AP Photo Fiorina says she was 'offered many jobs' after HP firing

Carly Fiorina said on Sunday she had plenty of job offers after being fired as the CEO of Hewlett Packard, including posts in the George W. Bush administration, but she decided against them.

"I didn’t want to go back to work as a CEO," the Republican presidential contender said on NBC's "Meet the Press," rejecting suggestions her lack of private-sector employment after leaving HP is an indictment of her leadership. "Yes, I was offered many jobs – as a CEO, in the Bush administration. I wanted a break, and then I wanted to give back."


In a fiery interview with host Chuck Todd, Fiorina ducked questions about the accuracy of her claim that recently released Planned Parenthood videos showed a live fetus being preserved by organization officials to have its brain harvested.

Though the video of the fetus turned out to be stock footage, Fiorina argued the situation she described is still happening.

"It is happening in this nation, and taxpayers are paying for it," she said.

Fiorina criticized Todd for declining to press Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton in an earlier interview about her views on late-term abortion. And Fiorina said The Washington Post lacked credibility to criticize her on the abortion issue because its fact checker also questioned her claim that she rose from secretary to CEO of HP.

"I don’t know how to deal with that," she said.

