I will 'go after big banks that pose systemic risk': Clinton
US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says if elected, she will go after big banks on Wall Street that pose “a systemic risk.”
"I'm on the public record. I told them what I'm going to do. I said I'm going to go after big banks that pose a systemic risk. I want you to hold me accountable for that because I will do that exactly," Clinton told MSNBC on Friday.
The Democratic frontrunner is under pressure from rival candidate Bernie Sanders over her Wall Street ties.
She made the remarks a day after Sanders censured Clinton for her support to the Iraq war and connections to big banks.
“I do not receive many millions of dollars from Wall Street or the pharmaceutical industry or other powerful, wealthy interests in this country, and have not given speeches for hundreds of thousands of dollars to Wall Street,” Sanders said.
Clinton is also under fire over her close connections to big banks on Wall Street and accepting large amounts for making speeches.
According to a report by CNN, Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, made a combined $153 million off paid speeches from 2001 to 2015.
According to CNN’s analysis, in total, the couple gave 729 speeches from February 2001 to May 2015 -- when Hillary launched her presidential campaign -- for an average payout of $210,795 for each speech.
Of those speeches, at least 39 were given to big banks -- including Goldman Sachs and UBS – which paid the couple $7.7 million.
On Friday, Clinton defended her paid speeches to Wall Street, saying they would not soften her campaign promises to rein in the financial industry.
In a recent interview with Press TV, American journalist Don DeBar said Clinton would be the ideal president for Wall Street and the military-industrial complex.
“Clinton of course is on the defensive on this, because Wall Street has thrown her lots of, lots of money as have many other very influential groups -- the military-industrial complex comes to mind,” DeBar said on February 7.
“She has a long record, along with her husband, of actual deeds in the interest of Wall Street,” he noted.
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