Bloomberg Game Changers to Examine to Koch Brothers Dynasty

The richest brothers in the world own a company that most Americans have never heard of…yet their political activism has altered U.S. politics and their family feuds rival those on "Dynasty." 

Tomorrow at 9pm, “Bloomberg Game Changers” profiles billionaires Charles and David Koch, who quietly built a fortune running Koch Industries, an industrial conglomerate with interests in everything from oil and gas to trading and paper products.

Bloomberg Television explores how the brothers' deeply held Libertarian convictions inspired them to spend millions to founding think tanks and PACs including Americans for Prosperity foundation, a major supporter of Republican candidates during the 2010 midterm elections and beyond.

The program also explores the brothers' high-profile legal battle with sibling Bill Koch over control of their multi-billion dollar empire, including whistleblower lawsuits and an attempted boardroom coup.

Interviews include: John Damgard, David Koch's high school classmate at Deerfield Academy; Ed Clark, the 1980 Libertarian Party presidential candidate who chose David as his running mate; Phil Kerpen, Vice President, Americans for Prosperity; Leslie Wayne, who spent 25 years covering Koch Industries for the New York Times; Nancy Pfotenhauer, who served as Director of Koch Industries' Washington, D.C. office and is now a spokesperson for the company; John Farrell, senior reporter at the Center for Public Integrity and Brian Doherty, senior editor at Reason magazine.