Hillary and Bill Clinton made $153 million off speeches

The idea was silly, absurd, a joke – and not even worth considering.

Clinton didn’t laugh this time. “So, I said I would look into it. We will look into it. But you know it’s – what’s good for the gander should be good for the goose”. “She also said that once New Hampshire is done, she’ll take a look at that”.

Oh, and here’s a petition you can sign if you think she should release the speeches. An anonymous attendee described one as “pretty glowing about us” and that “it’s so far from what she sounds like as a candidate now….”

Clinton: “I will look into it. I don’t know the status, but I will certainly look into it. But I can only repeat what is the fact, that I spoke to a lot of different groups with a lot of different constituents, a lot of different kinds of members about issues that had to do with world affairs”. “I spoke to heart doctors, I spoke to the American Camping Association, I spoke to auto dealers, and yes, I spoke to firms on Wall Street”.

There’s the possibility – though I think it’s very remote – that Clinton simply wasn’t expecting the question and didn’t want to commit to anything in the moment.

Trailing Sanders in New Hampshire, Clinton has pushed back on Sanders’ “artful smear” that she’s bought by Wall Street and has challenged anyone to point to a position she’s changed.

Clinton, who received $225,000 for her appearance, praised the diversity of Goldman’s workforce and the prominent roles played by women at the blue-chip investment bank and the tech firms present at the event.

‘I will look into it”: “So answered Hillary Clinton at last week’s debate when asked yet again to release the transcripts of her lucrative speeches for Goldman Sachs. These events tend not to contain startling revelations, and generally speaking they’re not particularly newsworthy, at least in terms of new or surprising announcements or details. (There are better forums for that.) So I doubt that Clinton’s Goldman remarks started with a tribute to big banks and an invocation to salute the Wall Street-Washington conspiracy. Bernie Sanders isn’t going to “bury” Hillary Clinton, nor is anything in those transcripts. Wouldn’t they reaffirm Clinton’s argument during the nomination race that she has been there and done that at the highest level of national and global diplomacy?

Indeed, Clinton seems to have built that resistance into her speech contracts, several of which, as Buzzfeed reports, give Clinton sole rights to all reprints, reuse, and transcripts, making the speeches hers and hers alone to release, or hide. Why not produce the transcripts to prove that this is “pure trolling”?

“Show me one view, show me one vote that has ever been influenced”, she demanded during the debate. If anything, it’s going to get worse for Clinton.

People aren’t so sure that she was just “offered” the money like she said during last week’s town hall event.