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Bill Clinton: Well, I've already said I don't know--I haven't read--I don't know what you're talking about on the memos because I…

On the recordSeptember 22, 1997
Well, I've already said I don't know--I haven't read--I don't know what you're talking about on the memos because I haven't seen them, so I can't comment on that. I've already answered about the calls. Let me just say this. I believe what the Vice President did and what I did was legal, and I am absolutely certain that we believed we were acting within the letter of the law. And I'm going to cooperate however I can to establish the facts, but I think that's important that you and the American people understand that, that I certainly--I believed then and I believe now what we did was legal. But I am absolutely positive that we intended to be firmly within the letter of the law when we were out there campaigning and raising funds as we should have been doing. We had to do that.
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Bill Clinton
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