00:00BlackRock manages over 15 trillion dollars.
00:03That's more than the GDP of every country in the world except the US and China.
00:08And they've hired at least 84 former government officials since 2004.
00:12They hired Thomas Donovan, former national security advisor from the Obama administration.
00:17He became BlackRock's vice chairman.
00:19From the Biden administration, they hired Brian Deese.
00:22He went from BlackRock's head of sustainable investing to director of the National Economic
00:26Council.
00:26Wally Adeyemo was Larry Fink's chief of staff and then became deputy treasury secretary.
00:32Michael Pyle was BlackRock's chief investment strategist and now he advises the vice president.
00:37Nearly 400 meetings with senior US officials have been held since 2008.
00:42And over 50 meetings with UK prime ministers and other presidents.
00:46When you're that big, you don't lobby government.
00:48You literally become it.
00:49To know how democracy works, you have to follow the money.
00:52You better follow me, Mace Wynons.
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