they don't have to get into monica and vince foster and all of that.lk about the clintons, their style, what they have brought to politics. sort of the way you feel about some of the dealings that they have had. that aspect of it. a lot of what we have seen people trying to do with chris christie and bridgegate, well, you know, it's the tone, it's the attitude that he sets in the office and how that infects people and how that affects the process. i think that that's a legitimate area to talk about. and certainly, benghazi will certainly be on the table. we know that. and there is still legitimate questions there to be asked. but all of this kind of rolls into a package that i think is a better and stronger package than just the recurrences of old stuff. >> i think every politician comes with their own style and you either like the slickness or you don't. >> right. >> but one thing about bill clinton, he wins. what i think the crazy part, this is what the right tends to do more than the left, i think, but you can check me on this after david gets throu

just as their efforts to bring up monica again, before long i think we're all going to hear about vince fostervery effective at whipping up. >> what happened to the koch brothers, spend a zillion dollars. i don't understand, what is it? you hear it so many times reverberating through your head. i saw them turn john kerry into a flawed candidate. >> hillary clinton is not john kerry, they're much more aggressive, they've already created a team, there's already a team being put in place devoted to jumping in and fighting back against all the smears that are inevitably going to be lobbed at hillary clinton. you have to answer it forcefully and repeatedly. you don't just want to say, no, i'm innocent, i didn't do that. turn it around and say what her accusers are doing. >> look what -- the same group that michelle obama saying, he killed bin laden, but he took credit for it. >> but i guess the point is -- >> but the point is -- this is the same group that tried to use barack obama's decision to assassinate bin laden against him, and, you know, while it's maddening, i think we can look and see how

infidelity stemmed from the personal toll from the death of her mother, father and their friend vince fostermr. clinton among other things. in a moment, carl bernstein joins us, but, randi kaye on more of the history that's resurfacing today and probably will yet again if hillary clinton decides to run for president. >> this embrace from 1996 may be our only glimpse inside the bizarre relationship between then president clinton and monica lewinsky. she joined the white house as an intern the year before. she was 21. >> do you have any anything to say to the president? >> reporter: in january 1998, various media outlets got winds of her affair with the president. president clinton publicly denied it. first lady hillary clinton standing stone faced at his side. >> i want to say one thing to the american people. i want you to listen to me, i'm going to say this again. i did not have sexual relations with that woman, miss lewinsky. >> reporter: by the very next morning, hillary clinton's pr campaign was in full swing, smiling for the cameras. and defending her husband. first on nbc's today show.

somehow the guy, who the republicans accused of everything from rape to murdering vince foster and the great now. he's a great guy. they love him. so i just don't get how that strategy is going to pay off for them. >> you're doing standups on the weekend and you have pretty red states greenville, south carolina, birmingham, alabama, on february 23rd. when you go into these red states, how do the audiences receive you? >> awesome. just this weekend i was in mobile, alabama, and corpus christi, texas. first of all, i always laugh when i hear the tea party say i want my country back bus they don't see the country. i see the country almost every weekend and i can tell you tea party people it hasn't gone anywhere. you have it back. and i think they would be surprised to find out is that in so many of these -- as you call them -- red states, there are so many progressives thinking, free thinking, liberal-thinking people. that's one of the great things about america. when we have a landslide victory in some state, it's usually 60/40. that's a landside. and that means 40% of the people don't t

dan burton shoots the cantaloupe prove that vince foster didn't commit suicide.it is about cantaloupes and republicans? the fruit of choice? >> it's turning people into animals, basically. and what these republicans don't seem to understand, they would love the hispanic vote. they would love to get a bigger share of that vote. yet they use language and talk about people in a way that suggests they think that they're pack animals or something. never mind the fact that nothing he is saying is true or makes any sense. he was talking about dream actors. these are children that were brought here as children to the united states by their parents. what does that have to do with hauling marijuana through the desert? nothing. >> it makes it a lot easier to vote against the immigration bill. >> that's true. >> it's too crazy. anyway, this week the republican candidate for governor of texas campaigned with ted nugent, the man who called president obama a subhuman mongrel. some republicans have said they have a problem with that language, including texas governor rick perry.

investigations into white house counsel vince foster's suicide.n. >> the clinton's felt they were being attacked over health care, over this so-called scandal in whitematt whitewater and in fact they hadn't done anything wrong in whitewater but they certainly handled it badly. and once again, this battle of noncandor was established. >> reporter: especially for hillary clinton, who was more guarded than her husband. in january 1995, after two years in the white house, she told her friend that she did not know how history could be written on bill clinton's presidency with media reports being so long. diane blair wrote, she said there was hardly a news story that she couldn't totally refute. and our chief political analyst gore yeah borger is joining us now. we sort of looked there at hillary clinton, her days in arkansas, her time in the white house has first lady. do you think that she's done a lot to sort of rebuild her image since then and also separate herself from her husband? >> look, she had an unsuccessful presidential campaign in which she

she said the death of his mother and her father and the death of their friend, vince foster, had takenat's why she said this affair came about. now, i want to point out this. she said that bill clinton had engaged in some gross inappropriate behavior but that their relationship was meaningless and also consensual, not a power play. that's very interesting because of some of these remarks that rand paul has made saying that bill clinton was a sexual predator. >> reporter: after labeling bill clinton a sexual predator for his affair with republican, monica lewinsky, rand wall is stepping up the attacks calling democrats that ask him to raise campaign cash hypocrites. >> if they want to take oi position on women's rights, do. you can't do it and take it from a guy who is using his position of authority to take advantage of women in the work place. >> reporter: it is raising new questions about whether paul is really trying to undermine hillary clinton, a possibly 2016 rival for the white house. he tells cnn it isn't her fault how her husband behaved but called them a fundraising team. no

investigations into white house counsel vince foster's suicide.e being attacked over health care, over this so-called scandal and whitewater and, in fact, they really hadn't done anything wrong. in whitewater, but they sure had handled it badly. once again, this pattern of noncandor was established. >> reporter: especially for hillary clinton, who was more guarded than her husband. in january, 1995, after two years in the white house, she told her friend that she did not know how history could be written on bill clinton's presidency with media reports being so wrong. diane blair wrote, "she said there was hardly a news story that she couldn't totally refute." brianna keilar, cnn, washington. >>> let's check in now with cnn's john king in washington for a look at what's coming up this morning on "inside politics." morning, john. >> good morning, guys. a lively conversation about the week's politics just ahead on "inside politics today." republicans surrendier to the white house on the debt ceiling and reveal a huge split within the gop. the impact