the more e-mails wikileaks releases, the more lies between the clinton foundation, the secretary of state s office, and the clinton s personal finances. they all get blurred. just today, we read about clinton confidant, doug brand, bragging that he had funneled tens of millions of dollars to bill clinton ink, through the foundation donations, paid speeches, and consulting contracts. mr. band called the arrangement unorthodox. the rest of us call it outright corrupt. there s another e-mail from wikileaks disclosure that people are talking about today. a lot of republicans. this one is from 2014. it appears to show doug band setting up a meeting between a tenio client and john podesta. then he was a white house senior adviser. he s now, of course, chair of hillary clinton s campaign. all of this feeds into a pay-to-play narrative, that the
the clinton foundation, the secretary of state s office and the clintons personal financers, they all get blurred. just today we read about clinton confidante doug brandt bragging he had funneled tens of millions of dollars to bill clinton, inc., through the foundation donations, paid speeches and consulting contracts. mr. band all it had arrangement unorthodox. the rest of us call it outright corrupt. in fact, the clinton foundation even hired a law firm to find out if their pay to play scheme was jeopardize their charitable status with the irs. if the clintons were willing to play is this fast and loose with their enterprise when they weren t in the white house, just imagine what they ll do given the chance to once again control to aufl office, and we ve had
all of the foundation donations. and we know that s not the case. then they said that they couldn t disclose these because the community in law would know that s not the truth. so whatever you think about her politically, it s very clear that her launch launching this campaign has been an assault on the public trust. you can t on one hand talk about how we have to mend our political nature and mend our mit political ways and literally be assaulting the public s trust. she has to give way on these issues or she can t lead this country. how does she get right on these issues? she gives a nice speech and takes things out of context some of these points and i would agree with but there s a reason she took the big hit in the recent trustworthiness poll that just showed that people had seen the clintons for what a lot of people think they are. they are people who are very smart, lots of talents but maybe their devotion to public service ends up for whatever reason being a devotion to build
this time reports that the clinton foundation failed to disclose 1100 foreign donors, 1100 of them. the organization promised to reveal, they had the deal with the obama administration they would be completely aboveboard on everything, that was condition of becoming secretary of state. this is all ahead of the release of the book clinton cash. you heard a lot here. i m happy to be joined by the author peter schweizer. thanks for having me. martha. what is going on with the new revelation of these 1100 documents? it fit as pattern we have in the book, memorandum of understanding signed with president obama and transition team they would have complete transparency of donors. this sun precedented. secretary of state and her family getting money for speeches or foundation donations. what is clear now more than 1,000 contributions, from foreign nationals that were never disclosed. this is a huge issue. a report today out of india,
hers isn t a commercial e-mail account. it s a big difference. i ll say lawrence to your point, about what the meaning of this is. already amazingly people are forgetting what the context of the story is which is that prior to this literally a week ago we were talking about the fact that the clinton foundation turned out had accepted money from foreign governments which was in con controvention. prior to that there were other controversies swirling around the foundation and its donors and foreign businesses that had given money. there is a massive questions about how she conducted herself in the state department relative to the foundation donations, donors to the foundation. all those questions are going to get picked at over the course of the coming months. this e-mail scandal, if it s a scandal or controversy, plays into that in the sense that it goes back to the question of