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- (ominous music)
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- (people chattering)
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- ? Russians have
- learned that there
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- is an asymmetry in
- conventional warfare.
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- The Russian military
- does not match
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- that of the United
- States by far.
- akumenang.com
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- How do you then balance
- out the asymmetry?
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- One way to do that is to invest
- in much cheaper measures.
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- These nonconventional
- active measures
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- to try to weaken
- western institutions,
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- undermine western democracies
- versus sending in the tanks.
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- ? Putin realizes that if
- we're divided as a nation
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- we cannot protect ourselves
- from threats within and without.
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- ? From the Russian
- point of view,
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- political warfare is just
- part of the art of war.
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- ? What they're driving
- at over the longer term
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- is to watch democracy
- crumble from the inside out.
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- ? I'm sitting with
- him at dinner.
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- I told him I'd been
- at the memorial
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- of the siege of Leningrad.
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- He said I'll tell you a story.
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- He said my father was
- one of those people
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- who was on the front lines.
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- And had gotten 24
- hours off to go home.
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- As he was walking down the
- street to his apartment,
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- he saw a big pile of bodies
- which was not at all uncommon.
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- He saw a leg sticking out
- and a shoe on the foot
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- and he recognized that
- as being his wife.
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- So he stopped and he screamed
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- and said, well, that's my wife.
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- That's my wife.
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- I want my wife.
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- The body collectors told him
- to leave and he kept demanding.
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- At this point he's pulling
- his wife from under the pile.
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- He took her to their apartment
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- and nursed her back to health.
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- And then after the war she
- gave birth to Vladimir Putin.
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- Putin sees himself as
- literally pulling the body
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- of Russia out of the pile,
- the dust bin of history.
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- You know, we are
- going to revive you.
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- You are not dead.
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- And I will take care of you.
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- I mean, that is the mindset.
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- ? I think his ambitions always
- were to be the president
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- and then gather all the
- instruments of power
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- into the presidency.
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- ? His devotion to reasserting
- Russia's greatness
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- is certainly in
- his self?interest
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- because he wants to be the czar.
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- He wants to be the
- richest man in the world
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- and he wants to settle scores.
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- ? He made his way
- up through the KGB.
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- ? His role in the KGB
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- was to support Russian
- intelligence officers
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- living under assumed identities
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- under deep cover inside
- the United States
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- and developing active measures
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- to impact the policies
- of the United States.
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- ? The KGB was power.
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- If you said that you were
- with the KGB, doors were open.
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- People would stand aside.
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- ? In 1991 when the
- Soviet Union collapsed,
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- every republic that
- emerged from the debris
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- of the Soviet Union
- agreed at the time
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- to recognize the republics in
- their then existing borders.
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- ? Putin, like many Russians,
- feels that the dissolution,
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- the dissolving of
- the Soviet Union
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- was a horrific thing because
- it made the Russian people
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- and Russia itself smaller.
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- And the Americans are
- celebrating all of this.
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- ? I think he's dedicated
- to building it back up.
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- ? The first time I met
- him in the spring of 1991,
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- he was the deputy
- mayor of St. Petersburg
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- working for the mayor whose
- name was Anatoly Sobchak.
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- Sobchak was this charismatic
- western leaning guy
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- allied with Boris Yeltsin.
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- His deputy was the
- exact opposite of that.
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- Non?descript, grave bureaucrat.
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- A very soft spoken.
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- Had you asked me back then
- to name a thousand people
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- that might be the next
- president of Russia
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- he would not have made my list.
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- ? He supported Mayor Sobchak
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- but he was also organizing
- this incredible network
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- of former KGB foreign economic
- interest and local interest.
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- ? In the 1990's St.
- Petersburg was known
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- for organized crime
- and corruption.
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- State institutions
- were partnering
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- with Kremlin
- organizations to rip off
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- as much as they could
- as fast as they could.
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- ? Putin was a pretty good fixer.
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- He could make stuff happen.
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- He knew how to work the system.
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- ? [Heather] Mr. Putin
- was able as deputy mayor
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- to be the focal point of all
- of these different networks
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- as they came together.
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- ? He was made FSB director.
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- The FSB is responsible
- for internal spying.
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- These are the guys who
- have the most funding,
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- the most resources.
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- ? He learned which
- served him in good stead
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- how to maneuver politically.
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- ? That became his primary goal.
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- Power.
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- The FSB was simply a ladder.
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- ? Almost immediately after the
- breakup of the Soviet Union,
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- these oligarchs were
- able to take over
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- state owned enterprises at
- bargain basement prices.
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- It turned some of
- these individuals into
- multi?millionaires
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- or even billionaires
- almost overnight.
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- ? Under Yeltsin, the oligarchs
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- became very powerful
- and very independent.
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- And the power of the
- state was crumbling.
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- The end of the Yeltsin
- years he obtained
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- almost sort of a buffoonish
- type of personality.
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- You know, a drunk.
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- A little bit out of control.
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- ? Yeltsin was nervous and
- he chose to go with a guy
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- that he thought would protect
- his family and their assets.
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- That's, I think, the
- sole purpose why Putin
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- was selected to then
- run for president.
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- ? Followed by the bombings
- of the apartment houses.
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- ? There were a series of
- terrorist attacks in 1999.
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- (somber piano music)
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- They found evidence of the FSB
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- having been there
- and set that all up.
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- ? I know what has been alleged.
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- I find the evidence
- compelling and I know
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- those terrorist attacks
- helped Vladimir Putin
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- win the election.
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- I'm not ready to believe yet
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- and maybe that's just my
- idealism getting in the way
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- of my analytic side that
- the Russian government
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- would kill its own civilians
- to elect Putin president.
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- ? The apartment bombings
- were KGB operations
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- using a type of explosive
- that's only made
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- in a KGB facility.
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- ? Oh, sure.
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- It was very clever
- and the Russian people
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- began to look for a leader.
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- It's not the first
- time in history.
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- You can compare
- it in some degree
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- to the 1930's and the
- rise of Adolph Hitler.
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- ? With respect to democracy,
- I think it's pretty clear
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- from the very get go he
- feared independent actors.
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- (speaking in foreign language)
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- ? Putin started forcing
- the independent media
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- to knuckle under,
- putting in state control,
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- turning it into
- propaganda outfits.
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- ? Started arresting people who
- had different points of view.
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- (men yelling)
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- 00:08:44,725 --> 00:08:48,194
- ? Then he starts going after
- independent journalists.
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- They start ending up dead.
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- Assassinated.
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- ? The most prominent
- journalist in Russia,
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- Anna Politkovskaya was
- murdered on Putin's birthday.
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- ? Putin brought the
- oligarchs to heel.
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- ? A number of them were
- forced to leave the country
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- Some were killed in
- mysterious fashions.
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- Those who remained are
- basically lapdogs of his.
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- ? Putin was letting
- everyone know
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- that this period of
- everybody getting to do
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- their own thing
- was very much over.
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- 00:09:42,248 --> 00:09:45,652
- ? And then he brought
- his most trusted friends
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- and confidantes from the
- intelligence services
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- into the key positions,
- controlling all
- those businesses.
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- 00:09:53,459 --> 00:09:56,897
- ? Vladimir Putin and his
- oligarchs used money,
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- essentially stolen from
- the Russian people.
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- ? If you're one of
- these big kleptocrats,
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- getting your stolen proceeds
- into a rule of law system
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- is one of your
- highest priorities.
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- 00:10:07,107 --> 00:10:10,376
- ? Once that money is
- laundered, they have access
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- to western banks and they
- can do whatever they want.
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- 00:10:13,046 --> 00:10:18,051
- ? Semion Mogilevich was the
- first big organized crime figure
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- in Russia who figured out how
- to launder massive amounts
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- out of Russia and the
- former Soviet Union.
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- 00:10:25,759 --> 00:10:28,161
- ? Semion Mogilevich is worth
- about 10 billion dollars
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- according to FBI reports.
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- He's considered the
- money laundering genius.
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- He's sometimes
- called the brainy don
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- 'cause he has a
- economics degree.
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- ? [Scott] The most important
- of the Russian crime bosses.
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- The man who was for years
- on the 10 Most Wanted list
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- in the United States.
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- ? [Jonathan] He still lives
- happily in Moscow today.
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- ? [Reporter] In Russia he
- still gets the VIP treatment
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- and is rarely without a
- bodyguard who chauffeurs him
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- and his 200,000 pound armor
- plated bomb proof limousine.
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- 00:10:59,192 --> 00:11:00,827
- ? [Reporter] Why did
- you suss out companies
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- in the Channel Islands?
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- 00:11:03,396 --> 00:11:06,166
- ? The problem was that I
- didn't know any other way.
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- 00:11:06,232 --> 00:11:08,201
- Well, they taught us
- geography at school.
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- I was sick that day.
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- ? The Russian mafia
- is an adjunct of the
- Russian government.
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- 00:11:14,074 --> 00:11:16,042
- ? I've described it as
- going from organized crime
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- under the Soviets to
- disorganized crime
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- under Yeltsin to organized
- crime again under Putin.
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- 00:11:23,216 --> 00:11:27,220
- ? His networks recycle back
- to Mr. Putin's inner circle
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- and they continue to help
- maintain Mr. Putin's power.
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- 00:11:31,558 --> 00:11:35,061
- ? To the point where
- today Putin may well be
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- the wealthiest man on
- the face of the planet.
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- ? Yeah. (laughs)
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- Yeah.
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- Everything I know that's
- interesting I can't tell you.
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- 00:11:53,947 --> 00:11:57,250
- Now let me try to think of
- a way to go at 30,000 feet.
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- Yeah, I know where
- you're going with this
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- 'cause I know we're gonna talk
- about Trump in a few minutes.
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- (upbeat electro music)
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- 00:12:21,542 --> 00:12:24,578
- ? In the 70's Donald
- Trump is a scion
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- of one of the biggest
- landowners along the east coast.
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- ? He played monopoly.
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- Yes, indeed.
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- More than monopoly, he
- played with building blocks.
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- Always with building blocks.
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- 00:12:42,929 --> 00:12:46,266
- ? He has huge ambitions,
- huge ego as we know.
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- 00:12:46,332 --> 00:12:49,335
- ? Because not everybody is
- meant to be a business person.
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- They'll ruin their lives.
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- I mean they'll go and they'll,
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- they'll put up their house and
- they'll mortgage their cars
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- and everything else they own.
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- 00:12:56,042 --> 00:12:58,545
- ? And he is starting
- to move into Manhattan.
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- 00:13:00,914 --> 00:13:03,950
- ? Trump Tower was
- structured in a way
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- 00:13:04,017 --> 00:13:07,353
- that made it a money
- laundering paradox.
- 226
- 00:13:07,420 --> 00:13:10,290
- ? [Nina] Trump Tower became
- one of the first buildings
- 227
- 00:13:10,356 --> 00:13:15,361
- in New York where
- Shell companies could
- buy and sell condos
- 228
- 00:13:16,597 --> 00:13:19,032
- without identifying yourself.
- 229
- 00:13:21,434 --> 00:13:24,437
- ? If you go back to the 80's,
- Senator Henry Scoop Jackson
- 230
- 00:13:24,505 --> 00:13:27,273
- got a bill through Congress
- allowing the immigration
- 231
- 00:13:27,340 --> 00:13:29,442
- of Soviet Jews into
- the United States
- 232
- 00:13:29,510 --> 00:13:32,345
- at a time when immigration
- had been highly restrictive.
- 233
- 00:13:32,412 --> 00:13:34,581
- ? We'll honor the
- right of a person
- 234
- 00:13:34,648 --> 00:13:35,982
- to leave a country freely
- 235
- 00:13:36,049 --> 00:13:39,285
- and return freely just as
- clear as anything can be.
- 236
- 00:13:39,352 --> 00:13:41,254
- ? [Craig] The Russians
- saw it as an opportunity
- 237
- 00:13:41,321 --> 00:13:43,423
- to open their jails.
- 238
- 00:13:43,489 --> 00:13:47,093
- That's when you see members
- of Russian organized crime
- 239
- 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:49,896
- come to the United States
- for the very, very first time
- 240
- 00:13:49,963 --> 00:13:51,431
- and end up in Brighton Beach.
- 241
- 00:13:54,267 --> 00:13:56,369
- ? There were certain techniques
- 242
- 00:13:56,436 --> 00:13:58,939
- for money management
- and money movement
- 243
- 00:13:59,005 --> 00:14:01,341
- that were prized above others.
- 244
- 00:14:02,643 --> 00:14:06,012
- And these involved real estate.
- 245
- 00:14:06,079 --> 00:14:09,349
- ? It started off simply as
- money laundering pure and simple
- 246
- 00:14:09,415 --> 00:14:12,686
- and you had in 1984 for
- example David Bogatin,
- 247
- 00:14:12,753 --> 00:14:15,956
- who was a Russian
- mobster, met with Trump.
- 248
- 00:14:16,022 --> 00:14:19,125
- Trump Tower had just opened
- the previous year and Bogatin,
- 249
- 00:14:19,192 --> 00:14:21,962
- who had no legal way
- of making that money,
- 250
- 00:14:22,028 --> 00:14:24,430
- sat down with Trump
- and bought five condos
- 251
- 00:14:24,497 --> 00:14:25,298
- and the state
- attorney general ruled
- 252
- 00:14:25,365 --> 00:14:27,233
- that that was money laundering.
- 253
- 00:14:28,368 --> 00:14:31,404
- Vyacheslav Ivankov,
- who was very close
- 254
- 00:14:31,471 --> 00:14:35,075
- to the great mastermind
- of organized crime,
- 255
- 00:14:35,141 --> 00:14:38,444
- Semion Mogilevich, and he
- was sent to the United States
- 256
- 00:14:38,512 --> 00:14:41,447
- to oversee the rise of
- the Brighton Beach mafia.
- 257
- 00:14:41,515 --> 00:14:44,284
- And when the feds were looking
- for him they looked all over
- 258
- 00:14:44,350 --> 00:14:45,952
- and they couldn't find
- him anywhere in Brooklyn.
- 259
- 00:14:46,019 --> 00:14:47,921
- Instead, he was
- living in Trump Tower.
- 260
- 00:14:51,424 --> 00:14:54,427
- ? Donald Trump marries Ivana.
- 261
- 00:14:54,494 --> 00:14:59,032
- The Czech Secret Police
- takes note of this.
- 262
- 00:14:59,099 --> 00:15:02,035
- The intelligence that they
- gathered was that Donald Trump
- 263
- 00:15:02,102 --> 00:15:05,105
- was being pressured,
- not clear by whom,
- 264
- 00:15:05,171 --> 00:15:08,609
- to run for president
- as early as 1988.
- 265
- 00:15:08,675 --> 00:15:11,512
- They thought that it would
- be good for Czechoslovakia
- 266
- 00:15:11,578 --> 00:15:15,181
- if this husband of a Czech
- citizen became president
- 267
- 00:15:15,248 --> 00:15:16,316
- of the United States.
- 268
- 00:15:17,450 --> 00:15:20,253
- After his successes
- in New York City
- 269
- 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:23,690
- he got into the Atlantic
- city casino business.
- 270
- 00:15:27,728 --> 00:15:30,096
- He goes big.
- 271
- 00:15:30,163 --> 00:15:31,998
- Builds the Trump Taj Majal.
- 272
- 00:15:32,065 --> 00:15:34,267
- ? Which will be the largest
- hotel casino in the world
- 273
- 00:15:34,334 --> 00:15:36,436
- and I think it's gonna
- be a tremendous success.
- 274
- 00:15:36,503 --> 00:15:40,574
- ? That turns out
- to be his undoing.
- 275
- 00:15:42,475 --> 00:15:45,045
- ? In a town where
- for the last 10 years
- 276
- 00:15:45,111 --> 00:15:47,648
- no casino with
- 60,000 squared foot
- 277
- 00:15:47,714 --> 00:15:49,115
- has ever been fully utilized.
- 278
- 00:15:49,182 --> 00:15:53,520
- On what basis would someone
- build one with 120,000 feet?
- 279
- 00:15:54,621 --> 00:15:56,356
- He was destined to fail.
- 280
- 00:15:59,793 --> 00:16:02,162
- ? Trump Casino was
- hit hard for having
- 281
- 00:16:02,228 --> 00:16:06,132
- violated U. S. federal anti?money
- laundering regulations.
- 282
- 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:10,470
- It suggests a culture of
- willful disregard of the law.
- 283
- 00:16:11,572 --> 00:16:14,407
- ? [Nina] He basically
- unravels financially.
- 284
- 00:16:14,474 --> 00:16:17,277
- He also was unraveling
- personally at this same time.
- 285
- 00:16:17,343 --> 00:16:18,679
- His marriage was falling apart.
- 286
- 00:16:20,180 --> 00:16:21,515
- ? [Jonathan] By that
- point he had filed,
- 287
- 00:16:21,582 --> 00:16:23,449
- I believe it was
- six bankruptcies.
- 288
- 00:16:23,517 --> 00:16:25,586
- He had no way to move
- forward professionally.
- 289
- 00:16:25,652 --> 00:16:27,487
- He couldn't get a
- bank loan anywhere.
- 290
- 00:16:27,554 --> 00:16:29,523
- ? There is a homeless
- person sitting,
- 291
- 00:16:30,691 --> 00:16:32,826
- sitting right outside
- of Trump Tower.
- 292
- 00:16:32,893 --> 00:16:36,429
- I remember my father pointing
- to him and saying, you know,
- 293
- 00:16:36,496 --> 00:16:38,565
- that guy has eight billion
- dollars more than me
- 294
- 00:16:38,632 --> 00:16:41,635
- because he was in such extreme
- debt at that point, you know.
- 295
- 00:16:43,670 --> 00:16:47,508
- ? The Russians have a
- particular type of mark
- 296
- 00:16:47,574 --> 00:16:48,575
- whom they go after.
- 297
- 00:16:49,943 --> 00:16:52,713
- They go after somebody who
- has business resources,
- 298
- 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,350
- perhaps some shady morals
- so that they're amenable
- 299
- 00:16:57,417 --> 00:16:58,752
- to the bribery.
- 300
- 00:17:00,554 --> 00:17:03,389
- Or perhaps are in a difficult
- financial situation.
- 301
- 00:17:03,456 --> 00:17:07,093
- And either has political
- connections or aspirations.
- 302
- 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:09,763
- I've just described
- Donald Trump.
- 303
- 00:17:09,830 --> 00:17:14,134
- He was the perfect
- mark for the Russians.
- 304
- 00:17:15,669 --> 00:17:16,870
- ? The Russians saved him.
- 305
- 00:17:16,937 --> 00:17:18,338
- They rescued him.
- 306
- 00:17:18,404 --> 00:17:21,542
- He would not have gotten back
- in business without them.
- 307
- 00:17:21,608 --> 00:17:24,177
- I think it's safe to say he
- couldn't have run for president
- 308
- 00:17:24,244 --> 00:17:25,311
- if he had just been a guy
- 309
- 00:17:25,378 --> 00:17:27,213
- who was four billion
- dollars in debt.
- 310
- 00:17:29,750 --> 00:17:32,619
- When the Russian
- mafia does something
- 311
- 00:17:32,686 --> 00:17:36,557
- it's with Putin's permission
- and it's serving his interests.
- 312
- 00:17:36,623 --> 00:17:38,625
- ? Have you ever
- knowingly done business
- 313
- 00:17:38,692 --> 00:17:41,562
- with what I like to
- call organized crime?
- 314
- 00:17:41,628 --> 00:17:43,530
- (audience laughing)
- 315
- 00:17:43,597 --> 00:17:44,798
- Have they ever stopped by and??
- 316
- 00:17:44,865 --> 00:17:47,167
- ? Well, I really tried
- to stay away from them
- 317
- 00:17:47,233 --> 00:17:48,434
- as much as possible.
- ? Right.
- 318
- 00:17:48,502 --> 00:17:50,436
- ? Although I must say
- I have met on occasion
- 319
- 00:17:50,504 --> 00:17:51,572
- a few of those people.
- 320
- 00:17:51,638 --> 00:17:54,608
- They happen to be
- very nice people.
- 321
- 00:17:54,675 --> 00:17:56,242
- You just don't want
- to owe them money.
- 322
- 00:17:56,309 --> 00:17:58,612
- ? Yeah, I understand.
- ? Don't owe them money.
- 323
- 00:18:01,281 --> 00:18:04,685
- ? Simeon Mogelivich, he made
- a decision to make the move
- 324
- 00:18:04,751 --> 00:18:09,389
- on Trump after studying Trump's
- 2004 bankruptcy filings.
- 325
- 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:16,897
- Noticing that Trump had
- lost his credit lines.
- 326
- 00:18:16,963 --> 00:18:20,601
- They felt he would not be
- in the position to say no.
- 327
- 00:18:20,667 --> 00:18:24,270
- ? The Russian real
- estate firm Bayrock
- 328
- 00:18:24,337 --> 00:18:26,640
- started leasing
- space in Trump Tower.
- 329
- 00:18:27,808 --> 00:18:30,711
- Putin needs to keep
- track of his oligarchs
- 330
- 00:18:30,777 --> 00:18:34,915
- and one way of keeping tabs is
- knowing where their money is.
- 331
- 00:18:34,981 --> 00:18:37,518
- Bayrock may well have
- been a way of doing that.
- 332
- 00:18:38,752 --> 00:18:41,822
- To me that's a turning point
- because what we have here
- 333
- 00:18:41,888 --> 00:18:45,358
- is a very serious
- intelligence operation
- 334
- 00:18:45,425 --> 00:18:47,561
- and it is in the
- belly of the beast.
- 335
- 00:18:47,628 --> 00:18:48,829
- It is in the home of the man
- 336
- 00:18:48,895 --> 00:18:51,532
- who becomes president
- of the United States.
- 337
- 00:18:51,598 --> 00:18:54,300
- And it was operating there
- for many, many years.
- 338
- 00:18:54,367 --> 00:18:57,538
- ? One of the key people putting
- it together, Felix Sater.
- 339
- 00:18:57,604 --> 00:19:00,340
- ? A lieutenant in the
- Mogilevich crime family.
- 340
- 00:19:00,406 --> 00:19:03,910
- Very connected into the nexus
- 341
- 00:19:03,977 --> 00:19:06,680
- between the Russian
- criminal organizations
- 342
- 00:19:06,747 --> 00:19:10,751
- and the Russian national
- security organizations.
- 343
- 00:19:10,817 --> 00:19:14,420
- ? He became managing
- director of Bayrock.
- 344
- 00:19:14,487 --> 00:19:16,657
- He himself had been
- convicted of two felonies.
- 345
- 00:19:16,723 --> 00:19:19,860
- ? Slashing a guy's
- face at a bar.
- 346
- 00:19:19,926 --> 00:19:23,296
- ? Another was a pump
- and dump stock scheme.
- 347
- 00:19:23,363 --> 00:19:25,999
- But he ended up
- cooperating with the feds
- 348
- 00:19:26,066 --> 00:19:28,835
- and he started
- providing information
- 349
- 00:19:28,902 --> 00:19:32,405
- on sales of weapons to Al?Qaeda.
- 350
- 00:19:32,472 --> 00:19:34,608
- Mogilevich, according
- to FBI reports,
- 351
- 00:19:34,675 --> 00:19:36,376
- was selling weapons to Al?Qaeda.
- 352
- 00:19:37,711 --> 00:19:39,813
- That raised very
- interesting questions
- 353
- 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:42,883
- 'cause I don't think Felix
- Sater would betray Mogilevich.
- 354
- 00:19:44,551 --> 00:19:46,787
- He famously
- threatened an investor
- 355
- 00:19:46,853 --> 00:19:48,922
- with electrocuting
- his testicles.
- 356
- 00:19:51,324 --> 00:19:53,827
- Trump worked with Sater
- for many, many years
- 357
- 00:19:53,894 --> 00:19:56,462
- after it was revealed
- that he was a criminal.
- 358
- 00:19:56,530 --> 00:19:58,699
- He continued to work
- for Trump and in fact
- 359
- 00:19:58,765 --> 00:20:01,802
- had a business card saying
- that he was a senior advisor
- 360
- 00:20:01,868 --> 00:20:03,637
- to the Trump organization.
- 361
- 00:20:03,704 --> 00:20:05,038
- ? [Michael] There's
- multiple photographs
- 362
- 00:20:05,105 --> 00:20:06,507
- of the two of them together.
- 363
- 00:20:06,573 --> 00:20:08,909
- He had an office in Trump tower.
- 364
- 00:20:08,975 --> 00:20:11,778
- Trump was the public
- face of Bayrock.
- 365
- 00:20:11,845 --> 00:20:15,682
- ? And yet when he was placed
- under oath in a deposition
- 366
- 00:20:15,749 --> 00:20:18,952
- and confronted about
- Sater, he simply says, uh.
- 367
- 00:20:19,019 --> 00:20:20,787
- ? If he was sitting in
- a the room right now,
- 368
- 00:20:20,854 --> 00:20:23,557
- I really wouldn't know
- what he looked like.
- 369
- 00:20:25,391 --> 00:20:27,594
- ? [Craig] Trump actually
- personally asks Sater
- 370
- 00:20:27,661 --> 00:20:32,298
- to escort his two children,
- Ivanka and Donald Trump, Jr.,
- 371
- 00:20:32,365 --> 00:20:35,401
- on a trip to Moscow and
- showed them around the town.
- 372
- 00:20:37,804 --> 00:20:40,006
- ? He seems to be playing
- a consistent role
- 373
- 00:20:40,073 --> 00:20:43,744
- in assisting the Trump's
- and tapping Russians
- 374
- 00:20:43,810 --> 00:20:46,613
- or let's say post?Soviet money
- 375
- 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:49,015
- for developing
- condominium units.
- 376
- 00:20:49,082 --> 00:20:52,052
- No co?op board has to
- review whoever is buying.
- 377
- 00:20:52,118 --> 00:20:54,420
- It's safer than
- putting it in the bank.
- 378
- 00:20:54,487 --> 00:20:57,724
- (upbeat electro music)
- 379
- 00:20:58,925 --> 00:21:00,761
- ? The Sunny Isles development
- is the Florida development
- 380
- 00:21:00,827 --> 00:21:03,864
- that the Trumps own that
- has been heavily populated
- 381
- 00:21:03,930 --> 00:21:07,668
- by Russians who want
- to launder their money.
- 382
- 00:21:07,734 --> 00:21:09,903
- ? [Craig] At least a
- third of the condos
- 383
- 00:21:09,970 --> 00:21:12,939
- in Sunny isles, Florida
- have been sold to Russia.
- 384
- 00:21:17,143 --> 00:21:20,514
- ? Trump's Soho is one of the
- promoters of the project.
- 385
- 00:21:20,581 --> 00:21:22,883
- Alexsandr Mashkevich
- has been described
- 386
- 00:21:22,949 --> 00:21:24,851
- as Mogelivich's banker.
- 387
- 00:21:27,721 --> 00:21:30,891
- The Trump Tower project
- in Baku is located
- 388
- 00:21:30,957 --> 00:21:35,562
- in the middle of a
- post?industrial sledge pool.
- 389
- 00:21:35,629 --> 00:21:38,331
- It's just sort of a joke
- that they were building this.
- 390
- 00:21:41,668 --> 00:21:42,736
- ? Trump World Tower.
- 391
- 00:21:42,803 --> 00:21:44,170
- I started looking
- at who bought into
- 392
- 00:21:44,237 --> 00:21:47,040
- and the very first name I
- came across that was Russian
- 393
- 00:21:47,107 --> 00:21:48,274
- was that of Eduard Nektalov.
- 394
- 00:21:48,341 --> 00:21:51,512
- He had been indicted
- for money laundering.
- 395
- 00:21:51,578 --> 00:21:53,614
- He turned state's
- evidence and was going
- 396
- 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,649
- to cooperate with the feds.
- 397
- 00:21:55,716 --> 00:21:57,483
- He was murdered the next day.
- 398
- 00:21:59,853 --> 00:22:01,622
- ? The Toronto Tower.
- 399
- 00:22:01,688 --> 00:22:03,857
- The source of funding
- was the Vensheconobank,
- 400
- 00:22:05,892 --> 00:22:10,764
- the two twin cash management
- tools of the Kremlin.
- 401
- 00:22:13,066 --> 00:22:15,936
- They go out and become
- involved in projects
- 402
- 00:22:16,002 --> 00:22:19,506
- usually because one
- man, Vladimir Putin,
- 403
- 00:22:19,573 --> 00:22:21,007
- tells them to do so.
- 404
- 00:22:21,074 --> 00:22:24,778
- That would link this project
- straight back to the Kremlin.
- 405
- 00:22:27,213 --> 00:22:29,049
- ? I think this is the
- tip of the iceberg.
- 406
- 00:22:29,115 --> 00:22:33,119
- There's been 1.3 trillion
- dollars in flight capital
- 407
- 00:22:33,186 --> 00:22:35,021
- since Putin's become president.
- 408
- 00:22:36,256 --> 00:22:39,459
- There are over 30 Trump
- Towers all over the world.
- 409
- 00:22:39,526 --> 00:22:41,928
- That means there are
- several thousand units.
- 410
- 00:22:41,995 --> 00:22:45,065
- So many condos that journalists
- like me have been unable
- 411
- 00:22:45,131 --> 00:22:48,068
- to investigate because they
- are in Shell companies.
- 412
- 00:22:48,134 --> 00:22:50,971
- ? Shell corporations
- where law enforcement
- 413
- 00:22:51,037 --> 00:22:52,906
- and the public and the
- press can go and see
- 414
- 00:22:52,973 --> 00:22:54,107
- what the name of
- the corporation is
- 415
- 00:22:54,174 --> 00:22:56,910
- but they can't find out
- who's really behind it.
- 416
- 00:22:56,977 --> 00:22:57,778
- What's really going on.
- 417
- 00:22:57,844 --> 00:22:59,112
- Who's pulling the strings here.
- 418
- 00:22:59,179 --> 00:23:01,748
- ? So a 500 million dollar
- condo can change hands
- 419
- 00:23:01,815 --> 00:23:02,916
- three or four times a year
- 420
- 00:23:02,983 --> 00:23:05,118
- and you've laundered 20
- million dollars or so.
- 421
- 00:23:06,887 --> 00:23:08,555
- We want to follow the money.
- 422
- 00:23:08,622 --> 00:23:10,924
- It's clear to me that
- a huge amount of it
- 423
- 00:23:10,991 --> 00:23:14,861
- comes from the Ukraine
- Russian energy trade.
- 424
- 00:23:14,928 --> 00:23:16,863
- ? Vladimir Putin particularly
- 425
- 00:23:16,930 --> 00:23:19,666
- has a strong feeling
- about Ukraine.
- 426
- 00:23:19,733 --> 00:23:23,537
- Ukraine was part of Russia
- for many, many years.
- 427
- 00:23:23,604 --> 00:23:26,172
- He feels that needs
- to be restored.
- 428
- 00:23:29,009 --> 00:23:30,877
- ? Putin has worked to undermine
- 429
- 00:23:30,944 --> 00:23:33,046
- democracies across the globe.
- 430
- 00:23:34,314 --> 00:23:37,250
- ? [Woman] You had a couple of
- people running for president.
- 431
- 00:23:37,317 --> 00:23:40,821
- ? Viktor Yanukovich
- who appeared to be
- 432
- 00:23:40,887 --> 00:23:43,824
- more interested in keeping
- Ukraine aligned with Russia.
- 433
- 00:23:43,890 --> 00:23:46,159
- Significant amounts of
- money coming from Russia
- 434
- 00:23:46,226 --> 00:23:48,695
- into the Yanukovich campaign.
- 435
- 00:23:48,762 --> 00:23:52,232
- ? His competitor on the
- other side, Yuschenko,
- 436
- 00:23:52,298 --> 00:23:54,935
- was a Ukrainian politician.
- 437
- 00:23:55,001 --> 00:23:59,773
- A reputation of being clean
- and fair and pro?western.
- 438
- 00:24:00,974 --> 00:24:03,910
- Yulia Tymoshenko entered
- the Yushenko campaign.
- 439
- 00:24:03,977 --> 00:24:05,712
- She was a politician.
- 440
- 00:24:05,779 --> 00:24:07,581
- ? Tymoshenko, in my experience,
- 441
- 00:24:07,648 --> 00:24:09,783
- she was by the far the
- most effective minister
- 442
- 00:24:09,850 --> 00:24:11,151
- in the Ukrainian cabinet.
- 443
- 00:24:11,217 --> 00:24:14,220
- ? Well, I was working for
- Senator McCain in 2004.
- 444
- 00:24:14,287 --> 00:24:15,556
- And we visited.
- 445
- 00:24:15,622 --> 00:24:17,858
- We met with Yuschenko.
- 446
- 00:24:17,924 --> 00:24:20,894
- They just said, I'm afraid
- they're gonna try to kill him.
- 447
- 00:24:20,961 --> 00:24:22,128
- Within a matter of months
- 448
- 00:24:22,195 --> 00:24:24,531
- he had been poisoned
- and almost was killed.
- 449
- 00:24:25,599 --> 00:24:27,200
- ? A disfiguring poisoning.
- 450
- 00:24:27,267 --> 00:24:28,935
- It destroyed his looks.
- 451
- 00:24:29,002 --> 00:24:31,071
- Scarred his face.
- 452
- 00:24:31,137 --> 00:24:35,542
- ? Quite convinced it
- was a KGB operation.
- 453
- 00:24:35,609 --> 00:24:38,679
- ? He was off the campaign
- trail for about four weeks.
- 454
- 00:24:38,745 --> 00:24:40,280
- It also had a
- second effect, too,
- 455
- 00:24:40,346 --> 00:24:42,716
- was it really
- hardened his resolve.
- 456
- 00:25:02,168 --> 00:25:03,003
- ? And not in the
- Soviet Union republic.
- 457
- 00:25:04,470 --> 00:25:06,673
- ? [Steven] During the election
- there was lots of evidence
- 458
- 00:25:06,740 --> 00:25:09,042
- that something had gone wrong.
- 459
- 00:25:12,045 --> 00:25:15,081
- ? At that time Ukrainian
- intelligence agencies
- 460
- 00:25:15,148 --> 00:25:17,751
- detected that there were
- hackers who actually tried
- 461
- 00:25:17,818 --> 00:25:20,621
- to break into the central
- election commission.
- 462
- 00:25:20,687 --> 00:25:24,024
- So they were trying to change
- the results of the votes.
- 463
- 00:25:24,090 --> 00:25:26,693
- ? And those parts that
- had voted for Yanukovich
- 464
- 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,962
- turned out in excess
- of 100% was reported.
- 465
- 00:25:29,029 --> 00:25:30,296
- ? [Reporter] The country's
- election commission
- 466
- 00:25:30,363 --> 00:25:31,732
- ignored reports of fraud
- 467
- 00:25:31,798 --> 00:25:35,936
- declaring Kremlin?backed
- victory Yanukovich the winner.
- 468
- 00:25:37,137 --> 00:25:41,808
- ? The election was, in the eyes
- of most Ukrainians, stolen.
- 469
- 00:25:48,815 --> 00:25:50,851
- The Ukrainians had enough.
- 470
- 00:25:50,917 --> 00:25:53,987
- And the Orange Revolution
- consisted of people coming out
- 471
- 00:25:54,054 --> 00:25:55,355
- to the central Kiev square
- 472
- 00:25:55,421 --> 00:25:59,660
- and saying, no, we're not
- going to accept a bad election.
- 473
- 00:26:08,101 --> 00:26:12,606
- ? The Ukrainian Supreme Court
- basically ruled a do over.
- 474
- 00:26:25,351 --> 00:26:29,155
- ? Russia opposed that
- idea because they
- understood correctly
- 475
- 00:26:29,222 --> 00:26:31,057
- that if it was done
- in a free and fair way
- 476
- 00:26:31,124 --> 00:26:33,293
- that Mr. Yanukovich
- would not win.
- 477
- 00:26:34,394 --> 00:26:37,430
- ? [Daniel] And Yuschenko
- became president.
- 478
- 00:26:37,497 --> 00:26:40,233
- ? [Steven] His prime minister
- was Yulia Tymoshenko.
- 479
- 00:26:41,902 --> 00:26:44,671
- ? So this week has
- a unique feel to it
- 480
- 00:26:44,738 --> 00:26:46,840
- as we all have the
- profound privilege
- 481
- 00:26:46,907 --> 00:26:49,776
- of welcoming president
- Viktor Yuschenko to??
- 482
- 00:26:49,843 --> 00:26:53,013
- (audience applauding)
- 483
- 00:26:56,349 --> 00:26:58,885
- ? Protection from the
- regime of mobsters
- 484
- 00:26:58,952 --> 00:27:00,921
- is only a matter
- that can cause hope.
- 485
- 00:27:01,888 --> 00:27:03,223
- We faced a very similar choice.
- 486
- 00:27:03,289 --> 00:27:06,326
- It was not a choice between
- the left and the right.
- 487
- 00:27:06,392 --> 00:27:10,396
- It was the choice
- between totalitarian
- regime and democracy.
- 488
- 00:27:10,463 --> 00:27:12,933
- It has betrayed
- the future at best.
- 489
- 00:27:12,999 --> 00:27:16,169
- ? [Reporter] Viktor Yanukovich
- predicted more turmoil ahead.
- 490
- 00:27:16,236 --> 00:27:18,038
- I am ready to lead, he said.
- 491
- 00:27:18,104 --> 00:27:20,774
- Yuschenko will find out what
- opposition really means.
- 492
- 00:27:21,942 --> 00:27:25,245
- ? Mr. Manafort came
- to Ukraine late 2004.
- 493
- 00:27:25,311 --> 00:27:28,081
- Yanukovich had been
- fairly badly discredited.
- 494
- 00:27:37,090 --> 00:27:38,391
- The role that I saw
- for Mr. Manafort
- 495
- 00:27:38,458 --> 00:27:42,128
- was somebody tried to
- rehabilitate Mr. Yanukovich.
- 496
- 00:27:42,195 --> 00:27:46,232
- ? Paul Manafort has been a
- Washington political consultant
- 497
- 00:27:46,299 --> 00:27:48,034
- for a long, long time.
- 498
- 00:27:49,269 --> 00:27:51,104
- ? [Reporter] Paul Manafort,
- a top campaign strategist
- 499
- 00:27:51,171 --> 00:27:52,272
- for President Bush.
- 500
- 00:27:58,011 --> 00:28:00,280
- ? [Woman] Bob Dole was the
- last one who brought him on
- 501
- 00:28:00,346 --> 00:28:02,382
- as the head of the
- convention at that point.
- 502
- 00:28:02,448 --> 00:28:04,284
- ? We are ready, not
- only to continue to lead
- 503
- 00:28:04,350 --> 00:28:06,286
- in the Congress but to
- take the White House.
- 504
- 00:28:06,352 --> 00:28:07,187
- ? He had disappeared.
- 505
- 00:28:07,253 --> 00:28:09,022
- No one knew what he was doing.
- 506
- 00:28:14,528 --> 00:28:17,163
- ? [Greg] It's impossible
- that Paul Manafort was not
- 507
- 00:28:17,230 --> 00:28:20,166
- at least run past the
- Russian government
- 508
- 00:28:20,233 --> 00:28:23,236
- because Manafort was
- very close to Yanukovich.
- 509
- 00:28:23,303 --> 00:28:25,972
- And Yanukovich was so
- close to the Kremlin.
- 510
- 00:28:29,142 --> 00:28:31,812
- ? The big switch from western,
- the western point of view
- 511
- 00:28:31,878 --> 00:28:34,781
- was the Munich security
- conference speech.
- 512
- 00:28:36,216 --> 00:28:39,319
- ? The United States has
- overstepped its national borders
- 513
- 00:28:39,385 --> 00:28:40,521
- in every way.
- 514
- 00:28:40,587 --> 00:28:43,957
- Of course such a policy
- stimulates an arms race.
- 515
- 00:28:44,024 --> 00:28:45,859
- No one feels safe.
- 516
- 00:28:45,926 --> 00:28:48,228
- ? Senator Joe Lieberman
- and I were sitting
- 517
- 00:28:48,294 --> 00:28:51,031
- in assigned seats
- in the front row.
- 518
- 00:28:51,097 --> 00:28:53,567
- And he would utter
- a phrase in Russian
- 519
- 00:28:53,634 --> 00:28:57,303
- and after he would say, he'd
- look over at the two of us
- 520
- 00:28:57,370 --> 00:29:00,473
- like that, you know, I said
- what is it with this guy?
- 521
- 00:29:02,208 --> 00:29:03,276
- ? I very often.
- 522
- 00:29:03,343 --> 00:29:04,377
- He repeals by our partners.
- 523
- 00:29:04,444 --> 00:29:05,646
- The effect that
- Russia should play
- 524
- 00:29:05,712 --> 00:29:09,082
- an increasingly active
- role in world affairs.
- 525
- 00:29:10,250 --> 00:29:11,785
- ? That was 2007.
- 526
- 00:29:13,053 --> 00:29:15,188
- Two months later they
- did the cyber?attack
- 527
- 00:29:15,255 --> 00:29:20,260
- on my country because we really
- didn't want a Soviet statue
- 528
- 00:29:21,528 --> 00:29:23,063
- in the middle of town.
- 529
- 00:29:24,397 --> 00:29:25,899
- We didn't tear it down.
- 530
- 00:29:25,966 --> 00:29:27,300
- We moved it.
- 531
- 00:29:27,367 --> 00:29:30,571
- We figured, okay, this is
- important for some people.
- 532
- 00:29:30,637 --> 00:29:35,075
- But even that was sort
- of enough of an offense.
- 533
- 00:29:35,141 --> 00:29:37,310
- (yelling)
- 534
- 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,983
- The 9th of May with the
- day the Russians celebrate
- 535
- 00:29:43,049 --> 00:29:46,620
- the end of World War II no one
- could get into any websites
- 536
- 00:29:46,687 --> 00:29:51,191
- including the banks, any
- government sites, news media.
- 537
- 00:29:52,058 --> 00:29:53,627
- I mean, it's clear they did it.
- 538
- 00:29:53,694 --> 00:29:55,996
- A year later they
- invaded Georgia.
- 539
- 00:29:58,298 --> 00:30:00,400
- ? After the collapse
- of the Soviet Union,
- 540
- 00:30:00,466 --> 00:30:04,137
- Georgia was controlled by
- mafias and criminal gangs
- 541
- 00:30:04,204 --> 00:30:05,972
- that were known
- as thieves?in?law.
- 542
- 00:30:06,039 --> 00:30:10,911
- ? Then came the revolution
- and Misha Saakashvili
- 543
- 00:30:10,977 --> 00:30:12,245
- became their president.
- 544
- 00:30:16,382 --> 00:30:19,119
- And made, really, very
- significant changes
- 545
- 00:30:19,185 --> 00:30:21,287
- and improvement to the country.
- 546
- 00:30:21,354 --> 00:30:23,289
- ? After years of
- the Georgian economy
- 547
- 00:30:23,356 --> 00:30:25,959
- being a basket case
- suddenly starts to roar.
- 548
- 00:30:26,026 --> 00:30:29,195
- He had a vision of Georgia
- in NATO and the EU.
- 549
- 00:30:29,262 --> 00:30:30,363
- The Russians hated it.
- 550
- 00:30:31,464 --> 00:30:34,367
- ? As long as you
- have these blocs,
- 551
- 00:30:34,434 --> 00:30:36,036
- NATO and the European Union,
- 552
- 00:30:36,102 --> 00:30:40,140
- they're bigger,
- richer, stronger, more
- powerful than Russia.
- 553
- 00:30:42,709 --> 00:30:46,279
- But if you reduce them
- to their individual parts
- 554
- 00:30:46,346 --> 00:30:49,049
- each of these countries
- is far weaker than Russia.
- 555
- 00:30:50,383 --> 00:30:53,654
- ? They kept provoking the
- Georgians more and more
- 556
- 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,355
- and more and more.
- 557
- 00:30:55,421 --> 00:30:57,057
- They wanted a war.
- 558
- 00:30:59,125 --> 00:31:00,393
- ? They started to say the war.
- 559
- 00:31:01,562 --> 00:31:04,030
- At first he started
- to tell it to me.
- 560
- 00:31:04,097 --> 00:31:05,431
- To some western leaders.
- 561
- 00:31:08,234 --> 00:31:11,304
- Looked like the west
- was the wandering life,
- 562
- 00:31:11,371 --> 00:31:14,207
- wanted somewhere and Russians
- knew where they were going.
- 563
- 00:31:16,643 --> 00:31:18,612
- Then we had direct
- military attacks.
- 564
- 00:31:20,246 --> 00:31:24,150
- ? In the middle of the opening
- ceremonies of the Olympics,
- 565
- 00:31:24,217 --> 00:31:25,586
- the Russians invaded Georgia.
- 566
- 00:31:30,190 --> 00:31:31,658
- (man yelling)
- 567
- 00:31:31,725 --> 00:31:35,095
- (tanks rapidly firing)
- 568
- 00:31:35,161 --> 00:31:36,262
- ? Wake up, wake up.
- 569
- 00:31:36,329 --> 00:31:38,632
- We are attacked because
- we wanted to be free.
- 570
- 00:31:38,699 --> 00:31:40,200
- We are attacked
- because we wanted
- 571
- 00:31:40,266 --> 00:31:41,267
- to build genuine democracy.
- 572
- 00:31:41,334 --> 00:31:43,637
- If Americans and
- Europeans don't stand up
- 573
- 00:31:43,704 --> 00:31:46,372
- for their own values,
- for their own principles,
- 574
- 00:31:46,439 --> 00:31:48,509
- then those principles and
- values will be in danger
- 575
- 00:31:48,575 --> 00:31:50,744
- to the Georgia,
- tomorrow elsewhere.
- 576
- 00:31:50,811 --> 00:31:52,746
- ? But the Russians then
- spent a lot of time
- 577
- 00:31:52,813 --> 00:31:55,649
- convincing everyone the
- Georgians started the war.
- 578
- 00:31:55,716 --> 00:31:57,150
- It's Saakashvili's fault.
- 579
- 00:31:57,217 --> 00:31:59,452
- He was dangerous and a madman.
- 580
- 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,522
- ? Russia has criticized
- the western media
- 581
- 00:32:01,588 --> 00:32:04,525
- for what it's called it's
- biosphere on the conflict.
- 582
- 00:32:04,591 --> 00:32:06,593
- Not all journalists blame
- Russia for the conflict.
- 583
- 00:32:06,660 --> 00:32:07,994
- Alex Jones?
- 584
- 00:32:08,061 --> 00:32:10,296
- ? [Alex] I just hope Russia
- keeps troops in Georgia
- 585
- 00:32:10,363 --> 00:32:11,732
- because the dictator,
- 586
- 00:32:11,798 --> 00:32:14,467
- and we know he was elected
- under fraud there in Georgia
- 587
- 00:32:14,535 --> 00:32:16,637
- has said that he plans,
- he said it last week,
- 588
- 00:32:16,703 --> 00:32:18,438
- to attack again.
- 589
- 00:32:18,505 --> 00:32:21,474
- ? Allegation that Georgia
- would attack Russia
- 590
- 00:32:21,542 --> 00:32:25,746
- is so foolish and
- outrageous and disgraceful.
- 591
- 00:32:25,812 --> 00:32:28,081
- But it's typical
- of Vladimir Putin.
- 592
- 00:32:29,516 --> 00:32:31,351
- ? They did not
- achieve the collapse
- 593
- 00:32:31,417 --> 00:32:33,086
- of the Saakashvili government.
- 594
- 00:32:33,153 --> 00:32:35,088
- It cost them a lot in respect,
- 595
- 00:32:35,155 --> 00:32:37,157
- in international relationships.
- 596
- 00:32:37,223 --> 00:32:39,092
- And their military
- was really exposed
- 597
- 00:32:39,159 --> 00:32:41,261
- as something weaker
- than they all thought.
- 598
- 00:32:42,596 --> 00:32:44,698
- So there was this whole
- portfolio of kind of rethinking
- 599
- 00:32:44,765 --> 00:32:47,634
- what are the political
- warfare tools
- 600
- 00:32:47,701 --> 00:32:49,970
- that we have that we can use.
- 601
- 00:32:51,437 --> 00:32:54,274
- ? They began to increase
- their funding to far right
- 602
- 00:32:54,340 --> 00:32:58,211
- nationalistic white
- supremacists political parties.
- 603
- 00:32:58,278 --> 00:33:01,682
- ? In democracies, public
- opinion is your battlefield.
- 604
- 00:33:01,748 --> 00:33:03,817
- It's finding those
- affinity groups.
- 605
- 00:33:03,884 --> 00:33:05,519
- They don't like globalization.
- 606
- 00:33:05,586 --> 00:33:07,588
- They're very fearful
- of immigration.
- 607
- 00:33:07,654 --> 00:33:08,421
- They're xenophobic.
- 608
- 00:33:08,488 --> 00:33:10,791
- And that fear is then used
- 609
- 00:33:10,857 --> 00:33:13,560
- by Russian disinformation
- operations to say
- 610
- 00:33:13,627 --> 00:33:16,429
- you're not being protected
- from migration crisis,
- 611
- 00:33:16,496 --> 00:33:20,233
- from the social changes
- that we see around you.
- 612
- 00:33:20,300 --> 00:33:24,538
- Gazprom and others, they were
- purchasing local affiliates
- 613
- 00:33:24,605 --> 00:33:27,440
- so it looked like less Russian,
- had less of a Russian face.
- 614
- 00:33:27,508 --> 00:33:31,477
- ? Gazprom is the world's
- largest gas company.
- 615
- 00:33:31,545 --> 00:33:36,149
- It and its resources
- are used to help achieve
- 616
- 00:33:36,216 --> 00:33:38,652
- the political objectives
- of the Russian state.
- 617
- 00:33:38,719 --> 00:33:41,555
- ? When the economics
- and the politics combine
- 618
- 00:33:41,622 --> 00:33:44,257
- in fact the, it's state capture.
- 619
- 00:33:44,324 --> 00:33:48,361
- The national government
- cannot take independent action
- 620
- 00:33:48,428 --> 00:33:53,433
- that does not follow
- Russia's policy interests.
- 621
- 00:33:54,635 --> 00:33:55,902
- ? It's far better to
- expend your energy
- 622
- 00:33:55,969 --> 00:33:59,673
- on getting a Russia
- friendly government elected
- 623
- 00:33:59,740 --> 00:34:01,708
- than it is to have to
- build up your military
- 624
- 00:34:01,775 --> 00:34:03,409
- to invade the country.
- 625
- 00:34:05,546 --> 00:34:07,480
- ? There was the Russian
- oligarchy, Ivanishvili,
- 626
- 00:34:07,548 --> 00:34:10,450
- who was biggest private
- shareholder of Russia Gazprom.
- 627
- 00:34:11,718 --> 00:34:14,621
- Suddenly Ivanishvili announced
- that he was entering politics
- 628
- 00:34:14,688 --> 00:34:16,356
- and he will run against us.
- 629
- 00:34:16,422 --> 00:34:17,691
- ? They wanted to believe
- 630
- 00:34:17,758 --> 00:34:21,294
- that he was this independent
- weirdo businessman.
- 631
- 00:34:21,361 --> 00:34:23,229
- He must be a very
- successful man.
- 632
- 00:34:23,296 --> 00:34:25,666
- Nobody wanted to believe
- he was what he is,
- 633
- 00:34:25,732 --> 00:34:29,770
- a front for Russian
- engagement in the country.
- 634
- 00:34:29,836 --> 00:34:32,506
- The campaign in Georgia
- before the 2012 election
- 635
- 00:34:32,573 --> 00:34:35,676
- had been increasingly dirty
- and hostile and violent.
- 636
- 00:34:35,742 --> 00:34:38,378
- ? So the narrative
- was that no matter
- 637
- 00:34:38,444 --> 00:34:41,147
- what you will falsify,
- rig the elections.
- 638
- 00:34:41,214 --> 00:34:43,517
- And then they would
- take it to the streets.
- 639
- 00:34:43,584 --> 00:34:44,685
- ? There was a lot of discussion
- 640
- 00:34:44,751 --> 00:34:46,386
- about political prosecution.
- 641
- 00:34:46,452 --> 00:34:47,854
- If they won they would have put
- 642
- 00:34:47,921 --> 00:34:50,156
- the entire former
- government in prison,
- 643
- 00:34:50,223 --> 00:34:51,257
- that these were all criminal.
- 644
- 00:34:51,324 --> 00:34:52,859
- Some of it was
- really cheap stuff.
- 645
- 00:34:52,926 --> 00:34:54,695
- Saakashvili is
- really an Armenian.
- 646
- 00:34:54,761 --> 00:34:56,530
- He's not really a Georgian.
- 647
- 00:34:58,699 --> 00:35:00,601
- ? That's a technique the
- Russians use quite a bit.
- 648
- 00:35:00,667 --> 00:35:02,202
- The best way to
- discredit somebody
- 649
- 00:35:02,268 --> 00:35:03,837
- is to make them
- appear inauthentic.
- 650
- 00:35:03,904 --> 00:35:06,840
- They're not part of
- the community which
- they say they are.
- 651
- 00:35:06,907 --> 00:35:08,609
- ? Then it's picked
- up by other media.
- 652
- 00:35:08,675 --> 00:35:10,644
- It's sort of spread
- about social media.
- 653
- 00:35:11,845 --> 00:35:14,380
- Eventually people sort of say
- some of this must be true.
- 654
- 00:35:16,683 --> 00:35:18,952
- ? Mafia bosses, (speaking in
- foreign language) from Russia
- 655
- 00:35:19,019 --> 00:35:21,855
- try to help to organize
- mass disturbances.
- 656
- 00:35:24,625 --> 00:35:26,392
- They listened to our
- telephone conversations,
- 657
- 00:35:26,459 --> 00:35:28,595
- especially when we were
- calling from abroad.
- 658
- 00:35:30,697 --> 00:35:33,266
- For whatever similar situation
- would ignite in Georgia
- 659
- 00:35:33,333 --> 00:35:36,603
- they always had intercepts
- for all kind of situations.
- 660
- 00:35:36,670 --> 00:35:38,739
- ? No party in Georgia
- could have been
- 661
- 00:35:38,805 --> 00:35:40,674
- in a real popular
- way for Russian.
- 662
- 00:35:40,741 --> 00:35:42,275
- And Ivanishvili knew that.
- 663
- 00:35:42,342 --> 00:35:43,677
- So you had a new
- message on Russia.
- 664
- 00:35:43,744 --> 00:35:45,546
- It was wouldn't it be nice
- 665
- 00:35:45,612 --> 00:35:47,814
- if we had a better
- relationship with Russia?
- 666
- 00:35:54,821 --> 00:35:56,790
- ? About two weeks
- before the vote,
- 667
- 00:35:56,857 --> 00:35:58,592
- there was the
- release of the first
- 668
- 00:35:58,659 --> 00:36:01,695
- of what became known as
- the prison abuse tapes.
- 669
- 00:36:01,762 --> 00:36:03,730
- ? The images looked very bad.
- 670
- 00:36:03,797 --> 00:36:06,366
- After initial shock, people
- started to look at the image.
- 671
- 00:36:06,432 --> 00:36:10,303
- In details they explain to us
- that the whole thing was fake.
- 672
- 00:36:10,370 --> 00:36:12,839
- Later we discovered that
- this thing was done by guys
- 673
- 00:36:12,906 --> 00:36:16,309
- with very well?known Russian
- intelligence connections.
- 674
- 00:36:16,376 --> 00:36:17,778
- But it was too late.
- 675
- 00:36:17,844 --> 00:36:19,746
- ? [Reporter] On Tuesday
- President Saakashvili
- 676
- 00:36:19,813 --> 00:36:23,483
- conceded he lost the closely
- fought parliamentary vote.
- 677
- 00:36:23,550 --> 00:36:26,687
- ? 65 or so former officials
- have been arrested,
- 678
- 00:36:26,753 --> 00:36:28,288
- detained, or convicted.
- 679
- 00:36:29,756 --> 00:36:31,858
- Saakashvili will be arrested
- if he goes back to Georgia.
- 680
- 00:36:40,801 --> 00:36:42,736
- ? And then you saw the
- allowing of Russian money
- 681
- 00:36:42,803 --> 00:36:44,671
- back into Georgia's
- full society.
- 682
- 00:36:44,738 --> 00:36:47,741
- ? We are returning Georgia
- product to the Russian market.
- 683
- 00:36:47,808 --> 00:36:49,342
- ? His wealth and his fortune
- 684
- 00:36:49,409 --> 00:36:51,745
- are all connected
- to the Kremlin.
- 685
- 00:36:51,812 --> 00:36:54,981
- That means he can never be
- independent of what they want.
- 686
- 00:36:55,048 --> 00:36:57,751
- ? Putin had told the
- National Security Council
- 687
- 00:36:57,818 --> 00:36:59,686
- that Georgian elections
- were the most successful
- 688
- 00:36:59,753 --> 00:37:01,888
- special operation they ever had.
- 689
- 00:37:04,825 --> 00:37:06,660
- They learned that
- any democratic system
- 690
- 00:37:06,727 --> 00:37:10,063
- is essentially very vulnerable
- to this kind of meddling.
- 691
- 00:37:10,130 --> 00:37:12,699
- Full corruption,
- information campaigns,
- 692
- 00:37:12,766 --> 00:37:14,668
- character destructions,
- 693
- 00:37:14,735 --> 00:37:17,704
- and then your adversary's
- much more vulnerable.
- 694
- 00:37:17,771 --> 00:37:20,507
- Then it's nothing about their
- economy size or military size.
- 695
- 00:37:20,574 --> 00:37:21,908
- It's about their state of mind.
- 696
- 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,482
- ? In Ukraine Putin
- did the same thing.
- 697
- 00:37:29,550 --> 00:37:33,987
- ? Ukraine is about
- 100% dependent on
- Russia for natural gas.
- 698
- 00:37:34,054 --> 00:37:36,823
- ? Instead of there being
- direct sales from Gazprom
- 699
- 00:37:36,890 --> 00:37:40,460
- there were a whole series
- of intermediary companies
- 700
- 00:37:40,527 --> 00:37:43,830
- which seemed to be controlled
- by a man named Dmitry Firtash.
- 701
- 00:37:47,601 --> 00:37:50,604
- Dmitry Firtash, a
- Pro?Putin oligarch.
- 702
- 00:37:51,905 --> 00:37:55,609
- He had worked with
- Mogilevich, the crime boss.
- 703
- 00:37:55,676 --> 00:37:58,845
- They siphon off lots of
- money from this Gazprom.
- 704
- 00:37:58,912 --> 00:38:00,246
- Billions of dollars.
- 705
- 00:38:00,313 --> 00:38:03,650
- ? [Michael] Firtash was very
- close to Vladimir Putin.
- 706
- 00:38:03,717 --> 00:38:08,021
- Paul Manafort was a
- business partner of Firtash.
- 707
- 00:38:08,088 --> 00:38:09,222
- ? Ukrainian politicians.
- 708
- 00:38:09,289 --> 00:38:12,392
- It was all just whisper
- the name Paul Manafort.
- 709
- 00:38:12,458 --> 00:38:16,496
- He was the dark prince
- in the background,
- 710
- 00:38:16,563 --> 00:38:18,565
- orchestrating everything.
- 711
- 00:38:22,135 --> 00:38:24,004
- He was viewed as a man
- who was the connection
- 712
- 00:38:24,070 --> 00:38:27,808
- between the Kremlin and
- pro?Russian party in Ukraine
- 713
- 00:38:27,874 --> 00:38:31,377
- to advance Russian
- political interests.
- 714
- 00:38:34,180 --> 00:38:36,850
- ? Russia was buying
- up utilities.
- 715
- 00:38:36,917 --> 00:38:39,586
- The oligarchs were
- doing Putin's bidding.
- 716
- 00:38:39,653 --> 00:38:41,955
- It cut off Ukraine's
- energy supply.
- 717
- 00:38:45,726 --> 00:38:46,993
- ? It's really a terrible thing
- 718
- 00:38:47,060 --> 00:38:48,962
- if someone is killed by a bullet
- 719
- 00:38:49,029 --> 00:38:51,632
- but isn't it terrible
- if you shut down
- 720
- 00:38:51,698 --> 00:38:52,899
- the power in the winter?
- 721
- 00:38:53,934 --> 00:38:56,737
- ? In 2009, after about two weeks
- 722
- 00:38:56,803 --> 00:38:57,838
- meeting with President Putin,
- 723
- 00:38:57,904 --> 00:39:01,007
- Prime Minster Tymoshenko
- negotiated a deal
- 724
- 00:39:01,074 --> 00:39:03,544
- that ended the gas cutoff.
- 725
- 00:39:05,045 --> 00:39:06,613
- ? [Reporter] The
- presidential elections
- 726
- 00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:08,915
- head for a pulsating climax.
- 727
- 00:39:08,982 --> 00:39:10,416
- In the orange corner
- 728
- 00:39:10,483 --> 00:39:13,887
- the current poor western prime
- minister, Yulia Tymoshenko.
- 729
- 00:39:14,888 --> 00:39:16,156
- In the blue corner,
- 730
- 00:39:16,222 --> 00:39:19,459
- pro?Moscow opposition
- leader Viktor Yanukovich.
- 731
- 00:39:19,526 --> 00:39:20,761
- ? [Reporter]
- Manafort was remaking
- 732
- 00:39:20,827 --> 00:39:23,664
- Yanukovych's overall
- appearance and personality
- 733
- 00:39:23,730 --> 00:39:25,932
- as a politician to make
- him more palatable.
- 734
- 00:39:29,169 --> 00:39:31,104
- ? [Reporter] When he
- said no to a TV debate,
- 735
- 00:39:31,171 --> 00:39:34,374
- she went ahead with it anyway
- facing an empty podium.
- 736
- 00:39:52,826 --> 00:39:54,928
- ? [Reporter] Viktor
- Yanukovich claimed victory
- 737
- 00:39:54,995 --> 00:39:57,497
- in the Ukraine
- presidential election.
- 738
- 00:40:02,703 --> 00:40:04,538
- ? Once Viktor Yanukovich
- had become president
- 739
- 00:40:04,605 --> 00:40:05,972
- one of the things
- they were trying
- 740
- 00:40:06,039 --> 00:40:08,642
- to go after Tymoshenko
- for was, in fact,
- 741
- 00:40:08,709 --> 00:40:10,711
- that gas arrangement
- she had done.
- 742
- 00:40:10,777 --> 00:40:11,878
- ? [Reporter] She
- compared the case
- 743
- 00:40:11,945 --> 00:40:14,047
- to a Stalinist show trial.
- 744
- 00:40:14,114 --> 00:40:16,249
- ? [Reporter] All this
- was staged in advance
- 745
- 00:40:16,316 --> 00:40:18,118
- of the president's
- administration
- 746
- 00:40:18,184 --> 00:40:19,520
- to eliminate the opposition.
- 747
- 00:40:19,586 --> 00:40:23,156
- ? It may have been a bad
- deal but it certainly wasn't
- 748
- 00:40:23,223 --> 00:40:26,059
- the criminal action that
- the Ukrainian government
- 749
- 00:40:26,126 --> 00:40:28,094
- under Yanukovich
- charged her with.
- 750
- 00:40:35,035 --> 00:40:36,870
- ? [Reporter] A seven year
- prison term and an order
- 751
- 00:40:36,937 --> 00:40:40,040
- that she pay 200 million
- dollars in compensation.
- 752
- 00:40:54,888 --> 00:40:56,523
- ? [Reporter] From
- prison, Tymoshenko staged
- 753
- 00:40:56,590 --> 00:40:57,958
- a temporary hunger strike
- 754
- 00:40:58,024 --> 00:40:59,826
- saying she'd been
- beaten by guards
- 755
- 00:40:59,893 --> 00:41:01,828
- and needed immediate
- medical attention.
- 756
- 00:41:10,303 --> 00:41:11,437
- ? In a lawsuit that was filed
- 757
- 00:41:11,505 --> 00:41:13,974
- by the former prime
- minister of Ukraine,
- 758
- 00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:18,011
- there were some rather
- striking court documents
- 759
- 00:41:19,913 --> 00:41:22,716
- referring to Manafort's role,
- 760
- 00:41:24,150 --> 00:41:27,287
- and including his
- business relationships,
- 761
- 00:41:27,353 --> 00:41:32,559
- real estate deals with a Russian
- oligarch, Dmitry Firtash.
- 762
- 00:41:33,627 --> 00:41:35,896
- Paul Manafort was in business
- 763
- 00:41:35,962 --> 00:41:40,967
- with not one but two
- Russian oligarchs.
- 764
- 00:41:42,002 --> 00:41:44,938
- Dmitry Firtash, who
- was under indictment
- 765
- 00:41:45,005 --> 00:41:46,673
- by the U. S. Justice Department.
- 766
- 00:41:51,878 --> 00:41:55,181
- Another, Deripaska, who
- had been denied entry
- 767
- 00:41:55,248 --> 00:41:56,416
- into the United States
- 768
- 00:41:56,482 --> 00:41:59,019
- because of suspected
- organized crime ties.
- 769
- 00:42:00,186 --> 00:42:04,024
- ? Paul Manafort signed a
- contract with Oleg Derispaska
- 770
- 00:42:04,090 --> 00:42:07,227
- to promote the Kremlin and
- the Kremlin's interests.
- 771
- 00:42:09,996 --> 00:42:14,701
- Quoting Deripaska, Putin
- told him Manafort's our man.
- 772
- 00:42:21,007 --> 00:42:24,811
- ? Paul Manafort got his home
- in Trump Towers in 2006.
- 773
- 00:42:27,113 --> 00:42:30,884
- You can easily see billions
- of dollars being siphoned off
- 774
- 00:42:30,951 --> 00:42:33,854
- from that Ukraine
- Russian energy trade
- 775
- 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:37,323
- and going through
- Firtash to Paul Manafort
- 776
- 00:42:37,390 --> 00:42:40,661
- and to Russians or Ukrainians
- who were buying condos
- 777
- 00:42:40,727 --> 00:42:42,295
- in Trump?branded properties.
- 778
- 00:42:48,368 --> 00:42:50,904
- ? Russia has three main
- tactics for engaging
- 779
- 00:42:50,971 --> 00:42:52,739
- in what we call active measures.
- 780
- 00:42:52,806 --> 00:42:55,041
- Propaganda, cyber?attacks.
- 781
- 00:42:55,108 --> 00:42:57,010
- Most people don't
- focus on a third pillar
- 782
- 00:42:57,077 --> 00:43:00,146
- of Russian active measures
- which is to recruit and enlist
- 783
- 00:43:00,213 --> 00:43:03,349
- and in some cases run
- agents of influence.
- 784
- 00:43:08,221 --> 00:43:09,255
- ? The Russians, with their
- 785
- 00:43:09,322 --> 00:43:12,192
- full?time intelligence
- operatives.
- 786
- 00:43:13,393 --> 00:43:16,797
- There's probably way
- over 1,000 of those
- 787
- 00:43:16,863 --> 00:43:18,364
- in the United States.
- 788
- 00:43:18,431 --> 00:43:20,701
- ? The FBI does its best to try
- 789
- 00:43:20,767 --> 00:43:23,436
- to monitor Russian
- intelligence officers
- 790
- 00:43:23,504 --> 00:43:26,807
- here in the United States
- but there are so many of them
- 791
- 00:43:26,873 --> 00:43:30,176
- and frankly the FBI's
- resources are so limited.
- 792
- 00:43:30,243 --> 00:43:35,248
- ? When I did cases I actually
- had to decide on which days
- 793
- 00:43:36,449 --> 00:43:40,754
- I wanted the FBI surveillance
- group to watch my target.
- 794
- 00:43:43,824 --> 00:43:45,025
- ? We had no idea.
- 795
- 00:43:45,091 --> 00:43:47,828
- They just seemed like
- a nice, quiet family.
- 796
- 00:43:49,395 --> 00:43:53,834
- ? If you look at either as
- Russian agents or as Russians
- 797
- 00:43:53,900 --> 00:43:58,071
- who work on disinformation
- there are more of them
- 798
- 00:43:58,138 --> 00:44:00,240
- than there are Russians
- in the armed forces.
- 799
- 00:44:01,274 --> 00:44:04,277
- So a thousand. (laughs)
- 800
- 00:44:04,344 --> 00:44:06,079
- ? These can be
- individuals who know
- 801
- 00:44:06,146 --> 00:44:08,849
- that they are spying for
- Russian intelligence.
- 802
- 00:44:08,915 --> 00:44:10,817
- Know that they are
- committing espionage.
- 803
- 00:44:10,884 --> 00:44:14,487
- Or can refer to some
- individuals who just aren't sure
- 804
- 00:44:14,555 --> 00:44:16,322
- exactly who they're
- dealing with.
- 805
- 00:44:16,389 --> 00:44:20,160
- Maybe it's bankers,
- maybe its financiers.
- 806
- 00:44:20,226 --> 00:44:22,328
- Maybe it's people on the
- periphery of government
- 807
- 00:44:22,395 --> 00:44:26,867
- doing something that the
- Russian government wants.
- 808
- 00:44:26,933 --> 00:44:28,802
- ? It seems that
- anybody who was anybody
- 809
- 00:44:28,869 --> 00:44:32,072
- in Russian organized crime
- who came to Manhattan
- 810
- 00:44:32,138 --> 00:44:34,240
- bought a condo unit
- in Trump tower.
- 811
- 00:44:34,307 --> 00:44:37,110
- There were gambling
- operations going on there
- 812
- 00:44:37,177 --> 00:44:39,746
- and prostitution operations.
- 813
- 00:44:39,813 --> 00:44:42,148
- These investigations
- were leading to Trump
- 814
- 00:44:42,215 --> 00:44:43,449
- over and over and over again.
- 815
- 00:44:45,218 --> 00:44:48,321
- ? Christopher Steele is a
- former MI6 specialist in Russia.
- 816
- 00:44:48,388 --> 00:44:51,457
- The U. S. investigator firm
- commissioned Mr. Steele
- 817
- 00:44:51,525 --> 00:44:55,161
- to look at Mr. Trump and Russia.
- 818
- 00:44:55,228 --> 00:44:56,630
- It was a very general assignment
- 819
- 00:44:56,697 --> 00:44:59,766
- and he found an extensive
- set of relations with Russia.
- 820
- 00:45:02,368 --> 00:45:05,005
- ? [Scott] He was generally
- held in very high regard.
- 821
- 00:45:05,071 --> 00:45:08,208
- Had a reputation of also
- for working with the FBI.
- 822
- 00:45:08,274 --> 00:45:11,044
- ? He helped the FBI
- make the FIFA cases.
- 823
- 00:45:12,212 --> 00:45:13,146
- ? [Reporter] Major
- corruption crackdown
- 824
- 00:45:13,213 --> 00:45:14,881
- going down right now.
- 825
- 00:45:14,948 --> 00:45:16,149
- Arrests made around the world.
- 826
- 00:45:16,216 --> 00:45:17,317
- ? [Reporter] This is the result
- 827
- 00:45:17,383 --> 00:45:19,185
- of a three year long
- FBI investigation.
- 828
- 00:45:19,252 --> 00:45:20,386
- ? He broke the case.
- 829
- 00:45:20,453 --> 00:45:24,290
- He gave them access
- to the key witnesses
- 830
- 00:45:24,357 --> 00:45:27,293
- that they used to get the
- pretty spectacular results
- 831
- 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,295
- that they ultimately got.
- 832
- 00:45:30,531 --> 00:45:34,167
- ? Alexander Litvinenko,
- who's a former FSB agent.
- 833
- 00:45:34,234 --> 00:45:39,239
- When he sought asylum in London
- he started working for MI6.
- 834
- 00:45:40,373 --> 00:45:42,275
- His handler was
- Christopher Steele.
- 835
- 00:45:43,610 --> 00:45:46,580
- He was trying to expose
- that Vladimir Putin
- 836
- 00:45:46,647 --> 00:45:49,249
- was closely linked
- to Semion Mogilevich,
- 837
- 00:45:49,315 --> 00:45:52,152
- the crime boss of Russia.
- 838
- 00:45:52,218 --> 00:45:55,288
- Litvinenko was eventually
- poisoned by polonium
- 839
- 00:45:55,355 --> 00:45:59,025
- in a murder that was very
- directly linked to Russia.
- 840
- 00:46:00,426 --> 00:46:03,964
- So when Mr. Steele was
- hired to do oppo research
- 841
- 00:46:04,030 --> 00:46:08,301
- on Donald Trump he was very,
- very knowledgeable indeed.
- 842
- 00:46:09,603 --> 00:46:13,306
- ? The Steele Dossier
- was a set of reports
- 843
- 00:46:13,373 --> 00:46:15,075
- that Mr. Steele wrote.
- 844
- 00:46:17,210 --> 00:46:22,215
- ? All of its allegations fall
- into one of three categories.
- 845
- 00:46:25,151 --> 00:46:30,156
- Not yet proven, proven to
- be true, and have an error
- 846
- 00:46:36,530 --> 00:46:39,533
- that is consistent
- with transcription
- 847
- 00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:42,135
- or transliteration problems.
- 848
- 00:46:42,202 --> 00:46:45,305
- ? It was said to
- Mr. Steele's sources
- 849
- 00:46:45,371 --> 00:46:50,043
- that Russia had turned Mr.
- Trump for many, many years.
- 850
- 00:46:51,945 --> 00:46:53,346
- In the course of work
- on Russia matters,
- 851
- 00:46:53,413 --> 00:46:55,348
- I came to know Mr. Steele.
- 852
- 00:46:55,415 --> 00:46:58,619
- I work with people
- who I can trust.
- 853
- 00:46:58,685 --> 00:46:59,986
- Yes, I trusted Chris Steele.
- 854
- 00:47:00,053 --> 00:47:01,988
- I still trust Chris Steele.
- 855
- 00:47:02,055 --> 00:47:03,123
- ? Look at Putin what
- he's doing with,
- 856
- 00:47:03,189 --> 00:47:05,225
- I mean, you know, what's
- going on over there.
- 857
- 00:47:05,291 --> 00:47:06,392
- I mean, this guy has done,
- 858
- 00:47:06,459 --> 00:47:09,195
- whether you like him
- or don't like him
- 859
- 00:47:09,262 --> 00:47:13,033
- he's doing a great job in
- rebuilding the image of Russia.
- 860
- 00:47:13,099 --> 00:47:15,435
- And also rebuilding
- Russia period.
- 861
- 00:47:15,501 --> 00:47:19,906
- ? Putin seeks the veneer
- of democratic legitimacy
- 862
- 00:47:19,973 --> 00:47:22,342
- but there cannot be choice.
- 863
- 00:47:22,408 --> 00:47:25,178
- In the Russian
- constitution you cannot run
- 864
- 00:47:25,245 --> 00:47:26,947
- for a third term as president.
- 865
- 00:47:27,013 --> 00:47:30,450
- So what he did was to
- find a very close member
- 866
- 00:47:30,517 --> 00:47:33,987
- of his inner circle to
- agree to be president
- 867
- 00:47:34,054 --> 00:47:35,255
- while he could be prime minster.
- 868
- 00:47:39,125 --> 00:47:43,463
- ? He is someone who is obviously
- being installed by Putin
- 869
- 00:47:43,530 --> 00:47:48,301
- and it raises serious
- issues about how we're going
- 870
- 00:47:48,368 --> 00:47:50,103
- to deal with Russia
- going forward.
- 871
- 00:47:51,572 --> 00:47:55,041
- ? Putin faces what I call
- the King Lear problem.
- 872
- 00:47:55,108 --> 00:47:58,411
- You can't resign to
- a comfortable life
- 873
- 00:47:58,478 --> 00:48:02,182
- because of the things you've
- done when you were king.
- 874
- 00:48:02,248 --> 00:48:06,119
- But the constitutional
- forms were observed.
- 875
- 00:48:17,130 --> 00:48:18,565
- ? When Putin returned
- to the presidency,
- 876
- 00:48:18,632 --> 00:48:19,933
- by that point I
- think it was about
- 877
- 00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,368
- to the least surprising
- development that any of us
- 878
- 00:48:22,435 --> 00:48:24,337
- had seen in Russia
- in a long time.
- 879
- 00:48:24,404 --> 00:48:26,406
- ? I mean, you can imagine
- the conversation with Putin.
- 880
- 00:48:26,472 --> 00:48:27,508
- Vladimir.
- 881
- 00:48:28,742 --> 00:48:29,776
- You think you'd like
- to be president again?
- 882
- 00:48:29,843 --> 00:48:33,647
- I think I would.
- (audience laughs)
- 883
- 00:48:39,419 --> 00:48:43,524
- ? The election was clearly
- unfair and illegitimate.
- 884
- 00:48:43,590 --> 00:48:46,459
- I said that on behalf
- of the United States.
- 885
- 00:48:46,527 --> 00:48:49,996
- We just witnessed a flawed
- duma election in Russia
- 886
- 00:48:50,063 --> 00:48:54,467
- including efforts to halt
- the election monitoring.
- 887
- 00:48:54,535 --> 00:48:57,003
- And Russian voters deserve
- a full investigation
- 888
- 00:48:57,070 --> 00:48:59,640
- of electoral fraud
- and manipulation.
- 889
- 00:48:59,706 --> 00:49:01,975
- I wasn't the only
- person who thought that.
- 890
- 00:49:05,512 --> 00:49:09,082
- ? [Heather] He encountered the
- largest public demonstrations
- 891
- 00:49:09,149 --> 00:49:10,517
- of his tenure.
- 892
- 00:49:10,584 --> 00:49:12,786
- (shouting in foreign language)
- 893
- 00:49:12,853 --> 00:49:14,721
- ? [Man] They shouted
- Putin is a thief.
- 894
- 00:49:14,788 --> 00:49:17,524
- ? Which terrified him because
- of the Orange Revolution.
- 895
- 00:49:19,092 --> 00:49:22,395
- Because of the uprisings
- that took place
- 896
- 00:49:22,462 --> 00:49:25,298
- post collapse of
- the Soviet Union
- 897
- 00:49:25,365 --> 00:49:27,768
- in places that
- wanted more than just
- 898
- 00:49:27,834 --> 00:49:30,436
- a different form of autocracy.
- 899
- 00:49:30,504 --> 00:49:32,539
- ? If you look at
- the crowds of those
- 900
- 00:49:32,606 --> 00:49:33,940
- that were in the protest,
- 901
- 00:49:34,007 --> 00:49:37,477
- I'll bet ya nine out of 10
- of them were under age 25.
- 902
- 00:49:37,544 --> 00:49:39,479
- They don't want that
- kind of a government.
- 903
- 00:49:39,546 --> 00:49:41,347
- They want to be
- like the Europeans.
- 904
- 00:49:41,414 --> 00:49:43,483
- And I think that Vladimir
- Putin has not seen
- 905
- 00:49:43,550 --> 00:49:45,519
- the last of these protests.
- 906
- 00:49:45,586 --> 00:49:48,288
- ? And then he attacked
- me and accused me
- 907
- 00:49:48,354 --> 00:49:50,757
- of inciting the demonstrations
- 908
- 00:49:50,824 --> 00:49:53,293
- that really were grassroots
- from the bottom up.
- 909
- 00:49:53,359 --> 00:49:56,763
- ? Putin blamed
- her very publicly.
- 910
- 00:49:56,830 --> 00:49:58,665
- Privately he did
- too, by the way.
- 911
- 00:49:59,666 --> 00:50:01,501
- ? She set the tone for
- some of the activists
- 912
- 00:50:01,568 --> 00:50:02,803
- inside our country.
- 913
- 00:50:02,869 --> 00:50:03,970
- Gave them a signal.
- 914
- 00:50:04,037 --> 00:50:06,106
- They heard this signal
- and started active work
- 915
- 00:50:06,172 --> 00:50:09,175
- in support of the
- U. S. State Department.
- 916
- 00:50:09,242 --> 00:50:12,546
- ? I suspect that
- Putin, like Stalin,
- 917
- 00:50:12,613 --> 00:50:16,116
- read every one else
- by his own measure.
- 918
- 00:50:17,551 --> 00:50:20,453
- And being a cynical person,
- understanding only power,
- 919
- 00:50:20,521 --> 00:50:24,090
- he probably assumed that
- we were equally cynical
- 920
- 00:50:24,157 --> 00:50:26,560
- and our protestations
- of support for democracy
- 921
- 00:50:26,627 --> 00:50:28,094
- were meaningless fluff.
- 922
- 00:50:30,196 --> 00:50:33,466
- So that he sees our
- actions in Russia
- 923
- 00:50:33,534 --> 00:50:35,569
- as designed to undermine him.
- 924
- 00:50:35,636 --> 00:50:38,238
- And he looks at all the
- democratic activists
- 925
- 00:50:38,304 --> 00:50:41,207
- as somehow somebody
- else's puppet.
- 926
- 00:50:41,274 --> 00:50:45,512
- Hillary Clinton is doing this
- or Condi Rice is doing this.
- 927
- 00:50:45,579 --> 00:50:48,615
- ? It's not that he
- believes everything
- 928
- 00:50:48,682 --> 00:50:52,819
- but there is a kind of a
- grounding in his KGB training
- 929
- 00:50:52,886 --> 00:50:54,655
- because, remember,
- during the Cold War
- 930
- 00:50:54,721 --> 00:50:58,424
- they would fund some
- firebrand in some country
- 931
- 00:50:58,491 --> 00:51:02,128
- to became allied with
- them and we would go in
- 932
- 00:51:02,195 --> 00:51:04,831
- and try to undercut that
- person and visa versa.
- 933
- 00:51:04,898 --> 00:51:08,434
- But a lot of it is just to
- keep people in Russia in line.
- 934
- 00:51:08,501 --> 00:51:13,507
- My experience with him was
- difficult and challenging
- 935
- 00:51:14,374 --> 00:51:16,643
- because I challenged him.
- 936
- 00:51:16,710 --> 00:51:18,645
- ? It's better not
- to argue with women.
- 937
- 00:51:18,712 --> 00:51:20,714
- But Mrs. Clinton has
- never been too graceful
- 938
- 00:51:20,781 --> 00:51:22,115
- in her statements.
- 939
- 00:51:22,182 --> 00:51:25,151
- When people push boundaries
- too far it's not because
- 940
- 00:51:25,218 --> 00:51:27,621
- they are strong but
- because they are weak.
- 941
- 00:51:27,688 --> 00:51:30,924
- But maybe weakness is not the
- right quality for a woman.
- 942
- 00:51:30,991 --> 00:51:32,392
- ? In meetings that
- I've had with him,
- 943
- 00:51:32,458 --> 00:51:36,730
- he is in a very calculated
- way trying to gain advantage,
- 944
- 00:51:36,797 --> 00:51:39,700
- looking at you with
- disdain and contempt.
- 945
- 00:51:39,766 --> 00:51:41,101
- The bored kid in school.
- 946
- 00:51:41,167 --> 00:51:43,904
- When the cameras are on he will
- criticize the United States.
- 947
- 00:51:43,970 --> 00:51:45,038
- When the cameras are gone,
- 948
- 00:51:45,105 --> 00:51:47,674
- he'll act like he's
- willing to talk to you.
- 949
- 00:51:47,741 --> 00:51:48,575
- He's into man spreading.
- 950
- 00:51:48,642 --> 00:51:50,443
- You know what that is, right.
- 951
- 00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,550
- ? Putin never really developed
- a working relationship
- 952
- 00:51:56,617 --> 00:51:58,351
- with secretary Clinton.
- 953
- 00:51:58,418 --> 00:52:03,323
- He became very upset about
- what she said in December, 2011
- 954
- 00:52:03,990 --> 00:52:05,792
- and was looking for revenge.
- 955
- 00:52:05,859 --> 00:52:08,629
- ? If you can use and capture
- elite in specific ways
- 956
- 00:52:08,695 --> 00:52:09,796
- you can accomplish your goals
- 957
- 00:52:09,863 --> 00:52:12,498
- without needing to
- get public support.
- 958
- 00:52:12,566 --> 00:52:14,300
- The recruiting tool was money.
- 959
- 00:52:14,367 --> 00:52:17,237
- ? You see just so much
- money flowing to Trump.
- 960
- 00:52:23,409 --> 00:52:25,946
- It's hard to imagine
- there's not more to it
- 961
- 00:52:26,012 --> 00:52:29,315
- than just simple
- generosity. (chuckles)
- 962
- 00:52:29,382 --> 00:52:33,654
- ? All his American banks
- cut their lines of credit.
- 963
- 00:52:33,720 --> 00:52:35,055
- Stopped doing business with him
- 964
- 00:52:35,121 --> 00:52:40,426
- and one bank steps into the
- breach as his lender of choice.
- 965
- 00:52:41,427 --> 00:52:42,796
- And that's Deutsche bank.
- 966
- 00:52:44,865 --> 00:52:47,300
- ? From the perspective
- of most western bankers
- 967
- 00:52:47,367 --> 00:52:49,670
- that was just seen as insane.
- 968
- 00:52:49,736 --> 00:52:50,871
- ? He's had a history
- 969
- 00:52:50,937 --> 00:52:53,406
- of making misleading
- statements to them.
- 970
- 00:52:53,473 --> 00:52:54,274
- Threatening them.
- 971
- 00:52:54,340 --> 00:52:56,510
- They call and he sues them.
- 972
- 00:52:56,577 --> 00:52:57,911
- He fails to pay the loan.
- 973
- 00:52:57,978 --> 00:53:01,314
- He publicly criticizes
- Deutsche Bank about all this.
- 974
- 00:53:01,381 --> 00:53:06,252
- But Deutsche bank sticks
- with him loyally throughout.
- 975
- 00:53:06,319 --> 00:53:10,023
- Not only that they
- also start making loans
- 976
- 00:53:10,090 --> 00:53:12,526
- to his son?in?law,
- Jared Kushner.
- 977
- 00:53:13,860 --> 00:53:16,630
- ? Deutsche Bank has
- been fined before
- 978
- 00:53:16,697 --> 00:53:19,399
- for participating in
- Russian money laundering.
- 979
- 00:53:21,001 --> 00:53:22,803
- ? [Reporter] The German bank
- says it's willing to pay
- 980
- 00:53:22,869 --> 00:53:26,439
- over 600 million dollars in
- fines for its connections
- 981
- 00:53:26,507 --> 00:53:28,308
- to alleged Russian
- money laundering.
- 982
- 00:53:29,643 --> 00:53:31,344
- ? When the scandal
- erupted that Deutsche Bank
- 983
- 00:53:31,411 --> 00:53:33,614
- about these money
- laundering operations,
- 984
- 00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:37,383
- the Deutsche bank CEO was fired.
- 985
- 00:53:37,450 --> 00:53:40,320
- He became the CEO of
- the bank of Cyprus.
- 986
- 00:53:40,386 --> 00:53:43,924
- ? One of the
- financial institutions
- 987
- 00:53:43,990 --> 00:53:46,727
- through which they
- launder money.
- 988
- 00:53:46,793 --> 00:53:50,564
- ? [Scott] Who hired him to be
- the CEO of the Bank of Cyprus?
- 989
- 00:53:50,631 --> 00:53:55,068
- Wilbur Ross, tight
- supporter of Donald Trump,
- 990
- 00:53:55,135 --> 00:53:57,838
- now his Secretary of Commerce.
- 991
- 00:53:57,904 --> 00:54:01,742
- ? The practice of overpaying
- significantly is something
- 992
- 00:54:01,808 --> 00:54:05,546
- that falls into the
- category of Russian methods.
- 993
- 00:54:05,612 --> 00:54:06,747
- ? [Scott] The man known
- 994
- 00:54:06,813 --> 00:54:08,882
- as the Russian potash
- king, Rybolovlev,
- 995
- 00:54:08,949 --> 00:54:12,519
- purchases a property
- for more than twice
- 996
- 00:54:12,586 --> 00:54:14,621
- what Trump had paid for it.
- 997
- 00:54:15,756 --> 00:54:17,457
- ? That's when our
- country was going through
- 998
- 00:54:17,524 --> 00:54:20,326
- a financial collapse
- that largely was caused
- 999
- 00:54:20,393 --> 00:54:22,629
- by the real estate market.
- 1000
- 00:54:22,696 --> 00:54:26,900
- Did he overpay because Mr. Trump
- was such a great negotiator
- 1001
- 00:54:26,967 --> 00:54:29,335
- or was there something
- else going on?
- 1002
- 00:54:29,402 --> 00:54:30,771
- ? Never does anything
- with the property.
- 1003
- 00:54:30,837 --> 00:54:34,641
- So the property transaction
- appears to be nothing more
- 1004
- 00:54:34,708 --> 00:54:38,444
- than cover for infusing a
- cool 100 million dollars
- 1005
- 00:54:38,512 --> 00:54:41,014
- into Trump's bank accounts.
- 1006
- 00:54:41,081 --> 00:54:45,752
- This same Rybolovlev is
- also a principal owner
- 1007
- 00:54:45,819 --> 00:54:48,655
- with Wilbur Ross of
- the bank of Cyprus.
- 1008
- 00:54:49,823 --> 00:54:53,026
- ? In 2013 there was
- a bust at Trump Tower
- 1009
- 00:54:53,093 --> 00:54:55,461
- of a massive gambling ring.
- 1010
- 00:54:55,529 --> 00:54:58,632
- It was run by a gun
- named Taiwanchic.
- 1011
- 00:54:58,699 --> 00:55:02,035
- He has been tied to the Russia
- crime boss Simeon Mogilevich.
- 1012
- 00:55:03,670 --> 00:55:06,740
- 29 people were indicted but
- Taiwanchic fled to Russia.
- 1013
- 00:55:09,976 --> 00:55:12,879
- ? [Craig] Taiwanchic
- appeared again that year,
- 1014
- 00:55:12,946 --> 00:55:15,749
- oddly enough, at the
- Miss Universe pageant
- 1015
- 00:55:15,816 --> 00:55:19,920
- that Donald Trump was
- doing with Aras Agalarov.
- 1016
- 00:55:19,986 --> 00:55:22,455
- ? [Michael] Billionaire
- oligarch who was known
- 1017
- 00:55:22,523 --> 00:55:24,390
- actually as Putin's builder
- 1018
- 00:55:24,457 --> 00:55:27,794
- because he had done massive
- construction projects
- 1019
- 00:55:27,861 --> 00:55:31,665
- for the Kremlin and
- gotten a big award
- 1020
- 00:55:31,732 --> 00:55:34,000
- personally delivered by Putin.
- 1021
- 00:55:39,039 --> 00:55:40,106
- ? Donald Trump chose Moscow
- 1022
- 00:55:40,173 --> 00:55:42,609
- as the place to
- have Miss Universe.
- 1023
- 00:55:42,676 --> 00:55:44,911
- I think it would be important
- for us to understand
- 1024
- 00:55:44,978 --> 00:55:48,414
- just who he met with
- while he was on that trip.
- 1025
- 00:55:48,481 --> 00:55:51,051
- Whether he talked
- to Vladimir Putin.
- 1026
- 00:55:53,987 --> 00:55:55,856
- ? There was a luncheon with
- 1027
- 00:55:55,922 --> 00:55:59,526
- a lot of Russian business
- leaders in which Trump spoke
- 1028
- 00:55:59,593 --> 00:56:02,896
- and the birthday party
- for Aras Agalarov.
- 1029
- 00:56:03,864 --> 00:56:06,800
- ? [Scott] He even
- appears in the scion
- 1030
- 00:56:06,867 --> 00:56:09,870
- of the Agalarov
- family music video.
- 1031
- 00:56:09,936 --> 00:56:10,771
- ? You're fired.
- akumenang.com
- 1032
- 00:56:20,947 --> 00:56:21,948
- ? Compromat.
- 1033
- 00:56:22,015 --> 00:56:23,984
- It's essentially
- embarrassing information
- 1034
- 00:56:24,050 --> 00:56:26,653
- that's going to put you
- under somebody else's thumb.
- 1035
- 00:56:27,888 --> 00:56:30,223
- ? Use money, use sex,
- use whatever they can
- 1036
- 00:56:30,290 --> 00:56:31,725
- to try to entrap people.
- 1037
- 00:56:31,792 --> 00:56:33,794
- I mean, that's just a fact.
- 1038
- 00:56:33,860 --> 00:56:36,730
- ? They don't mind blowing
- up their own bribery scheme
- 1039
- 00:56:36,797 --> 00:56:41,167
- to blackmail an individual and
- now they've got that person.
- 1040
- 00:56:41,234 --> 00:56:44,237
- ? There's purely rumors
- that on his trips to Moscow
- 1041
- 00:56:44,304 --> 00:56:47,608
- that Trump was involved
- in various sex escapades
- 1042
- 00:56:47,674 --> 00:56:49,009
- that may have compromised him.
- 1043
- 00:56:54,147 --> 00:56:56,883
- ? [piers] If I can offer you a
- check for 10 billion dollars.
- 1044
- 00:56:56,950 --> 00:56:58,151
- ? [Trump] Billion.
- 1045
- 00:56:58,218 --> 00:56:59,553
- ? [Piers] But the deal
- is you can't have sex
- 1046
- 00:56:59,620 --> 00:57:01,988
- for the next 10 years.
- ? Would that include my wife?
- 1047
- 00:57:23,644 --> 00:57:27,213
- ? Sergei Million appears in
- connection with Trump's dealings
- 1048
- 00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:31,618
- in Russia and certainly in
- connection with his hotel stays
- 1049
- 00:57:31,685 --> 00:57:34,187
- and someone who would know an
- awful lot about what went on
- 1050
- 00:57:34,254 --> 00:57:35,789
- during those visits
- with meetings
- 1051
- 00:57:35,856 --> 00:57:37,190
- with prostitutes and so forth.
- 1052
- 00:57:37,257 --> 00:57:39,292
- ? You know, I was in Moscow
- a couple of months ago.
- 1053
- 00:57:39,359 --> 00:57:41,728
- I own the Miss Universe pageant.
- 1054
- 00:57:41,795 --> 00:57:43,997
- And they treated me so great.
- 1055
- 00:57:44,064 --> 00:57:45,198
- Putin even sent me a present.
- 1056
- 00:57:45,265 --> 00:57:48,168
- Beautiful present
- with a beautiful note.
- 1057
- 00:57:48,234 --> 00:57:52,005
- ? When you look at Steele's
- report information he gives,
- 1058
- 00:57:52,973 --> 00:57:56,977
- one of those sources
- could be Million.
- 1059
- 00:57:57,043 --> 00:57:59,613
- We don't know that for sure
- but the descriptions match.
- 1060
- 00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:01,782
- ? He likes Russia because
- there's money to be made there.
- 1061
- 00:58:01,848 --> 00:58:05,952
- ? He likes Russia because he
- likes beautiful Russian ladies.
- 1062
- 00:58:06,019 --> 00:58:09,656
- ? But I hear that golden
- showers was not the end of it.
- 1063
- 00:58:09,723 --> 00:58:12,258
- There was much more
- extreme sick stuff.
- 1064
- 00:58:12,325 --> 00:58:14,995
- ? He was only there
- two days one night.
- 1065
- 00:58:15,061 --> 00:58:16,997
- He was supposed
- to be there longer
- 1066
- 00:58:17,063 --> 00:58:21,301
- but Billy Graham's
- 95th birthday party
- 1067
- 00:58:21,367 --> 00:58:25,005
- was in Asheville,
- North Carolina.
- 1068
- 00:58:25,071 --> 00:58:27,040
- Trump felt the need to go.
- 1069
- 00:58:27,107 --> 00:58:28,374
- Why?
- 1070
- 00:58:28,441 --> 00:58:31,645
- Because he's getting ready
- to run for president.
- 1071
- 00:58:31,712 --> 00:58:35,048
- ?? Happy birthday to you ??
- 1072
- 00:58:38,819 --> 00:58:40,286
- ? To be honest, the
- question was just asked
- 1073
- 00:58:40,353 --> 00:58:42,989
- or was asked many times today
- at the Miss Universe contest.
- 1074
- 00:58:43,056 --> 00:58:46,059
- They said would you run, and
- it's just too soon to say.
- 1075
- 00:58:46,126 --> 00:58:48,695
- ? [Reporter] Do you
- have a relationship
- with Vladimir Putin,
- 1076
- 00:58:48,762 --> 00:58:52,899
- a conversational relationship
- or anything that you feel
- 1077
- 00:58:52,966 --> 00:58:56,269
- you have sway or influence
- over his government?
- 1078
- 00:58:56,336 --> 00:59:00,006
- ? I do have a relationship
- and I can tell you
- 1079
- 00:59:00,073 --> 00:59:02,308
- that he's very interested in
- what we're doing here today.
- 1080
- 00:59:02,375 --> 00:59:03,409
- He's probably very interested
- 1081
- 00:59:03,476 --> 00:59:04,811
- in what you and I
- are saying today
- 1082
- 00:59:04,878 --> 00:59:07,147
- and I'm sure he's going to
- be seeing it in some form.
- 1083
- 00:59:07,213 --> 00:59:08,782
- But I do have a
- relationship with him.
- 1084
- 00:59:08,849 --> 00:59:09,950
- ? About Russia.
- 1085
- 00:59:10,016 --> 00:59:12,085
- You were asked yesterday
- if you've ever spoken
- 1086
- 00:59:12,152 --> 00:59:15,922
- to Vladimir Putin and you
- said I don't want to say.
- 1087
- 00:59:15,989 --> 00:59:17,223
- ? Yeah, I have no
- comment on that.
- 1088
- 00:59:17,290 --> 00:59:17,924
- No comment.
- 1089
- 00:59:17,991 --> 00:59:19,092
- I was in Russia??
- 1090
- 00:59:19,159 --> 00:59:20,293
- ? Well one of the things
- people like about you
- 1091
- 00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:22,696
- is you answer any questions.
- ? Yeah, but.
- 1092
- 00:59:22,763 --> 00:59:24,130
- Let's assume I did.
- 1093
- 00:59:24,197 --> 00:59:25,932
- Perhaps it was personal or,
- you know, I don't want to,
- 1094
- 00:59:25,999 --> 00:59:28,702
- I don't want to
- hurt his confidence.
- 1095
- 00:59:28,769 --> 00:59:31,137
- He's done a very
- brilliant job in terms
- 1096
- 00:59:31,204 --> 00:59:34,841
- of what he represents and
- who he's representing.
- 1097
- 00:59:38,078 --> 00:59:39,445
- ? Viktor Yanukovich
- had been in talks
- 1098
- 00:59:39,513 --> 00:59:42,983
- with the European Union about
- an association agreement
- 1099
- 00:59:43,049 --> 00:59:46,953
- but then after a visit to
- Moscow and getting the message
- 1100
- 00:59:47,020 --> 00:59:50,256
- that this was not going
- to be seen favorably,
- 1101
- 00:59:50,323 --> 00:59:52,258
- Yanukovich came back
- and decided that
- 1102
- 00:59:52,325 --> 00:59:54,695
- in fact he was not gonna
- pursue this agreement.
- 1103
- 00:59:54,761 --> 00:59:57,030
- So this square in downtown Kiev,
- 1104
- 00:59:57,097 --> 00:59:59,299
- protestors went there and
- began demanding that, in fact,
- 1105
- 00:59:59,365 --> 01:00:00,667
- this agreement go into force,
- 1106
- 01:00:00,734 --> 01:00:03,670
- instead of some alternative
- agreement with Russia.
- 1107
- 01:00:06,072 --> 01:00:09,676
- They protest not just
- in favor of an agreement
- 1108
- 01:00:09,743 --> 01:00:10,877
- with the European Union
- 1109
- 01:00:10,944 --> 01:00:13,446
- but a protest against
- Viktor Yanukovich
- 1110
- 01:00:13,514 --> 01:00:16,683
- and the way he was running
- things at the time.
- 1111
- 01:00:18,218 --> 01:00:20,186
- ? About a week later
- the police went in
- 1112
- 01:00:20,253 --> 01:00:21,221
- and broke up that camp.
- 1113
- 01:00:27,127 --> 01:00:30,230
- In two hours shed more
- blood than had been shed
- 1114
- 01:00:30,296 --> 01:00:34,134
- during the entire Orange
- Revolution back in 2004.
- 1115
- 01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:35,368
- ? And at each turn,
- 1116
- 01:00:35,435 --> 01:00:38,138
- Yanukovich became more
- and more repressive,
- 1117
- 01:00:38,204 --> 01:00:39,740
- more and more bloodthirsty.
- 1118
- 01:00:46,379 --> 01:00:48,181
- ? You had people
- shooting into the crowd.
- 1119
- 01:00:48,248 --> 01:00:50,316
- In some cases directly
- shot to the head
- 1120
- 01:00:50,383 --> 01:00:53,219
- where like snipers
- were shooting at them.
- 1121
- 01:00:53,286 --> 01:00:55,756
- (guns firing)
- 1122
- 01:00:59,192 --> 01:01:02,328
- Probably 100, you know,
- odd people killed.
- 1123
- 01:01:10,036 --> 01:01:13,306
- ? He just infuriated and
- enraged his entire country.
- 1124
- 01:01:25,485 --> 01:01:28,221
- ? [Reporter] Yanukovich defied
- calls for his resignation.
- 1125
- 01:01:28,288 --> 01:01:32,258
- ? I am not going to leave
- Ukraine or go anywhere.
- 1126
- 01:01:32,325 --> 01:01:34,928
- ? Yanukovich packed
- up in a car and left.
- 1127
- 01:01:39,199 --> 01:01:41,367
- He fled the country and
- turned up in Russia.
- 1128
- 01:01:43,469 --> 01:01:45,939
- ? And this is while Manafort
- is still advising him.
- 1129
- 01:01:46,006 --> 01:01:48,942
- ? I don't think that Yanukovich
- was the pro?Putin person
- 1130
- 01:01:49,009 --> 01:01:51,411
- that he's reputed to be
- and if you look at what??
- 1131
- 01:01:51,477 --> 01:01:52,546
- ? [Charlie] Well, he went off.
- 1132
- 01:01:52,613 --> 01:01:54,447
- He ended up in Moscow.
- ? Well, yeah.
- 1133
- 01:01:54,515 --> 01:01:56,249
- ? [Reporter] The ousted
- president is wanted
- 1134
- 01:01:56,316 --> 01:01:58,084
- for mass murder and on the run.
- 1135
- 01:01:58,151 --> 01:01:59,485
- ? So you have the
- Ukrainian parliament.
- 1136
- 01:01:59,553 --> 01:02:01,087
- What do we do?
- 1137
- 01:02:01,154 --> 01:02:02,188
- ? [Reporter] Parliament voted
- 1138
- 01:02:02,255 --> 01:02:04,290
- to free Yanukovych's
- arch nemesis,
- 1139
- 01:02:04,357 --> 01:02:06,259
- opposition leader
- Yulia Tymoshenko.
- 1140
- 01:02:08,494 --> 01:02:11,264
- ? Today you have an open
- road to build Ukraine
- 1141
- 01:02:11,331 --> 01:02:12,733
- the way you want.
- 1142
- 01:02:12,799 --> 01:02:15,836
- That is why you must stay here
- until the person you trust
- 1143
- 01:02:15,902 --> 01:02:18,271
- is elected in an honest way.
- 1144
- 01:02:18,338 --> 01:02:20,974
- ? My sense is at that point
- the Russians panicked.
- 1145
- 01:02:23,610 --> 01:02:25,879
- The Russians had lying
- in a safe somewhere
- 1146
- 01:02:25,946 --> 01:02:29,349
- the plan how you take Crimea
- and they activated that plan.
- 1147
- 01:02:33,419 --> 01:02:35,956
- Within a couple of
- days you saw people
- 1148
- 01:02:36,022 --> 01:02:38,124
- who were very clearly
- professional soldiers.
- 1149
- 01:02:38,191 --> 01:02:40,260
- They were wearing Russian
- style combat fatigues
- 1150
- 01:02:40,326 --> 01:02:42,262
- but they had no
- identifying insignia.
- 1151
- 01:02:42,328 --> 01:02:45,298
- The Ukrainians referred to these
- people as little green men.
- 1152
- 01:02:45,365 --> 01:02:48,201
- ? [Richard] Which were in
- fact special operations forces
- 1153
- 01:02:48,268 --> 01:02:50,036
- and intelligence operatives.
- 1154
- 01:02:51,237 --> 01:02:53,373
- ? We thought this
- could be the beginning
- 1155
- 01:02:53,439 --> 01:02:56,409
- of an outright full scale
- invasion of the country.
- 1156
- 01:02:58,579 --> 01:03:01,481
- That's when the separatists
- shot down the Malaysian airliner
- 1157
- 01:03:01,548 --> 01:03:04,384
- and killed over 100
- Dutch passengers.
- 1158
- 01:03:05,919 --> 01:03:08,288
- ? [Richard] Separatists
- initially boasted on Twitter
- 1159
- 01:03:08,354 --> 01:03:10,490
- that they had taken it down.
- 1160
- 01:03:10,557 --> 01:03:14,094
- ? The unforgivable sin
- was Putin lying about it.
- 1161
- 01:03:15,495 --> 01:03:19,432
- Suggesting Ukrainians shot
- it down or CIA shot it down.
- 1162
- 01:03:19,499 --> 01:03:22,202
- Throwing out a bunch of
- chafe which was an insult.
- 1163
- 01:03:23,436 --> 01:03:26,239
- The European Union
- had had enough.
- 1164
- 01:03:26,306 --> 01:03:29,175
- They joined us with
- strong sectoral sanctions.
- 1165
- 01:03:29,242 --> 01:03:30,977
- And that surprised the Russians
- 1166
- 01:03:31,044 --> 01:03:33,246
- and it hit the
- Russian economy hard
- 1167
- 01:03:33,313 --> 01:03:36,449
- right at the time oil
- prices started to tank.
- 1168
- 01:03:36,517 --> 01:03:38,218
- So they had a double whammy.
- 1169
- 01:03:38,284 --> 01:03:39,452
- ? How do you respond
- 1170
- 01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:43,289
- to the greatest geo
- strategic catastrophe
- 1171
- 01:03:43,356 --> 01:03:44,525
- of the 20th century,
- 1172
- 01:03:44,591 --> 01:03:47,060
- which was the collapse
- of the Soviet Union?
- 1173
- 01:03:47,127 --> 01:03:50,396
- You try to preempt the
- collapse of the western system
- 1174
- 01:03:50,463 --> 01:03:52,098
- in the 21st century.
- 1175
- 01:03:53,667 --> 01:03:56,937
- If you can't destroy these
- structures militarily,
- 1176
- 01:03:57,003 --> 01:03:59,372
- you will destroy
- them from within.
- 1177
- 01:03:59,439 --> 01:04:02,509
- ? By actually creating
- fissures and exploiting them
- 1178
- 01:04:02,576 --> 01:04:05,345
- such that it's the
- electorate is so divided
- 1179
- 01:04:05,411 --> 01:04:08,414
- that you don't trust
- the government anymore.
- 1180
- 01:04:08,481 --> 01:04:10,116
- ? The foundations of geopolitics
- 1181
- 01:04:10,183 --> 01:04:12,218
- is a guiding
- principle for Russia.
- 1182
- 01:04:12,285 --> 01:04:14,320
- It's something that
- their militaries
- 1183
- 01:04:14,387 --> 01:04:16,690
- and intelligence
- services have relied upon
- 1184
- 01:04:16,757 --> 01:04:18,892
- and applied throughout
- their campaigns.
- 1185
- 01:04:30,737 --> 01:04:34,207
- ? Russia has helped unite an
- alternative right movement.
- 1186
- 01:04:34,274 --> 01:04:36,476
- ? You have certain
- voices in the media.
- 1187
- 01:04:36,543 --> 01:04:39,479
- Info Wars, for example,
- Breitbart to capitalize
- 1188
- 01:04:39,546 --> 01:04:41,414
- on these divisions.
- 1189
- 01:04:41,481 --> 01:04:45,451
- And then further encourage them
- for their own personal gain.
- 1190
- 01:04:45,519 --> 01:04:47,721
- ? I'd like to punch him
- in the face, I'll tell ya.
- 1191
- 01:04:47,788 --> 01:04:50,390
- Knock the crap out of
- him, would you, seriously.
- 1192
- 01:04:51,525 --> 01:04:53,359
- That guy looked like
- an NFL football player.
- 1193
- 01:04:53,426 --> 01:04:54,427
- Now, they took him out.
- 1194
- 01:04:54,494 --> 01:04:55,295
- And I'll tell you what.
- 1195
- 01:04:55,361 --> 01:04:57,531
- It was really amazing to watch.
- 1196
- 01:04:57,598 --> 01:04:58,231
- Bye.
- 1197
- 01:04:58,298 --> 01:04:59,633
- Go home to mommy.
- 1198
- 01:04:59,700 --> 01:05:02,002
- But if we get a little bit
- rough in taking them out,
- 1199
- 01:05:02,068 --> 01:05:03,469
- oh, we're terrible people.
- 1200
- 01:05:03,537 --> 01:05:06,239
- It's one of the many reasons
- our country's going to hell.
- 1201
- 01:05:06,306 --> 01:05:08,074
- ? Certainly this is
- all in the interest
- 1202
- 01:05:08,141 --> 01:05:10,511
- of at least one country.
- 1203
- 01:05:10,577 --> 01:05:15,015
- ? To see this otherwise
- rather brazen candidate
- 1204
- 01:05:16,583 --> 01:05:21,588
- turn into such a sycophant
- when the name of Putin
- 1205
- 01:05:22,556 --> 01:05:25,626
- ever came up rang a
- very discordant bell.
- 1206
- 01:05:25,692 --> 01:05:28,094
- ? Putin has done an amazing job
- 1207
- 01:05:28,161 --> 01:05:31,264
- of showing leadership whether
- it's a noble or cause or not.
- 1208
- 01:05:31,331 --> 01:05:32,132
- Let's not discuss that.
- 1209
- 01:05:32,198 --> 01:05:33,499
- He is now the world leader.
- 1210
- 01:05:33,567 --> 01:05:34,735
- I respect Putin.
- 1211
- 01:05:34,801 --> 01:05:36,502
- He's a strong leader,
- I can tell you that.
- 1212
- 01:05:36,570 --> 01:05:37,337
- Unlike what we have.
- 1213
- 01:05:37,403 --> 01:05:38,705
- We have a pathetic leader.
- 1214
- 01:05:38,772 --> 01:05:42,108
- I think in terms of
- leadership, he's getting an A.
- 1215
- 01:05:42,175 --> 01:05:44,177
- ? As far as an individual
- 1216
- 01:05:44,244 --> 01:05:47,413
- who poses a threat to
- the world literally.
- 1217
- 01:05:47,480 --> 01:05:50,517
- A person who has
- no moral standards
- 1218
- 01:05:50,584 --> 01:05:52,485
- that I've been able to detect.
- 1219
- 01:05:52,553 --> 01:05:54,320
- F is not low enough.
- 1220
- 01:05:54,387 --> 01:05:56,456
- ? He was certainly very
- vocal about Russia,
- 1221
- 01:05:56,523 --> 01:05:57,724
- wanting a better relationship.
- 1222
- 01:05:57,791 --> 01:05:59,660
- ? Wouldn't it be a
- wonderful thing, frankly,
- 1223
- 01:05:59,726 --> 01:06:02,162
- if we actually got
- along with Russia?
- 1224
- 01:06:02,228 --> 01:06:04,030
- ? Who's against getting
- along with people
- 1225
- 01:06:04,097 --> 01:06:05,532
- but that's not a policy.
- 1226
- 01:06:05,599 --> 01:06:08,535
- ? More noticeable perhaps is
- the absence of any criticism.
- 1227
- 01:06:08,602 --> 01:06:10,436
- ? The fact is that, you know,
- 1228
- 01:06:10,503 --> 01:06:12,038
- he hasn't been
- convicted of anything.
- 1229
- 01:06:12,105 --> 01:06:13,473
- ? Some of the
- things he was saying
- 1230
- 01:06:13,540 --> 01:06:17,578
- was actually talking points
- that sounded very similar
- 1231
- 01:06:17,644 --> 01:06:20,046
- to what the Russian
- media will put out there.
- 1232
- 01:06:20,113 --> 01:06:20,914
- ? [Reporter] The
- fact that Ukraine
- 1233
- 01:06:20,981 --> 01:06:22,415
- has not published radar data
- 1234
- 01:06:22,482 --> 01:06:24,518
- leads us to the
- conjecture the missiles,
- 1235
- 01:06:24,585 --> 01:06:26,653
- if it was a buk, was
- launched from territory
- 1236
- 01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:29,222
- under the control of
- the Ukrainian military.
- 1237
- 01:06:29,289 --> 01:06:31,658
- ? If it was a Russian made
- buk missile that took down
- 1238
- 01:06:31,725 --> 01:06:35,428
- that plane would you hold
- Putin and Russia accountable?
- 1239
- 01:06:35,495 --> 01:06:36,663
- Would there be sanctions?
- 1240
- 01:06:36,730 --> 01:06:38,098
- ? Well, you know, they
- say it wasn't them.
- 1241
- 01:06:38,164 --> 01:06:39,800
- It may have been their weapon
- but they didn't use it.
- 1242
- 01:06:39,866 --> 01:06:41,201
- They didn't fire it.
- 1243
- 01:06:41,267 --> 01:06:43,436
- They even said the other
- side fired it to blame them.
- 1244
- 01:06:43,503 --> 01:06:45,672
- ? He never provided his
- original birth certificate.
- 1245
- 01:06:45,739 --> 01:06:50,243
- What he provided was a
- photoshopped computer image
- 1246
- 01:06:50,310 --> 01:06:54,080
- of something that was
- issued only in 2007.
- 1247
- 01:06:54,147 --> 01:06:57,651
- ? A certificate of live birth
- is not even signed by anybody.
- 1248
- 01:06:57,718 --> 01:06:58,484
- I saw his.
- 1249
- 01:06:58,552 --> 01:06:59,720
- I read it very carefully.
- 1250
- 01:06:59,786 --> 01:07:01,588
- ? They're voting for
- peace on planet earth
- 1251
- 01:07:01,655 --> 01:07:02,756
- if they vote for Trump.
- 1252
- 01:07:02,823 --> 01:07:06,326
- But if they vote for
- Hillary, it's war.
- 1253
- 01:07:06,392 --> 01:07:10,263
- ? Now Hillary Clinton wants to
- confront nuclear?armed Russia
- 1254
- 01:07:10,330 --> 01:07:13,233
- that could very well lead
- us into World War III.
- 1255
- 01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:16,336
- ? Mr. McCain was taken
- prisoner in Vietnam
- 1256
- 01:07:16,402 --> 01:07:19,506
- and was put not just
- in jail but in a pit.
- 1257
- 01:07:19,573 --> 01:07:21,374
- He sat there for several years.
- 1258
- 01:07:21,441 --> 01:07:23,610
- Anyone would go nuts after that.
- 1259
- 01:07:23,677 --> 01:07:25,846
- ? He's a war hero
- 'cause he was captured.
- 1260
- 01:07:25,912 --> 01:07:27,614
- I like people that
- weren't captured, okay,
- 1261
- 01:07:27,681 --> 01:07:28,749
- I hate to tell you.
- 1262
- 01:07:30,183 --> 01:07:32,452
- ? Donald Trump delivered a
- major foreign policy speech
- 1263
- 01:07:32,519 --> 01:07:35,622
- at the Mayflower Hotel in
- Washington on April 27.
- 1264
- 01:07:35,689 --> 01:07:37,357
- The center for the
- national interest,
- 1265
- 01:07:37,423 --> 01:07:38,559
- this American Think Tank,
- 1266
- 01:07:38,625 --> 01:07:41,427
- which has very close
- ties to the Kremlin.
- 1267
- 01:07:41,494 --> 01:07:44,565
- This Think Tank
- played a leading role
- 1268
- 01:07:44,631 --> 01:07:47,701
- in drafting Donald
- Trump's speech
- 1269
- 01:07:47,768 --> 01:07:51,638
- and that speech was full
- of Russian propaganda.
- 1270
- 01:07:51,705 --> 01:07:54,608
- ? We can upgrade
- NATO's outdated mission
- 1271
- 01:07:54,675 --> 01:07:57,711
- and structure grown
- out of the Cold War.
- 1272
- 01:07:57,778 --> 01:08:01,582
- I am skeptical of
- international unions.
- 1273
- 01:08:01,648 --> 01:08:03,784
- The U. S. must be prepared
- 1274
- 01:08:03,850 --> 01:08:07,554
- to let these countries
- defend themselves.
- 1275
- 01:08:07,621 --> 01:08:11,191
- Some say the Russians
- won't be reasonable.
- 1276
- 01:08:11,257 --> 01:08:12,826
- I intend to find out.
- 1277
- 01:08:15,796 --> 01:08:18,932
- ? When Paul Manafort became
- the actual head of the campaign
- 1278
- 01:08:18,999 --> 01:08:20,233
- all of a sudden I
- had a pop up window
- 1279
- 01:08:20,300 --> 01:08:23,236
- come on my computer
- saying that Yahoo believed
- 1280
- 01:08:23,303 --> 01:08:26,372
- that I was part of an attempt
- of state sponsored actors.
- 1281
- 01:08:27,307 --> 01:08:29,510
- So I was being targeted.
- 1282
- 01:08:29,576 --> 01:08:31,177
- That was the first time.
- 1283
- 01:08:32,679 --> 01:08:36,349
- ? There was a Russian
- campaign to interfere
- 1284
- 01:08:36,416 --> 01:08:38,585
- in American elections
- through hacking.
- 1285
- 01:08:38,652 --> 01:08:40,854
- That information
- appeared in the dossier
- 1286
- 01:08:40,921 --> 01:08:44,424
- before it was publicly reported
- anywhere else, anywhere.
- 1287
- 01:08:44,490 --> 01:08:45,559
- ? You saw active measures
- 1288
- 01:08:45,626 --> 01:08:48,595
- in elections across
- eastern Europe.
- 1289
- 01:08:48,662 --> 01:08:50,664
- No one really thought
- that that would happen
- 1290
- 01:08:50,731 --> 01:08:53,534
- in the U. S. base until it did.
- 1291
- 01:08:58,939 --> 01:09:03,644
- ? I was surprised as everyone
- was but looking back on it
- 1292
- 01:09:03,710 --> 01:09:05,946
- with benefit of
- hindsight, obviously,
- 1293
- 01:09:06,012 --> 01:09:07,548
- we should have probably known
- 1294
- 01:09:07,614 --> 01:09:10,817
- that something like that
- was going to happen.
- 1295
- 01:09:10,884 --> 01:09:13,486
- ? Russia is 1.6% of
- the world economy.
- 1296
- 01:09:16,623 --> 01:09:20,927
- They're so small but they
- have, they're so centralized.
- 1297
- 01:09:24,531 --> 01:09:26,700
- And when state concentrates
- these resources
- 1298
- 01:09:26,767 --> 01:09:30,571
- on wanting something
- then it works.
- 1299
- 01:09:30,637 --> 01:09:33,173
- ? Russia did a wide
- range of hacks.
- 1300
- 01:09:34,875 --> 01:09:38,444
- Started I would guess around
- August, September of 2015,
- 1301
- 01:09:38,512 --> 01:09:39,813
- extended all the way
- through the spring
- 1302
- 01:09:39,880 --> 01:09:42,583
- and into the summer of 2016.
- 1303
- 01:09:42,649 --> 01:09:45,619
- We're talking about thousands
- of Americans that were hit.
- 1304
- 01:09:45,686 --> 01:09:48,589
- They were going after anybody
- and everybody they could.
- 1305
- 01:09:48,655 --> 01:09:51,725
- Their targets include media
- personalities, politicians,
- 1306
- 01:09:51,792 --> 01:09:53,694
- government officials,
- current and former.
- 1307
- 01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:56,797
- Anybody that they could gain
- what is ultimately information
- 1308
- 01:09:56,863 --> 01:09:59,465
- or compromat that
- they could use.
- 1309
- 01:09:59,533 --> 01:10:00,734
- That is the nuclear fuel
- 1310
- 01:10:00,801 --> 01:10:03,269
- that powers the influence
- operation in '16.
- 1311
- 01:10:03,336 --> 01:10:06,372
- ? A couple of my
- co?workers who had access
- 1312
- 01:10:06,439 --> 01:10:09,042
- to my personal email used
- to manage the volume.
- 1313
- 01:10:09,109 --> 01:10:12,345
- One of them saw a
- phishing attempt
- 1314
- 01:10:12,412 --> 01:10:16,517
- from a Google source through
- some mistake of communication.
- 1315
- 01:10:16,583 --> 01:10:20,687
- One of our cyber
- security experts in
- the campaign suggested
- 1316
- 01:10:20,754 --> 01:10:23,323
- to my assistant that they
- change their email account.
- 1317
- 01:10:23,389 --> 01:10:27,728
- So she clicked on the link
- and my private email cache
- 1318
- 01:10:27,794 --> 01:10:30,330
- was, you know, was exfiltrated.
- 1319
- 01:10:33,734 --> 01:10:37,303
- ? People were seeing this
- dangerous troubling activity
- 1320
- 01:10:37,370 --> 01:10:39,706
- coming from the Russians
- that was actually
- 1321
- 01:10:39,773 --> 01:10:42,442
- in our electoral system.
- 1322
- 01:10:42,509 --> 01:10:43,677
- ? Government officials
- learned that they're
- 1323
- 01:10:43,744 --> 01:10:48,882
- actually going into
- state voter databases.
- 1324
- 01:10:49,883 --> 01:10:51,785
- ? There may have been
- 26 different states
- 1325
- 01:10:51,852 --> 01:10:54,054
- where there were efforts
- made to penetrate.
- 1326
- 01:10:54,120 --> 01:10:56,456
- That's disturbing.
- 1327
- 01:10:56,523 --> 01:11:00,594
- The key to flip an election
- without leaving a trace
- 1328
- 01:11:00,661 --> 01:11:02,796
- is the voter rolls.
- 1329
- 01:11:02,863 --> 01:11:06,933
- ? It would only take
- a small digital switch
- 1330
- 01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:08,835
- to make that happen.
- 1331
- 01:11:08,902 --> 01:11:13,574
- This really spooked
- officials in the White House
- 1332
- 01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:18,579
- and that's the moment I
- think that the enormity
- 1333
- 01:11:18,645 --> 01:11:21,782
- of the Russian
- influence campaign
- 1334
- 01:11:21,848 --> 01:11:24,618
- really started to hit home.
- 1335
- 01:11:24,685 --> 01:11:26,953
- ? The fact that
- there was that attack
- 1336
- 01:11:27,020 --> 01:11:29,956
- on the fundamental, the
- absolute fundamental
- 1337
- 01:11:30,023 --> 01:11:34,460
- free and fair election should
- have alarmed all of us.
- 1338
- 01:11:34,528 --> 01:11:36,730
- ? The Russians didn't
- care if we found out.
- 1339
- 01:11:36,797 --> 01:11:37,898
- This is pretty new.
- 1340
- 01:11:37,964 --> 01:11:39,399
- ? They stole the data.
- 1341
- 01:11:39,465 --> 01:11:40,266
- Let's be clear about it.
- 1342
- 01:11:40,333 --> 01:11:41,367
- I don't like this word hacking.
- 1343
- 01:11:41,434 --> 01:11:42,903
- This is theft.
- 1344
- 01:11:42,969 --> 01:11:45,806
- If the Russians walked into my
- house and took something out,
- 1345
- 01:11:45,872 --> 01:11:47,841
- this is exactly the same thing.
- 1346
- 01:11:47,908 --> 01:11:50,476
- And I think the problem that a
- lot of Americans have with it
- 1347
- 01:11:50,544 --> 01:11:53,413
- is they don't see it, they
- don't think of it that way.
- 1348
- 01:11:53,479 --> 01:11:55,782
- ? The goal was
- plausible deniability.
- 1349
- 01:11:55,849 --> 01:11:58,619
- And you hear that even in
- Vladimir Putin's statements.
- 1350
- 01:11:58,685 --> 01:11:59,753
- ? If they are patriotic,
- 1351
- 01:11:59,820 --> 01:12:01,988
- they contribute in a
- way they think is right.
- 1352
- 01:12:02,055 --> 01:12:05,692
- To fight against those who
- say bad things about Russia.
- 1353
- 01:12:05,759 --> 01:12:07,661
- ? If there were people
- in the Trump Campaign
- 1354
- 01:12:07,728 --> 01:12:08,895
- who colluded in any of that,
- 1355
- 01:12:08,962 --> 01:12:11,732
- those people are at
- serious criminal risk
- 1356
- 01:12:11,798 --> 01:12:16,169
- because there were serious
- crimes people committed in 2016
- 1357
- 01:12:16,236 --> 01:12:18,839
- to influence the U. S. elections.
- 1358
- 01:12:18,905 --> 01:12:20,173
- ? Once it looked like Trump
- 1359
- 01:12:20,240 --> 01:12:22,943
- was gonna be the clear nominee,
- the Agalarovs resurfaced
- 1360
- 01:12:23,009 --> 01:12:25,746
- and they said we are
- obviously supportive
- 1361
- 01:12:25,812 --> 01:12:27,380
- of the Trump Campaign
- but more importantly,
- 1362
- 01:12:27,447 --> 01:12:29,883
- we are doing so with
- the blessing of the
- Russian government
- 1363
- 01:12:29,950 --> 01:12:32,018
- and with the Russian
- government involved.
- 1364
- 01:12:35,021 --> 01:12:37,924
- ? And they promised there
- would be the delivery
- 1365
- 01:12:37,991 --> 01:12:41,628
- of information that would damage
- Hillary Clinton's campaign.
- 1366
- 01:12:42,495 --> 01:12:43,564
- ? [Man] This is information
- 1367
- 01:12:43,630 --> 01:12:45,131
- the Russian government
- has collected.
- 1368
- 01:12:48,969 --> 01:12:53,073
- ? Donald Trump, Jr. emailed
- back, great, I love it.
- 1369
- 01:12:54,741 --> 01:12:57,110
- Here we see what appears to
- be evidence of collusion.
- 1370
- 01:12:58,845 --> 01:13:02,616
- ? [Michael] Donald Trump,
- Jr. forwarded the emails
- 1371
- 01:13:02,683 --> 01:13:04,985
- to Paul Manafort, then
- the campaign manager,
- 1372
- 01:13:05,051 --> 01:13:07,487
- and Jared Kushner.
- 1373
- 01:13:07,554 --> 01:13:10,090
- They both sat in on the meeting.
- 1374
- 01:13:11,224 --> 01:13:13,794
- ? Conspiracies are very
- easy to enter into.
- 1375
- 01:13:13,860 --> 01:13:16,930
- If indeed there was
- just a tacit agreement
- 1376
- 01:13:16,997 --> 01:13:20,066
- furthering that conspiracy,
- boy, they're in.
- 1377
- 01:13:21,001 --> 01:13:23,069
- And they're on the
- wrong side of the law.
- 1378
- 01:13:25,972 --> 01:13:30,977
- ? Trump being pressed
- early on in the campion
- 1379
- 01:13:32,078 --> 01:13:34,014
- for a list of his
- foreign policy advisors.
- 1380
- 01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:39,085
- The second name he mentions
- is Carter Page, PhD.
- 1381
- 01:13:40,253 --> 01:13:41,855
- ? No one had heard
- of Carter Page.
- 1382
- 01:13:41,922 --> 01:13:44,257
- He had worked for
- Merrill Lynch in Moscow.
- 1383
- 01:13:44,324 --> 01:13:47,894
- ? [Michael] He had been
- an investor in Gazprom
- 1384
- 01:13:47,961 --> 01:13:52,766
- and a quite vocal defender
- of the Putin government.
- 1385
- 01:13:52,833 --> 01:13:55,569
- A critic of sanctions.
- 1386
- 01:13:55,636 --> 01:13:58,004
- ? Carter Page traveled
- over to Moscow
- 1387
- 01:13:58,071 --> 01:14:00,006
- with permission of
- the Trump campaign
- 1388
- 01:14:00,073 --> 01:14:02,075
- as a senior advisor
- to Donald Trump.
- 1389
- 01:14:02,142 --> 01:14:05,178
- ? Washington and
- other western capitals
- 1390
- 01:14:05,245 --> 01:14:07,848
- have impeded potential progress
- 1391
- 01:14:07,914 --> 01:14:11,952
- through their often
- hypocritical focus on ideas
- 1392
- 01:14:12,018 --> 01:14:15,055
- such as democratization,
- inequality,
- 1393
- 01:14:15,121 --> 01:14:16,890
- corruption, and regime change.
- 1394
- 01:14:16,957 --> 01:14:19,726
- ? [Craig] The Steele Dossier
- alleges that Carter Page
- 1395
- 01:14:19,793 --> 01:14:22,763
- met with Igor Sechin
- who is head of Rozneft,
- 1396
- 01:14:22,829 --> 01:14:25,165
- the enormous
- Russian oil company.
- 1397
- 01:14:27,033 --> 01:14:30,203
- Sechin happens to be very,
- very close to Vladimir Putin.
- 1398
- 01:14:30,270 --> 01:14:31,838
- ? [Scott] Sechin was
- his closest friend
- 1399
- 01:14:31,905 --> 01:14:33,173
- in the intelligence services.
- 1400
- 01:14:34,340 --> 01:14:36,009
- ? They came up with a scheme
- 1401
- 01:14:36,076 --> 01:14:39,045
- by which sanctions would
- be lifted on Russia.
- 1402
- 01:14:40,246 --> 01:14:43,884
- In return, when parts of
- Rozneft were sold off,
- 1403
- 01:14:43,950 --> 01:14:47,053
- a huge portion of it, I
- believe was 19% of it,
- 1404
- 01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:48,154
- would be diverted.
- 1405
- 01:14:50,123 --> 01:14:51,592
- ? This could have
- been another way
- 1406
- 01:14:51,658 --> 01:14:55,161
- to funnel enormous
- cash resources
- 1407
- 01:14:55,228 --> 01:14:57,130
- to Donald Trump or his family.
- 1408
- 01:14:59,866 --> 01:15:03,036
- America's European allies
- were picking up things
- 1409
- 01:15:03,103 --> 01:15:06,940
- involving interaction between
- the figures associated
- 1410
- 01:15:07,007 --> 01:15:11,144
- with the Trump Campaign and
- Russian agents of influence
- 1411
- 01:15:11,211 --> 01:15:13,246
- that they were very
- disturbed about.
- 1412
- 01:15:27,160 --> 01:15:30,030
- ? When the administration asked
- for a bipartisan statement
- 1413
- 01:15:30,096 --> 01:15:31,431
- saying that Russians were active
- 1414
- 01:15:31,497 --> 01:15:33,734
- and they were trying to
- interfere with the election
- 1415
- 01:15:33,800 --> 01:15:35,869
- they were blocked by
- Republican leadership.
- 1416
- 01:15:35,936 --> 01:15:38,672
- ? When I was working in the
- House of Representatives,
- 1417
- 01:15:38,739 --> 01:15:41,141
- especially as the
- Policy Director for
- the House Republicans,
- 1418
- 01:15:41,207 --> 01:15:43,677
- I was part of many discussions.
- 1419
- 01:15:43,744 --> 01:15:46,046
- One of them was on June 15.
- 1420
- 01:15:46,112 --> 01:15:48,749
- One of the leaders
- speculated that Trump
- 1421
- 01:15:48,815 --> 01:15:51,217
- had a compromising
- relationship with Putin,
- 1422
- 01:15:54,187 --> 01:15:56,322
- a very serious
- allegation to make
- 1423
- 01:15:56,389 --> 01:15:59,225
- but it was one that
- everyone was thinking.
- 1424
- 01:16:04,364 --> 01:16:07,033
- The leaders were afraid to
- stand up to Donald Trump
- 1425
- 01:16:07,100 --> 01:16:12,105
- for fear of being attacked
- by his Russian troll army.
- 1426
- 01:16:29,089 --> 01:16:31,124
- ? [Michael] By the
- time of the convention,
- 1427
- 01:16:31,191 --> 01:16:32,325
- it was beginning to look
- 1428
- 01:16:32,392 --> 01:16:36,797
- like there was a really
- serious Russian effort.
- 1429
- 01:16:44,204 --> 01:16:45,739
- ? She is above the law.
- 1430
- 01:16:45,806 --> 01:16:47,140
- ? [Michael] Michael
- Flynn had become
- 1431
- 01:16:47,207 --> 01:16:51,311
- a top national security
- advisor to Trump.
- 1432
- 01:16:51,377 --> 01:16:52,212
- ? Lock her up.
- 1433
- 01:16:55,181 --> 01:16:56,149
- ? What concerns me again
- 1434
- 01:16:56,216 --> 01:16:57,383
- from a counter
- intelligence perspective
- 1435
- 01:16:57,450 --> 01:16:58,785
- is the pattern that
- Flynn has established.
- 1436
- 01:16:58,852 --> 01:17:01,888
- Flynn goes to Moscow and
- sits next to Vladimir Putin
- 1437
- 01:17:01,955 --> 01:17:04,691
- in a lavish RT s
- ponsored event.
- 1438
- 01:17:04,758 --> 01:17:05,926
- Just like in the United States,
- 1439
- 01:17:05,992 --> 01:17:07,160
- you don't get to sit
- next to the president
- 1440
- 01:17:07,227 --> 01:17:08,995
- of the United States
- without any planning.
- 1441
- 01:17:10,230 --> 01:17:12,298
- He takes money from
- the Russians, from RT,
- 1442
- 01:17:12,365 --> 01:17:15,068
- which is nothing more than a
- propaganda arm of the Kremlin.
- 1443
- 01:17:15,135 --> 01:17:16,336
- Then says he didn't
- take any money.
- 1444
- 01:17:16,402 --> 01:17:19,005
- ? [Reporter] Were you
- paid for that amount?
- 1445
- 01:17:19,072 --> 01:17:22,709
- ? You have to ask my, the
- folks that went over there to??
- 1446
- 01:17:22,776 --> 01:17:23,844
- ? I'm asking you.
- 1447
- 01:17:23,910 --> 01:17:25,011
- You'd know if you were paid.
- 1448
- 01:17:25,078 --> 01:17:26,446
- ? I didn't take any
- money from Russia
- 1449
- 01:17:26,513 --> 01:17:28,048
- if that's what you're asking me.
- 1450
- 01:17:28,114 --> 01:17:29,149
- ? Well then who paid you?
- 1451
- 01:17:29,215 --> 01:17:31,017
- ? My Speaker's Bureau.
- 1452
- 01:17:31,084 --> 01:17:33,419
- ? The Speakers Bureau is
- merely the pass through
- 1453
- 01:17:33,486 --> 01:17:37,924
- for the organization that's
- paying for the speech.
- 1454
- 01:17:37,991 --> 01:17:40,326
- Flynn had given the same answer
- 1455
- 01:17:40,393 --> 01:17:43,229
- when he was trying to get
- his security clearance.
- 1456
- 01:17:46,066 --> 01:17:48,268
- ? At that convention, the
- Republican party did something
- 1457
- 01:17:48,334 --> 01:17:50,937
- that they almost have
- never done before
- 1458
- 01:17:51,004 --> 01:17:53,239
- which was take out
- of their platform,
- 1459
- 01:17:53,306 --> 01:17:55,842
- language that was
- standing up for Ukraine
- 1460
- 01:17:55,909 --> 01:17:57,944
- and standing against Russia.
- 1461
- 01:17:58,011 --> 01:17:59,746
- ? I was confident
- that was gonna be
- 1462
- 01:17:59,813 --> 01:18:01,281
- a part of our party platform.
- 1463
- 01:18:01,347 --> 01:18:02,516
- It was before.
- 1464
- 01:18:02,583 --> 01:18:06,152
- All of a sudden
- somewhere it disappeared.
- 1465
- 01:18:06,219 --> 01:18:08,421
- ? J. D. Gordon, his
- account is that it was
- 1466
- 01:18:08,488 --> 01:18:10,891
- at the request of
- the Trump Campaign.
- 1467
- 01:18:10,957 --> 01:18:15,495
- ? And I think that's part
- of this whole scandal
- 1468
- 01:18:15,562 --> 01:18:17,531
- that needs to be resolved.
- 1469
- 01:18:17,598 --> 01:18:21,367
- Why would the
- Republican party remove
- 1470
- 01:18:21,434 --> 01:18:26,106
- a provision that would help
- people who had been invaded
- 1471
- 01:18:26,172 --> 01:18:28,975
- and slaughtered
- defend themselves?
- 1472
- 01:18:29,042 --> 01:18:29,876
- Interesting.
- 1473
- 01:18:44,090 --> 01:18:46,159
- ? When we went into
- the convention,
- 1474
- 01:18:46,226 --> 01:18:49,095
- we had to contend with
- that first drop of emails.
- 1475
- 01:18:49,162 --> 01:18:51,798
- ? Just that the DNC employee??
- ? It's Russia.
- 1476
- 01:18:51,865 --> 01:18:52,966
- Adverse.
- 1477
- 01:18:53,033 --> 01:18:54,067
- They were in
- communication or in touch
- 1478
- 01:18:54,134 --> 01:18:57,403
- with Julian Assange
- at Wikileaks.
- 1479
- 01:18:57,470 --> 01:18:59,573
- ? And then they published
- that data in a way
- 1480
- 01:18:59,640 --> 01:19:03,143
- to help Trump and
- hurt Hillary Clinton.
- 1481
- 01:19:03,209 --> 01:19:05,145
- ? When Wikileaks was
- originally founded
- 1482
- 01:19:05,211 --> 01:19:09,115
- I don't think it had the
- intention of influencing
- 1483
- 01:19:09,182 --> 01:19:13,053
- the 2016 American election
- but was it the goal
- 1484
- 01:19:13,119 --> 01:19:16,356
- after Assange announced that
- he wanted to harm Hillary.
- 1485
- 01:19:16,422 --> 01:19:17,257
- You bet.
- 1486
- 01:19:18,258 --> 01:19:19,425
- I mean, he said so.
- 1487
- 01:19:20,827 --> 01:19:22,863
- From that standpoint, it
- was a match made in heaven.
- 1488
- 01:19:24,330 --> 01:19:28,201
- ? [John] They were actively
- in the systems of Democratic
- 1489
- 01:19:28,268 --> 01:19:31,137
- and as we now know
- Republicans as well.
- 1490
- 01:19:31,204 --> 01:19:33,239
- ? We'll publish the
- embarrassing material
- 1491
- 01:19:33,306 --> 01:19:35,542
- from the hack into the DNC.
- 1492
- 01:19:35,609 --> 01:19:39,345
- We won't publish
- the embarrassing
- material in the RNC.
- 1493
- 01:19:39,412 --> 01:19:41,114
- ? There were more
- damaging ones on Manafort
- 1494
- 01:19:41,181 --> 01:19:41,982
- that they could have dropped.
- 1495
- 01:19:42,048 --> 01:19:43,449
- They didn't.
- 1496
- 01:19:43,517 --> 01:19:46,620
- It really exposed a lot of
- personal contact information.
- 1497
- 01:19:46,687 --> 01:19:49,856
- So many staff were getting
- harassment calls for weeks.
- 1498
- 01:19:49,923 --> 01:19:53,093
- ? As we learned more
- first about the DNC,
- 1499
- 01:19:53,159 --> 01:19:57,564
- he basically invited them to
- try to, you know, hack into me.
- 1500
- 01:19:57,631 --> 01:20:00,967
- ? He blurts things
- out that sound to me
- 1501
- 01:20:01,034 --> 01:20:05,338
- as a prosecutor almost
- like an effort to confess.
- 1502
- 01:20:05,405 --> 01:20:08,474
- ? Russia, if you're
- listening, I hope you're able
- 1503
- 01:20:08,542 --> 01:20:13,547
- to find the 30,000
- emails that are missing.
- 1504
- 01:20:14,948 --> 01:20:19,252
- ? If you were in fact
- conspiring with Russia
- 1505
- 01:20:20,420 --> 01:20:22,889
- and encouraging them
- to help your campaign
- 1506
- 01:20:22,956 --> 01:20:25,559
- and signaling them as to
- what you wanted them to do...
- 1507
- 01:20:25,626 --> 01:20:27,260
- ? I think you will probably
- 1508
- 01:20:27,327 --> 01:20:30,063
- be rewarded mightily
- by our press.
- 1509
- 01:20:32,298 --> 01:20:36,236
- ? There's a pretty good
- suggestion right there
- 1510
- 01:20:36,302 --> 01:20:38,539
- but in this case made in
- plain view in open daylight
- 1511
- 01:20:38,605 --> 01:20:41,307
- at high noon, it's a little odd.
- 1512
- 01:20:46,112 --> 01:20:47,313
- ? Campaign was over.
- 1513
- 01:20:47,380 --> 01:20:48,448
- Bernie had lost.
- 1514
- 01:20:48,515 --> 01:20:51,317
- I was assisting in helping with
- 1515
- 01:20:51,384 --> 01:20:54,354
- a number of Facebook
- pages here in California.
- 1516
- 01:20:54,420 --> 01:20:57,924
- I started to see strange
- people appearing.
- 1517
- 01:20:57,991 --> 01:21:02,295
- Their posts were coming from
- American sounding websites
- 1518
- 01:21:02,362 --> 01:21:05,999
- but when I peeled
- away the layers,
- 1519
- 01:21:06,066 --> 01:21:08,334
- eastern Europe became
- a common theme.
- 1520
- 01:21:09,502 --> 01:21:12,105
- They were propaganda pieces.
- 1521
- 01:21:12,172 --> 01:21:14,074
- Not a single one of them true.
- 1522
- 01:21:14,140 --> 01:21:17,043
- All viciously anti?Hillary.
- 1523
- 01:21:17,110 --> 01:21:20,046
- This isn't just
- one Sanders page.
- 1524
- 01:21:20,113 --> 01:21:22,448
- It's Latinos for
- Sanders, Pennsylvania,
- 1525
- 01:21:22,516 --> 01:21:24,450
- Wisconsin, Michigan for Sanders.
- 1526
- 01:21:24,518 --> 01:21:25,919
- It kept on going.
- 1527
- 01:21:25,986 --> 01:21:30,056
- ? While we were focusing on
- the positive of social media
- 1528
- 01:21:30,123 --> 01:21:33,960
- and information technology,
- Russia was looking at how
- 1529
- 01:21:34,027 --> 01:21:35,161
- to use that as an instrument
- 1530
- 01:21:35,228 --> 01:21:38,398
- and they have been
- incredibly effective.
- 1531
- 01:21:38,464 --> 01:21:41,467
- ? Cyber with social media,
- with things like RT.
- 1532
- 01:21:41,535 --> 01:21:43,436
- They can reach out to
- western publics in a way
- 1533
- 01:21:43,503 --> 01:21:46,540
- that they couldn't
- do 35, 40 years ago.
- 1534
- 01:21:46,607 --> 01:21:49,109
- Some of their predecessors
- would be really envious
- 1535
- 01:21:49,175 --> 01:21:50,577
- of the techniques
- that they have now.
- 1536
- 01:21:50,644 --> 01:21:53,580
- ? How the Russian state does
- influence operations online
- 1537
- 01:21:53,647 --> 01:21:54,715
- is pretty complex.
- 1538
- 01:21:54,781 --> 01:21:57,450
- On the one hand you have
- real people, trolls.
- 1539
- 01:21:57,518 --> 01:22:00,721
- A bigger part is actually
- digital disinformation.
- 1540
- 01:22:00,787 --> 01:22:05,425
- Making user accounts
- that are algorithms.
- 1541
- 01:22:05,491 --> 01:22:09,596
- This is the evolution of
- artificial intelligence online.
- 1542
- 01:22:09,663 --> 01:22:12,365
- ? Russians figured out
- how you game Google.
- 1543
- 01:22:12,432 --> 01:22:15,035
- If you have enough
- bots to drive it
- 1544
- 01:22:15,101 --> 01:22:17,337
- to the top of the
- Google suggestion list.
- 1545
- 01:22:17,403 --> 01:22:18,471
- ? Any wedge that's there,
- 1546
- 01:22:18,539 --> 01:22:19,806
- they're gonna test
- that audience out.
- 1547
- 01:22:19,873 --> 01:22:22,509
- And when they find success
- then they exploit it.
- 1548
- 01:22:22,576 --> 01:22:24,511
- They double down on it.
- 1549
- 01:22:24,578 --> 01:22:25,612
- You might see them show up
- 1550
- 01:22:25,679 --> 01:22:27,748
- around Black Lives
- Matter protests.
- 1551
- 01:22:27,814 --> 01:22:30,150
- And in the counter
- protest movement.
- 1552
- 01:22:30,216 --> 01:22:32,385
- Any anti?government or
- white supremacist group.
- 1553
- 01:22:32,452 --> 01:22:34,487
- Nationalists, non?globalists.
- 1554
- 01:22:34,555 --> 01:22:38,491
- Anti?EU, anti?NATO,
- anti?immigration.
- 1555
- 01:22:38,559 --> 01:22:42,596
- ? Promoting the far right,
- promoting the far left,
- 1556
- 01:22:42,663 --> 01:22:46,066
- so that our politics
- become more polarized,
- 1557
- 01:22:46,132 --> 01:22:48,569
- then Putin can feed
- lies to either side
- 1558
- 01:22:48,635 --> 01:22:50,637
- because they hate
- each other so much.
- 1559
- 01:22:51,738 --> 01:22:54,440
- If we're divided as Americans
- 1560
- 01:22:54,508 --> 01:22:58,278
- then it's harder for us to
- stand up to that influence.
- 1561
- 01:22:58,344 --> 01:23:00,514
- ? They know that in the
- west there's a tendency
- 1562
- 01:23:00,581 --> 01:23:02,583
- towards positivism,
- there's a tendency towards,
- 1563
- 01:23:02,649 --> 01:23:03,449
- well, I don't know.
- 1564
- 01:23:03,517 --> 01:23:04,317
- That's a story that's out there.
- 1565
- 01:23:04,384 --> 01:23:04,918
- We just can't discredit it.
- 1566
- 01:23:04,985 --> 01:23:05,752
- We have to.
- 1567
- 01:23:05,819 --> 01:23:08,288
- Maybe the media is right.
- 1568
- 01:23:08,354 --> 01:23:10,123
- The Russians know that
- we do this a
- s westerners.
- 1569
- 01:23:10,190 --> 01:23:11,725
- They see it coming and
- they take it to the bank
- 1570
- 01:23:11,792 --> 01:23:13,226
- every single time.
- 1571
- 01:23:13,293 --> 01:23:14,494
- ? The westerners are lazy.
- 1572
- 01:23:14,561 --> 01:23:15,662
- I mean, they don't do research.
- 1573
- 01:23:15,729 --> 01:23:18,431
- Russians have already
- done everything for them
- 1574
- 01:23:18,498 --> 01:23:21,467
- and they know how to pack it
- and how to feed it to them.
- 1575
- 01:23:21,535 --> 01:23:23,704
- ? Russia wins the audience first
- 1576
- 01:23:23,770 --> 01:23:25,438
- and then directs them somewhere.
- 1577
- 01:23:25,506 --> 01:23:27,440
- It's very different from
- American approaches.
- 1578
- 01:23:27,508 --> 01:23:29,142
- Americans are impatient.
- 1579
- 01:23:29,209 --> 01:23:31,512
- You just create
- pictures, you create bios
- 1580
- 01:23:31,578 --> 01:23:34,080
- that look like accounts that
- are from these locations
- 1581
- 01:23:34,147 --> 01:23:36,683
- because people are more
- likely to take in information
- 1582
- 01:23:36,750 --> 01:23:39,319
- from people that look like
- them and talk like them.
- 1583
- 01:23:39,385 --> 01:23:40,854
- Follow everybody that's
- in that community.
- 1584
- 01:23:40,921 --> 01:23:42,589
- You retweet what they say.
- 1585
- 01:23:42,656 --> 01:23:44,090
- Lowering the guard
- of that audience
- 1586
- 01:23:44,157 --> 01:23:47,327
- so they would accept Russian
- information or Russian views.
- 1587
- 01:23:47,393 --> 01:23:50,296
- Over time you can insert
- in the content you want.
- 1588
- 01:23:52,365 --> 01:23:54,467
- ? [Reporter] In this office
- building in St. Petersburg,
- 1589
- 01:23:54,535 --> 01:23:56,202
- an army of trolls.
- 1590
- 01:23:56,269 --> 01:23:57,804
- They were even caught on camera
- 1591
- 01:23:57,871 --> 01:24:00,507
- secretly filmed by
- a former employee.
- 1592
- 01:24:00,574 --> 01:24:02,509
- ? The U. S. elections
- are the key issue
- 1593
- 01:24:02,576 --> 01:24:04,745
- for the Kremlin and of
- course Russia has invested
- 1594
- 01:24:04,811 --> 01:24:06,747
- a lot of effort into them.
- 1595
- 01:24:06,813 --> 01:24:08,615
- It's so sophisticated
- and adapted
- 1596
- 01:24:08,682 --> 01:24:10,416
- for the tastes of internet users
- 1597
- 01:24:10,483 --> 01:24:12,586
- that it's almost
- impossible to recognize.
- 1598
- 01:24:12,653 --> 01:24:14,054
- ? You have serious quotas.
- 1599
- 01:24:14,120 --> 01:24:17,591
- So in an hour you have to
- produce 20 tweets, 30 comments
- 1600
- 01:24:17,658 --> 01:24:19,125
- on these websites.
- 1601
- 01:24:19,192 --> 01:24:21,828
- So, it's actually like a work
- environment for these people.
- 1602
- 01:24:21,895 --> 01:24:24,665
- ? [Reporter] 12 hours a
- day praising the Kremlin,
- 1603
- 01:24:24,731 --> 01:24:26,833
- berating its enemies.
- 1604
- 01:24:26,900 --> 01:24:29,570
- ? I myself have a number
- of Russian trolls.
- 1605
- 01:24:29,636 --> 01:24:32,739
- I know whenever I refer to the
- illegal annexation of Crimea
- 1606
- 01:24:32,806 --> 01:24:35,175
- I get, you know, quite
- a bit of criticism.
- 1607
- 01:24:35,241 --> 01:24:36,376
- ? An interview like this,
- 1608
- 01:24:36,442 --> 01:24:37,477
- once it goes out
- on the internet,
- 1609
- 01:24:37,544 --> 01:24:38,879
- I'll receive some
- sort of trolling
- 1610
- 01:24:38,945 --> 01:24:40,614
- very specifically around it.
- 1611
- 01:24:40,681 --> 01:24:43,249
- The goal is essentially
- to get you to shut up.
- 1612
- 01:24:43,316 --> 01:24:45,151
- And to not be a challenger.
- 1613
- 01:24:45,218 --> 01:24:46,720
- They'll threaten
- lawsuits, for example,
- 1614
- 01:24:46,787 --> 01:24:48,789
- because they know nothing
- effects an American
- 1615
- 01:24:48,855 --> 01:24:50,524
- like the threat of a lawsuit.
- 1616
- 01:24:52,058 --> 01:24:53,359
- If you're operating in Europe,
- the closer you get to Moscow,
- 1617
- 01:24:53,426 --> 01:24:56,930
- the more your physical
- life is actually in danger.
- 1618
- 01:24:56,997 --> 01:24:59,566
- (gun firing)
- 1619
- 01:25:00,734 --> 01:25:02,669
- They can try and break
- into your bank accounts,
- 1620
- 01:25:02,736 --> 01:25:03,870
- attack you financially,
- 1621
- 01:25:03,937 --> 01:25:05,806
- and if they can't
- get to you personally
- 1622
- 01:25:05,872 --> 01:25:07,774
- they'll target your family.
- 1623
- 01:25:07,841 --> 01:25:09,175
- They create false stories,
- 1624
- 01:25:09,242 --> 01:25:12,646
- seed it out there to try
- and destroy your reputation.
- 1625
- 01:25:12,713 --> 01:25:16,650
- ? You plant an idea,
- a fake story, a lie.
- 1626
- 01:25:16,717 --> 01:25:17,851
- ? It will take on
- a life of its own
- 1627
- 01:25:17,918 --> 01:25:19,586
- and you don't have
- to do the propaganda.
- 1628
- 01:25:19,653 --> 01:25:21,454
- The audience will do it for you.
- 1629
- 01:25:22,656 --> 01:25:25,592
- Seth Rich was a campaign
- worker for Hillary Clinton.
- 1630
- 01:25:25,659 --> 01:25:27,427
- He turned up dead.
- 1631
- 01:25:27,493 --> 01:25:29,730
- The Seth Rich story
- was that he was the one
- 1632
- 01:25:29,796 --> 01:25:32,498
- who stole the Democratic
- Committee emails.
- 1633
- 01:25:32,566 --> 01:25:34,735
- There's no evidence
- to support that.
- 1634
- 01:25:34,801 --> 01:25:36,670
- Today is, it's an
- unsolved murder
- 1635
- 01:25:36,737 --> 01:25:38,839
- but it's propagated both
- by the alternative right
- 1636
- 01:25:38,905 --> 01:25:40,707
- but also by groups
- like Wikileaks.
- 1637
- 01:25:40,774 --> 01:25:42,576
- Even to the point where
- you have Russian ambassador
- 1638
- 01:25:42,643 --> 01:25:44,678
- show up and say I think
- there might be something
- 1639
- 01:25:44,745 --> 01:25:45,879
- into this Seth Rich story.
- 1640
- 01:25:45,946 --> 01:25:48,615
- That doubt that's there
- really covers your hand
- 1641
- 01:25:48,682 --> 01:25:49,850
- over the longer term.
- 1642
- 01:25:50,984 --> 01:25:53,687
- ? And sometimes
- the most outrageous
- 1643
- 01:25:53,754 --> 01:25:57,558
- are the ones that you think
- that you don't want to dignify
- 1644
- 01:25:57,624 --> 01:26:00,727
- with a response to but that
- I've subsequently learned
- 1645
- 01:26:00,794 --> 01:26:02,128
- that's a kind of
- dangerous proposition.
- 1646
- 01:26:02,195 --> 01:26:04,831
- ? John Podesta says let's
- go over to the pizza place
- 1647
- 01:26:04,898 --> 01:26:06,533
- and all of a sudden it's a story
- 1648
- 01:26:06,600 --> 01:26:08,902
- about child trafficking
- ring in the basement
- 1649
- 01:26:08,969 --> 01:26:11,004
- which doesn't exist
- in the pizza place.
- 1650
- 01:26:11,071 --> 01:26:14,240
- ? Resulted in a person who
- had been reading this stuff
- 1651
- 01:26:14,307 --> 01:26:16,643
- deciding that he would deputize
- himself to come up here
- 1652
- 01:26:16,710 --> 01:26:19,613
- with a gun, firing that
- weapon in the pizza parlor.
- 1653
- 01:26:20,480 --> 01:26:21,782
- But it just sort of never ends.
- 1654
- 01:26:24,084 --> 01:26:26,953
- ? 2013 they were starting
- to learn the power
- 1655
- 01:26:27,020 --> 01:26:28,622
- of this influence.
- 1656
- 01:26:28,689 --> 01:26:31,858
- In 2014 they were doing
- capability development.
- 1657
- 01:26:31,925 --> 01:26:35,662
- '15 was winning
- audiences so that in 2016
- 1658
- 01:26:35,729 --> 01:26:37,831
- you could actually go
- after the U. S. election.
- 1659
- 01:26:39,499 --> 01:26:41,735
- The primary message
- would be one,
- 1660
- 01:26:41,802 --> 01:26:43,704
- Hillary Clinton cannot
- become president.
- 1661
- 01:26:43,770 --> 01:26:46,707
- Second one is Trump is the
- man to mend fences with Russia
- 1662
- 01:26:46,773 --> 01:26:50,043
- and he's a great leader and a
- nationalist much like Putin.
- 1663
- 01:26:50,110 --> 01:26:52,746
- The third one was Bernie
- Sanders got a raw deal
- 1664
- 01:26:52,813 --> 01:26:54,781
- that you shouldn't even
- come out to the polls.
- 1665
- 01:26:54,848 --> 01:26:58,685
- ? The Russians in line with
- right wing radical media
- 1666
- 01:26:58,752 --> 01:27:03,389
- were creating false
- stories to generate fear
- 1667
- 01:27:03,456 --> 01:27:05,425
- and in story after
- story after story.
- 1668
- 01:27:05,491 --> 01:27:07,060
- ? [George] Secretary Clinton
- had a serious disease.
- 1669
- 01:27:07,127 --> 01:27:08,194
- ? [Man] Multiple sclerosis.
- 1670
- 01:27:08,261 --> 01:27:09,796
- ? [Woman] Hillary's
- gonna cause nuclear war.
- 1671
- 01:27:09,863 --> 01:27:10,964
- ? [Man] Murderer of 30 people.
- 1672
- 01:27:11,031 --> 01:27:13,600
- ? [Man] Funding Isis,
- smuggling drugs.
- 1673
- 01:27:13,667 --> 01:27:15,001
- ? Untrustworthy.
- ? Pedophilia.
- 1674
- 01:27:15,068 --> 01:27:16,136
- ? [Woman] Crooked.
- 1675
- 01:27:16,202 --> 01:27:17,704
- ? Hillary Clinton
- is the she devil.
- 1676
- 01:27:17,771 --> 01:27:20,874
- ? Totally creepy falsehood.
- 1677
- 01:27:20,941 --> 01:27:22,876
- ? Sometimes we found
- in the United States
- 1678
- 01:27:22,943 --> 01:27:26,947
- our greatest strength, free
- speech, open societies,
- 1679
- 01:27:27,013 --> 01:27:31,852
- a democracy can also be one of
- our greatest vulnerabilities.
- 1680
- 01:27:31,918 --> 01:27:36,923
- ? I don't think we were
- fully aware of the impact,
- 1681
- 01:27:37,891 --> 01:27:39,025
- the effects that it was having.
- 1682
- 01:27:39,092 --> 01:27:42,829
- So much of it seemed
- surreal, ridiculous.
- 1683
- 01:27:42,896 --> 01:27:46,633
- ? By utilizing our
- openness, they exploited us.
- 1684
- 01:27:46,700 --> 01:27:48,902
- If people that I knew personally
- 1685
- 01:27:48,969 --> 01:27:50,537
- to be thinking
- thoughtful people,
- 1686
- 01:27:50,604 --> 01:27:54,508
- if they were sharing
- the propaganda, who
- else was sharing?
- 1687
- 01:27:54,575 --> 01:27:55,876
- ? Everyone falls for fake news.
- 1688
- 01:27:55,942 --> 01:27:56,977
- I've fallen for fake news.
- 1689
- 01:27:57,043 --> 01:28:01,748
- ? Over the last 75
- days, the top 20
- 1690
- 01:28:01,815 --> 01:28:04,885
- demonstrably fake stories,
- 1691
- 01:28:04,951 --> 01:28:07,621
- got more Facebook
- likes and shares
- 1692
- 01:28:07,688 --> 01:28:11,592
- than the top 20 campaign
- stories from mainstream media.
- 1693
- 01:28:11,658 --> 01:28:15,729
- ? It laid the groundwork
- for Sanders supporters
- 1694
- 01:28:15,796 --> 01:28:17,598
- to say I've had it.
- 1695
- 01:28:17,664 --> 01:28:19,432
- ? They actually have
- won over a segment
- 1696
- 01:28:19,499 --> 01:28:22,402
- of the U. S. audience like
- Russia's never won over before.
- 1697
- 01:28:22,468 --> 01:28:23,770
- A white nationalists rally
- 1698
- 01:28:23,837 --> 01:28:26,507
- in Charlottesville,
- Virginia, where they chanted.
- 1699
- 01:28:31,111 --> 01:28:35,849
- ? Recent polling indicates
- that 49% of Republican voters,
- 1700
- 01:28:35,916 --> 01:28:38,118
- I'm sad to say, believe that,
- 1701
- 01:28:38,184 --> 01:28:40,787
- that Putin and that
- Russia are either
- 1702
- 01:28:40,854 --> 01:28:43,857
- an ally or a friendly nation.
- 1703
- 01:28:43,924 --> 01:28:47,561
- ? The question is who
- helped guide the decisions
- 1704
- 01:28:47,628 --> 01:28:48,929
- that the Russians were making,
- 1705
- 01:28:48,995 --> 01:28:50,496
- what ads they may have bought.
- 1706
- 01:28:50,564 --> 01:28:52,432
- What kinds of fake news
- 1707
- 01:28:52,498 --> 01:28:54,701
- they thought would
- be most effective.
- 1708
- 01:28:54,768 --> 01:28:56,737
- ? If you know the personality
- 1709
- 01:28:56,803 --> 01:28:58,238
- of the people you're targeting,
- 1710
- 01:28:58,304 --> 01:29:01,808
- you can nuance your messaging
- to resonate more effectively
- 1711
- 01:29:01,875 --> 01:29:03,844
- with those key audience groups.
- 1712
- 01:29:03,910 --> 01:29:06,913
- This information is quite
- helpful to a campaign manager.
- 1713
- 01:29:07,948 --> 01:29:09,415
- ? Cambridge Analytica popped up
- 1714
- 01:29:09,482 --> 01:29:13,687
- growing out of an experiment,
- behavioral science experiment
- 1715
- 01:29:13,754 --> 01:29:16,823
- at Cambridge University
- to see whether they could
- 1716
- 01:29:16,890 --> 01:29:21,628
- analyze large numbers
- of people using Facebook
- 1717
- 01:29:21,695 --> 01:29:25,799
- because people are spilling
- their feelings to their friends,
- 1718
- 01:29:25,866 --> 01:29:27,934
- hundreds of millions of
- people in their pool.
- 1719
- 01:29:28,001 --> 01:29:29,269
- ? We have somewhere close to
- 1720
- 01:29:29,335 --> 01:29:31,905
- four or five thousand
- data points on every adult
- 1721
- 01:29:31,972 --> 01:29:33,173
- in the United States.
- 1722
- 01:29:33,239 --> 01:29:35,576
- We can see where these
- people are on the map.
- 1723
- 01:29:35,642 --> 01:29:38,812
- ? They were able to take
- that to micro segment.
- 1724
- 01:29:38,879 --> 01:29:41,915
- You belong to a group
- of 12 like?minded people
- 1725
- 01:29:41,982 --> 01:29:43,950
- exactly like you
- who are interested
- 1726
- 01:29:44,017 --> 01:29:46,119
- in the same things
- around the country.
- 1727
- 01:29:46,186 --> 01:29:48,689
- ? These are people who
- are definitely going
- 1728
- 01:29:48,755 --> 01:29:51,224
- to vote but they need
- moving from the center
- 1729
- 01:29:51,291 --> 01:29:53,026
- a little bit more
- towards the right.
- 1730
- 01:29:53,093 --> 01:29:55,028
- ? You're not supposed
- to go into Facebook
- 1731
- 01:29:55,095 --> 01:29:58,198
- and harvest that
- kind of information.
- 1732
- 01:29:58,264 --> 01:30:02,202
- Cambridge Analytica
- got its Facebook data
- 1733
- 01:30:02,268 --> 01:30:04,237
- in a sort of quasi?legal way.
- 1734
- 01:30:04,304 --> 01:30:06,873
- ? We can look at what
- issue they care about.
- 1735
- 01:30:06,940 --> 01:30:08,742
- Gun rights I've selected.
- 1736
- 01:30:08,809 --> 01:30:11,512
- That narrows the field
- slightly more and now we know
- 1737
- 01:30:11,578 --> 01:30:13,847
- that we need a
- message on gun rights.
- 1738
- 01:30:13,914 --> 01:30:15,849
- It needs to be a
- persuasion message
- 1739
- 01:30:15,916 --> 01:30:17,551
- and it needs to be nuanced
- 1740
- 01:30:17,618 --> 01:30:19,485
- according to the
- certain personality
- 1741
- 01:30:19,553 --> 01:30:20,787
- that we're interested in.
- 1742
- 01:30:20,854 --> 01:30:23,824
- ? They were very involved
- in the Brexit vote.
- 1743
- 01:30:25,291 --> 01:30:27,894
- ? We saw the Russian
- bot armies, the trolls,
- 1744
- 01:30:27,961 --> 01:30:30,697
- have a very pro Brexit message.
- 1745
- 01:30:30,764 --> 01:30:33,600
- ? There have been allegations
- that Cambridge Analytica
- 1746
- 01:30:33,667 --> 01:30:38,004
- supported it through a small
- office above a pizza shop,
- 1747
- 01:30:38,071 --> 01:30:41,908
- which is not exactly the
- kind of place you think
- 1748
- 01:30:41,975 --> 01:30:45,178
- would be the center for
- international intrigue
- 1749
- 01:30:45,245 --> 01:30:46,780
- unless it was just a cutout
- 1750
- 01:30:46,847 --> 01:30:49,850
- for somebody much more
- consequential behind it.
- 1751
- 01:30:51,151 --> 01:30:54,588
- ? [Craig] Cambridge
- Analytics is owned by SCL.
- 1752
- 01:30:54,655 --> 01:30:58,525
- ? A larger and much more
- sinister global election
- 1753
- 01:30:58,592 --> 01:31:03,029
- tampering operation using
- big data and technology.
- 1754
- 01:31:03,096 --> 01:31:05,966
- ? SCL is in turn owned
- by shell companies
- 1755
- 01:31:06,032 --> 01:31:08,835
- that you can trace
- back to Dmitry Firtash
- 1756
- 01:31:09,803 --> 01:31:12,038
- who again is tied to Mogilevich.
- 1757
- 01:31:15,809 --> 01:31:18,278
- That would complete
- the entire string
- 1758
- 01:31:18,344 --> 01:31:21,615
- and show crime boss
- and Mogilevich involved
- 1759
- 01:31:21,682 --> 01:31:24,951
- starting out with pure and
- simple money laundering in 1984
- 1760
- 01:31:25,018 --> 01:31:27,988
- with Trump properties going
- forward more than 32 years
- 1761
- 01:31:28,054 --> 01:31:31,692
- to the election in which
- this data mining firm
- 1762
- 01:31:31,758 --> 01:31:33,794
- Cambridge Analytica is
- playing a very, very big role
- 1763
- 01:31:33,860 --> 01:31:36,029
- in the Trump campaign
- and helping him win.
- 1764
- 01:31:43,670 --> 01:31:46,039
- ? Of the two candidates
- left in this election,
- 1765
- 01:31:46,106 --> 01:31:48,575
- one of them is using
- these technologies
- 1766
- 01:31:48,642 --> 01:31:50,310
- and it's gonna be very
- interesting to see
- 1767
- 01:31:50,376 --> 01:31:53,346
- how they impact the
- next several weeks.
- 1768
- 01:31:53,413 --> 01:31:54,681
- Thank you.
- 1769
- 01:31:54,748 --> 01:31:56,116
- ? [Nina] One of the big
- investors in Cambridge Analytica
- 1770
- 01:31:56,182 --> 01:31:57,851
- is Robert Mercer.
- 1771
- 01:32:02,889 --> 01:32:05,058
- He's a hedge fund billionaire.
- 1772
- 01:32:32,352 --> 01:32:35,922
- ? Cyber scientists on the
- outside noticed this server
- 1773
- 01:32:35,989 --> 01:32:38,258
- that was configured
- in a very unusual way
- 1774
- 01:32:38,324 --> 01:32:42,696
- that was a direct link
- essentially from a Russian bank,
- 1775
- 01:32:42,763 --> 01:32:45,165
- Alfa bank, and Trump Tower.
- 1776
- 01:32:48,101 --> 01:32:50,771
- ? [Man] That would
- obviously explain
- 1777
- 01:32:50,837 --> 01:32:53,006
- a major path of communications.
- 1778
- 01:32:53,073 --> 01:32:54,240
- ? Trump Tower.
- 1779
- 01:32:54,307 --> 01:32:56,943
- They seemed to have
- premonitions of things
- 1780
- 01:32:57,010 --> 01:32:59,012
- that were gonna happen
- that in fact did happen.
- 1781
- 01:32:59,079 --> 01:33:01,682
- Roger Stone in August
- saying it would be my turn
- 1782
- 01:33:01,748 --> 01:33:03,917
- at the barrel while
- he simultaneously
- 1783
- 01:33:03,984 --> 01:33:06,119
- involved with Wikileaks.
- 1784
- 01:33:06,186 --> 01:33:11,024
- ? I actually have
- communicated with Assange.
- 1785
- 01:33:11,091 --> 01:33:13,026
- I believe the next
- crunch of documents
- 1786
- 01:33:13,093 --> 01:33:16,129
- pertain to the
- Clinton Foundation
- 1787
- 01:33:16,196 --> 01:33:19,666
- but there's no telling what
- the October surprise may be.
- 1788
- 01:33:19,733 --> 01:33:23,737
- ? October 7, 2016, three
- major things happened.
- 1789
- 01:33:23,804 --> 01:33:24,971
- The Department of
- Homeland Security
- 1790
- 01:33:25,038 --> 01:33:27,107
- and the Director of
- National Intelligence
- 1791
- 01:33:27,173 --> 01:33:30,076
- made a public statement and
- said the government hacking
- 1792
- 01:33:30,143 --> 01:33:32,045
- during the 2016
- election was none other
- 1793
- 01:33:32,112 --> 01:33:34,848
- than the Russian Federation
- and that this decision
- 1794
- 01:33:34,915 --> 01:33:38,184
- could have only been
- made by Vladimir Putin.
- 1795
- 01:33:38,251 --> 01:33:41,655
- On the same day the Access
- Hollywood tapes were revealed.
- 1796
- 01:33:47,393 --> 01:33:48,061
- Those two things.
- 1797
- 01:33:48,128 --> 01:33:49,195
- A third thing happened.
- 1798
- 01:33:49,262 --> 01:33:51,632
- John Podesta's
- emails were released.
- 1799
- 01:33:53,033 --> 01:33:55,235
- ? Wikileaks posted more
- than 2,000 additional emails
- 1800
- 01:33:55,301 --> 01:33:58,371
- from Hillary Clinton's
- campaign chair, John Podesta.
- 1801
- 01:33:58,438 --> 01:33:59,840
- ? I never heard from the FBI
- 1802
- 01:33:59,906 --> 01:34:02,275
- until two days after my emails
- started getting released.
- 1803
- 01:34:02,342 --> 01:34:03,910
- They said you may
- not be aware of this
- 1804
- 01:34:03,977 --> 01:34:05,078
- but your emails
- have been hacked.
- 1805
- 01:34:05,145 --> 01:34:07,247
- I said, yes, I've been
- watching it for 48 hours
- 1806
- 01:34:07,313 --> 01:34:11,451
- on every cable story,
- you know, in the country.
- 1807
- 01:34:11,518 --> 01:34:14,054
- That was actually the last
- time I talked to the FBI.
- 1808
- 01:34:14,120 --> 01:34:16,723
- ? There was a lot more
- that was coming out
- 1809
- 01:34:16,790 --> 01:34:19,826
- that we were aware of that
- we couldn't get the press
- 1810
- 01:34:19,893 --> 01:34:21,394
- to pay any attention to.
- 1811
- 01:34:21,461 --> 01:34:24,430
- I tried in my speeches
- and then culminating
- 1812
- 01:34:24,497 --> 01:34:25,899
- in the third debate.
- 1813
- 01:34:25,966 --> 01:34:28,902
- ? Look, from everything I see
- 1814
- 01:34:28,969 --> 01:34:32,472
- has no respect for this person.
- 1815
- 01:34:32,539 --> 01:34:33,674
- ? Well, that's
- because he'd rather
- 1816
- 01:34:33,740 --> 01:34:36,209
- have a puppet as president.
- ? No puppet.
- 1817
- 01:34:36,276 --> 01:34:37,377
- No puppet.
- 1818
- 01:34:37,443 --> 01:34:38,111
- ? United States and
- it's pretty clear.
- 1819
- 01:34:38,178 --> 01:34:39,279
- ? You're the puppet.
- 1820
- 01:34:39,345 --> 01:34:40,113
- ? It's pretty clear
- you won't admit??
- 1821
- 01:34:40,180 --> 01:34:41,982
- ? [Donald] No you won't??
- 1822
- 01:34:42,048 --> 01:34:43,416
- ?
- That the Russians have engaged
- 1823
- 01:34:43,483 --> 01:34:44,785
- in cyber?attacks against the
- United States of America.
- 1824
- 01:34:44,851 --> 01:34:50,423
- That you encouraged
- espionage against our people.
- 1825
- 01:34:51,592 --> 01:34:54,194
- That you are willing to
- spout the Putin line,
- 1826
- 01:34:54,260 --> 01:34:57,297
- sign up for his wish
- list, break up NATO,
- 1827
- 01:34:57,363 --> 01:34:59,533
- do whatever he wants to do.
- 1828
- 01:34:59,600 --> 01:35:02,202
- ? We went into election
- day believing that we had
- 1829
- 01:35:02,268 --> 01:35:05,038
- a lead in the popular vote
- which proved to be true.
- 1830
- 01:35:06,272 --> 01:35:08,041
- Michigan, Wisconsin
- and Pennsylvania,
- 1831
- 01:35:08,108 --> 01:35:10,143
- we felt like we had a
- lead in all those states
- 1832
- 01:35:10,210 --> 01:35:12,078
- and that proved to be not true
- 1833
- 01:35:12,145 --> 01:35:15,215
- so he won by a combined
- total in those three states
- 1834
- 01:35:15,281 --> 01:35:17,283
- of 70,000 votes and
- gave him the presidency.
- 1835
- 01:35:26,326 --> 01:35:27,928
- ? Sorry to keep you waiting.
- 1836
- 01:35:27,994 --> 01:35:29,730
- Complicated business.
- 1837
- 01:35:49,115 --> 01:35:50,250
- ? During the transition,
- 1838
- 01:35:50,316 --> 01:35:54,287
- Jared Kushner met with a
- sanctioned Russian bank.
- 1839
- 01:35:54,354 --> 01:35:55,455
- ? Gorkov, the head of that bank,
- 1840
- 01:35:55,522 --> 01:35:57,991
- got his training not in
- the banker's academy.
- 1841
- 01:35:58,058 --> 01:36:00,126
- He's a trained KGB agent.
- 1842
- 01:36:01,427 --> 01:36:03,263
- And its offices all
- around the world
- 1843
- 01:36:03,329 --> 01:36:05,932
- are always understood
- to be providing cover
- 1844
- 01:36:05,999 --> 01:36:07,934
- for Russian
- intelligence operations.
- 1845
- 01:36:08,001 --> 01:36:10,370
- ? What did you really speak
- to Jared Kushner about
- 1846
- 01:36:10,436 --> 01:36:13,073
- in New York when you
- met him in December?
- akumenang.com
- 1847
- 01:36:13,139 --> 01:36:15,408
- ? [Reporter] The Russian bank
- said they talked business.
- 1848
- 01:36:15,475 --> 01:36:19,279
- White House says they talked
- future U. S./Russia relations.
- 1849
- 01:36:19,345 --> 01:36:21,381
- ? If he was doing this
- for business purposes
- 1850
- 01:36:21,447 --> 01:36:23,049
- it would be a
- violation of the law.
- 1851
- 01:36:23,116 --> 01:36:25,285
- If he was doing this
- for political purposes
- 1852
- 01:36:25,351 --> 01:36:27,120
- there are serious
- questions about whether he
- 1853
- 01:36:27,187 --> 01:36:29,389
- or anyone on the campaign
- were working with Russians
- 1854
- 01:36:29,455 --> 01:36:31,124
- during the
- interference campaign.
- 1855
- 01:36:31,191 --> 01:36:33,293
- ? The crown jewel for
- any intelligence agency
- 1856
- 01:36:33,359 --> 01:36:36,396
- is to recruit an asset inside
- 1857
- 01:36:36,462 --> 01:36:38,364
- your adversary's
- intelligence agency
- 1858
- 01:36:40,333 --> 01:36:42,368
- because that person
- can of course report
- 1859
- 01:36:42,435 --> 01:36:45,539
- on intelligence operations
- against your own country.
- 1860
- 01:36:45,606 --> 01:36:48,241
- ? For Donald Trump
- to put Michael Flynn
- 1861
- 01:36:48,308 --> 01:36:50,243
- in the role of National
- Security Advisor
- 1862
- 01:36:50,310 --> 01:36:53,647
- shows that they were
- extremely incompetent
- 1863
- 01:36:53,714 --> 01:36:56,482
- in their vetting of an
- individual who was working
- 1864
- 01:36:56,550 --> 01:36:59,886
- as an unregistered foreign
- agent on behalf of Turkey.
- 1865
- 01:36:59,953 --> 01:37:03,189
- Who had extensive ties to a
- foreign adversary in Russia
- 1866
- 01:37:03,256 --> 01:37:06,426
- and wasn't disclosing
- those ties or that was one
- 1867
- 01:37:06,492 --> 01:37:10,330
- of his highest qualifications
- and Donald Trump liked that.
- 1868
- 01:37:10,396 --> 01:37:15,201
- ? I was invited to take my
- old job as CIA director back.
- 1869
- 01:37:15,268 --> 01:37:17,938
- And I learned that I
- would have had to report
- 1870
- 01:37:18,004 --> 01:37:20,273
- to the president
- through Mike Flynn.
- 1871
- 01:37:20,340 --> 01:37:22,509
- They pressed me to go
- to a particular meeting
- 1872
- 01:37:22,576 --> 01:37:25,145
- where there were
- several Turks present
- 1873
- 01:37:25,211 --> 01:37:27,581
- and it was clear they
- were thinking seriously
- 1874
- 01:37:27,648 --> 01:37:31,317
- about taking him into custody
- Gulan in Western Pennsylvania
- 1875
- 01:37:31,384 --> 01:37:33,987
- which would have been completely
- illegal under American law.
- 1876
- 01:37:34,054 --> 01:37:36,022
- I told them that and left.
- 1877
- 01:37:38,424 --> 01:37:41,427
- I decided I did not want
- to report through Mike
- 1878
- 01:37:41,494 --> 01:37:44,531
- and so I turned down the offer.
- 1879
- 01:37:44,598 --> 01:37:45,699
- ? President?elect Donald Trump
- 1880
- 01:37:45,766 --> 01:37:48,134
- sent out an email
- announcing his pick
- 1881
- 01:37:48,201 --> 01:37:49,369
- for Secretary of State.
- 1882
- 01:37:49,435 --> 01:37:52,372
- Exxon Mobil chairman
- and CEO Rex Tillerson,
- 1883
- 01:37:52,438 --> 01:37:55,609
- despite concerns over
- his close ties to Russia.
- 1884
- 01:37:56,777 --> 01:37:58,378
- ? I mean, this is
- a guy who was given
- 1885
- 01:37:58,444 --> 01:38:01,381
- a friendship award
- by Vladimir Putin.
- 1886
- 01:38:01,447 --> 01:38:03,449
- ? I have a very close
- relationship with him
- 1887
- 01:38:03,517 --> 01:38:06,319
- which dates back
- almost 15 years now.
- 1888
- 01:38:06,386 --> 01:38:09,489
- ? I believe that Rex Tillerson
- was chosen by Donald Trump
- 1889
- 01:38:09,556 --> 01:38:11,525
- for primarily one reason.
- 1890
- 01:38:11,592 --> 01:38:16,029
- He would not stand in
- the way of Donald Trump's
- 1891
- 01:38:16,096 --> 01:38:19,700
- prevailing policy
- interests which is to align
- 1892
- 01:38:19,766 --> 01:38:23,570
- the United States with
- Vladimir Putin's regime.
- 1893
- 01:38:23,637 --> 01:38:26,372
- And I think that's
- exactly what he's done.
- 1894
- 01:38:26,439 --> 01:38:27,908
- He's facilitated it.
- 1895
- 01:38:29,409 --> 01:38:32,045
- ? Putin and Rex Tillerson had
- been trying to put together
- 1896
- 01:38:32,112 --> 01:38:36,449
- a 500 billion dollar
- Arctic Exploration deal.
- 1897
- 01:38:36,517 --> 01:38:39,085
- ? Exxon Mobil has won a
- highly coveted contract
- 1898
- 01:38:39,152 --> 01:38:40,353
- with Russia's Rozneft.
- 1899
- 01:38:40,420 --> 01:38:43,089
- ? You know, my philosophy
- is to make money.
- 1900
- 01:38:43,156 --> 01:38:46,727
- And so if I can
- drill and make money
- 1901
- 01:38:46,793 --> 01:38:48,595
- then that's what I want to do.
- 1902
- 01:38:51,397 --> 01:38:54,100
- ? But it had been put on hold
- by the Obama Administration
- 1903
- 01:38:54,167 --> 01:38:55,669
- when the sanctions were imposed.
- 1904
- 01:38:57,470 --> 01:38:59,505
- ? One of the fascinating
- things in that dossier,
- 1905
- 01:38:59,573 --> 01:39:01,374
- Steele sources told
- him that Rozneft,
- 1906
- 01:39:01,441 --> 01:39:03,443
- big Russian oil company
- owned by the state,
- 1907
- 01:39:03,510 --> 01:39:06,146
- that 19% of it was
- gonna be sold off.
- 1908
- 01:39:06,212 --> 01:39:08,381
- And that there'd be money for
- people who were able to get.
- 1909
- 01:39:08,448 --> 01:39:09,650
- U.S. sanctions removed.
- 1910
- 01:39:14,588 --> 01:39:19,593
- Well, sure enough in December
- that percentage of Rozneft
- 1911
- 01:39:20,827 --> 01:39:23,597
- was sold off in a method by
- which involved Shell companies
- 1912
- 01:39:23,664 --> 01:39:26,099
- in the Grand Caymans
- which are nontransparent
- 1913
- 01:39:26,166 --> 01:39:27,601
- so which you can't penetrate.
- 1914
- 01:39:29,302 --> 01:39:31,738
- ? Only someone in
- the highest echelons
- 1915
- 01:39:31,805 --> 01:39:34,641
- of Rozneft would have
- access to that information.
- 1916
- 01:39:38,612 --> 01:39:41,381
- ? And obviously somebody
- talking to Chris Steele
- 1917
- 01:39:41,447 --> 01:39:45,118
- knew a lot about it many
- months before it happened.
- 1918
- 01:39:49,355 --> 01:39:51,457
- ? The Russian hand in
- these influence efforts,
- 1919
- 01:39:51,525 --> 01:39:52,593
- ultimately they'll
- try and hide it
- 1920
- 01:39:52,659 --> 01:39:54,327
- and they do it with two methods,
- 1921
- 01:39:54,394 --> 01:39:57,097
- putting them in jail
- or killing people off.
- 1922
- 01:39:57,163 --> 01:39:59,566
- (gun firing)
- 1923
- 01:39:59,633 --> 01:40:02,102
- ? Arrests in which
- people were dragged out
- 1924
- 01:40:02,168 --> 01:40:04,470
- had black bags put
- over their heads.
- 1925
- 01:40:04,538 --> 01:40:06,306
- Charged for treason.
- 1926
- 01:40:06,372 --> 01:40:09,442
- These people may have
- been Chris Steele sources
- 1927
- 01:40:09,510 --> 01:40:12,579
- or Russian intelligence may
- have suspected that they were.
- 1928
- 01:40:14,147 --> 01:40:16,783
- The day after Christmas,
- General Oleg Erovenkin,
- 1929
- 01:40:16,850 --> 01:40:21,321
- who was the Chief of Staff
- of Rozneft was assassinated
- 1930
- 01:40:21,387 --> 01:40:24,424
- in the back of a car in
- the center of Moscow.
- 1931
- 01:40:24,490 --> 01:40:27,193
- ? [Clint] The head of RT
- English mysterious death
- 1932
- 01:40:27,260 --> 01:40:28,494
- in Washington, D. C.
- 1933
- 01:40:29,863 --> 01:40:31,865
- A Russian diplomat stationed
- here in New York City
- 1934
- 01:40:31,932 --> 01:40:34,200
- had actually died
- on election day.
- 1935
- 01:40:35,869 --> 01:40:38,572
- ? You've got obvious interests
- on the part of the Russians.
- 1936
- 01:40:38,639 --> 01:40:40,607
- And of course on the
- other side of the equation
- 1937
- 01:40:40,674 --> 01:40:42,609
- you have all of these
- contacts going back to Russia,
- 1938
- 01:40:42,676 --> 01:40:44,778
- whether it's Roger Stone,
- whether it's Flynn.
- 1939
- 01:40:44,845 --> 01:40:45,879
- Whether it's any of these folks,
- 1940
- 01:40:45,946 --> 01:40:48,181
- there is simply
- way too much smoke
- 1941
- 01:40:48,248 --> 01:40:50,551
- for there to be absolutely
- no fire whatsoever.
- 1942
- 01:40:50,617 --> 01:40:53,554
- (light intense music)
- 1943
- 01:41:06,833 --> 01:41:11,271
- ? That I forget how many
- tentacles this has. (laughs)
- 1944
- 01:41:11,337 --> 01:41:15,576
- It's just sort of anyone of
- these is a massive story.
- 1945
- 01:41:23,517 --> 01:41:26,452
- It's unrealistic to think it's
- limited to what we know now.
- 1946
- 01:41:26,520 --> 01:41:29,556
- Rather than look at this as
- one isolated money laundering
- 1947
- 01:41:29,623 --> 01:41:33,493
- after another or one criminal
- appearing after another.
- 1948
- 01:41:33,560 --> 01:41:34,661
- I think it's much more than that
- 1949
- 01:41:34,728 --> 01:41:37,330
- and what you have is probably
- 1950
- 01:41:37,397 --> 01:41:40,734
- the biggest intelligence breach
- in the history of the world.
- 1951
- 01:41:40,801 --> 01:41:44,404
- ? So to be clear Mr. Trump
- has no financial relationships
- 1952
- 01:41:44,470 --> 01:41:46,239
- with any Russian oligarchs?
- 1953
- 01:41:46,306 --> 01:41:47,273
- ? That that's what he said.
- 1954
- 01:41:47,340 --> 01:41:48,008
- I didn't.
- 1955
- 01:41:48,074 --> 01:41:49,175
- That's what I said.
- 1956
- 01:41:49,242 --> 01:41:51,144
- That's obviously
- what our position is.
- 1957
- 01:42:06,660 --> 01:42:07,928
- ? Do you solemnly swear.
- 1958
- 01:42:07,994 --> 01:42:11,698
- ? The office of President
- of the United States.
- 1959
- 01:42:11,765 --> 01:42:14,801
- (intense somber music)
- 1960
- 01:42:38,892 --> 01:42:43,897
- ? The president is, I believe,
- a puppet of Vladimir Putin.
- 1961
- 01:42:45,566 --> 01:42:48,869
- That is the mere challenge
- that we face as Americans.
- 1962
- 01:42:50,036 --> 01:42:53,607
- ? He has tried to
- deliver for Russia.
- 1963
- 01:42:53,674 --> 01:42:56,710
- He wanted to take off
- sanctions immediately.
- 1964
- 01:42:56,777 --> 01:42:59,680
- ? I was in the administration
- for the first five weeks
- 1965
- 01:42:59,746 --> 01:43:01,748
- of Trump where,
- among other things,
- 1966
- 01:43:01,815 --> 01:43:03,984
- I was responsible for
- the Russia sanctions.
- 1967
- 01:43:04,050 --> 01:43:06,553
- And I'm one of the
- people who was worried
- 1968
- 01:43:06,620 --> 01:43:08,789
- that the Trump
- Administration would suddenly
- 1969
- 01:43:08,855 --> 01:43:10,323
- lift the sanctions unilaterally.
- 1970
- 01:43:10,390 --> 01:43:11,792
- And I stand by it now.
- 1971
- 01:43:15,095 --> 01:43:16,697
- ? You don't have to
- have been a lawyer.
- 1972
- 01:43:16,763 --> 01:43:18,164
- You don't have to have
- been in a cover?up
- 1973
- 01:43:18,231 --> 01:43:21,802
- to see when somebody is acting
- like they're covering up.
- 1974
- 01:43:21,868 --> 01:43:24,771
- This man is clearly
- inconspicuously doing so.
- 1975
- 01:43:28,775 --> 01:43:32,378
- ? I don't know how a president
- can handle this situation
- 1976
- 01:43:32,445 --> 01:43:34,280
- worse than President
- Trump is now.
- 1977
- 01:43:35,616 --> 01:43:37,551
- His actions at the G20,
- 1978
- 01:43:37,618 --> 01:43:40,721
- his talk of maybe getting
- a cyber partnership.
- 1979
- 01:43:43,890 --> 01:43:46,760
- You don't go to somebody who
- just punched you in the face
- 1980
- 01:43:46,827 --> 01:43:48,328
- and then offer them a favor.
- 1981
- 01:43:54,801 --> 01:43:56,102
- ? Trump has to have
- known he was compromised.
- 1982
- 01:43:56,169 --> 01:43:58,739
- He's got to know the eyes
- of the world are on him.
- 1983
- 01:43:58,805 --> 01:44:01,842
- And suddenly all these forces
- will be out to expose him.
- 1984
- 01:44:01,908 --> 01:44:04,778
- I cannot imagine living with
- that every day, you know.
- 1985
- 01:44:08,381 --> 01:44:12,418
- ? The Trump campaign's
- biggest potential exposure
- 1986
- 01:44:12,485 --> 01:44:14,755
- is gonna be in their
- financial dealings.
- 1987
- 01:44:14,821 --> 01:44:17,924
- It's very hard to
- cover up money trails.
- 1988
- 01:44:19,660 --> 01:44:22,929
- The other one is
- obstruction of justice.
- 1989
- 01:44:22,996 --> 01:44:25,532
- ? Collusion is a media shorthand
- 1990
- 01:44:25,599 --> 01:44:27,934
- for could be aiding
- and abetting.
- 1991
- 01:44:28,001 --> 01:44:29,235
- Conspiracy.
- 1992
- 01:44:29,302 --> 01:44:32,773
- It could be aid and
- comfort which is treason.
- 1993
- 01:44:34,808 --> 01:44:38,812
- ? The Russia story is
- a total fabrication.
- 1994
- 01:44:38,879 --> 01:44:41,748
- What the prosecutors
- should be looking at
- 1995
- 01:44:41,815 --> 01:44:45,586
- are Hillary Clinton's
- 33,000 deleted emails.
- 1996
- 01:44:49,455 --> 01:44:50,456
- ? Lock her up!
- 1997
- 01:44:50,524 --> 01:44:51,858
- Lock her up!
- 1998
- 01:44:51,925 --> 01:44:53,026
- Lock her up!
- 1999
- 01:44:53,093 --> 01:44:54,595
- Lock her up!
- 2000
- 01:44:54,661 --> 01:44:57,330
- (crowd yelling)
- 2001
- 01:44:59,733 --> 01:45:00,734
- Lock her up!
- 2002
- 01:45:00,801 --> 01:45:02,068
- Lock her up!
- 2003
- 01:45:02,135 --> 01:45:03,704
- Lock her up!
- 2004
- 01:45:03,770 --> 01:45:04,871
- Lock her up!
- 2005
- 01:45:04,938 --> 01:45:06,472
- Lock her up!
- 2006
- 01:45:06,540 --> 01:45:07,541
- Lock her up!
- 2007
- 01:45:10,644 --> 01:45:12,012
- ? It is ongoing.
- 2008
- 01:45:12,078 --> 01:45:16,116
- The Russians efforts here
- are continuing as we speak.
- 2009
- 01:45:16,182 --> 01:45:17,684
- ? We've done zero.
- 2010
- 01:45:17,751 --> 01:45:20,821
- Absolutely nothing to protect us
- 2011
- 01:45:20,887 --> 01:45:24,525
- from a future cyber?attack
- with respect to any election.
- 2012
- 01:45:24,591 --> 01:45:25,358
- Zero.
- 2013
- 01:45:25,425 --> 01:45:26,727
- We haven't done anything.
- 2014
- 01:45:26,793 --> 01:45:28,929
- ? As long as people can
- do things without penalty
- 2015
- 01:45:28,995 --> 01:45:31,732
- they're going to
- continue to do them.
- 2016
- 01:45:31,798 --> 01:45:33,634
- ? We all have a stake
- because it may have been
- 2017
- 01:45:33,700 --> 01:45:35,101
- the Democrats and me this time.
- 2018
- 01:45:35,168 --> 01:45:38,071
- It can be the Republicans and
- their candidate next time.
- 2019
- 01:45:38,138 --> 01:45:40,440
- ? Every single national security
- official we've talked to
- 2020
- 01:45:40,507 --> 01:45:42,576
- has said they're coming back.
- 2021
- 01:45:42,643 --> 01:45:43,744
- We have to be ready for that.
- 2022
- 01:45:43,810 --> 01:45:45,646
- ? And if the people
- don't demand that.
- 2023
- 01:45:45,712 --> 01:45:47,881
- If they don't demand
- that our sovereignty
- 2024
- 01:45:47,948 --> 01:45:51,117
- needs to be defended, our
- representatives in Congress
- 2025
- 01:45:51,184 --> 01:45:53,820
- are gonna kind of look
- the other way and move on.
- 2026
- 01:45:53,887 --> 01:45:56,890
- ? What's at stake is truth.
- 2027
- 01:45:56,957 --> 01:46:01,828
- What's at stake is government
- that's accountable to us.
- 2028
- 01:46:01,895 --> 01:46:03,930
- And the cause of liberty
- 2029
- 01:46:03,997 --> 01:46:07,968
- at the most profound
- level possible.
- 2030
- 01:46:08,034 --> 01:46:10,203
- ? We owe it to the people
- who have fought for
- 2031
- 01:46:10,270 --> 01:46:12,639
- and sacrificed
- for this democracy
- 2032
- 01:46:12,706 --> 01:46:14,875
- and to be guardians
- of it and make sure
- 2033
- 01:46:14,941 --> 01:46:17,443
- that we always have
- free and fair elections.
- 2034
- 01:46:17,511 --> 01:46:19,980
- (ominous music)
- akumenang.com
- 2035
- 01:46:24,751 --> 01:46:28,021
- (upbeat electro music)
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