>>NORTH DAKOTA HAS ACCEPTED A $15 MILLION DONATION FROM THE
SAME CORPORATION BEHIND THE DAPL PIPELINE.
THIS IS TRANSPACIFIC
PARTNERS, THEY HAVE DONATED THIS MONEY IN ORDER TO ESSENTIALLY
HELP WITH THE COSTS THAT CAME ABOUT AS A RESULT OF THE
PROTESTS OF DAPL --
>>SO THE STATE DID TAKE OUT A PRETTY GIGANTIC LOAN TO HELP PAY
FOR SOME OF THE COSTS THAT CAME ABOUT AS A RESULT OF THOSE
PROTESTS, 40 MILLION TO BE SPECIFIC, SO AS A RESULT IT
MAKES SENSE FOR THEM TO LOOK FOR WAYS TO PAY THAT MONEY BACK.
BUT
IT'S A LITTLE CONCERNING BECAUSE THIS IS A FORM OF BRIBERY.
THIS
IS ESSENTIALLY TELLING STATE LAWMAKERS, YEAH, YOU SEE THOSE
SHADY PROTESTERS?
WE ARE GOING TO TAKE CARE OF YOU, WE WILL GIVE YOU 15
MILLION AS LONG AS YOU TAKE CARE OF THEM.
>>WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE TRIBE?
>>STANDING ROCK.
>>YOU SAY IT'S A BRIDE, BUT IF THE STANDING ROCK A 15
MILLION TO THE STATE AS WELL IT WOULD BE EVEN.
>>AND SIOUX NATION AS WELL.
THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA, IT TURNS THE
COPS INTO THE PINKERTONS.
IN FACT WHAT IT BASICALLY DOES IS
PRIVATIZE IS THE POLICE WHICH IS A TERRIBLE IDEA.
SO HOW WILL
THEY PROVE THIS TO THE RIGHT WING?
WHAT IF THE YOUNG TURKS
SAID WE WILL PAY YOU SOME MONEY TO ROUGH UP THE RIGHT-WINGERS.
IF THEY HAVE A PROTEST, IT'S INTERFERING WITH MY BUSINESS.
AND IF THEY COME KICK YOUR ASS YOU GO I'M DOING A TEA PARTY
PROTEST, WE GO ISN'T THAT A SHAME?
I JUST GAVE A DONATION TO
THE COPS, WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL?
AND YOU GUYS ARE COSTING THE
CITY SO MUCH MONEY WITH YOUR PROTESTS, I WAS JUST TRYING TO
HAVE THE COPS RECOUP THOSE COSTS.
>>LET'S PUT IT IN THE CONTEXT CONSERVATIVES WOULD UNDERSTAND.
IMAGINE IF WE WENT TO A COLLEGE CAMPUS TO GIVE A SPEECH,
CONSERVATIVE PROTESTERS SHOW UP, AND THE COPS ROUGH UP THOSE
PROTESTERS WITH WATER CANNONS, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED
THAT DAPL.
AND THEN WE TURN AROUND AND SAY WE ARE GOING TO
GIVE THE ADMINISTRATION A $15 MILLION DONATION TO DEAL WITH
THAT.
>>TO DEAL WITH THE COSTS OF THOSE RIGHT-WINGERS.
OF COURSE
WE DON'T HAVE THE KIND OF MONEY.
BUT TO DRIVE HIM NUTS, SOROS
DOES -- IF HE SAID I WILL GIVE YOU ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY TO DEAL
WITH THE COSTS OF THOSE PROTESTS.
THIS IS A TERRIBLE
IDEA.
>>ALSO, THESE GUYS HAVE $15 MILLION TO JUST GIVE TO THE
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA?
THE MONEY THAT EXISTS IN CORPORATE
AMERICA, AND I KNOW CORPORATE AMERICA EMPLOYS PEOPLE -- THEY
HAVE SO MUCH MONEY.
THEY WERE LIKE HERE, HERE'S $15 MILLION.
>>THE PROBLEM IS OUR TAXES ARE SO HIGH THEY JUST CAN'T SUCCEED.
>>THEY HAVE $15 MILLION TO JUST GIVE TO NORTH DAKOTA --
>>ONE LESS THING --
>>THEY
SAY THEY ARE GIVING IT OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF THEIR HEART.
>>OF COURSE THEY ARE.
BUT REMEMBER, IF THEY HAD TO HIRE
PRIVATE SECURITY AT THE LEVEL THAT THE COPS WERE PRESENT TO
PROTECT THEIR PRIVATE INTERESTS, THE COURT ACCESS PIPELINE WOULD
HAVE HAD TO SPEND MORE MONEY.
INSTEAD THEY SAY WE WILL USE
YOUR PUBLIC COPS TO WORK FOR US AND LATER WE WILL GIVE YOU A
FRACTION OF THAT MONEY AND WE BOTH BRIBED YOU AND PRIVATIZED
THE POLICE AND HAVEN'T REALLY PAID THE FULL COST OF IT -- IT'S
A WIN/WIN FOR THEM AND THEY LOSE/LOSE FOR US.
>>THEY ALSO RECEIVED A $10 MILLION GRANT FROM THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO HELP RECOUP THE COSTS OF THE
PROTESTS.
>>NORTH DAKOTA DID.
>>YES, THE STATE GOVERNMENT MANAGED TO GET $10 MILLION FROM
THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
AND ALSO ELIZABETH WARREN RELEASED A
STATEMENT ABOUT THIS THAT I WANTED TO SHARE, SHE SAYS --
>>I WANTED TO READ THAT STATEMENT BECAUSE AT LEAST SHE
MADE A STATEMENT ABOUT IT AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT, BUT YEAH,
THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT CONCERNS.
>>IT ALREADY WORKED.
THE STATEMENT THE GOVERNOR ISSUED,
WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE'S RECOGNITION OF
THE IMPACT THIS PROJECT HAS HAD ON OUR STATE -- YOU THINK YOU
WILL HAVE A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL GOVERNMENT AS THIS PIPELINE GOES
FURTHER AND IS THE ENERGY PARTNERS WANTS TO GO FURTHER AND
DO MORE?
NO, THEY WON.
WE KNEW THEY WOULD WIN, BUT THEY WON.
>>WHEN YOU HAVE WHAT THE RIGHT WING WOULD CALL BIG GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS SAYING WE ARE GRATEFUL TO OUR PRIVATE BENEFACTORS,
WHETHER IT IS GEORGE SOROS OR THE KOCH BROTHERS OR IN
THIS CASE THE DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE, IT'S A TERRIBLE
IDEA FOR DEMOCRACY.
>>AND GOOD FOR ELIZABETH WARREN.