1999-2000, carries the bags, carries the cigar case, carries the cokes, diet cokes, and then after president clinton leaves the white house, he stays with clinton. he headed off for goldman sachs, he could have taken a regular, successful business route. he stays with president clinton, stays in that role of assistant, travels all around the world with him, just hundreds of cities, dozens of countries, on the private jets for all these years and becomes basically the main guy. yeah. if you want to get bill clinton to come to your event or get him, you go through doug band, basically. exactly. so, what s the problem here? scandal is in the headline of your piece. like, to justify the use of that word to me. well, the use of scandal was a bit of a headline writer s irony, but no, but there is a problem, and the problem is that there s been increasing overlap, really, between both for doug band and for sort of bill clinton and clinton land as a whole, overlap between the great pub
he could have just taken a regular, successful business route. he stays with president clinton, stays in that role of assistant, travels all around the world with him, just hundreds of cities, dozens of countries, on the private jets for all these years and becomes basically the main guy. yeah. if you want to get bill clinton to come to your event or get to him, you go through doug band, basically. exactly. so, what s the problem here? what is the the scandal is in the headline of your piece. like to justify the use of that word to me. well, the use of scandal was a bit of a headline writer s irony, but, no, but there is a problem, and the problem is that there s been increasing overlap, really between both for doug band and for sort of bill clinton and clinton land as a whole, overlap between the great public good that they ve been doing, including doug band. doug band helped come up with the clinton global initiative, which has distributed billions of dollars around the wor
the family business, the nonprofit that once used only her husband s name but now has been renamed the bill, hillary and chelsea clinton foundation. to compliment her new role, mrs. clinton also gave her first interview since leaving her post as secretary of state. new york magazine tried to convince the public that she and bill are just kicking back and taking it easy. we laugh at our dogs, we watch stupid movies, we take long walks. and yes, she is also considering running for president, adding i will just continue to weigh what the factors are that would influence me making a decision one way or the other. complicating matters, a new blockbuster expose from the new republic on some pretty suspect dealings within the clinton foundation. at the center of it, a guy named doug want, bill clinton s former bodyman, longtime confidante. bant oversaw the clinton global initiative and founded his own consulting firm dependent on his relationship with clinton. as alec mcgillis writes
it came about a long time ago back in, gosh, i think before the electric, before the 2012 election. one of my editors approached me and said we think it s time to do a good profile of doug band. he s been in the background in a lot of stories in the last decade or so. his profile s been growing, but he s never been focused on. so, i started making calls. basically, the day after the election. it s been a very long slog. clinton land is locked down more than ever before, so it s been on and off for ten months now. so, explain who this guy is and the role he plays. he s a fascinating figure. he s just a very complicated and fascinating figure. he was the guy who carried he was the body man for bill clinton, the character we know from west wing as charlie young, who he helped tutor to play that role. so, he comes in as the last body man for bill clinton in 1999-2000, carries the bags, carries the cigar case, carries the cokes, diet cokes, and then after president clinton leaves
tries to drudge up whitewater, our image of both clintons on old scandals like that is baked in. but all the stuff in alec s piece is new information. and a lot has transpired in the eight years or however long it s been since clinton left the white house. and with all the attention on clinton and his business cronies and all the kind of chaos that just naturally seems to kind of show up in hillaryland, i think it really could be a problem for her if she decides to run. i couldn t think of something more ironic than for this to blow up and sabotage a hillary clinton campaign. that would give you another book. well, this is why i really raised my eyebrows when i heard she was going to the foundation. there were 46 other things she could have done with the intervening two years, if she wants to run for president. alec, rebecca tracer and josh green from bloomberg business week. thank you all. that is all in for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts now.