MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski is claiming that she knows a reporter who is in possession of sought-after transcripts of speeches Hillary Clinton gave to Goldman Sachs.
“I know a print reporter who has actual transcripts and they are working on it,” Brzezinski said Monday on “Morning Joe.”
Critics of Clinton, including her rival for the Democratic nomination, Bernie Sanders, have accused the former secretary of state of being too close to big financial institutions, which paid her hundreds of thousands of dollars for private speeches. Many say she should release her comments so voters can see what promises she might have made to the big banks, or other comments that might influence their vote.
Media reports have cited sources who said they were present for the speeches and characterized them as congenial, even while many Democrats are critical of large financial institutions and their role in the 2008 economic crisis.
Clinton has resisted calls to release transcripts of the speeches, citing a “double standard.”
“I’m being asking to do something, for which there’s no basis, just the attempt to cast suspicion,” she said in a recent interview on MSNBC. “So, I said I would look into it. We will look into it.”
