BACK IN 2009, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA WANTED TO ENSURE THAT
PEOPLE COMING INTO OFFICE WOULD HAVE NOT SO COZY TIES WITH
COMPANIES THAT THEY PREVIOUSLY WORKED FOR.
HE WANTED INCOMING OFFICIALS TO SIGN A PLEDGE THAT WOULD ENSURE
THAT IF THERE WAS A COMPANY OR CORPORATION THAT THEY WORKED
FOR, THERE WOULD HAVE TO BE AT LEAST A TWO YEAR TIME SPAN
BETWEEN WHEN THEY WENT FOR THE COMPANY AND WHEN THEY CAME INTO
OFFICE IN ORDER TO SEVER UNDERSTANDABLE TIES SO
THERE ISN'T AS MUCH CORRUPTION.
DONALD TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION HAVE DECIDED
THEY HAVE NO INTEREST IN SIGNING THAT PLEDGE AND THAT
DOESN'T SURPRISE ME WHATSOEVER.
THAT IS A PROBLEM CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE SOMEONE
LIKE REX TILLOTSON WHO WAS THE CEO OF EXXON, APPARENTLY
THEY GAVE HIM $180 MILLION IN HIS RETIREMENT PACKAGE AND
SO YEAH, COZY TIES TO A HUGE CORPORATION.
IS THERE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST ISSUE THERE?
IS THEIR PROBLEM WITH CORRUPTION THERE?
ABSOLUTELY.
THERE ARE OTHER CASES AS WELL BUT I WANT YOU TO JUMP IN,
CENK.
OBAMA, TO HIS CREDIT, BUT AS USUAL, HE DIDN'T TAKE CREDIT FOR
THIS, MADE PEOPLE TIME SIGN A TWO-YEAR PLEDGE.
IT WAS AN
EXECUTIVE ORDER WHERE THEY COULD NOT WORK ON THINGS RELATED NOT
JUST TO THEIR PREVIOUS FIRMS, AND TO ALSO ANY OF THEIR
PREVIOUS CLIENTS THAT THEY SERVE IN THOSE FIRMS.
THAT IS A PRETTY GOOD PLEDGE.
I BLAME OBAMA FOR NOT GOING TO THE HEART OF THE ISSUE AND
TRYING TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS, BUT THIS WAS AMONG THE
SMALL CHANGES THAT HE DID.
THAT SMALL CHANGE WAS POSITIVE DIMES GOING IN THE RIGHT
DIRECTION.
TRUMP OF COURSE HEADED IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.
BY LAW, THEY HAD TO AT LEAST HAVE A ONE-YEAR PLEDGE.
OBAMA'S EXECUTIVE ORDER WAS TWO YEARS.
AND YOUR CLIENTS AS WELL, BY LAW.
YOUR OWN BUSINESS AND FOR ONE YEAR.
NOW WILBUR ROSS SIGNED THE ONE-YEAR PLEDGE AND RICK PERRY
HAS, AT LEAST THEY ARE ABIDING BY THE BARE MINIMUM.
BUT THEN THERE ARE OTHERS.
THEY COULD DO THE TWO YEARS, THEY COULD TO THE EXECUTIVE
ORDER THAT IS STILL IN EFFECT BY THE WAY, TRUMP IS NOT
REPEALED IT.
HE HAS TO REPEAL IT IN ORDER FOR THEM TO ACTUALLY GET AWAY
WITH DOING ONLY ONE YEAR.
REX TILLERSON, THEY GAVE HIM $180 MILLION BEFORE HE LEFT.
YOU THINK THAT BUYS SOME LOYALTY?
YOU THINK AS SOON, FIRST OF ALL HE IS NOT EVEN GOING TO WAIT FOR
A YEAR, HE IS GOING TO TELL HIS UNDERLING, I HAVE NOTHING TO DO
WITH THIS, BUT BOY I THINK WE SHOULD LIFT THOSE
SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA THAT COSTS EXXON A HALF $1 TRILLION DEAL
BUT EVEN IF YOU WERE NOT TO DO THAT.
IF HE WANTED TO FOLLOW THE
LAW, THE FIRST DAY AFTER THAT RUNS OUT, HE WILL BE LIKE,
OKAY WE'RE LIFTING THE SANCTIONS.
THEY WILL DO ALL OF THAT REGARDLESS BUT THEN YOU LOOK AT
GARY COHEN WHO WAS WITH GOLDMAN SACHS.
THEY GAVE HIM HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS ON HIS WAY OUT.
CHENEY GOT 100 MILLION DOLLARS FROM HALLIBURTON IN HIS WAY
OUT.
HALLIBURTON GOT NEW BIG CONTRACTS FROM THE GUYS WHO
CLAIM THEYíRE FOR THE FREE MARKET SYSTEM.
THAT IS A NICE LITTLE THANK YOU AND THEY MADE BILLIONS OFF
OF IT.
THAT $34
MILLION TO CHENEY WAS POCKET CHANGE.
IT WAS MONEY WELL SPENT.
EXXON MOBIL HAS A $500
BILLION DEAL IN PLACE WITH RUSSIA THAT IS GOING TO GO
AS SOON AS TILLERSON LIFTS THOSE SANCTIONS.
180 MILLION DOLLARS TO TILLERSON, WELL WORTH IT.
GOLDMAN SACHS IS GOING TO MAKE BILLIONS.
HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR EXIT PACKAGE, WELL WORTH IT.
LOOK, TRUMP HAS ALWAYS BEEN ON THE RECORD TALKING ABOUT
THE SANCTIONS THAT RUSSIA IS DEALING WITH NOT BECAUSE OF
WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS PAST ELECTION.
THE SANCTIONS RELATED TO THE ANNEXATION OF CRIMEA.
TRUMP WAS TALKING ABOUT THAT AND TALKING ABOUT HOW RUSSIA
WAS SUFFERING.
WE HAVE TO LIFT THE SANCTIONS.KEEP
THAT IN MIND.
ONE MORE PART OF THIS THAT IS IMPORTANT.
THIS REFERS TO GENERAL JAMES MADISON WHOíS GOING TO BE THE
DEFENSE SECRETARY.
HE WAS A BOARD MEMBER OF GENERAL DYNAMICS AND THIS IS THE
REVOLVING DOOR THAT I WAS TELLING YOU ABOUT THAT
LEADS US INTO MORE WARS.
YOU RISE UP THE RANKS OF THE MILITARY, YOU BECOME A
GENERAL AND THEN YOU RETIRE AND THEN THE DEFENSE
CONTRACTORS HIRE ALL THE TOP GENERALS.
THEY HIRE ALMOST ALL OF THEM.
YOU KNOW HOW MUCH YOU GET FOR BEING A BOARD MEMBER?
THAT IS NOT SOMEONE WHO RUNS THE COMPANY.
IT IS A PERSON
WHO OVERSEES THE CEO AND THEY HAVE USUALLY QUARTERLY MEETINGS.
YOU MIGHT PREPARE A LITTLE BIT FOR THOSE FOUR MEETINGS A YEAR.
$1 MILLION.
YOU THINK EVERY GUY RISING UP THE RANKS, I AM NOT TALKING
ABOUT THE AVERAGE GUY IN THE MILITARY.
THE AVERAGE GUYíS JUST DOING WHAT HE IS TOLD AND SACRIFICING
A LOT.
BUT WHEN YOU GET IN THE UPPER RANKS, YOU THINK THOSE
GENERALS ARE NOT THINKING ABOUT THE PAYCHECK THEY'RE GOING
TO GET FROM THE DEFENSE CONTRACTORS?
LO AND BEHOLD, THOSE GENERALS KEEP RECOMMENDING THAT WE
USE THOSE DEFENSE CONTRACTORS AND BUY MORE AND MORE OF THEIR
EQUIPMENT AND START MORE AND MORE WARS.
AND THEN THE REVOLVING DOOR WORKS THIS WAY.
GENERAL TO DEFENSE CONTRACTOR MAKING $1 MILLION THEN BACK
INTO THE GOVERNMENT AS A DEFENSE SECRETARY, START MORE
WARS, THEN BACK INTO THE DEFENSE INDUSTRY AND MAKE
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS MORE AND BY THE WAY, EVEN IF YOU LEAVE,
A LOT OF THESE INDUSTRIES THEY GIVE YOU A GIANT EXIT PACKAGE
ON YOUR WAY TO THE GOVERNMENT TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
THIS IS HOW WE GET A MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND
THIS IS HOW WE GET SYSTEMATIC CORRUPTION.
THAT IS WHAT WE ARE LIVING IN TODAY.
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