comes to the number of presidential debates before election day. while these debate

and the organization that we've seen on the part of charles and david koch who are the heads of koch industries, they are the third and fourth richest men in america, people in america, both men. we know about bill gates and warren buffett, but these are number three and number four. combined wealth of $50 billion. they have put more money in -- by the way, i have to say this, they do some good things, particularly david koch who is the wealthiest man in new york city. you thought michael bloomberg was. no, it's david koch. but he funds the metropolitan opera, big supporter of it. the metropolitan museum of art, cancer research centers around the country. but most of their money goes into political activities, and they are everywhere. the heritage foundation in washington, d.c., koch brothers. the cato institute when it started, koch brothers. some of you may know now the koch brothers -- cato kind of went its own independent way, and the koch brothers are now suing the cato institute to get it back to be a totally controlled koch brothers' operation. people, americans for prosperity, the most

maybe it's the fact that the oil and gas industry in which the koch brothers are major players did not same federal assistance given to the auto sector. here is another so-called warning. they say the president is placing, i quote unprecedented business. such as what exactly. dodd-frank? some simple principles to prevent another cataclysm such as the one we lived through. how about the claim that the president is again i quote excessively hindering free trade. hindering free trade by doing what romney has been calling for for years? bringing unfair trade charges against china? again, what is their evidence or proof? none. not even a scintilla. finally they raise the specter of runaway inflation. really? interest rates are at an historic lows because there is insufficient demand within the system. and many economists are asking the fed to ignite inflation on the theory that it might spark consumption. the simple fact there is no meaningful evidence of inflation on the horizon, none whatsoever. i wish the koch brothers would pay attention to what the great senator patrick moynahan so wis

the people who are who are running this kind of stuff you know the neo cons the industries the ideologies the you know the koch brothers what do these guys actually believe about the nature of the world they have really worrying ideas about the nature of humanity they genuinely seem to believe that capitalism in its current form is the only and the best. well you know which could work. and they assume that every other alternative has to be false it won't ever work and at the same time please believe that might makes right so you know i may think that you know if you don't have might makes right there's going to be absolute chaos in the world so rather than have it all you have to have a group of elites who just basically decide making hard decisions that other people involved in and if easy to say you say and that goes in line perfectly with what i want to ask you about is the ideology that's not that messes necessitates these global systems from first to function. and in terms of the war on terror and the documentary you talk about how fundamentally you need to understand or you need to believe rather that th

massachusetts tells us that after complaints of injections received on the same day that koch got his shot, the fda and the industry did a joint investigation, and it is not clear if they were made aware of koch's individual case. they did not shut down the company, but they say that after an investigation of three years they gave necc a list of things to fix. and p put the company on probation for a year, but suspended the probation, he says, because the company did fix the problems. hoag's view, it never should have gone that way. could it have been prevented? >> they should have stuck to the original business of compounding and not crossed the line. >> reporter: we could not get a necc representative to comment on that. when asked about the koch case, they refused to comment citing confidentiality reasons. brian todd. >>> we have much more ahead this hou hour. >> here is a look at what is coming up. >>> playing politics with voter i.d.s and both parties are fighting it out in battleground states about who gets to vote and how. all morning with we are putting the voter i.d. laws in focus. gang member or home grow

industries any bombshells there. were one of our most fascinating years of the koch's support pro gun policies but a georgia pacific they banned we're going to bring guns to work but you know who no yeah we're all. descendants mike thanks a lot of the eurozone always great to see you like alex thank you this is just the latest example of how the super rich of a lot more free speech rights in america than working people do and since many americans are desperate for a job and they have to go along with what their bosses say just to be able to keep food on the table knowing full well. a vote for mitt romney is against their own best interests this is how the corporatocracy it's today. coming up wal-mart is the world's largest private employer but having so many employees may not be all agree with laws employers are threatening the strikes the latest in a wal-mart workers strike and what it means for black friday after the break. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought

. >> the koch brothers are the singest largest funders of -- >> oil and gas. >> the oil and gas industrythe coal industry. they are funding mitt romney and the republicans across this country. they want romney in because here is what romney is promising. one, he's going to do away with the tax breaks for wind energy but keep it for oil. he is going to do away with the fuel economy standards that increase the efficiency of the vehicles we drive up to 55 miles per gallon backing out 6 billion metric tons of co2, that's what obama wants to do, back out 3 million barrels of oil per day from the persian gulf, all the oil we import. the koch brothers want romney, and romney has promised to roll back the fuel economy incentives. it's going to endanger the planet, and it's going to endanger young men and women who have to go to the middle east to import the oil. >> professor, back in the '60s we called such people pigs. pigs, no, really. they don't care about the planet, don't care about the destruction of war, all they care about is their stuff, and they want more of it. is that what we're talk

[cenk uygur] koch industry subsidiaries have paid millions in environmental fines. [rachel maddow] the koch brothers are trying to stop the government from limiting greenhouse gas emissions. [olbermann] government regulators have fined koch industries and its subsidiaries tens of millions for oil spills and pollution over the years. [dr. jarrell] in 2000, a federal grand jury returned a 97 count indictment against koch industries in corpus christi, texas. they were charged not only with emitting more benzene than they were allowed to, they tried to cover it up. benzene is a known human carcinogen. people that are breathing benzene have increased risk of developing cancer. that's known. it's not suspected. it is known. [dr. jarrell] but the bush administration worked with koch to come up with a plea bargain, so it went from 97 count indictment to 1 count. the potential $350 million to just $20 million fine. as an environmental criminologist, watching this case evolve makes me sick. they know they can get away with it. they'll just wait and be fined. if they ever get c