2026-03-28
33 分钟Alex Kivney, thank you very much for doing this.
So for all the years that Benjamin Netanyahu has been in the American media,
I think there 's very little sense in the U.S.
About his domestic troubles in Israel.
We keep hearing he's been charged and the President of the United States keeps saying he needs to be pardoned.
You've made this documentary that explains.
What is at the core of this controversy?
Like, what are the charges?
What is he accused of doing?
Did he do it?
So I'm going to stand back and just let you, if you would, outline what Benjamin Netanyahu has been accused of doing.
Well, roughly speaking, you'd say it was bribery or you'd say it was corruption.
I mean, and I can detail the charges.
This is a film that I produced and it was directed by Alexis Bloom.
And back in 2023, I got a strange message on Signal from somebody who said that they had all of the police interrogation videos
from the Benjamin Netanyahu investigation.
And they had been investigating Netanyahu since 2016 for charges of corruption.
That is to say, trading on his position as prime minister to get money in all sorts of favors, jewelry.
For his wife, very expensive Cuban cigars, hundreds of millions of dollars in forgiveness of certain loans.
In order to be able to get favorable coverage on a news website called Walla.