Look How Much The Russians Gave To John Podesta's Company
parents in this election should be a hug most concern to all Americans
really well what about your connection to the Kremlin cash mr. Podesta joining
us right now from Tallahassee is Peter Schweitzer leads the author of Clinton
cash president of the Government Accountability Institute Peter good
morning to you good morning Steve so tell us about John Podesta and his
connection to a Kremlin back company well in in 2011 John Podesta joins the
board of this very small energy company called Joule energy based out of
Massachusetts about two months after he joins the board a Russian entity called
Bruce nano puts a billion rubles which is about thirty five million dollars
into John Podesta's company now what is ruse nano ruse now is not a private
company Steve it is a fund directly funded by the Kremlin in fact the
Russian science Minister called Luciano Putin's child so you have the Russian
government investing in one of John Podesta's business is in 2011 while he
is an advisor to Hillary Clinton at the State Department while he's an adviser
to Hillary Clinton okay does anybody in the Trump circle rise to the level where
there's this kind of money involved I know I haven't seen that yet nobody that
is you know has an advisory role in the White House has had this money exchange
and certainly the money hasn't exchanged as far as we know right while they have
been advising the president okay so all that big money when he was the adviser
to Hillary Clinton who was running for president he was all and also at the US
Department of State but also wasn't he a special counselor to Barack Obama when
he was president and did not disclose the fact that he had apparently it looks
like in his portfolio all this Russian money oh yeah I mean this is part of the
problem Steve so then in 2013 he goes to the White House to be
councillor to Barack Obama and that requires that you you know have
financial disclosures every year in his financial disclosure form in 2013 he not
only fails to disclose these 75,000 shares of stock he has in jewel energy
which is funded in part by the Russian government
he also fails to disclose that he is on one of the three corporate boards that
this entity has it's got this very complex ownership structure he discloses
he's on the company in Massachusetts that he's on the board of a company in
the Netherlands but he fails to disclose that he's also on the Executive Board of
the holding company that's a clear violation of the disclosure rules and I
think needs to be looked at sure you know what's interesting is there's such
a double standard members of the Trump team may have may have talked to some
Russians and you know we don't know the complete nature of that yet because the
investigation is still out we have talked to it is a lot different than
actually having money in the bank that's tied to the Kremlin yeah I mean look I
think the question is this during transitions you always have
conversations that take place and you want a hope that nobody has made
promises and there's no evidence that any promises have been made what makes
the Podesta clay case clear is there was a transfer of money and there was a
transfer of a lot of money that stood to make John Podesta a lot of money that is
unique and that's extremely troubling because it's the time that that transfer
is taking place he is advising Hillary Clinton at the State Department we know
that from the Podesta emails that he's helping her make personnel decisions
speech decisions policy decisions he's meeting with her monthly so it's a
transfer of money from a foreign government as a time that he is advising
America's chief diplomat Hillary Clinton and one of the chances of the big three
networks doing the story tonight Peter well I think I've said for a long is the
big one comes to Russia right we always want to make sure that this stuff is
vetted okay Peter's wiser thank you very much thank
you god bless you and God bless america
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