Hillary Clinton Once Again Invokes 9/11 to Defend Wall Street Ties

After receiving criticism for invoking the 9/11 attacks to explain her close ties to Wall Street during the second Democratic debate, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton used the same line in a Tuesday interview with CBS This Morning.

CBS’ Charlie Rose asked Clinton about a new report.from the Associated Press showing that as Secretary of State, she often set aside time to meet with big donors from Wall Street and major corporations. “You know, I worked really hard to get more jobs for Americans,” she said. “And that meant representing big business and small business and everybody in between.”

“Have you suffered from the fact that they say you’re too close to Wall Street?” asked Rose. “Has that hurt your image, in your judgment, running for president?”

“I don’t think so,” she responded. “I have stood for a lot of regulation on big banks and on the financial services sector. I also represented New York and represented everybody from the dairy farmers, you know, to the fishermen, everybody.”

“And so yes, do I know people? And did I, you know, help rebuild after 9/11? Yes, I did,” Clinton concluded.

Watch above, via CBS.

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