calling monica lewinsky a narcissistic looney toon? up a little bit and take a look at what these supposed revelations are. almost all of what i've read so far is not very revealing in terms of new information. what we have here is a lack of context in the presentation of this material today, particularly by right wing websites. by clinton ago lights coming out to defend hillary. we're back into combat. and without too much context and without too much helpful information. i think we have to put everything in that light. and then go on from there. looney toons if you read my book, other accounts, hillary was quite valuable on the subject of monica lewinsky. she called her narcissistic, i don't know if i used that word in my book. i'd have to go through the whole book. but she called her a stalker. that's what bill had told her originally, that she was stalking him. hillary clinton believed her husband up until two days before the special prosecutor interviewed him, many months later. she believed that bill clinton had not had sex with

it does make you wonder what monica lewinsky is up to these days. >> monica lewinsky the former whitensky today? now 40, lewinsky has been keeping a low profile. her former publicest told cnn she is trying to lead a private life. cameras caught lewinsky leaving a party in london. and in new york with friends in 2009. she eearned a master's degree in social psychology in 2006. before that lewinsky hosted mr. personality, a shorlt lived show on fox. she became a household name for having an oval office affair with president bill clinton that led to his impeachment. >> indeed i did have a relationship with ms. lewinskyt that was not appropriate. >> reporter: the affair put lewinsky squarely in the spot light. her story published a month after the president acquitted of charges. >> i felt like a piece of trash. i felt dirty and i felt used. >> reporter: that same month millions of viewers tuned in to see barbara walters interview lewinsky. >> sometimes i have one feeling. sometimes i'm proud of him still and sometimes i hate his guts. >> reporter: that lip stick she was wearing flew off t

and what hillary clinton thought of monica lewinsky. the first lady and the other women, including the one she called a narcissistic looney tune. >>> and kids love giraffes. the question is what on earth convinced this zoo to think kids would love to see this giraffe shot and cut up and fed to lions. >>> we begin tonight with ten words that could change the face of pro football. >> i'm michael sam. i'm a football player. and i'm gay. >> that is missouri all american defensive end michael sam speaking to "the new york times" revealing what his teammates knew and accepted and his parents knew and accepted. he spoke to the times and told them why he went public. >> i want to own my truth. i didn't want anyone to break a story without me telling it. i want to tell it the way i want to tell it. >> now that he has, the reaction in the nfl where he is expected to be a mid to low round draft pick appears to defend on whether that action is by name or not. yesterday the league tweet wed admire michael sam's honesty and courage. michael is a foot

is this a coincidence that they are talking about lewinsky? >> not necessarily.ul has shown that it's a potent message. he's crept up in the republican primary polling which is no accident. look, i think what it does, also, is highlight the folly, frankly, of the clinton ally strategy of not really responding to these stories or attacks on a day-to-day basis. they kind of say, she's a private citizen. there are people like rand paul, like america rise in the research group who are willing to flood the zone with hillary clinton stories on a daily basis and a lot of this take on this response to rand paul has been, this stuff is old news. in our news cycle now, nothing is old news. everything in here is really consumed, all of our media attention, even though some of the stuff is -- >> and i think, you know, some of it is, by definition, news. the fact that this archive is only recently been available and nobody has gone through it. i think it suggests that if she runs for president, we're going to be revisiting that era a lot more because now we finally have some

but you do make some monica lewinsky references because it's a part of her history.do you make of this new line of attack and why do you think there is such a divide in the republican party over it? i'll start with you, jonathan. >> look, i think the play is clear from rand paul. republicans are looking to reach out to younger voters, in particular with some of his policies against drone strikes, he's had success with republicans and libertarian-leaning democrats. i think if you're voting in 2016 and you're 18, 20, 30 years old, you probably don't remember the monica lewinsky affair. it's not part of your real experience and i think the reason he's getting push back on that, it wasn't an effective attack on bill clinton. you remember that after all of that, democrats picked up a seat in the house. newt gingrich was forced out of the speakership by his own party. it didn't work against bill clinton then. it's a question whether it has traction with the younger set but certainly something that i think republican elders can backfire on republicans again. >> i think repu

who is hillary clinton blaming for the monica lewinsky scandal. production rests in the loud music trial where a white man is charged with shooting and killing a black teenager opinion is it a premeditated murder. we'll tell you who is that teenager? we'll tell you tonight. let's go "outfront".

hillary clinton's mind-set during her husband's presidency including what she thought about monica lewinsky and the scandal. >>> excessive celebration. a soccer player gets a little too excited after a goal. >>> good morning. i'm john muller. >> and i'm marci gonzalez in for diana perez. >>> we begin with the southeast bracing for yet another dangerous winter storm. >> millions are again in the crosshairs with winter storm watches, warnings and advisories in a dozen states now, texas to new jersey. we start our coverage this morning with abc's tahman bradley. >> reporter: this relentless winter is set to deliver another blow. the forecast across the south calls for a dangerous mix of snow and ice. in georgia the storm is expected to dump more snow than the 2 inches that paralyzed atlanta two weeks ago. >> i just hope that we don't get in the same mess we did last time. >> reporter: georgia officials were blamed for not anticipating the last storm, which left thousands trapped in cars and children stuck in schools. this time the governor is not taking any chances and has already declared a s

shortly after bill clinton left office, lewinski was everywhere. wrote a book, appropriately entitled "monica's story." then there was a stint as a weight loss spokeswoman. also a reality tv host. but since around 2006, she has been out of the spotlight. she moved to london, went back to school, got a master's degree in social psychology. then around 18 months or so ago, reports surfaced she was planning to write a tell-all book for some $12 million. so far, though, no word on that book, no word on that contract. we're going to have more on this part of the story coming up later today in "the situation room." we'll be right back after a short break. [announcer] if your dog can dream it, purina pro plan can help him achieve it. ♪ epic classical music stops ♪music resumes music stops ♪music resumes [announcer] purina pro plan's bioavailable formulas deliver optimal nutrient absorption. [owner] come on. [announcer] purina pro plan. nutrition that performs. "stubborn love" by the lumineers did you i did. email? so what did you think of the house? did y

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that's how hillary clinton described monica lewinski to a close friend. the question, why is this coming out now and do voters still care? >>> also right now, rethinking chris christie. a new jersey newspaper says it blew it by endorsing him last year and now calls christie the most overrated politician in the country. we'll speak with the editor behind those comments. >>> and right now, coming to america solo. the french president's decision to come alone has people talking, and white house staffers scrambling. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer in washington. a revealing glimpse today inside the mind of hillary rodham clinton during one of the lowest points of the clinton presidency and her marriage. clinton has written before about the shocking affair between president clinton and then white house intern monica lewinski, but newly discovered papers now explain how clinton was able to forgive her husband and salvage their relationship. cnn's erin mcpike has been looking into all of this for us, and it's pretty fascinating. tell our viewers what you found. >> w

a plan for 2016 and what she told a friend about monica lewinsky. i'll talk to the authors of the new blockbuster book that reveals a secret to the woman who just may be on her way back to the white house. >> live long and prosper. leonard nimoy is here with a message, even if you quit smoking years ago. >>> and too bad they don't give out gold medals for busting down doors, johnny quinn would definitely be in the league. so far he's broken down a bathroom door and fought his way out of an elevator in sochi. he'll be here live. and boy george is in the house. his songs were the soundtrack of the '80s. he talked about quitting drugs, finding happiness i want to begin with our big story. new revelations about former first lady and secretary of state hillary clinton, she's the author of a new book. welcome to both of you. >> hi, pierce. >> let's talk -- >> i'm studying greek from over the weekend. let's talk about hillary clinton. the book is very starkly covered. there's a picture of a woman looking very presidential under the headline hrc. it's a big

of attention, because they reveal some of what was going on behind the scenes during the monica lewinsky affair and other tough times for the clintons. it is all coming to light and republicans say it is fair game with 2016 approaching. we get our report tonight from nbc's andrea mitchell. >> reporter: after the music stopped at their first inaugural, the clintons' first overnight guests were their closest friends from arkansas, diane blair and her husband jim. for years, she chronicled the clintons' reactions to the rough relations with the press and scandals, including monica lewinsky and impeachment. getting little attention until inflammatory excerpts were posted last night. >> i think it's very cherry picked. >> reporter: thanksgiving, 1996, blair quotes clinton as saying i'm a proud woman, i'm not stupid. i know i should do more to suck up to the press. i know it confuses people when i change my hairdos. i know i should pretend i don't have any opinions, but i'm just not going to. i'm used to winning on my own terms, their friend shreveport >> their friendship was originated when t

. >> this sunday, hillary clinton thought lieu -- lewinsky was a a loony tunes. it is coming back to haunt her. private lives, what one of hillary clinton's closest friends wrote about some of her darkest hours, now public as the 2016 attacks get going. >> another sell -- set back for obamacare, is the press minimizing the magnitude the problems? chris christie is still pounded by msnbc and even msnbc contributor axelrod says some of the network shows are pummeling the governor. one leaving the charred is racial. >> new jersey republicans using this ballooning stand california to drum up money for the party and to blame it all on the news organization whose is covered the story. >> are some outlets determined to bring chris christie down? >> from athletes trapped in bath troops and elevators to a russian gold medalist tweeting a racist picture of president obama has there ever been a stranger olympics? we will have a report from sochi. this is "media buzz." i am howard kurtz. it is hard to resist a with the phrase loony tunes talking about lewinsky and she descri

a political high point of sorts, imbeachmo -- impeachment, monic lewinsky, people support her and mad at him. 60% early in the obama administration, and even a lot of republicans came to admire her work as secretary of state traveling the globe representing the united states. now these new notes. the diane blair foils and the question asked is this. are keep cans who say hillary clinton's past is the way to block her from living in the white house in the future? smart strategy? >> not a smart strategy. i mean, you can bring this stuff up. you can churn it up, but when you talk to republican opposition researchers who really are going to be the ones that are doing the digging, they say you have to find something new, you have to find something fresh. voters when they heard all of this before has a much more limited effected the republicans

what about the press reporting on hillary clinton and monica lewinsky?iving into papers for breaking news. media shouldn't use as excuse to rehash old news. kirk allen says, ask yourself what the media would do if the papers were instead about the palins. and the subdued interest in the sochi olympics which i talked to kristen brennan about. and i am usually an olympic junkie but not this year. reasons, lack of stars. tape delay. schizophrenic coverage from nbc. and another, social media spoilers plus tape delay. 80% of the time i know the results before it's aired 16 hours later in the u.s. >> i don't get it. there are the x-games sports in here, i don't get it. >> i would explain it to you but i don't get it ear. >>> some sad news to report to you. >> the long time former anchor and very good friend of ours, tom brokaw is undergoing treatment for multiple myeloma, a former cancer affecting blood cells in the bone marrow. he was diagnosed this summer at the mayo clinic. >> brokaw says he's optimistic and looks forward to continuing his adventures and is

you made a reference to monica lewinsky and the year, 1990. it is 2014, gentlemen. are we here again? why on earth is this happening? >> i think we're hear because of hypocrisy. i think that's the reason we are having this conversation. i honestly think republicans are so fed up with hearing about this false war on women overseerus disgreemts agreement abortion or who should pay for birth control. this is coming from a man who took advantage of a girl in the work place. that's why it is coming up. a separate conversation of whether it is smart or right to do so. >> some would argue, it takes two to tango. >> there is a reason we do not have take your spouse to work day in america. this is still awkward territory for americans. it was pretty good for bill clinton once americans react. i think it makes rand paul stuck in the past. >> 80% of men do not care who bill clinton slept with, and for those others, it paints hillary in the perfect situation as a victim, a sympathetic figure. >> let's talk about the hillary papers coming to light collected by a friend of the cl

lewinsky that was not appropriate. in fact, it was wrong. >> reporter: it was a lapse, blair writes, but she says, to his credit, he tried to break it off, tried to pull away, tried to manage someone. but it was beyond control. according to blair, mrs. clinton put some of the blame for the affair on the pressures of the white house and herself. "she thinks she was not smart enough, not sensitive enough to realize the price he was paying." the papers previously under seal were first reported today. by the conservative washington free beacon. the diary portrays mrs. clinton as a hard-nosed political operative. who is, quote, that nobody in the white house is tough and mean enough. she's especially frustrated with criticism of her own assertiveness. i'm a proud woman, the diary quotes mrs. clinton saying in 1996. i know it confuses people when i change my hair dos. i gave up my name, i got contact lenses, but i'm not going to pretend to be somebody that i'm not. >> and, jon, the clinton camp has known for a long time that

look, i don't think the whole lewinsky scandal is going to be the case.ut there is something here i think worth looking at. narcissistic looney tune, the bimbo eruptions battle. my question is, if mitt romney is conducting a war on women by putting together binders to hire women, and these women are systematically trashed, is this going to be an issue? >> well, first of all it was a conversation with a friend, not like she went public. she was hillary clinton's best friend. hardly, as she said, i don't even understand what the kind of charge here is. she was not -- organizing her campaign against anybody. she was not telling diane black to go out and say this, anything like that. it was a conversation between two, if you will, only sisters. >> all right, but there was a systematic effort, by the way, james welcome on board, you're now a fox news contributor, welcome to have you. lanny, you and i had a lot of heated battles during that time. but somebody who referred to this woman as a narcissistic looney tunes, isn't that meant to trash somebody? >> oh, w

who is hillary clinton blaming for the monica lewinsky scandal. and the production rests in the loud music trial where a white man is charged with shooting and killing a black teenager opinion is it a premeditated murder. we'll tell you who is that teenager? we'll tell you tonight. let's go "outfront". >>> good evening everyone i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight distressed babies. two words thrown out by the ceo of aol. two words that now have the nation talking. tonight we're joined by the mother of one of those distressed babies. but here's how we got here. it all started last week when tim armstrong the aol ceo started discussing some cuts in 401(k) contributions at the company. first, armstrong said the cuts were due to the rising cost of health care citing obamacare. then he got more specific on an employee wide town hall referring to two quote distressed babies that he said cost the company $1 million each. the reason he said those babies pushed health care costs up for the entire company something armstrong said he needed to make cost cut

being when she was pushing health care under her husband's administration then following the monica lewinsky scandal and then the two thousand and eight the brutal two thousand a primary campaign we thought she had a really interesting story to tell how she kind of rises she falls but then she rises higher than ever very phoenix like me well in a sense john along with i guess george h.w. bush the best qualified person if you run for the presidency forgetting your politics is the most qualifications to run based on through the job certainly in a long time as you point out george h.w. bush had a lot of jobs in government cia director been embassador to china but for the most part the country's been electing governors people who come from outside the political process senator obama had only been in washington for a few years not the kinds of qualifications of being an eight year senator secretary of state first lady this sort of harkens back to the early days of the republican terms of the types of experiences that leaders have of course none of them were first lady unimaginable at that point t

the moment she discovered her husband cheated with monica lewinski.. >> reporter: diane blair was one of hillary clinton's very closest friends until her death. long time university of arkansas professor kept a detailed diary during mrs. clinton's time in the white house. a diary that remains secret for years. among the revelations, new insight into what the then first lady was thinking in the days after bill clinton admitted having an affair with white house intern monica lewinsky. >> indeed i did have a relationship with miss lieu win ski that was not appropriate. in fact, it was wrong. >> reporter: it was a lapse, she writes, but to his credit, he tried to break it off, tried to pull away, tried to manage someone who was clearly a narcissistic loony toon. but it was beyond control. it was grossly inappropriate behavior but it was consensual. mrs. clinton put some of the blame of the affair on the pressures of the white house and herself. she thinks she was not smart enough, not sensitive enough, not free of her concerns and struggles to realize the

why is he talking about bill clinton and monica lewinsky here? to rand paul and the explanation is pretty simple. number one, they look at bill and hillary clinton as a team. they understand how effective he is not only as a partisan for hillary clinton, but a democratic fund-raiser. they want the brand to be somebody who can go at the clintons and that's a plural. you are trying to distinguish yourself as a presidential field and play to the base of the party, from their point of view it's good politics. this is playing with a base of the party. jack tapper's reportering, they go out there and what else did you find? >> i thought one of the most interesting things we found was the conversation between blair and hillary on monica lewinsky. that happened days after president clinton had admitted to the affair. it's interesting because there so few accounts of what hillary was thinking. it was a very difficult time for her. she was doing a lot of thinking about it and had to make hard choices. how candid she is talking about monica. narcissistic lo

this is her take on monica lewinsky 1998. she says, quote, it was a lapse. she says to his credit, he -- bill clinton -- tried to break away, someone who was a gnashing -- loony tune. >> they were close friends, this diane blair. the correspondence back and forth between hillary clinton. this was personal information she was keeping diaries of. they were schoolmates. these have never been heard before. remarkable. sitting there behind closed doors so the washington freebie -- free beacon started uncovering stuff. >> this is the stuff you want to know that you don't find in a biography or her old books that are bestsellers and she is about to write another one. this is what you want to know, how she really felt as a wife and first lady as she found out about monica lewinsky. almost find out how she felt as a first lady, found she couldn't do anything, found congress whiney and hard to deal with, had a hard time with the press. but as david bosse, chief investigator for house committee on government oversight, the paper reveals that she does more than just tal

who look her in the eye and lie to her nape discuss plans to overhaul health care and the monica lewinsky affair and the ensuing impeachment. she said her husband made a mistake and the first lady said the affair did not include sex with any real meaning. the president tried to manage the intern, but things were respond control. >>> senator rand paul has tleded into the lewinsky territory with comments and they are calling that topic fair game. >> i think everything is on the table. i don't see how someone gets a pass on anything. i mean especially in today's politics. we'll have a truckload of opposition research on hillary clinton and then some things may be old and some things might be new. everything is at stake when you're talking about the leader of the free world and who we're going to give the keys to run the united states of america. so i think everything is at play. >> the papers have been publicly available for several years. diane blair passed away in 2000. >>> white house officials reportedly adopting a new strategy in afghanistan. one that does not include president karzai.

about president clinton affair with monica lewinsky. >> stopped in his track. dramatic police action on camera. why of terse took him down. >> first on "jimmy kimmel live". >> thanks. here's a snippet of >> thanks. here's a snippet of what we are up to tonight. ♪ it takes two to make a thing go right ♪ ♪ ♪ it takes two to make it outta sight ♪ ♪ ♪ it takes two to make a thing go right ♪ ♪ ♪ it takes two to make it outta sight ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] only yoplait light and yoplait greek 100 are endorsed by weight watchers. so many delicious flavors that taste outta sight. >> new details tonight about a picture and story that went viral. we showed you the shot friday. lone forty-niner fan in crowd of seahawks fans in seattle after they won the superbowl. well you are going to hear from him tonight. turns out he's homeless. but as allen explains, not for much longer. >> first thing i heard was oh, no from the entire bus full of seahawks fans. >> in the last few days life has changed drastically for the lone forty-niner fan who was boo and had food thrown at him d

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about president clinton affair with monica lewinsky. >> stopped in his track. dramatic police action on camera. why of terse took him down. >> first on "jimmy kimmel live". >> thanks. here's a snippet of what we are up to tonight. >> new details tonight about a picture and story that went viral. we showed you the shot friday. lone forty-niner fan in crowd of seahawks fans in seattle after they won the superbowl. well you are going to hear from him tonight. turns out he's homeless. but as allen explains, not for much longer. >> first thing i heard was oh, no from the entire bus full of seahawks fans. >> in the last few days life has changed drastically for the lone forty-niner fan who was boo and had food thrown at him during the seahawks superbowl victory parade. >> we actually got information that he has 4 to 5 possible foster families. >> liz and members of the forty-niner booster club called the lead of the empire found out that 15-year-old ron andrews is a ward of washington state and living in a homeless shelter. >> last 4 months even on my own just moving

about president clinton affair with monica lewinsky. >> stopped in his track. dramatic police action on camera. why of terse took him down. >> first on "jimmy kimmel live". >> thanks. here's a snippet of what we are up to tonight. >> new details tonight about a picture and story that went viral. we showed you the shot friday. lone forty-niner fan in crowd of seahawks fans in seattle after they won the superbowl. well you are going to hear from him tonight. turns out he's homeless. but as allen explains, not for much longer. >> first thing i heard was oh, no from the entire bus full of seahawks fans. >> in the last few days life has changed drastically for the lone forty-niner fan who was boo and had food thrown at him during the seahawks superbowl victory parade. >> we actually got information that he has 4 to 5 possible foster families. >> liz and members of the forty-niner booster club called the lead of the empire found out that 15-year-old ron andrews is a ward of washington state and living in a homeless shelter. >> last 4 months even on my own just moving

interesting questions and relevant questions. >> i wonder if this discussion of the lewinsky scandal attack on bill clinton is some way around about, back-handed insult to secretary of state clinton. do you see that there is some relation here or is there some attempt? >> it's pathetic. and i would tell senator rand paul that 1998 called and they want their spin back. i mean, this is completely ridiculous. it's actually a little weird how obsessed senator paul is with bill clinton and his whatever happened with his sex life. and if you go back and actually look at rand paul's record with women, it doesn't surprise me that he's grabbing at straws trying to do anything but actually answer both his own stances with issues that impact women and the republican party's. it's clear that the republican party has a huge problem with women. your poll indicates that. and when you have a senator whose lashing out at bill clinton because his own record, you know, voting against the violence against women act, voting against paycheck fairness, i don't blame him. he has nowhere else to go and neith

the monica lewinsky scandal.han has the story. >> until her death in 2000 dine blair is one of hillary clinton closest friends. long time university of arkansas professor kept a detailed diary during mrs. clinton time in the white house. diary that remains secret for years. among the revelation new insight into what the then first lady was thinking in the days after bill clinton admitted having an affair with white house intern monica lewinsky. >> indeed i did have a relationship with monica that was not appropriate. in fact it was wrong. >>reporter: it was a lapse she writes but says to his credit he tried to break it off. tried to pull away. tried to manage someone who was clearly a narcissistic loony tune but it was beyond control. blair says hilary insisted quote it was grossly inappropriate behavior but it was consensual. according to blair mrs. mrs. clinton put some of the blame for the affair on the pressures of the white house. and herself. she thinks she was not smart enough not sensitive enough not free

. >> indeed i did have a relationship with miss lewinsky that was not appropriate. was wrong. >> rand paul talked about the clintons, why is there this impression that conservatives have a war on women, big deal on romney and binders, he's trying to hire women. democrats make the charge, and this is the guy they defended? >> i'll tell you why, you ready? because i don't really care what bill clinton does. i do care about conservative politics. >> math if the ceo of a business took advantage of an intern he would be in jail. >> i don't care what he does. i don't. >> you're only talking about one thing. what about paula jones, what about kathleen willie, what about -- >> this is about a pattern of abusing women. >> he cheated on his wife, i don't care. >> by the way -- >> you forgive him? >> forgive him, i never -- >> i'm not a bill clinton fan, don't put me in that position. >> you're defending him. >> i will tell you what he did, he schooled everyone at the dnc. republicans don't have an alternative, mitt romney is he your bill clinton? john mccain. >> romney would

miss lewinsky i never told anybody to lie. not a single time there were these allegations for forbes and i need to go back to work for the america. needs to go back to work man and stop i think it is game i think you made a good point the last segment was that if he had just not said sexual release even if you just change the context a little bit but no this is one of those the famous most famous examples of lying that people use right now and it's i think for two reasons one is that it really clearly exemplifies how people tend to use formal very formal language when they're lying i did not versus i didn't or a man i didn't do that for all right and then that distancing language as well right that warman miss lewinsky you know. and. if you are a really really really really other people tend to trip over words the inflections in the voice these are all the kind of telltale signs in speech let's go on to body language nixon was another big fat liar i mean everyone in politics is pretty much a liar but i mean these are the big w

. >> she came out and referred to monica lewinsky as a narcissistic looney toon and said, he tried tof control, but they never had sex in any meaningful way. >> oh, please. >> it gave us a window into her thinking, at least about that one affair partner, whatever you want to describe monica lewinsky as. what were your thoughts on it? >> it sounds to me like, it all depends on what the meaning of the word is is. who cares what kind of sex they have? it is what it is. if she wants to play that game, then fine, but all she's doing again is she's enabling his behavior, and i don't know, if she wanted to save her marriage, because this has been going on since before they got married, and she found out about it. everybody deserves a second chance. and i think that she should have said to him, all right, we need to work on this, you have a problem, maybe we have a problem, and i want you to get help. because this won't happen again. that's the way she should have managed it. >> there were, of course, a long list of women who were accusing him of engaging in consensual affairs or unwanted gro

congress, establishing in graphic detail how president clinton carried on an affair with monica lewinsky and testified falsely about it, hillary clinton spoke by phone to diane blair, who recounted the talk in her journal. it was a lapse, mrs. clinton said of her his, but to his credit, he tried to break it off, tried to pull away. tried to manage someone who was a narcicisstic loony toon, but it was beyond control. it was gross, inappropriate behavior, but it was consensual, was not a power relationship, and was not sex within any real meaning. >> five years earlier, when republican senator bob packwood of oregon was magging allegations of sexual miscult, she was unsure about the conduct. blair wrote in her diary, hc tired of all those whiny women, and she needs him on health care. these come from blair's papers, quietly unsealed at the university of arkansas in 2010, ten years after her death from lung cancer and published in the washington free beacon. >> this is the real hillary in terms of the way she was talking and thinking and acting. this is her close friend. frankly, it sounds

talking about the strategy of reviving the monica lewinsky scandal in the late '90s.it was a topic that was a boom for every comic, especially maher. >> i wonder if you're going through your old computer files, brushing off your floppy disks, see if you can reuse them for your hbo show? >> no, i don't want to appear older than i am, jake. watching jay leno get sent out to pasture this week, i want to pretend that i was too young to cover monica lewinsky or know who she is. i heard something about it when i was in graduate school. of course it's going to backfire because this is supposed to hurt hillary? as i recall, hillary was only ever abetted by the fact that her husband cheated on her. it turned her into the jennifer aniston of america. americans only loved her more. i don't know how rand paul thinks he's going to drag hillary into this and, plus, bill clinton, let's be honest, if you hang around long enough like an old building, let's say, you become respectable and that's bill clinton now. somehow the guy, who the republicans accused of everything from rape to m

>> we're going to debate monica lewinsky. what else?ly relive the robert bourke trials, too. does anybody think americans want to go back and relitigate this -- trust me, i was there the first time we litigate this and americans didn't want to hear it then. this is sheer insanity. as far as these papers go, come on. the lawyer in me says it's hearsay. who knows what was said. >> exactly. let me put a little context. these papers were donate d to te library in fayetteville and have been available to the public for four years. so, "the free beacon" posted selected clips. and i spoke to -- it does look like this is the first and why do we want to go back there? as i say i don't know the legality of hearsay -- >> actually it's not hearsay. that's sort of a misstatement on my part. >> that's what i was saying, among us, in talking about this yesterday when we were deciding what to do with it, because diane blair, whom i knew, who mark there knew, who was the closest friend to hillary clinton, was writing a very academic document as well. thi

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that day or the impression she got from hillary clinton, and this was her reaction to the monica lewinskywas elapsed, but she said to his, his president's credit, tried to pull it off, break it away, tried to manage someone who was quote a narcissistic looney tune but it was beyond control. i find this interesting for a lot of reasons, and one of them is how quickly that seemed to have been -- this was early on, how quickly it was almost forgiven. how does this play? >> i don't think there is a single undecided or undecided-leaning voter out there who is going to change their mind based on these papers. i think republicans who want to dig through the archives as if they are trekkies or dead heads, take your pick, sort of poring over the old archives, are not going to be demonstrating that they are the party of the future. it's going to very much remind people that they seem like the party of the past. >> sure, because rand paul has first questioned about and later brought up again the whole lewinsky affair and president clinton as predator and that kind of thing. >> i think it's swing vot

plus rand paul takes another swing at bill clinton for the lewinsky affair and hillary clinton for the benghazi disaster. >> we should never, ever have a commander in chief who won't send reinforcements. >>> and attorney general eric holder announces expansion of equal rights for married same-sex couples. >> our nation has made great strides on the road to lgbt equality, a cause that i believe is a defining civil rights challenge of our time. >> our political panel parses a busy sunday. this is "state of the union." >>> good morning there washington. i'm candy crowley. the games are under way. security is heavy though, some of it is discreet in and around sochi. ivan watson joins us live. certainly back here lots of talk about security. does it affect the atmosphere there? >> well, there's a massive deployment, there's no question about it. you see police and uniformed officers everywhere, and let me just give you some numbers. some of the russian published estimates of the number of security forces deployed goes into the tens of thousands, and according to the russian organizing commi

these are the selected lines about monica lewinsky in the scandal in the 109 boxes.onky stuff between these two fellow professors in the '70s, what everyone looked at was the scandalous stuff. >> the exciting stuff and political stuff. there's certain lines in there that i'm sure hillary clinton wishes weren't out there in the public domain right now, particularly the comments about the packwood scandal about women accusing of harassment being whiney. that said, i think the past will be out there any time she runs for office, the past will be out there. did not prevent her from becoming a senator. i don't think the clinton past necessarily is what derailed her in 2008. maybe in 2016 it will make a difference. especially if they were to get to a general election. we haven't seen the republicans run a race against her. we don't know how effective that's going to be but karl rove and some of the others are worried in particular about the monica lewinsky line of attack and bill clinton's popularity rose during the lewinsky scandal or tail end of it. hillary clinton's wen

the kentucky senator rand paul doubling down on his criticism of the former president over the lewinsky criticism backfire? [ male announcer ] this is kevin. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for him, he's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but after lunch my knee started to hurt again. and now i've got to take more pills. ♪ yup. another pill stop. can i get my aleve back yet? ♪ for my pain, i want my aleve. ♪ [ male announcer ] look for the easy-open red arthritis cap. introducing cardioviva: the first probiotic to help maintain healthy cholesterol levels without a prescription. cardioviva. >>> the republican senator rand paul taking another swipe at bill clinton and the democrats over the monica lewinsky scandal. senator paul said recently that clinton's relationship with the former white house intern is a liability for democrats. he said it undermines their claim that republicans are waging a so call war on women. now he's repeating that criticism. listen to what he said in a c-