previous wives by his two previous wives that have spoken with the fbi. the white house has known about this since november if not before. let's bring in jordan fabian. there seems to be a pattern here observed by "the new york times" this morning and others which -- they just observed it, that the president seems to take up for the guy in these things. there's roy moore, there's this, a couple of them around this building. there's a pattern. >> yeah. that's something that clearly angered some folks in the me too movement, this burgeoning movement of women that have spoke up against allegations of abuse ever since last year. it's something that democrats think that they can seize upon in the mid-terms. they think it can be a motivating issue for women. not necessarily this porter incident. taken together with the other incidents, it's something that they can use to get women motivated to go to the polls in november and elect democrats to office. >> shepard: were you ever