Cenk Uygur
@TheYoungTurks·6.5M subscribers·72.8K videos
Marco Rubio Denies Koch Habit
Posted
June 17, 2015
Views
86,743
Likes
1,182
Comments
189
Engagement
1.58%
June 17, 2015
86,743
1,182
189
1.58%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
6:08Now Playing"At the January meeting of the Koch brothers' donor network, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) scoffed at the idea that the deep-pocketed contributors he had come to court for his presidential bid want anything in return for all the money they pump into politics. "I don't know a single person in this room has ever been to my office," he told ABC News' Jonathan Karl, who was moderating a panel that included Rubio.
Maybe.
The attendees at that event were not publicly identified, but a number of major donors to the Koch network and participants in earlier conferences organized by the billionaire brothers spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying Washington last year. And a number of lobbyists employed by organizations represented at Koch confabs have donated to Rubio—and hosted fundraisers for him.
It's possible the donors Rubio was hoping to impress at the January conference—organized by the Koch brothers as part of their effort to raise as much as $890 million to sway the 2016 elections—are writing checks to candidates for purely altruistic reasons."
Read more here:
Cenk Uygur () & John Iadarola (Think Tank; ) of the Young Turks break it down.
Get The Young Turks Mobile App Today!
Download the iOS version here
Download the Android version here
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
