kinds of distraction and attacks. i am ready for that. >> fox news reporting. the tangled clinton web. from washington, d.c. bret baier. >> behind me is a city with more concentrated power than any in the world. washington. hillary clinton wants the top job in town. ever since she announced her candidacy for presidency her past has attracted new scrutiny. one aspect is she and husband bill have spent years making millions and handing out even more to various causes. they say they are doing good work. but some people now claim their activities raise questions of influence pedalling on a global scale. tonight we will look at those charges. this is a story that goes around the world and we will start in haiti. >> january 12th, 2010, haiti suffers a devastating 7.0 earthquake. more than $200,000 and over 100,000 buildings and homes are destroyed. within four-days, u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton arrives to survey the damage. >> i want to assure the people in haiti that the united states is a friend a partner and a supporter. >> two-days later former president clinton was on the ground. >> i hope it will be rebuilt in a much stronger and sustainable way. >> bill clinton had previously been named u.n. special envoy for haiti. he and hillary had close ties to the country, even honeymooning there. hillary's state department working with usaid the united states agency for international development would oversee america's relief effort. they set up the ihrc interim haiti recovery commission to coordinate. two men were named co-chairs of the ihrc executive committee. haitian prime minister john max bell raw reeve and bill clinton himself. the idea was not just to fix things it but to fix them. clinton had a plan wouldn't it be great if they became the first wireless nation of the world. they could. i am telling you. they really could. it wasn't ast all clear the people of haiti would be the big winners in the national of haiti gold rush. >> there are a lot of money to be made in reconstruction contracts et cetera. peter switzer is the author of the new book clinton cash. where he investigates the snarl of money, politics and personal interest that has come to characterize the clinton's interactions. clinton cash is published by harper collins a sister company to fox news. >> shortly after earth cake took place u.s. ambassador in haiti sent a state department the title of which is the gold rush is on. it was about the fact that the businessmen and companies were showing up in haiti trying to seek lucrative contracts. >> it was the job of the ihrc to oversee this process and to ensure no one took advantage of the situation. but what if it was part of the problem? a number of members of the ihrc actually wrote a letter expressing their concern that they were not involved in the process that all of the decisions were made by clinton and belareve. they argued the national priorities of haiti were being totally disregarded by the decisions that were being made. >> as haiti doug itself out of the rubble many projects were innish initiated often of money that were connected to the clintons. a much needed system was created to help transfer money via cell phones. there was a plan for rich mineral wealth. >> they announce they are going to offer two so-called gold exploitation permits. the first issued in 50 years in haiti that would allow for the distraction of gold mines in the country. >> perhaps the most celebrated project of all was industrial park. >> what is happening here is already having ripple effects that will create jobs and opportunities far beyond this industrial park. >> the grand opening was a big deal. you had bill clinton there, hillary clinton there. you had donna karan the fashion designer, you had ben stiller, sean penn. lots of people showed up to say how wonderful the facility would be for everybody. >> as all of these projects moved forward questions were raised. the central question the question which switzer investigated was about how so many of these deals seemed to come back at some point to the clintons. >> what quickly became apparent to many people was that if you wanted a contract if you wanted to do business in haiti, you had to have relationships with the clintons. that was absolutely key. >> the company that cleaned up on the cell phone transfers was digucell. >> in the months running up to december 2012 they took in $50 million in revenue in haiti. >> digicel is run by dennis o'brien who set up lucrative speeches with bill clinton as well as donating millions to the bill clinton foundation. one that got a wear permit was vcs mining which didn't have much mining experience but would have hillary clinton's brother tony rodham on his board. as for the industrial park the anchor tenant is a crowian manufacturer which supplies major u.s. retail -- to u.s. major retailers which happened to be big clinton supporters. while they promised 65 mu jobs to date only 5,000 had been delivered. as for the other projects they didn't exactly work out as promised. we will go into depth on that later in the program. >> but first though bill clinton may have left office a while ago, he and hillary's influence is still felt worldwide. and their fingers are in a whole lot of pies. >> when we return we look into this world of clinton clout, how it came to be and how it operates. yet up to 90% fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone. let's do more... ...add one a day 50+. complete with key nutrients we may need. plus it supports physical energy with b vitamins. one a day 50+ i am totally blind. and sometimes i struggle to sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. this is called non-24. learn more by calling 844-824-2424. or visit your24info.com. we all enter this world with a shout and we see no reason to stop. so cvs health is creating industry-leading programs and tools that help people stay on medicines as their doctors prescribed. it could help save tens of thousands of lives every year. and that w ould be something worth shouting about. cvs health, because health is everything. all these networks keep making different claims. it gets confusing. fastest, strongest the most in-your-face-est. it sounds like some weird multiple choice test. yea, but do i pick a, b, or c. i pick like the best of everything. verizon. i didn't. i picked a. and how'd that work out for you? 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>> they were getting the ability to participate in large scale social well care programs for the regions of interest or importance to them or to be a partner of the president of the united states or former secretary of state on life changing endeavors. >> the clintons have been called lots of things by friends and enemies over the years. the one phrase i have never seen associated with the clintons is the word naive. when we return we will look at what the clinton foundation is doing around the world, charityable work for sure. is there something more calculated? here at the td ameritrade trader group, they work all the time. sup jj? working hard? working 24/7 on mobile trader, rated #1 trading app in the app store. it lets you trade stocks options, futures... even advanced orders. and it offers more charts than a lot of the other competitors do in desktop. you work so late. i guess you don't see your family very much? i see them all the time. did you finish your derivative pricing model, honey? for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. the dealings of bill and hillary are part of what peter a mix of money and politics diplomacy and personal interests all so interconnected that it is easy to get lost. >> it is so hard when you look at the clintons to try to figure out where the charity ends and begins, where their profit making ends and begins and where their official powers as secretary state or senator ends origins. the problem is they get blurred together. >> to put together his book clinton power and cash they spent more than a year untraveling the tangled web. he took us through a number of cases. for instance money in the middle east. >> the you united air rap -- >> they are under pressure from the obama administration and hillary clinton's state department because of iran's sanctions. that is that uav companies are continuing to trade for service shipment points to iran. >> so now fast forward a couple of months. >> on december 12th you have the foreign minister of the united arab emirates who is flying to washington, d.c. to meet with the secretary of state, hillary clinton over troubling issues. that very same day, the foreign minister's brother who is the crowned prince is paying hillary's cuz din bill clinton for a speech. >> they did not put out former statement about president clinton's speech but they provided a list of donations given to share ritable donations around the world. >> there is money in europe. >> beginning in 2009 giant erickson is coming under increasing pressure from the united states because it is selling equipment to oppressive governments around the world. in the mids of all of this they decide to pay bill clinton, they pay him a whopping 750,000 dollars. >> soon after hillary clinton's state department new broader stations against iran. >> erickson declined our interview request. they conceded it was significant 750,000 dollars. it would be seen in light of clinton's travel to hong kong for the event and the event spans two-days. the company insists the conversation regarding iran had no impact on the decision. >> there's money in south america. in june 2010 bill clinton was in columbia. >> he meets with the then president of columbia to discuss matters in private. hillary clinton is in club yaw at the same time. after bill leaves the presidential palace hillary clinton comes in and has lunch with the. president of columbia and explains her equipmentmentcommitment to a free trade agreement. >> the very same trade agreement she pledged to defeat while running for president in 2008. >> as i have said for months i oppose the deal i have spoken out against the deal i will vote against the deal arched i will do erg i can to urge the free trade deal. >> another one was a billionaire businessman and family friend we will meet again. >> let's go down the line as you have it. a canadian billionaire arrives in columbia with bill clinton on june 8th, 2010. hillary at the same time meets with president arevay. what is troubling in the days a fallow one of the largest contributors to the foundation sees not one, not two but three of his companies get major concessions from the government in columbia. the neither ever responded to a request or a comment on the columbia deal. >> there's money with dealings in africa. >> the sheikh of saudi arabia announces with bill and london he is going to donate to the clinton foundation. >> this raises lots of questions about ethiopian groups in the west. they are concerned about the oppressive government and the fact that he has a large business empire in ethiopia. what troubles them is he does knotted have a history of fill lan fee. they write a letter to bill clinton and they say we have reason to believe the huge donation of the clinton foundation was made on behalf of the ethiopian government. >> when hillary clinton becomes secretary of state one of the things she has to do is certify ethiopia on human rights. they p granted them a waiver which allowed them to continue u.s. assistance even though they weren't complying with law. >> he told us he does not give media interviews instead he sent us a fact sheet of all of the support she has given to the awareness. >> these are a few of the many stories he documents in his book. >> bill clinton's average speaking fee is somewhere around 175 to 200,000 over the years. the problem is once hilly becomes secretary of state in 2009 the number of big paydays where he gets paid half a million dollars or more to give a speech one speech overseas increases dramatically. wow. sweet new subaru, huh mitch? 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