next day, though, john fedders was gone. >> until today john fedders was one of the top law enforcement officials of the u.s. government. he was the enforcement chief of the securities and exchange commission but fedders had personal problems and today personal problems and today he resigned after revelations he beat his wife. >> the resignation came after two days of news stories and admitted that he physically abused his wife but claimed he was not a wife beater. the stories came after his wife charlotte described the beatings during their divorce trial in the suburban maryland courthouse. in one incident she said he slapped her and broke her eardrum and another he beat her up when she was three months pregnant. >> john attacked me with his fists and his hands and hitting me around the abdomen and yelling at me he didn't care if he killed me or the baby. >> charlotte fedder said there were other incidents where she was left with a black eye and bruises and has a permanent neck injury from a time her husband tried to throw her over a banister. in court john fedders admitted he was viol

they sat on those allegations for month and defended it but john fedders. that was 1985. we saw something similar play out last year. after donald trump was elected, he nominated a man named andy to be his labor secretary. poll l politico.com reported on an ensoe episode of the oprah winfrey show. they knew that tape existed. oprah's production company couldn't locate that tape. there was fierce interest for it after the reporting. the tape for whatever reason was missing. nobody could get it from the original source. and andy stayed on track to become the next labor secretary but then about a month down the road, the tape turned up. >> he vowed revenge. he said i'll see you in the gutter. this will never be over. you'll pay for this. >> his wife wearing a disguise appearing on the oprah winfrey show but interesting, it was not the oprah winfrey show that found that tape. you know where that tape came from? charlotte fedders. the woman whose husband tried to throw her over the banister in front of her sons, the reason charlotte fedders had the tape of that show is because