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Hillary Clinton said Friday that the hundreds of thousands of dollars she charges to speak at colleges all goes to charity: the Clinton Foundation.

“All of the fees have been donated to the Clinton Foundation for it to continue its life-changing and life-saving work. So it goes from a foundation at a university to another foundation,” Ms. Clinton told ABC News anchor Ann Compton.

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The 2016 Presidential contender reportedly charges around $200,000 or more for each speaking engagement.

Students facing a tuition hike at the University of Nevada Las Vegas plan to protest an October appearance by Ms. Clinton, if she does not return her speaking fee of $225,000 back to the university.

Ms. Clinton made no indication that she would meet the student’s demands, saying that her speeches bring new ideas to people across the country that will help balance income inequality.

“It’s been my experience that they’re not worried about my speaking or my household, they’re worried about heir own,” Ms. Clinton said in the interview adding, “And that’s the kind of debate I think I’m furthering as I go around the country speaking.”

The Clintons have continued to take fire over their finances in the last month after the former Secretary of State said that she and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, were “dead broke” when they left the White House in 2001.

Ms. Clinton is currently traveling overseas, promoting her new memoir, “Hard Choices.”

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