reporter: weeks before that, another progressive blogger posed to make this prank phone call to scott walker. hi, this is scott walker. scott, david koch, how are you? i m good, and yourself? reporter: democratic activists see a curtain being pulled back, revealing one of the most powerful and mysterious forces in politics. they ve been able to operate in secrecy and use vast amounts of their personal wealth to control our democracy. reporter: two of the world s richest billionaires control koch industries, a manufacturing giant with products ranging from petroleum to paper cups. they ve used that wealth to back conservative causes aimed at shrinking the size of government. campaign contributions, lobbying, the funding of political groups or non-profit groups. they seem to be doing it all? they seem to be doing it all because they have the ability to do it all. reporter: candidate contributions from the koch s
they say there s no clarity yet that governor walker s budging move at this point. they say the moves are confusing and suspicious and they re right to be suspicious. we heard the governor talking about his strategy for tricking the democrats to come back to the state capitol on the prank phone call when he thought he was talking to david koch, the oil and chemical billionaire. as a wisconsin senate democrats continue to be cautious and don t claim victory, it should be noted that implications nationally of the democrats winning the fight in wisconsin should probably wait for a bit. that would be premature. but the republicans losing this fight? not premature to look at that. they picked this fight weeks ago. it is relatively easy to have clarity about what they did. and i think it is important to have clarity about that. when this story about scott walker and the republicans losing the fight they picked gets told by the beltway press sometime in the next 24 to 72 hours whenever they h
they say there s no clarity yet that governor walker s budging move at this point. they say the moves are confusing and suspicious and they re right to be suspicious. we heard the governor talking about his strategy for tricking the democrats to come back to the state capitol on the prank phone call when he thought he was talking to david koch, the oil and chemical billionaire. as a wisconsin senate democrats continue to be cautious and don t claim victory, it should be noted that implications nationally of the democrats winning the fight in wisconsin should probably wait for a bit. that would be premature. but the republicans losing this fight? not premature to look at that. they picked this fight weeks ago. it is relatively easy to have clarity about what they did. and i think it is important to have clarity about that. when this story about scott walker and the republicans losing the fight they picked gets told by the beltway press sometime in the next 24 to 72 hours whenever they h
still out of state. they are not claiming victory on this yet. they say there s no clarity yet that governor walker s budging move at this point. they say the moves are confusing and suspicious and they re right to be suspicious. we heard the governor talking about his strategy for tricking the democrats to come back to the state capitol on the prank phone call when he thought he was talking to david koch, the oil and chemical billionaire. as a wisconsin senate democrats continue to be cautious and don t claim victory, it should be noted that implications nationally of the democrats winning the fight in wisconsin should probably wait for a bit. that would be premature. but the republicans losing this fight? not premature to look at that. they picked this fight weeks ago. it is relatively easy to have clarity about what they did. and i think it is important to have clarity about that. when this story about scott walker and the republicans losing the fight they picked gets told by the be
the governor s press conference yesterday with an ethics complaint against governor walker, that ethics complaint goes back to that february prank phone call made by a left wing blogger posing as a billionaire campaign contributor to governor walker, the allegation says because governor walker recruited expert that he violated campaign finance rules, the governor dismissed the claim as baseless, jon. jon: where does the governor s popularity stand with the folks who elected him after all this fighting? as this drags on, jon, we re seeing the governor lose popularity amongst wisconsin voters, not by the bucket load but dribs and drabs, the latest poll from the wisconsin policy research institute, saying that 51 percent of wisconsinites oppose his plan to ultimately limit collective bargaining, 46 percent are in favor. one thing that was very clear in this polling, what we ve seen throughout this 18-day process, is very few wisconsinites are on the