Morning Joe: ‘Boggles the Mind’ Clinton Foundation Is Still Accepting Foreign Donations

‘I would like to ask the White House what happened here, to me they’re part of it’

BRZEZINSKI: “I don't want to hear from Peter Schweizer. I don't want to hear from people raising issues. I want to hear from the White House and the State Department as to what went down. And if nothing went down, you all can move on. But we're asking the wrong people. The book raises questions. Let's get the answers to that question.”
SCARBOROUGH: “I guess that is the question. We are way over right now, Chuck. But at the White House, we'll say one thing off the record, people in the White House about how miffed they are that the Clintons play by their own rules.[crosstalk] Yeah, the White House says that. You know they do.”
BRZEZINSKI: “I'm not hearing it.”
SCARBOROUGH: “They always talk and how miffed they are that the Clintons play by their own rules. You get them on the record, they don't talk about the scrub servers, the e-mails or the deals they didn't approve with the White House. They didn't talk about what Valerie Jarrett and I forget who else inside the White House did this deal with them that they ignored within they wanted to ignore it. I wonder when is the White House going to step up and say on the record what they say off the record? 
TODD: “I don’t know why --is this burden on the white House and not on the Clintons?”
SCARBOROUGH: “I mean they're the ones that did the deal –“[crosstalk] 
BRZEZINSKI: “Chuck, I know how the White House operates. I can tell you right now they –“
SCARBOROUGH: “Should they answer a question. You had a deal with your secretary of state.”
BRZEZINSKI: “My brother’s wife –who never made a speech and would not receive money. That would not be approved by the State Department. And he's the ambassador of Sweden.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Right.”
BRZEZINSKI: “She’s the secretary of state. I don't get it. I would like to know. I would like to ask the White House, what happened here? I think they are a part of it, Chuck.”
TODD: “Well, I mean, look, to me, though, that's the part that makes more damming on the Clintons. This is where I shake my head and don't understand why the Clintons continue to take foreign money. Clearly the White House was concerned enough that they felt that they had to put something in writing. Now I agree with you, let's get it all out there on that front. But to me, this is a reminder of like, the White House knew this looked back, why in god's Earth is the Clinton Foundation taking foreign donations? It just – it boggles the mind.”

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