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According to the reporters, here's how it came down. charles koch wanted to use hayek as an expert to give his think tank, the institute for humane studies, an intellectual drive -- or an intellectual rationale to get rid of social security. but hayek, according to ames and levine, was afraid of leaving the safety of the universal health care coverage he was enjoying in his native austria b by coming to america's rigged market place system. hayek feared the cost of america's health care. so koch, according to ames and levine, responded to hayek saying, do not worry about your social security s...

Sale installment of this coverage. in the 1940s, and even the 1950s, even though most in the medical profession knew that smoking was dangerous to your health, you had a lot of ads like this, bought and paid for by cigarette companies looking to sell cigarettes. >> what cigarette do you smoke, doctor? once again, the brand named most was camel. yes, according to this repeated nationwide survey, more doctors smoked camels than any other cigarette. >> flash forward to the 1970s. according to a new investigative report published in "the nation" magazine by a friend of the show mark ames and his c...

Mark ames broke this story, he was also one of the first to expose the koch family in very controversial early reporting that was met with d.c. insider suppression at the time. a pleasure to see you. so what is will? how many politicians, what exactly happened? sxwh we >> working on the story with a young journalist, you'll hear more from him soon, he's the one who got a hold of this. >> of the document. >> the letter sent out to the employees telling them thousahe to vote for down to the district. >> when you say telling him -- >> advising them let's say. but there's an unequal relationship b...

$88 million going into the 2012 elections. they are the very symbol of the unholy alliance between business and state that plagues this country. and with us are mark ames and yasha lavigne who are the two journalists who broke the stories about these journalists in 2009 before anyone even believed them. mark, you guys broke this thing and basically the story was crushed one way or the other. walk us through what happened with your journalism in the immediate days following the publication of the story? >> well, first, i have to say, we worked together at the "exiler" newspaper. so we were alre...

>> mark ames, how is it you can advocate a free market ideology when that core principal of a free market ideology is a market price. in other words, if you're manipulating the cost of oil, the koch brothers are uniquely doing that, but they're among those who are doing that. if you're artificially keeping credit cheap by subsidizing the banking system, which is in the politicians and the bankers interest, how can you claim to be in favor of free markets while simultaneously manipulating the core price of credit, food, and oil which then denies us all of the benefits of a free market? >> you k...