“As Bill Clinton’s first televised interview of the campaign still reverberated Tuesday, several top Democrats told CNN they were taken aback by his tone and they wondered anew whether his words could be a detriment to his wife’s campaign. Some Democrats said they cringed when he brushed aside questions about collecting $500,000 for delivering a speech by saying: “I’ve gotta pay our bills.”
“There is no doubt in my mind that we have never done anything knowingly inappropriate in terms of taking money to influence any kind of American government policy,” Bill Clinton told NBC News in Nairobi. He also criticized what he characterized as “political” attacks on the foundation.
His comments raised more skepticism of the charges included in a book that was released on Tuesday, “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich.”
Inside the Clinton campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, aides were widely pleased with the disciplined rollout of her announcement tour and the campaign’s aggressive rebuttals to the book, written by conservative author Peter Schweizer.
But now, advisers acknowledge they are bracing for an even more challenging — and uncertain — second month of her campaign.
Clinton could be called as soon as May 18 to testify before the House Select Committee on Benghazi in its investigation of the attacks that killed four Americans on Sept. 11, 2012. She also will be questioned over the use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state.”
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