Hawley Exposes Secretary Haaland For Meeting With Dark Money Groups Funding Far Left Climate Policy

thank you Mr chairman uh secretary Holland do you know the group called The Wilderness Society I've heard of it yes and and what to your knowledge what is this group it's it sounds like the name is explanatory well it's let me help you a little bit it's a left-wing environmentalist pressure group do you know who funds them I do not well I can help you with that too it's funded in large part by a foreign billionaire Hanzo guiss who has routed his money through all manner of dark money groups including the Arabella network hzor giss was investigated by the FEC for illegal campaign contributions because he's not a United State citizen he sits on the governing Council of this dark money environmentalist group has anybody in leadership at your department met with them the Wilderness Society Senator I do not know this individual and I I has anybody in in leadership at your department met with the Wilderness Society well I'm sure we've met with a lot of groups and and um organizations in the work that we do when we're discussing the environment so so does that mean you don't know or you're not going to answer question I don't have a full list of who of everyone that everyone has met with but well I can help you with that I can help you with that as well the answer is yes your leadership has met with the Wilderness Society they met with the Wilderness society when that group was a plaintiff suing the department of the Interior with an adverse lawsuit against you and they met with them off the books I've got the emails in July of 2021 after you had come to office members of the Wilderness society when they're suing the department write to your top deputy and ask for a meeting to keep and keep it off of his calendar here it is July 14th 2021 can we set up a meeting with these folks July 19th 2021 they proposed how they might calibrate this so it doesn't look like they're violating any of the rules of the court and remarkably it stays completely off of everybody's calendars we only know about it because foyer requests were filed and then after they have these off the books meetings their request is to cancel the mineral leasing rights in Minnesota in the Superior National Forest this is a critical minerals mine the society wants the mine shut down after they meet off the books with your leadership you do it a few months later you do it you cancel the leases and then you withdraw 225,000 Acres of critical mining from production and leasing shortly after that is it common practice at your department to meet with dark money groups off the books and conceal it from the public Senator thank you for the question and of course I can't answer to uh if you're referring to our former deputy secretary he's no longer at the department who worked for you he worked for the president he was appointed by the president he's your deputy secretary are you the secretary of the Department of interior I thought that's why you were here are you the secretary don't look at her look at me are you the secretary I am do these people who are sitting here today answering most of your questions do they work for you they work do they report for you you're not in charge work with me they work with you so you're not in charge of the department oh my gosh I thought you were in charge I thought that's why you were here we work as a team oh okay so who's in charge then uh I I provide the vision I provide the overall direction and but you're not in charge our mission do you take responsibility for what happens at the department of the Interior I take responsibility do you take full responsibility for what happens at the department in the interior good then why are your leadership meeting with dark money groups and concealing it from the public why are they doing it off the books how many times has this happened Senator this is the first time hearing of this I don't I didn't my deputy secretary is no longer there and um I can't answer to what he did when he was there at what did they get out of it do you suppose what do you suppose hanor Weiss got out of you canceling the leases after they asked you to in and off the books I know who this individual oh sure I mean you don't you don't know you're not in charge you're not responsible we have a corruption problem in this government Madam Secretary and frankly we have a corruption problem in your department we've got foreign Bill we certainly do we have foreign billionaires who are funding dark money groups coming to meet with your leadership concealing it from the public while they are filing lawsuits adverse to the department doing it without the Court's knowledge doing it you say without your knowledge and then getting exactly what they want now I don't know how much money he made off of it I'm sure it was a lot I know how he made his money he made his money by poisoning people uh hanor Weiss here's what his company did in 2009 Cy's USA with Weiss at its head was charged by Philadelphia's us attorney with running an illegal clinical trial on humans they injected them with a cement that turns to bone inside the human skeleton that's the guy who's funding this group who's pressuring your department and you're meeting with them off the books and giving them exactly what they want I did not meet with him you're implying that I met with him I I'm just trying to figure out who's in charge of the of the Interior Department you said it isn't you it sounds to me like it's the billionaires it sounds to me like it's the dark money billionaires who are calling the shots at the department of the interior and all I have to say to you Madam Secretary is that is a travesty it is a travesty the American people should be in charge not the foreign billionaires and the fact you've let them run rampant is outrageous it's outrageous that thank you Mr chair

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Published: Thu May 02 2024