Documents reveal John Kerry invested in numerous oil companies

breaking tonight john kerry is facing further scrutiny this time for financial disclosure forms obtained by fox news that show he invested in oil companies prior to becoming president biden's climate envoy republicans are calling out the bide administration's embrace of the 1619 project labeling it divisive nonsense and an attempt to rewrite history tonight's super-sized power panel debates plus two of the richest people in the world engaging in a salacious twitter war over nasa's lunar lander contract what with uh word tonight that nasa has now suspended its contract offer until it can resolve two protests over the award former nasa administrator jim bridenstine joins us live but we begin tonight with john kerry back in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons white house correspondent kevin cork has the latest tonight good evening kevin evening kristin great to be with you happy friday now the argument that kerry may have lost some money on some energy sector investments prior to becoming the byte administration's climate envoy shouldn't disabuse anyone of the notion that the investments themselves by their very nature may be seen as dubious by some especially given his position and his possible influence and how that might shape u.s energy policy kerry's financial disclosure forms which were obtained as you pointed out by fox news show that the former secretary of state was financially invested in numerous oil companies including duke energy semerex dominion energy energy exelon corporation and valero energy now the financial forms show that kerry's total investments were valued somewhere between 4.2 and 15 million dollars which he reported liquidating last month now the state department told axios which first reported about the financial disclosure that the climate czar has divested from all assets that could pose conflicts of interest kerry has signed an ethics pledge stating he will not take part in decisions involving his former clients and employers however given the number of major corporations that have paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars and in some cases like bank of america millions of dollars over the past year watchdog groups no doubt will be scouring the legislative fine print to make sure that none of his past benefactors directly benefit or indirectly benefit from u.s energy policies steered by kerry now do keep this in mind the disclosures come late in a week that also saw kerry deny having ever discussed israeli airstrikes in syria with iran's foreign minister after the times reported or suggested that he certainly had done that and for the record kerry's huge stock portfolio largely held in a trust affiliated with his wife theresa hines carrie of course she's the heiress to the heinz food processing fortune it's uh just another one of those hiccups that happens early kristin in an administration sometimes you can weather the storm but sometimes the hits just keep on coming yeah we'll be talking with our power panel about this in just a few minutes kevin cork thanks happy friday have a great weekend friends you too my friend okay hey sean hannity here hey click here to subscribe to fox news youtube page and catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis you will not get it anywhere else

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Length: 3min 25sec (205 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 30 2021