it gives money to highly paid consultants who on the clinton foundation payroll. is claim that the money doesn't go to the clintons, it does, indirectly. i mean, bill clinton wrote a book called giving a few years ago which was about the clinton foundation. he took the advance which was about a million dollars for himself personally. and, third, to the point that people are going to die, that is ridiculous. clinton foundation has done some good things. there are lots of other charities that are doing better things and i think dollars will be better spent on other charities than they clinton foundation. >> peter, we have heard a lot of the stories from the things going on. some of the things that the clinton foundation has done, pay to play, illegal, who knows. do you think the fbi is investigating currently and do you think there should be a special prosecutor? >> well, i don't know the exact status of what the fbi is doing now. i will say that earlier this year at their request i sat down with two people from the bureau to talk about some things related to the cli

evolution ofthe the clinton foundation. i mean, not long before hillary clinton announced for president, didn't they rename the clinton foundation the bill/hillary/chelsea clinton foundation? >> right. she became very, very involved in the fundraising between the time she left the state department and when she announced her run for the presidency. she helped raise as much as $250 million from many of the same corporations in order to beef up the endowment to give the clinton foundation running in the future. in addition, she was giving a lot of speeches, as was bill clinton giving speeches, that were being paid -- as famously we know bernie sanders up the fact that she was taking money from wall street and banks to 200ng speeches up $50,000 a pop. we may hear a little bit more about that today or in the coming days because we understand the clinton campaign is getting ready to release the returns.st tax we already know some of this from her personal financial disclosure forms, but we might see additional information coming o

they are repeatedly giving money to the clinton foundation. i don't think you are arguiuingi have not heard anyone argue the saudi regime or another dictatorial regime is giving money to the clinton f foundatin because theyey really, and a a p well of their hard, t ty want to help poor childrenen or solve povertrty. they are repeatedly giving money to the clinton foundation at a time they are seeking entirely controversial arms d deals. therere was a saudi deal with te state department says it wasas hillary clinton's pepersonal top prioiority to get one of the biggest saudi ararms deals througugh, thehe israelis are raising concerns about it. it went through. the money flflowed in to the clinton -- the clinton -- toto e clinton foundation. why were the donors giving? what did they think they were getting? the critics of this say what it ended up being was intentionally a way that donors saw way to curry favor with the state department on controversial issues. >> two points. one, the reason n e clintonn state department and the enentie obama adm

new questions have arisen this week over hillary clinton and the clinton foundation. on tuesday, the associated press published a new investigation revealing that while hillary clinton served as secretary of state, more than half of the private citizens she met with had donated to the clinton foundation. the ap investigation comes after a three-year battle to gain access to state department calendars. the analysis shows that at least 85 of 154 people hillary clinton had scheduled phone or in-person meetings with were foundation donors. this does not include meetings clinton held with u.s. or foreign government workers or representatives, only private citizens. these 85 donors contributed more than $150 million to the foundation combined. calling into cnn's ac360 wednesday, clinton slammed the investigation. mrs. clinton: there is a lot of smoke and there is no fire. this ap report -- put it in context. it excludes nearly 2000 meetings i had with world leaders, plus countless other meetings with u.s. government officials when i was secretary of state. it looked at a sma

a state department briefing under way responding to questions about ties with the clinton foundation. as we learn of another crack in the dam for hillary clinton. let's listen. >> evidence of the way the process works in that, you know, any secretary of state has aides who are getting e-mails or contacts via a broad range of individuals and organizations. >> so as far as you're concerned, what these e-mails, like the ones that just were released today, don't show anything new, this is old news, you guys have already looked into this and decided that there wasn't any problem? >> i mean, of course we're always assessing new e-mails as they come in. i'm sorry, go ahead. >> go ahead and finish. >> we always assess e-mails as they come in. >> these are new e-mails. >> i understand that. >> you guys are confident or you know that these e-mails today have been looked at by people whose job it is to look at these things and decide whether or not there was a violation or appearance of -- >> that's my understanding, yes. >> and nothing in there? >> i stand by what i said. >> the inference that

appreciate it. >>> still ahead, as donald trump calls for the closure of the clinton foundation, how the people witness what the foundation has done first hand are responding, that's ahead. >>> thing 1 tonight, before he was tapped to run as vice president, indiana governor mike pence wasn't exactly well known nationally. immediately after trump picked him to be his running mate, a poll found that 53% of people didn't know enough about mike pence to say he was a good or bad choice. and 76% said the pence pick made no difference on whether they would vote for trump or not. today after a solid month of campaigning on the republican ticket, is mike pence any better known? recent polls suggest yes, but as the governor learned at a pennsylvania barber shop today, it's still a work in progress. >> perfect. >> that's great. >> your name was? >> mike pence. >> mike pence. >> now, your name? we're going to play that again. and you have to see what happens next. that's thing 2, it's coming in 60 seconds. >> the only reason henry jones opened his barber shop today, because a local state represen

rerouted them to the clinton foundation. they then donated massive sums of money to the foundation. all of a sudden, they got official access to secretary clinton. i mean, that is corruption. using the taxpayer entity -- >> can i ask -- >> hold on, david. >> it's why the e-mails are important. we're finding things within these e-mails that have tentacles throughout the clinton foundation, the clintons themselves. go ahead, david. >> i have to ask, you mentioned the word corruption. i haven't seen, nor has the fbi, nor in the reporting of the ap -- >> you haven't? >> faulty reporting. >> you haven't seen anything? no pay to play? no quid pro quo? i'll give you a lot of them. >> sure. >> i'll give you one. crown prince of bahrain drops money into the clinton foundation and got a meeting which was prior said, she's not ready to meet with you. drops the money and he gets the access. >> every congress and every senator that takes any money in contributions should not meet with those donors? >> if they're doing it -- if they're giving it after the money. they're doing quid pro quo, as well

right now, let's listen to what he said about the clinton foundation just moments ago. >> hillary clinton is either too corrupt or too cowardly to meet with the families of those killed by the policies she and obama support. [crowd boos] >> hillary clinton has totally forgotten the first rule of public service, the job of an elected official is to serve the citizens of the united states. [cheers and applause] that's what the job is. and if you don't understand that then you are not fit to run for the office of president of the united states. [cheers and applause] if you are not prepared to put american workers first, then you should not hold or seek public office. we're not working for somebody else. we're not working for another country. it's just that simple no issue better illustrates how corrupt my opponent is than her pay for play scandals as secretary of state. [crowd boos. as the evidence has become public over the last several months, i have become increasingly shocked by the vast scope of hillary clinton'hillaryclinton's crimin. everybody knows it our country has gone so far behi

stories and allegations about the relationship between the clinton state department and the clinton foundation has been a steady stream of document production in litigation between the state department and two conservative activists groups. the group released 725 e-mails this week and many involved clinton's aid who in one exchange told executives that the crown prince of bahrain would stand a better chance of getting a meeting with clinton if he went through the foundation. that meeting was set up within 48 hours. last week it was reported that the leb knees billionaire seen here wanted the state department officials who are shaping policy on lebanon and the enter medicine areas were band. he had previously given up 5 million to the foundation and a few weeks after clinton stepped down as secretary the state department bought land in nigeria. the e-mails show the slimfast tycoon sought and received a meeting with clinton almost within 24 hours. and just in the last 24 hours fox news has reported that laura graham, the chief operating officer of the clinton foundation left nearly 150 phone mes

>> you know, honestly, the clinton foundation and the relationship to hillary clinton and bill clinton and their outside operators and the access gate being controlled through the foundation is structurally corrupt, and if it's not illegal, it should be made illegal. and i'm not a big fan of making new laws and make more things illegal, but this is third world style. this is what you expect in middle eastern country where if you want a meeting with the grand pooh-ba, you have to pay somebody off, get money to the foundation and there's a buffer like the corleone family. they have the entity on the outside, you pay the pole and get access to the pooh-bah. you know working overseas you got to spread money around. this is like that. >> i'll say something, i want to speak to the legal aspect, if it's not illegal it should be. i don't advocate for new laws, oddly enough, lou, what she's done is not illegal per se, but huge ethical problems are implicated here. she took an oath and signed an agreement saying she would do everything in her power to keep the dealings of the state department as

she did it to hide her shady clinton foundation dealings. she did it in order to do favors for clinton donors and to put a price tag on our state departme department. the same duo who came up with a scheme to rent out the lincoln bedroom is back in business with a new and bigger scheme, one that is more far-reaching and worldwide, one that violates not only the law but all codes of moral and ethical conduct in government. a couple willing to sell anything to the highest bidder for money and power. this is why the e-mails were hidden from the beginning. and this is why they were ultima ultimately destroyed and deleted. this week we find out top state department aide sheryl mills, formerly of the president bill clinton impeachment team, aligned with hillary ever since, and also on that private server was advised in 2012 that a freedom of information request was made for the number of e-mail accounts used by hillary clinton. now dozens of senior officials throughout the state department including clinton's immediate staff obviously concerned, ex

whose lives have been changed by the work of the clinton foundation. ave to make sure that work continues. the president has reinvented philanthropy in in country. this is an extraordinary foundation. and no one in the foundation wants to see these attacks or in any way be perceived as having a conflict of interest. and by the end of the election, if she wins, it will be very clear to the american people what we will do and what programs will remain in the foundation. the only thing i can assure you at the moment is the clinton library is going to remain in the foundation and that the president is going to visit his foundation, library. >> sreenivasan: okay. thank you. donna shalala, president of the clinton foundation. thank you for joining us. >> woodruff: stay with us. coming up on the newshour: a drastic spike in the price of epipens used to combat allergic reactions; and the astronomical discovery of an earth-like planet. but first, anti-immigrant sentiment is on the rise in europe and it has spread to iceland, one of the more unusual destinations

martha: how is the clinton foundation responding at this point. reporter: they are essentially saying they will change procedures if hillary clinton is elected president. they are also punching back. the campaign chairman john a decembechair, john podestasays o come clean about his taxes. >> the clinton foundation is a non-profit organization that is a world class charity. it provided lif life-saving aids drugs to the world and all the donors have been disclosed. they have gone further and said them restructure it completely if hillary clinton is elected president. that's a pledge. reporter: the clinton foundation took attacks seriously with their swift response. eric: there are new questions whether donald trump is softening his stance on immigration. they canceled what was supposed to be a big speech on that issue thursday in colorado. john, let's fairs start with the clinton situation and those emails and mr. trump's call for a special prosecutor. reporter: there is an age-old tactic in politics, when your opponents campaign is running off the r

once more, the clinton foundation faced pay for play charges and calls for the clinton's to distance themselves further from the foundation if hillary clinton wins the presidency and candidates called each other nas in anasty and negative cpaign thatappears to be turning voters off. we'll s what that means down the road. but we begin with donald trump's ham-handed efforts to find a middle ground on deportation. was he for it before he was against it or a little bit of both? in iowa yesterday, trump tried to explain again. >> all the media wants to talk about is the 11 million people. >> after a week in an attempt to moderate immigration turned into a muddle. >> there certainly can be a softening because we're not looking to hurt people. >> i heard people say it's a harden hardening. >> monday, trump appeared to defend topresident obama's poli. >> lots of people were brought int the country with existing laws. >> as the week went on, his position multiplied. >> they have to pay back taxes. they have to pay taxes. there is no amnty, as such. there no amnesty. >> there iso path to legali

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and the bill, hillary and chelsea clinton foundation will change its name to just the clinton foundationther words, no hillary. >> drew joins me now. just to be clear, this only happens if hillary clinton is elected president? >> reporter: yes. it's a contingency plan. bill clinton putting out a statement today saying exactly that. if she is elected, the changes will be immediate. but not until then, at least that's not the impression from the statement. he did say it's a plan they have been working on for several months and will take a long period of time to untangle all the foreign business and partnerships that the clinton foundation is involved with all across the globe. >> even if elected the clinton foundation, they will still be raising money, they are just saying from u.s. sources? >> reporter: yes, only without bill clinton. he's going to step down. again, if she's elected. he says he will step down from the foundation board, he will also stop raising funds for the foundation, but the work of the foundation will go on. >> drew griffin, appreciate that. >>> next, conspiracy theor

first, brand new bombshell evidence of pay to play deals between the clinton foundation and hillary's state department. senior executive was in regular contact with hillary's chief of staff when she was secretary of state. meanwhile, clinton said she turned everything over to the feds, but the fbi has dug up 15,000 previously unreleased e-mails. hillary was on kimmel last night, brushing the matter off. >> i actually added it up today. the state department said that they have to release 15,000 e-mails by the deadline. it's a couple of days before the debate. are you concerned about that? >> no. >> i would be terrified if my e-mails were released. >> jimmy, my e-mails are so boring. and i'm embarrassed about that. they're so boring. we've already released, i don't know, 30,000 plus. so what's a few more? >> donald trump is calling for the justice department to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate. >> the amounts involved, the favors done and the significant number of times it was done require an expedited investigation by a special prosecutor immediately, immediately, immediatel

he gave between 1 million to 5 million to the clinton foundation. to the clinton global initiative which is also part of the foundation. the clinton foundation's top operative doug band communicates with the clinton top aide at the state department he wants to talk with someone the top guy about lebanon. he says he is important to us. which translates to most normal people as is he important to us because is he a big donor to us. and so people raise the issue as why is it that mrs. clinton who promised to stay out of clinton foundation business almost immediately the clinton foundation, her top aides are trying to take care of a clinton donor. >> if you read some of these emails it, sounds like this doug band is telling huma abedin in this instance is working teti moment for hillary clinton, telling her what he wants her to do, and she is responding saying yes, i will do that. i will get that done. >> that is the very definition of quid pro quo. especially if you tie in that money, the 1 to 5 million. >> exactly. and abedin and cheryl mills who is a

when it comes to the clinton foundation. it is refusing to look into a story we reported wednesday on fox about e-mails suggesting an inappropriate relationship between the clinton charitable foundation and the state department when hillary clinton was in charge. this comes as democrats are said to be bracing for more hacked e-mails to go public. correspondent rich edson has tonight's sop story. >> reporter: federal officials have dropped their investigation. fox news reported in january the fbi had expanded its investigation into state's possible relationship with the clinton foundation. senior justice officials now tell fox there is currently no federal investigation into the clinton foundation. the same officials declined to comment on a cnn report that justice department denied a request from several fbi field offices to open a case into the matter. at last month's congressional hearing, fbi director james comey declined to comment on the existence of an investigation into the clinton foundation. the e-mail conversations

they have consistently lied about every single aspect when it comes to the clinton foundation and pay to play. hillary clinton said just last month to chris wallace there was no connection between the clinton foundation and the state department. she signed a memorandum of understanding with president obama saying there would be no connection between the clinton foundation and the state department, and yet what does she do? she puts huma abedin, top aide, on the payroll of the state department and the clinton foundation. so to me, you know, i don't know why we keep giving credibility to the clinton foundation or the clinton campaign because they've consistently lied. that's why we need an audit. we need an investigation, and we need to stop accepting explanations that they give that oftentimes end up being factually wrong. deirdre: let me ask but the press, there was something they read this morning that said this race isn't so much clinton versus trump, it is trump versus the media, and on that note, the ap's investigative report did not appear anywhere, reference or otherwise, in tod

gave millions to the clinton foundation. let's not your whole argument is destroyed clintons themselves are saying if she is lee elected she will change anything. that is call for bribes. they should shut the all down. trish: why shut it down when she becomes president when she didn't shut it down when secretary of state, basil. >> for the exact reason that i said before. it is, she is meeting with world leaders. that is part of the job. wait a minute. trish: not going to have anything to do with it if he is president. >> he is doing foundational work. the point it is, we are what 70 some odd days out. if you shut it down today, all the work that the foundation has been doing -- >> it should be shut down. >> stops immediately. give it time to complete the work it is doing and it is done. >> that is good talking point. democrats are saying it should be shut down. trish: seems to me the american people deserve more. they deserve not to be asking these questions right now. and if you think there is going to be a chance -- people

i should say very quickly, john, i know the work the clinton foundation has done. i know it's done fantastic work here in the country and throughout the world. i've had conversations with clinton staffers about that. that doesn't mean what we've seen from these e-mails doesn't raise questions. there's nothing unreasonable about asking these questions. we need to hear answers and see more of those e-mails. this is the openness and transparency that hillary clinton has promised us. >> asking the types of questions that will come up in a press conference which hillary clinton hasn't had in a long time. kaley, i want to stand on the immigration thing. i'm not trying to be cute here. i currently don't think i know what donald trump's policy is regarding the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country. i'm not sure i know what the policy is. eight years ago i would have said he wants a deportation force. he said they have to go. he said that clearly. now he doesn't seem to be saying they have to go. can you explain to me -- not talking about the felons, i'm talking

>> not out of the clinton foundation but they get money into the clinton foundation, oh by the way, my husband gives a great speech and then bill clinton gets hired to give $600,000 speech. >> reporter: the fight over the foundation is just one prong of attack this week. the trump and surrogates, hillary's health a talking point. >> i think hillary's tired. >> reporter: the republicans publicly and repeatedly raising doubts. >> i'm not saying that she's had but this is not the woman that we're used to seeing that would come at you and get in your grille. >> reporter: republicans have pointed to this awkward head wag at a muffin shop in june suggesting clinton might have been having a seizure. reporters who were there say they saw no such thing that the best they could tell, she was merely being evasive. republicans point to clinton's persistent cough. noted her stumbling on the so last night on jimmy kimmel -- >> are you in good health? >> well, this has become one of their themes. you take my pulse while i'm talking to you. >> jimmy: oh my god, there's nothing there! >> there's nothin

i did not see that much clinton foundation. why weren't they at the democratic national convention saying here's an example of our good work. >> they have a five star rating from philanthropy foundation folks. >> your facts are not right. as a correspondent who has been in africa on the outskirts of kigali, they do very good work. that's not to say there may not be some issues that comes to secretary of state clinton but the clinton foundation saves a lot of lives. i think james carville is right that if it was shut down, lives would be in jeopardy. i've got to get to a break. i will let you fin, right after the break. we'll be right back. where we explore. protecting biodiversity. everywhere we work. defeating malaria. improving energy efficiency. developing more clean burning natural gas. my job? my job at exxonmobil? turning algae into biofuels. reducing energy poverty in the developing world. making cars go further with less. fueling the global economy. and you thought we just made the gas. ♪ energy lives here. ♪ ♪ ...be qui

when it comes to the clinton foundation. it is refusing to look into a story we reported wednesday on fox about e-mails suggesting an inappropriate relationship between the clinton charitable foundation and the state department when hillary clinton was in charge. this comes as democrats are said to be bracing for more hacked e-mails to go public. correspondent rich edson has tonight's sop story. >> reporter: federal officials have dropped their investigation. fox news reported in january the fbi had expanded its investigation into state's possible relationship with the clinton foundation. senior justice officials now tell fox there is currently no federal investigation into the clinton foundation. the same officials declined to comment on a cnn report that justice department denied a request from several fbi field offices to open a case into the matter. at last month's congressional hearing, fbi director james comey declined to comment on the existence of an investigation into the clinton foundation. the e-mail conversations

the clinton foundation was nothing more than in his words a pay-for-play type of foundation, once again establishing himself as the law and order candidate. several times throughout the rally he was interrupted by protesters but he stayed on message, pretty much stuck to the script and then went on to attack hillary clinton on an issue that we expected here being in texas, a border state, the issue of immigration. >> and hillary clinton wants a totally open border. she wants catch and release. she wants obama care and other things for illegal immigrants, in many cases more than our great veterans get. she has said she's going to give massive amnesty in her first 100 days. >> so, don, he certainly sounded like a hardliner tonight. you heard him there addressing the issue of illegal immigration. he went on to say this election will decide if the u.s. has a border. this is in stark contrast to what he said in an interview earlier today in some ways. he was asked a question about what about those illegal immigrants living here in the united states who just so happened to be contributing to

the clinton foundation does do. and the foundations acre component. chelsea clinton is going to be on the board. i've been saying this. that's not news. the fact is that she's still going to be on the board to wind this down. >> doing good work. >> let me finish. bill clinton said that on to all of us in the press on wednesday that they are not going -- they don't want anyone to be fired. it's going to be a slow wind down. not by the times if she's elected. >> i'm not >> the quid proquo. >> one moment. >> the quid is very wealthy people, give 11.5 million people aids drugs and huma abedin may call you back. we have to ask whether we've invented a standard. the george bush foundation, which benefits him and his library and accepts foreign donations existed through the presidency. i don't recall us asking whether people who might want to influence president george w. bush because if they give to a foundation that benefitted not financially. >> the state department said they find nothing where there is proof of action and i've got to tell you when we went

>>> and meantime this evening, as donald trump turns up the heat on hillary clinton and the clinton foundation, her surrogates out in force. former president bill clinton jumping in tonight. and how the trump team answered when asked, didn't donald trump donate to the clinton foundation himself? here's david wright. >> reporter: tonight, under celebrity friends. justin timberlake and jessica biel hosted a star-studded fundraiser -- $33,000 a ticket. sports legend magic johnson and cher are raising money, too. cher even took some pot shots at donald trump. >> i've been watching him speak, you know, with the teleprompters. and it's like, do you remember "fun with dick and jane"? it's like and jane." >> reporter: but as clinton smiles with stars, her team is in full damage control mode, pushing back against tough scrutiny of the clinton foundation. the associated press reports that as secretary of state, more than half the meetings she had with people outside government were with big donors to the foundation. donald trump calls it -- >> a vast pay for play scheme. >> reporter: but trump himself h

president then chief of staff she traveled to new york to interview candidates for a top job at the clinton foundation and the fact that she did work for that while she was on the state department payroll fueling claims that the foundation potentially broke the law. we take all of that up. in the weekly standards. also tonight donald trump shutting down reports about a rift in the republican party they make a surprise appearance at his rally in erie pennsylvania earlier today. they have better get in line. most of them have really supported us. but some of them just can't get over it. we're just having fun. get over it. you signed a pledge i guarantee that i will endorse whoever wins the funny thing is all of those pledges that were signed so that i would sign it and i would have honored it. even if i wasn't fond of it. a pledge is a very important thing. donald trump today having some fun at the expense of the mainstream liberal media overreacted when over reacted when he said president obama and hillary clinton cofounded the islamic state. where were they when hillary clinton said trump is the islam

>> the clinton foundation as has an "a" rating as charity. david: hold on. oa, wait a minute. they're not rated by the foundation that rates charities. they're not rated. that foundation does not know how to describe what the clinton foundation is. how can you say that? >> i don't know of anything that foundation has done wrong. all they do is try to help people around the world. david: that is answer to the question, perfect. steve, nicole, thank you very much. good to talk to both of you. melissa? melissa: good news, bad news for one minor league baseball player. why he wasn't celebrating this grand slam for long. ♪ : better buckle up. that inactive satellite radio of yours is ready to roll. because the siriusxm free listening event is on right now! just hit the sat button in your car and listen free thru sept 6. that's right, two glorious weeks of commercial-free music, plus talk, sports, comedy, news, and more. your ride has never, ever, rocked like this. oh yeah, siriusxm is on for free right now. so tune in and let's ride! . >> hitting a grand slam righ