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And it looked like bribery. >> bribery is a strong word, julie, and that's romney's opinion. the perception problem, look, this campaign says there is zero evidence and there is no evidence that as of secretary of state she was involved in the decision, and she said the decisions were made down below her and never got to her and there is no evidence of quid pro quo. but why would you introduce your business friend, why would you go to russia and take $500,000 for a speaking fee from a bank that has a stake in the deal when she is the secretary of state? >> well, of course we will never know. i...

Million donation from the president which was a secret and not disclosed by the clintons until the canadian government outed it. now, the canadian government wants to tell to russia. the state department approval is need and grarnt e granted. bill gets a $500,000 speaking fee. a national strategic asset. that very same russian company made a $2.35 million contribution to the clinton foub e foundation not disclosed by the clintons. now, hillary has always been against foreign government's controlling u.s. strategic also sets like ports. >> we believe that no foreign government should control ou...

We say i'll make your speaking fee $5,000 because that's what john layfield gets not that he gets that probably a lot more. to your other point, what if we made john rockefeller's income equal to everyone else? he would have no insensitive to start standard oil or andrew carnegie google why am i busting my tail to make billions of dollars if i'm just going to make as much as the median? it doesn't make any sense, brenda. >> jonas, does it? >> look at the countries that have toppled the rich. it didn't work out for cuba or the soviet union. look the rich are like your golden goose. you want to ...

Close in time to the transaction that you were objecting to received a $500,000 speaking fee for going to moscow and speaking at the behest of an investment bank that had ties to this deal. your reaction to that is what? >> well when you take a look at that that is much higher than the speaking fees that president clinton was getting up until that point. so it was a quantum leap in the amount of money that former president clinton was receiving for giving a speech. pfr i know that you cleasely read that story that broke thursday on the "new york times" website. it was a lengthy piece based in ...

Early on in her term pressed the reset button with russia to say we'd have a new arrangement, a new, a new day with russia. well now we see what's happened with russia and with putin and taking over crimia and incursions into ukraine and selling weaponry recently to iran and now we know that vladimir putin controls 20% of the uranium in the united states and has a relationship with iran at a time that we're trying to do the president is trying to do an arrangement with iran with regard to nuclear weapons. >> the times coverage also put on the front page the fact that former president bill clin...