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How Billionaires Bankroll the American Political System

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 27, 2017

Jane Mayer, New Yorker staff writer and the author of Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right  (Doubleday, 2016) which is now in paperback with a new preface, talks about how billionaires like the Koch brothers finance a tangle of conservative interests in our political system, plus discusses the national political news of the day.

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