Leaked E-mails Show Clinton's Opposing Views on Wall Street' Michelle Obama Campaigns in Arizona for Clinton, Trump Not Pulling Out of Virginia
BLITZER: Stolen e-mails are raising questions about Hillary Clinton's views on wall street regulating big banks, and who's to blame for the financial crisis? The hacked document released by WikiLeaks suggests Clinton expressed different views in private and in public. Our business correspondent, Alison Kosik, joins us from New York with details. Alison, wall us through what the e-mails show.</s>ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: OK, the reality with hacked or stolen e-mails, no big bombshell, no smoking gun. As I've gone through the hacked e-mails, it quickly became apparent that Hillary Clinton said certain things in public, and said them differently in private when haven't been TV cameras rolling. Case in point, regulation on Wall Street. Tough regulations put in place after the financial crisis. Listen to how talked about them on the campaign trail.</s>HILLARY CLINTON, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Trump would roll back the tough rules that we have imposed on the financial industry. I'll do the opposite. I think we should strengthen rules so Wall Street can never wreck Main Street again.</s>KOSIK: But here's the thing. These hacked e-mails show that in October of 2013 at a speech she gave to bankers paid by Goldman Sachs, she takes a very different tone. Look at this. It's more of a softer tone, saying, "There was a lot of complaining about Dodd/Frank" -- that huge piece of regulation put into effect after the financial crisis -- but she says, "There was also a need to do something because, for political reasons, if you were an elected member of Congress, and people in your constituency were losing jobs and shutting businesses and everybody in the press was saying it's all the fault of Wall Street, you can't sit idly by and do nothing, but what you do is really important." Notice that she isn't holding Wall Street accountable. She's only holding them accountable for political reasons, especially when you look at this next excerpt, she actually empathetic to the banks. She says, "There are so many places in the country where the banks are not doing what they need to do because they're scared of regulations, scared of the other shoe dropping." So here she's actually empathetic about regulations possibly hurting banks. And on the several excerpts involve the middle class and really call into question her sincerity about how she feels and sincerity. Case in point, on the campaign trail, she said, "The economy should work for everything, not just those on top." You look here, she says, "Now, obviously, I'm kind of far removed from the middle class because of the life I've lived and the economic fortunes that my husband and I now enjoy but I haven't forgotten it." So she shows she is removed from the middle class and even acknowledges, though, Wolf, that she does take two sides when it comes to politics, saying this, "It's unsavory, but it always has been that way, but everybody is watching, you know, all of the back-room discussions and deals, then people get nervous, to say the least. So you need both, a public and a private position." So you've got Hillary Clinton admitting she does say something differently in public than she says in private -- Wolf?</s>BLITZER: How are people on Wall Street, folks you've spoken to, reacting to the release of these hacked e-mails?</s>KOSIK: A lot of the bankers and the investors and traders I've talked to are not surprised by the fact that Hillary Clinton apparently says, as in these hacked e-mails, shows she talks differently in public than in private. One investor saying this, "She may be a lot of things, but she's not stupid when it comes to raising money and currying favor with those who have it." They acknowledge that Hillary Clinton is a politician, and at least one of them did say to me that if she is elected they believe she will move towards the center -- Wolf?</s>BLITZER: Alison, thank you. Alison Kosik reporting. Coming up, the Clinton campaign is sending one of its biggest surrogates out there, the first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, to a state that voted Republican in presidential elections for decades. Our political panel is standing by. We'll break down the race to 270. That's coming up.