lenny davis is joining me. welcome. >> thank you. >> what do you make, you worked in the white house under bill clinton and george w. bush. what do you make of the current gop race? >> i served on a panel president bush appointed but not in the white house. i think republicans are committing political suicide not just because of their hyperbole but the way they are behaving and the negativity is violating all that ronald reagan said about the 11th commandment. democrats had tough primaries. i went through one when i supported senator clinton. the level of personal character assassination and negativity, especially mitt romney's ads and money being spent tearing each other apart isn't pretty as a whole, but pleasant for democrats to watch. >> yeah, i can't help thinking when i hear them ripping each other's throats out, it's been the case it gets ugly and negativity comes out. it couldn't be as bad as this. romney is throwing hundreds and millions of dollars of these things and struggling to maintain a front-run

a long-time friend of the clintons and former white house special counsel lenny davis joins ur panel as well. thanks for being with us. i can't imagine anything that's going to star goldberg, you kind of know where it's going to go. did you end up watching the documentary? >> i ended up watching it with a bag nearby just in case. let me first say that i did not talk to the clintons at all. i don't know what they think of this. this is me speaking as a long-time friend for over 40 years. the fact that they put this evil person with hatred that is ugly to even watch on national television in a documentary on pbs who set up linda tripp to betray a young woman on tape and that is about the clinton presidency which i would like to talk about, the achievements that are completely omitted with bogus scandals covered as that f. they were real, like white water that ended up with nothing, zero, after 3,000 articles in the "washington post" and the "new york times." and that's where they spent their time which i think is really unfair. >> no love loss. there are people who would say, 40 minute