LEVER TIME: Exposing The Biggest Political Donation In U.S. History
In the new episode of our weekly podcast Lever Time, David Sirota is joined by the reporting team whose blockbuster story just exposed the largest political donation in U.S. history — $1.6 BILLION — and how it went to Leonard Leo, the man responsible for packing the Supreme Court with right-wing extremists (3:34).
David is also joined by The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert to discuss her reporting tracing how some top Republicans used to accept climate science — but then the GOP was bought by fossil fuel companies and became the party of climate denial (47:47).
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