Clinton get the Russians involved by offering to remove a U.S. missile defense system set up in Eastern Europe . All of this is damning evidence that flies in the face of the continued Clinton campaign and State Department denials that Clinton or her aides provided certain donors with special access and treatment . Nonetheless , State Department spokesman Mark Toner went out again today and essentially tried to convince reporters that the new emails really were not evidence of favors for Clinton Foundation donors .
“ The optimistic view would be that if you look at the pattern of American history , there have been lots of ugly episodes . We had anti - immigration sentiment that was quite nasty at the beginning of the twentieth century , there was McCarthy , Japanese internment and Vietnam , ” Osgood said . “ That suggestscontact.requestadvise.correspondencethat there is a capacity for healing in the American spirit . We can kind of recognize that we have been doing things that are unsightly and adjust . There is this capacity for reflection and sobering up .