1 00:00:01,067 --> 00:00:01,999 The world is too small, 2 00:00:02,068 --> 00:00:03,797 our wisdom too limited, 3 00:00:03,870 --> 00:00:07,328 our time here too short to waste any more of it 4 00:00:07,407 --> 00:00:10,342 in winning fleeting victories at other people's expense. 5 00:00:11,411 --> 00:00:13,072 The Clinton Global initiative, 6 00:00:13,146 --> 00:00:14,875 which brings philanthropists and CEOs 7 00:00:14,948 --> 00:00:17,508 together with non-profits to make concrete commitments 8 00:00:17,584 --> 00:00:19,984 aimed at some of the world's toughest problems. 9 00:00:20,053 --> 00:00:22,283 Almost 10 years in, they have leveraged billions of dollars 10 00:00:22,355 --> 00:00:24,915 in assistance in more than 180 countries. 11 00:00:24,991 --> 00:00:29,121 CGI was designed to tackle big global challenges 12 00:00:29,195 --> 00:00:31,789 in bite-size pieces with the conviction that 13 00:00:31,865 --> 00:00:35,266 regardless of size or scope, our problems will yield 14 00:00:35,335 --> 00:00:38,463 to concerted action and innovative partnerships 15 00:00:38,538 --> 00:00:42,838 of individuals, NGOs, businesses, and governments. 16 00:00:42,909 --> 00:00:47,175 We have to now find a way to triumph together. 17 00:00:47,247 --> 00:00:49,977 All the problems that we face, 18 00:00:50,050 --> 00:00:52,951 from climate change to financial contagion 19 00:00:53,019 --> 00:00:57,956 to nuclear proliferation, are too complex and cross-cutting 20 00:00:58,024 --> 00:01:02,358 for any one government or indeed for governments to solve alone. 21 00:01:02,429 --> 00:01:05,592 As we believe that ending hunger is not only possible, 22 00:01:05,665 --> 00:01:08,964 but it is both a moral and strategic imperative. 23 00:01:09,035 --> 00:01:12,436 Hillary Clinton is trying to shift the spotlight to global warming. 24 00:01:12,505 --> 00:01:14,905 The presidential contender unveiling her plans 25 00:01:14,974 --> 00:01:16,202 to combat climate change. 26 00:01:16,276 --> 00:01:17,573 Together with innovative partners 27 00:01:17,644 --> 00:01:19,475 from the public and private sectors, 28 00:01:19,546 --> 00:01:21,912 we're working to make homes, universities, and cities 29 00:01:21,981 --> 00:01:23,243 more energy-efficient. 30 00:01:23,316 --> 00:01:26,285 We share a common future 31 00:01:26,352 --> 00:01:30,345 and we are here to find common ground. 32 00:01:30,423 --> 00:01:32,550 Women must be empowered. 33 00:01:32,625 --> 00:01:34,616 It's classic Bill Clinton. 34 00:01:34,694 --> 00:01:37,959 By using his birthday to help the causes he champions, 35 00:01:38,031 --> 00:01:42,991 from combating climate change to obesity and even HIV/aids. 36 00:01:43,069 --> 00:01:46,436 Help bring new dignity and respect 37 00:01:46,506 --> 00:01:50,670 to women and girls all over the world. 38 00:01:50,743 --> 00:01:54,907 And in so doing, bring new strength and stability 39 00:01:54,981 --> 00:01:57,415 to families as well. 40 00:01:57,484 --> 00:01:59,008 We are trying to do something 41 00:01:59,085 --> 00:02:01,815 no one has ever done before. 42 00:02:01,888 --> 00:02:05,187 A new report today claims that the Clinton Foundation 43 00:02:05,258 --> 00:02:09,388 gives about 10% of its money that it raises 44 00:02:09,462 --> 00:02:13,193 to actual charities and the services that they offer. 45 00:02:13,266 --> 00:02:14,893 It has been reported you've made 46 00:02:14,968 --> 00:02:16,833 5 million making speeches. 47 00:02:16,903 --> 00:02:20,805 The president's made more than $100 million. 48 00:02:20,874 --> 00:02:23,274 Well, if, if you, 49 00:02:23,343 --> 00:02:24,640 you have no reason to remember, but 50 00:02:24,711 --> 00:02:26,076 we came out of the White House 51 00:02:26,146 --> 00:02:28,114 not only dead broke but in debt. 52 00:02:28,181 --> 00:02:29,671 6 years ago, Hillary Clinton was 53 00:02:29,749 --> 00:02:31,944 about to become Secretary of State. 54 00:02:32,018 --> 00:02:33,485 Barack Obama had nominated her, 55 00:02:33,553 --> 00:02:36,021 everyone knew she was gonna be confirmed by the Senate, 56 00:02:36,089 --> 00:02:37,716 gonna be confirmed easily. 57 00:02:37,790 --> 00:02:41,089 But there was a thought, there was a question, 58 00:02:41,161 --> 00:02:43,220 there was a doubt out there 59 00:02:43,296 --> 00:02:45,491 about a potential conflict of interest. 60 00:02:45,565 --> 00:02:47,897 The Clinton Foundation dropping its self-imposed ban 61 00:02:47,967 --> 00:02:51,494 on collecting funds from foreign governments and entities 62 00:02:51,571 --> 00:02:54,597 and now the "Washington Post" reports total contributions 63 00:02:54,674 --> 00:02:58,166 to that foundation amount to $2 billion. 64 00:02:58,244 --> 00:03:00,576 There's a lot of money sloshing around, 65 00:03:00,647 --> 00:03:02,808 everything is blurred, and it's not good. 66 00:03:02,882 --> 00:03:05,407 The questions scream out at me. 67 00:03:05,485 --> 00:03:07,680 What in the world happened with the foundation 68 00:03:07,754 --> 00:03:11,417 and these ulterior motives and this money and the email server? 69 00:03:11,491 --> 00:03:13,823 I'm sorry. Those scream out at me. 70 00:03:13,893 --> 00:03:17,761 The amount of schmoozing involved and crossing lines 71 00:03:17,830 --> 00:03:20,890 and one person putting money in a foundation 72 00:03:20,967 --> 00:03:23,527 and then Clinton getting unbelievable amounts 73 00:03:23,603 --> 00:03:26,834 for his speeches, contracts going one way or another. 74 00:03:26,906 --> 00:03:28,032 It's not good. 75 00:03:28,107 --> 00:03:31,406 I look forward to working with all of you, 76 00:03:31,477 --> 00:03:33,604 particularly the appropriators. 77 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,409 Uh, we have a lot of work to do 78 00:03:35,481 --> 00:03:38,473 and it is such important work that lies ahead. 79 00:04:12,518 --> 00:04:16,648 We did this with a very simple strategy. 80 00:04:53,693 --> 00:04:55,354 Africa is a continent that has been 81 00:04:55,428 --> 00:04:57,396 a chamber of horrors for decades. 82 00:05:07,774 --> 00:05:10,709 It's really not the fault of the African people. 83 00:05:10,777 --> 00:05:13,268 It's largely a result of the kind of system 84 00:05:13,346 --> 00:05:15,280 that's been perpetuated there. 85 00:05:15,348 --> 00:05:18,806 You have these oligarchs, which dominate these countries 86 00:05:18,885 --> 00:05:21,080 that oftentimes have natural resources 87 00:05:21,154 --> 00:05:22,621 that can be very lucrative. 88 00:05:22,689 --> 00:05:24,680 And these oligarchs strike deals 89 00:05:24,757 --> 00:05:27,783 with foreign corporations or foreign governments, 90 00:05:27,860 --> 00:05:30,590 who in effect prop them up and put them in power, 91 00:05:30,663 --> 00:05:33,860 and in exchange, these oligarchs give these entities 92 00:05:33,933 --> 00:05:37,027 access to rich mineral deposits. 93 00:05:40,506 --> 00:05:42,599 And the Clintons you would expect to be 94 00:05:42,675 --> 00:05:44,006 opposed to this sort of thing, 95 00:05:44,077 --> 00:05:46,102 and that's at least what their language does. 96 00:05:46,179 --> 00:05:49,945 Our countries have deepened our cooperation on many issues 97 00:05:50,016 --> 00:05:53,816 including good governance and transparency, energy, 98 00:05:53,886 --> 00:05:55,911 regional security, and advancing 99 00:05:55,988 --> 00:05:58,684 peace and development in the Niger Delta. 100 00:05:58,758 --> 00:06:00,749 The problem is, their words 101 00:06:00,827 --> 00:06:02,818 are different from their actions. 110 00:06:21,547 --> 00:06:23,412 But his critics say that far from 111 00:06:23,483 --> 00:06:25,610 entrenching democracy in Rwanda, 112 00:06:25,685 --> 00:06:29,519 he's actually eroding it by silencing his opposition. 113 00:06:35,561 --> 00:06:37,859 Paul Kagame has been praised by 114 00:06:37,930 --> 00:06:39,989 Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. 115 00:06:42,535 --> 00:06:44,196 But the fact of the matter is Paul Kagame 116 00:06:44,270 --> 00:06:46,067 has a terrible human rights record. 117 00:06:48,741 --> 00:06:50,902 He's accused of aiding military operations 118 00:06:50,977 --> 00:06:53,707 in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo... 119 00:06:53,780 --> 00:06:56,806 and that actually forced the recruitment of child soldiers. 120 00:06:58,284 --> 00:07:01,879 The U.N. has identified him as being involved in activities 121 00:07:01,954 --> 00:07:04,650 that entailed massive human rights violations. 122 00:07:06,025 --> 00:07:07,890 Newer opposition parties that have been formed 123 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,157 in the last year or two have, one by one, 124 00:07:11,230 --> 00:07:14,529 been silenced or otherwise excluded from the race, 125 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,034 and individuals, not only politicians 126 00:07:17,103 --> 00:07:20,004 but even journalists, for example, and other Rwandans 127 00:07:20,072 --> 00:07:22,267 who may have views different from those of the government, 128 00:07:22,341 --> 00:07:25,071 have found themselves at the receiving end of what has become 129 00:07:25,144 --> 00:07:27,669 quite a violent campaign of intimidation. 130 00:07:29,916 --> 00:07:33,113 Well, Paul Kagame is a friend of Bill Clinton's. 131 00:07:33,186 --> 00:07:38,920 I want to say a special word of appreciation 132 00:07:38,991 --> 00:07:42,154 for the leadership of president Kagame. 133 00:07:43,796 --> 00:07:47,527 I'm greatly humbled to receive 134 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,593 this Clinton Global Citizen award. 135 00:07:51,671 --> 00:07:54,572 He's actually given awards by Bill Clinton 136 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:56,938 for his conduct as the leader of that country, 137 00:07:57,009 --> 00:08:01,070 and they regale him as a great military leader. 138 00:08:01,147 --> 00:08:03,342 This is the sort of legitimization 139 00:08:03,416 --> 00:08:06,715 that we don't want of these kinds of dictators and leaders. 140 00:08:06,786 --> 00:08:08,310 That's the kind of legitimization 141 00:08:08,387 --> 00:08:09,854 that the Clintons have engaged in. 142 00:08:09,922 --> 00:08:11,787 And they've done it in a way that creates 143 00:08:11,858 --> 00:08:15,851 commercial opportunities for donors and friends and allies, 144 00:08:15,928 --> 00:08:17,793 who want to do business in Africa. 145 00:08:31,410 --> 00:08:34,937 Business in Africa means you are dealing with dictators who are 146 00:08:35,014 --> 00:08:37,949 gonna give you access to, say, mineral rights, 147 00:08:38,017 --> 00:08:40,383 or oil drilling rights, but you're going to 148 00:08:40,453 --> 00:08:41,613 have to pay them off. 149 00:08:41,687 --> 00:08:44,121 The Clintons partner with foreign entities 150 00:08:44,190 --> 00:08:48,593 who want access to Africa, and specifically mining companies 151 00:08:48,661 --> 00:08:51,391 or energy companies who need to get concessions 152 00:08:51,464 --> 00:08:57,232 for access to oil or natural gas or the rights to mine for gold. 153 00:08:57,303 --> 00:09:00,830 Those two make a powerful alliance because these companies 154 00:09:00,907 --> 00:09:02,738 will give money to the Clintons, 155 00:09:02,808 --> 00:09:05,470 either in the form of speaking fees or in the form of 156 00:09:05,545 --> 00:09:07,479 donations to the Clinton Foundation. 157 00:09:07,547 --> 00:09:09,105 And the Clintons will then, in effect, 158 00:09:09,181 --> 00:09:12,776 do their bidding before the halls of power 159 00:09:12,852 --> 00:09:15,047 and corridors of power in Africa, 160 00:09:15,121 --> 00:09:17,919 and they will go to foreign governments and encourage them 161 00:09:17,990 --> 00:09:20,220 to do business with individuals who are 162 00:09:20,293 --> 00:09:21,920 putting money in their pocket. 163 00:09:21,994 --> 00:09:26,055 And this leads to some amazing fits of behavior that, in a way, 164 00:09:26,132 --> 00:09:29,397 are just reminiscent of 19th-century colonialism. 165 00:09:29,468 --> 00:09:32,904 A perfect example of this is ambassador Joe Wilson. 166 00:09:32,972 --> 00:09:35,634 Joe Wilson is a longtime friend of the Clintons. 167 00:09:35,708 --> 00:09:37,505 In fact, he endorsed Hillary Clinton 168 00:09:37,577 --> 00:09:39,943 in the 2008 presidential election. 169 00:09:40,012 --> 00:09:42,810 And it was also thought that he might become a senior official 170 00:09:42,882 --> 00:09:45,043 in Hillary Clinton's State Department. 171 00:09:45,117 --> 00:09:47,051 But the fact of the matter is Joe Wilson was up to 172 00:09:47,119 --> 00:09:51,180 something far more nefarious during Hillary Clinton's tenure 173 00:09:51,257 --> 00:09:53,088 as Secretary of State. 174 00:09:53,159 --> 00:09:56,993 In 2009, shortly after she became Secretary of State, 175 00:09:57,063 --> 00:09:58,690 when Wilson was the vice chairman 176 00:09:58,764 --> 00:10:00,823 of a company called Jarch capital, 177 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:02,663 they took out a 50-year lease on 178 00:10:02,735 --> 00:10:06,034 400,000 hectares in South Sudan. 179 00:10:06,105 --> 00:10:08,369 South Sudan was in the middle of a civil war 180 00:10:08,441 --> 00:10:11,103 and this lease was actually signed with warlords 181 00:10:11,177 --> 00:10:13,702 who were involved in a civil war. 182 00:10:13,779 --> 00:10:15,371 These individuals who are engaged in 183 00:10:15,448 --> 00:10:17,143 massive human rights violations, 184 00:10:17,216 --> 00:10:19,844 including the massacre of opponent tribes. 185 00:10:19,919 --> 00:10:22,410 And basically, what Joe Wilson was engaged in 186 00:10:22,488 --> 00:10:25,980 was something called investing in sovereignty changes. 187 00:10:26,058 --> 00:10:28,856 They were basically cutting deals, lucrative deals, 188 00:10:28,928 --> 00:10:31,396 worth potentially hundreds of millions of dollars 189 00:10:31,464 --> 00:10:32,761 with these warlords, 190 00:10:32,832 --> 00:10:34,663 and the expectation was simple, 191 00:10:34,734 --> 00:10:36,793 these warlords would take power, 192 00:10:36,869 --> 00:10:39,133 then they would give them access to these lands 193 00:10:39,205 --> 00:10:41,696 where they could make huge amounts of money 194 00:10:41,774 --> 00:10:44,607 exploring for natural gas, exploring for oil, 195 00:10:44,677 --> 00:10:45,905 and for mineral rights. 196 00:10:47,346 --> 00:10:49,211 Ambassador Joe Wilson isn't the only 197 00:10:49,281 --> 00:10:51,249 Clinton friend and foundation donor 198 00:10:51,317 --> 00:10:53,808 who was working in war-torn countries. 199 00:10:53,886 --> 00:10:56,878 Swedish mining investor Lukas Lundin has pledged 200 00:10:56,956 --> 00:10:59,925 $100 million to the Clinton Foundation. 201 00:10:59,992 --> 00:11:02,017 He did that in 2007. 202 00:11:02,094 --> 00:11:04,426 And his most lucrative mining operations 203 00:11:04,497 --> 00:11:05,759 are in the war-torn country of 204 00:11:05,831 --> 00:11:08,197 the Democratic Republic of Congo. 205 00:11:08,267 --> 00:11:10,827 This is a country that perhaps has the most horrific 206 00:11:10,903 --> 00:11:13,895 human rights situation on the face of the earth. 207 00:11:13,973 --> 00:11:15,838 By the time Lukas Lundin made 208 00:11:15,908 --> 00:11:19,139 his $100 million pledge to the Clinton Foundation, 209 00:11:19,211 --> 00:11:23,113 his Congo operation was making, quote, staggering profits, 210 00:11:23,182 --> 00:11:26,743 end quote, according to his own financial statements. 211 00:11:26,819 --> 00:11:30,277 His overall capitalization was $20 billion. 212 00:11:30,356 --> 00:11:32,984 But for those profits to remain staggering, 213 00:11:33,059 --> 00:11:37,291 U.S. policy under Hillary Clinton had to remain unchanged. 214 00:11:37,363 --> 00:11:38,295 That's a problem. 215 00:11:38,364 --> 00:11:41,390 Hillary Clinton as a Senator back in 2006 216 00:11:41,467 --> 00:11:44,459 supported something called the Congo Relief Security 217 00:11:44,537 --> 00:11:46,164 and Democracy Promotion act. 218 00:11:46,238 --> 00:11:48,069 As the law's name implied, 219 00:11:48,140 --> 00:11:50,472 the goal was to bring reform to Congo. 220 00:11:50,543 --> 00:11:53,171 That's not something that Lukas Lundin would want. 221 00:11:53,245 --> 00:11:56,737 So, in 2009, when Hillary became Secretary of State, 222 00:11:56,816 --> 00:11:59,376 she reversed course 180 degrees 223 00:11:59,452 --> 00:12:01,943 and went from supporting reform in Congo 224 00:12:02,021 --> 00:12:04,046 to supporting the status quo, 225 00:12:04,123 --> 00:12:06,887 which is exactly what Lukas Lundin would want, 226 00:12:06,959 --> 00:12:09,587 who of course had committed $100 million 227 00:12:09,662 --> 00:12:11,289 to the Clinton Foundation. 228 00:12:11,363 --> 00:12:13,888 But Congo isn't the only scandal-plagued country 229 00:12:13,966 --> 00:12:16,366 where Clinton benefactors have made millions. 230 00:12:19,271 --> 00:12:21,705 Africa's most populous nation, 231 00:12:21,774 --> 00:12:24,038 Nigeria, is full of promise. 232 00:12:24,110 --> 00:12:27,238 But fulfilling that promise is sometimes a struggle. 233 00:12:27,313 --> 00:12:29,577 Plagued by corruption and mismanagement, 234 00:12:29,648 --> 00:12:34,051 the resource-rich country has a poverty rate of over 50%. 235 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:35,917 Look at a country like Nigeria, 236 00:12:35,988 --> 00:12:38,252 which is really a cesspool of corruption. 237 00:12:38,324 --> 00:12:40,792 In fact, people will say it is perhaps 238 00:12:40,860 --> 00:12:43,294 the most corrupt country in the world. 239 00:12:43,362 --> 00:12:45,387 It's rich in natural resources. 240 00:12:45,464 --> 00:12:46,897 It produces a lot of oil. 241 00:12:46,966 --> 00:12:49,093 But that money never trickles down to the people. 242 00:12:49,168 --> 00:12:51,728 It goes to the oligarchs who run the country, 243 00:12:51,804 --> 00:12:54,773 who oftentimes take that money and put it in 244 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:57,240 Swiss bank accounts in a way that, of course, 245 00:12:57,309 --> 00:12:59,675 the people of Nigeria can never benefit from. 246 00:12:59,745 --> 00:13:02,339 And you see there's a federal law in the United States 247 00:13:02,414 --> 00:13:05,747 which says, if foreign governments that receive 248 00:13:05,818 --> 00:13:08,685 U.S. assistance aren't transparent 249 00:13:08,754 --> 00:13:10,847 in how they spend that money, 250 00:13:10,923 --> 00:13:12,652 that they will not be able to get U.S. 251 00:13:12,725 --> 00:13:14,693 foreign assistance anymore. 252 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:16,250 It's about transparency. 253 00:13:16,328 --> 00:13:17,955 But there's a way around that law, 254 00:13:18,030 --> 00:13:19,861 and you can get a waiver from that law. 255 00:13:19,932 --> 00:13:22,526 How? By getting the U.S. Secretary of State 256 00:13:22,601 --> 00:13:23,966 to grant you a waiver. 257 00:13:24,036 --> 00:13:28,063 Uh, we intend to remain very supportive 258 00:13:28,140 --> 00:13:31,906 on your reform efforts, uh, thank you for mentioning, uh, 259 00:13:31,977 --> 00:13:34,275 the work we did together on the elections. 260 00:13:34,346 --> 00:13:39,340 We're also very supportive of, uh, the, uh, anti-corruption, 261 00:13:39,418 --> 00:13:42,717 uh, reform efforts, more transparency, 262 00:13:42,788 --> 00:13:47,816 and the work that you and your team is also championing. 263 00:13:47,893 --> 00:13:51,158 Uh, because we really believe that, uh, 264 00:13:51,230 --> 00:13:54,825 the future for, uh, Nigeria is limitless. 265 00:13:56,368 --> 00:13:58,563 So, in the case of Nigeria, they receive 266 00:13:58,637 --> 00:14:01,299 hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. foreign assistance. 267 00:14:01,373 --> 00:14:03,603 They've not made progress in being more transparent, 268 00:14:03,676 --> 00:14:05,473 and of course, they've gotten exemptions 269 00:14:05,544 --> 00:14:08,479 from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State. 270 00:14:08,547 --> 00:14:11,345 What's so curious about this is what was happening commercially 271 00:14:11,417 --> 00:14:13,408 to the Clintons while this was going on. 272 00:14:13,485 --> 00:14:16,784 Bill Clinton, for the first time ever, gets paid 273 00:14:16,856 --> 00:14:18,881 highly lucrative speeches in Nigeria, 274 00:14:18,958 --> 00:14:20,550 which had never happened before. 275 00:14:20,626 --> 00:14:26,292 In fact, he gets paid to do two speeches, for $700,000 apiece, 276 00:14:26,365 --> 00:14:30,131 by a businessman in Nigeria who just happens to be close with 277 00:14:30,202 --> 00:14:31,760 the president of that country. 278 00:14:31,837 --> 00:14:35,034 Keep in mind, by the way, that his normal speaking fee 278 00:14:35,137 --> 00:14:38,434 is less than $200,000 a speech, 279 00:14:38,544 --> 00:14:41,843 so, this was an enormous payday for Bill Clinton. 280 00:14:41,914 --> 00:14:43,506 OK, now we will begin the panel. 281 00:14:51,323 --> 00:14:55,020 One of the pinnacles of power in that country 282 00:14:55,094 --> 00:14:58,188 is a gentleman named Gilbert Chagoury. 283 00:14:58,264 --> 00:15:01,131 Gilbert Chagoury, who has committed $1 billion 284 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:02,690 to the Clinton Global Initiative, 285 00:15:02,768 --> 00:15:06,534 is connected to another individual in the Clinton orbit, 286 00:15:06,605 --> 00:15:10,405 that would be mark rich, the billionaire who was on 287 00:15:10,476 --> 00:15:12,637 the FBI's 10 most wanted list 288 00:15:12,711 --> 00:15:15,236 that was suddenly and surprisingly pardoned 289 00:15:15,314 --> 00:15:18,249 by Bill Clinton in 2001. 290 00:15:18,317 --> 00:15:21,809 Marc Rich, you might recall, is somebody who was trading oil 291 00:15:21,887 --> 00:15:24,048 with the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran 292 00:15:24,123 --> 00:15:26,785 at the same time that the Ayatollah was holding 293 00:15:26,859 --> 00:15:28,554 50 Americans hostage. 294 00:15:28,627 --> 00:15:32,154 He also had a long history of busting U.N. sanctions 295 00:15:32,231 --> 00:15:35,394 by trading oil with the apartheid regime in South Africa 296 00:15:35,467 --> 00:15:38,231 and a whole host of other nefarious governments. 297 00:15:38,304 --> 00:15:41,398 Well, Gilbert Chagoury, the high Clinton donor, 298 00:15:41,473 --> 00:15:44,067 was business partners with Marc Rich. 299 00:15:44,143 --> 00:15:47,078 Together, they sopped up oil assets in Nigeria 300 00:15:47,146 --> 00:15:48,579 and sold them on the oil market 301 00:15:48,647 --> 00:15:51,343 for the benefit of a corrupt individual 302 00:15:51,417 --> 00:15:55,217 who was leading Nigeria at the time, named General Abacha. 303 00:15:55,287 --> 00:15:57,278 Abacha smuggled by some estimates 304 00:15:57,356 --> 00:16:00,257 $4 billion to $8 billion out of the country, 305 00:16:00,326 --> 00:16:02,556 and put them in European bank accounts. 306 00:16:02,628 --> 00:16:06,655 Gilbert Chagoury was indicted and convicted in Europe 307 00:16:06,732 --> 00:16:08,563 for helping him to do that. 308 00:16:08,634 --> 00:16:12,400 He was charged for aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise, 309 00:16:12,471 --> 00:16:14,439 and on money laundering charges. 310 00:16:14,506 --> 00:16:17,100 And the suffering that ends up being done here 311 00:16:17,176 --> 00:16:20,976 is by the people of Nigeria, who see their leadership 312 00:16:21,046 --> 00:16:23,105 getting a pass from the United States. 313 00:16:23,182 --> 00:16:25,377 The elites in those countries are getting rich. 314 00:16:25,451 --> 00:16:28,284 The Clintons are getting rich, and the money somehow never 315 00:16:28,354 --> 00:16:30,584 trickles down to the people of Nigeria. 316 00:16:30,656 --> 00:16:33,887 Sadly, this theme of resources not trickling down 317 00:16:33,959 --> 00:16:36,723 to those most in need is a common one 318 00:16:36,795 --> 00:16:38,160 when it comes to the Clintons. 319 00:16:48,340 --> 00:16:50,535 As we told you at the start of tonight's program, 320 00:16:50,609 --> 00:16:52,509 a major-magnitude earthquake has hit 321 00:16:52,578 --> 00:16:54,569 the island of Haiti in the Caribbean. 322 00:16:54,646 --> 00:16:57,308 The quake measured around 7 points on the Richter scale 323 00:16:57,383 --> 00:16:59,977 and its epicenter fell just 10 miles 324 00:17:00,052 --> 00:17:01,986 from the capital, Port-au-Prince. 325 00:17:02,054 --> 00:17:04,921 Haiti's ambassador to the U.S. has described the event 326 00:17:04,990 --> 00:17:07,925 as a catastrophe of major proportions. 327 00:17:07,993 --> 00:17:13,454 So far, we have no information regarding the causalities. 328 00:17:13,532 --> 00:17:17,263 The world is coming to an end... 329 00:17:19,605 --> 00:17:21,038 it was a big earthquake. 330 00:17:21,106 --> 00:17:23,836 It last like 15 seconds, I think. 331 00:17:23,909 --> 00:17:27,470 Probably the most devastating humanitarian crisis 332 00:17:27,546 --> 00:17:28,945 that Hillary Clinton faced during 333 00:17:29,014 --> 00:17:30,845 her tenure at the State Department 334 00:17:30,916 --> 00:17:33,043 was the tragic earthquake in Haiti. 335 00:17:35,821 --> 00:17:37,482 It happened in January of 2010, 336 00:17:37,556 --> 00:17:40,081 and literally in a matter of seconds, 337 00:17:40,159 --> 00:17:42,787 250,000 people were estimated to have died, 338 00:17:42,861 --> 00:17:45,421 and a large portion of the Haitian infrastructure 339 00:17:45,497 --> 00:17:47,488 and economy was just decimated. 340 00:17:51,036 --> 00:17:54,802 It was a crisis on a massive scale. 341 00:17:56,408 --> 00:17:59,434 United States is offering our full assistance 342 00:17:59,511 --> 00:18:01,877 to Haiti and to others in the region. 343 00:18:01,947 --> 00:18:05,280 Uh, we will be providing both civilian and military 344 00:18:05,350 --> 00:18:08,376 disaster relief and humanitarian assistance 345 00:18:08,454 --> 00:18:11,582 and our prayers are with the people who have suffered, uh, 346 00:18:11,657 --> 00:18:14,387 their families, uh, and their loved ones. 347 00:18:16,495 --> 00:18:19,225 In the days and weeks that followed the earthquake 348 00:18:19,298 --> 00:18:21,266 in January of 2010, 349 00:18:21,333 --> 00:18:25,030 Hillary Clinton made visits to Haiti. 350 00:18:25,104 --> 00:18:27,299 And here is the latest on Haiti: 351 00:18:27,372 --> 00:18:28,862 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton 352 00:18:28,941 --> 00:18:31,910 arrived in Port-au-Prince just about an hour ago. 353 00:18:31,977 --> 00:18:35,242 She is the highest-ranking U.S. official in Haiti right now, 354 00:18:35,314 --> 00:18:36,941 since Tuesday's earthquake. 355 00:18:37,015 --> 00:18:40,007 She's meeting with Haitian leaders and international officials 356 00:18:40,085 --> 00:18:43,577 to discuss the rescue and relief effort. 357 00:18:43,655 --> 00:18:45,179 In fact, on her first visit, 358 00:18:45,257 --> 00:18:47,350 which occurred days after the earthquake, 359 00:18:47,426 --> 00:18:49,417 they literally had to stop traffic 360 00:18:49,495 --> 00:18:53,124 going into the airport at Port-au-Prince. 361 00:18:53,198 --> 00:18:54,859 There, of course, were relief supplies 362 00:18:54,933 --> 00:18:57,800 that were being flown in, but that traffic was stopped 363 00:18:57,870 --> 00:19:01,533 so the Secretary of State could come and assess the damage. 364 00:19:01,607 --> 00:19:02,869 There is a perception, 365 00:19:02,941 --> 00:19:05,603 there have been complaints or reports of bottlenecks, 366 00:19:05,677 --> 00:19:08,271 that there is a lot of aid coming in, 367 00:19:08,347 --> 00:19:09,473 but it's very hard to get it out 368 00:19:09,548 --> 00:19:10,480 to the people who need it. 369 00:19:10,549 --> 00:19:11,811 That's just not true. 370 00:19:11,884 --> 00:19:13,545 The aid is coming in. We're getting it out. 371 00:19:13,619 --> 00:19:15,280 There's just not enough of it yet. 372 00:19:15,354 --> 00:19:17,345 She flew in with her political aides 373 00:19:17,422 --> 00:19:19,185 on a large federal airplane. 374 00:19:19,258 --> 00:19:20,623 She landed at the airport, 375 00:19:20,692 --> 00:19:22,557 she made a large press conference, 376 00:19:22,628 --> 00:19:24,493 made statements about her commitment 377 00:19:24,563 --> 00:19:26,121 to rebuilding this country, 378 00:19:26,198 --> 00:19:27,927 and then she was soon whisked away, 379 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:29,729 headed back to Washington, D.C. 380 00:19:33,505 --> 00:19:36,099 theirs is a city in ruins. 381 00:19:36,175 --> 00:19:40,669 A country which can do little but wait for help to arrive. 382 00:19:43,849 --> 00:19:46,317 The international community responded in the way 383 00:19:46,385 --> 00:19:47,784 that you would expect it to. 384 00:19:47,853 --> 00:19:50,048 That is, large amounts of money were committed, 385 00:19:50,122 --> 00:19:51,987 up to $13 billion from 386 00:19:52,057 --> 00:19:54,958 international relief organizations, and of course, 387 00:19:55,027 --> 00:19:57,689 you had the official role of the State Department, 388 00:19:57,763 --> 00:20:00,231 which would be point on U.S. taxpayer dollars 389 00:20:00,299 --> 00:20:03,200 going to Haiti for the purposes of relief. 390 00:20:03,268 --> 00:20:06,396 I want to assure the people of Haiti 391 00:20:06,471 --> 00:20:10,874 that the United States is a friend, 392 00:20:10,943 --> 00:20:13,969 a partner, and a supporter. 393 00:20:14,046 --> 00:20:16,173 Hillary Clinton's State Department would oversee 394 00:20:16,248 --> 00:20:19,649 the reconstruction effort with Chief of Staff Cheryl mills 395 00:20:19,718 --> 00:20:21,481 responsible for the allocation of 396 00:20:21,553 --> 00:20:24,681 U.S. tax dollars through USAID, 397 00:20:24,756 --> 00:20:26,815 and Bill Clinton, already appointed 398 00:20:26,892 --> 00:20:29,656 special envoy to Haiti for the United Nations, 399 00:20:29,728 --> 00:20:33,289 was named co-chair of the interim Haiti recovery commission 400 00:20:33,365 --> 00:20:35,925 along with the former Haitian prime minister. 401 00:20:36,001 --> 00:20:38,492 I hope that it will be rebuilt 402 00:20:38,570 --> 00:20:40,800 in a much stronger and more sustainable way, 403 00:20:40,872 --> 00:20:43,102 and I think the Haitians want that. 404 00:20:43,175 --> 00:20:46,633 So, this was clearly a Clinton operation from the beginning. 405 00:20:46,712 --> 00:20:48,236 Now, the Haitians had their own ideas 406 00:20:48,313 --> 00:20:50,873 about how best to rebuild their country. 407 00:20:50,949 --> 00:20:52,314 They wanted new roads. 408 00:20:52,384 --> 00:20:53,851 They wanted buildings rebuilt. 409 00:20:53,919 --> 00:20:55,614 And that's what you would expect. 410 00:20:55,687 --> 00:20:57,917 This is how you recover from an earthquake. 411 00:20:57,990 --> 00:21:00,481 The problem is that the Clintons had their own agenda... 412 00:21:00,559 --> 00:21:03,460 the interests of major donors, who had a vested interest in 413 00:21:03,528 --> 00:21:05,257 spending that money in Haiti, 414 00:21:05,330 --> 00:21:06,820 in ways that would benefit them. 415 00:21:08,667 --> 00:21:10,532 And so, you immediately had this clash 416 00:21:10,602 --> 00:21:12,729 between the Haitians and the Clintons. 417 00:21:12,804 --> 00:21:14,863 And Haitians complained almost immediately 418 00:21:14,940 --> 00:21:17,807 that they were shut out of the decision making process, 419 00:21:17,876 --> 00:21:20,777 that it was really Bill Clinton and a few of his friends 420 00:21:20,846 --> 00:21:23,212 that were calling the shots in the IHRC. 421 00:21:23,282 --> 00:21:27,218 And they made some monumentally bad decisions that not only 422 00:21:27,286 --> 00:21:29,345 didn't benefit the Haitian people, 423 00:21:29,421 --> 00:21:31,946 but ended up putting money in the pockets of 424 00:21:32,024 --> 00:21:36,324 major Clinton donors who had economic stakes in Haiti. 425 00:21:36,395 --> 00:21:41,094 We have been united behind a single goal: 426 00:21:41,166 --> 00:21:44,897 making investments in this country's people 427 00:21:44,970 --> 00:21:46,961 and your infrastructure. 428 00:21:47,039 --> 00:21:50,133 So, it's a classic example of what some people call 429 00:21:50,208 --> 00:21:52,108 disaster capitalism. 430 00:21:52,177 --> 00:21:55,544 Disaster capitalism in that a natural disaster 431 00:21:55,614 --> 00:21:58,481 creates opportunities for rebuilding to take place, 432 00:21:58,550 --> 00:22:00,814 but also for self-enrichment to take place. 433 00:22:00,886 --> 00:22:04,617 And if you look at the Clintons and the promises that were made, 434 00:22:04,690 --> 00:22:06,487 and the results that actually followed, 435 00:22:06,558 --> 00:22:10,050 it is a tragic story of crony capitalism gone awry. 436 00:22:30,449 --> 00:22:32,007 The single largest relief project 437 00:22:32,084 --> 00:22:35,076 that the United States committed taxpayer dollars to, 438 00:22:35,153 --> 00:22:39,852 $124 million to be exact, was a project called Caracol, 439 00:22:39,925 --> 00:22:41,517 a textile factory that was built 440 00:22:41,593 --> 00:22:43,458 in the northern part of the country, 441 00:22:43,528 --> 00:22:46,258 that was supposed to create some 60,000 jobs 442 00:22:46,331 --> 00:22:49,823 and was supposed to create tremendous economic growth. 443 00:22:49,901 --> 00:22:51,368 There's a problem here already. 444 00:22:51,436 --> 00:22:54,234 You see, the earthquake affected the southern part of Haiti. 445 00:22:54,306 --> 00:22:57,332 The northern part of the country was entirely unaffected. 446 00:22:57,409 --> 00:22:59,570 But who were the beneficiaries of this? 447 00:22:59,644 --> 00:23:03,102 Companies like Gap, Target, and Walmart, to name a few. 448 00:23:03,181 --> 00:23:04,808 The Caracol factory was built. 449 00:23:04,883 --> 00:23:07,351 It didn't create 60,000 jobs. 450 00:23:07,419 --> 00:23:09,785 It created barely 5,000 jobs, 451 00:23:09,855 --> 00:23:13,484 but the major American companies who got textiles tariff-free, 452 00:23:13,558 --> 00:23:16,755 made at low wages, benefited enormously. 453 00:23:16,828 --> 00:23:20,457 And the end effect on the Haitians was very, very minimal. 454 00:23:25,036 --> 00:23:27,163 If you look at some of the infrastructure projects 455 00:23:27,239 --> 00:23:28,900 that were undertaken, 456 00:23:28,974 --> 00:23:30,168 the Clintons had 457 00:23:30,242 --> 00:23:34,372 very grand plans to build large tracts of homes, 458 00:23:34,446 --> 00:23:36,380 and there were contractors that were 459 00:23:36,448 --> 00:23:37,938 selected for those projects. 460 00:23:38,016 --> 00:23:40,382 Sometimes the contractors had experience, 461 00:23:40,452 --> 00:23:41,817 sometimes they did not. 462 00:23:44,089 --> 00:23:47,149 There's one company in Florida that spent a million dollars 463 00:23:47,225 --> 00:23:48,886 getting equipment into Haiti. 464 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,087 They had experience in disaster relief, 465 00:23:51,163 --> 00:23:53,358 but according to the owners of that company, 466 00:23:53,432 --> 00:23:56,492 they only made a small donation to the Clinton Foundation. 467 00:23:56,568 --> 00:23:57,728 And guess what? 468 00:23:57,803 --> 00:23:59,896 They didn't get any relief contracts. 469 00:23:59,971 --> 00:24:02,940 On the other hand, the contractors who did win the awards 470 00:24:03,008 --> 00:24:05,135 were given the opportunity to build homes, 471 00:24:05,210 --> 00:24:07,075 and in some instances were supposed to build 472 00:24:07,145 --> 00:24:09,739 tens of thousands of homes for Haitians. 473 00:24:09,815 --> 00:24:11,942 They ended up building a fraction of that. 474 00:24:12,017 --> 00:24:14,747 For instance, new settlements program was supposed to build 475 00:24:14,820 --> 00:24:18,415 15,000 homes for $53 million. 476 00:24:18,490 --> 00:24:20,651 Instead, it built 2,600 homes, 477 00:24:20,725 --> 00:24:22,886 less than a quarter of the original estimate, 478 00:24:22,961 --> 00:24:27,295 for $90 million, or $47 million over budget, 479 00:24:27,365 --> 00:24:28,525 and they got away with it. 480 00:24:33,038 --> 00:24:35,905 So, you had contracts going to these relief organizations 481 00:24:35,974 --> 00:24:38,841 that were also involved with the Clinton Global initiative, 482 00:24:38,910 --> 00:24:41,344 and you had this one organization, Dalberg, 483 00:24:41,413 --> 00:24:44,473 that was supposed to do an assessment for relocating people 484 00:24:44,549 --> 00:24:46,278 that suffered from the earthquake. 485 00:24:46,351 --> 00:24:48,842 They determined that people should be moved to a site 486 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,946 that happened to be on a cliff that was highly unstable. 487 00:24:52,023 --> 00:24:55,652 USAID's inspector general reviewed Dalberg's recommendations 488 00:24:55,727 --> 00:24:58,127 and found them basically unusable. 489 00:24:58,196 --> 00:25:00,164 One member of the USAID shelter team 490 00:25:00,232 --> 00:25:02,666 was quoted by "rolling stone" magazine as saying that 491 00:25:02,734 --> 00:25:05,567 the recommendations were so bad, it looked like 492 00:25:05,637 --> 00:25:08,538 the team never even got out of their SUVs. 493 00:25:08,607 --> 00:25:10,905 Another person said that only one of the people 494 00:25:10,976 --> 00:25:14,241 that was sent to Haiti by Dalberg actually spoke French. 495 00:25:15,547 --> 00:25:17,014 Telecom mogul Denis O'Brien 496 00:25:17,082 --> 00:25:18,709 is one of the world's richest people, 497 00:25:18,783 --> 00:25:21,752 and he's finding opportunities in the poorest country 498 00:25:21,820 --> 00:25:23,378 in the western hemisphere. 499 00:25:23,455 --> 00:25:24,854 The Irish billionaire is the largest 500 00:25:24,923 --> 00:25:27,983 private investor in Haiti through his company, Digicel. 501 00:25:28,059 --> 00:25:30,493 And he is now leading the Clinton Global initiative 502 00:25:30,562 --> 00:25:32,587 efforts down in Haiti. 503 00:25:32,664 --> 00:25:33,995 Probably no one came out better 504 00:25:34,065 --> 00:25:35,896 in the Haitian reconstruction effort 505 00:25:35,967 --> 00:25:38,868 than an Irish billionaire named Denis O'Brien. 506 00:25:38,937 --> 00:25:41,235 He was a Clinton Foundation donor, giving them 507 00:25:41,306 --> 00:25:43,672 between $5 and $10 million. 508 00:25:43,742 --> 00:25:46,506 He helped arrange speeches for Bill Clinton, too. 509 00:25:46,578 --> 00:25:48,443 The interest of the Obama administration, 510 00:25:48,513 --> 00:25:52,210 particularly former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, you know, 511 00:25:52,284 --> 00:25:55,151 all the different things that have happened 512 00:25:55,220 --> 00:25:59,054 to help Haiti get up off the floor have been led by the U.S. 513 00:25:59,124 --> 00:26:01,183 and he was the owner of something called Digicel, 514 00:26:01,259 --> 00:26:04,558 which is a cell phone company, at the time of the earthquake. 515 00:26:04,629 --> 00:26:05,994 As part of that relief effort, 516 00:26:06,064 --> 00:26:07,998 the State Department run by Hillary Clinton 517 00:26:08,066 --> 00:26:11,126 wanted to fund a mobile money transfer service 518 00:26:11,202 --> 00:26:13,636 that would allow Haitian citizens to transfer and receive 519 00:26:13,705 --> 00:26:15,195 money on their phones. 520 00:26:15,273 --> 00:26:18,470 Well, Digicel applied to be the recipient of that grant money. 521 00:26:18,543 --> 00:26:20,272 4 weeks after their application, 522 00:26:20,345 --> 00:26:24,247 Digicel actually sponsored a speech for Bill Clinton in Jamaica 523 00:26:24,316 --> 00:26:27,342 and they paid him $225,000. 524 00:26:27,419 --> 00:26:30,388 And as it turns out, within 4 months of that speech, 525 00:26:30,455 --> 00:26:34,084 Digicel would receive the first installment of that grant money. 526 00:26:34,159 --> 00:26:35,820 The earthquake actually has been great 527 00:26:35,894 --> 00:26:37,759 for Digicel and Denis O'Brien. 528 00:26:39,130 --> 00:26:43,089 More than 4 years since a magnitude 7.0 earthquake 529 00:26:43,168 --> 00:26:45,932 devastated Haiti, and outrage there is growing 530 00:26:46,004 --> 00:26:48,438 over the largely failed reconstruction effort 531 00:26:48,506 --> 00:26:51,031 despite the hundreds of millions of dollars in aid 532 00:26:51,109 --> 00:26:54,875 that has been collected, and spent, by the IHRC... 533 00:26:54,946 --> 00:26:57,141 the interim Haiti recovery commission. 534 00:26:57,215 --> 00:26:59,979 So, whether you're talking about housing or cell phones, 535 00:27:00,051 --> 00:27:01,143 you see that the people that are 536 00:27:01,219 --> 00:27:03,187 closest to the Clintons have made out 537 00:27:03,254 --> 00:27:06,382 very well from the Haitian earthquake. 538 00:27:06,458 --> 00:27:07,686 The rest of the country, 539 00:27:07,759 --> 00:27:11,217 the ordinary people of Haiti, not so much. 540 00:27:11,296 --> 00:27:13,161 Haitian activists stage a protest outside 541 00:27:13,231 --> 00:27:15,131 Hillary Clinton's Manhattan office. 542 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,259 The demonstrators claim billions of dollars were stolen through 543 00:27:17,335 --> 00:27:18,597 the Haiti reconstruction commission, 544 00:27:18,670 --> 00:27:20,194 headed by Bill Clinton. 545 00:27:20,271 --> 00:27:23,263 They also say Haiti was used as a cover for foreign governments 546 00:27:23,341 --> 00:27:26,003 to funnel kickbacks of possibly hundreds of millions of dollars 547 00:27:26,077 --> 00:27:27,840 through the Clinton Foundation. 548 00:27:27,912 --> 00:27:29,345 They say it was done in exchange for favors 549 00:27:29,414 --> 00:27:32,247 that Hillary was doing for them as Secretary of State. 550 00:27:32,317 --> 00:27:36,083 The tragedy is, we had an opportunity to rebuild in a way 551 00:27:36,154 --> 00:27:38,952 that would give the people of that country hope. 552 00:27:39,024 --> 00:27:43,358 Sadly, that opportunity was squandered and what took place, 553 00:27:43,428 --> 00:27:44,986 rather than rebuilding Haiti, 554 00:27:45,063 --> 00:27:48,294 was the self-enrichment by friends of the Clintons. 555 00:27:48,366 --> 00:27:50,027 For all of Bill Clinton's talk about 556 00:27:50,101 --> 00:27:52,695 "building Haiti back better", the fact remains that 557 00:27:52,771 --> 00:27:55,604 the most visible evidence of Clinton's role in the recovery 558 00:27:55,674 --> 00:27:59,132 isn't the improvement of daily life for everyday Haitians 559 00:27:59,210 --> 00:28:01,508 but the construction of new luxury hotels 560 00:28:01,579 --> 00:28:04,446 just miles from the folks who have been living in tarps 561 00:28:04,516 --> 00:28:08,316 USAID handed out immediately after the earthquake. 562 00:28:08,386 --> 00:28:11,844 We are telling the world of the crimes that 563 00:28:11,923 --> 00:28:15,188 Bill and Hillary Clinton are responsible for in Haiti. 564 00:28:17,662 --> 00:28:19,425 Lost interest in Haiti's recovery, 565 00:28:19,497 --> 00:28:21,522 the influence and connections afforded to 566 00:28:21,599 --> 00:28:23,294 donors from the Clinton Foundation 567 00:28:23,368 --> 00:28:26,303 appear to have been lessons learned by others. 568 00:28:26,371 --> 00:28:28,168 So, how much did connections to the Clintons 569 00:28:28,239 --> 00:28:30,173 matter when you're talking about Haiti? 570 00:28:30,241 --> 00:28:32,334 Consider the case of gold mining. 571 00:28:32,410 --> 00:28:34,173 The government of Haiti had not granted 572 00:28:34,245 --> 00:28:37,305 a gold mining concession in 50 years. 573 00:28:37,382 --> 00:28:41,148 They decided to do so during the reconstruction of their country, 574 00:28:41,219 --> 00:28:44,484 which was being overseen by Bill and Hillary Clinton. 575 00:28:44,556 --> 00:28:48,822 What company did they select to get this gold mining permit? 576 00:28:48,893 --> 00:28:51,418 A company called VCS mining. 577 00:28:51,496 --> 00:28:54,954 VCS mining had very little experience in gold mining. 578 00:28:55,033 --> 00:28:58,025 But what did they have? They had connections. 579 00:28:58,103 --> 00:29:00,367 Shortly after they got that concession, 580 00:29:00,438 --> 00:29:02,838 someone joined their board of directors. 581 00:29:02,907 --> 00:29:05,205 It just happened to be Tony Rodham, 582 00:29:05,276 --> 00:29:08,404 brother of Hillary Rodham Clinton. 583 00:29:10,515 --> 00:29:12,244 It was a true disaster. 584 00:29:12,317 --> 00:29:15,047 A true disaster that followed the earthquake 585 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:16,781 which was the natural disaster. 586 00:29:16,855 --> 00:29:19,016 This was the man-made, Clinton-caused 587 00:29:19,090 --> 00:29:22,253 disaster in relief that led to the wasting of 588 00:29:22,327 --> 00:29:26,058 enormous sums of money, the enrichment of elites 589 00:29:26,131 --> 00:29:27,621 that were friends with the Clintons, 590 00:29:27,699 --> 00:29:30,361 and the Haitians were left in a situation where their life 591 00:29:30,435 --> 00:29:33,029 was really not much better than it was 592 00:29:33,104 --> 00:29:34,969 the day after the earthquake happened. 593 00:29:55,326 --> 00:29:58,693 An ambitious pipeline is firing off a war of opinions. 594 00:29:58,763 --> 00:30:01,596 Environmental activists marched in Washington today 595 00:30:01,666 --> 00:30:06,797 to protest plans for the Keystone XL Oil Pipeline. 596 00:30:06,871 --> 00:30:09,135 A $7 billion project to transport 597 00:30:09,207 --> 00:30:12,301 800,000 barrels of tar sands oil a day 598 00:30:12,377 --> 00:30:14,845 from Canada down to the Gulf Coast. 599 00:30:14,913 --> 00:30:16,437 In Washington, a showdown 600 00:30:16,514 --> 00:30:17,708 on the Senate floor today 601 00:30:17,782 --> 00:30:19,306 over the Keystone XL Pipeline. 602 00:30:19,384 --> 00:30:21,909 The vote to approve the controversial pipe project 603 00:30:21,986 --> 00:30:24,079 has big political implications. 604 00:30:24,155 --> 00:30:27,283 The pipeline would create 20,000 jobs, but opponents say 605 00:30:27,358 --> 00:30:29,519 the environmental risk is too great. 606 00:30:31,229 --> 00:30:33,390 One of the touchstones of the climate change debate 607 00:30:33,464 --> 00:30:35,625 has been the Keystone XL Pipeline. 608 00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:39,192 It's designed to carry oil from Canada through the United States 609 00:30:39,270 --> 00:30:42,330 to refineries in Louisiana and in Texas. 610 00:30:42,407 --> 00:30:44,807 The environmental movement has wholeheartedly rejected 611 00:30:44,876 --> 00:30:46,343 this deal from the beginning 612 00:30:46,411 --> 00:30:48,402 because they believe that it's gonna further contribute 613 00:30:48,479 --> 00:30:51,141 to the problems of climate change. 614 00:30:51,216 --> 00:30:53,150 - One... - we are the people, 615 00:30:53,218 --> 00:30:55,118 - two... - you can't ignore us, 616 00:30:55,186 --> 00:30:57,552 three... 617 00:30:57,622 --> 00:31:00,352 now, you would think that the Clintons would be opposed to 618 00:31:00,425 --> 00:31:04,156 the Keystone XL Pipeline deal because of those concerns. 619 00:31:04,229 --> 00:31:08,256 And perhaps they might be, except for one or two problems, 620 00:31:08,333 --> 00:31:12,064 or should I say one or two million problems. 621 00:31:12,136 --> 00:31:14,570 You see, when Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State 622 00:31:14,639 --> 00:31:17,972 in late 2008, there was already an issue related to 623 00:31:18,042 --> 00:31:20,704 the Keystone XL Pipeline sitting on her desk. 624 00:31:20,778 --> 00:31:22,040 She was going to have to sign 625 00:31:22,113 --> 00:31:24,638 an environmental and economic impact statement, 626 00:31:24,716 --> 00:31:27,947 and decide whether the Keystone XL Pipeline should go forward. 627 00:31:33,157 --> 00:31:35,022 At that precise time, 628 00:31:35,093 --> 00:31:37,027 Bill Clinton gets a lucrative offer 629 00:31:37,095 --> 00:31:40,496 of nearly $2 million to give 10 speeches in Canada, 630 00:31:40,565 --> 00:31:42,760 for the first time ever, from a company called 631 00:31:42,834 --> 00:31:44,927 TD Bank Investment Group. 632 00:31:45,003 --> 00:31:48,404 He gave the last speech in may of 2011. 633 00:31:48,473 --> 00:31:51,203 3 months later, Hillary's State Department releases 634 00:31:51,276 --> 00:31:54,006 an environmental impact statement that was seen as 634 00:31:54,176 --> 00:31:56,946 largely supportive of the Keystone XL Pipeline 635 00:31:57,048 --> 00:31:59,414 in a way that was massively controversial. 636 00:31:59,484 --> 00:32:01,213 Hillary Clinton, in effect, was betraying 637 00:32:01,286 --> 00:32:04,187 the environmental movement by green-lighting this deal, 638 00:32:04,255 --> 00:32:06,655 when she had in her hands the power to kill this deal 639 00:32:06,724 --> 00:32:07,656 in its crib. 640 00:32:07,725 --> 00:32:09,386 It was shocking. 641 00:32:09,460 --> 00:32:13,328 Organizations like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth were stunned. 642 00:32:13,398 --> 00:32:15,127 They wanted an investigation. 643 00:32:15,199 --> 00:32:16,427 But everybody was mystified. 644 00:32:16,501 --> 00:32:18,196 Nobody could understand why Hillary Clinton 645 00:32:18,269 --> 00:32:20,032 would sign off on this deal, 646 00:32:20,104 --> 00:32:22,595 particularly when she had been in favor of 647 00:32:22,674 --> 00:32:25,643 dealing with climate change, and her boss Barack Obama, 648 00:32:25,710 --> 00:32:29,976 by all indications, seemed to be opposed to this deal as well. 649 00:32:30,048 --> 00:32:31,037 It's also a time for 650 00:32:31,115 --> 00:32:33,640 a new approach to climate change. 651 00:32:33,718 --> 00:32:36,016 We know we've got to deal with global warming. 652 00:32:36,087 --> 00:32:37,816 We're seeing the effects of it. 653 00:32:37,889 --> 00:32:41,416 We need to invest in clean energy technology today so that 654 00:32:41,492 --> 00:32:46,088 we can create new high-paying jobs to protect our environment, 655 00:32:46,164 --> 00:32:48,394 to grow our economy, and to finally break 656 00:32:48,466 --> 00:32:50,491 our addiction to foreign oil. 657 00:32:50,568 --> 00:32:52,763 How did we go from the Clintons being in favor of 658 00:32:52,837 --> 00:32:57,365 fighting climate change, and dealing with fossil fuel dependence, 659 00:32:57,442 --> 00:33:00,900 to Hillary Clinton signing off on the Keystone XL Pipeline? 660 00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:04,813 The evidence that we found was that it was about the money. 661 00:33:04,882 --> 00:33:06,611 This was not a philosophical change. 662 00:33:06,684 --> 00:33:09,585 This was not a new way of thinking about global warming. 663 00:33:09,654 --> 00:33:13,784 This was a way of taking $2 million in cash, 664 00:33:13,858 --> 00:33:17,624 to essentially buy a decision by the Secretary of State. 665 00:33:17,695 --> 00:33:20,789 Why is the TD Bank Investment Group so interesting? 666 00:33:20,865 --> 00:33:24,301 Because they just happen to be one of the largest shareholders 667 00:33:24,369 --> 00:33:26,496 in the Keystone XL Pipeline itself. 668 00:33:28,973 --> 00:33:31,874 When we looked at Bill Clinton's pattern of giving speeches, 669 00:33:31,943 --> 00:33:35,208 we looked at who was paying him, when they were paying him, 670 00:33:35,279 --> 00:33:37,645 and if they have ever paid for a speech before. 671 00:33:37,715 --> 00:33:39,740 What's so stunning is that TD Bank 672 00:33:39,817 --> 00:33:43,150 had never sponsored a speech by Bill Clinton before 673 00:33:43,221 --> 00:33:45,587 and then suddenly in late 2008, 674 00:33:45,656 --> 00:33:47,248 when Hillary Clinton has been announced 675 00:33:47,325 --> 00:33:48,690 to be the Secretary of State, 676 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,194 and when sitting on her desk is the matter of 677 00:33:51,262 --> 00:33:53,355 the Keystone XL Pipeline, 678 00:33:53,431 --> 00:33:56,525 they suddenly decide to sponsor these speeches. 679 00:33:56,601 --> 00:33:59,399 And when people realize that the Clintons had pocketed 680 00:33:59,470 --> 00:34:02,371 about $2 million at the precise time 681 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,374 Hillary Clinton was making this decision, 682 00:34:04,442 --> 00:34:06,672 it all now suddenly made sense. 683 00:34:06,744 --> 00:34:10,646 Because as we've seen repeated over and over and over again, 684 00:34:10,715 --> 00:34:14,242 when it comes to the Clintons, you have to follow the money. 685 00:34:14,318 --> 00:34:16,479 And in the case of the Keystone XL Pipeline, 686 00:34:16,554 --> 00:34:18,715 they seem to have abandoned their principles, 687 00:34:18,790 --> 00:34:23,193 their commitment as it was to combating global warming, 688 00:34:23,261 --> 00:34:25,661 and dealing with our dependence on fossil fuels. 689 00:34:25,730 --> 00:34:28,858 They jettisoned that when $2 million showed up 690 00:34:28,933 --> 00:34:32,596 and suddenly came out in favor of the Keystone XL Pipeline. 691 00:34:32,670 --> 00:34:34,729 When you see this sort of pattern of behavior, 692 00:34:34,806 --> 00:34:37,331 you can't come to any other conclusion, 693 00:34:37,408 --> 00:34:39,501 that it's a system of pay-to-play. 694 00:34:39,577 --> 00:34:42,011 And again...other entities appear to have 695 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,275 picked up on this business model, too. 696 00:34:44,348 --> 00:34:46,908 Well, Bill Clinton has been paid enormous sums of money 697 00:34:46,984 --> 00:34:48,542 over the years to give speeches. 698 00:34:48,619 --> 00:34:52,385 On average, he gets a little less than $200,000 per speech. 699 00:34:52,457 --> 00:34:55,085 But something happened in late 2008. 700 00:34:55,159 --> 00:34:57,252 His speaking fees skyrocketed 701 00:34:57,328 --> 00:34:59,421 after being out of office for years. 702 00:34:59,497 --> 00:35:02,625 The reason was his wife had become Secretary of State. 703 00:35:02,700 --> 00:35:04,600 In fact, 11 of the 13 speeches 704 00:35:04,669 --> 00:35:06,330 for which Bill Clinton has been paid 705 00:35:06,404 --> 00:35:09,532 half a million dollars or more occurred precisely when 706 00:35:09,607 --> 00:35:12,405 Hillary was the most powerful diplomat in the world. 707 00:35:20,718 --> 00:35:24,745 You will never contribute to an organization 708 00:35:24,822 --> 00:35:28,815 that will give you a higher probability of having 709 00:35:28,893 --> 00:35:32,488 your good intentions turn into real, positive changes 710 00:35:32,563 --> 00:35:35,031 in other people's lives. 711 00:35:35,099 --> 00:35:36,327 That will give you a better chance 712 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,061 than what you've done here tonight. 713 00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:40,331 His single biggest speech payday 714 00:35:40,404 --> 00:35:43,498 came from the Swedish telecom company Ericsson, 715 00:35:43,574 --> 00:35:47,567 and it's a very, very unusual and troubling story. 716 00:35:47,645 --> 00:35:50,011 Now, Ericsson is a Swedish telecom company 717 00:35:50,081 --> 00:35:52,948 that in 2009 and 2010 was in trouble 718 00:35:53,017 --> 00:35:54,985 with Hillary Clinton's State Department. 719 00:35:55,052 --> 00:35:57,646 Because Ericsson was selling a lot of telecom equipment 720 00:35:57,722 --> 00:36:01,317 to Iran, to Belarus, and to other oppressive governments, 721 00:36:01,392 --> 00:36:04,452 about which the State Department was concerned. 722 00:36:04,529 --> 00:36:06,997 Ericsson risked being put on a list by the federal government 723 00:36:07,064 --> 00:36:10,033 in the United States for trading with an enemy state. 724 00:36:10,101 --> 00:36:12,934 There was actually an effort being put forward in Washington 725 00:36:13,004 --> 00:36:16,838 to broaden Iranian sanctions to include the very technologies 726 00:36:16,908 --> 00:36:20,173 that Ericsson was selling to the Iranian government. 727 00:36:20,244 --> 00:36:23,805 So, it's against this background that Ericsson decided 728 00:36:23,881 --> 00:36:28,443 now might be a good time to hire Bill Clinton to give a speech. 729 00:36:28,519 --> 00:36:31,181 They had never paid for a speech by him before 730 00:36:31,255 --> 00:36:33,052 and they decided to go in big: 731 00:36:33,124 --> 00:36:36,560 $750,000 for a single speech. 732 00:36:36,627 --> 00:36:38,822 7 days after he gave that speech, 733 00:36:38,896 --> 00:36:42,457 Hillary's State Department came out with a statement which said, 734 00:36:42,533 --> 00:36:44,626 we are not going to broaden sanctions on Iran 735 00:36:44,702 --> 00:36:46,761 to include technologies like telecom. 736 00:36:46,837 --> 00:36:49,931 We are going to rely and expect companies like Ericsson 737 00:36:50,007 --> 00:36:51,474 to police themselves. 738 00:36:51,542 --> 00:36:54,204 It was a massive win for Ericsson. 739 00:36:54,278 --> 00:36:57,338 Ericsson was able to avoid having to deal with 740 00:36:57,415 --> 00:36:59,576 a regulatory battle in Washington, 741 00:36:59,650 --> 00:37:01,277 giving up contracts that were 742 00:37:01,352 --> 00:37:03,217 highly lucrative in these countries, 743 00:37:03,287 --> 00:37:05,653 and being put on a list that would create 744 00:37:05,723 --> 00:37:07,987 enormous diplomatic problems for them, 745 00:37:08,059 --> 00:37:10,493 all because essentially, they paid Bill Clinton 746 00:37:10,561 --> 00:37:13,587 to give a speech for $750,000. 747 00:37:13,664 --> 00:37:15,359 Will you continue to give speeches? 748 00:37:15,433 --> 00:37:17,924 Oh, yeah. I gotta pay our bills. 749 00:37:30,915 --> 00:37:33,247 So, the question is, why do we see the Clintons reversing 750 00:37:33,317 --> 00:37:37,617 decades of policy positions that they've held so closely 751 00:37:37,688 --> 00:37:40,623 on issues like human rights and environment? 752 00:37:40,691 --> 00:37:42,249 And a big clue comes from folks that are 753 00:37:42,326 --> 00:37:44,385 giving the Clinton Foundation literally 754 00:37:44,462 --> 00:37:45,952 tens of millions of dollars. 755 00:37:46,030 --> 00:37:48,726 And one, if not the biggest donor to the foundation, 756 00:37:48,799 --> 00:37:51,199 is a Canadian named Frank Giustra. 757 00:37:51,269 --> 00:37:53,032 Giustra is in the mining business... 758 00:37:53,104 --> 00:37:55,732 hardly something you'd call environmentally friendly... 759 00:37:55,806 --> 00:37:57,831 and he has interests all over the world. 760 00:37:57,908 --> 00:37:59,773 And he uses his relationship with the Clintons 761 00:37:59,844 --> 00:38:02,176 to benefit those interests regardless of 762 00:38:02,246 --> 00:38:03,713 the environmental concerns. 763 00:38:03,781 --> 00:38:06,477 A great example of this is what happened in Colombia. 764 00:38:08,819 --> 00:38:10,787 What's so interesting about the relationship that 765 00:38:10,855 --> 00:38:12,618 the Clintons have with Frank Giustra 766 00:38:12,690 --> 00:38:15,454 is they tend to show up in these foreign countries together 767 00:38:15,526 --> 00:38:16,993 at the same time. 768 00:38:17,061 --> 00:38:19,529 Frank Giustra's made billions of dollars over the years 769 00:38:19,597 --> 00:38:21,861 in the so-called penny stock market in Canada, 770 00:38:21,932 --> 00:38:24,298 which is highly open to manipulation. 771 00:38:24,368 --> 00:38:26,768 He's been very successful in this area. 772 00:38:26,837 --> 00:38:28,805 Now, the Vancouver stock exchange is not like 773 00:38:28,873 --> 00:38:31,341 the New York stock exchange in the United States. 774 00:38:31,409 --> 00:38:33,707 This is a stock market or an exchange 775 00:38:33,778 --> 00:38:35,746 that is dominated by penny stocks. 776 00:38:35,813 --> 00:38:38,145 Made up of a lot of natural resources stocks, 777 00:38:38,215 --> 00:38:41,116 it's sort of the wild, wild west of investing. 778 00:38:41,185 --> 00:38:44,643 It's called dodge city sometimes, and the reason is 779 00:38:44,722 --> 00:38:46,553 because there's a lot of speculators, 780 00:38:46,624 --> 00:38:48,785 there's a lot of misinformation that's put around, 781 00:38:48,859 --> 00:38:50,793 and there are a lot of mining companies 782 00:38:50,861 --> 00:38:52,590 that don't really have any assets, 783 00:38:52,663 --> 00:38:54,631 but will proclaim to have gotten the rights 784 00:38:54,699 --> 00:38:56,963 to some lucrative gold mine, let's say, 785 00:38:57,034 --> 00:38:59,969 and then they send that news out to the public in the hope that 786 00:39:00,037 --> 00:39:03,006 it will lead to a flood of people buying the penny stock, 787 00:39:03,074 --> 00:39:05,668 so the shareholders can sell their assets. 788 00:39:13,050 --> 00:39:17,384 So, in June of 2010, Bill Clinton and Frank Giustra 789 00:39:17,455 --> 00:39:20,015 fly to Bogota, Colombia. 790 00:39:20,091 --> 00:39:23,424 And who arrives there at roughly the same time? 791 00:39:23,494 --> 00:39:25,985 Secretary of state Hillary Clinton. 792 00:39:26,063 --> 00:39:27,894 The big thing from the news conference was, 793 00:39:27,965 --> 00:39:30,024 where Bill and Hillary were dining 794 00:39:30,101 --> 00:39:31,432 the other night in Bogota. 795 00:39:31,502 --> 00:39:33,868 Uh, I had a chance to talk to her about her dinner experience 796 00:39:33,938 --> 00:39:36,429 in the Zona Rosa and here's what she had to say. 797 00:39:36,507 --> 00:39:37,565 Dinner was good? 798 00:39:37,641 --> 00:39:39,541 It was excellent in every way. 799 00:39:39,610 --> 00:39:40,577 So, it was like eating in the states 800 00:39:40,644 --> 00:39:42,009 but eating in Bogota? 801 00:39:42,079 --> 00:39:47,210 Well, uh... it was a real treat to be in Bogota 802 00:39:47,284 --> 00:39:50,651 and, uh, to be with people who love this city so much, 803 00:39:50,721 --> 00:39:52,154 including my husband. 804 00:39:52,223 --> 00:39:54,783 Now, in her memoirs, Hillary Clinton says that 805 00:39:54,859 --> 00:39:57,054 this is just a happy coincidence, 806 00:39:57,128 --> 00:39:58,652 but when you see what follows, 807 00:39:58,729 --> 00:40:01,323 you realize that this is no coincidence. 808 00:40:01,399 --> 00:40:04,027 The following morning, Bill Clinton has a breakfast meeting 809 00:40:04,101 --> 00:40:08,037 with the outgoing president of Colombia, president Uribe. 810 00:40:08,105 --> 00:40:11,302 Then, like a tag team, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton 811 00:40:11,375 --> 00:40:13,639 has a noon lunch meeting with him, 812 00:40:13,711 --> 00:40:15,440 and she grants him several favors, 813 00:40:15,513 --> 00:40:16,912 including technical agreements 814 00:40:16,981 --> 00:40:19,074 that the Colombian government wants. 815 00:40:19,150 --> 00:40:21,846 In the days that follow, something dramatic happens. 816 00:40:21,919 --> 00:40:24,183 Frank Giustra has 3 companies 817 00:40:24,255 --> 00:40:27,190 that get major concessions from the Colombian government. 818 00:40:27,258 --> 00:40:31,888 Pacific Rubiales, Petroamerica, and Prima Colombia properties. 819 00:40:31,962 --> 00:40:33,987 One of those, Prima Colombia properties, 820 00:40:34,064 --> 00:40:37,465 gets a concession to cut timber in a rain forest in Colombia 821 00:40:37,535 --> 00:40:39,765 along the Pacific Coast. 822 00:40:39,837 --> 00:40:43,068 And that timber is not intended to export to the United States, 823 00:40:43,140 --> 00:40:45,836 but is intended for export to china. 824 00:40:49,213 --> 00:40:52,546 There is an outrage and upset environmentalists 825 00:40:52,616 --> 00:40:54,413 who realize what's going on, 826 00:40:54,485 --> 00:40:56,510 and eventually that permit is yanked 827 00:40:56,587 --> 00:40:58,418 by a future president of Colombia, 828 00:40:58,489 --> 00:41:02,357 but not before Frank Giustra's company is able to profit 829 00:41:02,426 --> 00:41:05,224 from cutting down these rain forests. 830 00:41:05,296 --> 00:41:07,821 Which again is a behavior that runs so contrary 831 00:41:07,898 --> 00:41:10,492 to what the Clintons profess to be in favor of. 832 00:41:10,568 --> 00:41:12,035 We all know that in order to build 833 00:41:12,102 --> 00:41:14,297 low-carbon economies for the future, 834 00:41:14,371 --> 00:41:16,635 we need sustainable forests. 835 00:41:16,707 --> 00:41:18,607 I also know the future of our planet 836 00:41:18,676 --> 00:41:21,270 depends on healthy, standing forests. 837 00:41:21,345 --> 00:41:23,905 They have talked about the problems of deforestation. 838 00:41:23,981 --> 00:41:25,778 They've talked about the problems of... 839 00:41:25,850 --> 00:41:28,683 the need for successful growing forests 840 00:41:28,752 --> 00:41:31,687 to mitigate carbon dioxide in the air. 841 00:41:31,755 --> 00:41:34,747 And yet when this commercial opportunity was presented 842 00:41:34,825 --> 00:41:36,690 to a major donor of theirs, 843 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,627 they seemed to be very much supportive of that, 844 00:41:39,697 --> 00:41:42,791 and in fact helped to get him those concessions. 845 00:41:42,867 --> 00:41:44,892 He deserves the credit for this. 846 00:41:44,969 --> 00:41:46,664 This was his idea, not mine, 847 00:41:46,737 --> 00:41:48,796 and he raised the money. 848 00:41:48,873 --> 00:41:51,899 And it's an astonishing achievement. 849 00:41:51,976 --> 00:41:54,069 My job is to make sure that it's not in vain. 850 00:41:54,144 --> 00:41:56,977 That he gets the return on his investment, 851 00:41:57,047 --> 00:41:58,947 and his compassion, and his commitment. 852 00:41:59,016 --> 00:41:59,948 The Clintons appear to have 853 00:42:00,017 --> 00:42:01,644 changed their stance on issues 854 00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,153 even more significant than the environment 855 00:42:04,221 --> 00:42:05,518 in ways that benefit those 856 00:42:05,589 --> 00:42:07,250 who have put money in their pockets. 857 00:42:34,285 --> 00:42:37,152 I represent a president and a country 858 00:42:37,221 --> 00:42:42,181 committed to a vision of a world without nuclear weapons, 859 00:42:42,259 --> 00:42:46,286 and to taking the concrete steps necessary 860 00:42:46,363 --> 00:42:48,160 that will help us get there. 861 00:42:48,232 --> 00:42:51,133 The Indian nuclear deal, I think, is so troubling because 862 00:42:51,201 --> 00:42:54,398 this is a core national security issue. 863 00:42:54,471 --> 00:42:57,372 One of the signature achievements in foreign policy 863 00:42:57,451 --> 00:43:01,392 for Bill Clinton was pushing the test-ban treaty 864 00:43:01,545 --> 00:43:03,206 and the non-proliferation treaty. 865 00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:04,474 Today in New York, 866 00:43:04,548 --> 00:43:08,348 the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly 867 00:43:08,419 --> 00:43:12,014 to adopt a comprehensive nuclear test-ban treaty 868 00:43:12,089 --> 00:43:15,081 and open it for signature later this month. 869 00:43:15,159 --> 00:43:17,184 The N.P.T. has been sort of the holy grail 870 00:43:17,261 --> 00:43:19,456 when it comes to nuclear disarmament. 871 00:43:19,530 --> 00:43:21,691 Something that the Clintons had been supportive of, 872 00:43:21,765 --> 00:43:23,790 not just for years but for decades. 873 00:43:25,135 --> 00:43:28,070 That was all thrown asunder in 1998, 874 00:43:28,138 --> 00:43:30,368 when the Indian government tested 875 00:43:30,441 --> 00:43:32,238 nuclear weapons underground. 876 00:43:32,309 --> 00:43:34,971 India's action threatens the stability of Asia 877 00:43:35,045 --> 00:43:38,344 and challenges the firm international consensus 878 00:43:38,415 --> 00:43:40,383 to stop all nuclear testing. 879 00:43:41,952 --> 00:43:44,648 These were tests that truly shocked the world. 880 00:43:44,722 --> 00:43:47,020 Even the CIA was not aware that 881 00:43:47,091 --> 00:43:49,082 these tests were about to take place. 882 00:43:49,159 --> 00:43:51,957 Clinton's reaction was volcanic. 883 00:43:52,029 --> 00:43:54,224 He felt betrayed by the Indian government. 884 00:43:54,298 --> 00:43:58,200 And as a result, he imposed sanctions on India, 885 00:43:58,268 --> 00:44:00,395 essentially saying, you're not going to get access 886 00:44:00,471 --> 00:44:04,931 to U.S. nuclear technology until you sign the N.P.T., 887 00:44:05,009 --> 00:44:06,738 the Non-Proliferation Treaty. 888 00:44:09,013 --> 00:44:11,504 In 2005, the Indian government 889 00:44:11,582 --> 00:44:13,982 wanted to get these sanctions lifted. 890 00:44:14,051 --> 00:44:15,348 Not only do they have an interest 891 00:44:15,419 --> 00:44:18,115 in expanding their civilian nuclear base, 892 00:44:18,188 --> 00:44:19,314 they live in a neighborhood where 893 00:44:19,390 --> 00:44:21,585 some pretty tough customers and rivals 894 00:44:21,659 --> 00:44:23,593 have nuclear weapons themselves. 895 00:44:23,661 --> 00:44:25,458 First of all, you've got Pakistan, 896 00:44:25,529 --> 00:44:26,860 which is right next door, 897 00:44:26,930 --> 00:44:29,330 which is widely believed to have nuclear weapons, 898 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,335 and then you have China, a longtime rival of India, 899 00:44:32,403 --> 00:44:34,303 which has a nuclear arsenal. 900 00:44:34,371 --> 00:44:36,236 The Clintons said that they were in favor of 901 00:44:36,306 --> 00:44:39,002 giving the Indian government some access, 902 00:44:39,076 --> 00:44:40,304 but the problem is it didn't go 903 00:44:40,377 --> 00:44:43,710 nearly as far as the Indian government wanted. 904 00:44:43,781 --> 00:44:46,306 So, in 2005, they started making 905 00:44:46,383 --> 00:44:48,783 donations to the Clinton Foundation. 906 00:44:51,021 --> 00:44:53,148 This morning, yet another shady donation 907 00:44:53,223 --> 00:44:55,088 to the Clinton Foundation has surfaced, 908 00:44:55,159 --> 00:44:58,754 this time tied to a donor from India, 909 00:44:58,829 --> 00:45:00,524 apparently a friend of Bill Clinton. 910 00:45:00,597 --> 00:45:03,065 We're talking about tens of millions of dollars 911 00:45:06,303 --> 00:45:08,965 and we're talking about at least hundreds of thousands 912 00:45:09,039 --> 00:45:10,939 if not millions of dollars in speeches 913 00:45:11,008 --> 00:45:12,873 that Bill Clinton was paid, 914 00:45:12,943 --> 00:45:15,969 by interested parties in the Indian nuclear deal. 915 00:45:18,082 --> 00:45:21,142 Amar Singh, according to Clinton disclosures, has given between 916 00:45:21,218 --> 00:45:24,119 $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation 917 00:45:24,188 --> 00:45:25,780 in the push to get them to support 918 00:45:25,856 --> 00:45:29,019 Indian access to nuclear technology. 919 00:45:29,093 --> 00:45:31,186 He's a member of parliament who has gotten in 920 00:45:31,261 --> 00:45:33,286 fistfights on the floor of the parliament, 921 00:45:33,363 --> 00:45:36,696 who's been charged with bribing members of parliament 922 00:45:36,767 --> 00:45:39,793 to get certain pieces of legislation passed. 923 00:45:39,870 --> 00:45:43,101 You see, the problem is, when you ask Amar Singh, 924 00:45:43,173 --> 00:45:44,902 he says, it wasn't my money. 925 00:45:44,975 --> 00:45:46,465 I don't have that kind of money. 926 00:45:46,543 --> 00:45:49,068 I couldn't have given him that amount of money. 927 00:45:49,146 --> 00:45:51,444 And in fact, when you look at Indian public records, 928 00:45:51,515 --> 00:45:54,973 you see that Amar Singh doesn't have a net worth anything close 929 00:45:55,052 --> 00:45:57,111 to being able to give that amount of money. 930 00:45:57,187 --> 00:45:58,415 So, where did the money come from? 931 00:46:00,057 --> 00:46:03,254 Well, sometimes the most obvious answer is the correct one. 932 00:46:03,327 --> 00:46:05,261 Sant Chatwal is an Indian businessman 933 00:46:05,329 --> 00:46:07,695 who has been close to the Clintons for years. 934 00:46:07,765 --> 00:46:09,562 He pledged to raise $5 million 935 00:46:09,633 --> 00:46:12,124 for her 2008 presidential campaign 936 00:46:12,202 --> 00:46:14,295 and Bill Clinton was at his son's wedding. 937 00:46:14,371 --> 00:46:16,032 They actually named him as a trustee 938 00:46:16,106 --> 00:46:17,630 of the Clinton Foundation. 939 00:46:17,708 --> 00:46:20,905 When Hillary Clinton was first running for the Senate in 2000, 940 00:46:20,978 --> 00:46:23,310 Sant Chatwal was in trouble with a federal agency 941 00:46:23,380 --> 00:46:26,213 called the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 942 00:46:26,283 --> 00:46:30,083 He basically owed them millions of dollars from unpaid loans. 943 00:46:30,154 --> 00:46:31,849 Well, in 2000, Chatwal throws 944 00:46:31,922 --> 00:46:33,787 a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton 945 00:46:33,857 --> 00:46:35,984 and he brings in half a million dollars. 946 00:46:36,059 --> 00:46:37,822 A few months later, with Bill Clinton 947 00:46:37,895 --> 00:46:39,863 still President of the United States, 948 00:46:39,930 --> 00:46:42,262 Sant Chatwal's case with the FDIC 949 00:46:42,332 --> 00:46:46,632 was abruptly settled for a mere $125,000. 950 00:46:46,703 --> 00:46:48,193 So, basically, the federal government 951 00:46:48,272 --> 00:46:50,206 got pennies on the dollar. 952 00:46:50,274 --> 00:46:51,707 He would actually go on to plead guilty 953 00:46:51,775 --> 00:46:56,735 for funneling $180,000 in illegal campaign contributions 954 00:46:56,814 --> 00:46:58,475 to Hillary Clinton, among others, 955 00:46:58,549 --> 00:47:00,574 and no one seems to have made the connection. 956 00:47:00,651 --> 00:47:03,643 Well, maybe one reason no one made the connection is because 957 00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:07,121 the Clinton Foundation mysteriously erased any mention 958 00:47:07,191 --> 00:47:09,091 of Sant Chatwal from the web site 959 00:47:09,159 --> 00:47:11,719 once he had admitted to his illegal activity. 960 00:47:11,795 --> 00:47:13,262 So, here we are, years later, 961 00:47:13,330 --> 00:47:15,423 and we've got this donation and a guy's name 962 00:47:15,499 --> 00:47:18,229 who swears he didn't actually make the donation. 963 00:47:18,302 --> 00:47:21,294 And you've got this longtime Clinton benefactor who actually 964 00:47:21,371 --> 00:47:24,101 gets the highest civilian award in India 965 00:47:24,174 --> 00:47:26,802 because of his role in changing Hillary Clinton's mind 966 00:47:26,877 --> 00:47:28,276 on this nuke deal. 967 00:47:28,345 --> 00:47:30,745 Sant Chatwal says he's worked with everybody. 968 00:47:30,814 --> 00:47:34,272 And even laid the foundation of the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal. 969 00:47:35,452 --> 00:47:36,851 So, the Indian government says that 970 00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:38,387 they have given you this award for your role 971 00:47:38,455 --> 00:47:41,117 in pushing the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal forward. 972 00:47:41,191 --> 00:47:42,783 How exactly would you describe 973 00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:44,919 the role you played in this? 974 00:47:44,995 --> 00:47:47,122 Well, I can tell you, the Indo nuclear power deal, 975 00:47:47,197 --> 00:47:49,461 if you look at it, I am the first one 976 00:47:49,533 --> 00:47:50,591 that laid the foundation. 977 00:47:53,570 --> 00:47:55,663 On the eve of the vote in 2008 978 00:47:55,739 --> 00:47:59,470 to approve Indian access to U.S. civilian nuclear technology, 979 00:47:59,543 --> 00:48:02,341 Amar Singh, who barely knows Hillary Clinton, 980 00:48:02,412 --> 00:48:04,004 had a two-hour meeting with her 981 00:48:04,081 --> 00:48:07,346 where they discussed the Indian nuclear deal. 982 00:48:07,417 --> 00:48:08,941 Amar Singh says that the dinner meeting 983 00:48:09,019 --> 00:48:12,853 resulted in her telling him that she was supportive of the deal, 984 00:48:12,923 --> 00:48:15,050 and that she was making efforts to make sure 985 00:48:15,125 --> 00:48:16,990 that the deal did get through. 986 00:48:17,060 --> 00:48:19,722 And lo and behold, by 2008, 987 00:48:19,796 --> 00:48:21,957 Hillary Clinton was fully in support 988 00:48:22,032 --> 00:48:24,500 and in favor of this policy, in a way that was 989 00:48:24,568 --> 00:48:27,298 a complete reversal of the position 990 00:48:27,371 --> 00:48:29,134 that she had taken before. 991 00:48:29,206 --> 00:48:31,367 In other words, the flow of money had led the Clintons 992 00:48:31,441 --> 00:48:34,968 to change their positions on the Non-Proliferation Treaty, 993 00:48:35,045 --> 00:48:37,309 and specifically, India getting access 994 00:48:37,381 --> 00:48:39,713 to U.S. nuclear technology. 995 00:48:39,783 --> 00:48:42,479 This was a decision that was wholly out of step, 996 00:48:42,552 --> 00:48:45,851 wholly inconsistent with the progressive liberal agenda. 997 00:48:45,923 --> 00:48:47,891 Hillary Clinton made the decision of 998 00:48:47,958 --> 00:48:50,119 reversing her previous position 999 00:48:50,193 --> 00:48:53,026 after the flow of funds to the Clinton Foundation, 1000 00:48:53,096 --> 00:48:55,564 and her husband gave some speeches in India. 1001 00:48:55,632 --> 00:48:58,260 But this wouldn't be the last time Hillary reversed herself 1002 00:48:58,335 --> 00:49:00,860 regarding nuclear weapons technology. 1003 00:49:00,938 --> 00:49:04,305 Shockingly, Bill and Hillary would end up receiving money 1004 00:49:04,374 --> 00:49:06,842 from folks that were looking to make something happen 1005 00:49:06,910 --> 00:49:08,605 a lot closer to home. 1006 00:49:28,465 --> 00:49:30,262 I think the Russian uranium story 1007 00:49:30,334 --> 00:49:33,098 is perhaps the most shocking and most blatant example 1008 00:49:33,170 --> 00:49:34,637 of how the Clintons operate. 1009 00:49:34,705 --> 00:49:38,334 This is a story about the Russian state nuclear agency, 1010 00:49:38,408 --> 00:49:44,313 American uranium, $145 million in cash, and the Clintons. 1011 00:49:44,381 --> 00:49:46,611 At the end of the day, this is a story 1012 00:49:46,683 --> 00:49:50,084 about buying influence and selling influence. 1013 00:49:50,153 --> 00:49:52,451 The Clintons are the sellers of influence. 1014 00:49:52,522 --> 00:49:56,891 The Canadian investors and the Russians are the buyers. 1015 00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:00,919 Bill Clinton had gone to the central Asian country of Kazakhstan, 1016 00:50:00,998 --> 00:50:04,263 in 2005, with Frank Giustra. 1017 00:50:04,334 --> 00:50:06,461 Kazakhstan is a country that has been run, 1018 00:50:06,536 --> 00:50:08,436 since the collapse of the Soviet Union, 1019 00:50:08,505 --> 00:50:10,803 by a dictator named Nazarbayev, 1020 00:50:10,874 --> 00:50:12,933 who shuts down political opposition 1021 00:50:13,010 --> 00:50:15,205 and tortures political opponents. 1022 00:50:15,278 --> 00:50:17,769 The ostensible purpose of the visit to Kazakhstan 1023 00:50:17,848 --> 00:50:23,115 by Bill Clinton was to talk with Nazarbayev about aids/HIV. 1024 00:50:23,186 --> 00:50:25,620 The problem is, Kazakhstan really does not have 1025 00:50:25,689 --> 00:50:29,125 an aids/HIV problem, so, that explanation 1026 00:50:29,192 --> 00:50:30,659 really doesn't make sense. 1027 00:50:30,727 --> 00:50:34,561 What makes far more sense is that Frank Giustra wanted access 1028 00:50:34,631 --> 00:50:38,260 to very lucrative Kazakh uranium mines. 1029 00:50:38,335 --> 00:50:40,394 Kazakhstan is one of the largest producers 1030 00:50:40,470 --> 00:50:42,335 of uranium in the world. 1031 00:50:42,406 --> 00:50:44,670 Bill Clinton arrives there with Frank Giustra, 1032 00:50:44,741 --> 00:50:47,904 and they have a series of meetings with Kazakh officials. 1033 00:50:47,978 --> 00:50:50,970 There's a press conference where Bill Clinton stands 1034 00:50:51,048 --> 00:50:52,606 with the dictator of Kazakhstan 1035 00:50:52,682 --> 00:50:55,776 and he praises the human rights record. 1036 00:50:55,852 --> 00:50:58,616 He praises that elections that are being held in the country, 1037 00:50:58,688 --> 00:51:01,088 and he even says that Kazakhstan should head up 1038 00:51:01,158 --> 00:51:03,388 something called the OSCE, which is 1039 00:51:03,460 --> 00:51:07,055 the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. 1040 00:51:07,130 --> 00:51:08,654 Think about that for a second. 1041 00:51:08,732 --> 00:51:11,792 Bill Clinton is saying that a known human rights violator, 1042 00:51:11,868 --> 00:51:14,359 who's been condemned by human rights organizations 1043 00:51:14,438 --> 00:51:18,397 around the world, should head up a human rights organization. 1044 00:51:18,475 --> 00:51:20,739 They go from a press conference to a dinner where 1045 00:51:20,811 --> 00:51:24,372 Frank Giustra, Nazarbayev, the dictator of Kazakhstan, 1046 00:51:24,448 --> 00:51:27,144 and Bill Clinton meet and talk. 1047 00:51:27,217 --> 00:51:29,515 Well, two days after that meeting, 1048 00:51:29,586 --> 00:51:33,249 Frank Giustra finally gets his uranium concessions, 1049 00:51:33,323 --> 00:51:35,791 worth hundreds of millions of dollars. 1050 00:51:35,859 --> 00:51:37,019 A couple of weeks after that, 1051 00:51:37,094 --> 00:51:40,257 Bill Clinton gets his $30 million from Frank Giustra, 1052 00:51:40,330 --> 00:51:42,389 the first payment in what will become 1053 00:51:42,466 --> 00:51:45,299 more than $100 million in pledges and commitments 1054 00:51:45,368 --> 00:51:47,598 and donations, made by Frank Giustra. 1055 00:51:50,740 --> 00:51:53,470 So, it's really in a way a simple story, 1056 00:51:53,543 --> 00:51:56,011 in that they all are walking away from the table 1057 00:51:56,079 --> 00:51:57,478 with something that they want. 1058 00:51:57,547 --> 00:52:01,244 Nazarbayev is getting the legitimacy of an ex-president 1059 00:52:01,318 --> 00:52:03,752 saying what a nice and kind leader he is, 1060 00:52:03,820 --> 00:52:06,015 Frank Giustra gets his uranium concession, 1061 00:52:06,089 --> 00:52:09,490 and Bill Clinton and his foundation get cold, hard cash. 1062 00:52:12,829 --> 00:52:15,093 Now let's move to chapter two of this story, 1063 00:52:15,165 --> 00:52:17,099 which is even more sinister. 1064 00:52:17,167 --> 00:52:19,032 You see, the international uranium market 1065 00:52:19,102 --> 00:52:20,467 is very competitive. 1066 00:52:20,537 --> 00:52:22,596 The Kremlin sees dominance and control 1067 00:52:22,672 --> 00:52:25,903 of the uranium market as a source of national power. 1068 00:52:25,976 --> 00:52:29,742 Frank Giustra takes that uranium concession he got in Kazakhstan 1069 00:52:29,813 --> 00:52:33,715 and puts it into a company in a so-called reverse merger, 1070 00:52:33,783 --> 00:52:36,718 which is one way for a private company to go public, 1071 00:52:36,786 --> 00:52:39,687 to form something called Uranium One. 1072 00:52:39,756 --> 00:52:42,589 It's a company traded on the stock market in Canada. 1073 00:52:42,659 --> 00:52:45,526 And they start acquiring uranium concessions 1074 00:52:45,595 --> 00:52:49,759 in places like Wyoming, Texas, New Mexico, and Utah. 1075 00:52:49,833 --> 00:52:52,802 And by 2009, they have what is expected to be 1076 00:52:52,869 --> 00:52:56,930 50% of future uranium production in the United States. 1077 00:52:57,007 --> 00:53:00,204 This gets the interest of Vladimir Putin and the Russian government, 1078 00:53:00,277 --> 00:53:02,745 and in fact there are State Department cables, 1079 00:53:02,812 --> 00:53:04,541 that were leaked through Wikileaks, 1080 00:53:04,614 --> 00:53:06,673 which show that Hillary was aware of the fact 1081 00:53:06,750 --> 00:53:09,719 that the Russians took great care to try to dominate 1082 00:53:09,786 --> 00:53:12,516 the international uranium market. 1083 00:53:12,589 --> 00:53:14,784 Well, the Russians wanna buy this asset, 1084 00:53:14,858 --> 00:53:19,295 and they offer a 40% overprice on the share of the stock, 1085 00:53:19,362 --> 00:53:20,954 and for this transaction to go through, 1086 00:53:21,031 --> 00:53:23,966 it has to be approved by the U.S. federal government. 1087 00:53:24,034 --> 00:53:26,264 Why? Because uranium is regarded 1088 00:53:26,336 --> 00:53:29,703 as a critical industry in the United States. 1089 00:53:29,773 --> 00:53:33,539 After all, this is used for our civilian nuclear reactors, 1090 00:53:33,610 --> 00:53:35,601 and goes into nuclear weapons. 1091 00:53:35,679 --> 00:53:37,271 So, it goes before the federal government, 1092 00:53:37,347 --> 00:53:41,477 where it needs to be signed off by a series of federal agencies, 1093 00:53:41,551 --> 00:53:44,748 including the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. 1094 00:53:44,821 --> 00:53:46,846 As Hillary Clinton is contemplating this, 1095 00:53:46,923 --> 00:53:50,518 shareholders in uranium one, including Frank Giustra, 1096 00:53:50,594 --> 00:53:54,928 have sent more than $145 million to the Clinton Foundation. 1097 00:53:54,998 --> 00:53:57,398 The chairman of that company at the precise time 1098 00:53:57,467 --> 00:53:58,934 is a guy named Ian Telfer, 1099 00:53:59,002 --> 00:54:02,403 who is also making donations to the Clinton Foundation. 1100 00:54:02,472 --> 00:54:04,997 As is Frank Holmes, who was another major 1101 00:54:05,075 --> 00:54:06,633 Uranium One shareholder. 1102 00:54:06,710 --> 00:54:09,543 And Hillary Clinton, who has a record of opposing 1103 00:54:09,613 --> 00:54:11,444 precisely these kinds of deals, 1104 00:54:11,514 --> 00:54:13,414 comes out and says, you know what? 1105 00:54:13,483 --> 00:54:14,745 I think this is a good deal. 1106 00:54:14,818 --> 00:54:17,412 Let's let Vladimir Putin take control 1107 00:54:17,487 --> 00:54:20,979 of what is now 20% of U.S. uranium production. 1108 00:54:24,561 --> 00:54:26,222 Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton 1109 00:54:26,296 --> 00:54:29,026 are the only figures in American politics 1110 00:54:29,099 --> 00:54:30,589 who are willing to do this deal, 1111 00:54:30,667 --> 00:54:32,498 and who could actually pull it off, 1112 00:54:32,569 --> 00:54:35,333 because they had a reputation that runs so contrary 1113 00:54:35,405 --> 00:54:36,838 to what they're doing. 1114 00:54:36,906 --> 00:54:39,568 I mean, this is what the Clinton Foundation does, right? 1115 00:54:39,643 --> 00:54:41,440 This is what they talk about politically, 1116 00:54:41,511 --> 00:54:42,876 their support for human rights, 1117 00:54:42,946 --> 00:54:44,846 their concerns about proliferation, 1118 00:54:44,914 --> 00:54:48,179 their concerns about issues related to Russian aggression. 1119 00:54:48,251 --> 00:54:50,776 There's doubt that when Putin came back in and said 1120 00:54:50,854 --> 00:54:52,583 he was going to be president, uh, 1121 00:54:52,656 --> 00:54:54,817 that did change the relationship. 1122 00:54:54,891 --> 00:54:57,155 We have to stand up to his bullying and... 1123 00:54:57,227 --> 00:55:00,526 what's so interesting when you consider this uranium deal 1124 00:55:00,597 --> 00:55:03,430 are the actions of a small Canadian investment firm 1125 00:55:03,500 --> 00:55:04,990 called Salida Capital. 1126 00:55:05,068 --> 00:55:10,062 Salida Capital, in 2010, as this deal was going down, 1127 00:55:10,140 --> 00:55:13,803 committed to give millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation 1128 00:55:13,877 --> 00:55:17,335 and they also sponsored a speech by Bill Clinton in Canada. 1129 00:55:17,414 --> 00:55:19,780 Salida capital is also the name of 1130 00:55:19,849 --> 00:55:22,750 a wholly owned subsidiary of Rosatom. 1131 00:55:22,819 --> 00:55:23,808 Who is Rosatom? 1132 00:55:23,887 --> 00:55:26,253 Well, this is the government agency in Russia 1133 00:55:26,323 --> 00:55:28,450 that controls their nuclear arsenal, 1134 00:55:28,525 --> 00:55:30,891 that built nuclear reactors in Iran, 1135 00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:33,793 and engages in nuclear technology exchanges 1136 00:55:33,863 --> 00:55:36,525 with rogue countries like North Korea. 1137 00:55:36,599 --> 00:55:39,363 What this means in essence is that the Russian government, 1138 00:55:39,436 --> 00:55:42,030 specifically Rosatom, was funneling money 1139 00:55:42,105 --> 00:55:45,768 through a subsidiary directly to the Clinton Foundation. 1140 00:55:45,842 --> 00:55:47,742 But the payday didn't end there. 1141 00:55:47,811 --> 00:55:50,075 4 months before Hillary Clinton's State Department 1142 00:55:50,146 --> 00:55:53,411 would sign off on the Russian purchase of Uranium One, 1143 00:55:53,483 --> 00:55:56,543 Bill Clinton got paid $500,000 1144 00:55:56,619 --> 00:55:59,645 to give a single speech in Moscow. 1145 00:55:59,723 --> 00:56:02,954 He was being paid by a firm called Renaissance Capital, 1146 00:56:03,026 --> 00:56:06,018 which has a long history of association with 1147 00:56:06,096 --> 00:56:08,257 Russian intelligence services. 1148 00:56:08,331 --> 00:56:10,060 What makes this speech stand out 1149 00:56:10,133 --> 00:56:13,000 is not only the timing of when he's being paid, 1150 00:56:13,069 --> 00:56:15,128 but the amount that he's being paid. 1151 00:56:15,205 --> 00:56:18,197 You see, the last time Bill Clinton gave a speech in Russia 1152 00:56:18,274 --> 00:56:19,866 was 5 years earlier. 1153 00:56:19,943 --> 00:56:21,604 At that time, he was paid about 1154 00:56:21,678 --> 00:56:24,511 1/3 of what he was being paid this time. 1155 00:56:28,451 --> 00:56:34,287 Why is Russian control of 20% of U.S. uranium so troubling? 1156 00:56:34,357 --> 00:56:37,849 If you're in an era where nuclear weapons are a reality, 1157 00:56:37,927 --> 00:56:40,395 where nuclear energy is an important component 1158 00:56:40,463 --> 00:56:42,624 of energy production in the United States, 1159 00:56:42,699 --> 00:56:44,690 and increasingly around the world, 1160 00:56:44,768 --> 00:56:47,601 control of uranium is absolutely crucial. 1161 00:56:47,670 --> 00:56:49,194 And unlike oil or natural gas 1162 00:56:49,272 --> 00:56:52,139 can be found so many places around the world, 1163 00:56:52,208 --> 00:56:54,642 there are precious few places where you can find 1164 00:56:54,711 --> 00:56:56,941 significant and large amounts of uranium 1165 00:56:57,013 --> 00:56:59,072 that you can produce on a commercial scale. 1166 00:57:00,617 --> 00:57:02,448 What we've essentially done is handed this 1167 00:57:02,519 --> 00:57:04,453 precious resource to Vladimir Putin 1168 00:57:04,521 --> 00:57:06,148 and the Russian government. 1169 00:57:06,222 --> 00:57:08,019 They're not only engaged in aggression 1170 00:57:08,091 --> 00:57:09,524 in places like Ukraine, 1171 00:57:09,592 --> 00:57:10,991 but they've been very aggressive in fighting 1172 00:57:11,060 --> 00:57:13,153 American interests around the globe. 1173 00:57:13,229 --> 00:57:15,891 Russia's not an ally. Russia's not a friend. 1174 00:57:15,965 --> 00:57:19,196 Vladimir Putin's Russia is a rival of the United States, 1175 00:57:19,269 --> 00:57:22,568 and yet we've given them control over this precious resource. 1176 00:57:33,082 --> 00:57:35,550 This is what's gonna power America. 1177 00:57:35,618 --> 00:57:37,313 I think a lot of people in middle America 1178 00:57:37,387 --> 00:57:40,322 would be surprised to know that the Russian government 1179 00:57:40,390 --> 00:57:45,487 is doing business in places like Colorado or Wyoming or Utah. 1180 00:57:45,562 --> 00:57:47,029 These are small mining towns. 1181 00:57:47,096 --> 00:57:50,657 These are operations that have existed for a while, 1182 00:57:50,733 --> 00:57:52,963 that have been under the control of American companies, 1183 00:57:53,036 --> 00:57:54,731 or for a while Canadian companies, 1184 00:57:54,804 --> 00:57:57,671 but it's now Russian companies that control this, 1185 00:57:57,740 --> 00:57:59,173 and those companies are controlled 1186 00:57:59,242 --> 00:58:00,539 by the Russian government. 1187 00:58:02,779 --> 00:58:06,613 Having read through the archives of the KGB, 1188 00:58:06,683 --> 00:58:08,150 the files that have been released, 1189 00:58:08,218 --> 00:58:11,187 i can tell you that they look at the United States 1190 00:58:11,254 --> 00:58:13,188 as weak and ineffectual. 1191 00:58:13,256 --> 00:58:14,814 This is a thuggish government 1192 00:58:14,891 --> 00:58:18,554 that is engaged in massive human rights violations. 1193 00:58:18,628 --> 00:58:19,890 There are opponents of this regime 1194 00:58:19,963 --> 00:58:21,794 that have been killed or have disappeared. 1195 00:58:21,865 --> 00:58:25,028 There's been persecution of human rights organization. 1196 00:58:25,101 --> 00:58:27,194 There's been persecution of homosexuals. 1197 00:58:27,270 --> 00:58:30,967 And it's shocking and stunning to me that there has not been 1198 00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:33,440 more attention focused to this fact, 1199 00:58:33,510 --> 00:58:35,341 that we have given this critical resource 1200 00:58:35,411 --> 00:58:38,938 to somebody who is engaged in so much nefarious behavior. 1201 00:58:42,418 --> 00:58:45,046 Greetings from Washington. 1202 00:58:45,121 --> 00:58:48,613 I want to thank all of you for your work to root out corruption 1203 00:58:48,691 --> 00:58:50,886 that weakens economic development, 1204 00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:53,520 feeds black markets and organized crime, 1205 00:58:53,596 --> 00:58:56,156 and undermines the promise of democracy. 1206 00:58:56,232 --> 00:58:59,963 As we work together to eradicate corruption in our own country, 1207 00:59:00,036 --> 00:59:02,527 we should also maintain the highest standards of 1208 00:59:02,605 --> 00:59:04,573 transparency and accountability 1209 00:59:04,641 --> 00:59:07,439 in our development efforts around the world. 1210 00:59:07,510 --> 00:59:10,411 Corruption in emerging markets and fragile democracies 1211 00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:14,143 undermines the confidence of citizens and investors alike, 1212 00:59:14,217 --> 00:59:16,515 while responsible governance helps to foster 1213 00:59:16,586 --> 00:59:19,953 sustainable economic development and political stability. 1214 00:59:21,891 --> 00:59:24,860 I believe in the oldest adage in American politics, 1215 00:59:24,928 --> 00:59:27,294 which is follow the money. 1216 00:59:27,363 --> 00:59:30,059 Enormous amounts of money have flowed to the Clintons, 1217 00:59:30,133 --> 00:59:32,624 from foreign governments, foreign financiers, 1218 00:59:32,702 --> 00:59:33,999 and businesses. 1219 00:59:34,070 --> 00:59:36,061 Some of that money lands in their pocket, 1220 00:59:36,139 --> 00:59:38,266 some of it lands in their foundation. 1221 00:59:38,341 --> 00:59:40,969 It's a pattern we've seen repeated over and over 1222 00:59:41,044 --> 00:59:43,478 and over again all around the world. 1223 00:59:43,546 --> 00:59:44,877 It's not a coincidence. 1224 00:59:44,948 --> 00:59:47,610 Money exchanges hands and favors are done. 1225 00:59:47,684 --> 00:59:48,912 Now, Clinton friends and supporters 1226 00:59:48,985 --> 00:59:51,078 will say there's no smoking gun. 1227 00:59:51,154 --> 00:59:53,145 But look at American political history. 1228 00:59:53,222 --> 00:59:56,680 People are convicted all the time for a pattern of behavior, 1229 00:59:56,759 --> 00:59:58,090 where, for example, they're engaged in 1230 00:59:58,161 --> 01:00:00,391 insider trading on the stock market. 1231 01:00:00,463 --> 01:00:03,660 So, for example, you have a foreign corporation 1232 01:00:03,733 --> 01:00:06,065 or a foreign government that wants something 1233 01:00:06,135 --> 01:00:08,262 from the State Department while Hillary Clinton 1234 01:00:08,338 --> 01:00:09,828 is Secretary of State. 1235 01:00:09,906 --> 01:00:13,171 They will make a large payment to the Clinton Foundation. 1236 01:00:13,242 --> 01:00:14,573 That will be followed by 1237 01:00:14,644 --> 01:00:17,112 favorable action on their behalf. 1238 01:00:17,180 --> 01:00:19,580 If that happens one or two times, you might say, 1239 01:00:19,649 --> 01:00:21,742 look, it's just a coincidence. 1240 01:00:21,818 --> 01:00:24,378 But when you see the pattern recreated 1241 01:00:24,454 --> 01:00:27,321 over and over and over again, 1242 01:00:27,390 --> 01:00:30,882 you have to recognize that these events are connected. 1243 01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:34,123 They've created a model for massive self-enrichment, 1244 01:00:34,197 --> 01:00:38,258 that allows you to go into so-called public service, 1245 01:00:38,334 --> 01:00:41,428 but get extremely rich at the same time. 1246 01:00:41,504 --> 01:00:43,870 And when friends and allies say that the Clintons 1247 01:00:43,940 --> 01:00:45,771 aren't really that interested in money, 1248 01:00:45,842 --> 01:00:48,140 their actions show otherwise. 1249 01:00:48,211 --> 01:00:50,145 What's so shocking to a lot of people 1250 01:00:50,213 --> 01:00:53,148 is that making of that money requires them 1251 01:00:53,216 --> 01:00:56,208 to betray their progressive values. 1252 01:00:56,285 --> 01:01:00,949 The environment, labor unions, women's rights, human rights. 1253 01:01:01,024 --> 01:01:04,221 The Clintons are doing business and growing rich, 1254 01:01:04,293 --> 01:01:06,989 with the favor of the very individuals 1255 01:01:07,063 --> 01:01:10,555 who you would expect to be their political opposites. 1256 01:01:10,633 --> 01:01:12,760 For a very long time in American history 1257 01:01:12,835 --> 01:01:14,302 and probably still to this day, 1258 01:01:14,370 --> 01:01:15,803 one of the worst things that could be said 1259 01:01:15,872 --> 01:01:18,170 about you as a politician is that you are 1260 01:01:18,241 --> 01:01:20,334 on the take from foreign interests. 1261 01:01:20,410 --> 01:01:21,809 What the Clintons have essentially done 1262 01:01:21,878 --> 01:01:23,812 is busted down the door 1263 01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:26,314 and robbed the bank of that concept. 1264 01:01:26,382 --> 01:01:28,714 So, when people think of the Clintons taking foreign money, 1265 01:01:28,785 --> 01:01:32,084 they think it's maybe an insurance company from great Britain, 1266 01:01:32,155 --> 01:01:35,124 or they think it's from a supermarket chain in Canada. 1267 01:01:35,191 --> 01:01:37,182 The fact of the matter is a lot of that money 1268 01:01:37,260 --> 01:01:40,718 comes from the darkest, worst corners of the world. 1269 01:01:40,797 --> 01:01:42,890 Are countries like Nigeria and Russia 1270 01:01:42,965 --> 01:01:45,160 in the habit of giving money to politicians 1271 01:01:45,234 --> 01:01:47,225 and not wanting something back? 1272 01:01:47,303 --> 01:01:49,362 The Clintons are glad to take this money. 1273 01:01:49,439 --> 01:01:51,407 It's made them fabulously wealthy. 1274 01:01:51,474 --> 01:01:53,601 But what has it done for us? 1275 01:01:53,676 --> 01:01:54,870 Before we had to worry about 1276 01:01:54,944 --> 01:01:56,673 money from Wall Street and big labor, 1277 01:01:56,746 --> 01:01:59,408 now we have to worry about it coming from around the world 1278 01:01:59,482 --> 01:02:02,974 and infecting our politics, and damaging our politics. 1279 01:02:03,052 --> 01:02:05,043 Everything from our uranium policy 1280 01:02:05,121 --> 01:02:06,816 to our human rights policy. 1281 01:02:06,889 --> 01:02:09,119 Nothing seems to be safe anymore. 1282 01:02:09,192 --> 01:02:11,717 This is a corruption. This is a crime. 1283 01:02:11,794 --> 01:02:14,058 With the Clintons, nothing is sacred. 1284 01:02:14,130 --> 01:02:15,722 Everything is for sale. 1285 01:02:15,798 --> 01:02:18,961 But we are the ones who are paying the price. 1286 01:02:19,035 --> 01:02:21,526 Maybe, just maybe, the American people 1287 01:02:21,604 --> 01:02:23,333 are tired of being sold out.