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So when my husband agreed to expose the contributions to his foundation, that was a very unprecedented event, which he was happy to do. but the clinton global initiative, which is separate from the foundation, has always disclosed the contribution. >> nina burly, this was not just a promise she made to the obama administration as a condition of employment, it was a promise she made in her senate confirmationary. >> well, i think that the problem with this is mainly the saudi amounts of money. they're gigantic. tens of millions of dollars from gulf countries that are -- had abysmal human rights...

Gulf countries that are -- had abysmal human rights records. and the money that they're taking from those countries, i think, is more problematic than the canadian mining interests. what we're going to see is are people looking into canadian tax records and canadian documents for a very long time. >> you were at this speech that she gave today in new york. was there any indirect veiled reference to any of this? >> not a bit. but i was also at chelsea clinton's talk this morning at the council on foreign relations and she did field a few questions on it. and, of course she said that the clinton...

Economic impetus, the urgency in terms of the american economy hasn't figured more prominently in the debate over reform? >> i think first people should understand that the science has been around not just for a decade or two or three, but it goes back to 1840 when it was fird identified. then in 1896, a nobel prize winning chemist, swedish chemist, made the calculations that showed what would happen when the carbon dioxide doubles in the atmosphere. this goes back a long time. the controversy we're having right now is some confused people, but mainly a contrived controversy. we have to get be...

Where the west had huge investments in mining interests. to use that influence to free him and fight apartheid. >> that didn't happen. years passed. decades passed. an international movement sprung to boycott business, to di vest from them. to impose, to try to get governments to impose formal sanctions on that regime. it took hold here in the united states in the 1980s a. young student in los angeles asked his school's administration to stop investing in south african companies. >> that student's name was barak obama. free mandela became a popular rallying cry. not everyone in america was on ...

Sounds like it means. it literally blows up the top of mountains to make it easier to reach. blown apart, it gets dumped into rivers and streams. that sounds ghastly? wait. it gets worse. mountain top removal is a system that means mining company a doesn't mean to employ as many to do the mining you can even call it job-killing mountain top removal. bad for the environment and public health and bad for jobs a no brainer for a politician except that it has been common wisdom that mining is the undisputed third royal of politics. republicans and democrats vote for mining interests as residents o...