Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he agrees with Hillary Clinton’s attempts to remove any conflicts of interest, real or perceived, between her position as a candidate for president and the work of the Clinton Foundation.
Asked whether she needs to explain more when it comes to controversies involving her email and the foundation, Biden said he believed Clinton is still weighing how best to resolve it and whether to decide to “lay it all out,” which he endorsed as a good idea.
“My understanding is that she is going to make a final judgment of what they are going to do with the foundation and just lay it all out and ‘this is what is going to happen from this point on, this is who I am, this is what I’m going to do.’ I think that will be good,” he told CNN on Tuesday morning.
Biden was pressed about whether Clinton has been been clear enough in responding to criticism that Clinton Foundation donors received special treatment during her time at as secretary of state. “Well, it’s been a moving target,” Biden responded. “I mean, you look at the whole notion of how foundations function, it’s now all of a sudden being put in play like it never was before.
“So I am absolutely confident she is doing it by the book, and I think she is gonna figure out what she’s gonna say, crystal clear to the American people about the relationship between the family and the foundation will be from this point forward,” he said.