he's no bill clinton. he doesn't have that sort of charm. bill clinton was the come back kid. i'm not sure that anthony wiener is. >> howard, quickly compare wiener to clinton. >> well, i guess if anthony wiener's forced to resign in the history of sex scandals nobody will have gotten less for greater sacrifice. >> howard fineman and eugene robinson, the line of the night. so far it belongs to howard fineman. thank you both for joining me tonight. >>> later in the show, we will unveil a new segment, the media circus that msnbc missed. we will travel back in time and imagine what it would have been like if this network existed when jennifer flowers had her bombshell news conference about her relationship with presidential candidate bill clinton. >>> also, the republican lies about taxes. now that tim pawlenty has come out with a crazy tax plan, will mitt romney be forced to come out with an even crazier tax plan? former michigan governor joins me next as the romney campaign heads into her state. 50 billion network devices will roam the earth. that's seven devices per person. th

clinton? [inaudible] >> the question is, have i ever talk to president and mrs. clinton? well my wife and i encountered mrs. clinton once a year after he impeachment but that is a story for a different book. president clinton and i actually after both of us left washington for a period of a few years, had a very private but very cordial correspondence and that and it during mrs. clinton's campaign because some reporter called and said i hear you to write back and forth. well that is true. he said i would like to see the notes and i said no you can't see them. the company doesn't campaign started vehemently denying, president clinton would never write to him and so forth. i think it must have like embarrassed -- i think somebody got embarrassed that he were an i were corresponding so i haven't heard from him since but there was a period were tooled warriors were at least in touch. i asked newt gingrich about that once and he told me, he said he will call me sometime to 2:00 the morning and want to talk about old times. he said i think he is like me. he misses the war. pres

more on his wife huma who is a top aide to secretary of state clinton.rom one of the congressman's sexting partners. but first, the latest from dana bash. last night, the silence from democrats was deafening. that has changed just in the last few hours. more and more democrats, especially in the house, are calling on congressman weiner to resign. >> reporter: you're right. before today no democrat had said that the congressman should resign. today many did. as you said, the most significant are from weiner's fellow democrats. they started coming out late today. now a half dozen are saying publicly it's time for weiner to go. that includes alison schwartz. it shows how much democrats think this is hurting them politically. she is in charge of recruiting democrat candidates to run in 2012. joe donally of indiana said, enough is enough. it's time for congressman weiner to resign. his actions have disgraced the congress. what's most telling is not just the public statements, anderson. i'm told that weiner is getting private calls from colleague telling him t

she's not by his side but we hear she caws hillary clinton. he calls bill clinton.you know, this is a woman who has been with hillary clinton through the lewinsky scandal. hillary clinton goes from first lady of arkansas to the secretary of state of the united states. is she a person do you think that has political aspirations of her own? >> well, one would think. actually, she told the "vogue" interviewer four years ago her aspirations were to be the next christy yawn amanpour, a journalist. ended up working for the first lady. and now here she is. but apparently she did have aspirations. she married an ambitious man who planned to perhaps be governor of new york some day. and who knows what from then. so one would think they were becoming a power couple. >> one person in washington said anybody who is able to make the transition from the first lady's office, make it through all of it into the secretary of state's office had to have sharp elbows. so i'm wondering is this a person who is really looking at the much bigger, farther long-term picture. instead of callin

my boss, secretary clinton, will be chairing it. but it is also a unique opportunity for apec to set the agenda for how the economies of the region should endeavor to increase women on entrepreneurship and women's participation director region. we expect this set of meetings to result in a set of findings which will then be in north by the leaders in hawaii to establish a new understanding throughout the region on how to pursue issues in this area. lorraine is going to give you a more detailed briefing on the meeting in a moment. another one to highlight is the health systems innovation dialogue on september 16 and 17, which will also involve senior government officials as well as private sector officials, the focus on public health challenges, as well as strengthening health systems and how they operate. the secure trade in the apec region conference will be held on the timber 18 and 19 with a focus on supply chain connectivity and making trade secure at the same time as making its move and effective. high-level meeting on innovati

clinton soldiered on.itter soldiered on. >> he wasn't out there soliciting active sex with someone like chris lee was. he wasn't out there -- >> john edwards only last week talking about john edwards. there may be a difference -- >> that's all time sex. >> all of it is immoral. all of it is unfaithful. >> by the way, you have a british accent so i will go to you. it used to be that americans were involved in stealing money. now they are stepping up in the kinky department. >> it is still wrong, still embarrassing. >> let's listen to wiener when he was asked about being engaged in phone sex. let's listen. >> i am reluctant, pour their privacy, since their names are coming out, not going to characterize it except that it was consensual. i will not rebut anything or dispute anything that any of the women who have come forward have said. they have every right to do so. so i will not make any efforts to characterize those conversations. >> poor choice of words, con sexual. because the next word is sex. that's s

but pelosi, obama and the clintons, bill and hillary, really put the screws to him. but i think the decisive thing was his wife apparently shifting and wanting him to go. >> they ratcheted up the pressure. >> weiner was snichteled. he's become a parody. it's day in and day out and it's humiliating in new york. also for his whiff's family, and i think the combination of everybody loading up on him was just too much. >> you may not believe in, but the weiner story was actually -- despite the new york. it was fading. and it's arguable that if he had done nothing he could have made it. >> i never heard of the new york post but -- >> he has a marriage to contend with. to enjoy. >> he could have made it -- if pelosi and reed say we're going to send him to the ethic committee, what he did was wrong but not throw him out of here -- obama and pelosi did this, they threw him under the bus. >> they did the deed. >> because he's an embarrassment and expendsable. >> do you think he could have ridden it out? >> yes, if they said we're going to send it to the ethics committee, we c

have you spoken to the clintons? how are they advising you is. >> i'm having conversations with people, you know, friends, neighbors, members of the family. look, i made some serious mistakes here and i have to redeem myself and i'm going to try to get back to work. but these were personal failings so i'm trying not to let them get in the way of my professional work. >> not get in the way of work. that doesn't seem like a possibility anymore. a source telling cnn that democratic leaders set a deadline of saturday morning for weiner to step down on his own. when he didn't, they let him have it. this from debby wasserman schultz. >> it is a distraction for representative weiner, his family, constituents and the house. for the good of all, he should step aside. >> then this -- "anthony's inappropriate behavior has been an insurmountable distraction to the house," that from the head of the democratic congressional campaign committee. nancy pelosi who already called for an ethics investigation says "i urge the congressman

as many of you know, secretary clinton, her legacy issue is women economic empowerment. we are really delighted to have her here, putting the power of her focus on this event. it is a unique opportunity. as the ambassador mentioned, in keeping with the increased focus on private-public partnerships, wes will be the premier event to bring hundreds of private and public sector leaders focused on a dialogue that forces begin -- women's economic empowerment among the apec economies. wes will be developing a set of policy recommendations that will be delivered to the apec economy leaders meeting scheduled in honolulu. the wes forum will integrate women more fully into the planning of apec and policy development. the event is designed for private sector leaders representing multinational corporations, sme's, academics, civil society, as well as senior government officials responsible for setting the international economic, trade, and sme policies together to put these recommendations together. secretary clinton will be the head of the high-level policy dialogue and she will al

and he came back. >> after the clinton stuff came through, there were a lot of democrats who wanted clintonrt of being a guy who survives, you have to sell yourself, and think i'm going to go through this. >> clinton, deep, deep, deep did not believe it had any effect on his being president. and that's a big question. >> i think his colleagues will push him out the door. they don't want to be the on the weiner ticket. he will become the next bad guy. thank you, steve. thank you, john. i don't want to be too nonpartisan. >>> you know, you watch these things and after all your supposition and suspicious comes through, follow your instincts. if you think they're crooks, they're lying, go with it. got it? >>> how did is tina fey's impersonation. perfect. she completely confused one of the tv networks. guess which one? you're watching "hardball" . [ male announcer ] millions of men 45 and older just don't feel like they used to. are you one of them? remember when you had more energy for 18 holes with your buddies. more passion for the one ya love. more fun with your family and friends. it could

secretary clinton removed qaddafi's close aids are trying to negotiate his departure from power. there are numous discussions by people close to qaddafi. we are aware that those discussions include among other matters the potential for a transition. she is in abudabi. tunizia said more members of qaddafi's military defected including a general and 10 officers. >> senate armed services committee is wrapping up hearing on leon panetta for defense secretary. that is president obama's cloyce to replace robert gates. senators sought out panetta's view on a number of topics most notable afghanistan. >> we have made progress with security in that country all be it fragile and reversible. i nevertheless believe progress is made and trying to advance security. >> panetta refused to say how completely they should with draw from afghanistan. along with being the sy director he is a former congressman from the mont a bay area and served in the clinton white house as budget director and chief-of-staff. general petraeus is nominated to take over for panetta at the sy. >> president obama accuse

same with clinton.even the most popular conservative his first year in office. my newspaper human events which was ronald reagan's favorite newspaper was attacking him so much the "washington post" quoteed saying i'm still reading you guys but i'm liking you a lot less. we don't worship our leaders. we don't turn them into idols, because we have a real saviour. we don't demonize the opponents we may ridicule them, make jokes about them. the way they turned george bush into the enemy. a nazi. soros and al gore have all compared him to hitler. he was compared to osama bin laden by a "new york times" op-ed writer. columnist called him the deficient sill. these aren't intended to be jokes, they are not taken as jokes. then you get violence from the left. you still get it now. big part in the middle comparing 9 french revolution to the american revolution, something liberals lie about. i was surprised how many of my friends new very little about the french revolution. chris matthews show last week -- [ unint

lesson here is from the clinton years. had something like the weiner trajectory except it was pro longed one. he lied about it at first a few months later he then made a confession then what happened the republicans decided to seize on this and overreach with impeachment and then also with the star report. they thought they really had the divoodz on this guy and it turned out that public was profoundly angered with clinton at the beginning, especially the lie. then when it looked as if the republicans were exploiting it it cynically public perception changed on that. the lesson is simple. these scandals speak for themselves. there is no reason to interject yourself if you are the opposition. there is a paradox here. the republicans may cause for resignation but actually, in terms of their pure partisan interest, the longer the person in the scandal stays in offices specially if is he a democrat in this case, the better it is if you are a republican. karl indicated in the earlier segment, it's the democrats who are getting

secretary of state hillary clinton said, and she made it very clear no decision has been made yet. she said we are still very much assessing the situation on the ground there. >> and kristen, let's talk about -- let's talk about germany real quick. we have angela merkel, come in an official visit, not a state visit, she is the head of government, not head of state. we have a joint conference later today, official welcoming ceremony. the two had dinner last night, just one-on-one at a georgetown restaurant and there's a lot of sticky issues between the two countries. >> certainly, chuck, there are r the biggest one would be libya. president obama has expressed concern about the fact that chancellor merkel did not have and did not engage german troops in that nato-led military strike that was led in libya are. so president obama said in recent comments he looks forward to talking to her about that you can also bet that afghanistan will be a big topic of conversation as well as the european debt crisis. >> kristen welker on the white house north lawn this morning. thanks very much. >>

hillary clinton. i ask you now, mr. hillary clinton, what did being called that due to, what did that inside give you? >> i remember the day they called me mr. hillary clinton. i had nothing to do so i was doing a lot of exercises and was doing pushups and situps. at that point i was doing pushups and when they called me hillary clinton, i used to do 30 or 35 pushups and i do not know where i got the energy. i did 50 or 60 and i started doing situps and i was doing 300 situps and i was doing so many my stomach started to hurt. i was so overjoyed and empowered by saying that. calling someone mr. hillary clinton, meaning there is a campaign for you and people outside of the walls of the jail were supporting you, so it was imploring. that is why i am doing this interview and that is why i wrote the book. not all journalists in iran, not all prisoners in iran have the international profile that i luckily had. not all journalists were lucky enough to be working for newsweek. i have to be the voice of the p

please welcome back to the show president bill clinton. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight, he was the host of cnn's "larry king live." his new book is called "truth be told," it's about half century of asking questions. please welcome back to the program larry king. [cheers and applause] how are you? great to see you again. >> great night to have me on. [laughter] >> jon: but you can't avoid that. there's in the a show in the world that you can go on that's not going to be talking about that. >> well, you are the only show that led with the economy. they really had him and you held him for me. >> jon: i started with the economy, and then i built. now you're the closer, my friend how have you been? are you doing your stand-up tour now? are you out on the road doing it? >> i'm out. we've donlan tick city and boston and indianapolis and saturday night we're in vegas. and in vegas my wife's going to open for me. we're at the mirage. >> jon: unbelievable. >> then sunday night in phoenix. then in

clinton through this whole thing. i heard all these arguments, all the same arguments being made. >> all of them. >> i think bill clinton got -- >> the face of the party. i took the position at the time. >> bill clinton was impeached. let's not redo history here. >> talking about whether he should have resigned. i don't think he should have. i'm glad he didn't. he is stronger today than ever before. >> i think it was wrong then. it's wrong now. we have too many public officials who are allowing to abuse, particularly male public officials allowing to abuse their positions and not holding up the candle. look, we need to be a party of integrity. >> let me be very clear. i don't think the american people in my opinion care about the sexting or the phone sex. what they care about is the lying and what they care about is what these public officials, this one in particular was doing on company time. i mean, if, in fact, he was involved in this, and more is going to come out, and he knows it, he knows it, there is one person

he married a top staffer to hillary clinton who, in fact, bill clinton officiated at their wedding. so, he was really known more for being known than he was known for any sort of accomplishments. he is also somebody we are finding this week never had much of -- unlike a charlie rangel, chairman of the ways and means committee, when he got into trouble, he had a deep resivorof history with his colleagues, of accomplishments, of affection, and anthony weiner does not seem to have that. >> what can happen now, the damage for democrats is that this continues on and this is a constant joke and they become associated as a party with anthony weiner even though they're shunning him. but what happens in politics, when you shun someone and they refuse to be shunned, they don't go away? >> it will be very interesting to see on monday when -- one thing that was sort of -- what little bit of luck anthony weiner had this week was the fact that the house was out on recess. on monday, everybody gets back. so he is going to return to another barrage of criticism and a very, very unfriendly welcome i

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we may be nearing an end game in the libyan war world leaders including secretary of state hillary clinton are meeting in the united arab emirates to discuss how libya could have a democratic future after khadafi news reports out of libya suggest it could offer himself maybe warming up to the idea of leaving power and way to the most recent intensive bombing campaign in tripoli secretary clinton acknowledged today that people close to gadhafi have expressed interest in coming up with a deal for khadafy to step down in libya and go into exile in some undisclosed african nation. today's successful contact group meeting was a powerful statement that our coalition remains united and committed we reaffirmed there is only one way forward for libya attacks against civilians must stop gadhafi must go and the libyan people deserve to determine their own future well the details of cut off his departure are still unclear or any kind of deal that might be worked out secretary clinton confirmed and she believes this war effort is winding down so while there may be a light at the end of the tunnel in li

long time hillary clinton aid.s democratic colleagues are careful not to be critical snipe really think it's a personal matter that anthony weiner needs to deal with himself. >> reporter: others disagree. >> it's a personal matter but he's a congressman. anything that affects one of us affects all of us. >> reporter: weiner said he was hacked but never asked law enforcement to look into it, deflecting questions about why not? he said he hired his own law firm to do their own investigation into why a lewd photograph went out on his twitter account. we called that law firm several times today to get a status report we never heard back. >> thanks very much. a cool trip to costa rica turns into a tragedy when a gun is drawn and an american student, a teenager is shot. no matter what the market does e-trade can help. they've got strategies, screeners... [ sneezes ] bless you, peppers. ...24/7 customer support. anyway... [ sneezes ] you know peppers, i told you to get a flu shot. [ male announcer ] e-trade. investing unl

weiner, clinton, woods, spitzer, even favre. did they eat a lemon? lose their teeth?pears to be the universal face for, oh, man did i mess up. >> when we don't like what we hear, if we don't like what is going on, our lips will disappear. >> reporter: body language expert janine driver says the lips are the most expressive part of the body. >> with weiner, the lips being so tight, nose wrinkled and his yaw, really having those jaw muscles, there's embarrassment there, and also a lot of anger. >> reporter: different than bill clinton. >> bill clinton, you got the upside down u, you have the bottom lip, really projecting out, which is sadness. >> reporter: how about tiger? >> he is sad. but is he super sad? no. when we are truly, truly in grief, then our inner eyebrows are pulled together and pulled up. >> reporter: favre, maybe a little anxiety with the eyebrows wrinkly. and eliot spitzer, utter embarrassment. >> he cannot take any more stress. the limbic system is shutting our mouth. because we can't take it. >> reporter: forget the eyes, the lips are a mirror to your

may not have any money but maybe we can pay the world often clinton's remote rumors are swirling via reuters that hillary clinton maybe i need to take the seat of president of the world bank in two thousand and twelve and of course word out of hillary land has been flat denial so far but that never means much these days one way or another i'm sure we haven't heard the last of hillary ok we're we're talking about hillary clinton now so yes that means you can stop touching yourselves. all right joining us now is luke would ask yourself we're lucky to have with us as a result of a surprise ride that saved him a train trip he is coming to us live from st moritz switzerland with an update on what has transpired at the builder board meetings going on there luke thank you for being with us tonight. he gets my friend being a good thing. things are going to be pretty intense here cops are following us around everywhere we go we're getting able to meet and harass i was threatened with deportation an arrest here just for building a billboard beating perimeter conference outside here and we are

fox news boss roger ails is considering trying to hire hillary clinton. they believe clinton looks unhappy as secretary of state and would get ratings. clinton has yet to respond. >>> you are now looking at the coliseum the building formerly known as the oakland coliseum. overstock.com bought the naming rights for the home of the raiders and the a's in april. this deal is good for six years. the name change becomes official tomorrow, and what a debut show it will host. u2 will light up the stage tuesday night and lucky fans are getting free tickets all because they're willing to part with a pair of shoes. nbc bay area's maryann favreau is altogether the hard rock cafe with more details. >> reporter: earlier this afternoon there was a line wrapped around the hard rock cafe here at pier 39. many of the people arrived here early this morning. they told me they considered it the deal of the decade. a pair of shoes for a pair of u2 tickets. melissa ryan wore these shoes as mate tron of honor in a wedding but will gradually trade them for u2 tickets. >> i came

for over decade she has been hillary clinton powerful personal aide. her husband told her about past proclivity with sexting for strangers but he assured her it was over. >> we have seen the calm, cool, correct huma. but we don't know where her breaking point. >> now another apology but from a black jail deal they are las vegas, one of the woman her husband has sect had. she offers her sincere apologies she didn't realize the congressman was married. >> i don't even know what that is anymore. >> that it's quickly dissipating. >> here at sfo flights are back on time. we'll talk about how long this summer pattern will last. >> also coming up. >> this was a poor idea just gone crazy. >> 170 days of humiliation, how one father may have taken it to a whole new level.  >>> a stay at home father has won the title. for 170 days, got every morning during the school year and waved goodbye to his teenage son as he rode a school bus, he wore a different costume every day, rock star and clown. even put a wedding dress on. the father says the tradition

. >> hillary clinton served when she served as a domestic advisor to president bill clinton. she's been described as the hair yot turban or women in industry, breaking barriers for the new york -- and the first black woman to be elected senior pastor of the usa. >> around the world, authoritarian regimes abuse their own citizens, violent extremists attempt to exploit sectarian tension and religious freedom is under threat from both quiet intolerance and violent attacks. >> she's prepared to step on to a volatile world stage, as christians and people of other faith is growing with persecution. >> christians must have the right to worship freely in cairo, just those who have their mosques, will never have their mosques destroyed in berain. >> as ambassador, she's worship with different faiths around the world while monitoring religious persecution and discrimination, she'll help private organizes promote religious freedom and identify -- reporting her findings bab back to secretary clinton and president obama. >> religious freedom -- corner stone were every healthy society, and

when clinton and president obama regularized travel. secretary clinton have been to asia 17 times. she's almost completed the tour. she has a couple of remaining countries she'd like to go to all the southeast asian nations during the time of her tenure in office. we've signed the treaty of amity and cooperation. it's an important sort of guidepost to get through that allows us to have more intense engagements on a variety of not only bilateral initiatives but institutional initiatives as well. president obama instructed the state department to undertake a burma review and we went through that process over the course of the first eight months and we put in place very careful new strategy which is designed both to keep our pressure in place but also to explore opportunities for consequently engagement. we appointed pope we were one of the first nations to

a ceremony officiated by former president bill clinton weeks before chelsea clinton. >> question today, what would you do if you were in her position? send us a tweet and we'll share your thoughts a bit later. >>> we have dry heat and high winds that continue to fuel a monster wildfire in arizona. 600 square miles now torched. and authorities there have expanded evacuation orders including entire towns in parts of eastern arizona, home to some 8,000 people. they expect the numbers to grow in the coming days as this so-called wallow fire still burns out of control. >>> in florida dry conditions are sparking brushfires across the state. fires have burned in miami-dade county. and firefighters say they still have not been able to get it under control. it could threaten tourists at everglades national park. nearly half the country is involved in a brutal heat wave. and triple digit heat from texas to new england. >> rob marciano tracking all of this for us. he's feeling the heat in stone mountain, georgia. heat advisories really across the country. >> yeah, and where there's not heat advis

that's something bill clinton figured out how to do. how does this president do it? >> i think first and foremost he's got to say to the american people, look, we understand that although this recovery is happening, it is not happening fast enough for a lot of you. but think of where we were, think of the policies we put in place, think of the changes they made, and think of the agenda i laid out before the congress in my state of the union speech. wanting to invest in infrastructure, alternative and renewable energy, things that are absolute job producers and the congress has refused to let that happen. so i think he's got some good arguments. one, again, juxtaposing the past to the present. and, two, where he wants to take us and the fact that we're stalled. andrea, we could create 2.5 million jobs a year if we went on a real infrastructure revitalization program. these are well paying jobs that can't be outsourced. i would press that and press that and press that. >> all right, ed rendell, thank you very much. chuck todd, i know you got to run to the briefing. tha

when bill clinton would say when questioned about things like this, you are trying to make this about me and i want to make it about you, the american people whether they have jobs or health care. it's a classic deflection out of the playbook. again, i asked you to grade him beforehand and i want to ask you to give him advice. what does he need to do? >> shut up. that's the first thing. now he is in the ethics committee where all he can do is go into full apology and hope for the best. i don't know that there is any kind of a magical political advice to give a guy who is in this circumstance. a very good thing is whatever the house ethics committee asks you, tell the truth. just resign. this guy in upstate new york did. he got out. they are going to subpoena yourself. the colleagues and leader pelosi. he is not a popular guy in this caucus to say the least. >> candidate clinton and then governor and president clinton had remarkable skills, but during the lewinsky scandal, he had what i call the political good fortune of republicans in the view of many. i will be criticized for this, b

for over decade she has been hillary clinton powerful personal aide.usband told her about past proclivity with sexting for strangers but he assured her it was over. >> we have seen the calm, cool, correct huma. but we don't know where her breaking point. >> now another apology but from a black jail deal they are las vegas, one of the woman her husband has sect had. she offers her sincere apologies she didn't realize the congressman was married. >> i don't even know what that is anymore. >> that it's quickly dissipating. >> here at sfo flights are back on time. we'll talk about how long this summer pattern will last. >> also coming up. >> this was a poor idea just gone crazy. >> 170 days of humiliation, how one father may have taken it to a whole new level. 3q copd makes it hard to breathe so i wasn't playing much of a role in my own life. but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now, i've got the leading part. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, vavair contains both an anti-inflammator

bill clinton said that. the president and the vice president, everybody knows you have to tackle entitlement reform. if we can't do that, we'll end up with a very short-term proposal over, you know, a few months. we'll be back having the same discussion again in the fall. >> schieffer: let me just ask you this. is part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling, would you be willing and open to eliminating some tax breaks if democrats would go along with some spending cuts? >> we're really interested in corporate tax reform. for that matter tax reform across the board. it's very hard, bob, to deal with a big subject like tax reform within a month. we need to do it. but it's hard to squeeze that into this time limit we have in connection with the deficit. we need to concentrate on cutting spending. >> schieffer: if that was what it took to do the deal, would you be willing to figure out a way to do it. >> we're discussing everything in the context of raising the debt ceiling, but the biggest problem is the spending

clinton went through the same stages. he lied and did contrition.went ahead with starr report and the mood, perception changed and clinton ended up in a sense the winner politically. i think in the case of congressman, it's clear the democrats want to get rid of this. it will distract them they are already upset about it distracting them over the medicare issue. the other example you mention, the chris lee example, where the republicans cut their losses so quickly, it's true in the end they lost the seat. but the scandal stopped because he wasn't a congressman. gone before you heard the scandal. for purely partisan politics the democrats will be hurt the longer he survives. >> the ethics committee investigation helps democrats for this reason they can say well, we amount talk about it because it's under investigation by the ethics committee. >> whether or not a democrat talks about it, it will be in the media,en the internet every day nonetheless. >> it us tracts from the democratic message. so i think it comes down to the leadership. at the moment,

clinton says the u.s.s watching the syrian regime closely and is in talks with turkey about the influx of thousands of refugees. >>> indonesia will not issue anymore visas for local people to go and work in saudi arabia, not until it has a new agreement with the saudis. huge numbers travel overseas to work. more than a million of them go to the gulf kingdom. but jakarta is furious that saudi arabia executed an indonesian maid by be heading. the woman had been convicted of killing her employer's wife. but indonesia was not informed that the sentence was about to be carried out. there has been an outraged response right across indonesia. the government is protesting to the saudis and has also recalled its ambassador from rhee had. the case of the maid brings into focus the issue of the rights of female workers around the world. a senior researchers from human rights watch joins us live from new york. thanks for being with us. be heading still goes on in saudi arabia? >> it does. and what we have seen in the

we also know she is a very close friend of hillary clinton, a close aide to hillary clinton. had hillary clinton went through a sex scandal of sorts. i wonder if his wife called her for advice. there is an interesting dynamic there that we are curious to know more about. >> she is someone who you see her constantly by the side of secretary of state, hillary clinton. she reportedly started working for mrs. clinton back in 1996 at the white house and has been at her side ever since. we don't hear much from her. to give you a sense, democrats really speak so highly of her and, yesterday, democratic statgist, james carville, had said on our air, she is one of the most popular people in the democratic party saying that democrats are furious with anthony wiener for putting his wife through this. she is someone who is also in a "vanity fair" article written by jonathan alter recently. it was a profile of hillary clinton. in it, it says, huma had been married the same month as chelsea clinton. this made her feel she had two family weddings at the same time. that's how close they are.