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Clips from Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)

"What's he building in there?"
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"What the hell is he building in there?"
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"It had taken Enron 16 years to go"
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"from about 10 billion of assets to"
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"65 billion of assets."
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"It took them 24 days to go bankrupt."
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"What the hell is he building in there?"
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"This company collapsed so quickly and so entirely."
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"I mean it was into bankruptcy within a matter of weeks."
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"It just immediately had"
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"all the makings of a gigantic scandal."
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"He's hiding something from the rest of us."
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"The fatal flaw at Enron"
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"if there is one, you say it was pride"
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"but then it was arrogance,"
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"intolerance, greed,"
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"So many of them were blinded by the money"
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"that they didn't see that"
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"they were sinking their own life boat"
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"We have a right to know."
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"It just got hungrier and hungrier."
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"Sooner or later they were doomed to go off"
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"that cliff at 90 miles an hour."
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"It's astounding that they got away with it for so long."
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"In reality, Enron was a house of cards."
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"What we didn't know was that the house of cards"
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"had been built over a pool of gasoline"
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"It all sort of became smoke and mirrors."
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"Committee will come to order."
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"This is a case of America's largest corporate bankruptcy."
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"The question here is what happened,"
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"who was responsible for it happening,"
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"and what can we do to prevent this sort of thing"
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"from happening again."
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"I think the Enron story's so fascinating"
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"because people perceive it as a story"
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"that's about numbers."
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"That it's somehow about all these complicated transactions."
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"But in reality it's a story about people"
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"and it's really a human tragedy."
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"On this date, at 2:23 am,"
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"Sugar Land police discovered John C Baxter"
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"located inside his vehicle"
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"with an apparent gunshot wound to the head."
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"Ah... at this time there has been a suicide note located."
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"Sir, can you give us any indication whether"
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"this was related to Enron's bankruptcy."
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"We do know that he was and Enron employee,"
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"but as far as any other indications of why"
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"he committed suicide, no we do not."
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"Mr. Skilling,"
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"let me touch on something that's sort of sad"
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"and that's of course the suicide of Cliff Baxter."
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"And you mentioned he was your best friend"
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"in your opening statement."
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"Before he died,"
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"did you have many conversations with him?"
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"Yes."
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"And were any of them relative to Enron?"
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"Yes."
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"There's no one that knew Cliff,"
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"toward the end, that didn't realize that"
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"he was heartbroken by what had happened."
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"And Cliff came over to my house"
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"and he said 'They're calling us child molesters.'"
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"He says, 'That will never wash off.'"
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"But Mr. Skilling you don't believe that."
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"I don't believe what?"
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"You don't believe that the press and everybody"
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"calling Cliff Baxter or yourself or anybody"
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"on the Board of Directors,"
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"denigrating or tainting you,"
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"you don't think it's accurate"
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"is what you're saying to us here today."
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"I do not believe..."
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"I did not do anything wrong that was not in the interest"
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"In all the time that I worked for Enron Corporation,"
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"it was in the interest of the shareholders of the company."
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"Ultimately, who was responsible for the downfall of Enron?"
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"Only a few years ago,"
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"Enron was the nation's seventh-largest corporation,"
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"valued at almost 70 billion dollars."
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"Pundits praised the company as a new business model."
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"This trading floor was manned by America's best and brightest,"
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"charting the futures of energy and power."
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"And high above each with a private staircase,"
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"Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling"
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"had built their own plush staterooms."
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"They were known as the smartest guys in the room."
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"Captains of a ship too powerful to ever go down."
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"In the Titanic, the captain went down with the ship."
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"In Enron, it looks to me like the captain first gave himself"
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"and some friends a bonus,"
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"then lowered himself and the top folks down in the lifeboat"
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"and then hollered up and said,"
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"by the way, everything is going to be just fine."
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"Like Skilling,"
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"Ken Lay said he hadn't done anything wrong."
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"Could we have a word with you real quickly?"
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"We're with CNN."
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"Really not this morning, thank you."
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"Beyond the financial issues,"
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"some suspected a political conspiracy."
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"Enron had been the largest corporate contributor"
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"to the first presidential campaign of George W. Bush."
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"This is not a political issue, it is a business issue."
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"You know Enron had made contributions to"
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"a lot of people around Washington D.C."
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"And if they came to this administration looking for help"
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"they didn't find any."
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"To say no help had is like,"
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"'I did not have political relations"
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"with that man, Mr. Lay.'"
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"What about the fact that George W. Bush"
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"calls Ken Lay, Kenny Boy?"
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"That's my nickname for my husband,"
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"which he overheard."
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"So it wasn't original, with the President?"
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"It certainly wasn't."
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"According to published reports,"
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