clinton/lewinsky. the number one, the iran-contra scandal. and the reason for it, it's my first memory of political scandal. my first political anything was the hostage crisis. that wasn't so much a political scandal to me. it was a foreign policy. that's why i chose it as number one. you can post yours on twitter. the #tooearlytop3. we'll read the best responses later on the show. >>> still ahead, dangers of the dome. or the roof or the ceiling. i don't know what you want to call it at tropicana field. whether it cost the red sox a victory. >>> and when christie met harry. should be a good sitcom. we'll hear what the governor thought of the prince later. that story and a check on weather. when "way too early" comes right back. hi! i'm rach. i started going pro a few weeks ago, using crest pro-health clinical rinse. i like to swish it around a little... [ swishing ] and it's that easy! my mouth has never felt cleaner. [ male announcer ] go pro with crest pro-health clinical rinse. i take really good care of my teeth, but i've definitely kicke

i'll tell you, clinton/lewinsky, the clubhouse leader. i'll show you my own in a little bit.

. >> we saw this before in the clinton-monica lewinsky scandal. his numbers went up in the heart of the scandal. it means that democrats come back to protect their own when things get tough. >> and republicans do, too too. >> that's really what is happening here. we need a few more weeks to see if this is having an impact. >> john: when you look at this scandal. >> as we can't even use that word. >> john: there are people who are now demanding that the president be impeached saying we weren't political. as people understand more about 501 c 4s this would be a good thing in educating the public in what the citizens united has done? >> no, we're asking people to do more. as your previous guest just said people have other things they're worried about in terms of the economy housing national disasters so people will stop paying attention to what is in the news. but what is interesting to point out, remember there has been an intent to stick a scandal to this administration for a long time. >> john: there has been, really? >> there could be something e

lewinsky that was not appropriate. in fact, it was wrong. >> bill clinton, monica lewinsky, 1988. we talked about it a bit. basics.lly for thing to remember about 1998, though, is that even before anyone heard about that blue dress, that year's election was supposed to be rough for democrats. it is because it was midterm election. when you are the white house party the only real question whenever there is a midterm election tends to be how bad will the damage be. it already had been bad for democrats once under clinton in 1994. second year of his presidency. when anti-clinton backlash handed republicans 54 seats in the house and eight in the senate. made gingrich the first republican house speaker since the eisenhower era. gingrich proved to be a perfect foil for clinton, though. recovered from the '94 drubing to win a second term in 1996. his coattails were limited. republicans still controlled the house and the senate. no one was expected another '94 tsunami in 1998. it is what opposition parties are supposed to do in midterm elections. which brings us to the lewinsky mess. it is not a scandal that came out of n

clinton had lieu lewinski and white water and gw had iraq and katrina. it is like when you stay at a bar long enough you are going to end up doing drugs and sleeping with a hooker. >> you can always do it at the start of the night. we talked about how obama is the second coming of jimmy carter. he is looking like richard nixon to me. >> richard nixon was white. i have eyes. i can see that. >> you barely have eyes. >> but i can see that. >> let's move on. from irs to omg. their love for dzhokhar is bizarre. thousands of teen girls have taken to social media to pronounce their undieing affection and infection for dzhokhar tsarnaev a huge piece of [bleep] treating him like beeper. for some he is too much of a looker to rig a pressure cooker. one 16-year-old loser tweeted, yes i like justin bieber and i like dzhokhar, but that has nothing to do with why i support him. he is innocent. he is far too beautiful. that's what i have been saying all along. an eight-year-old keep it blunted, let the world's proud parents know getting one of dzhokhar's tweets tattooe

remember, president clinton maintained an approval above 50% throughout the monica lewinsky scan d.a. daal chlt /* /- scandal. republicans very critical, democrats supportive, independents divided. people are still reflecting what we saw before the controversies. >> that's kind of unsurprising that republicans would be more upset about it. so we've had a little more than a week of the news about the irs, specifically when asked about the irs, what does this poll show about the president's handling of it? >> the big question we asked first was do people believe what the president said about the controversy? and we found most do. more than six in ten say what president obama said about the matter has been completely or mostly true. and a majority 55% say the irs acted on its own with 37% saying senior white house officials ordered the irs to target the tea party and other conservative groups for extra scrutiny. again, that's good news for the white house. >> so, how's the president fared when it comes to benghazi? that's obviously been on his plate for a much longer time. >> yes. and th

lewinsky. bill clinton survived that, watergate and the plummers, richard nixon and his administration didn't survive that. does it have to directly touch the president for something major to happen? >> i guess it dis. but again, i think the issue is that the republicans have a messenger problem. americans are not in love with president obama and his policies. his approval is 50%, we are clearly a deeply divided country. but the problem for republicans is that they do trust the president more than the opposition. opposition to gay marriage and immigrants am. so they are not going to go along with what they for perceiving as political witchhunts right now. >> eric: do you think it's a political witch-hunt? >> the president's problems are just beginning. he is not facing them. he feigns outrage, but his actions are opposite what have the american people feel. what they are feeling day by day. good luck with the 50%. let's see what they near 2014 as we learn to where the president's been. peter king said it best. as chairman chairman of the homd security at the time, he doesn't know where the president

that's what bill clinton did during the lewinsky ongoing crisis and his numbers stayed above 55%.shown to be a scandal that reaches into the white house on the irs issue so far. as long as that continues to be true, he'll hold pretty solid. >> i have to play you one quick thing before we go. we all know when presidents get in trouble, i wanted to play you something from michelle obama in a pretty amazing, pretty strong commencement speech at bowie state. >> as my husband has said, austin, please, stand up and reject the slander that says a black child with a book is trying to act white. reject that. >> we have heard that michelle obama was going to play a more policy oriented role. i haven't seen a lot of that lately, but is this the time to roll out the first lady here? >> she is, by far, one of the most popular people. she is extremely estoot. >> she is the hugger in chief. she can hug and show emotion. i think she's a great force to have out there. >> nodding heads. >> empowering young people. fine position for her to take. >> donna brazille. >> i like the new bangs. >> donna b

president clinton had two scandals, white water and monica lewinski. franklin and grant were arrested while in office. yes, it was a bad week for the white house politically. maybe the worst of obama's second term. will it derail his legacy? after all, he promised to help us prosper. >> we believe that america's prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class. we know that america thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work. when the wages of honest labor liberate family from the brink of hardship. >> this white house is stuck in crisis management, not legacy building. for now. >> the chief political strategist at potomac research group and the editorial director of the national journal, gentlemen, welcome to the program. greg, it is not off i get to see teapot dome scandal on television. we're trying to put this in perspective. really trying to put this really into perspective. you say the scandals could push democrats away from the president this summer. put it in perspective for me. how does it hurt

bush says he knew nothing about the scandal and lied about his pagey pagey with monica lewinski bill clinton compareto that to barack obama. he didn't know the department of of justice seized those records with the ap phone records. he had nothing to do with terrorist attacks. may 2013, remember a long way to go and a lot more on his plate. don't write him off yet. have a good one. see you back here again tomorrow. >> this is "the bill press show." [♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: all right tv land hour number 1, jacki schechner and i went with a big group of folks to see the great gad sby yesterday. >> what and did we learn? 3-d unnecessary. >> stephanie: i can't see through the 3-d'

i remember not only the impeachment in 1998 of bill clinton over the whole monica lewinsky thing. massachusetts, there's a car in front of us like a month after bill clinton was inaugurated in 1993 that said impeach clinton. i remember that. that backlash against him began from the moment he took office, there was going to be this fight against him and it culminated six years later. i feel i'm watching the same thing play. >> i agree with you. but i had a similar experience if not driving around counting bumper stickers. you get people who oppose a democratic president. he wins anyway. they are disgruntled. spend the first term complaining about it. sure they can knock him out in the second term. when he gets re-elected, we now have a diagnosis of what i call second term frenzy and the symptoms are that you get angrier and louder and angrier and louder. if you didn't convince people in the first term, you can yell at them in the second term and you do not notice that they have tuned you out. and the symptom, i would guess that you're really into second term frenzy is when people st

stand with mark sanford, the last time he was in congress all he did was prosecute bill clinton for monica lewinsky. we got that lying bill clinton. and here they reelect this guy one more time. what kind of place is that? >> stephanie: well it's -- >> wheel of right-wing hypocrites! >> stephanie: people have short memories -- >> people have what? short memories -- >> look at the monkey! [♪ magic wand ♪] >> stephanie: look over there! republicans in damage-control mode over background checks votes. good. i say good. salon writing after they have seen their approval ratings tank. kelly ayotte and jeff flake scrambling for damage control. [♪ magic wand ♪] >> we have always been at war -- >> stephanie: and we have always been for background checks. look at the monkey. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: he first told cnn he would be willing to flip. the only reason he voted no was because the concern of the cost given the way guns are sold among friends in his state of arizona and others. as somebody said you may need to spend more time with your family if you are selling a gun on the internet to a family memb

president clinton with the beginning of the lewinski scandal said the accusations were false and he needed the work of the american people. so it's common in the early stages of an investigation. >> neil: as you reminded me, it's not so much the act or the alleged crime, it's the coverup afterwards. so, hence the fixation on the part of some of the media about benghazi. more to the point about the talking points revised no less than a dozen times. but in the case of these irs investigations, whether anyone at the administration might have been involved and whether there was an effort to cover that up. way too early to say. that is what get to the attention and that is what hearings and the sheer volume of things percolating right now, should the administration be worried? >> well, they should be concerned because, unlike watergate, the faces of watergate, who were they? turned out to be the administration. the different president's men that fell kind of one by one. who are the victims today? we have had two of them on your program already. there are faces associated with the irs scandal. p

they did this in 1998 with the monica lewinsky thing on bill clinton. >> i got to say -- i don't think it's 1998 at all. i think the leaders of the irs lied through their teeth and that is going to be shown with clear proof in these oversight hearings and the one place i do agree with the attorney general is there are going to be criminal prosecutions. that's for sure u sure. but bob costa, i want to put something else into the witch's brew here. this wall street editorial this morning, i'm sure you saw it, chuck schumer and max baucus and senate democrats wrote a letter to the former irs commissioner shullman saying they should go slow, essentially, do what they did concerning applications for tax exempt status. this is schumer and baucus. i'm sorry he didn't ask him that. that was the seed planted right at the beginning. what happens? it got politicized. these senators did what they wanted them to do. >> we can debate the theatrics all we want. the problem for the droots and the president is this has been going on for years. there is document, freedom of information requests since pa

. >> john: the real question would be if bill clinton used taxpayer funds to see monica lewinsky, gotcaught, had to resign the presidency and left his wife and abandoned his child to get engaged to monica linesky then wanted you to vote for him again, would you vote. >> i think that like the thing here is sanford is a republican. it doesn't count when a republican does it. we're talking about bill clinton who is not a republican. david vidder still has his seat. it doesn't matter when a republican does it, the rules are different. >> completely different. he had opportunity right there to say back then, i was a hater. i hated on him. i was wrong. i apologize, bill. >> i also think -- pile on whatever they're saying, it seems to me the conservatives if you say god has forgiven me, then you're forgiven. not the person who i did it to. >> john: truly not forgiven him. if you assume to speak for god will you win points just by your heresy. >> the people who aren't having affairs aren't doing a good job either. >> john: if you're a complete twit and you go overseas, you can score with a re

politicians and sex scandals are nothing new bill clinton had a sexual relationship with white house intern monica lewinsky in one thousand nine hundred eight and he looked straight into a camera and straight out lied about it then when they came out that he did have a relationship with her he was acquitted of impeachment charges of perjury anyway and the american people continue to support him as a public figure they love him regardless of the fact that they know he's a cheater and a liar. as hank sheinkopf a democratic consultant in new york said in support of wiener acting idiotically is no royal ation of the law all and michael feldman another democratic consultant said new yorkers respect resilience they encourage redemption and they love would come back so why shouldn't we be mayor of new york gosh i don't know maybe because he's a liar and a cheater seriously why does america keep granting such huge amounts of power to people who are found guilty of lying and cheating and of abusing their public offices setting aside the mind blower that this is supposedly a christian nation and so we should have ze

president clinton had two scandals, white water and monica lewinsky. warren harden had the teapot dome. ulysses s. grant was arrested in office. yes, it was a bad week for the white house politically, maybe the worst of obama's second term, but will it derail his legacy? after all, he promised to help us prosper. >> we believe it must rest on the broad shoulders of a rising middle class. we know america thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work, when the wages of honest labor liberate families from the brink of hardship. >> but this white house is stuck in crisis management, not legacy building, for now. greg is the chief political strategist at potomac. and ron is here with us. gentleman, welcome to the program. greg, it's not very often i get to say teapot dome scandal on television. we're trying to put this in perspective, really put this in perspective. you say these scandals could push democrats away from the president this summer. put in perspective, how does it hurt our economic recovery, or does it matter? >> i thi

there we saw that republicans focus on the monica lewinski scandal and impeachment of president clinton, in the midterm election in his second term, that is a model the republicans want to avoid. i think they feel energized, they feel like they have an opening against the obama administration. they're expanding it to include criticism of the health care act which we'll see the vote on later this afternoon in the house because, of course, the irs is the enforcement agency in that individual mandate that has anchored so much conservatives. >> is there anything in that hundred pages of e-mails that the white house released yesterday afternoon that indicates that there is any there? >> not really. thank you for mentioning the piece on time.com if people want to reads it. and i saw nothing new there to advance the story we already knew. we knew this already, but as a reminder, benghazi is more of a cia story than is generally appreciated. that facility there was primarily a cia site where they were doing a lot of work including trying to contain some of the arms they had gotten loose. the ci

president reagan okaying the sale of arms to iran to pay for a war in nicaragua monica lewinsky of course was president clinton's fault and so. these all stop short of the oval office and you have the media screaming of course why is the president a bystander in his own administration and you did see with the president now stepping in to say that the acting commissioner it iris has resigned chill no to. he left it up to the treasury secretary to do it i think you know the press has been demanding why it why didn't the president show more outrage and why didn't he call for the resignation so it it's interesting the president is apart from these scandals and yet they're consuming his administration to what extent do you think these and i realize there's still a lot of stuff to come in a lot of information to be out there but to what extent might these be ginned up scandals or were the the never seen in quite a bill obstruction from from that meeting in the caucus room the night the president obama was first sworn in the first term where you had sixty nine it was members of the house representatives in the senate g

what they remember is that clinton got things done in his second term before the lewinsky scandal. >> michael: that's exactly right. the president said he wants to get back to governing. that's what he'll probably do. eleanor clift. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> michael: turning now to the turn's agenda to the president's agenda. things are getting done in washington. here is a round up of news not getting covered during scandal week. today the committee approved a massive farm bill. the republican led house proposed a farm bill but theirs would slash $23 billion from the food stamp program. that's shocking. of course it would. and on the immigration front the senate judiciary committee took a whack at the gang of eight's bill today. setting up an entry and exit system. senator from texas voiced his support for the measure and his reasoning was that the board should be more like, wait for it disney world. >> walt disney world in floor uses a bio metric to ensure that people don't commit ticket fraud. i would say if bio metric systems were that easy, affordable and good enough fo

taxpayers' money and you leave -- imagine for a moment that bill clinton, for instance, didn't just have an affair with monica lewinsky, which he never left the white house, by the way, to consummate, instead me disappeared from the white house for a weeks are didn't tell his staff, didn't tell his family, just disappeared and we found out he had taken taxpayer money and shown up with uruguay -- >> that's an ingenious exoneration, didn't leave the place. we'll have you back. >> all in -- "all in with chris hayes" start right now. >>> good evening. from new york i'm chris hayes. thank you for joining us. truly amazing stuff to cover tonight. how wild conspiracies are causing an absolute gun frenzy in this country and how washington politicians are legitimizing them. and a state so out of control, citizens are willing to go to jail to protest the laws. you might remember this bit of comedy from the white house correspondents dinner on saturday night when president obama joked about the criticism of not working with republicans more. >> maureen dowd said i could solve all my problems if i were just more like michael doug

a play on the famous line by president bill clinton during the monica lewinsky investigation.ere is the section -- secretary of state saying that she did not have factual relations with the american people. sharyl attkisson, joining us in a couple of minutes. mike, kentucky, republican line, good morning. caller, how are you? host: fine, thank you. -- caller: how are you? host: fine, thank you. i worked under both systems. i think the point that people are missing is that this is a choice. caller: i worked under both systems. i think that the point the people are missing is that this is a choice. like the previous caller says, this is not taxed. kentucky is generally a democratic state. -- republican state. but i did work under a string of democratic governors. no one thought that it was political, you know? it was the employee choice a lot of times. it from dayt choose to day, but occasionally you could switch. host: vivian has this point. the number oneis topic of "the new york times" best seller list. number five is open " dirty war is." #6 is "carry me." "the duct commande

clinton, of course, had monday can lewinsky, iraq, the great recession, so with benghazi, wand now this is shaping up to be a second-term curse for obama? >> talk about a bad week for the white house. add on the i.r.s. spying on tea party groups, and this benghazi situation, and i think you have to start to wonder about the second term. remember katrina hit in august of 2005, a couple months after the point we are at in the second term. i remember a former bush administration official telling me long ago they were having staff problems, long after robert left. i said, are you guys on the b team? and they said, no we're on the vertical team. the obama administration is going to have some difficulties, you know, staffing is the white house with top-tier really smart officials, because those officials they went through in the first five and eventually six years get tired and burned out. so this is the cycle, this is the big problem that any second-term white house faces. i think the obama folks are getting the taste of it. >> robert appreciated that. i'm just speaking for him. congressman

lewinsky fed off of that. there had been a five-year campaign to find the smoking gun to take clinton out of office. i think what really -- it was six months after the summer of '97 when you got the lewinsky thing and that's when it went really berserk. but in the 1998 midterm elections for the first time since james monroe was president, the white house party actually gained seats in a six-year election. nobody saw that coming and it was so shocking to republican that say two days after that election newt gingrich had to step down as speaker. >> so they went completely hog wild. they were presumably encouraged by their base to keep going. in republicanland, which actually was more porous than it is now, now it is even more isolated from the rest of media and the rest of political discussion, there was something going on in the internal republican feedback loop that told them they were both onto something and that this was a good thing to do politically, but the electorate totally disagreed. >> that was it. i think because that mindset existed from basically the start of the clinton presidency, that

whitewater, monica lewinsky during the bill clinton administration.of investigations. they start off relatively modestly. you don't know, though, once there are criminal investigations under way by the fbi, where they wound up. valerie plaim leak operation, chief of staff to the vice president of the united states was convicted of lying to fbi officials. once there's an fbi inquiry, you don't know where these things wind up. >> no, it's true. i will say, if i can put on my analyst hat for a second -- >> please. >> -- i don't think that the scandal, controversy, whatever you want to call it, about the department of justice legally subpoenaing the phone records, very broadly, of the associated press reporters, is something that the american people are going to care about. i don't think that they do. i think that it's the -- this one, and previous administrations and before that, can say it's national security, we need to do this for national security. and ultimately, i don't think the public cares about whether or not we, in the media, have unfettered,

clinton survived hand ily. it was not exactly a love affair between him and monica lewinsky and the pizza box or whatever.t of make the case that at least this guy fell in love. he's obviously -- keep in mind, let me preface everything i'm saying with the fact that i can't look at him without cracking up. >> but at the end of the day -- >> at the end of the day people can rationalize that better. there's a double standard among the kind of bad behavior you get up to. there are levels. >> it's less worse, it's less worse because it was actually love. we're so -- >> and who hadn't gotten, you know, sort of i did not have sex with that woman. i was hiking the appalachian trail, whatever, nobody comes out of the box saying oh yes. i was in south america. >> what i have learned from mark sanford, regardless of whether he wins is don't be indignant. own up to your own human deficiencies and buy a cardboard cutout of nancy pelosi. >> let me just say what i think weirdly helped him. when the news that his wife, his trespassing -- more than half the country is divorced. and they all know what that kind of petty st

. >> stephanie: bill clinton didn't leave the country during the lewinsky thing and leave the keys toe producer boy toy chris lavoie, voice deity jim ward. we'll see you tomorrow on "the stephanie miller show." ç] >> i'm jacki schechner. it is noon eastern and here's what's current. the boston police department has tweeted out that three new suspects are in custody in the marathon bombing case. details still emerging. "the boston globe" is reporting the three are college students connected to joke ar tsarnaev at umass dartmouth and helped him after the attack. the massachusetts medical examiner is ready to release the body of tamerlan tsarnaev and his widow says she wants his family to take it. tsarnaev died after a gunfight with police more than a week ago but the exact cause of death will not be released until the body is claimed. tsarnaev's parents are still in russia but family members here in the u.s. say they'll do it. >>> in other news, new jersey governor chris christie is out with his first television ad of

clinton, where he said, i did not have sexual relations with that woman, perhaps redefining the definition of the word sex, but it was strong enough, believable enough -- stories put out about lewinsky being paranoid or delusional. by the time he admitted it in august, the store had run its course, people were tired of it, the republicans have overplayed their hand. relying on the passage of time, even if it takes an out my fly at the beginning, is useful. i was struck when i heard him say that. hasntially, and jay carney said about the current scandal, we, the state department, white house, did not edit those talking points, when they obviously did. it may not have been an outright lie, but it was a deception of sorts. they have strung out the benghazi thing for eight months, and now even carney himself says that it happened long time ago. you deny and the night and then you say it is old news, over. all, don't you have a personal profit? you look at nixon, clinton, they got in trouble for what they did or said as individuals. this is not true of the eisenhower. in my view, the most prepared individual to go into the white house in the last century and this century. >> he had the s

during bill clinton's second term when he was talking about entitlement reform which is very nice way of saying have no more cat food, grandma. the fact that he was so mired in the lewinsky scandal during his second term made it impossible for him to do anything to make any kind of cuts in medicare. now we've seen this president essentially put medicare on the table. that can't happen now. >> you know what troubles me? unfortunately, you hear me say this too often. the president's communication group is so incredibly awful that we have to fear for what's going to happen in the next six months as they try to reinvigorate a reasonable discussion on healthcare. come october this all happens and i know for a fact that the white house is looking into how are we going to resell healthcare? not like they ever sold it in the first place. >> john: are you tired of seeing your party always playing defense? >> i don't see it as a problem with the party. i see it as a problem of a really poorly operating communications office in the white house. it ran badly in the first term. i'm seeing no signs whatsoever that they've improved in the second. they've handled this all really badly.

that they had the opportunity to investigate president clinton on his personal behavior and impeachment. that second one with the monica lewinski impeachment. i think there are some risk that they looked like they are faced on not addressing the nation's problems. you have to say republicans think this has provided a big opening for them and the possibility that you want to see the healthcare law. we saw the repeal. they are proud of it. >> what do you think about for the 36th time? we want to be sure every republican mer of congress is on the record and since there are some new members like mark sanford sworn in we have to have yet another vote. >> it does. it tells you republicans think the affordable care continues to be a pretty good issue for them in the mid-term e elections coming up. the affordable care act right after the law was passed in 2010 was an issue that clearly rebounded against democrats. less so in 2012, but republicans clearly believe in the house races in 2014, it will be a good thing for their members to be able to say yes, i cast a vote to repeal it. >> so do you expect to see more hearings on benghazi? >

during the clinton administration he served as a lawyer addressing scandals such as white water and the monica lewinskyairs. >> when i was there they were not people as smart, smooth, and certainly as good looking as olivia pope. >> somehow i feel like olivia pope would really stand out in the reality of what is washington, d.c. how much of is the administration's fault, just in the sense of having lost control of the message and not being able to fix it right away? >> the panel was talking earlier. in my view this is much more of a political challenge as opposed to a crisis. this was not rise anywhere near to the level of prior challenges that we face in the clinton administration. that reagan faced in the second term. george wvp bush faced with the skoothder libby week. this is taking place during the scandal industrial process in washington, d.c. clearly the republicans are looking for every single reason to thwart the president's agenda. this potentially gives them some cover to do it and appear like they're doing it for legitimate reasons, which is why i think the president got to a good place by

clintons wish he would disappear. the source says every time he makes headlines it is a reminder of bill's scandal with monica lewinskyurday night live star seth myers moving to the tonight -- moving to replace jimmy fallon. >>steve: there are questions major airlines refuse to answer. here to spill the industry secrets, a pilot with over 30 years of flight experience. he's just written a new book called "cockpit confidential: everything you need to know about air travel." good morning, patrick. why did you write the book? >> i wrote the book to first and foremost inform. there's a lot of just bad information out there when it comes to air travel. >>steve: let me ask you a couple of questions. first of all, in the beginning after they close the door, the flight attendant says you've got to turn off your cell phone and any electronic things. we imagine if the cell phone is off and we're taking off, we might crash the plane. do we have to turn off cell phones? >> people think there's this conspiracy and rules are arbitrary and it's part of the airlines hating everybody and wanting to tick off their customers. there's no

lewinsky. >> that is perfect! >> not bad, right? ring me up, i'm ready to go. i'm ready to go. producer is james ponciled. >> you have got your bil clinton we saw pictures of them taking the kids to school, tigers' kids to school. she has gone from the boring, almost stepmom to the very exciting stepmom. >> awesome. trying to win them over. >> of course. she took them all jet skiing. check it out. little one with her little one. with him. >> cute. >> this is right outside of palm springs. this happened yesterday. they took advantage of the long weekend. hit the water with the kids. why not? this is near tiger's home. oh, i'm sorry -- no, palm springs yesterday. so, there it is. you know what, there is a picture, by the way, when they first initially said they were together. >> wow. >> there you have it. >> i tell you what, if those are going -- if they have kids those are going to be some athlete genes. >> plus really cute. see what i think about. what you think about. >> i would like to have that kid. he could be a champion. i don't have the champion blood. my kid is not a champion. >> she is in her own way. >> yes, she is, absolutely.

the president clinton showed every day i'm going to get up as he kept repeating and i'm going to be working for you folks despite this controversy and on everything other, even on the lewinsky try to get all the information out and try to get ahead of the bad news. i do think the president was trying to bait the republicans. >> felt like bait a little bit. >> the huge risks for republicans. they have huge demographic problems. >> blue collar voters in the last election was a big problem. if you're just addressing these kind of issues you're not out there every day addressing those problems, that could be a problem for republicans. >> michael gerson, ron fournier, two veterans of this. thank you very much. >>> up next, a path to citizenship, equal treatment for same-sex partners? and reuniting children of undocumented immigrants with their families, those are among the thorny issues when the senate is expected to get back to work. joining me is janet mergea, the president of the national council on la raza. are you worried about either of these issues being a poison pill. particularly the one on same-sex couples. which could break up the so-called gang of eight? >> you know

but the second term problem, president clinton had the second term problem with the monica when ski scandal. -- with the monica lewinskindal. then there was the social security issue. the iraq war. hurricane katrina for president bush. he was really out of touch on that. that is one thing that the staff says he never really recovered from and his credibility. but he was at his ranch in the state of texas during the terrible hurricane that hit the gulf coast and was out of touch as far as how serious it was. i think that is part of a pattern here. it is the big criticism has been the media were in president obama 's pockets. it is interesting you mentioned that. the president needs to get the coverage they deserve your it that is how i would put it. it is not fair in every case. whatis happening now is ever issues that president obama was benefiting from in his first term he is getting much more negative coverage now. it is not just because we are looking for things to embarrass him on. i think this whole notion of the media and the justice ing recordssubpoena mea ,nd looking through e-mails including e-mails from peopl

president and hillary clinton illegal solicitation of whitewater loans, 1994. henry cisneros. president obama and monica lewinskyal 1998. lewis scooter libby leaks involving c.i.a. operative i.d., 2003. in those cases it was an independent counsel. what heights did those cases have to come to in order for it to be investigated? >> the independent counsels in those cases came about under a statute that authorized courts to appoint independent counsels. at the present time the only authority that can trigger an independent counsel -- drum roll -- eric holder, the attorney general of the united states. he would basically have to agree to appoint an independent counsel to investigate his deputy, his number-two person. what did we hear him say all day yesterday? congressman, i don't know the answer to that question. i wasn't involved in this case. where is the guy that was involved? he should have been seated next to you. >>gretchen: yes or no? did eric holder do that on purpose to not be involved in this? >> i don't know what went through his mind but he was the wrong person to be answering questions. tom cole, his

but the second term problem, president clinton had the second term problem with the monica when ski scandal. -- with the monica lewinskire was the social security issue. the iraq war. hurricane katrina for president bush. he was really out of touch on that. that is one thing that the staff says he never really recovered from and his credibility. but he was at his ranch in the state of texas during the terrible hurricane that hit the gulf coast and was out of touch as far as how serious it was. i think that is part of a pattern here. says interesting that you that the media are looking for stories with president obama. they were not scrutinizing him harshly enough. now, presidents tend to get the coverage they deserve. not fair in every case, not story -- and not every story as comprehensive and some stories are wrong. the issues that president obama is benefiting from, he getting much more negative coverage now. i take this whole notion of the media and the justice department subpoena and records , the associated press and fox news rummaging through e-mail, including people at their homes and their private accounts, i

lewinski this woman doesn't even leave her husband. well, the way i look at it, first of all, if she had left president clinton, who would have ever heardf her again? >> bill: i don't know about hillary. i kind of think that hillary stands on her own. i think we would have heard of hillary again. but whatever two points, one is, she is fabulous. i am head of the hillary clinton fan club. she is an unbelieverable great first lady, senator of new york, secretary of state and would make a great president. the most important is, it's not just about hillary, and you've made that point, too. >> absolutely. >> this is not the hillary for president campaign. >> no. this is -- >> this is bigger than that? >> a sustainable campaign a base of enthusiasm for allegation having women in the mix for the president, for always having women on the democratic ticket. we need to make sure yesterday a major you will poll comes out, hillary is ahead of the pack unsurprisingly but the rest of the candidates they polled were all men. we didn't see senator klobashar, jillibrand or former are governors or governors. we have leaders all over the country, women wh

lewinsky park! >> stephanie: he haven't talked about clinton in so long the whole clinton scandal that they are tryingp -- it's all the old bin of bits from the impeachment. the first time bill had monica in his off and showing her his campaign button collection. remember that? take a look at these. what does this one say? i like ike! [♪ circus music ♪] >> stephanie: that was the bit. >> oh, my god. that's back when we used to put bits on carts. >> and this is the campaign button from warren g harding. >> really? seriously? >> stephanie: today's poll showed her widening her election lead against republican favorite rand paul. >> really? wow. >> stephanie: rand paul marco rubio and leading chris christie in the latest general election poll, which i can't even believe they are doing, and i'm reporting on it five months in to the president's second term. >> well the next collection is going to start in less than two years. >> stephanie: yeah. dee you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> caller: [ inaudible ] wanting a government handout, even though they are against government. the tea party people wan