‘That Is False!’: Fiorina Responds to Chuck Todd on HP CEO Record

TODD: “Let me play for you, there's some concerns with some Republicans, as excited as they are about your candidacy, that they're concerned your time at HP is going to be a liability a la Mitt Romney. Let me play for you an ad Barbara Boxer used against you and ask you to respond on the other side.”
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ANNOUNCER (IN AD): “As the CEO of HP, Carly Fiorina laid off 30,000 workers.”
FIORINA (IN AD): “When you're talking about massive layoffs, which we did, perhaps the work needs to be done somewhere else.”
ANNOUNCER (IN AD): “And while Californians lost their jobs, Fiorina tripled her salary, bought a million-dollar yacht, and five corporate jets.:
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TODD: “Can you reassure Republicans who are still shell-shocked over what the Obama campaign was effectively able to do to Mitt Romney on the issue of layoffs, that that won't happen to you? When Barbara Boxer played that ad, her lead grew.”
FIORINA: “Yeah, you know, I find it very rich. Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, all the Democrats who are attacking me, they've never created a job, they've never saved a job, and their policies destroy jobs, including Mrs. Clinton's latest position on Keystone Pipeline. Look, I have run to problems all my life. It's how you go from secretary to CEO. And I think people are looking for a president who will run to the problems that this nation faces. Yes, I led HP through a very difficult time. The NASDAQ dropped 80%. Some of our strongest competitors went out of business all together, taking every job with them. We saved 80,000 jobs. We went on to grow to 150,000 jobs. We quadrupled the growth rate of the company, quadrupled the cash flow of the company, tripled the rate of innovation of the company. And went from lagging behind to leading in every single product and every single market. I will run on that record all day long.”