AP Reporter on Clinton Fdn. Cash: These Are the Things Ethics Councils Worry About

‘We’re not saying crimes were committed here’

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BRAUN: "I mean, the point was we wanted to look at, you know, among essentially outside interests who came in, got meetings with her, got facetime with her or talked with her on the phone. What we wanted to get a sense of is among them how many had contributed to the Clinton foundation. And, so, that’s how we went about it. I mean, look, there’s another half of that number who didn’t give to the foundation. She met with companies say a number of other companies. Philanthropies and they also got facetime, too. So it’s not as if they all did. But it’s, this is simply a question of access. Who got, who got in? Who got to talk to her? Obviously, if you’re a lobbyist, that would be the end game. If you could get, you know, your corporation head in to talk with her. All of these folks got that access. You know, we’re not saying crimes were committed here. We’re not, there’s no evidence that there were ethics approaches here. But these are the kind of things that ethics councils in administrations worry about. And in some cases, you know, they might have stymied meetings like that."
 

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