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Free market zealotry even if it backfires on republicans. a recent expose in bloomberg's "market" magazine revealed koch industries made improper contracts in six countries dating back to 2002 including iran. this has redoubled democrats' publice esfforts to try to turn the koch brothers' influence against republicans. joining me now is politico's ken vogel. thanks for joining me tonight, ken. >> great to be with you, lawrence. >> ken, what about the taint now on the koch brothers from the bloomberg expose about them being involved in illicit transactions with iran? is there the potential for ...

Congressional campaign that won back the house of representatives for republicans. politico now reports that rove and the koch brothers can no longer agree on how to spend their hundreds of millions of dollars in the 2012 election and now find themselves competing where they used to be cooperating. cracks in the relationship began to appear last summer over the debt ceiling debate when the rove team supported speaking john boehner's bill to increase the debt ceiling and the koch brothers' organization pressured conservatives to oppose it. politico's ken vogel write, some koch allies blame what...

Prosecutor. but it will dominate the headlines. you will hear a lot more screaming from donald trump about the media, that's for sure. >> what do you think? house intelligence chairman said the house would not engage in a witch hunt and he said this is almost like mccarthy revisited. what do you make of his statement? >> you know, i think it is a step too far to say that the idea of thinking about appointing a special prosecutor is a witch hunt. that is not at all what this should be. what we need is we need a thorough investigation from an independent authority into what happened, if anything...

Because of the excessive violence. >> sure. here is the thing. there's a lot of different ironies here on that part. the irony the police have to be paid double overtime. the protesters hate the police, they are being paid double overtime that goes to city coughers. the money may have gone to a free lunch program. you are draining the system, you are rewarding the people you have animosity against and making an entire town and city financially more vulnerable. how crazy is this? ultimately, it backfires. >> incredibly disturbing the direction some of the protests have taken. i have no problem ...

That was the strategy back then. and you know what? it worked. the ultimate effect of this aggressive pushback against birtherism, was that birtherism became more of a liability for the birthers themselves than for the secret kenyan and muslim and indonesian guy they were trying to destroy. it was a totally race-based stunt. and because of the fight back strategy of the obama campaign it backfires. late last night, a kansas newspaper that previously endorsed a republican congressional candidate named tracy mann abruptly took back their endorsement because they learned that tracy mann is a birt...