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Countries in the world. is this weird. is this 30%, 40% of companies would do this, and i heard so many people say no percent. . nobody would do this. this is extreme behavior. even for a corporations thatten arent for some ethical reason dont want to be corrupt. they are simply reasonable risk managers. they are not going to get in business with someone who is corrupt and has relationships with the revolutionary guard. >> not out of the goodness of their heart, but because its illegal under ame...

They are not going to get in business with someone who is corrupt and has relationships with the revolutionary guard. >> not out of the goodness of their heart, but because its illegal under american law to do so. >> the fines are way disproportionate to the money you make. so trump stood to make $3 million a year. he could have easily been fined hundreds of millions of dollars for this deal. for all we know, he will be. >> the red flags here, one of the red flags is doing business in a country ...

Hundreds of millions of dollars for this deal. for all we know, he will be. >> the red flags here, one of the red flags is doing business in a country thats known to have a corruption problem. the other is doing with a government official, which can be a marker. >> and the transportation minister and his brother, who was a member of parliament. >> and in this case this is a government minister whose salary in the case of the transportation minister has apparently become a billionaire. >> hes ver...

Stumbled upon really when they were helping the new york state police investigate the escape. and what they heard from employees at the prison in interviews was that there was a deeper corruption problem at this prison that there was crimes involving not only the inmates but also the employees. and also that these two prisoners in particular david sweat and richard matt one of the reasons why they had so many privileges weve talked so much that they were in this so-called honor block. one reason...

Just the logistics of keeping the forces maintained with equipment, material, making sure that they have the bullets in the right place, the things that are commonsense to us but battles are won and lost on logistics. that may be what we need to do to help them once we drawdown our troops. theres a major problem with corruption and i dont see that being fixed any time soon. that may be the biggest challenge that the government faces and that is, could they deal with a corruption problem because ...

Theyll acknowledge but privately they have to deal with the fact that ukraine is not going to get crimea back in the foreseeable future. what does that mean? first and foremost its about doing what vice president joe biden is doing right now -- reassuring allies who are members of nato expressly because they fear a resurgent russia. second something what to do about ukraine. obviously it made a choice to turn west even though yanukovych made a different choice. so redeem that choice. how can you...

For bp. thats a problem. in st. petersberg and moscow they arrested several people. editor of forbes joins me. when you look at whats happened today, and the past few days, how does it reflect on putin? this is one mans games in some ways. >> its the wizard of oz olympics because whats happening now is the entire world is seeing behind the curtain. while putin can project strength, ukraine, syria, when you bring the entire worlds media and all of these problems illuminate the problems russia has...

Minister boris yelsoff documented how russians got rich off big olympic contracts. >> my estimation is about $30 billion. >> reporter: they stole 30 billion. >> yeah, 30 billion. >> reporter: the olympic stadium was three times the cost of any previous stadium anywhere in the world. and even worse, he says, the $9 billion highway and rail project to the ski hills above sochi, just 30 miles away. the corruption, not the concrete, making it so expensive he says. in his exclusive interview with abc...

Building the ski slope was also the very russian olympic official to supposedly oversee the construction. >> translator: so the vice president of the national olympic committee is taking care of such a large scale construction. >> reporter: the international olympic committee says all the allegations in our report should be handled by the host government, president putins russia. and as putin told abc news, the russians have already determined that there is no serious corruption problem surround...

Fabric and a check on corporate power, on government power, i mean, its really -- were going to look back on this period of time as one that really changed the american democracy, the way we havent quite reckoned with. >> we dont have time to talk in detail about the pacquiao/bradley fight. senators john mccain and harry reid are maybe working together, josh, to get bad stuff out of boxing. >> we can all agree pacquiao got jobbed. its an issue that unites us all. boxing has a minor corruption pr...