our guest now is lee fang, reporting fellow at the nation institute and blogs about money and politicst the republican report. he did a recent investigation titled, "mitch mcconnell's freighted ties to a shadowy shipping company." about how ifogged the gop takes the senate, climate change deniers will control key committees. why don't we start there and then go back to mitch mcconnell. talk about what the republican senate will look like when it comes to the leadership of the committees. among those who won last night was oklahoma senator inhofe. >> good morning, amy. this republican majority owes its fortune to a small number of fossil fuel companies, the brothers,ve koch natural gas copies were big campaign spenders. the next congress, we will see some of the most about climate change deniers taking control of key congressional committees in the senate and in the house. in the senate, senator jim inhofe, the most outspoken critic of climate change science will take control of the environment committee. senator ron johnson, another outspoken critic of climate change science and take c

carolina can continue to exploit workers. >> you're talking about money in politics, which brings us to lee fangorting fellow at the investigative fund, blogs about money and politics at republic report. lee, can you talk about what you're found when it comes to dark money? amy, we unfortunately don't know a lot about the donors in this election. a lot of analysts who have taken a look at the midterms are calling this the dark money election. we're seeing hundreds of millions of dollars being poured into campaigns through 501(c) for nonprofits or 501(c) six business leaks. these are groups that do not have to report their donors. we still don't know actually the proportion of the funds things better the seagulls until after election day because some of this is just coming in, a lot of these groups just went on air in the last few weeks. we took a look at this dynamic in a recent piece for the nation when the citizens united decision was handed down, just as anthony kennedy made a distinction and said that these outside money groups, these independent expenditure andittee groups, super pacs dark

carolina can continue to exploit workers. >> you're talking about money in politics, which brings us to lee fangorting fellow at the investigative fund, blogs about money and politics at republic report. lee, can you talk about what you're found when it comes to dark money? amy, we unfortunately don't know a lot about the donors in this election. a lot of analysts who have taken a look at the midterms are calling this the dark money election. we're seeing hundreds of millions of dollars being poured into campaigns through 501(c) for nonprofits or 501(c) six business leaks. these are groups that do not have to report their donors. we still don't know actually the proportion of the funds things better the seagulls until after election day because some of this is just coming in, a lot of these groups just went on air in the last few weeks. we took a look at this dynamic in a recent piece for the nation when the citizens united decision was handed down, just as anthony kennedy made a distinction and said that these outside money groups, these independent expenditure andittee groups, super pacs dark