certified wise man dick lugar will tell us. a behind the behind the scenes documentary on the correspondents' dinner. ♪ mark: our guest tonight is president of the lugar center. our older viewers will know him as richard nixon's favorite mayor, our younger viewers as a former senator from indiana for a time, dig lugar thanks -- dick lugar, thanks for coming in. you were one of many people coming cleaning many senators, hillary clinton with her husband leading a foundation. you had concerns about contributions to the foundation as well as president clinton's speaking fees. tell us what you want to be on guard against for the public interest. fmr. senator lugar: the first foreign relations committee john kerry chaired was on secretary clinton's nominations. my staff, the minority staff had been negotiating with the clinton folks because i stated it seemed to me to be impossible for someone serving as secretary of state with a husband who had been president of the united states to receive gifts coming into the family foundation wi

going back to january of 2009, senator dick lugar sat in the foreign relations committee hearing and said the clinton foundation is going to be attempting entity for foreign governments and other people who are trying to do business with the u.s. she said look everything will be above board. we will sign a pledge to disclose everything. so for the first time we are seeing that didn't happen in this case. that's why it matters. so this has all come to a tension because of the new book going to be released may 5th. it's written by a conservative author, former speechwriter to president george w. bush, former sarah palin adviser. so the clinton campaign seized on that and said this is a partisan hit job. don't mind that quite as much. there's so much actual interesting stuff at the foundation that we're going to see, some people ask why it's legitimate. well if she wins, the president will still be in the white house. she will be the president. other entities will be there. clinton foundation is still there. it's a legitimate question with so many, so many angles. >> jeff, it's april 20