it's a fascinating sort of psychological experiment. >> gary hart was a path creator.bill clinton in the same respect. look at these amazing numbers. through what many consider to be the worst days of his presidency, bill clinton received high marks from the public when it came to his overall job performance, despite what they may have thought about his personal behavior. for example, march of '98, six weeks after clinton famously denied, quote, having sex with that woman, ms. lewinsky. he stood at 66% job approval according to the nbc/wall street journal poll. three days after clinton told the nation that he had lied about his relationship with lewinsky, he held a 69% job approval rating. on the day the u.s. house of representatives voted to impeach president clinton, his job approval 72%. and nearly five weeks after being acquitted of perjury and obstruction of justice charges by the senate, he now had a 66% approval rating. just before leaving office, january of 2001, he maintained a job performance approval of 66%. and just to give everybody an idea of how high tho

. >> that was gary hart in 1987 after a sex scandal derailed his campaign for president, but now theex scandal may not be the career ender that it was for hart. in september of 2007, senator henry craig was arrested at the minneapolis airport and he was accused of soliciting sex from an undercover police officer. he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and served out rhethe remainder of his senate term. that same summer his phone number was published by the notorious d.c. madam. vitter stood with his wife and asked for public forgiveness. he remained in office and then one reelection in 2010 with 20% of the vote. this disgrasd tced the governor south carolina who left for argentina to visit his mistress in 2009. anthony weiner dismissed himself from politics after tweeting pictures of his genitals on line. and now elliott spitzer is launching what he hopes will be the second political act and hopes people will forgive his transgressions with prostitutes. are sex scandals no longer career killers for politicians? i'm joined by ceo and chairman michael steele. michael, what's your answ

gwen: somewhere gary hart is thinking why didn't i wait? thanks, everybody. we have to go but the conversation continues online where we'll talk about edward snowden and rick perry and janet napolitano, among other things. we stream live beginning at :30 eastern time or check out the video all week long. keep up with developments with me at the pbs news hour and we'll see you next week on "washington week" and i want to ish a 100-year happy anniversary to the sisters of sigma pi incorporated. good night. >> corporate funding for "washington week" ask provided by -- -- is provided by -- prudential. additional funding is provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> announcer: the following kqed production was produced in high definition. ♪ ♪ must have soup >> the pancake -- is to die for! >> it was a gut-bomb, but i liked it. >> i actually fantasize in private moments about the food i had. >> i didn't like it. >> you didn't like it? >> dining here make

-- >> follow me. >> how would you like to be gary hart and see who followed you into the white house four years later. he's still thinking -- i -- i got -- >> i am a choir boy compared to what the american people elected for years later. i take one boat trip -- >> timing is everything. >> suddenly i'm hugh hefner. no. coming up on "morning joe," talking to former white house press secretary robert gibbs. plus, oh, my goodness, mark leibovich, joins us to discuss his new book on the washington establishment. also congressman elijah cummings and writer from "curb bur enthusiasm" actor jeff garrlin. first here's bill karins he has a check on your forecast. >> that hot forecast, joe. good morning, everyone. the heat continues today and this morning. yesterday 90s widespread. that's the thing about this heat wave. it's pretty much from the east coast spreading now to the rockies. notice on this map almost everyone was in the 90s. thank all that urban jungle, the pavement from the big i-95 cities for that hottest temperature there of 96 in d.c. so you start your morning feeling like 85 in

gary hart had stopped running for president, but now you have sanford in your home state of south carolinau have weiner, spitzer david vitter who ran virtually unopposed. >> 25 years ago we had a nominee for the nominee of the supreme court who admitted he smoked pot. yes, standards are changed we're intolerant to human frailty, and that may be a good thing. >> michael: there will be a whole generation-- >> do you really want to be a puritan country again? >> i agree with him, but i throw something out there. you know after my piece ran i am in the double standard, not just in terms of gender but sexual orientation. the reason why mcgreevey was run out of the governor office is not because of the affair but because he admitted to being gay because of the affair. i think if barack obama were caught in a lewinsky type of situation, he would not go on to run the type of life he had. look at qualitiy kilpatrick in detroit. he had an affair, he tried to cover it up. >> he broke his--his demise, especially his time in prison was primarily because of wrong doings that had nothing to do with the s

gary hart, he just got caught on the boat with a picture of a girl. now that would be not used.w maybe these guys aren't even there. you have football players killing other people. you have people in big time scandals of all sorts. it's kind of commonplace now. the bar has been raised. when you combine that with nothing getting done anywhere in people's eyes, it's just like, just do something. >> i want to jump a little bit to this senate filibuster, democrats appear to be ening ever so slowly to at least try to have this one fight, draw a line in the sand. they are actually being very careful. they are not trying to disrupt much in the senate rules other than the issue of presidential appointments. do you think it's going to be as explosive as it can be politically? >> i don't know. i think if you think about things americans care about, this would be pretty low on the list. when you look at how the senate functions and younger members of the senate, that would be people in their 60s, i guess, younger members of the senate. >> some are really young, among the youngest in decade

they plowed through the ridicule, refused to slink away in shame like gary hart, said it was old newsnd argued if hillary didn't object why should voters. now defining deviancy downwards, senor and senora danger are using the clinton playbook. the difference is there's nothing in weiner's public life that is redeeming." a lot of people i talk to wonder out loud what has she been doing this week marx rhea. >> i think she's got to stand by him, but i wonder if she's actually talking to him when they get home. i feel bad for him. i do. from an economic standpoint, the people of new york want to see a leader who will protect jobs. when you're looking at new york, you're talking about roughly 3.3 million jobs. they want to make sure those jobs stay in the city and the leader of that city has good judgment in terms of ensuring that the regulatory environment is not too burdensome for companies to come, locate there, and create jobs. i would have to agree with david. i think the people are frustrated. i think mayor bloomberg has done a lot in terms of expanding the number of industries that

and the fact of the matter is, you strike that tone when you contrast a gary hart who was combative andaring the press to follow him and challenging and pushing back the people going you know what -- >> hindsight was not smart. >> really? >> to the current, you know -- i just -- i admit my foiables and regret my sins and people respond to that. so, you know, this is going to be interesting to watch how new yorkers i think new yorkers more than most have seen their share of these things and know how to fair it out the genuine from the crazy and the crap and we'll see what they do at the polls. >> before we talk about eliot spitzer getting elected he has to get himself on the ballot, about 4,000 signatures on a petition. >> by tomorrow. >> apparently he's having a little trouble doing that. all the candidates have until tomorrow. it's 3750 signatures to be exact. spitzer said he hopes to collect more than 7,000 signatures but that may be easier said than done. according to the "new york times" this morning after a few hours at union square, the campaign ended up with more complaints from

when gary hart and his wife has their issues i think i read somewhere years later that they had an open say that back in 1984. but it's none of my business. so why she is sticking around, i don't know. but i will say once you have been embarrassed once by a behavior, unless she has a embarrassment fetish -- >> stephanie: yeah jacki said yesterday, it drives her crazy that people call her brave. >> yeah, i think you can forgive somebody for bad behavior but when you find out it continued for months afterwards, that's -- and that you are basically risking to embarrass that person the same way again, i think that's a bridge too far. >> stephanie: yeah, fox news viewers have a median age of 65 plus. >> we can't bust heads like we used to. >> and they lean very heavily on the plus side. >> stephanie: yeah interesting. another airplane landing mishap. remember your underpaid flight attendants are also first responders. >> that's right. they work their tails off, and are not compensated like they should be -- and remember when sully landed the plane on the hudson the first thing he said is tha

don't forget david vitter, mark sanford and larry craig to which republicans say don't forget about gary hartn f. kennedy. notice, filner, bill clinton, vitter, sanford, craig, hart, kennedy, what do all of the sexually challenged politicians have in common? they're all men. why is it that male politicians can't keep their pants up? but female politicians can? seems to me the obvious answer is throw the men out and elect more women! igor volsky joins us tomorrow as well as the makers of the american had been made movie. have a great monday. see you back here again tuesday morning. [ ♪ theme ] >> stephanie: happy monday morning. oh, thank god jacki schechner is back in the current news center. we had to fill three minutes at the top of every hour last week and we were reduced to things like this. ladies and gentlemen, we'll demonstrate once again jim and i the bob filner headlock. the sexually harassing mayor of san diego. >> get off me! >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. thank you. >> it is like our own version of masterpiece theatre. well done. a little

somebody said they heard gary hart, remember that whole thing, they had an open marriage.in america either, could they? >> it is none of our business. i'm not in one. but some people are. if that's their choice, that's their choice. as long as they're not hurting people. but if you take office and you're expecting them to have integrity and your opinion of integrity is you don't cheat on your wife. you don't jeopardize your marriage. then you know, they lose all credibility. so i don't think bill ever lost credibility. >> stephanie: i think he lost credibility but i think people -- >> when he repealed glass-steagall, he lost credibility. [ ♪ "nbc nightly news" ] >> stephanie: by the way, nbc is doing a hillary mini series. hillary -- it will be entitled hillary. >> with exclamation points? >> it will be a musical. like chicago! >> stephanie: not on roller skates like in xanadu. it will star diane lane. from the monica lewinsky scandal through the present day. >> kardashian will play monica. just making that up. >> i hope it's not khloe. >> stephanie: don't we all? zack in

. >> stephanie: that's what somebody said the speculation was gary hart and his wife had an open relationship hello. ice storm. >> that's what i'm saying. it is like single people getting elected. you know what i mean. super hard to do. >> stephanie: halsparks.com. >> hal sparks on twitter. >> stephanie: get it. go. i love you slut bag. >> thank you, slut clutch. >> stephanie: see you tomorrow on "the stephanie miller show." (laura) in mexico, drug-related violence is at an all time high. in 2006, around 6,000 people were murdered. that's more than the number of people killed in afghanistan in the same year. >>the whole country is immersed in a fight between members of organized crime.

: we have seen similar imagines when other political couples were confronted with headlines from gary hartwas going to hike the appalachian trail but turned up in argentina with his mistres. >> i've been unfaithful to my wife. >> he was alone too when his scandal broke two years ago. >> i'm announcing my resignation from congress. but this time abedin was there. >> anthony made horrible mistakes both before he re-signed from congress and after but i do very strongly believe that is between us and our marriage. so what i want to say is i love him. i have forgiven him. i believe in him. >>> so his wife is obviously giving him a second chance. we'll have to see whether or not the voters of new york city will do the same this fall. >>> thank you. let's bring in chuck todd. truth is there's the psychological and political here so we need both of you, jen let's start with you. the question for voters, even, is is this somebody who can control himself because the behavior suggests perhaps not. >> right, that's a really important question and clearly we see therapy. they mention that they went to