Chuck Todd: Clintons Seem ‘They Didn’t Do Their Own Self-Vetting’

Chuck Todd: Clintons Seem ‘Completely Flat Footed, Totally Unaware... Probably Didn’t Do Their Own Self-Vetting’ (RealClearPolitics)

​MSNBC's Steve Kornacki with Meet The Press host Chuck Todd: Beginning of the end for the Clintons?

CHUCK TODD, MEET THE PRESS: I think [the Clintons] handled this awfully. This is the single most predictable issue that this campaign was going to have to deal with, and they seemed completely flat footed, totally unaware of what was coming. It is a reminder that they probably didn't do their own self-vetting on this. I can't tell you-- the number of Democratic operatives, some of whom are actually working from within the Clinton campaign, some are not, who all have the same reaction: Shaking their head going why are they still accepting foreign donations? It is a total head scratcher why they ever did in the first place, but why are they still doing it? Remember the new policy still has them taking foreign donations. From a smaller group of countries, mostly Western allies, but why are they doing it at all? 

There are a whole bunch of Democrats shaking their heads. If there was a real challenger, to Hillary Clinton that some in the party were comfortable rally around, I think you would hear more Democrats openly criticizing this relationship, frankly the way Barack Obama did eight years ago.