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Bill Clinton Defends Hillary's Wall Street Ties

The former president said that attacks from Hillary Clinton's Democratic rivals were "a stretch."
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Former President Bill Clinton insisted Sunday his wife doesn’t deserve to be attacked by her fellow Democratic candidates for her relationship with Wall Street, as opponents on both sides of the aisle jumped to attack her defense of those ties.

“It is a stretch. Those of us who were there know that,” he told reporters gathered on the rope line after Hillary Clinton spoke Sunday at the Central Iowa Democrats' fall barbecue on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames.