Clinton steers WikiLeaks question to Russian hacking

Published October 20, 2016 1:56am ET



Hillary Clinton defended her pledge to push for “open trade and open borders” in a 2013 speech to an Italian Bank by saying she was talking specifically about trade in energy, and then slamming Donald Trump for encouraging Russia’s interference in the presidential election.

“If you went on to read the rest of the sentence, I was talking about energy,” Clinton said Wednesday during the third and final presidential debate. “We trade more energy with our neighbors than we do with the rest of the world combined.”

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