Bill Clinton suggests he’ll stop paid speeches if Hillary wins

Former President Clinton on Wednesday said he would probably stop giving paid speeches if Hillary Clinton wins the White House in 2016.

Asked if he would continue the speeches, Clinton replied: “No, I don’t think so,” during an interview with Bloomberg TV’s Betty Liu.

{mosads}Clinton has come under fire for saying he would not stop giving paid speeches while his wife runs for the White House. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich said on Sunday that his former boss “has to stop the paid speeches” for the sake of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

But Clinton has refused to step away from the paid speaking circuit, where he has earned millions of dollars in recent years, despite the headaches it could cause for his wife’s presidential campaign.

“I got to pay our bills,” the former president said last month in an interview with NBC News. “And I also give a lot of it to the [Clinton] Foundation every year.”

During his remarks Wednesday at a Clinton Global Initiative event, the former president also defended the work of his charitable organization, which was shown to have taken foreign donations while Hillary Clinton was secretary of State.

“There has been a lot of money that we didn’t take … one or two places that we didn’t go into because we have a strict no-corruption policy,” Clinton said of the Foundation.

Critics have questioned whether foreign governments donated to the Clinton Foundation to curry favor with the Obama administration, something the couple adamantly denies.

Bill Clinton on Wednesday said it would be an “error” for the Clinton Foundation to redirect its efforts over public perception alone.

“There may be a thing or two that I’d change,” he added.