Hillary Clinton said on Sunday Marco Rubio is trying to politicize abortion. | Getty Clinton needles Rubio on debate performance

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went after Sen. Marco Rubio over his defense of his opposition to abortions.

"It's really quite sad to see what Senator Rubio is becoming in this campaign. Everybody understands that he is diving as far right as he possibly can. I've been on record for many years about where I stand on abortion, how it should be safe and legal," Clinton said Sunday, a day after the most recent Republican presidential debate. "And I've had the same position that I've had for a very long time. But what's really going on here is an effort by the Republicans to keep pushing as far as they can to overturn Roe v. Wade, to defund Planned Parenthood, to make accusations and attacks that are really extreme."


Clinton's comments on ABC's "This Week" came less than 24 hours after Rubio, during his debate performance, contrasted himself from other candidates on abortion, stressing his opposition to abortions even in cases of rape or incest. He then pivoted to Clinton who, per Rubio, "believes that all abortions should be legal, even on the due date of that unborn child."

"It's just so unfortunate that politicians like Senator Rubio are trying to politicize these kinds of concerns and I don't think he should be allowed to get away with that," Clinton said.

in the same interview, Clinton was asked if she would release transcripts of her private speeches to financial groups in the past. The former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate said she would look into that if the standard was applied to everyone else.

"Let everybody who's ever given a speech to any private group release all the speeches at the same time," Clinton shot back quickly.

"I don't mind being the subject in Republican debates, the subject in the Democratic primary. That kind of goes with the territory. But at some point these rules need to apply to everybody and there are a bunch of folks, including my opponent who's given speeches to groups and people on the other side who's given speeches to groups. If this is going to be a new standard so then it should apply to everybody and then I'll be happy to look into it further."