CNN Blasts ‘Sleazy’ Clintons for ‘Getting Money Any Way They Can’

KING: “Let’s start. The Wall Street Journal writes a story about the Clinton Foundation — the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. Hillary Clinton is running for president. She hasn’t officially declared it yet but she’s running for president. They are raising money from foreign sources again. Here are some of the countries they raise money from: the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman. The Journal reports $48 million total from overseas if looking at the Clinton Foundation finance reports. Ron, you wrote a story about this in the National Journal. You called it ‘stupid and sleazy.’”
FOURNIER: “Yeah.”
KING: “Why?”
FOURNIER: “Wise man words. Look, nobody’s questioning whether or not this a good charitable foundation doing some really good things around the world. It is. The problem in here is first of all politically it’s stupid because you are taking money from countries that go against what is gonna be Hillary Clinton’s brand and her reputation as somebody fighting for women. Some of these countries are not very good for women and its sleazy because of the perception. If you give them the benefit of doubt obviously there’s no way you should have someone who is thinking running for president taking money for foreign countries because it raises the level of, you know, what is that they’re getting, they’re expecting for that money. Even the Obama administration said this was not right which is why they were not allowed to take these donations when she was secretary of state.”
KUCINICH: “Well, it’s not like she could recuse herself if she’s president either she’s dealing with these countries. So it is problematic. So you wonder why they just don’t reinforce the band and this problem goes away.”
KING: “That’s the question for me. Look, they were doing this when she was out of office. She lost the presidential campaign in 2008. Her husband was running the foundation. He was doing this whether you like it or not. It was being that the president, the White House said don’t do this when you are a secretary of state. Bill Clinton agreed. He backed off because she was secretary of state traveling the globe. Makes sense, right? But if the president had to tell them not to do this why do they think if she’s gearing up again that it’s OK to go back to do it?”
FOURNIER: “We’ve seen this before. You and I have covered them a long time. They’re not a corrupt couple like a lot of people say. When he was governor of Arkansas they could make a lot of money of that state. Other governors did. They didn’t. They’re not personally corrupt people, I don’t believe. But they have this obsession with campaign money. They can’t stand the idea that they might be outspent, that they might lose because they didn’t raise enough money. It’s part of their mentality as campaigners. So they just — this is part of their DNA to go get money any way they can.”