Clinton: Wall Street speeches won't undermine me as president

[riversedge]

i have made a point not to watch morning joke. but will have to find the transcript at least.




Clinton: Wall Street speeches won't undermine me as president

By Nick Gass

02/25/16 07:02 PM EST

Hillary Clinton rebuffed the notion that her paid speeches to financial institutions could compromise her attempts to regulate Wall Street, in an interview set to air on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday.

“The real question underneath this is, OK, if you take money from Wall Street, can you regulate Wall Street?" Clinton said in a clip released by the show Thursday evening.

In making her case, Clinton pointed to President Barack Obama as someone who "took more money from Wall Street than any candidate who’s ever run for president" and then "turned around, passed and signed the Dodd-Frank bill."

"I think you should be judged on what you’ve done," she continued, alluding to Bernie Sanders' vote for legislation in 2000 that among other things, deregulated derivatives and credit swaps, remarking that it "had a greater impact than most of the talk that we’re now doing."

"So let’s get everybody out on the same field. I feel like, you know, I don’t mind being responsive, I don’t mind answering questions. But at some point, I want everybody to have to answer," she said.

Co-host Mika Brzezinski then asked if she could "assure the American people that you didn’t say anything in those speeches that would undermine your promise to be tough on Wall Street and the big banks."

“Absolutely. Absolutely," Clinton responded...........................................

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/02/hillary-clinton-wall-street-speeches-219812#ixzz41HbMoZoo

[yallerdawg]

1. If you can tell millions and millions of Americans...

you are going to give them free health care and free college tuition - and take millions and millions of dollars from them - why can't you take a pittance from a bank and lie to the bank?

Oh - I know - it's her.

[William769]

2. The Sanders campaign has a new ally? Guess who it is.

[Thinkingabout]

3. Hillary will be affected more with the mass shootings than the corporations on Wall Street.

Each person should be judged separately and not on the fact of what some people are influenced by money, not everyone is in this class.

[DemonGoddess]

4. I think the press needs to back off on

the transcripts. It's blatantly sexist, as they are NOT asking this of any other candidate, on either side.