former governor jim mcgreevey joins me now. jim, thank you for being here. >> thanks, eliot. >> seven years later. attitudes have fundamentally shifted. could you have predicted that we would get to this tipping point? >> no. i could not have predicted. neither would i have thought we would have had an african-american as president of the united states. but one thing i think so many of us believe in is that is the basic decency of the american people. and that in the narrative of civil liberties, expansion, the american public is typically ahead of the political class as they were most recently. and so you are saying something fascinating. do you think that politicians still are behind the american public on this issue? >> yeah, i think both in terms of culturally on television programming, on people as they become more and more public, they come out of the closet. you understand a nephew, a son, a father is gay. a mother. and that begins to make it very personal. people understand -- people have a personal connection with some

of office. >> my truth is that i am a gay american. >> reporter: in 2004, new jersey governor jim mcgreeveyrom office with his wife by his side. a former love's threat of blackmail forced the resignation. former governor eliot spitzer shocked the country where the so-called sheriff of wall street admitted to having frequented prostitutes. >> to my senate colleagues, i would like to take a moment to apologize for what you've had to go there as a result of my actions. >> and senator john ensign, a republican from nevada, resigned under his own dark ethical cloud after claims he tried to cover up an affair with a staffer by paying off her husband. >> i want to tell you, detroit, that you done set me up for a comeback. >> reporter: thousands of text messages between kwame kilpatrick and a married city official led to a four-months sentence and resignation from the former mayor of detroit. still the list of survivors isn't short, either. >> to my wife and my family, i apologize for what i have caused. >> reporter: senator larry craig was at least able to fin out his term after allegedly trying t

august 2004, jim mcgreevey. democratic governor of new jersey admits what he has cheated on his wife with a man. the governor says he is gay and he resigns. it's a little bit creepy, the lying, the adultery, the man he said he was involved in was someone he had appointed to a homeland security position. as these things go on the jovr all matrix, this is on the low side to have creepy scale and not particularly prosecutable either as these things go. florida congressman mark foley in 2006, republican, right. mr. foal he resigns after allegedly sending explicit instant messages to underage congressional pages, quite creepy given thatter underage and in the congressional scheme of things subordinate to him in the workplace. and therefore quite conceivably prosecutable, though in this case not prosecuted. louisiana senator david vitter republican. his name turns up on the d.c. may dam's phone list in 2007. he apologizes for quote, serious sins. he then runs for re-election and byes. thank you, louisiana. the senator

arnold schwarzenegger, eliot spitzer, john mccain, john edwards, newt gingrich, mark sanford, jim mcgreeveythomas jefferson, and many, many more. political sex scandals are everywhere. but there is a way you can stop them. cut off their testicles. >> ow! >> paid for by no testicles, no problem. >> i'm hillary clinton, and i approve this message. [ applause ] >> jimmy: and why wouldn't you? rapper flo rida was arrested earlier this morning in miami beach for driving his $1.7 million bugatti while under the influence. this is kind of funny. when the officer tried to conduct the walk the line test, he said, "officer, i can't do this. i don't feel like i can walk a straight line. i've had a few drinks. let's try another test." [ laughter ] "and maybe we can schedule it for next week when i'm not so loaded?" that didn't go over with the police. they asked him to walk a straight line. unfortunately, he hit the floor and next thing you know shorty got low, low, low, low, low. [ laughter ] and then towed, towed, towed, towed, towed. [ laughter ] it looks like he's going to have to flo ride a bike f