Clinton Advisor Penn Apologizes For Free Trade Meeting

As the Wall Street Journal detailed this morning, Mark Penn, the chief strategist to the Hillary Clinton campaign, "met with Colombia's ambassador to the U.S. on Monday to discuss a bilateral free-trade agreement, a pact the presidential candidate opposes."

Penn didn't attend the meeting in his capacity as a Clinton advisor but as executive of communications and lobbying firm Burson-Marsteller Worldwide. The Journal notes that the firm "has a contract with the South American nation to promote congressional approval of the trade deal, among other things."

In a statement, Penn apologized for attending the meeting.

"The meeting was an error in judgment that will not be repeated and I am sorry for it," Penn said. "The senator's well known opposition to this trade deal is clear and was not discussed."