impeached. i m so interested in people like you because you do have such a giant platform to influence american politics with the size of just frankly your checkbook. when you decide to spend money, are you doing it in a truly altruistic way? well, i m doing it because i think look, i think what we re doing is consistently, intentionally, solely to push for, you know, a broader democracy. almost 80% of americans, almost 8 out of 10 americans believe that our system has been purchased by corporations. they believe money is a problem. and i agree with that. so someone asked you what s the difference between you and david or charles koch, what do you say? i say we re transparent. they re not. they have pushed very, very hard for things that are extremely good for their bottom lines, and that is a complete difference. so you don t stand to make money off any clean energy. no.
help shift u.s. policy and politics in their favor, promoting huge tax cuts for the wealthy, supporting anti-labor candidates, funding efforts to crush renewable energy and almost all of the money came from untraceable donations. flowing through the kochs complex dark money network. so you might see an ad and it s funded by one of those groups, but you wouldn t necessarily know that group had anything to do with david or charles koch. because a lot of groups have these very bland names, america future fund or americans for job security. who is that really? what you would realize if you go through the paperwork, it was like a daisy chain of money. and if you were able to trace it back, a lot of it would come from this group of 400 of the richest, most conservative people in the country who work with the kochs and funded it.
of americans for prosperity s founders, billionaire industrial brothers charles and david koch. so who are the koch brothers? explain it to me. they are owners of the second largest private company in america. probably everybody has some product from koch industries in their life. like what? they make everything from stain master carpet to dixie cups to georgia pacific lumber. but they are huge proprietors of oil. are they representing the interests of a wide group of the american public or are their interests, can they boil down to how much money it makes them? the kochs would say that what they are pushing is something that they think is good for all americans. but if you take a look at it, what you find is it s especially good for the kochs. the kochs declined our request for an interview. but the reporting shows how americans for prosperity used money from like minded donors to
i m so interested in people like you because you do have such a giant platform to influence american politics with the size of just frankly your checkbook. when you decide to spend money, are you doing it in a truly altruistic way? well, i m doing it because i think look, i think what we re doing is consistently, intentionally, solely to push for, you know, a broader democracy. almost 80% of americans, almost 8 out of 10 americans believe that our system has been purchased by corporations. they believe money is a problem. and i agree with that. so someone asked you what s the difference between you and david or charles koch, what do you say? i say we re transparent. they re not. they have pushed very, very hard for things that are extremely good for their bottom lines, and that is a complete difference. so you don t stand to make money off any clean energy.
so who are the koch brothers? explain it to me. they are owners of the second largest private company in america. probably everybody has some product from koch industries in their life. like what? they make everything from stain master carpet to dixie cups to georgia pacific lumber. but they are huge proprietors of oil. are they representing the interests of a wide group of the american public or are their interests, can they boil down to how much money it makes them? the cokes would say that what they are pushing is something that they think is good for all americans. but if you take a look at it, what you find is it s especially good for the cokes. the cokes declined our requests for an interview. but the reporting shows how