government to approve it. this investor gets bill clinton to meet with the head of the kazakhstan mining interest in his house. they deny the meeting ever happened until peter exposes the fact that the guy has acknowledged the meeting and has a picture of it in his wall in kazakhstan. i think that was a new york times reporter. the pulitzer prize winning new york times reporter who covered this. pardon me i forget her name. it s a woman. jo becker. she said did you have this meeting and she said i have a picture of you there. exactly. all right, we did it. so once again, a can connection that was denied that turned out to be true. exactly. and the kazakhstan government approved the deal. and eight investors into this company give $145 million to the clinton foundation soon thereafter. so again, bill greases the deal more money to the clinton foundation. and the third phase i want to jump forward. the third phase is the one i
years worth of tax returns after a reuters review found errors in how they were reporting donations. today mrs. clinton s campaign spokesman responded, saying quote, no one has produced a shred of evidence that hillary clinton ever took action as secretary of state in order to support the interests of donors to the clinton foundation. there may not be a smoking gun, but there is certainly a circumstantial case. exhibit a for mrs. clinton, uranium. you know the stuff we use for nuclear energy and bombs? you might imagine it s a hot commodity. and guess who has a fair amount of it. we do the united states of america. thanks to a deal approved in part by mrs. clinton s state department we no longer control at least 1/5 of our capacity perhaps more. instead, the russians do. that s uranium inside the united states. and its new owner is a russian company called uranium 1 that s owned by russia s nuclear
so why would the u.s. allow russia to take control of so much american uranium? good question. and some lawmakers asked it and objected to this deal at the time saying why would we do this? in june of 2010 the obama administration signed off. not just mrs. clinton but included her. a committee that includes the attorney general, secretaries of treasury defense, homeland security commerce and energy and, of course the secretary of state. that same month, the same month bill clinton suddenly received a $500,000 speaking gig in moscow by a russian bank that wanted this deal and badly. and the company that took control of so much of america s uranium, well they were big clinton fans. donating at least $2.35 million to the clinton global initiative from 2009 to 2012. donations as it turns out, the clinton charity did not