tripadvisor. the latest reviews. the lowest prices. welcome back to on assignment. we re in panama city and we re taking a step back from all the news and there seems to be always a lot of news these days to take a closer look at our president s business empire around the world. starting with that building
to expand into and run them against the annual ratings published by transparency international, a well respected anti-corruption campaign group. the results are pretty telling. take a look at this. out of all the countries where the president has explored or closed deals, more than half are in countries that get a score below 50. that s out of 100. in school, we used to call that a fail. take this, it s one of the most corrupt places on earth, transparency international gives it just 30 points. the philippines doesn t do better coming in at 35, argentina and indonesia score just label the better at 36 and 37 respectively. and the country we re in, panama, gets 38 points. compare that with our own national average, which stands at 74 out of 100. that s quite a difference. so does the fact that president trump has so many businesses in places with a bad reputation,
overseas. and the first trump project ivanka led from inception. visit our lobby concierge, beautiful pool deck exclusive beach club. now, that sense of ownership is gone. the trump organization which no longer runs the building says it had no hand in vetting the people who financed, sold, or bought it. now that president trump is in the white house, do you think the trump organization and the trump family are trying to distance themselves from you? i wouldn t say that they re trying because i don t think that i can harm them. it took months to track alexander ventura down and persuade him to sit down for an interview. he asked that we disguise his appearance. he s on the run from the law in panama where he s wanted for fraud. he says he sold hundreds of units in the trump ocean club to people who also went to a lot of trouble hide their identities.
how they want to run their country and how president trump is running the united states. it s just opens the vanguards. in a district court in new york last month the president s lawyers argued for the case to be thrown out claiming the plaintiff s interpretation of the clause was flawed. the group s chances of winning appears to be slimming to none but chayes says speaking out is what counts here. we are americans. should we be demanding any less of our government than south koreans are of theirs? we don t get a democracy because god handed it down from the sky. we defend it and insist on it. and i m really struck at how passive, frankly, the american people seem to be at the moment when our very system of government is in danger. when you hear sober,
now there is no suggestion that the president or his family were directly involved in any of the illegal activity that went on here. as we said, they were just licensing out the trump brand. and initially managing the building. it s just that this building was a magnet for dirty money. and we found no sign of an attempt by the trump organization to protect that brand which is perhaps now our nation s most prominent brand from being tarnished by association. the building was opened in 2011. [ applause ] and on stage were three men, our future president, the developer, and panama s president, who was then a close friend. thank you very much for being here today. and you re my friend. he is now awaiting an extradition decision in a jail cell in a federal detention center in miami. we ll tell you that whole story next. in every town, across america. small businesses show their love to you. with some friendly advice,