AFTER SEVEN STRAIGHT NIGHTS OF MASSIVE PROTESTS ACROSS
ROMANIA, THE PEOPLE APPEAR AT LEAST A PRESIDENT TO HAVE
ONE BUT THEY'RE NOT BACKING DOWN JUST YET.
IF YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR ABOUT THE STORY BECAUSE THIS
INTERNATIONAL NEWS REALLY DOES TALK ABOUT THE AMERICAN
MEDIA, THERE IS A MASSIVE CORRUPTION DEBATE GOING ON
INSIDE OF ROMANIA WITH THE GOVERNMENT TENDING TO
CHANGE THE RULES TO BENEFIT POLITICIANS A LARGE BY
INDIVIDUAL POLITICIANS INSIDE OF THEIR RULING APPLICABLE PARTIES.
THE COUNTRY'S RULING COALITION MADE AN EXECUTIVE ORDER
BACK ON JANUARY 31 TO DECRIMINALIZE ABUSE AND OFFICE
BY OFFICIALS, IS A SUMS INVOLVED WERE LESS THAN AROUND $48,500.
ORDERED WITHOUT ANY INPUT FROM PARLIAMENT, THE DECREE
WOULD'VE STOPPED ALL INVESTIGATIONS FOR PENDING
CORRUPTION OFFENSES, FREED OFFICIALS IN PRISON FOR
CORRUPTION, AND WHAT FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS RELATED TO
THOSE OFFENSES FROM BEING BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.
WHICH SEEMS LIKE KIND OF AN INDEFENSIBLE SET OF
POSITIONS TO TRY TO CRAM DOWN PEOPLE'S THERE'S ALL IT
ONE-STOP PERHAPS IS THE REASON THE LEGISLATURE WAS NOT
ASKED TO COMMENT ON IT THAT
JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF HOW WIDESPREAD THIS
CORRUPTION HAS BEEN OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, THERE WERE
MORE THAN 2000 PEOPLE CONVICTED BETWEEN 2014 AND 2016 ALONE.
OBVIOUSLY THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BENEFITING FROM SUCH CORRUPTION
WOULD LIKE TO GET THE LAW TO PROTECT THEM FOR THEIR
FUTURE BEHAVIOR AND THE ARGUMENT WAS LOOK, WE ARE PUTTING
TOO MANY PEOPLE IN PRISON AND OUR PRISONS ARE TOO FULL OF
CORRUPT INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE UNDERMINING OUR DEMOCRATIC
SYSTEM BUT NONETHELESS, LET'S CHANGE THE RULES TO THEIR
FAVOR SO WE GET THEM OUT OF PRESENT.
YOU SOME CRITICAL OF THIS MOVE BUT LET ME GIVE THEIR
EXPLANATION FOR IT.
THE COALITION GOVERNMENT ARGUED THAT THESE CHANGES WERE
NEEDED TO ALIGN SOME LAWS OF THE CONSTITUTION AND REDUCE
PRISON OVERCROWDING.
WHEN YOU THINK?
NOT BUYING IT.
THE ROMANIAN PEOPLE DIDN'T BUY EITHER.
I LOVE IT.
THE STORY OBVIOUSLY HAS A VERY POSITIVE COMPONENT TO IT
AND YOU ARE WATCHING IT RIGHT NOW WITH HUNDREDS OF
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE GOING TO THESE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
AND TELLING THEM NO, WE'RE NOT ABOUT TO HAVE IT.
THIS IS INSANE BY THE WAY.
LOOK AT HOW AMAZING THAT PROTESTERS.
SEAN SPICER TWEETED OUT THE VIDEO SAYING IT WAS TRUMP'S
INAUGURATION CROWD.
WHO WOULD'VE ACTUALLY BENEFITED FROM THIS MEASURE IF IT HAD
GONE THROUGH OR IF IT DOESN'T FACT GO THROUGH AFTER THIS
BRIEF STUMBLE?
AMONG THOSE WHO STOOD TO BENEFIT FROM THE DECREE AS
PRESIDENT OF THE PSD, THAT'S THE SHOWS SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC
PARTY OF ROMANIA LIVE YOU DRAG NAOMI CURRENTLY BROCK FROM
BECOMING PRIME MINISTER DUE TO CORRUPTION CHARGES HE IS
CURRENTLY FACING OVER DEFRAUDING THE STATE OF ABOUT $26,000
TO ORDER MY HAVE ALLOWED HIM TO STAND AS THE COUNTRY'S LEADER.
THAT PARTY'S LEADER RIGHT NOW SERVES A PURELY POLITICAL
NONELECTED FUNCTION BUT IS THIS A GONE THROUGH THEN
SUDDENLY THAT GUY MY GET TO JOIN THE GOVERNMENT.
THAT IS REASON ENOUGH TO REALLY TO DO IT THERE BUT WHAT I
LOVE IS, THE PROCESSOR GOING ON AND I'M GLAD THEY'RE STANDING
STRONG BUT THINK ABOUT THE SUMS OF MONEY BEING TOSSED AROUND IN
ROMANIA YOU COULD ACTUALLY LOSE A POLITICAL OFFICE OVER $26,000.
THEY KNOW THE BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION THAT GOES ON
HERE IN THE UNITED STATES KUESTER
THEY PROBABLY DO WHICH IS WHY THEY ARE SO PROTECTIVE OF
THEIR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT I IF YOU LOOK AT THE UNITED
STATES AND ROMANIA IS NINE AND DAVID COMES TO THIS ISSUE.
1ST OF ALL, YOU HAD A DISASTROUS SUPREME COURT RULING WAS
CITIZENS UNITED AND A LOT OF AMERICANS DIDN'T EVEN KNOW
ABOUT IT OR CARE TO KNOW ABOUT IT.
WHAT MAINSTREAM NEWS OUTLETS AND EVEN COVER IT.
THAT UNDERMINED OUR DEMOCRATIC PROCESS BECAUSE THAT ESSENTIALLY
ALLOWED CORPORATIONS TO HAVE A BIGGER VOICE IN OUR POLITICAL
SYSTEM THAN THE AVERAGE AMERICAN VOTER SO I THINK THAT
SHOULD BE A CAUTIONARY TALE FOR EVERY COUNTRY.
I DO KNOW FROM MANIA HAS LOOKED AT US AND THOUGHT NO, WE'RE NOT
ABOUT TO HAVE THAT, BUT REGARDLESS OF WHAT INFLUENCES
THEM TO BE AS POLITICALLY ACTIVE AS THEY ARE I LOVE IT.
THEY ARE RELENTLESS.
EVEN THOUGH THIS DECREE HAS BEEN
STRUCK DOWN, SO I AM STEPPING ON YOUR FEET.
IT IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM, THEY WANT MORE.
GO-AHEAD.
IN THE SAME WAY, I WILL TIE IT IN WITH APPLE WHICH YOU
MIGHT NOT HAVE EXPECTED.
THIS IS A GOOD NEWS.
AFTER SIX NIGHTS A PROTEST IN CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY
OF WHICH YOU SAW VIDEO OF JUST ONE, THE COALITION WHICH
ALL THE CONTROVERSY EXECUTIVE ORDER ON SUNDAY BUT THE NEW
ASCENDING ORDER RISK BEING REJECTED IN PARLIAMENT, HALO,
THEY GET TO BE INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS NOW, WITH THE RULING PSD
AND ITS JUNIOR COALITION PARTNER HAVE A STRONG MAJORITY THOUGHT
IT COULD STILL BE RE-REVERSED AFTER BEING REVERSED AND THAT
IS WHAT SCARES A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING THE PROTESTING.
EVEN WITH THIS, THE GOVERNMENT IS STILL PLANNING TO FREE AROUND
25,500 PRISONERS SERVING CITIZENS SENTENCES OF LESS THAN
FIVE YEARS THROUGH DIFFERENT TO CREATE THAT THOSE PROTESTERS
ARE SAYING WE ORIGINALLY STARTED BECAUSE OF THIS PARTICULAR
MEASURE BUT YOUR REACTION TO THE MEASURE, THE QUOTES OF
WHICH WE'RE GOING TO GET TO, HAS TOLD US THAT WE CAN'T TRUST YOU.
THESE ARE DIRECT QUOTES FROM ACTIVIST.
WE CAN TRUST THAT GOVERNMENT WE WANT YOU TO STEP DOWN.
WE'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE.
IT IS GOOD TO SEE A SORT OF GROWING OUTSIDE OF ITS
ORIGINAL BOUNCED OFF YOU ARE TRYING TO FIGHT AGAINST
CORRUPTION AND THIS IS JUST ONE FACET OF THIS CORRUPTION
THEN GETTING WOULD'VE THAT, THAT DOESN'T REALLY COMPASS ANYTHING.
WE KNOW HOW THIS WORKS.
YOU GET THEM TO TAKE BACK THAT THE KOREA, THE PROTESTERS
GO BACK HOME AND A COUPLE OF WEEKS LATER, MONTHS, GET
SLIPPED IN AND SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT LANGUAGE ARE
SPREAD ACROSS A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT DECREES ONCE
AGAIN BYPASSING THE PARLIAMENT ENOUGH OF THEIR SCARED OF.
AS I SAID WITH APPLE IS ALL THE SAME THING.
PEOPLE HAD BEEN PROTESTING FOR MONTHS OVER THE DAKOTA
ACCESS PIPELINE, IT SUSPENDED DURING THE LAST FEW MONTHS
OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S PRESIDENCY BUT VERY WISELY, THEY
DIDN'T GO HOME BECAUSE THEY KNEW THAT THE FIGHT WASN'T OVER.
DONALD TRUMP HAS REINVIGORATED IN AND THING FULLY, THOSE
PROTESTERS ARE STILL THERE.
IS A GREAT EXAMPLE AND I THINK THE BIGGEST THREAT TO
A DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM IS COMPLACENCY AND APATHY AND
THINK YOU DON'T SEE THAT HAPPENING IN ROMANIA BUT
JUST TO GIVE YOU ANOTHER EXAMPLE THAT IS KIND OF SIMILAR TO
DAPPLE, ONE OF THE BIGGEST ISSUES DURING OBAMA'S
ADMINISTRATION WAS NET NEUTRALITY AND ENSURING THAT WE
WOULD PROTECT NET NEUTRALITY SO INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS WHEN
SLOWDOWN THE SPEEDS OF VARIOUS WEBSITES THAT EITHER DIDN'T
HAVE THE RESOURCES FOR HIGHER SPEEDS OR MAYBE BRAND BUSINESSES
THAT DISAGREED WITH THOSE INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS.
WE WON THAT VICTORY WITH THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION BUT
FAST-FORWARD TO THE TRUMPET MINISTRATION AND THAT SAME NET
NEUTRALITY IS UNDER THREAT AGAIN.
WE HAVE TO KEEP FIGHTING, BUT YOU ARE RIGHT.
UNLESS YOU DO AWAY WITH THE UNDERLYING CORRUPTION THAT PLAYS
A ROLE IN VARIOUS POLICIES, YOU ARE NEVER REALLY GOING TO HAVE
A TRUE VICTORY.
ITíS GOING TO KEEP COMING UP AGAIN AND AGAIN.
I JUST WANT TO READ YOU, WE TALKED ABOUT THE POLITICIAN
WHO MIGHT THEORETICALLY OF THIS GOES THROUGH BE ABLE TO
HEAD UP THE GOVERNMENT OF ROMANIA AND LOOK AT THE WAY
THEY KEEP OR TRACE THE PROCESS GOING ON.
IS GOING TO BE SCARY ON ITS OWN BUT THEN THINK ABOUT THE
AMERICAN EXAMPLE.
DOES THIS SOUND LIKE ANYONE YOU'VE HEARD BEFORE?
THE ORGANIZATION OF THESE PROTESTS AND THEIR SCALE
SHOW THAT THIS IS A POLITICAL GATHERING.
WHO IS ORGANIZING THIS?
HARD TO SAY BUT I HOPE THAT THE STATE INSTITUTIONS HAVE
THIS INFORMATION.
EVER PURGE MYSELF OR NOT HAVING UNDERSTOOD THAT THIS IS A
MUCH BETTER ORGANIZED PLAN THAT A SIMPLE SPONTANEOUS MOVEMENT.
THE IDEA THERE IS THAT COURSE THESE PEOPLE ARE JUST
COMING TOGETHER BECAUSE THEY SHARE CONCERNS ABOUT THE
FUTURE OF OUR GOVERNMENT, SOMEBODY IS ORGANIZING.
WE SAW THIS IN AMERICA COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.
WHEN THE WOMAN'S MERGE CAME TOGETHER SUDDENLY THEY WERE
ALL BEING PAID OFF BY GEORGE SOROS.
ALL OF THEM, MY CHECK I SEEM STILL IN THE MAIL BECAUSE
MY POCKETS ARE EMPTY.
THIS HAPPENED THEN, IT HAPPENED THE NEXT WEEK.
I WAS AT THE PROTEST AT LAX OVER THE TRAVEL BAN.
ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PAID AND NONE OF THEM WOULD
ADMITTED TO ME.
I SAW PIZZA BOXES.
WHO PAID FOR THE PIZZA?
GOOD POINT THAT
THAT'S YOU DEMONIZE AND DELEGITIMIZE A MOVEMENT
THAT WE SELL THIS WITH OCCUPY WALL STREET.
WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO SEE ESPECIALLY POLITICIANS OF THIS
TRIBE THAT THERE WAS AN ACTIVIST TALKED ABOUT ONE OF THE COMMON
THREADS IS SQUEAKING BY IN THE OFFICE DURING TIMES OF
UNCERTAINTY.
PEOPLE ARE FEELING ECONOMIC STRESS SEEN A PHOBIA ETC.
BUT THEN THEY ARE SURPRISED WHEN THEIR ACTUAL POLICIES ARE
OPPOSED BY A MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE AND THEY RESPOND AS
THIS GUY DID OR SEAN SPICER AND DONALD TRUMP TO HEAR.
IT IS SCARY FOR THE FUTURE OF EUROPE.
ROMANIA THANKFULLY HAS THE STRONG TRADITION OF STREET
PROTESTS BUT WE HAVE SEEN THE DOMINOES STARTING TO FALL
IN OTHER PARTS OF EUROPE.
WE HAVE A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN FRANCE IS GOING TO BE
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND A VERY TRUMP IN FRENCH POLITICIANS
DOING QUITE WELL THERE.
WE HAD THE BRAKES IT, WE HAD HUNGRY SLIDING INTO WHAT
LOOKS LIKE AN AUTHORITARIAN'S DAY AND THEY WERE JUST
REWARDED WITH A VISIT BY VLADIMIR PUTIN A WEEK AGO.
I THINK ROMANIA IS NOT THERE, BUT THEY ARE SCARED ABOUT
THE FUTURE GOING THAT DIRECTION.