businessman was not disclosed on clinton global initiative documents. so they were supposed to report all of the money they got. so what this article in the new york times found was that canadian businessman who was all in the center of this whole deal to sell these uranium mining rights to russia, gave the cgi money that never showed up on their documents. then they paid bill clinton $500,000 for a speech. there is no link between any government decisions and those contributions suspect as they may appear to you and many other. well the truth is, we re talking about two separate entities here. you have the clinton foundation and you have the clinton global initiative which is subsidiary of the clinton foundation. they have been able to manuever money between those two organizations in very secretive way for a very long time and they never had to disclose anything. donors expenditures, nothing. it is all been highly secretive. look, you talk about propriety and possible conflicts
leading the pack in this. we ll see how he stacks up against hillary clinton where he stacks up better than any of the other potential opponents, still lower, but lower by only go points. jeb bush down by seven against hillary clinton. what do you make of it? here is the problem. hillary clinton is arguably still dominant. she doesn t have any legitimate challengers yet. that might change. the problem is that the worst and most problematic scandals for any candidate are the ones that reinforce preexisting negative notions about that candidate. that is why the clinton cache foundation money and that scandal, private email and private server, that scandal are essentially serving as tipping points, who said i may have liked her or trusted her in the past but i m growing to give her a shot because it is her turn first woman. martha: so hard to right that ship. but these scandals, martha serve as tipping points for a lot of voters, i was already
papers were heralding how excited they were they would be global leader in energy after this went down. correct. martha: so the reset button allowed russia to basically i am claim global energy dominance. so even on a purely policy level as secretary of state that looks like a failure. well, look the reset clearly, martha was a failure given what the russians have done in ukraine. right now the russians aren t claiming any dominance in world energy markets given decline in price of oil but i think ultimately we re in a political campaign and the clintons have to make decisions. martha: of the world s uranium deposits and mining under their jurisdiction and making money off of it. let s move on to the impact of the election and move on to the polls to see how hillary stacks up against marco rubio. these are latest numbers we ve seen. so okay, this is the other poll that we have here. so this is who would you vote for today if you are, these are republicans that were asked this quest
this new york times piece that came out this morning. she is referring to specifically money from saudi arabia and from ukraine. sure. martha: what does that response tell you? it is going part of the way. candidly in a presidential campaign as somebody who was advisor to bill clinton, i would say stop taking money from foreign governments now, period. it is issue of appearance. even if they don t believe it is issue of substance. i don t think there is schonekasal link between contributions and policy, notwithstanding times attar kel and with politics and appearance an even propriety they should stop taking. isn t that not an admission then what you were doing in the past may have been unconnect call at very least. no, i don t think so. it is appearance martha: should have done appearance of conflict of interest when she became secretary of state if that was concern. she did and started taking money again, which to me there was mistake. martha: there were instances in th
things. democrats are happy democrats did not go there to be potted plants like harry reid treated them. we re seeing the results of letting them work. they re working 43% more work days in the senate thus far this year. bill: thank you, guys. good morning, everyone. breaking news on growing scandal surrounding the clinton campaign. we re learning of a potential quid pro quo between rush that and state department with hillary clinton at center of it all. follow us here. it gets complicated. we say good mornings, i m bill hemmer. welcome to america s newsroom. martha: i m martha maccallum. journalists at fox news immediately began to follow the money and connect dots after learning about claims made in this upcoming book clinton cash. we now know the state department under hillary clinton s control signed off on a deal that would allow russia to buy a uranium company. bill: all this as money continued to flow into the clinton foundation and a lot of