bring ryan riley, i want to thank him as well, and everyone who was here tonight. i want to throw to another big gun, chris hayes. i toss it to you, my friend. this is one of the biggest nights i think for any of us who are in this business. it is a night of pathos not joy in the sense that the american republic is having to witness this integration of the presidency or the former presidency in the form of the apparently now confirmed indictment of donald trump. now c there is something so different about the manhattan district attorney indicting donald trump for actions that he took in the run up to him becoming the president in in that hush money payment scheme. we have a multi jurisdictional form of justice. they re from different jurisdictions for different crimes. the united states department of justice, this is the sort of republic at its, defending itself against itself in some senses here. it does feel like we are at the, you talk about all the clichés we is about g
that s a really important point here, because there s both a kind of bridge here in terms of a story about the way donald track trump his conduct himself a personal life. we ve had the extensive pulitzer-winning reporting about his taxes in which after getting a look at some of his tax returns for years, multiple tax experts saying, man, this pushes right up and probably over the line of what is actually criminally actionable in terms of aggressive tax avoidance strategies. we saw, in terms of not paying contractors and things like that but also, this sort of rough and ready screw the lawyers view of everything in the administration, whether it was the things they did with the census when they try to get a question in the sentence senses about citizenship. when they ran roughshod over different parts of immigration law. the sense that like, screw it, don t listen to the lawyers, do
a point and the wealth fund, generally, actually, have made a point that generally, it says it wants to be a much more active shareholder. because you hold investments i think it s over 9,000 listed companies around the world and your shareholdings run into many of these companies billions of dollars. in percentage terms, it might be anything from 1% to 3% or 4% of the company you own. therefore, you want now to have a voice on the way those companies run themselves. are you telling them that putting tax avoidance strategies together is not acceptable? we are telling them what i mentioned that important things in terms of the expectations we have on tax and transparency, that, one, you want to pay tax where your earnings are generated. that s very, very important. but you didn t generate earnings injersey and the cayman islands, and yet, you used them for tax purposes. no, i generated the earnings in the ako fund in the uk, and that s also where i paid my full tax all the tim
during my whole career, i have been doing it. the important things for the sovereign wealth fund is that companies pay tax where the earnings are made in, and it was also what i ve done. it s also important that it s fully transparent in terms of what tax you pay, which i ve also done. i ve always been completely in compliance with the expectation that the sovereign wealth funds have to companies. it s just that you have made a point and the wealth fund generally have made a point that generally, it says it wants to be a much more active shareholder. because you hold investments i think it s over 9,000 listed companies around the world and your shareholdings run into many of these companies billions of dollars. in percentage terms, it might be anything from i% to 3% or 4% of the company you are in. therefore, you want now to have a voice on the way those companies run themselves. you own. are you telling them that putting tax avoidance strategies together is not acceptable? we