Republicans on a local level are not touting the tax cuts because they know they re not working in their states, how dangerous is this? it is enormously dangerous. because charles and david koch and koch brothers now, because david s retired, but charles has come out and explained, you know, they re basically libertarian economic thinkers. they don t focus much on the social issues. they have a network of organizations that really educate voters about their policies and free market and charles has this really interesting idea. because as technology causes disruption of course in economies, uber s a great example of that, it causes did i rup disruption in our politics too. we re in this tumultuous time of we don t know the future of automation. wages have often been stagnant. people say because there s so much automation coming into yes. we re in that period. and david and charles koch have always said we always end up in a better place.
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Current political system in this country is rigged. we re excited because we re here in your boyhood home. yeah. and we re here in a place where your father once said of you, everybody likes charles and nothing worries him as long as work doesn t come too close. and i read your book and i m just wondering, was he afraid you were going to end up being one of those, quote, country club bums? i was 13 when he wrote that, and he had me work in virtually all my spare time, all my free time from the time i was 6. i started out digging dandelions and bailing hay and graduated to milks cow, shoveling stalls, fixing fences, and went up from there. so i was a little burned out on this stuff by the time i was 13. and also you have been chartably called a free spirit. you bounced around to eight different high schools eight
One-dimensional character. the great history of them is they have all of these issues that they re pros on, pro gay marriage. there are certain ideas. they re complex characters. and, by the way, in kansas they loathe formsubsidies. you hear it time and time again. it boils down to economics. for the kochs and other parties, just like trump, you have people that connect him. he s a billionaire, he s like me. in our next hour we talk more about the messages in charles book good profit and
So-called air capital of the world. yesterday we had the rare opportunity to sit down with charles koch in a wide ranging interview. we discussed his best selling book, his unique background and his very interesting thoughts on politics. plus david koch joined the conversation for the brother s first-ever joint interview. and that was fascinating. we got a chance to know them on a personal level and also ask those questions that people are asking. look who we have with us this morning. why doesnn t we have some people msnbc contributor mike barnicle. and senior white house
State university, our exclusive interview with david and charles koch, plus we ll talk with the university s president and the head coach of the school s powerhouse basketball program. and also peggy noonan joins us with her brand-new book. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back. (patrick 1) what s it like to be the boss of you? (patrick 2) pretty great. (patrick 1) how about a 10% raise? (patrick 2) how about 20? (patrick 1) how about done? (patrick 2) that s the kind of control i like. .and that s what they give me at national car rental. i can choose any car in the aisle i want- without having to ask anyone. who better to be the boss of you.
So that s number one. to do more work on the issues because the ideas i think that have transformed people s lives that people need to internalize it and work, but we need policies that allow them to do that rather than what we have now, this corporate welfare and these regulation that make it impossible for people who have nothing to get ahead. you know, mika, one of the things we wanted to do when we met charles and liz koch, started talking to them and david is actually get an interview to show that they re not the one-dimensional cartoon characters. anybody that watched that saw a guy that spent the majority of his time and focusing most of his fire on the republican establishment in washington, d.c., that s brought and paid for by crony capitalists, that raised the debt. i mean i could go down the list of things.
I need to be the soft-spoken one. can i ask this, why are there so many college kids up this early in the morning? [ cheering ] coming up on morning joe, our exclusive sit-down with charles koch in a wide-ranging interview. we find out his interesting business philosophy, and we get his 2016 take on the running roll of politics. stay with us. i found a better deal on prescriptions. we found lower co-pays. .and a free wellness visit. new plan.same doctor. i m happy. it s medicare open enrollment. have you compared plans yet? it s easy at medicare.gov. or you can call 1-800-medicare. medicare open enrollment. you ll never know unless you go. i did it. you can too.