MSNBC: UBS Paid Bill Clinton $1.5 Million for Q&A Sessions
RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
BRZEZINSKI: “The "Wall Street journal" is pointing out, for Ron, I'm curious, the extent to which the Clinton foundation and mega bank UBS overlap. Here's the story. Happening particularly during Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state. The paper reports in 2009, Clinton was alerted by her Swiss counterpart the irs was suing the bank to find out which Americans have secret accounts there. The journal reports in months, Clinton announced a tentative legal settlement, an unusual agreement by a top diplomat. They turned over information on a fraction of the accounts sought by the irs. The paper points out after that, UBS' donations to the Clinton foundations multiplied. From 2008 and earlier, they totaled about $60,000. As of 2014, about $600,000.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Boy, I can't wait to read the e-mails between secretary and UBS officials.”
BRZEZINSKI: “UBS has also paid former president Clinton to do sessions.”
SCARBOROUGH: “ Say that again.”
BRZEZINSKI: “UBS, the paper points out.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Paid Bill Clinton.”
BRZEZINSKI: “$1.5 million to do Q & a sessions with one of its executives. According to the paper, that makes them the top corporate source of speech income since he left the White House.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Wow. Ron Fournier, just where do you start there? I mean, we always seem to find that the cherry on top is bill Clinton going somewhere and getting paid $550,000 for speeches. Of course, when Hillary Clinton, secretary of state, here after she saves UBS, he gets paid $1.5 billion for a Q & a session.”
FOURNIER: “ Million.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Million. I'm a politician. Okay. Come on. $1.5 million for a question and answer session.”
FOURNIER: “Yeah, this is why I asked senior Democrats months ago, including people very, very close to the Clinton operation who were loyal to the Clintons saying that we had to follow the money. The e-mail scandal and foundation questions are probably related. And when you -- I mean, when you ask about trump, this trump phenomena isn't just about Republicans. Bernie Sanders isn't just about Democrats. We have a population right now that is really fed up with politics. And why? Why would we expect anything else? We have Hillary Clinton hiding god knows what on e-mails that she covertly hid and deleted. And we've got Republicans calling our president of the United States, comparing him to hitler. This is no way to run a government. This is no way to campaign. It's why a guy like trump, you know, who really is, I think, the Des Moines register had it right, a feckless blowhard, but he's something different now, something that an alternative to the crap we have.”
