jack quinn, former white house counsel and karen tumulty is a water at "the washington post." ck, you worked with president clinton who was known for compartmentalizing issues. can this president do that as it relates to these controversies? >> yeah. i think in point of fact these controversies are really quite distinct and i think as time goes on they'll be handled on quite different tracks. a couple of these things are pretty serious. principally the irs issue. there is a lot to be answered to there. but as yet i haven't seen any evidence of high level wrongdoing at the treasury department, at the white house, or anywhere else. there's certainly been some incompetence that was clearly political targeting or targeting that had the effect of focusing on political groups. but that does not as yet appear to touch the white house, touch senior levels of the treasury department. there are a lot of questions there that have to be answered. in the scheme of things i thing that's the one that will have legs in terms of really draining the white house's attention and so on but it can b

so let me bring in jack quinn, he was white house counsel during the clinton years, a former chief ofce president al gore. thank you for joining us this morning. appreciate it. >> sure. glad to be with you, poppy. >> you know what it is like to be in the bunker. you were in the white house during the clinton scandal. so take us inside of this strategy. the thinking, when all of these things start piling up, the way they did, what is the strategy like? >> well, i don't think you can say there is a single strategy that applies to all of these different things. in fact, one of the problems that this white house faces is the seeming connectivity between the ap issue, the irs issue, and the benghazi issue, they're really quite distinct and it is incumbent upon the white house now, i think, to do what it can to separate them, deal with them, individually. let me be clear here, a couple of these things are very serious. the ap issue, the irs issue, these are very, very serious. and there are questions that remain to be answered. having said that, from what i've seen, i don't think that any o

jack! >> narrator: tom quinn is professor of aquatic and fishery sciences at the university of washington, and a leading expert on salmon and trout. >> if you were to pick the worst place in the world from the point of view of salmon to have an activity like this, it would be exactly right exactly where they've got it. >> narrator: he has been conducting research on the life cycle of salmon in the bristol bay region for 25 years. >> there's a tremendous exchange of groundwater and stream water. water will crisscross back and forth between the mulchatna and kvichak river systems in the area precisely where the mine is proposed to occur. so the groundwater is crisscrossing back and forth from one basin to another. and the salmon spawn in that groundwater, so this area is extraordinarily vulnerable to toxins and pollution because the groundwater penetrates so deeply and moves so freely from stream to stream. but also there's absolute certainty that stretches of productive salmon and trout river will be dewatered. they'll simply pump the water out of them because in order to have a deep pit yo

jacks. anthony weiner. he is coming back. he is a staunch liberal. a very very smart guy. he made big mistakes. a quinnipiac poll shows him second to christine quinn15% of the vote. so while he is by no means a lock to win this thing, he seems to be a very serious contender. can it be that easy. >> well, i would rather vote for huma, because his wife is wonderful. and i tend to think in these family situations you look to the aggrieved partner. and if the spouse has forgiveness, who are we to second-guess the spouse. she is very accomplished on her own. so if she is comfortable with her husband being in the race, and with herself undergoing the kind of scrutiny she is going to have to every come, i say america loves a second chance and it's up to the voters of new york to decide. we have a progressive and a woman, so it's not as if this race is hurting for either one. >> michael: yeah, that's true. he was a really strong progressive voice in the house as you remember. you spent a lot of your time teaching people how to be candidates, anthony weiner walks into your office and says christine give me one thing i need to do to get over this. what do y