koch brothers, of course, are the billionaire conservative brothers charles and david koch. if they could somehow be a single person, they would be the richest person in america. mr. and mr. koch inherited a privately owned oil and chemical corporation from their dad. that's where they got their money. and collectively, the two of them have more money than basically the rest of the world. and it is this koch brothers affiliated network that has now wandered all the way from florida up to alaska to tell people in alaska that they should pledge, they should promise to the koch brothers that they will not get health insurance for themselves and their families. congratulations to "the alaska dispatch" and "the alaska commons" for figuring out that story, for following that thread based on the stuff that was appearing in their state with no apparent authorship. but what they uncovered turns out to matter way beyond alaska, because it's not just happening in alaska. you might remember from back in the fall, the koch brothers funding these ads targeting college students. >> okay, l

>> the kochs have always been willing to push their ideologies at all levels.guys also behind the american legislative exchange council. and they pushed their agenda through model legislation that was anti-worker and pro-big business at the state level across the country. so this is something they've been doing in different ways across the country. i think the focus on the local, local level is relatively new, though, and particularly insidious. >> you know, james, if you look back at just how involved the kochs were in 2012, nay personally pledged to spent $60 million. a koch operative ran a secret bank that donated $236 million to conservative causes. leaders of the party go to their events. and even sent a letter to thousands of employees telling them to vote. including a friendly reminder that the company endorsed mitt romney. i mean, it was a multi-pronged approach. does that say to you? >> what it does is it outlines the sort of self-centered and sinister intent of the koch brothers and all of the affiliates and organizations that they fund. you know, wha

it's clear the koch brothers have a larger scale agenda.iowa was a democratic stronghold in 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. in a state that president obama won. now democratic congressman bruce brayly who is trying to warn people about the koch money floating into iowa. and he joins us tonight. i want to point out that we asked koch industries to come on the program with us tonight. they declined, but they did supply us with this statement. they say, the american energy alliance and americans for prosperity operate independent of of koch industries. we are not involved in their day-to-day operations and we do not direct the activities of their organization. congressman, is koch money floating into iowa? and is the mission to take the state? >> yes, it is floating into iowa. we see it in all 99 counties. the fact they intervened in this election in coralville, iowa, shows you how widespread and pervasive this problem is. and i think iowans are sick of it. >> they say americans for prosperity operates independently. you disagree? >> i'm

forced birth movement according to our age reality checks adele's stan tax documents show that the koch to puss directed pro-business groups have spent millions to fund legislative initiatives across america that are designed to shut her women's health clinics deny women access to contraception reproductive health services and of course abortions despite the millions that the koch proposes spent on the anti choice movement make no mistake about it they like the rest of the republican party in all probability don't care about making sure that all pregnancies are brought to full term instead they care about protecting the republican brand and the interests of big business and the only way to protect the republican brand keep republicans in power and to further the interests of big business is to keep getting republicans elected and you do that by bringing together a whole bunch of small sliver size single interest groups like the pro-life movement under one big umbrella in this case one big elephant and convince them that the republicans care about their issues. republicans have to build

reality check and politico have found that the koch their puss aka charles and david koch have spent tens of millions of dollars from their personal fortune to fund the anti choicer forced birth movement according to our age reality checks adele's stan tax documents show that the koch to puss directed pro-business groups have spent millions to fund legislative initiatives across america that are designed to shut her women's health clinics deny women access to contraception reproductive health services and of course abortions despite the millions that the koch proposes spent on the anti choice movement make no mistake about it they like the rest of the republican party in all probability don't care about making sure that all pregnancies are brought to full term instead they care about protecting the republican brand and the interests of big business and the only way to protect the republican brand to keep republicans in power and to further the interests of big business. is to keep getting republicans elected and you do that by bringing together a whole bunch of small sliver size sing

to used koch's language, it was nasty. ed koch did a book, jewellual -- rudy giuliani, nasty man. that was the title of the book. so i believe then, as i do now, that racial characterizations made by rudy played a big role, particularly as false allegations that we were soft on crime, because the facts show otherwise, and yet it remains that i lost the election by something like 44,000 votes, and were it not for the staten islanded secession vote which was on the ballot, things might have been different. you may recall they had on the ballot a question of whether or not staten island could secede from the rest of the city. now, i'm no legal scholar but i have to tell you that if i give you a mortgage on my house, i can't then go and sell the roof to somebody else. the whole house backs the debt. and the debt of the city of new york, all of the city of new york, stands behind the city's debt. i said marrow cuomo -- mario cuomo is a scholar. he was considered for a seat on the supreme court. i said he won't sign it. but it wouldn't get to him because mel miller, the speaker of the s

the koch brothers are pouring money into ads to ratchet up the fear factor. and this ad targets kay hagan of north carolina. >> people don't like political ads. i don't like them either. but health care isn't about politics. it's about people. it's not about a website that doesn't work. it's not about poll numbers or approval ratings. it's about people. and millions of people have lost their health insurance. millions of people can't see their own doctors and millions are paying more and getting less. obama care doesn't work. it just doesn't work. tell senator hagan to stop thinking about politics and start thinking about people. >> ads just like that one are being rolled out against louisiana senator landrieu and others. i used the example of virginia slims because it weighs to women who wanted to be sexy and thin and groovy and all that. what are they saying? you don't need health care. don't sign up. >> in fairness, they are trying to dissuade everybody from participating in this program, and they see women as a vulnerable group to go after here. the idea

the koch brothers are worth $68 billion. they want to block working class people from making a penny more than the current minimum wage. $7.25 an hour. it's immoral and unfair. and the american people are saying no. joining me now is congressman jim mcdermott, democrat from washington. the koch brothers thought they could buy this election. but instead, the people voted for fairness. what's your response? >> well, you know, al, sometimes people get kind of depressed about the way the current country's going, but when you look at what happened in see tack, washington yesterday you have to be optimistic about giving the power to the people. the people's initiative. they put it on the ballot. they voted for it. and they gave it a $15 an hour pay, i mean that is about $6 more than our standard hourly rate, which is about $9.15. people understand that you can't live on, even $9.15. you talk about the national one at $7.75. but we have much higher than that, and you can't live on that and support a family. so you have people worki

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koch raises birds this way back from the 1930s.se his turkeys for the humane lifestyle but also for the taste, which depends on their pure diet. >> it's a very clean-tasting turkey with no aftertaste. >> reporter: so people taste the difference. >> yes. >> reporter: lower stress leads to more tender meat. in the end it's a matter of personal preference and budget. vinita nair, cbs news, pennsylvania. >>> sheriff's deputies in west texas could not believe it when the calls came in. drivers reported a kangaroo on the loose in midland county. a patrolman's dashboard camera shows a four-foot cain ga rule hopping along the highway. they gave chase and cornered the kangaroo until the owner arrived. >>> well, coming up later on the "cbs this morning," reaction. we'll get answers from john dickerson. >>> plus, nuclear negotiations with iran. we'll speak with samantha powers. that's it for this morning on "cbs this morning." thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> your realtime

you introduced the koch brothers as republicans. they are libertarians more than republicans.ublicans have supported them in this country. this baffles me. since the founding of the country, the wigs and the federalists have supported the idea of public fire departments. ben franklin started the first one. if your house is on fire, we're going to collectively pay into making sure if someone's house is on fire, we'll put it out and save your house. aren't our bodies just as important in the libertarian wos say neither. they want to privatize the fire departments. and i think that this whole tearing apart obama care thing, this is an attempt to put our bodies out. and it is like this libertarian craziness -- >> this is a matter of fact. most of the fire departments in america are voluntary. there are relatively few. >> numerically. in in terms of the number of people -- a lot of little tiny towns in america. >> if you had gone to ben franklin and said we're going to have this groom of people and they're going on blossom, i think he would have said let's slow down a little bit. >

from ted from canada all the way to out of the gulf coast so that the koch brothers can make a hundred billion dollar profit refined into gasoline and diesel fuel and put it on ships and shipping it to china to mexico to to england to brazil i mean they're ready have the customers lined up this is not oil for the united states all we get is the smokestack crowd we get the poison we get the cancers we get we we're the sacrifice zone for the koch brothers profit if you're. a true tom that's just not true come on it's our industry that's going to benefit from this because it is a whole website isn't affordable energy supply in this country and think of all the thousands and thousands of joes are going to this energy is the keystone pipeline is not go into the united states it's going to refineries on the gulf coast and then the and then the stuff is being exported if it wasn't for export they'd end up in the middle of texas. if your statistics are true. i mean here you are comparing us to ireland i mean our country and ireland are two vastly different in size that make up energy use our c

to use ed koch's language, it was nasty. ed koch did a book, you know, rudy giuliani, nasty man. that was the title of the book. [laughter] [applause] so i believe, i believed then as i do now that racial characterizations made by rudy played a big role particularly his false allegations that we were soft on crime. because the facts show otherwise. and yet it remains that i lost the election by something like 44,000 votes. and were it not for the staten island secession vote that was on the ballot that year, things might have been different. you may recall they had on the ballot a question of whether or not staten island could secede from the rest of city. now, i'm no legal scholar, but i have to tell you that if i give you a mortgage on my house, i can't then go and sell the roof to somebody else. the whole house backs the debt. and the debt of the city of new york, all of the city of new york, stands behind the city's debt. so i said, well, marr owe cuomo is a brilliant legal scholar. remember, he was considered for a seat on the supreme court of the united states. i said mario

. >> you focus a lot on the koch brothers. why are they so significant today?> they fund so many different pieces of what has become the libertarian/republican machine, this notion that government is bad. the thing that people have to get is if you do not like government, fine, but if you anp administering, there is enormous vacuum. there are a whole lot of billionaires waiting to step into that vacuum. if we do not have government thelation of smokestacks, kochs make more money, but the rest of us get more cancer. >> their wealth comes from? witheir father cut a deal joseph stalin to develop the oil fields in russia. we have not been able to confirm all of it, but if the keystone pipeline is built, it goes to refineries in part owned by the koch brothers, and they could make $100 billion, which is more than what they are worth now. tell us about the man that rob a bank -- robbed the bank. a fellow who could not find a job, he had a growth in his chest he was concerned about. where do i go, what do i do? and gave anto a bank note to the teller and said that he

, and the refineries are not used to that. >> christ in ayers, kpix 5. >> police say the petroleum kocht was being transported was contained. >>> google is finally breaking its silence about that barge out on the bay, and looks like we were right all along. as kpix 5 firgs rortd weeks ago when we broke this story, the barge at treasure island is indeed meant for marketing and selg its products like google glass. the company confirmed it in a statement today but would not elaborate. >> i have to admit that we had a conversation wrep senttives of google to find out. there is an invitation to me to visit perhaps and understand a little more what they're doing. i take that opportunity up. >> up until now, san francisco mayor ed lee claimed he didn't know anything about the barge. we're also learning there is a possibility a second barge will soon be under construction on treasure island. >>> less than eight hours ago to hashtag ipo. twitter goes public tomorrow morning. the $26 share price values the company at about $18 billion. it will trade on the nyse, new york stock exchange, under the

amended hundreds of times what's their latest strategy though is tailgating a group funded by the koch brothers is sponsoring tailgate parties at college for college football games they give away pizza bear misinformation distortions about what young people's options are under the health care law this is a couple of republican billionaires telling college kids how to trade away their insurance options and their future economic security for pizza and bear stuff and you introduced the koch brothers as republicans one of them ran for president as a libertarian and these guys are libertarians more than republicans we have and republicans have supported in this country and this is the thing that baffles me since the founding really of the country the the the whigs in the federalist before you know the ancestors the republicans have supported the idea of public fire departments and ben franklin started the first one if your house is on fire we're going to collectively pay into the end to making sure that if somebody's house on fire we're going to put it out we're going to save their house on

the koch brothers -- >> cloner than that, at least.er than that. >> but this is the same thing the koch brothers have done the last 20 years. they have an agenda and they're using different public relations tactics to get people on their side. if you -- a couple of years ago they went out and had a festival giving out free barbecue to senior citizens to get them to call their senator and oppose environmental regulations. this is the same type of thing except on another level. they're trying to win the hearts and minds of young people so they can san taunl healbotage h. in the end it's very dangerous because if these young people don't have health insurance and get sick, they're going to have a lot of debt. >> no one got food poisoning or anything from this event but if there's one demographic republicans may lock in it really is younger people. if they use these means to attract at least attention, that could keep attention of the youth vote for a minute or two. >> whether tailgate parties or not are the way to get there, i can't comme

they would say you're too old for the koch brothers. i'm not. sometimes i can convince them of that, but sometimes they slam the door. >> now we tried to reach out to the local chapter of americans for prosperity, called him and september e-mails but no respond today. >> diane, what's the final take, the outside money, helping or hurting in ma mayoral race? >> it's hard to say. this has been the largest voter turnout from municipal election in a decade, but so far only 10% of the 11,000 registered voters have turned out, so it's hard to say. maybe it's a muted reaction, you could say. >> there you go, we found a word. diane estherbrook. >>> 16-year-olds can barely drive. legally they ca they cannot drin tacoma they can vote. this is the first city in the nation that 16-year-olds will be able to vote. city officials say 90%, 90% of eligible young voters have registered. and for complete coverage of the day's elections any time, anywhere, we invite you to head over to our website at www.aljazeera.com. we've got stories on key races and results as

tell me how these men like david koch impacted the race. >> it's a he thing.onef the pies of fall oufrom the citizens united decision. in terms of the 2012 race candidates like newt gingrich and santorum would have had to close their candidacies down early if they didn't have foster freese and rick santorum ks they maged to elongate it. i think no question into 2016 there's billionaires and miionaires we talked about they feel burned. ey feel as thoug their mone wasn't spent who confusedhe republican establishment with the reas grass roots to take whoever the democratic nominee is in 2016. >> the book is great. thank you so much for your time. we appreciate . >>> up next, a holiday air fares areoaring to new heights but u might be a like away from >>> 25 million americans will trek home for the holidays. viting won't be cheap. travel costsave come up and last mute deals are harder to find. oining us now is tral and leisure mazine edir mark orwoll good to see you. thanks for joining us. the price of travel is expected to rise acss t board for frights d hotels.

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you know, there are a lot of other ways that the kochs spend money to influence policy.u know, remember where this money comes from. this is a private company engaged in the fossil fuel industry. so, you know, and they have decided that they're going to have as much say as they can in the political process. and therefore because of the system we have, fossil fuels have this insane amount of extra leverage in our system. >> and, bill, i think we must really understand the american public must understand what's going on. we can laugh at these conspiracy theories, but backing with this money and drumming it in people's heads, some of it will stick by people who want to innocently protect their families. >> like helicopters, this is it. all over again. never goes away. >> ryan grim and bill press, i'm going to let it go on that line, bill. thanks for your time tonight. >> my pleasure. >>> coming up, my meeting with oprah. that's ahead. >>> my meeting with oprah. so what does she ask me? i'll tell you next. [ woman 1 ] why do i cook? to share with family. [ woman 2 ] to carry

the money which republicans also like to do, then you have wealthy republican businessmen like the kochhers who can contribute $18 million to slander a democrat and no one ever knows who did it. >> why do the koch brothers want to remain secret like the lone rangers? why -- most people when they give money to hospitals for example, they want their name on the door. why do they want to keep it secret? >> well, in polite company, it's not considered appropriate to engage in this kind of skull duggery and character assassination. i think it has to do with the cocktail association. in this case they want to hide and they're doing a pretty good job hiding under rocks and hiding behind anonymous campaign filing reports. >> again, let's go back to a topic we have talked about before. i don't think everybody who is a republican is a racist, but i think they think blacks tend to vote democrat. it's just political advantage they achieve by denying people their constitutional rights. >> that's right. that's right, chris. these laws were surgically crafted in ways to hit african-americans, latinos,

but the billionaire right wing koch brothers are moving full steam ahead.their group americans for prosperity spent a record $122 million in the 2012 election. a spokesman says when we see opportunities to engage on our issues, we go all in. you can expect that to continue. but it's not just a clash of the big money guys. sarah palin spent the last week ripping anti-choice, anti-gay marriage, and anti-gun control chris christie for not being conservative enough. so what's going on inside the gop? i'm going to say chaos. can i get a round of applause for chaos? survey says, chaos. chaos is correct. and this is one family feud that isn't ending any time soon. joining me now are cynthia tucker and krystal ball. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having us, rev. >> cynthia, do you agree the feud between the cheney sisters is part of a bigger republican sic civil war? >> well, of course it is. let me first say i have sisters and i'm sad to see two sisters publicly fighting this way when they've been close before. but let me also say i don't blame mary cheney a

and the kings of fear, the right wing billionaire koch brothers, the same guys behind the crazy uncle sam ads are attacking obama care with more scare tactics. the americans for prosperity group they support is launching a $3.5 million ad campaign. take a listen. >> millions are paying more and getting less. obama care doesn't work. it just doesn't work. people don't like political ads. i don't like them either. but health care isn't about politics. it's about people. >> yes. the health care is about people. people they are trying to scare. but they're the ones who are scared. here's why. as of this week, 50,000 people have chosen health care plans from the federal exchange website. that's up from 27,000 at the end of october. the number of people signing up has almost doubled in just a few weeks. enrollment is up in many of the states running their own health care sites. since the law passed, health care spending has risen at the lowest rate ever. a republican who ran on expanding medicaid won a congressional seat in louisiana. and nearly half a million more people will be covered in

. >> you write about the koch brothers and other folks like that.we have the rich, the super wealthy having an out sized amount of control over our political system, especially our elections and way we make laws, do we even have a true democracy at this point? >> arguably not. we have a corporatal garty and you can thank the supreme courts to a large extent for this. >> but it pre-dates citizens united, going back to the powell memo and even before that. >> the powell memo is the beginning of the modern era war on base beingally working people and government on the idea of governance. but if you go back to the 1920s, it's the exact same game, just different games. back then it was the rockefellers and morgans and now it's the koch brothers and so on. >> as a nation, we faced crisis a number of times, handful of times. this is one example of that, but you say the difference between this impending crash is we're going to be forced to embrace this moral motive versus a prophet motive. walk us why it's important morally. >> this is the important thing t

i wonder if the koch brothers will pay for their health insurance. whether it is judicial nominees, mell watt being nominated to run an administrative agency, they just don't care. they want to stop obama. they believe he is illegitimate or the tea party party at least do. did you watch mcconnell? he was sweating like nixon in the first debate. he was angry but also upset because they over played their hand. the truth is had they confirmed several of these appointees to the federal circuit court they would have gotten away with blocking a lot of people through filibuster because you wouldn't have gotten 52 democrats to do this. >> we talked about the theory but the reality is this is actually affecting people's lives, how americans live every day. i'd like you to take a listen to what the president said about that. >> repeated abuse of these tactics have blocked legislation that might create jobs. they defeated actions that would help women fighting for equal pay and have been used to even block common sense and widely supported steps to protect more

ed koch settled. give shelter bed to every man in need of one. then we had to sue for women.kids. >> one of the things i am fascinated by, explaining to people who don't know new york explain what some of the impediments to homeownership in new york are or getting a lease in new york are. at fordable housing problem -- the affordable housing problem has been huge and worse now than ever? >> it's become so much worse. we have destabilization. in other words, back during the pataki era, they let laws go through so now, landlord if you had an affordable unit if they do a certain amount of repairs can take that apartment and put it on the market rate. for instance the building i live in when i moved in. 25 years ago there were all of us were rent stablized. there are three left. in my building i am living in. you see economic inequality tearing away at new york. >> worse now than ever. >> feeding record homelessness in new york city. tonight we have 51,000 people in homeless shelters including 21,000 kids. when somebody has, you know, an illness in their family or, they have to s

well here's one that is sure to warm the koch els of your heart. you all remember two years ago when the students at uc davis holding a sit-in terrorized the campus sidewalk with their butts and had to have their eyes pepper boarded. it was a dark story that gripped a nation. but will you be happy to know the victim has finally been compensated. >> john pike, the campus police officer at uc davis who pepper sprayed those protestors will receive $38,000 in workers comp for the depression and anxiety he suffered in the aftermath. >> stephen: folks-- i know, i'm happy too. it is the biggest payout for assaulting people's eyes since transformers 3. (laughter) so i want to give a tip of the hat to john pike for finally getting compensation for the brutality of john pike. this man cannot walk down the street without being called a pepper spray guy. and that stings. not as bad as pepper spray but still pretty bad. because the cornea coddlers out there turned this guy into the worst thing you could possibly become, an internet meme. an internet meme! so fo

. >> i am denise koch. >> i am vic carter. >> an upset in annapolis the city officially has a new mayor. he is a republican in a city dominated by democrats. wjz live just back from annapolis. megan went one on one with the mayor elect. >> reporter: with one of the tightest races ever in the city of annapolis. the votes separated candidates by less than 1%. a nail biter in analis. >> the voter is not in the city limits. >> reporter: more than 25 hours over two days, reviewing and counting absentee and provisional ballots. >> this count is over. >> reporter: three days after election day it is official. republican beats the democratic ] by just 59 votes. >> voters have spoken. >> reporter: we caught up with him after the big win. >> did you ever think it was going to come down to 59 votes. >> not at all i thought i would win by a lot or lose by a lot. >> reporter: challenges may be just beginning he is the first republican mayor in more than a dekate in a democrat dominated city. at just 30 years old he will be one of the youngest mayors in the city's history. annapolis residents tell wj

a group fund by the koch parties are throwing tailgate parties to educate young people p.m. it's more like a drunken frat party to discourage enrollment. >> members of the hilary super p.a.c. will gather to plot how mrs. clinton will win the presidency in 2016. >>> new polling finds strong support to raise the minimum wage. 76% of americans back increasing it from 7.25 an hour to $9. senate leaders say they will hold a vote on the legislation before thanksgiving. >>> a group in boston is exploring a bid for the 2024 olympics. the "boston globe" reports former presidential candidate memorabilia has come on board to bring the games to his home town. he ran the 2002 winter games in salt lake city. >>> senator john mccain is turning down another bid for president. the arizona republican says while he's getting a lot of pressure to run it's not on his radar. he will be 80 come 2016. it's time for our "first look" of politics. joining me here is ellis. tell me about the results of this new poll. there's been so much talk since chris christie's win last week about his ability to pu