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The sex scandals of bill clinton, john edwards, elliott spitzer and anthony weiner sent shock waves across the country and exploded onto the front pages day after day after day for months at a time. so, if youre confused about why president trumps alleged affair with porn star stormy daniels hasnt yet joined the ranks, youre not alone. in a piece for bloomberg view, columnist michael lewis explains perhaps why this scandal has played out so differently. writing, quote, stormy daniels had a lot o...

Or form. >> the american people dont care about this anymore. they want to get past this nonsense and focus on jobs and the economy. >> the overall investigation, because it is still ongoing -- >> is going nowhere. >> so you think there is no reason for our intelligence committee to be investigating carter page, george papadopoulos for any russian interaction? >> under the obama administration, both the fbi and the doj were weaponized against conservative groups like tea parties, why not weaponi...

That wall down. who are they? agents maybe who know more than what were being told as to the who, what, when and why this happened. >> neil: a lot of people say be careful what you wish for. the fbi is also done a great deal of good and stopped more than well ever know. so i understand how it works, steve. that you remember the one that you missed and the ones that you prevented. but having said that, do you think the president is right when he says the distractions with the russia probe got in ...

Been done before. they took a vote on this in the committee. a vote they never had to take before. tells you its weaponized. the presidents response, the rebuttal to it, that at least will inform us on both sides of this perspective, that he wont let them do that, tells you it is all about politics. nunes is clearly running interference for trump. and it really endangered the process of intelligence and the relationship with capitol hill. >> it sounds like nunes isnt done. he said there is more ...

Of classified information. it doesnt seem there would be a lot of human sources, for example that would be in danger as a result. but the inaccuracy i think is what wray was getting at. they were able to pick and choose what they wanted so the narrative the nunes memo presented which is the carter page fisa application was all built around a flimsy dossier was not accurate. he thinks there was more there that should have been presented. >> kerr, let me talk about the politization of this moment....

Fire department went to 54th street here in manhattan to the response of a suspicious substance or unknown substance inside of a letter. the letter was addressed, were told, to donald trump jr. and the recipient of that letter where the letter ended up going to was vanessa trump, his wifes apartment. she opened the letter and has been taken to the hospital purely as a precaution. this is just to observe them to make sure theres nothing here, that theres nothing wrong. were told the field tests, ...

Allegations that he has mistreated women, its hard to imagine he would be a slam dunk for a security clearance if he wasnt president, that is, but he is. you may recall donald trump weaponized an and attempted to criminalize hillary clintons use of a personal e-mail server during the campaign. >> some bad things came out today. you know, those classified, you know the word classified. she sent vast amounts of classified information, including information classified as top secret, top secret, o...

But i think natasha is right. this is absolutely a study in contrasts. the president even before he saw the republican memo was 100% certain that he would declassify it and when he did, not a single word was re-redacted, chris. when you read don mcgahns cover letter, he even states in there that the fbi and doj, the same entities that had vo sis tremendous warnings about the implications of releasing the republican memo, that it deemed portions of the democrats memo to be classified. the questio...

That may be too clever by half. but i natasha is right. this is absolutely a study in contra contrasts. the president even before he saw the republican memo was 100% certain that he would declassify it and when he did, not a single word was re-redacted, chris. when you read don mcgahns cover letter, he even states in there that the fbi and doj, the same entities that had vo sis tremendous warnings about the implications of releasing the republican memo, that it deemed portions of the democrats m...

Redacted version back to the committee if trump is so committed to having this get out. instead it was wholesale denied and in doing so, chris, i think what president trump has done as weaponized and politicized intelligence. hes trying to use this and use the republican memo itself as a partisan political cudgel. that is why he does not want the democratic memo out. >> natasha, that sheems to have been the directory of all this since people started tweeting #release the memo out of nowhere a fe...