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More than just a website. its a progressive force. this morning huffington post bloggers got a memo from arianna huffington and our next guest assuring them that the team will continue to operate as it always has. joining me now as promised is the founding editor of the huffington post. roy, good to have you with us tonight. have you talked to joe biden about this? is this a big fing deal? >> you nailed it. it is, ed. >> you know what? youve done a fabulous job over the years at huffington post ...

In the state of michigan have gone through that weve now got world class products that are being sold. sales are up. jobs have been preserved. >> no doubt. you got it right. the government has a place in all of this. where were the koch brothers, all these big billionaires that supposedly love america. it took the american taxpayer to love america which shows government can play a role at revitalizing manufacturing in america. so where is the strategy from here? >> yeah. absolutely. in fact, as ...

Citizens united. you know, that story was not told well. i know you told it. most main stream media didnt tell it. that they were the money behind citizens united. theyre the money and the influence behind federal judge appointments. theyre the money and influence behind congressmen who are as far right as you can imagine that are now up in congress because the kochs put them there. >> how are we going to get any environmental laws changed with this kind of power and this kind of muscle behind t...

Proposed climate change legislation. so they bought their way right into the congress. "the l.a. times" reported koch industries contributed nearly $300,000 to 22 republicans on the house energy and commerce committee. nine new republicans on the committee signed koch sponsored pledge to oppose the regulation of greenhouse gases. now you get the picture. and next on the committees agenda replacing restrictions on the environmental protection agency which we dont need. joining me now tonight is t...

You know, that story was not told well. i know you told it. most main stream media didnt tell it. that they were the money behind citizens united. theyre the money and the influence behind federal judge appointments. theyre the money and influence behind congressmen who are as far right as you can imagine that are now up in congress because the kochs put them there. >> how are we going to get any environmental laws changed with this kind of power and this kind of muscle behind the republican par...

Kitchen of an old house. you flip on the light and all kinds of creepy critters come rolling out because they dont like the light. thats the same thing here with the koch brothers. >> have they influenced the chairman, fred upton? this guy used to be a moderate on the environment and now of course hes doing pretty much the bidding for the koch brothers. >> ed, heres what they do. they take a guy like this and they say the cato institute says this. or the heritage foundation says this. or the ame...

Recognition about what they were doing in palm springs a couple weeks ago and all of a sudden they understood the american public that you and other people in the media understood what kind of adverse effect theyre having on democracy in this country, they started backing off. thats the only thing we can do here. you have to shine a light on it. its like walking into the kitchen of an old house. you flip on the light and all kinds of creepy critters come rolling out because they dont like the li...

>> editorial content. will it be more aggressive? will it be more liberal? what about it? >> ed, i think, and you know this. weve talked about this before. i think when you try to label things too much it can delegitimize. it is too easy to dismiss it. ed is on this side the spectrum so i dont have to listen but in fact were talking about issues and you do, ed, all the time, central to our democracy. i dont think they fall into this easy left/right dichotomy. afghanistan for instance getting out...

Just be supercharged by aols scale and resources and global reach but the huffington post brand as you say will live on and in fact will now be overseeing all of the aol content. >> editorial content. will it be more aggressive? will it be more liberal? what about it? >> ed, i think, and you know this. weve talked about this before. i think when you try to label things too much it can delegitimize. it is too easy to dismiss it. ed is on this side the spectrum so i dont have to listen but in fact...

1 plus 1 will equal 11. but to many, huffington post is more than just a website. its a progressive force. this morning huffington post bloggers got a memo from arianna huffington and our next guest assuring them that the team will continue to operate as it always has. joining me now as promised is the founding editor of the huffington post. roy, good to have you with us tonight. have you talked to joe biden about this? is this a big fing deal? >> you nailed it. it is, ed. >> you know what? youv...