Hillary Clinton defends Clinton Foundation, State Department

Hillary Clinton continued to defend the relationship between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department during her time in the administration Friday.

In an interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Clinton said she was sure that there were no foundation ties that could harm her chance of becoming president.

“I am sure because I have a very strong foundation of understanding about the foundation,” Clinton said. “The kind of work that the foundation has done, which attracted donors from around the world, is work that went right into providing services to people.”

Clinton also reiterated that neither she nor former president Bill Clinton nor their daughter, Chelsea, ever accepted money from the foundation.

“My work as secretary of State was not influenced by any outside forces. I made policy decisions based on what I thought was right to keep Americans safe and protect our interests abroad,” Clinton said. “I believe my aides also acted appropriately. And we have gone above and beyond most of the charities that I understand, beyond the legal requirements, beyond standards, to voluntarily disclose donors, and also to reduce sources of funding that raised any questions, not that we thought they were necessarily legitimate, but to avoid those questions.”

Clinton’s comments come at the end of a hard week for the Democratic nominee as more emails from her private server were released and reports raised questions about overlap between her family’s charity and her role in the State Department.

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Donald Trump and Republicans have accused Clinton of creating a culture of “pay to play” during her time as secretary of State and have called for a special prosecutor and for the Clinton Foundation to be shut down.

The Republican National Committee responded to Clinton's MSNBC interview with an email with the subject line, "Mark It Down: Clinton Promises No New Email Revelations."

"Mark it down, Hillary Clinton is really confident BleachBit worked. Today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Hillary Clinton promised there will be no new email revelations, despite reports of more email dumps from hackers and several court-mandated productions from the 15,000 work-related documents she improperly deleted from her private server,” the email said. Bleachbit is a software tool used to delete emails. On Thursday, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said Clinton had used the software to delete emails, according to Politico.