Cooper Allen

USA TODAY

Wall Street, who is close to it, and who will do the most to limit its excesses dominated much of the early part of the Democratic presidential debate Thursday night in New Hampshire.

Part and parcel of that was a question about speaking fees Hillary Clinton received after leaving the State Department in 2013.

Clinton was asked by MSNBC moderator Chuck Todd whether she'd agree to release transcripts of all the paid speeches she's given.

"I will look into it," she said, adding that she wasn't sure of "the status" of such a request.

She added that she'd spoken "to a lot of different groups" about "world affairs," such as when she counseled President Obama about the decision to raid Osama bin Laden's Pakistani compound in 2011. She also said that she and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders both agreed on the need to rein in Wall Street, but she cautioned against focusing too intently on just "one street" of the economy.

"Madam Secretary, it is not one street," Sanders countered, saying it was the source of enormous power in the American economy.

"The business model of Wall Street is fraud," he said.

The exchanged came a day after Clinton stirred some controversy during a CNN town hall in New Hampshire with her answer to a question about why she'd accepted $675,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs.

"I don't know. That's what they offered," she said.