Bill Clinton says his foundation never did anything 'knowingly inappropriate'

While the Clinton Foundation has accepted millions of dollars in foreign donations while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state, Bill Clinton says that if the foundation broke any rules or could be considered a conflict of interest, he wasn't aware of it.

"There is no doubt in my mind that we have never done anything knowingly inappropriate in terms of taking money to influence any kind of American government policy," Clinton told NBC News. "That just hasn't happened."

Clinton added that the foundation will "come as close as we can during [Hillary Clinton's] presidential campaign to following the rules we followed when she became secretary of state." After falling under scrutiny, the foundation recently announced it will only accept donations from six Western governments.

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Clinton went as far as to suggest that he would consider stepping down as head of the foundation if Hillary Clinton is elected president. "I might if I were asked to do something in the public interest that I had an obligation to do. Or I might take less of an executive role," Clinton told NBC News. "But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it."