Chafee FBN 6/4/15
Hits HRC pretty hard again, blames her Iraq vote for ISIS pretty much. Says we should work with Iran on ISIS Of course I like people to be judged on their record and we looked at Mrs. Clinton's record, secretary of state Clinton's record. There are some questions, ethical questions coming up. They're legitimate questions, particularly on the e-mail server and on the Clinton foundation. Money being raised at the same time the state department is making very, very important decisions. Merging of those two brings into question how compromised is the decision making because of the tremendous amount of money coming into the Clinton foundation. As United States senator at federal level, I never had any ethical questions over 30 years of public service. She has a credibility problem in your view? >> Absolutely. Politicians, their word should be gold. That is what the people should expect. Over 30 years my word has been gold to people of Rhode Island. I will pledge that to American people. On pulling out of Iraq: I disagree with governor Perry vociferously on this…President Obama did the right thing. Trish: You look at threat of ISIS which has been geeing ever since we removed troops there and you say that is the right thing to do? >> Let me back up a little bit. We talked about secretary of state Clinton and her vote for the war and my vote against it. That is where it all started. What are we doing in the Middle East. Trish: What would you do now? What would you do now? >> Now, as we look ahead to 2016, it is very important for the democratic party to have a nominee that didn't make the biggest mistake in American history. You're asking what do we no do you now. There are so few answers, Trish. It is an international issue. We have to work with the Saudis. We have to work with the Iranians. We have to work with the Jordanians. We have to work with Israelis, Turks, Europeans, Russians. It is international, stretches across north Africa, Egypt, Libya, Nigeria with Boko Haram. That mistake made in 2002 has ramifications across the region. There are no easy answers. The democratic nominee shouldn't have made that mistake. I don't think the next president of the United States should have made that mistake.