Barnicle: No Clinton Quid Pro Quo Because Bill Bilked Bribers

April 27th, 2015 8:39 AM

How bad are things getting for Hillary when the best defense some supporters can muster is that there was no corruption because Bill bilked the people who thought they were bribing her?

Last week, we reported on Hillary fan Dorian Warren suggesting that Bill was "running serious game on many of these countries saying oh, I'll talk to my wife, give me the check, and then never mentioning [it.]" On today's Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle made that same argument, claiming there was no quid pro quo because knowing Bill, he took the money saying "yeah, sure, I'll call him for you, and he'll never call." Interestingly, Mika Brzezinski wasn't buying, saying that Newt's allegations of bribery, made on yesterday's This Week, "made sense."

Note: Barnicle speaks of "Bill Clinton, our scant knowledge of him internally, personally, on an everyday basis." So that's who Hillary meant by "everyday" people!

NEWT GINGRICH:  I think there is a very simple case here. The Constitution says you can't take this stuff. We have federal laws that say you can't take this stuff. If this was any person but Hillary Clinton, they would be under indictment right now for clearly straightforward problems. My point is they took money from foreign governments while she was Secretary of State. That is clearly illegal. This is not about politics. It's illegal. And it's dangerous to America to have foreign governments get in the habit of bribing people who happen to be the husband of the Secretary of State or the next President of the United States. 

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Mika, what do you think about that? 

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I, look, I -- 

SCARBOROUGH: What do you think? You got to say what you think. 

BRZEZINSKI:  I think that it's, it's really questionable. 

SCARBOROUGH: What do you think about what Newt just said? 

BRZEZINSKI: He made sense. He made a valid point and we have to ask questions. We need to get answers. 

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MIKE BARNICLE: Don't you think that our scant knowledge of the former president, Bill Clinton, our scant knowledge of him internally, personally, on an everyday basis he has no quid pro quos. You're there to be used. You're giving him money, thanks very much, yeah, sure, I'll call him for you, and he'll never call.  

SCARBOROUGH: No, no, no. I think that's completely wrong. I think if you look at the uranium deal, where he brings his Canadian buddy up there, who Halperin said is going to be one of the bigger problems, they go up, they do a deal, money is written to the Clinton foundation because helps make the deal work and then down the road a bank that is involved in the deal pays him half a million dollars to go give an hour speech. I think the Clintons are all about quid pro quo. The Clintons never forget, the Clintons never forget and the Clintons take notes on who helped them and who didn't.