With the Clinton Foundation once again the recipient of negative headlines, former Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT) — another Republican who says he’s backing Hillary Clinton — recommended that the Clinton family should shut down the foundation if she becomes president. “I would sure as heck suggest that they don’t have it,” Shays said on “MTP Daily” yesterday. Maybe the Clinton Foundation doesn’t have to close its doors if Hillary wins in November, but it will be unsustainable — for the Clintons and for the foundation — if it’s viewed as a conflict of interest. As former GOP Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) noted in 2009 during Hillary Clinton’s confirmation hearing to become secretary of state back, “The core of the problem is that foreign governments and entities may perceive the Clinton Foundation as a means to gain favor with the secretary of state. Although neither Senator Clinton nor President Clinton has a personal financial stake in the foundation, obviously its work benefits their legacy and their public service priorities.” And as we found out, any safeguards that the Clintons and Foundation established to eliminate perceptions problems while Hillary was secretary of state didn’t exactly do the trick.

Back in June, Bill Clinton acknowledged that changes will have to come to the foundation if Hillary wins. “You have to be careful to avoid actual and potential conflicts of interest,” he said at a Clinton Global Initiative event in Atlanta, per the Wall Street Journal. “We’ll think very clearly about it and we’ll do the right thing and explain it to the American people.” What those changes will be will be big news for all of us to scrutinize.