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>> i think it's often friendship. sometimes it's access and a policy priority on some issue. but also it depends how rich the donor is. with allegedsddelson, people sat $100 million in the campaigns. he says himself that's nothing. he makes that in two weeks on his dividends. so people don't understand the scale of the wealth that is accessible to these groups through super pacs. >> it is very hard to get your head around what it would mean to have a billion dollars at your disposal, right? so it's very hard to understand that, like, i remember going back and running the numbers on newt gingri...

Kind of nomination of a permanent ambassador. as you know, wolf, there are cuban american republicans up on capitol hill like marco rubio who's running for president who doesn't like what the president is doing here with this new policy. he says that the united states needs to demand a fuller appreciation of human rights in cuba, protection of human rights in cuba. and that's been a sticking point for u.s. and cuba the last several months in terms of opening these embassies, the u.s. wants to be assured that their diplomats down in havana will be able to visit with cuban dissidents in that cou...

Not only is there the question of what were they hiding but they on the face of it violated what was a clear rule. >> it's also not rebutted in the response. the response doesn't address that. >> i think the larger takeaway from the article is we caught the clintons in a quid pro quo. we caught them selling u.s. policy for a clinton speech but it's not there. >> here is what drives me nuts, okay. the strong errs version of this and the "clinton cash" book, from what i've seen of the excerpts, is this idea of quid pro quo. in the colombia free trade deal, colombia makes a donation to the clinto...

In the colombia free trade deal, colombia makes a donation to the clinton foundation, the secretary pushes for a colombia free trade agreement. >> right. >> that seems pretty ridiculous on its face because the colombia free trade agreement is already a policy priority. it's going to happen independent. >> exactly. >> what does seem clear, though, is there is a lot of money going into the clinton foundation. there are a lot of people who have interests before the state department who are donating, right? and given what hillary clinton was walking into, shouldn't there have been unbelievable car...

The colombia free trade deal colombia makes a donation the secretary pushes for colombian free trade agreement. that seems pretty ridiculous on its face because the colombian free trade agreement is already a policy priority. what does seem clear, though, is there's a lot of money going in the clinton foundation, a lot of people who have interest before the state department who are donating, right? and given what hillary clinton was walking into shouldn't have there have been unbelievable care taken to put fire walls, to have ethics lawyers flagging stuff, to say to toll varl pro actively disc...