joining us now is donnie fowler. it's been a bad week. i want to you take a look at some of the headlines that have shown up across the web today. president obama's disastrous political week. obama's new political reality bad news for dems in 2014, and is obama worse than nixon? how significant will this week be for this white house? >> well, nixon's biographers are pretty happy too. >> michael: yes, the four of them are still around. >> we don't know how significant this week will be for a few months. some of these stories like the benghazi thing the republicans are crying wolf. they're there to requote the president. that's probably going to live long in the right wing talk radio circuit as they can keep it alive. the irs if it was a low-level person, then they're going to dismiss that person. other heads may roll, and that will pass, too. probably not a lot of leg to any of these stories. >> michael: do they touch the president. >> they distract the president. and they distract the president's staff. no matter what jay carney, the pres

donnie fowler joins us now to break down the sanford-colbert youbush race. in "the war room." did sanford give the right answer? should people be focusing on his past foibles. >> he should have gone back to his message of how he likes to cut taxes and government. he should remind people that he voted to impeach bill clinton when clinton had a little dalliance. >> michael: when you hear sanford, even he realizes this is the thrust of what everybody wants to talk about. if you were his campaign manager, what would you tell him? >> quit talking about yourself. this guy has a person lifeal life. but highways no--you he has no private life. he needs to shut up. >> michael: and presumably he will if that's the end tomorrow. >> if my friends in charleston go vote maybe he will be shut up. >> michael: if your friends in charleston do go vote, what is a win of colbert-bush mean? >> this is all politics is local proving it. congressional seat that mitt romney won by 18 points over barack obama. it is a moral victory, it's a human victory for the democratic party and t

the huffington post in an open letter to you by an old law school classmate, donnie fowler, said you are a committed partisan conservative who does not come to this whistleblower attack on president obama with clean hands. is that the type of things that they're going to expect that has been thrown at you? how do you answer the people who say you're just a partisan hack? >> well, look. when you testify under oath, you're putting your reputation on the line. you're giving the truth as best you know it. as i like to tell those folks, if there was something wrong in my testimony or something wrong in the testimony of other doj officials who rob rated mine, then die indict us. they like to attack you personally but they can never tell you what's false. that's really what these three brave men are going to have to deal with. but you know what? do it. this is theo sort of thing that keeps this country what it is. it's for people like these three men to come forward and tell the truth about their government lying. it's what sustains us. >> mike: christian, let's be very clear. these guys wi