Very important podcast and author of the new book american oligarch. I found it incredibly detailed and informative. One of the first things that struck me reading the book is it like youre the perfect person for this because yo they have immersed yourself in a dork new jersey politics for a career and now we have not only trump and kushner with so many others running for president. Theres cory booker, rudy giuliani. Right now why do you think there are so many news workers and folks at the upper levels of power in american politics . Guest it is such an interesting question because for so many years but i was covering in the politics is new york and in the cold. Not of course people like Harvey Clinton who ran for president but somehow because new york was iowa or New Hampshire really wasnt in important states except for fundraising purposes and one of the things that happened when trump is elected president has to she was so of this world i have been covering, a world of the new York
Its the Biggest Company no one has heard of it almost every american probably comes into contact with a. But theres georgiapacific lumber like so many other products you are a consumer of the industries and it was an epic fight who is going to have the control of the company that the father started and the two that lost out are the ones you dont hear about. Host what do bill and fred do . Guest he started up his business of fossil fuels. It has call and gas. He has his company that had a different kind of coke and fred is a shy philanthropist who is very interested in the arts and gives money to all kinds of cultural institutions because the other brothers are splashy and like to get attention and david cokes is known to everybody in new york city because he is ablaze and on so many institutions but he likes to get attention for its where his older friend is quite quiet about it. Host when you refer to fred as artistic or you saying that hes gay . Guest i wouldnt say that i know becaus
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 . Guest charles koch and david koch are the ones that people think of the Koch Brothers. 11 wichita, kansas where Coke Industries is based. David lives in new york. He is the wealthiest in manhattan. They are actually two other Koch Brothers that people dont talk about too much. There is bill koch and fred koch. You talk about hear about them than about the mostly dont much in the headlines. Host why not . Guest they are not as political and in some ways they are losers and a huge family struggle but to this over the years. And at that kind of struggle and the family for who is going to control the family company. A huge privately owned company tha
Crowd at every step along the visit so far in washington. Tomorrow, just steps from here hell become the first pope to address a joint meeting of congress. Day two of visit already full of firsts, jim sciutto with how day one unfolded. Reporter he arrived at the white house in his iconic and under stated fiat hatch back. Holy father, on behalf of michelle and myself, welcome to the white house. Reporter the president , Vice President , secretary of state and 11,000 invited guests forming his first wrapped american audience. I hope to listen to and share many of the hopes and dreams of the american people. Reporter the pope, mild mannered but politically deaf addressed centers of the debate, religious freedom, immigration. As the son of an immigrant family, im happy to be a guest a in country. And climate change. It seems Clear Climate change is a problem, we can no longer be left to a future generation. Reporter after a final blessing for the american people. God bless america. Reporte
Today, but the county attorney kim fox who recused herself from the whole case early on, she stepped aside. She then came out through her people and let him go. The citys mayor and the superintendent will not amused. Watch. Do i think justice was served . No. This is a whitewash of justice. The position of influence and power then you get treated one way and another people get treated one way. Jussie smollett is still saying that he is innocent. Is there no decency in this man . It is Jussie Smollett who committed this hoax. Martha trace gallaghers life in our newsroom tonight with a growing fallout about all of this. Legal experts across the country state is highly unusual for a state attorney to completely backed down from a strong case without uncovering new evidence or new witness testimony. Yet the assistance attorney who dropped the charges made it sound like the stuff happens every day. Saying Jussie Smollett was treated like any other defendant who has no felony criminal backgr