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00:00:00The world is too small, our wisdom too limited, our time here too short to waste any more of it
00:00:07in winning fleeting victories at other people's expense.
00:00:11The Clinton Global Initiative, which brings philanthropists and CEOs together with nonprofits to make concrete commitments aimed at some of
00:00:18the world's toughest problems.
00:00:20Almost 10 years in, they have leveraged billions of dollars in assistance in more than 180 countries.
00:00:25CGI was designed to tackle big global challenges in bite-sized pieces with the conviction that regardless of size or
00:00:33scope, our problems will yield to concerted action and innovative partnerships of individuals, NGOs, businesses, and governments.
00:00:42We have to now find a way to triumph together.
00:00:47All the problems that we face, from climate change to financial contagion to nuclear proliferation, are too complex and cross
00:00:58-cutting for any one government or indeed for governments to solve alone.
00:01:02Because we believe that ending hunger is not only possible, but it is both a moral and strategic imperative.
00:01:09Hillary Clinton is trying to shift the spotlight to global warming.
00:01:12The presidential contender unveiling her plans to combat climate change.
00:01:16Together with innovative partners from the public and private sectors, we're working to make homes, universities, and cities more energy
00:01:22efficient.
00:01:23We share a common future, and we are here to find common ground.
00:01:30Women must be empowered.
00:01:32It's classic Bill Clinton, by using his birthday to help the causes he champions, from combating climate change to obesity
00:01:40and even HIV AIDS.
00:01:42Let's help bring new dignity and respect to women and girls all over the world.
00:01:51And in so doing, bring new strength and stability to families as well.
00:01:57We are trying to do something no one has ever done before.
00:02:01A new report today claims that the Clinton Foundation gives about 10% of its money that it raises to
00:02:09actual charities and the services that they offer.
00:02:13It has been reported you've made $5 million making speeches.
00:02:17The president's made more than $100 million?
00:02:20Well, if you have no reason to remember, but we came out of the White House not only dead broke,
00:02:27but in debt.
00:02:28Six years ago, Hillary Clinton was about to become Secretary of State.
00:02:32Barack Obama had nominated her.
00:02:34Everyone knew she was going to be confirmed by the Senate, going to be confirmed easily.
00:02:37But there was a thought, there was a question, there was a doubt out there about a potential conflict of
00:02:45interest.
00:02:45The Clinton Foundation dropping its self-imposed ban on collecting funds from foreign governments and entities.
00:02:51And now the Washington Post reports total contributions to that foundation amount to $2 billion.
00:02:58There's a lot of money sloshing around.
00:03:00Everything is blurred and it's not good.
00:03:03The questions scream out at me, what in the world happened with the foundation and these ulterior motives and this
00:03:09money and the email server.
00:03:11I'm sorry, those scream out at me.
00:03:14The amount of schmoozing involved and crossing lines and one person putting money in a foundation and then Clinton getting
00:03:22unbelievable amounts for his speeches, contracts going one way or another, it's not good.
00:03:28I look forward to working with all of you, particularly the appropriators.
00:03:33We have a lot of work to do and it is such important work that lies ahead.
00:03:45We have a lot of work that lies ahead with all of you, particularly the appropriators.
00:03:48We have a lot of work that lies ahead.
00:04:12We did this with a very simple strategy.
00:04:53Africa is a continent that has been a chamber of horrors for decades.
00:05:07It's really not the fault of the African people.
00:05:11It's largely a result of the kind of system that's been perpetuated there.
00:05:15You have these oligarchs, which dominate these countries that oftentimes have natural resources
00:05:21that can be very lucrative, and these oligarchs strike deals with foreign corporations or
00:05:26foreign governments, who in effect prop them up and put them in power, and in exchange,
00:05:32these oligarchs give these entities access to rich mineral deposits.
00:05:40And the Clintons, you would expect to be opposed to this sort of thing, and that's at least
00:05:44what their language does.
00:05:46Our countries have deepened our cooperation on many issues, including good governance
00:05:51and transparency, energy, regional security, and advancing peace and development in the
00:05:58Niger Delta.
00:05:58The problem is, their words are different from their actions.
00:06:04Rwanda has clearly taken an impressive trajectory of development, and the people here still think
00:06:08Kagame is the man to take them to another level.
00:06:11President Paul Kagame has walked all around the crowd thanking the people for letting him
00:06:16unopposed as chairman of the RPF or prison of the RPF for another seven-year time.
00:06:21But his critics say that far from entrenching democracy in Rwanda, he's actually eroding
00:06:27it by silencing the deposition.
00:06:35Paul Kagame has been praised by Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.
00:06:42But the fact of the matter is, Paul Kagame has a terrible human rights record.
00:06:48He's accused of aiding military operations in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo,
00:06:53and that actually forced the recruitment of child soldiers.
00:06:58The UN has identified him as being involved in activities that entailed massive human rights
00:07:04violations.
00:07:06The new opposition parties that have been formed in the last year or two have one by
00:07:11one been silenced or otherwise excluded from the race.
00:07:15And individuals, not only politicians, but even journalists, for example, and other Rwandans
00:07:20who may have used different from those of the government, have found themselves at the
00:07:23receiving end of what has become quite a violent campaign of intimidation.
00:07:29Well, Paul Kagame is a friend of Bill Clinton's.
00:07:33I want to say a special word of appreciation for the leadership of President Kagame.
00:07:43I'm greatly humbled to receive this Clinton Global Citizen Award.
00:07:52He's actually given awards by Bill Clinton for his conduct as the leader of that country.
00:07:57And they regale him as a great military leader.
00:08:01This is the sort of legitimization that we don't want of these kinds of dictators and leaders.
00:08:06That's the kind of legitimization that the Clintons have engaged in.
00:08:10And they've done it in a way that creates commercial opportunities for donors and friends and allies
00:08:16who want to do business in Africa.
00:08:31Business in Africa means you're dealing with dictators who are going to give you access to, say, mineral rights or
00:08:38oil drilling rights, but you're going to have to pay them off.
00:08:41The Clintons partner with foreign entities who want access to Africa and specifically mining companies or energy companies who need
00:08:50to get concessions for access to oil or natural gas or the rights to mine for gold.
00:08:57Those two make a powerful alliance because these companies will give money to the Clintons either in the form of
00:09:03speaking fees or in the form of donations to the Clinton Foundation.
00:09:07And the Clintons will then, in effect, do their bidding before the halls of power and corridors of power in
00:09:14Africa.
00:09:15And they will go to foreign governments and encourage them to do business with individuals who are putting money in
00:09:21their pocket.
00:09:22And this leads to some amazing fits of behavior that, in a way, are just reminiscent of 19th century colonialism.
00:09:29A perfect example of this is Ambassador Joe Wilson.
00:09:33Joe Wilson is a longtime friend of the Clintons.
00:09:35In fact, he endorsed Hillary Clinton in the 2008 presidential election.
00:09:40And it was also thought that he might become a senior official in Hillary Clinton's State Department.
00:09:45But the fact of the matter is, Joe Wilson was up to something far more nefarious during Hillary Clinton's tenure
00:09:51as Secretary of State.
00:09:53In 2009, shortly after she became Secretary of State, when Wilson was the vice chairman of a company called Jarge
00:10:00Capital, they took out a 50-year lease on 400,000 hectares in South Sudan.
00:10:06South Sudan was in the middle of a civil war, and this lease was actually signed with warlords who were
00:10:12involved in the civil war.
00:10:13These individuals who were engaged in massive human rights violations, including the massacre of opponent tribes.
00:10:20And basically what Joe Wilson was engaged in was something called investing in sovereignty changes.
00:10:25They were basically cutting deals, lucrative deals, worth potentially hundreds of millions of dollars with these warlords.
00:10:32And the expectation was simple.
00:10:34These warlords would take power, then they would give them access to these lands where they could make huge amounts
00:10:41of money exploring for natural gas, exploring for oil, and for mineral rights.
00:10:47Ambassador Joe Wilson isn't the only Clinton friend and foundation donor who was working in war-torn countries.
00:10:53Swedish mining investor Lukas Lundin has pledged $100 million to the Clinton Foundation.
00:11:00He did that in 2007.
00:11:02And his most lucrative mining operations are in the war-torn country of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
00:11:08This is a country that perhaps has the most horrific human rights situation on the face of the earth.
00:11:13By the time Lucas Lundin made his $100 million pledge to the Clinton Foundation, his Congo operation was making, quote,
00:11:22staggering profits, end quote, according to his own financial statements.
00:11:26His overall capitalization was $20 billion.
00:11:30But for those profits to remain staggering, U.S. policy under Hillary Clinton had to remain unchanged.
00:11:36That's a problem. Hillary Clinton, as a senator back in 2006, supported something called the Congo Relief Security and Democracy
00:11:45Promotion Act.
00:11:46As the law's name implied, the goal was to bring reform to Congo.
00:11:50That's not something that Lucas Lundin would want.
00:11:53So in 2009, when Hillary became Secretary of State, she reversed course 180 degrees and went from supporting reform in
00:12:01Congo to supporting the status quo, which is exactly what Lucas Lundin would want, who, of course, had committed $100
00:12:09million to the Clinton Foundation.
00:12:11But Congo isn't the only scandal-plagued country where Clinton benefactors have made millions.
00:12:19Africa's most populous nation, Nigeria, is full of promise. But fulfilling that promise is sometimes a struggle.
00:12:27Plagued by corruption and mismanagement, the resource-rich country has a poverty rate of over 50 percent.
00:12:33Look at a country like Nigeria, which is really a cesspool of corruption. In fact, people will say it is
00:12:40perhaps the most corrupt country in the world.
00:12:43It's rich in natural resources. It produces a lot of oil. But that money never trickles down to the people.
00:12:49It goes to the oligarchs who run the country, who oftentimes take that money and put it in Swiss bank
00:12:55accounts in a way that, of course, the people of Nigeria can never benefit from.
00:12:59And you see, there's a federal law in the United States which says if foreign governments that receive U.S.
00:13:06assistance aren't transparent in how they spend that money, that they will not be able to get U.S. foreign
00:13:13assistance anymore.
00:13:14It's about transparency. But there's a way around that law. You can get a waiver from that law. How? By
00:13:21getting the U.S. Secretary of State to grant you a waiver.
00:13:23We intend to remain very supportive on your reform efforts. Thank you for mentioning the work we did together on
00:13:33the elections. We're also very supportive of the anti-corruption reform efforts, more transparency in the work that you and
00:13:44your team is also championing.
00:13:47Because we really believe that the future for Nigeria is limitless.
00:13:56So in the case of Nigeria, they receive hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. foreign assistance.
00:14:01They've not made progress in being more transparent. And of course, they've gotten exemptions from Hillary Clinton while she was
00:14:07Secretary of State.
00:14:08What's so curious about this is what was happening commercially to the Clintons while this was going on.
00:14:13Bill Clinton, for the first time ever, gets paid highly lucrative speeches in Nigeria, which had never happened before.
00:14:20In fact, he gets paid to do two speeches for $700,000 a piece by a businessman in Nigeria who
00:14:28just happens to be close with the president of that country.
00:14:32Keep in mind, by the way, that his normal speaking fee is less than $200,000 a speech.
00:14:38So this was an enormous payday for Bill Clinton.
00:14:42Okay, now we'll begin the panel.
00:14:51One of the pinnacles of power in that country is a gentleman named Gilbert Chiguri.
00:14:58Gilbert Chiguri, who has committed $1 billion to the Clinton Global Initiative, is connected to another individual in the Clinton
00:15:06orbit.
00:15:06That would be Mark Rich, the billionaire who was on the FBI's 10 most wanted list that was suddenly and
00:15:14surprisingly pardoned by Bill Clinton in 2001.
00:15:18Mark Rich, you might recall, is somebody who was trading oil with the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran at the same
00:15:25time that the Ayatollah was holding 50 Americans hostage.
00:15:28He also had a long history of busting U.N. sanctions by trading oil with the apartheid regime in South
00:15:35Africa and a whole host of other nefarious governments.
00:15:38Well, Gilbert Chiguri, the high Clinton donor, was business partners with Mark Rich.
00:15:44Together, they sopped up oil assets in Nigeria and sold them on the oil market for the benefit of a
00:15:50corrupt individual who was leading Nigeria at the time named General Abacha.
00:15:55Abacha smuggled, by some estimates, $4 to $8 billion out of the country and put them in European bank accounts.
00:16:03Gilbert Chiguri was indicted and convicted in Europe for helping him to do that.
00:16:08He was charged for aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise and on money laundering charges.
00:16:14And the suffering that ends up being done here is by the people of Nigeria who see their leadership getting
00:16:21a pass from the United States.
00:16:23The elites in those countries are getting rich, the Clintons are getting rich, and the money somehow never trickles down
00:16:29to the people of Nigeria.
00:16:31Sadly, this theme of resources not trickling down to those most in need is a common one when it comes
00:16:37to the Clintons.
00:16:48As we told you at the start of tonight's program, a major magnitude earthquake has hit the island of Haiti
00:16:53in the Caribbean.
00:16:54The quake measured around 7 points on the Richter scale and its epicenter fell just 10 miles from the capital
00:17:01Port-au-Prince.
00:17:01Haiti's ambassador to the U.S. has described the event as a catastrophe of major proportions.
00:17:08So far, we have no information regarding the casualties.
00:17:13The water's going to an end!
00:17:19It was a big earthquake. It lasted like 15 seconds, I think.
00:17:24Probably the most devastating humanitarian crisis that Hillary Clinton faced during her tenure at the State Department
00:17:30was the tragic earthquake in Haiti.
00:17:35It happened in January of 2010, and literally in a matter of seconds, 250,000 people were estimated to have
00:17:42died,
00:17:43and a large portion of the Haitian infrastructure and economy was just decimated.
00:17:50It was a crisis on a massive scale.
00:17:56The United States is offering our full assistance to Haiti and to others in the region.
00:18:02We will be providing both civilian and military disaster relief and humanitarian assistance,
00:18:08and our prayers are with the people who have suffered, their families, and their loved ones.
00:18:16In the days and weeks that followed the earthquake in January of 2010, Hillary Clinton made visits to Haiti.
00:18:25And here's the latest on Haiti.
00:18:27U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Port-au-Prince just about an hour ago.
00:18:32She is the highest-ranking U.S. official in Haiti right now since Tuesday's earthquake.
00:18:37She's meeting with Haitian leaders and international officials to discuss the rescue and relief efforts.
00:18:43In fact, on her first visit, which occurred days after the earthquake,
00:18:47they literally had to stop traffic going in to the airport at Port-au-Prince.
00:18:53There, of course, were relief supplies that were being flown in,
00:18:56but that traffic was stopped so the Secretary of State could come and assess the damage.
00:19:01There is a perception, and there have been complaints or reports of bottlenecks,
00:19:06that there's a lot of aid coming in, but it's very hard to get it out to the people who
00:19:10need it.
00:19:11That's just not true. The aid is coming in, we're getting it out, there's just not enough of it yet.
00:19:15She flew in with her political aids on a large federal airplane.
00:19:19She landed at the airport, she made a large press conference,
00:19:22made statements about her commitment to rebuilding this country,
00:19:26and then she was soon whisked away, headed back to Washington, D.C.
00:19:33Theirs is a city in ruins.
00:19:36A country which can do little, but wait for help to arrive.
00:19:43The international community responded in the way that you would expect it to.
00:19:48That is, large amounts of money were committed,
00:19:50up to 13 billion dollars from international relief organizations.
00:19:54And, of course, you had the official role of the State Department,
00:19:58which would be point on U.S. taxpayer dollars going to Haiti for the purposes of relief.
00:20:03I want to assure the people of Haiti that the United States is a friend, a partner, and a supporter.
00:20:14Hillary Clinton's State Department would oversee the reconstruction effort,
00:20:18with Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills responsible for the allocation of U.S. tax dollars through USAID.
00:20:24And Bill Clinton, already appointed Special Envoy to Haiti for the United Nations,
00:20:29was named co-chair of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission,
00:20:33along with a former Haitian Prime Minister.
00:20:36I hope that it will be rebuilt in a much stronger and more sustainable way,
00:20:41and I think the Haitians want that.
00:20:43So, this was clearly a Clinton operation from the beginning.
00:20:46Now, the Haitians had their own ideas about how best to rebuild their country.
00:20:50They wanted new roads.
00:20:52They wanted buildings rebuilt.
00:20:54And that's what you would expect.
00:20:55This is how you recover from an earthquake.
00:20:58The problem is that the Clintons had their own agenda.
00:21:00The interests of major donors,
00:21:02who had a vested interest in spending that money in Haiti in ways that would benefit them.
00:21:08And so you immediately had this clash between the Haitians and the Clintons.
00:21:13And Haitians complained almost immediately that they were shut out of the decision-making process.
00:21:18That it was really Bill Clinton and a few of his friends that were calling the shots in the IHRC.
00:21:23And they made some monumentally bad decisions that not only didn't benefit the Haitian people,
00:21:29but ended up putting money in the pockets of major Clinton donors who had economic stakes in Haiti.
00:21:35We have been united behind a single goal.
00:21:41Making investments in this country's people and your infrastructure.
00:21:47So, it's a classic example of what some people call disaster capitalism.
00:21:52Disaster capitalism in that a natural disaster creates opportunities for rebuilding to take place,
00:21:58but also for self-enrichment to take place.
00:22:01And if you look at the Clintons and the promises that were made,
00:22:04and the results that actually followed,
00:22:06it is a tragic story of crony capitalism gone awry.
00:22:30The single largest relief project that the United States committed taxpayer dollars to,
00:22:35124 million dollars to be exact,
00:22:38was a project called Caracol,
00:22:40a textile factory that was built in the northern part of the country,
00:22:43that was supposed to create some 60,000 jobs,
00:22:46and was supposed to create tremendous economic growth.
00:22:50There's a problem here already.
00:22:52You see, the earthquake affected the southern part of Haiti.
00:22:54The northern part of the country was entirely unaffected.
00:22:57But who were the beneficiaries of this?
00:22:59Companies like Gap, Target, and Walmart, to name a few.
00:23:03The Caracol factory was built, but it didn't create 60,000 jobs.
00:23:07It created barely 5,000 jobs.
00:23:09But the major American companies who got textiles tariff-free,
00:23:13made at low wages, benefited enormously.
00:23:16And the end effect on the Haitians was very, very minimal.
00:23:25If you look at some of the infrastructure projects that were undertaken,
00:23:29the Clintons had very grand plans to build large tracts of homes,
00:23:34and there were contractors that were selected for those projects.
00:23:38Sometimes the contractors had experience, sometimes they did not.
00:23:44There's one company in Florida that spent a million dollars getting equipment into Haiti.
00:23:49They had experience in disaster relief,
00:23:51but according to the owners of that company,
00:23:53they only made a small donation to the Clinton Foundation.
00:23:57And guess what?
00:23:57They didn't get any relief contracts.
00:24:00On the other hand, the contractors who did win the awards
00:24:03were given the opportunity to build homes,
00:24:05and in some instances were supposed to build tens of thousands of homes for Haitians.
00:24:09They ended up building a fraction of that.
00:24:12For instance, New Settlement's program was supposed to build 15,000 homes for $53 million.
00:24:18Instead, it built 2,600 homes, less than a quarter of the original estimate,
00:24:23for $90 million, or $47 million over budget.
00:24:27And they got away with it.
00:24:32So you had contracts going to these relief organizations
00:24:36that were also involved with the Clinton Global Initiative.
00:24:38And you had this one organization, Dahlberg,
00:24:41that was supposed to do an assessment for relocating people
00:24:44that suffered from the earthquake.
00:24:46They determined that people should be moved to a site
00:24:49that happened to be on a cliff that was highly unstable.
00:24:52USAID's inspector general reviewed Dahlberg's recommendations
00:24:55and found them basically unusable.
00:24:58One member of the USAID shelter team was quoted by Rolling Stone magazine
00:25:02as saying that the recommendations were so bad,
00:25:05it looked like the team never even got out of their SGVs.
00:25:08Another person said that only one of the people that was sent to Haiti by Dahlberg actually spoke French.
00:25:15Telecom mogul Dennis O'Brien is one of the world's richest people,
00:25:19and he's finding opportunities in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
00:25:23The Irish billionaire is the largest private investor in Haiti through his company, Digicel.
00:25:28And he's now leading the Clinton Global Initiative efforts down in Haiti.
00:25:32Probably no one came out better in the Haitian reconstruction effort
00:25:36than an Irish billionaire named Dennis O'Brien.
00:25:39He's a Clinton Foundation donor giving them between $5 and $10 million.
00:25:43He helped arrange speeches for Bill Clinton too.
00:25:46The interest of the Obama administration, particularly the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
00:25:52you know, all the different things that have happened to help Haiti get up off the floor
00:25:57have been led by the U.S.
00:25:59And he was the owner of something called Digicel, which is a cell phone company at the time of the
00:26:03earthquake.
00:26:04As part of that relief effort, the State Department run by Hillary Clinton wanted to fund a mobile money transfer
00:26:10service
00:26:11that would allow Haitian citizens to transfer and receive money on their phones.
00:26:15Well, Digicel applied to be the recipient of that grant money.
00:26:18Four weeks after their application, Digicel actually sponsored a speech for Bill Clinton in Jamaica,
00:26:24and they paid him $225,000.
00:26:26And as it turns out, within four months of that speech, Digicel would receive the first installment of that grant
00:26:33money.
00:26:34The earthquake actually has been great for Digicel and Dennis O'Brien.
00:26:39More than four years since a magnitude 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti.
00:26:44An outrage there is growing over the largely failed reconstruction effort,
00:26:49despite the hundreds of millions of dollars in aid that has been collected and spent by the IHRC,
00:26:55the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission.
00:26:57So whether you're talking about housing or cell phones, you see that the people that are closest to the Clintons
00:27:02have made out very well from the Haitian earthquake.
00:27:06The rest of the country, the ordinary people of Haiti, not so much.
00:27:11Haitian activists staged a protest outside Hillary Clinton's Manhattan office.
00:27:15The demonstrators claimed billions of dollars were stolen through the Haiti Reconstruction Commission headed by Bill Clinton.
00:27:20They also say Haiti was used as a cover for foreign governments to funnel kickbacks of possibly hundreds of millions
00:27:25of dollars through the Clinton Foundation.
00:27:27They say it was done in exchange for favors that Hillary was doing for them as Secretary of State.
00:27:32The tragedy is we had an opportunity to rebuild in a way that would give the people of that country
00:27:38hope.
00:27:39Sadly, that opportunity was squandered and what took place rather than rebuilding Haiti was the self-enrichment by friends of
00:27:47the Clintons.
00:27:48For all of Bill Clinton's talk about building Haiti back better, the fact remains that the most visible evidence of
00:27:54Clinton's role in the recovery isn't the improvement of daily life for everyday Haitians,
00:27:59but the construction of new luxury hotels just miles from the folks who have been living in tarps USAID handed
00:28:06out immediately after the earthquake.
00:28:08We are telling the world of the crimes that Bill and Hillary Clinton are responsible for in Haiti.
00:28:16But while the world eventually lost interest in Haiti's recovery, the influence and connections afforded to donors from the Clinton
00:28:22Foundation appear to have been lessons learned by others.
00:28:26So how much do connections to the Clintons matter when you're talking about Haiti?
00:28:30Consider the case of gold mining.
00:28:32The government of Haiti had not granted a gold mining concession in 50 years.
00:28:37They decided to do so during the reconstruction of their country, which was being overseen by Bill and Hillary Clinton.
00:28:44What company did they select to get this gold mining permit?
00:28:48A company called VCS Mining.
00:28:51VCS Mining had very little experience in gold mining.
00:28:55But what did they have?
00:28:56They had connections.
00:28:58Shortly after they got that concession, someone joined their board of directors.
00:29:03It just happened to be Tony Rodham, brother of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
00:29:10It was a true disaster, a true disaster that followed the earthquake, which was the natural disaster.
00:29:17This was the man-made Clinton-caused disaster in relief that led to the wasting of enormous sums of money,
00:29:24the enrichment of elites that were friends with the Clintons.
00:29:27And the Haitians were left in a situation where their life was really not much better than it was the
00:29:33day after the earthquake happened.
00:29:55An ambitious pipeline is firing off a war of opinions.
00:29:58Environmental activists marched in Washington today to protest plans for the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
00:30:06A $7 billion project to transport 800,000 barrels of tar sands oil a day from Canada down to the
00:30:13Gulf Coast.
00:30:15In Washington, a showdown on the Senate floor today over the Keystone XL pipeline.
00:30:19The vote to approve the controversial pipe project had big political implications.
00:30:24The pipeline would create 20,000 jobs, but opponents say the environmental risk is too great.
00:30:31One of the touchstones of the climate change debate has been the Keystone XL pipeline.
00:30:35It's designed to carry oil from Canada through the United States to refineries in Louisiana and in Texas.
00:30:42The environmental movement has wholeheartedly rejected this deal from the beginning because they believe that it's going to further contribute
00:30:48to the problems of climate change.
00:30:51One.
00:30:52We are the people.
00:30:53Two.
00:30:54You can't ignore us.
00:30:55Three.
00:30:55Three.
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00:30:56Three.
00:30:57Three.
00:30:57Now, you would think that the Clintons would be opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline deal because of those concerns.
00:31:04And perhaps they might be, except for one or two problems.
00:31:08Or should I say, one or two million problems.
00:31:11You see, when Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State in late 2008, there was already an issue related to the
00:31:18Keystone XL pipeline sitting on her desk.
00:31:21She was going to have to sign an environmental and economic impact statement and decide whether the Keystone XL pipeline
00:31:27should go forward.
00:31:33At that precise time, Bill Clinton gets a lucrative offer of nearly $2 million to give 10 speeches in Canada
00:31:40for the first time ever from a company called TD Bank Investment Crew.
00:31:45He gave the last speech in May of 2011.
00:31:48Three months later, Hillary's State Department releases an environmental impact statement that was seen as largely supportive of the Keystone
00:31:56XL pipeline in a way that was massively controversial.
00:31:59Hillary Clinton, in effect, was betraying the environmental movement by greenlighting this deal when she had in her hands the
00:32:05power to kill this deal in its crib.
00:32:08It was shocking.
00:32:10Organizations like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth were stunned.
00:32:13They wanted investigations, but everybody was mystified.
00:32:16Nobody could understand why Hillary Clinton would sign off on this deal, particularly when she had been in favor of
00:32:23dealing with climate change.
00:32:24And her boss, Barack Obama, by all indications, seemed to be opposed to this deal as well.
00:32:30It's also a time for a new approach to climate change.
00:32:33We know we've got to deal with global warming.
00:32:36We're seeing the effects of it.
00:32:37We need to invest in clean energy technology today so that we can create new high-paying jobs to protect
00:32:45our environment, to grow our economy, and to finally break our addiction to foreign oil.
00:32:50How did we go from the Clintons being in favor of fighting climate change and dealing with fossil fuel dependence
00:32:57to Hillary Clinton signing off on the Keystone XL pipeline?
00:33:01The evidence that we found was that it was about the money.
00:33:05This was not a philosophical change.
00:33:07This was not a new way of thinking about global warming.
00:33:10This was a way of taking $2 million in cash to essentially buy a decision by the Secretary of State.
00:33:17Why is the TD Bank investment group so interesting?
00:33:21Because they just happen to be one of the largest shareholders in the Keystone XL pipeline itself.
00:33:29When we looked at Bill Clinton's pattern of giving speeches, we looked at who was paying him, when they were
00:33:34paying him, and if they have ever paid for a speech before.
00:33:38What's so stunning is that TD Bank had never sponsored a speech by Bill Clinton before.
00:33:43And then suddenly, in late 2008, when Hillary Clinton has been announced to be the Secretary of State, and when
00:33:49sitting on her desk is the matter of the Keystone XL pipeline, they suddenly decide to sponsor these speeches.
00:33:56And when people realized that the Clintons had pocketed about $2 million at the precise time Hillary Clinton was making
00:34:03this decision, it all now suddenly made sense.
00:34:07Because as we've seen repeated over and over and over again, when it comes to the Clintons, you have to
00:34:13follow the money.
00:34:14And in the case of the Keystone XL pipeline, they seem to have abandoned their principles, their commitment, as it
00:34:20was, to combating global warming and dealing with our dependence on fossil fuels.
00:34:25They jettisoned that when $2 million showed up and suddenly came out in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline.
00:34:32When you see this sort of pattern of behavior, you can't come to any other conclusion that it's a system
00:34:38of pay to play.
00:34:39And again, other entities appear to have picked up on this business model, too.
00:34:45Well, Bill Clinton has been paid enormous sums of money over the years to give speeches.
00:34:49On average, he gets a little less than $200,000 per speech.
00:34:52But something happened in late 2008.
00:34:55His speaking fees skyrocketed after he'd been out of office for years.
00:34:59The reason was his wife had become Secretary of State.
00:35:02In fact, 11 of the 13 speeches for which Bill Clinton has been paid half a million dollars or more
00:35:08occurred precisely when Hillary was the most powerful diplomat in the world.
00:35:20You will never contribute to an organization that will give you a higher probability of having your good intentions turn
00:35:31into real positive changes in other people's lives.
00:35:34That will give you a better chance on what you've done here tonight.
00:35:37His single biggest speech payday came from the Swedish telecom company Ericsson.
00:35:44And it's a very, very unusual and troubling story.
00:35:47Now, Ericsson is a Swedish telecom company that in 2009 and 2010 was in trouble with Hillary Clinton's State Department.
00:35:55Because Ericsson was selling a lot of telecom equipment to Iran, to Belarus, and to other oppressive governments, about which
00:36:02the State Department was concerned.
00:36:04Ericsson risked being put on a list by the federal government in the United States for trading with an enemy
00:36:09state.
00:36:10There was actually an effort being put forward in Washington to broaden Iranian sanctions, to include the very technologies that
00:36:17Ericsson was selling to the Iranian government.
00:36:20So it's against this background that Ericsson decided now might be a good time to hire Bill Clinton to give
00:36:27a speech.
00:36:28They had never paid for a speech by him before, and they decided to go in big, $750,000 for
00:36:35a single speech.
00:36:36Seven days after he gave that speech, Hillary's State Department came out with a statement, which said,
00:36:42We are not going to broaden sanctions on Iran to include technologies like telecom.
00:36:47We are going to rely and expect companies like Ericsson to police themselves.
00:36:51It was a massive win for Ericsson.
00:36:54Ericsson was able to avoid having to deal with a regulatory battle in Washington, giving up contracts that were highly
00:37:01lucrative in these countries,
00:37:03and being put on a list that would create an enormous diplomatic problem for them, all because essentially they paid
00:37:10Bill Clinton to give a speech for $750,000.
00:37:13Will you continue to give speeches?
00:37:15Oh, yeah. I got to pay our bills.
00:37:31So the question is why do we see the Clintons reversing decades of policy positions that they've held so closely
00:37:37on issues like human rights and environment?
00:37:40And a big clue comes from the folks that are giving the Clinton Foundation literally tens of millions of dollars.
00:37:46And one, if not the biggest donor to the Foundation, is a Canadian named Frank Giustra.
00:37:51Giustra is in the mining business, hardly something you'd call environmentally friendly.
00:37:55And he has interests all over the world.
00:37:58And he used his relationship with the Clintons to benefit those interests, regardless of the environmental concerns.
00:38:04A great example of this is what happened in Colombia.
00:38:08What's so interesting about the relationship that the Clintons have with Frank Giustra is they tend to show up in
00:38:14these foreign countries
00:38:15together at the same time.
00:38:17Frank Giustra has made billions of dollars over the years in the so-called penny stock market in Canada,
00:38:22which is highly open to manipulation.
00:38:24He's been very successful in this area.
00:38:26Now, the Vancouver Stock Exchange is not like the New York Stock Exchange in the United States.
00:38:31This is a stock market or an exchange that is dominated by penny stocks, made up of a lot of
00:38:36natural resources stocks.
00:38:38It's sort of the wild, wild west of investing.
00:38:41It's called Dodge City sometimes.
00:38:43And the reason is because there's a lot of speculators.
00:38:46There's a lot of misinformation that's put around.
00:38:49And there are a lot of mining companies that don't really have any assets,
00:38:52but will proclaim to have gotten the rights to some lucrative gold mine, let's say.
00:38:57And then they send that news out to the public in the hope that it will lead to a flood
00:39:01of people buying the penny stock
00:39:03so the shareholders can sell their assets.
00:39:13So in June of 2010, Bill Clinton and Frank Giustra fly to Bogota, Colombia.
00:39:20And who arrives there at roughly the same time?
00:39:23Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
00:39:26The big thing from the news conference was where Bill and Hillary were dining the other night in Bogota.
00:39:31I had a chance to talk to her about her dinner experience in the Zona Rosa.
00:39:35And here's what she had to say.
00:39:37Dinner was good?
00:39:37It was excellent in every way.
00:39:39So it was like eating in the States, but eating in Bogota.
00:39:43Well, it was a real treat to be in Bogota and to be with people who love this city so
00:39:50much, including my husband.
00:39:52Now, in her memoirs, Hillary Clinton says that this is just a happy coincidence.
00:39:56But when you see what follows, you realize that this is no coincidence.
00:40:01The following morning, Bill Clinton has a breakfast meeting with the outgoing president of Colombia, President Uribe.
00:40:08Then, like a tag team, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a noon lunch meeting with him.
00:40:13And she grants him several favors, including technical agreements that the Colombian government wants.
00:40:18In the days that follow, something dramatic happens.
00:40:22Frank Giustra has three companies that get major concessions from the Colombian government.
00:40:27Pacific Rubiales, Petroamerica, and Prima Colombia Properties.
00:40:32One of those, Prima Colombia Properties, gets a concession to cut timber in a rainforest in Colombia along the Pacific
00:40:38coast.
00:40:39And that timber is not intended to export to the United States, but is intended for export to China.
00:40:49There's an outrage and upset environmentalists who realize what's going on.
00:40:54And eventually, that permit is yanked by a future president of Colombia, but not before Frank Giustra's company is able
00:41:01to profit from cutting down these rainforests.
00:41:05Which, again, is a behavior that runs so contrary to what the Clintons profess to be in favor of.
00:41:10We all know that in order to build low-carbon economies of the future, we need sustainable forests.
00:41:16I also know the future of our planet depends on healthy, standing forests.
00:41:21They have talked about the problems of deforestation.
00:41:24They've talked about the problems of the need for successful growing forests to mitigate carbon dioxide in the air.
00:41:31And yet, when this commercial opportunity was presented to a major donor of theirs,
00:41:36they seemed to be very much supportive of that and, in fact, helped to get him those concessions.
00:41:43He deserves the credit for this. This was his idea and not mine, and he raised the money.
00:41:48And it's an astonishing achievement.
00:41:52My job is to make sure that it's not in vain, that he gets the return on his investment and
00:41:57his compassion and his commitment.
00:41:59The Clintons appear to have changed their stance on issues even more significant than the environment,
00:42:04in ways that benefit those who have put money in their pockets.
00:42:34I represent a president and a country committed to a vision of a world without nuclear weapons.
00:42:42And to taking the concrete steps necessary that will help us get there.
00:42:48The Indian nuclear deal, I think, is so troubling because this is a core national security issue.
00:42:54One of the signature achievements in foreign policy for Bill Clinton was pushing the Test Ban Treaty and the Non
00:43:02-Proliferation Treaty.
00:43:03Today in New York, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to adopt a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty and
00:43:12open it for signature later this month.
00:43:15The NPT has been sort of the holy grail when it comes to nuclear disarmament, something that the Clintons have
00:43:20been supportive of, not just for years, but for decades.
00:43:24That was all thrown asunder in 1998 when the Indian government tested nuclear weapons underground.
00:43:32India's action threatens the stability of Asia and challenges the firm international consensus to stop all nuclear testing.
00:43:41These were tests that truly shocked the world.
00:43:45Even the CIA was not aware that these tests were about to take place.
00:43:49Clinton's reaction was volcanic.
00:43:52He felt betrayed by the Indian government.
00:43:54And as a result, he imposed sanctions on India, essentially saying,
00:43:59you're not going to get access to U.S. nuclear technology until you sign the NPT, the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
00:44:09In 2005, the Indian government wanted to get these sanctions lifted.
00:44:14Not only do they have an interest in expanding their civilian nuclear base,
00:44:18they live in a neighborhood where some pretty tough customers and rivals have nuclear weapons themselves.
00:44:23First of all, you've got Pakistan, which is right next door, which is widely believed to have nuclear weapons.
00:44:29And then you have China, a longtime rival of India, which has a nuclear arsenal.
00:44:34The Clintons said that they were in favor of giving the Indian government some access.
00:44:39But the problem is it didn't go nearly as far as the Indian government wanted.
00:44:43So in 2005, they started making donations to the Clinton Foundation.
00:44:50This morning, yet another shady donation to the Clinton Foundation has surfaced,
00:44:55this time tied to a donor from India, apparently a friend of Bill Clinton.
00:45:01We're talking about tens of millions of dollars from Indian interests flowing into the Clinton Foundation.
00:45:06And we're talking about at least hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars,
00:45:10in speeches that Bill Clinton was paid by interested parties in the Indian nuclear deal.
00:45:18Amar Singh, according to Clinton Disclosures, has given between $1 and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation
00:45:24in the push to get them to support Indian access to nuclear technology.
00:45:29He's a member of parliament who has gotten in fistfights on the floor of the parliament,
00:45:33who's been charged with bribing members of parliament to get certain pieces of legislation passed.
00:45:39You see, the problem is when you ask Amar Singh, he says it wasn't my money.
00:45:45I don't have that kind of money.
00:45:46I couldn't have given him that amount of money.
00:45:49And in fact, when you look at Indian public records,
00:45:51you see that Amar Singh doesn't have a net worth anything close to being able to give that amount of
00:45:56money.
00:45:57So where did the money come from?
00:45:59Well, sometimes the most obvious answer is the correct one.
00:46:03Sant Chantwal is an Indian businessman who has been close to the Clintons for years.
00:46:07He pledged to raise $5 million for her 2008 presidential campaign.
00:46:12And Bill Clinton was at his son's wedding.
00:46:14They actually named him as a trustee of the Clinton Foundation.
00:46:17When Hillary Clinton was first running for the Senate in 2000, Sant Chantwal was in trouble with a federal agency
00:46:23called the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
00:46:26He basically owed them millions of dollars from unpaid loans.
00:46:30Well, in 2000, Chantwal throws a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, and he brings in half a million dollars.
00:46:36A few months later, with Bill Clinton still president of the United States,
00:46:40Sant Chantwal's case with the FDIC was abruptly settled for a mere $125,000.
00:46:46So basically, the federal government got pennies on the dollar.
00:46:49He would actually go on to plead guilty for funneling $180,000 in illegal campaign contributions to Hillary Clinton, among
00:46:58others.
00:46:58And no one seems to have made the connection.
00:47:00Well, maybe one reason no one made the connection is because the Clinton Foundation mysteriously erased any mention of Sant
00:47:07Chantwal from the website
00:47:09once he had admitted to his illegal activity.
00:47:12So here we are years later, and we've got this donation in a guy's name who swears he didn't actually
00:47:17make the donation.
00:47:18And you've got this longtime Clinton benefactor who actually gets the highest civilian award in India
00:47:24because of his role in changing Hillary Clinton's mind on this new deal.
00:47:28Sant Singh Chantwal says he's worked with everybody and even laid the foundation of the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal.
00:47:35So the Indian government says that they've given you this award for your role in pushing the Indo-U.S.
00:47:40nuclear deal forward.
00:47:41How exactly would you describe the role you played in this?
00:47:45Well, I can tell you the Indian nuclear power deal.
00:47:47If you look at it, I'm the first one that laid the foundation.
00:47:53On the eve of the vote in 2008 to approve Indian access to U.S. civilian nuclear technology,
00:48:00Amar Singh, who barely knows Hillary Clinton, had a two-hour meeting with her where they discussed the Indian nuclear
00:48:06deal.
00:48:07Amar Singh says that the dinner meeting resulted in her telling him that she was supportive of the deal
00:48:13and that she was making efforts to make sure that the deal did get through.
00:48:17And lo and behold, by 2008 Hillary Clinton was fully in support and in favor of this policy
00:48:23in a way that was a complete reversal of the position that she had taken before.
00:48:29In other words, the flow of money had led the Clintons to change their positions on the Non-Proliferation Treaty
00:48:35and specifically, India getting access to U.S. nuclear technology.
00:48:40This was a decision that was wholly out of step, wholly inconsistent with the progressive liberal agenda.
00:48:46Hillary Clinton made the decision of reversing her previous position
00:48:50after the flow of funds to the Clinton Foundation and her husband gave some speeches in India.
00:48:55But this wouldn't be the last time Hillary reversed herself regarding nuclear weapons technology.
00:49:00Shockingly, Bill and Hillary would end up receiving money from folks that were looking to make something happen a lot
00:49:07closer to home.
00:49:28I think the Russian uranium story is perhaps the most shocking and most blatant example of how the Clintons operate.
00:49:34This is a story about the Russian state nuclear agency, American uranium, $145 million in cash, and the Clintons.
00:49:44At the end of the day, this is a story about buying influence and selling influence.
00:49:49The Clintons are the sellers of influence, the Canadian investors and the Russians are the buyers.
00:49:56Bill Clinton had gone to the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan in 2005 with Frank Giustra.
00:50:03Kazakhstan is a country that's been run since the collapse of the Soviet Union by a dictator named Nazarbayev, who
00:50:11shuts down political opposition and tortures political opponents.
00:50:14The ostensible purpose of the visit to Kazakhstan by Bill Clinton was to talk with Nazarbayev about AIDS, HIV.
00:50:23The problem is, Kazakhstan really does not have an AIDS, HIV problem.
00:50:28So that explanation really doesn't make sense.
00:50:31What makes far more sense is that Frank Giustra wanted access to very lucrative Kazakh uranium mines.
00:50:38Kazakhstan is one of the largest producers of uranium in the world.
00:50:42Bill Clinton arrives there with Frank Giustra, and they have a series of meetings with Kazakh officials.
00:50:47There's a press conference where Bill Clinton stands with the dictator of Kazakhstan, and he praises the human rights record.
00:50:56He praises that elections are being held in the country, and he even says that Kazakhstan should head up something
00:51:01called the OSCE, which is the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
00:51:07Think about that for a second.
00:51:08Bill Clinton is saying that a known human rights violator who's been condemned by human rights organizations around the world
00:51:15should head up a human rights organization.
00:51:18They go from a press conference to a dinner where Frank Giustra, Nazarbayev, the dictator of Kazakhstan, and Bill Clinton
00:51:25meet and talk.
00:51:27Well, two days after that meeting, Frank Giustra finally gets his uranium concessions worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:51:35A couple of weeks after that, Bill Clinton gets his $30 million from Frank Giustra, the first payment in what
00:51:42will become more than $100 million in pledges and commitments and donations made by Frank Giustra.
00:51:50So it's really, in a way, a simple story in that they all are walking away from the table with
00:51:56something that they want.
00:51:58Nazarbayev is getting the legitimacy of an ex-president, saying what a nice and kind leader he is.
00:52:03Frank Giustra gets his uranium concession, and Bill Clinton and his foundation get cold, hard cash.
00:52:12Now let's move to Chapter 2 of this story, which is even more sinister.
00:52:17You see, the international uranium market is very competitive.
00:52:20The Kremlin sees dominance and control of the uranium market as a source of national power.
00:52:25Frank Giustra takes that uranium concession he got in Kazakhstan and puts it into a company in a so-called
00:52:32reverse merger, which was one way for a private company to go public to form something called Uranium One.
00:52:39It's a company traded on the stock market in Canada.
00:52:42And they start acquiring uranium concessions in places like Wyoming, Texas, New Mexico and Utah.
00:52:49And by 2009, they have what is expected to be 50% of future uranium production in the United States.
00:52:57This gets the interest of Vladimir Putin and the Russian government.
00:53:00And in fact, there are State Department cables that were leaked through WikiLeaks, which show that Hillary was aware of
00:53:06the fact that the Russians took great care to try to dominate the international uranium market.
00:53:12Well, the Russians want to buy this asset and they offer a 40% overprice on the share of the
00:53:19stock.
00:53:19And for this transaction to go through, it has to be approved by the U.S. federal government.
00:53:24Why?
00:53:24Because uranium is regarded as a critical industry in the United States.
00:53:30After all, this is used for our civilian nuclear reactors and goes into nuclear weapons.
00:53:35So it goes before the federal government where it needs to be signed off by a series of federal agencies,
00:53:41including the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.
00:53:44As Hillary Clinton is contemplating this, shareholders in Uranium One, including Frank Giustra, have sent more than $145 million to
00:53:53the Clinton Foundation.
00:53:54The chairman of that company at the precise time is a guy named Ian Telfer, who is also making donations
00:54:01to the Clinton Foundation, as is Frank Holmes, who is another major Uranium One shareholder.
00:54:06And Hillary Clinton, who has a record of opposing precisely these kinds of deals, comes out and says, you know
00:54:13what?
00:54:13I think this is a good deal.
00:54:15Let's let Vladimir Putin take control of what is now 20% of U.S. uranium production.
00:54:24Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton are the only figures in American politics who are willing to do this deal and
00:54:31who could actually pull it off, because they had a reputation that runs so contrary to what they're doing.
00:54:37I mean, this is what the Clinton Foundation does, right?
00:54:39This is what they talk about politically, their support for human rights, their concerns about proliferation, their concerns about issues
00:54:46related to Russian aggression.
00:54:48There's no doubt that when Putin came back in and said he was going to be president, that did change
00:54:54the relationship.
00:54:55We have to stand up to his bullying.
00:54:57What's so interesting when you consider this uranium deal are the actions of a small Canadian investment firm called Solita
00:55:04Capital.
00:55:04Solita Capital in 2010, as this deal was going down, committed to give millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation.
00:55:13And they also sponsored a speech by Bill Clinton in Canada.
00:55:17Solita Capital is also the name of a wholly owned subsidiary of Rosatom.
00:55:22Who is Rosatom?
00:55:23Well, this is the government agency in Russia that controls their nuclear arsenal, that built nuclear reactors in Iran, and
00:55:31engages in nuclear technology exchanges with rogue countries like North Korea.
00:55:36What this means, in essence, is that the Russian government, specifically Rosatom, was funneling money through a subsidiary directly to
00:55:44the Clinton Foundation.
00:55:45But the payday didn't end there.
00:55:48Four months before Hillary Clinton's State Department would sign off on the Russian purchase of Uranium One, Bill Clinton got
00:55:54paid $500,000 to give a single speech in Moscow.
00:55:59He was being paid by a firm called Renaissance Capital, which has a long history of association with Russian intelligence
00:56:07services.
00:56:08What makes this speech stand out is not only the timing of when he's being paid, but the amount that
00:56:14he's being paid.
00:56:15You see, the last time Bill Clinton gave a speech in Russia was five years earlier.
00:56:20At that time, he was paid about a one-third of what he was being paid this time.
00:56:28Why is Russian control of 20% of U.S. uranium so troubling?
00:56:34If you're in an era where nuclear weapons are a reality, where nuclear energy is an important component of energy
00:56:41production in the United States, and increasingly around the world, control of uranium is absolutely crucial.
00:56:47And unlike oil or natural gas can be found in so many places around the world, there are precious few
00:56:53places where you can find significant and large amounts of uranium that you can produce on a commercial scale.
00:57:00What we've essentially done is handed this precious resource to Vladimir Putin and the Russian government.
00:57:06They're not only engaged in aggression in places like Ukraine, but they've been very aggressive in fighting American interests around
00:57:12the globe.
00:57:13Russia's not an ally. Russia's not a friend.
00:57:16Vladimir Putin's Russia is a rival of the United States, and yet we've given them control over this precious resource.
00:57:26Uranium, the key mineral in nuclear generation, is a domestic resource.
00:57:33This is what's going to power America.
00:57:35I think a lot of people in middle America would be surprised to know that the Russian government is doing
00:57:41business in places like Colorado or Wyoming or Utah.
00:57:45These are small mining towns. These are operations that have existed for a while that have been under the control
00:57:52of American companies or for a while Canadian companies.
00:57:54But it's now Russian companies that control this, and those companies are controlled by the Russian government.
00:58:02Having read through the archives of the KGB, the files that they have been released, I can tell you that
00:58:09they look at the United States as weak and ineffectual.
00:58:13This is a thuggish government that is engaged in massive human rights violations.
00:58:18There are opponents of this regime that have been killed or have disappeared.
00:58:22There's been persecution of human rights organization.
00:58:25There's been persecution of homosexuals.
00:58:27And it's shocking and stunning to me that there has not been more attention focused to this fact.
00:58:33That we have given this critical resource to somebody who is engaged in so much nefarious behavior.
00:58:42Greetings from Washington.
00:58:45I want to thank all of you for your work to root out corruption that weakens economic development, feeds black
00:58:51markets and organized crime, and undermines the promise of democracy.
00:58:56As we work together to eradicate corruption in our own countries, we should also maintain the highest standards of transparency
00:59:03and accountability in our development efforts around the world.
00:59:07Corruption in emerging markets and fragile democracies undermines the confidence of citizens and investors alike.
00:59:14While responsible governance helps to foster sustainable economic development and political stability.
00:59:22I believe in the oldest adage in American politics, which is, follow the money.
00:59:27Enormous amounts of money have flowed to the Clintons.
00:59:30From foreign governments, foreign financiers, and businesses.
00:59:34Some of that money lands in their pocket.
00:59:36Some of it lands in their foundation.
00:59:38It's a pattern we've seen repeated over and over and over again all around the world.
00:59:43It's not a coincidence.
00:59:44Money exchanges hands and favors are done.
00:59:47Now Clinton friends and supporters will say there's no smoking gun.
00:59:51But look at American political history.
00:59:53People are convicted all the time for a pattern of behavior where, for example, they're engaged in insider trading on
00:59:59the stock market.
01:00:00So, for example, you have a foreign corporation or a foreign government that wants something from the State Department while
01:00:07Hillary Clinton is Secretary of State.
01:00:10They will make a large payment to the Clinton Foundation.
01:00:13That will be followed by favorable action on their behalf.
01:00:16If that happens one or two times, you might say, look, it's just a coincidence.
01:00:21But when you see the pattern recreated over and over and over again, you have to recognize that these events
01:00:29are connected.
01:00:30They've created a model for massive self-enrichment that allows you to go into so-called public service, but get
01:00:39extremely rich at the same time.
01:00:41And when friends and allies say that the Clintons aren't really that interested in money, their actions show otherwise.
01:00:48What's so shocking to a lot of people is that making of that money requires them to betray their progressive
01:00:55values.
01:00:56The environment, labor unions, women's rights, human rights.
01:01:01The Clintons are doing business and growing rich with the favor of the very individuals who you would expect to
01:01:08be their political opposites.
01:01:10For a very long time in American history and probably still to this day, one of the worst things that
01:01:15could be said about you as a politician is that you are on the take from foreign interests.
01:01:20What the Clintons have essentially done is busted down the door and robbed the bank of that concept.
01:01:26So when people think of the Clintons taking foreign money, they think it's maybe an insurance company from Great Britain
01:01:32or they think it's from a supermarket chain in Canada.
01:01:34The fact of the matter is a lot of that money comes from the darkest, worst corners of the world.
01:01:40Are countries like Nigeria and Russia in the habit of giving money to politicians and not wanting something back?
01:01:47The Clintons are glad to take this money. It's made them fabulously wealthy.
01:01:51But what has it done for us? Before we had to worry about money from Wall Street and big labor.
01:01:57Now we have to worry about it coming from around the world and infecting our politics and damaging our politics.
01:02:03Everything from our uranium policy to our human rights policy.
01:02:07Nothing seems to be safe anymore. How is this not corruption? How is this not a crime?
01:02:12With the Clintons, nothing is sacred. Everything is for sale. But we are the ones who are paying the price.
01:02:19Maybe, just maybe, the American people are tired of being sold out.
01:02:43The Clintons are very high. It's not a crime. I also have an insane investment of stealing a lot of
01:03:00people.
01:03:00I mean, it's just people who are trading at the same time.