Hillary Clinton's campaign manager Robby Mook dodged multiple questions on Sunday about the Clinton Foundation receiving money from foreign sources and the order by a federal judge for Clinton to answer questions about her private email server.
Host Dana Bash started the interview by asking Mook about the Clinton Foundation's announcement that they would not accept foreign donations if Clinton wins the election. Bash pointed out how much they currently receive from foreign sources and asked Mook why it was acceptable for the Clinton Foundation to still receive this money. Mook began by blaming regulations and then moved on to talk about what the Foundation does. Bash called Mook out on his dodging.
"But if this is the right policy now, why not do it now?" Bash asked. "Why wait until the idea of her being president? Why not do it when she is running for president?"
Mook went on to blame current operations of the Foundation's as to why it can't begin the policy now.
"Why not, if you're going to take this step, do it now to make clear that there is no issue here with her accepting foreign donations or others from people who might be trying to affect her and trying to get around giving it to the campaign the way anybody else would?" Bash asked.
"Well, what the Foundation did was unprecedented as I said, and what they're going to do is going to be unprecedented as well. You talk about transparency, Donald Trump hasn't released his taxes. Donald Trump hasn't released a serious health letter yet. Donald Trump refuses to disclose the full architecture of his financial debts and obligations around the world," Mook said.
Bash called him out for not answering.
"But Robby, I asked about Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump," Bash said.
Bash later asked Mook about Clinton being ordered by a federal judge to answer questions about her email server, which Mook again dodged.
Mook said that Clinton will begin working on the answers as soon as she receives the questions but then began to blame Republicans for being the origin of the controversy. Mook did not however say if Clinton would make the answers public before Election Day.
"Well, as you mentioned, the judge has set a deadline whereby the group in question needs to submit those and when they're received, I know that the Secretary will get to work right away on answering them," Mook said.
"You know, but let's step back and look at the origin of all of this, the right wing and Republicans in Congress are not satisfied with the answer that the career professionals at the FBI and Justice Department gave. They said there was no case here," Mook said. "This is just another example of a right-wing group just trying to keep the questions coming and keep this issue alive. The American people have all the information. The emails have been released. They have enough to make a judgment at this point.
"We at the campaign just want to move on and talk about the issues that people actually care about in this election, like jobs, college affordability and health care."
Bash again called out Mook for his non-answer on whether Clinton will make her answers public before the election.
"That sounds like a no," Bash said.
"As I said, as soon as she receives the question, if the judge asks her to answer those questions, she will get to work right away on getting those questions answered," Mook said.