Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. America and everywhere around the world, the one that keeps people home from voting is as serious if not more serious. Yeah, i think thats exactly right. This is much broader than just about elections, as i mentioned earlier. Its broader than changing votes or anything like that. A lot of the activity that we see that is ongoing did not stop after 2016 and in some ways has actually grown. What we are seeing is a concerted effort to Pit Americans against one another, to make polarization more extreme. We are a pretty polarized country. But russia and others are taking advantage of that trying to turn us against each other in order to weaken us. One of the examples i cited this morning was actually of a fake page created by the Russian Internet Research Agency that used an issue like the Flint Water Crisis and Police Brutality as a way to try to influence americans views on an issue like syria. So theyre basically t
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Special counsels case. Then he called gates honesty into question. But charges were brought against manafort before gates agreed to cooperate with the special counsel. Many of the initial charges were based on missing Tax Documents and bank statements. Manaforts lawyers Accused Gates of embezzling money from the pairs Lobbying Firm during work with the ukrainiian politicians. Attorney prosecuting said the republican operative created cash out of thin air. Prosecutors ticked through some of the 30 million that he allegedly wired to the United States without declaring or paying taxes. Spenzing on things like moment renovations and clothes at stores in new york and Beverly Hills where he spent nearly 1. 5 million. Including a 21,000 watch, and a
couple levels. We have a federal Criminal Trial of the president of the United States former Campaign Manager on tens of millions of dollars of fraud. Thats a huge deal. Paul
company. she gets up early so she grabs her workout shirt and her yoga pants from let s say lululemon, a material containing like ra, both made by invista. she grabs jeans because they have cool max technology also made by invista. she makes sure to take the backpacks that contain another invista product. gets in her car and goes to work. the windshield and the side lights are made of a guardian glass with a tint on it. produced by srg global. guardian glass srg, another koch company. jane works in a building with windows made of guardian glass. it also has hardwood floors with wood made from georgia pacific, another koch brand. also made by invista. after a long day at the office, jane heads to the grocery store to pick up bread and corn,
belts in the engine. guardian industries, a koch company. at work, more guardian glass on the company s building. it s g it s good for temperature regulation. chic, hard woods floors, georgia-pacific wood, another koch brand. the cables linking up her computer conveniently, invista products, koch company. she has errands to run, heads to the grocery store, bread, corn, wheat, corn on the cob using koch fertilizer. gets home, nice house, sturdily built. made of georgia-pacific lumber. inside her son is doing his homework. the usb hub on the computer he s using made by molex, koch company. her daughter is listening to music padded with foam, koch. koch produced memory foam, exhausted from another long day.
there s a lot more, jane interacts with the world as you do, there are going to be things made by koch industries. joining me now from the washington post is sean sullivan who has not been following the koch industry as much but the story of this spat between the koches and donald trump. sean, this feud, how did it start? well, this is a pretty remarkable feud when you think about it. you have powerful conservative interests on one side of the party and then the leader of the party. basically at open warfare with each other. this is a feud that dates back really to the 2016 campaign. it has not been a secret that the koch brothers who are more traditional republicans do not espouse the same sort of views that donald trump does and what we saw over the past weekend when the koch network had their donor summit is we really saw the tensions reach a new high and the network and its officials basically express openly its disagreement with president trump and its unwillingness to back so