haiti earthquakes and it is not condental. algeria was spending lobbying the state department because of human rights in algerria and the concern back in 2008 and set up guidelines was the appearance of conflict of special and now you see, there was a reality of a conflict of interest. let me play devil s advocate for a second and say what supporters of the former secretary of state and foundation are saying. look, it is an organization that tries to do good. we try to take care of children and education and quite you know greenhouse gas emissions around the world. and so if we are taking money for good causes. you know what is the harm? that s the argument that mrs. clinton and supporters of the foundation will make.
this is not a concern of right wing or hillary haters. it was a concern of the obama administration when they signed it. valerie on behalf. administration signed the agreement and they were obviously concerned about a potential conflict of interest and in one case the rules were violated when algerria contributed money for the first time after she was secretary of state, and at the same time they were lobbying the state department because of concerns about how the u.s. designated them on human right s list. that is a concern. these countries and other countries like oman and qatar and kuwait. and contributing money to the clinton foundation and same time hillary clinton was the country s chief diplomat. and the count reaps had concern of how the u.s. viewed them. a potential line for
on this story, and found that it there are exceptions made to the the rules some that violated a rule that the clinton foundation and an agreement with the clinton, i am sorry with the obama administration? chris? yeah it is pretty interesting, jon. and you are exactly right. going back to 2008, when barak obama a pointed hillary clinton as secretary of state, there was a concern how could she be secretary of state if the clinton foundation and her husband s foundation was raising millions of dollars from foreign countries? and the agreement was reached that no country that hadn t already give money couldn t give money. new countries couldn t do it. and concerns that they would be giving money in an effort to influence her and the state department and u.s. policy. and at least one case, algjerria that had not given money. and when she became secretary of state helped to relief after the