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Clintons Defend Foundation Amidst 'Pay for Play' Accusations

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The "pay for play" stories of access and leaked emails continue to pile up against Hillary Clinton. Our CBN News team breaks down the political impact.

The Clinton campaign is in full damage control mode this week, pushing back after a new report from the Associated Press revealed that more than half of the non-government people who met with Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State were major donors to the Clinton Foundation.

Now, a surge in calls for the foundation to be shut down. Republican Presidential nominee, Donald Trump, among those leading the attacks--calling the foundation a "vast pay for play scheme."

Trump wants a special prosecutor to investigate the claims.

The Clinton camp calls the AP report "utterly flawed data," both Hillary and Bill Clinton defending their foundation. 

"My work as Secretary of State was not influenced by any outside forces. I made policy decisions based on what I thought was right," said Hillary Clinton.

Bill also chimed in saying, "We're trying to do good things. If there's something wrong with creating jobs and saving lives, I don't know what it is."

AP responded to the Clinton criticism of its report, VP and Director of Media Relations, Paul Colford, issuing a statement: "This reporting was done by the same AP investigative team that discovered Mrs. Clinton's private email server and traced it to her basement in Chappaqua, New York, and whose reporting last week resulted in the resignation of Donald Trump's top campaign strategist."

Although Clinton still leads in the polls, the issue could be hurting her with voters already. Trump is likely to continue to use it against her in the weeks ahead, and quite possibly in the presidential debates as well.


 

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Caitlin Burke serves as National Security Correspondent and a general assignment reporter for CBN News. She has also hosted the CBN News original podcast, The Daily Rundown. Some of Caitlin’s recent stories have focused on the national security threat posed by China, America’s military strength, and vulnerabilities in the U.S. power grid. She joined CBN News in July 2010, and over the course of her career, she has had the opportunity to cover stories both domestically and abroad. Caitlin began her news career working as a production assistant in Richmond, Virginia, for the NBC affiliate WWBT