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Hillary Clinton has faced questions regarding the paid speeches she's given to Wall Street institutions. | Getty Clinton: Wall Street speeches won't undermine me as president

Hillary Clinton rebuffed the notion that her paid speeches to financial institutions could compromise her attempts to regulate Wall Street, in an interview set to air on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday.

“The real question underneath this is, OK, if you take money from Wall Street, can you regulate Wall Street?" Clinton said in a clip released by the show Thursday evening.

In making her case, Clinton pointed to President Barack Obama as someone who "took more money from Wall Street than any candidate who’s ever run for president" and then "turned around, passed and signed the Dodd-Frank bill."

"I think you should be judged on what you’ve done," she continued, alluding to Bernie Sanders' vote for legislation in 2000 that among other things, deregulated derivatives and credit swaps, remarking that it "had a greater impact than most of the talk that we’re now doing."

"So let’s get everybody out on the same field. I feel like, you know, I don’t mind being responsive, I don’t mind answering questions. But at some point, I want everybody to have to answer," she said.

Co-host Mika Brzezinski then asked if she could "assure the American people that you didn’t say anything in those speeches that would undermine your promise to be tough on Wall Street and the big banks."

“Absolutely. Absolutely," Clinton responded.

Clinton has faced repeated requests to disclose the contents of her speeches to the financial institutions, with The New York Times calling on her to do so Thursday.