his name is dan burton. he was a republican congressman from the great state of indiana.or years dan burton's whole reason for being was to try to find a way to take down the presidency of bill clinton using the powers of his own office in the house. he once described president clinton as a scum bag. he said that on the record. to give you a little taste of the dan burton mindset, he convinced himself that the president and the first lady, bill clinton and hillary clinton were not just bad people, they were killers. he decided that they murdered their deputy white house counsel, a man named vince foster. and to help prove it, dan burton went into his backyard with a gun and shot at either a watermelon or a cantaloupe, depending on who you believe, in order to prove that vince foster's death was a clinton hit. it was a murder and not a suicide. which he could tell because of something about shooting a watermelon. >> we at my house with a homicide detective tried to recreate a head and fired a .38 four-inch barrel into that to see if the sound could be heard from 100 yards

in one case, dan burton's investigators even managed to spt wrong man.e was really embarrassing. his committee was so busy passing out subpoenas like party favors they accidentally subpoenaed the wrong guy by confusing two similar sounding asian names. yeah, that's nice. that was the summer of subpoena. that was 1997. that was how the republicans thought they would use control of the house to try to destroy a presidency that they did not like, as well as some watermelons. well, now 16 years and one democratic president later, the republican summer of subpoena appears to be back. the republican who has dan burton's old job as chairman of the house government reform and oversight committee is now this man on your right, republican congressman darrell issa of california. but if you saw this whole thing unfold the first time, the plot this time will seem familiar, even if some of the faces are changed. some of the faces are changed. one of the latest targets of the republicans latest round of subpoenas in our new subpoena summer is hillary clinton's former c

today indiana congressman dan burton fired his top investigator david bossy. burton is under fire for releasing hubble's taped telephone conversations from prison recordings appeared selectively edited to damage the white house. today in a letter of apology, burton wrote mistakes and omissions were made but there was never any intent to deceive anyone. >> the interesting thing to me about that is look the republicans were clearly out to get the clintons in the 1990ed. when this came to light that burton and his committee released these tapes there was outrage arose the aisle. >> what's funny, if you're looking at what other republicans are saying there's this divide where you have republican leadership trying to rein in other republicans saying we can't take this too crazy because we might alienate americans. part of the reason why you haven't seen much bipartisan outrage over the potentially dock toward emails there's a large chunk of republicans who just want to see scandals. they believe obama is, you know, some sort of marxist tyrant and there are scandals

. >> thank you for reminding us that dan burton was in many ways a worthy predecessor to congressmant committee that drives people to the edge if they weren't there already. notice what we're not talking about. we're not talking about differences in policy. we're not talking about oh, we strongly disagree on this or that issue. it is personal. it is vehement. the american people are worried about college rates will go up for student lending. what is the republican answer on this? apparently let them keep going up. they are worried about what's happening with their families and children and every time you hear a republican elected member or leader as in priebus they want to yell about president obama. >> i want to take this one step further back because i want to get to hopefully the root of this because again i think it is a pattern how the right responds when democrats get elected and we've had sort of the ideological synking up of the parties over the decades. i want to try to identify those roots and we'll do that after this. ♪ [ agent smith ] i've found software that intrigues me

you have dan burton and others -- or bill burton have stepped aside.that there's just a little bit of churn there as well as a little bit of fatigue. have you seen that yourself or is that a lot to do about nothing? >> i think there is a certain truth to that and i think it does happen in every administration and every white house as you move into the second term a lot of the talented people from the first term they may stick around through the reelection campaign and then a lot of them head out to greener pastures or places where they can make more money. and then you get other people. i don't know that they're not as talented but maybe they aren't as battle tested as the first round of folks and there may be a little bit of loss of focus in some of the communications effort. but i think a lot of the scandal stuff is just the nature of getting to this point in a presidency. a lot of things have happened and things will fall out of closets from time to time once you've been in office for four and half years and i think we'll probably see some of more o