Transcripts For FBC The Intelligence Report With Trish Regan

FBC The Intelligence Report With Trish Regan August 24, 2016

Private individuals, more thants to the Clinton Foundation. Coincidence . Donald trump sure doesnt think so. He slammed clinton what he believes is a pay to play operation when she was secretary of the state. Listen. Hillary clinton is totally unfit to hold public office. It is impossible to figure out where the Clinton Foundation ends and the state department begins. Trish now you can anticipate that were going to hear more of that from mr. Trump when he addresses that crowd in a rally there in tampa. Meanwhile the Clinton Campaign out there dismiging these allegation, going so far as to accuse the Associated Press of biased reporting. Wow. Your favorite media critic, howie kurtz will weigh in on that one. Donald trump signaling he is open to softening some immigration laws but he still not backing down from building that wall and having mexico pay for it. Were this sudden change . Is it really a change . What will it mean to the ability to win over independent voters. Our Political Panel is here and will weigh in. Lets get back to the stop story. Clinton foundation, more than half the people she met with as secretary of state, gave money to the foundation. This is more than half. This is amazing stuff. Findings of a new Associated Press report. 85 of the 154 people sat down with her from private Interest Groups and talked with her while secretary of state, they donated to her familys foundation the 85 donors contributed a total of 156 million. Were they looking for favors . If so, what favors were they looking for . Economist looking to keep his job at a bank after being pressured to resign by the bangladesh government. A wall street executive needing to solve a visa problem. An estee lauder executive pushing for Corporate Charity . Or their Corporate Charity . To be fair there is no clear violation of any law but appearance of impropriety that is certainly clear. Joining me clinton surrogate basil smikel and trump surrogate, boris epshteyn. Boris what do you think went on . Obvious what went on. fon foundation was vehicle. They put out a call they were open for business. It was vehicle for domestically and very important internationally to gain leverage over the clintons. You didnt mention, representatives of 16 governments had meetings with clinton. Those governments gave at least 170 million to the foundation while she was secretary of state. This after she signed a pledge, a pledge that foreign governments would no longer be giving money into her foundation. That was a lie. She has lied on everything. She has lied on the emails, on the foundation. She even lied about lying. Trish basil, you see what the criticism is. Was she for sale as secretary of state . No, not at all. Secretary of state. It is not problematic for her to meet with leaders of foreign governments. Trish maybe it was problematic for her to meet why give oneonone meeting unless one of those meetings was with Melinda Gates who is international philanthropist. Muhammad yunis a nobel prize winner. I think criticism of ap story it mischaracterized meetings. It wasnt 185. She met with 1700 people in course of her time as secretary of state. Alone . What im saying its a subset of a larger amount of meetings. There is no pay to play. There is no evidence of pay to play. Trish you said there is no evidence of pay to play. No there isnt. Royalty of bay rain clearly showed pay to play. Trish can i jump in here for a minute guys, i dont think it matters whether there is evidence or not. The fact that she was talking to donors, giving them private oneonone time while her husband was collecting money from them, that in of itself is problem enough. You know why . Life is about perception. There was perception she was for sale regardless whether she was or not. Giving Foundation Money not because she was secretary of state. To bring those two things together what boris said and you said. Take one. Emails. Individuals trying to get access to her through huma abedin. What was the response . The response was no. This person needs to go through proper channels. Has already gone through proper channels. Im not intervening here. That go through the foundation. No, no. The response trish hang on everybody is talking at once. I cant understand a thing you guys are saying. One at a time. The response you needed to go through proper channels and that was actually done. So my point is, anyone who is ever tried to engage government will try any method possible to get what they want. So that method shouldnt exist. Trish by the way, mark toner from the state department, he issued a statement saying i quote, there are no prohibitions from Agency Contacts with political campaigns, nonprofits or foundations including Clinton Foundation allegedly saying everything she did was aboveboard. She was allowed to have these relationships. I go back to simple stuff, if you are a federal judge and a Company Comes before you that you need to make a decision on and you own stock in that company, guess what you have to recuse yourself. You know why you have to recuse yourself . Because there is a sense you might be biased n this particular situation why on earth is her husband out there with his hand out collecting from the very same people that she is meeting with as secretary of state and countries . People like the lebanese nine ninian convicted money launderer. He pledged 60 million. Gave millions to the Clinton Foundation. Lets not your whole argument is destroyed clintons themselves are saying if she is lee elected she will change anything. That is call for bribes. They should shut the all down. Trish why shut it down when she becomes president when she didnt shut it down when secretary of state, basil. For the exact reason that i said before. It is, she is meeting with world leaders. That is part of the job. Wait a minute. Trish not going to have anything to do with it if he is president. He is doing foundational work. The point it is, we are what 70 some odd days out. If you shut it down today, all the work that the foundation has been doing it should be shut down. Stops immediately. Give it time to complete the work it is doing and it is done. That is good talking point. Democrats are saying it should be shut down. Trish seems to me the American People deserve more. They deserve not to be asking these questions right now. And if you think there is going to be a chance people will ask questions. Guess what you say, im not going to do it. Im not going to take that meeting because that person is a contributor to the foundation and i need to have a chinese wall but she had no chinese wall. She obviously seemed to be on both sides of that equation. We dont know what really happened. But it is not good. I will see you guys. Thank you so much. This is new one here from the clinton camp, from ap report calling that that the news agency is biased. Ap is biased. That is the analysis is flawed. This is the Clinton Campaign effectively saying ap done shoddy reporting. It is outrage just to represent secretary clintons basis meeting with the individuals. Distorted portrayal how she crossed paths with individuals who donated to Clinton Foundation. New york times, they didnt report the story at all. Not at all. And where was the outrage when the Mainstream Media was doing all it could to take donald trump . Host of mediabuzz on Fox News Channel, howie kurtz is here with me. Howie, i would like your assessment of the aps story as it now is. What do you think . First of all ap has a pretty good reputation for accuracy, here is why the story is carefully worded and fair. Two main points. Clinton campaign, only covered half of her tenure as secretary of state. That is true it acknowledged in the story because ap had to sue the state department because only coughed up a couple of years of secretary clintons calendar. You heard this earlier in the segment, subset of all meetings. Because as the story says, the app excluded all meetings she had with government officials, federal employees, because that is her job to meet with them. Just looked at ones which were private officials including people from overseas, including at least a couple of people with questionable reputations because that is where questions might be raced. Trish you think its a fair story . The clinton camp saying no. This is flawed. This is the biased reporting. Is this just a clinton attempt scrambling here to throw something at the wall to see what sticks . Well, it is standard spin control and damage control. I understand that but to go beyond, well we dispute it because here is bunch numbers and so forth i think it is unfair to hurl a charge of bias. The ap never says pay to play, she was for sale. The ap says this fuels perceptions that giving the Foundation Money was price of admission for face time with clinton. Certainly those perceptions are are out there. The final argument the clinton folks, trish, some of these people Melinda Gates she would have met with anyway. Probably true. But the story doesnt claim otherwise. Trish this ask what ive been saying. We dont know whether there is pay to play, howie. I dont need to get into that. For me the problem is, this perception. You know, that perception in many cases seems as though it is reality. It is reason why i keep saying judges have to recuse themselves from making a decision on a company that they may have a personal stake in. That they have stock in. Because it is the sense that people need to be, especially secretary of state or federal judge, they need to be beyond reproach. There cant be these lingering questions that members of the media can pick up on. And trish, that is reinforced by the fact that bill clinton says if his wife wins the election he will stop raising money and wont is a accept any, foundation will not accept foreign money. Why wasnt that standard good enough for secretary of state. Clinton campaign using bias is not used to Relentless Media scrutiny donald trump gets. Fine to push back. All campaigns do that. Seems to me off base to say the apwas biased. I found the story very carefully worded. Trish howie, why doesnt she address this . Why doesnt she hold a press conference . There has been 260 days she has gotten up there to answer questions from reporters . Why doesnt she answer questions . Her Campaign Manager is unable to answer question. Has given many interviews. She went on jimmy kimmel opened a pickle jar. That counts as media appearance. Trish not really. She knows she will get a lot of questions about emails and foundation. She doesnt want to do that one of the reasons it would be so heavily focused on questions because weve gone many, many months without a News Conference all these questions built up. If she met with the press regularly. Gave more interviews, those questions would be asked at time and could get her message out. Trish also creates the perception of maybe she has something to hide, is that the reason why she is not coming forward . Anyway, howie, always good to see you, sir. Great to be back. Trish dont forget, watch howie on media buzz on the Fox News Channel at 11 00 a. M. And 5 00 p. M. Eastern every single sunday. Since day one conservative Watchdog Group Judicial Watch has been demanding answers regarding Hillary Clintons use of a private email server. Thanks to its efforts, the state department has been ordered to release thousands of clintons emails while she was secretary of state. And that is not all. Clinton will have to answer written questions from the group. Director of investigations for Judicial Watch, chris farrell, joins me next. We have breaking news we want to tell you about American University in afghanistan. It has come under attack. Witnesses say they heard loud explosions. They heard gunshots. The countrys ministry of health says at least one person has died, more than a dozen others hurt. Were getting a number of reports coming in to us. This is university actually had been under attack as recently as two weeks ago. There are some thoughts this was a militant effort. We will have more on this developing story. I will see you right back here right after this. Trish breaking right now, donald trump is speaking. You see him there. Lets listen in. He is in tampa, florida, and talking about taxes regulations and creating more jobs in this country. Lets listen. Christians, jews, catholics,s muslims, everybody, you have to get out and vote on november 8th. [cheering] there is only one person you can vote for, donald trump. Were going to do our job. Were going to do it. [cheering] were going to do it with you. Hillary clinton wants to put the miners and the steelworkers out of work. You have heard her. [booing] youve heard her. We are going to lift restrictions on all American Energy and we are going to stand up to foreign cheating which is what theyre doing. Theyre cheating. That threatens Steel Production in america. Theyre dumping all over this country because they want our steel to go out of business so they can make this steel for us an charge us plenty. Not going to happen, folks. Not going to happen. Hillary clinton. Hillary clinton want to expand job killing obamacare and put government in charge of your health care. You know where that leads. [booing] they tried that in venezuela, you see what is happening. Not working. Not working in many other places. This is so important. Are you ready . We are going to repeal and replace obamacare. And create [cheering] and, by the way, i have to tell you always guess one of the most incredible applause. People are dieing with obamacar it is a disaster. Your premiums are going up by 40 , 50 . The number, or november 1st. Theyre trying to move the date because is an electionchanging number. Could be close to 50 . They want to make it in december. They dont want to reveal the numbers. Obamacare is a disaster. In the great state of texas, they had almost a 50 increase going through blue crossblue shield. Almost a 50 increase, and the people are furious. You will have more than that. And folks, it is not going to work. It is dying of its own weight, regardless who becomes president it is dead. She will try and save it by raising everybodys taxes. Believe me, we can, we can come up with a plan, that will be so much less expensive and so much better. And we will do that. [cheering] we will create choice and competition and that is really going to make it swing. It will be amazing thing to watch. All right, Hillary Clinton wants to trap children in failing schools, 100 . I want School Choice, choice, choice. So you have competition. I want charter schools, and i want merit pay for our great teachers. We should have merit pay. Nobody more important than a teacher. We should have merit pay for those teachers that are outstanding. Were going to put our kids on to the ladder of success. And that is a good education, and then, a great job. That is what we need. [cheering] this is so important for our inner cities. Our inner cities are suffering like never before. They have been run by democrats for some years. Some cases over 100 years. Almost every innercity is run by the democrats. Nearly four in 10 africanamerican children live in poverty. Think of it. 58 of africanamerican youth are not employed. 58 . More more 2700 people have been shot in chicago since the beginning of the year, not a long time. Homicides are up nearly 50 in washington, d. C. , and more than 60 in baltimore. The Democratic Party has run as i have said nearly every innercity in this country for 50 or 60, in some cases over 100 years. Over a hundred years. They produced only more poverty, only more crime, only more joblessness, and broken homes all over the place. At record levels. To those suffering and hurting, and the people left behind, i say, vote for donald trump. Vote for donald trump. [cheering] trump, trump, trump thank you. Trish you have been listening there to donald trump, once again hitting all the issues that have been so important in this campaign from the economic front, talking about the importance of creating jobs and the need for lower taxes, less regulation, to do that, he also emphasized competition in the school system, something the teachers unions have obviously been quite adamantly against, him saying we need School Choice. I think he had some hand motions as well, big c or something, trying to make with his hands when it comes to School Choice. Merit pay was another policy he put forward for teachers. Merit pay, School Choice and charter schools. The need for choice and competition in order to really help our student in the best way possible. He also made another appeal to minority communities by saying that minority communities have been so disserviced by the liberal economic policies of the left for basically the last 100 years he said, it is time that that start to change, so again, more policy from donald trump. No teleprompter. No teleprompter today. This is rally. Rallies are a little different from the speeches. He is getting a lot of applause there from the crowd. Especially when he talked about the need for repealing obamacare, something he said needs to be done. He emphasized that the crowd always loves that one because people are seeing their premiums go up. Anyway, well take a quick break. Well be right back with more from donald trump. And also, well be talking to head of investigations for Judicial Watch. Judicial watch is the group that managed to get those emails that everybody was so curious about and have now led to many

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