LIZ: WE ARE JUST GETTING THIS
BREAKING NEWS IN, PRESIDENT
BIDEN HAS JUST APPROVED
$800 MILLION IN NEW MILITARY
ASSISTANCE FOR UKRAINE, HOURS
AFTER HE SPOKE WITH PRESIDENT
ZELENSKYY ABOUT AID AND
STRENGTHENING SANCTIONS AGAINST
RUSSIA.
MEANWHILE, IN THE LAST HOUR AND
A HALF, RUSSIA IMPOSED SANCTIONS
OF ITS OWN AGAINST 398 MEMBERS
OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES.
YES, I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE ASKING,
WHO ARE THE ONES THAT DIDN’T GET
SANCTIONED?
WE’RE WORKING ON THAT TOO, BUT
RUSSIA ANNOUNCED TODAY, IT HAS
NOW TAKEN FULL CONTROL OF
UKRAINE’S PORT IN MARIUPOL.
PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN OF
RUSSIA SAYS PEACE TALKS ARE
BASICALLY COME TO A DEAD END AND
RUSSIA WILL "CONTINUE ITS
OFFENSIVE UNTIL COMPLETION" BUT
AS PUTIN CONTINUES HIS BLOODY
CRUSADE, ENTER HEDGE FUND
MANAGER AND NOW HUMAN RIGHTS
ACTIVIST, PUTIN ENEMY NUMBER ONE
, BILL BROWDER.
BROWED’S LATEST EFFORT TO EXPOSE
THE DICTATOR AND HIS OLIGARCH
FRIENDS DESPERATELY TRYING TO
HIDE THEIR MONEY IS NOW
DETAILING HIS STORY IN HIS NEW
BOOK "FREEZING ORDER" THE TIMING
OF THE BOOK’S RELEASE IS UNCANNY
AS UKRAINE’S PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR
ZELENSKYY LAST NIGHT
OFFERED PUTIN A TRADE OF SORTS.
ONE PRO-RUSSIAN OLIGARCH IN
UKRAINIAN CUSTODY, JOINING US
NOW, BILL BROWDER, AUTHOR OF "
FREEZING ORDER" BILL ALREADY
WHAT NUMBER TWO ON THE AMAZON
BEST SELLER LIST.
I’D SAY CONGRATULATIONS BUT THE
TOPIC IS JUST FRIGHTENING,
WORRISOME, BUT TALK ABOUT
FREEZING ORDER, WHAT IT MEANS,
AND HOW YOU HAVE FOCUSED ON THE
OLIGARCHS AND THEIR MONEY.
>> WELL, WHAT I DISCOVERED, SO
I HAVE MY
LAWYER SERGEY MAGNITSY, HIS
RUSSIAN LAWYER UNCOVERED A
MASSIVE GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION
SCHEME IN RUSSIA 13 YEARS AGO.
HE EXPOSED IT, WAS ARRESTED BY
THE OFFICIALS HE EXPOSED, HE WAS
THEN TORTURED FOR 358 DAYS AND
KILLED AND AFTER HIS MURDER, I
MADE IT MY DUTY AND MY MISSION
TO GO AFTER THE PEOPLE WHO
KILLED HIM, TO MAKE SURE THEY
FACE JUSTICE, AND THAT HAS LED
TO AN INVESTIGATION, LED TO TWO
THINGS SOMETHING CALLED THE
MAGNITSY ASSETS AND IT LED
TO AN INVESTIGATION OF WHO GOT
THE MONEY AND WE DISCOVERED AS
WE DID THIS INVESTIGATION
THAT PUTIN GOT SOME OF THE MONEY
, AND WE DISCOVERED
DOING THIS INVESTIGATION THAT
THIS CRIME WAS ONE OF A THOUSAND
OR MORE SIMILAR CRIMES AND THE
AMOUNTS OF MONEY THAT HAVE
BEEN STOLEN BY PUTIN AND HIS
PEOPLE ARE IN THE HUNDREDS OF
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, AND WHAT
THAT SAYS TO ME IS THAT THIS WAR
IN UKRAINE IS NOT ABOUT NATO,
IT’S NOT ABOUT EU UKRAINE
JOINING THE EU.
THIS IS ABOUT VLADIMIR PUTIN
BEING AFRAID OF HIS OWN PEOPLE
AFTER STEALING ALL THEIR MONEY
AND HE STARTED THIS WAR IN ORDER
TO DISTRACT THE PEOPLE OF RUSSIA
, BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT
DICTATORS DO.
LIZ: WELL, WE’VE GOT 10,000,
POSSIBLY, UP TO 20,000 PEOPLE
DEAD IN MARIUPOL ACCORDING TO
THE MAYOR OF THAT PORT CITY.
VLADIMIR PUTIN AND HIS FRIENDS,
I DON’T KNOW IF THEY ARE STILL
FRIENDS OF HIS NOW, BECAUSE
THEY’VE ALL BEEN SANCTIONED.
THEY’RE BROKE, ARE THEY NOT?
AND WE CAN PUT SOME OF THEM UP
ON THE SCREEN WHETHER IT’S ROMAN
OBRAMOVICH, JUST FORCED TO
SELL THE CHELSEA SOCCER TEAM, OR
ON THIS SHOW FROM DAVOS, WHERE
I INTERVIEWED HIM MANY YEARS AGO
YOU HAVE TO TELL ME EXACTLY WHAT
THEY ARE THINKING IF THEY ARE
ANGRY AT PUTIN, CAN THEY TAKE
HIM ON OR COMPLETELY TOOTHLESS
NOW THAT THEIR BENEFACTOR, SO TO
SPEAK, IS IN CHARGE, AND DOESN’T
WANT TO LISTEN TO ANY OF THEM
COMPLAIN.
>> COMPLETELY TOOTHLESS.
THESE OLIGARCHS, THEY ARE ONLY
RICH BECAUSE THEY ARE BEING
GIVEN PERMISSION BY VLADIMIR
PUTIN TO BE RICH.
THEY OPERATE AT HIS PLEASURE AND
HIS PLEASURE ONLY.
AT ANY POINT, VLADIMIR PUTIN CAN
SAY I WANT YOUR MONEY, I’LL TAKE
IT AWAY IF YOU DON’T DO THE
FOLLOWING THINGS SO VLADIMIR
PUTIN IS THE OWNER OF HALF THE
MONEY THAT YOU SEE ON THE
OLIGARCH’S RICH LIST AND
THESE PEOPLE ARE HIS FINANCIAL
TRUSTEES AND FINANCIAL
CONSOLIDATE CONSTANTINOPLE AND
WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE OLIGARCHS
AND SAY HOW DO WE WANT TOK GO
AFTER PUTIN WE SANCTION THE
OLIGARCHS SO THESE PEOPLE
AREN’T HAPPY BUT THE DOESN’T
MATTER WHETHER THEY ARE HAPPY.
THE POINT OF SANCTIONING THE
OLIGARCHS IS TO SHOW PUTIN
HIS MONEY IS NO LONGER
ACCEPTABLE.
LIZ: I BELIEVE WE WERE JUST
SHOWING MICHEL HORTIKOSKY.
HE WAS AN OLIGARCH, HE BECAME
THE WEALTHIEST MAN IN RUSSIA,
UNTIL HE RAN AGAINST PUTIN FOR
PRESIDENT.
HE WAS IN PRISON BY PUTIN FOR 10
YEARS, HE WAS YOUR ARCH ENEMY,
WAS HE NOT BECAUSE HE WAS ONE OF
THESE PEOPLE WHO HAD TAKEN ALL
OF THE MONEY, CLE PTOCRAT.
NOW YOU TWO ARE WORKING TOGETHER
ARE YOU NOT BUT MY QUESTION IS
WHAT ABOUT THE MONEY TRAIL AND
WHERE IT GOES TO THE COASTS OF
SPAIN IN WATERFRONT PROPERTIES
OR LONDON, ALL OF THOSE
PROPERTIES, AND HERE IN
THE UNITED STATES.
>> IT GOES TO ALL THE PLACES
YOU MIGHT IMAGINE A RICH PERSON
WANTS TO SPEND THEIR MONEY.
ASPEN, COLORADO, PALM BEACH,
MANHATTAN, PARIS, THE SOUTH OF
FRANCE, MARBEA, AND BY THE WAY,
ALL THESE YACHTS, YOU’VE SEEN
THE YACHTS, YOU’VE SEEN THE
PICTURE.
LIZ: WE’RE SHOWING THEM, YES.
>> I MEAN IT’S OBSCENE BECAUSE
THIS IS THE MONEY THAT WAS
STOLEN FROM THE PEOPLE OF RUSSIA
THIS IS THE MONEY THAT SHOULD
HAVE PAID FOR MEDICINE, FOR
EDUCATION, FILLING IN THE
POTHOLES, PUBLIC SERVICES,
THAT’S GONE FOR THESE OBSCENE
DISPLAYS OF WEALTH BY THIS VERY
SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE OF
VLADIMIR PUTIN AND THOSE WHO
SURROUND HIM, AND THAT’S WHY
PUTIN FELT THE NEED TO GO TO WAR
, BECAUSE IS UNSUSTAINABLE.
YOU CAN’T HAVE A SUPPOSED
DEMOCRACY WHERE PEOPLE VOTE AND
HAVE THIS TYPE OF THEFT OVER
SUCH A LONG PERIOD OF TIME. PUTIN UNDERSTOOD THAT.
PUTIN UNDERSTOOD THAT.
LIZ: WE DO HAVE TO RUN, BUT I’M
SORRY, THE UKRAINIAN PRO-RUSSIAN
OLIGARCH WHO HAS NOW BEEN TAKEN
INTO CUSTODY BY ZELENSKYY,
ZELENSKYY HAS SAID, DO YOU KNOW
WHAT?
WE WILL OFFER A TRADE, WE’LL
GIVE YOU BACK TO RUSSIA IF YOU
WILL LET US HAVE BACK OUR
PRISONERS OF WAR, BOYS AND GIRLS
OF UKRAINE, THAT ARE NOW IN
RUSSIAN CUSTODY, WELL PUTIN EVER
BITE ON THAT?
>> SO THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE,
THE RUSSIANS SAID, YOU KNOW, WE
DON’T CARE ABOUT THAT GUY.
THIS GOES TO SHOW, YOU KNOW, YOU
THROW YOUR LOT IN WITH VLADIMIR
PUTIN AND HE’LL SELL YOU DOWN
THE RIVER.
NOTHING GOOD IS GOING TO HAPPEN
TO THAT GUY.
LIZ: BILL BROWDER, AUTHOR OF "
FREEZING ORDER" HIS FIRST BOOK,
RIVETING, UNBELIEVABLE STORY,
ALL TRUE.