after blair passed away in 2000, her notes were donated. other files caused controversy in 2008 when most were still under lock and key. there were earlier suggestions that the blair files would be available prior to the 2008 race. >> one of the most secretive administrations in history and at the same time that you're making a claim that this is the basis for your experience i think is a problem. >> quietly opened in 2010, the washington free beacon was the first one to dive in this week. among the paperwork, campaign advisers talking about the clinton's image as they ready for the presidential race in 1992. >> i suppose i could have stayed home and baked cookies and tea but my husband was in public life. >> her strengths have made an impression. as one memo noted, voters generally liked clinton's intelligence and ten nasty but uncomfortable with these traits in a woman. she needs to project a softer side, some humor. fast forward to the white house in 1993. >> i actually made some of these. >> but clinton was not willing to make every com

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 have the opportunity of overreaching like going too far into the far, far past, as we've seen in the past it makes her look like a victim. >> republicans overreaching when it comes to the clinton, that's impossible. >> and yet we're talking about the past. >> right. >> and aren't elections about the future? >> right. >> and that's is what was sophisticated, you bring this issue up and splash it you a cross websites and tv, pictures of the rose law firm and the clintons, and you know, just raisin

. >> well, you know this was my case, diane blair, jim blair -- >> that is the woman. >> yes, these are her papers. and diane blair, as you just stated, was very close to hillary clinton. and these documents that came out today are her notes from telephone conversations over years taking during the clinton administration. and in those documents we find that there was conversations between hillary clinton and jim blair, her husband, who is also now deceased. but jim blair is the one who made famous the commodities trading. hillary clinton taking $1,000 from 1978 and turning it into $100,000 in just a few months time in cattle future trading. no one ever did that. and of course, that was one of the big investigations that we uncovered during the white water investigation. >> all right, doctor, let me ask you, she talks a lot about bill's affairs, and talks about monica lewinsky, calling her a loony tune. she says she defended her husband in a phone call with ms. blair, and said that bill had made a mistake fooling around with the narcissistic looney tune, but said he was driven to it by t

your thoughts on this. >> first, i knew diane blair. i covered the clintons in arkansas when he was governor and she was wicked smart, real decent person. one of the people around hillary who was the most real, who helped keep her grounded, helped her transition to arkansas. my first opinion was it blew up against republicans in '98, it didn't get the president. he left office more popular than when he came in. the more i thought about it, anybody under 35, this is new to them. second of all, hillary clinton in 2016 has to be bill herself, like anyone, about the future. this brings us back to the past. you don't want the word archive associated with your presidential race. >> at the same time, tenina, th comes as senator rand paul has been asked numerous times about a statement that his wife made about bill clinton. and he has now expanded on that a number of different ways. one of them was on c-span, take a listen. >> senator mccaskill needs to remember what she had to say about bill clinton, that she wouldn't want her daughter in the

blair did not survive to provide context for her diary. now republicans say her notes are fair game. >> i think everything is on the table. i don't see how someone just gets a pass on anything, especially in today's politics. i think we're going to have a truckload of opposition research on hillary clinton. >> reporter: potential 2016 candidate rand paul has already called bill clinton a sexual predator, even before hillary announces if she'll run. >> that is good politics for a republican party that right now doesn't have any candidates who can match up with the strengths of hillary clinton. >> reporter: hillary clinton had no comment on a campaign already brutal two years before it has begun. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> and we're back in a moment with the new changes announced for a big american brand name. >>> it is the first state visit to the white house by a president of france in 18 years, and in this case he will be going stag. french president francois hollande arrived in the u.s. today and toured thomas jefferson's

diane blair was one of hillary clinton's closest friends. the first friend she and jim blair whom hillary made when she moved to arkansas. she was a professor for 30 years in fayetteville. she died in 2000, and she was friendly with the clintons all through whitewater, lewinsky, impeachment, practically living at the white house by some accounts in 1993. so what is new here? these are the archival documents that her husband put in at the university of arkansas and put in to be released i guess four years ago. and now they're being made public by a conservative website. >> well, there's no doubt, as you suggested, andrea, that diane blair was very close to hillary clinton. from that point of view, we're dealing with somebody, while she was alive as an adult, no one was closer to hillary clinton amongst her friends. that adds -- that puts a foundation down that says we should take this seriously. on the other hand, what we have so far, because we all need to go down and look at the regional documents ourselves, are things out of context withou

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, not free enough of her own concerns and struggles to realize the price he was paying. clinton supporters don't see anything particularly damaging in these papers, and her spokesperson simply declined to comment on them. jonathan karl, abc news, washington. >>> actress julia roberts is mourning a loss in her family. roberts' half-sister has died from an apparent drug overdose. nancy motes' body was discovered in a bathtub at a los angeles home over the weekend. the coroner says prescription and nonprescription drugs were found nearby. the death at first was considered suicide, but determining the actual cause could take weeks. >>> former "saturday night live" cast member chris kattan could face up to six months in jail after a dui arrest. the 43-year-old best known for the "snl" character mango was captured on dash cam taking a field s

that part of the blair documents being referred to. we can show a few. it is diane blair. calling a dinner with the clintons. hillary clinton said that bill clinton at length on the --plexities of health care thinks managed competition a crock. a single-payer necessary. maybe add to medicare. wanda, waiting in hayward, california. our line for democrats. have you read the story? i am just dumbfounded. i just woke up and decided to turn the television on. this is unbelievable. you guys are sitting here reading blogs and talking about stuff that happened in 1992 and 1996. is this all you guys have on a woman who wasn't even president? this is unbelievable that you would even have a segment -- did you trash bring up trash about bush when he ran for president and his wife killing a person and having the car accident while she was drunk? this is crazy. this is off the hook crazy. host: wanda from california. it is a story that is made the new york times and times magazine. donna brazil on cnn seems to share your opinion on this story and what it means. the headline of her blog

>> blair was the shadow home secretary. it is a bit like homeland security and parts of the justice department. he was a front venture, as was gordon brown at that point. to tell you where we came from and the accident of death. the leader of the labour party michael john smith died wholly unexpectedly. he was apparently a youngish man in his 50's. he might never have been prime minister. it's about being at the right place at the right time. gordon brown was the shadow chancellor. he was in charge of the economic policy. he was also in charge of the election machine. he was into election strategies. >> gordon brown went out to be prime minister for how long? >> over three years. >> here is a famous name for people who can remember 20 years ago. here is ian paisley. you can explain after we see it. >> if he wants a settlement the only honorable thing he can do is resign. >> order. i really must seek a withdrawal from the honorable gentleman about the use of the word falsehood. i am sure he has tried to use his words very ca

>> blair was the shadow home secretary. homelandit like security and parts of the justice department. , as was front venture gordon brown at that point. to tell you where we came from and the accident of death. the leader of the labour party died wholly smith .nexpectedly he was apparently a youngish man in his 50's. he might never have been prime minister. rightbout being at the place at the right time. was the shadow chancellor. he was in charge of the economic policy. also in charge of the election machine. he was into election strategies. went out to be prime minister for how long? .> over three years >> here is a famous name for people who can remember 20 years ago. here is ian paisley. it.can explain after we see >> if he wants a settlement the only honorable thing he can do is resign. >> order. i really must seek a withdrawal from the honorable gentleman about the use of the word falsehood. use sure he has tried to his words very carefully this afternoon, but i would ask him to reflect for a moment while i am speakin

. >> i am just trying to discuss what the blair papers -- >> a personal attack -- >> they were in that information, it was public information out since 2010. we were the first organization to get it so i think it is important to analyze and look at it in the context today. because nobody else had done it before. barack obama mentioned that it was something that existed in 2008, but they had not accessed it. >> you certainly set off a fire storm, thank you both for being here. and regards to your beautiful wife, lanny. >>> and tomorrow, we can't miss the interview with the woman who said she was sexually harassed by bill clinton. we'll put those questions to the test. and we'll ask her why is this relevant what happened with the clintons so long ago, katherine willy will join us, and see why

blair did not survive to provide context for her diary. her notes are fair game. >> everything is on the table. i don't know sooe how someone gets a pass on pecially in toda politicians. we're going to have a truckload of research. >> reporter: rand paul has called bill clinton a sexual predator. even before hilary announces if she'll run. >> that's good politics that doesn't have any candidate to match up with the strengths of hillary clinton. >> reporter: hillary clinton had no comment on a campaign brutal two years before it's begun. andrea mitchell, washington. >>> house republicans are movering forward toward a debt ceiling vote and had time, as in the past, time is running out. the deadline is more than two weeks away on february 27th. sources say there wasn't much agreement within party ranks. tracie potts is live in washington. good morning. i hear a e vote could come as soon as wednesday. >> this is a big if because of the tension that you just mentioned within the party. there was a conference yesterday. and the leadership put th

according to blair clinton dismissed her husband making a mistake. the first lady told blair the affair did not include sex, quote, within any real meaning. she said the president managed to try to manage the white house intern but things were quickly beyond control. rand paul has treaded into lewinsky territory lately with provocative comments and reince priebus is calling it fair game. >> i don't see how anybody gets a pass on anything especially in today's politics so i think we will have a truckload of opposition research on hillary clinton and some things may be old and some things might be new, but i think everything is at stake when you talk about the leader of the free world and who are going to give the keys to run the united states of america. so, you know, look. i think everything is at play. >> andrea, this is all very exciting. i feel like michael j. fox about getting into -- >> "back to the future"? >> we are going to debate monica lewinsky and what else? we are going to have a bush versus a clinton. so we can do the '98 thing, the '92

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

the diary belonged to dianne blair one of mrs. mrs. clinton best friend who died in 2000. her notes were do naturally the to the university of arkansas where she was approve. in them blair gives us insight into what hilary thought about the monica lewinsky sex scandal wrote it was a lapse 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 unquote but it was beyond control. the diary also portrays hillary clinton as hard nose political operative who blair said is in despair nobody in the white house is tough and mean enough. >> business owner in mill valley blame the city for recurring flood problem down. whenever there is high tide or heavy written like we had this weekend the creek here pool on miller heavy. the 2:00 a.m. club and joe's taco lounge can flood like they did this weekend once again. now the owner say the city needs to fix a faulty storm drain. however the city says the problem is businesses in low lying areas. city is considering anti-flood measures but they are all expensive.

and diane blair said why. and this is what clinton said -- this is filtered through diane blair, of course. when i first asked "what for," she said, quote, revenge. later telling our side, later after more talks, just brain dumps, just to get it down, while still fresh. that notion of revenge will certainly strike a lot of clinton's enemies as an ah-ha moment. this is her din vindictive side. you covered the clinton white house, full of paranoia and leaks and media hatred. but that was just one of the most interesting things that's jumped out so far, wolf. >> i know she also, according to these papers that have recently been discovered and people going through, she wanted to preserve a record, detailed record, of her husband's administration, at years of president of the united states. but she was also concerned about keeping too many documents because of potential subpoenas out there. >> yeah, that's right. if you read through these notes, you really see her concern and anxiety about perceived enemies, the me

the diary belonged to dianne blair one of mrs. mrs. clinton best friend who died in 2000. her notes were do naturally the to the university of arkansas where she was approve. in them blair gives us insight into what hilary thought about the monica lewinsky sex scandal wrote it was a lapse 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 unquote but it was beyond control. the diary also portrays hillary clinton as hard nose political operative who blair said is in despair nobody in the white house is tough and mean enough. >> business owner in mill valley blame the city for recurring flood problem down. whenever there is high tide or heavy written like we had this weekend the creek here pool on miller heavy. the 2:00 a.m. club and joe's taco lounge can flood like they did this weekend once again. now the owner say the city needs to fix a faulty storm drain. however the city says the problem is businesses in low lying areas. city is considering anti-flood measures but they are all expensive.

this time courtesy of diane blair. the conservative website that reported on blair's writings housed at the university of arkansas. the website claims blair wrote about hillary's private reaction to bill's affair saying, quote, it was a laugh but she says to his credit she tried to break it off, tried to pull away and tried to manage someone who was clearly a narcissistic looney tune but beyond control. the report echoes recent comments from rand paul saying bill clinton is a liability to the democrats. >> anybody who wants to take money from bill clinton or have a fundraiser has explaining to do. if they want to take a position on women's rights do but you can't do it and take it from a guy using his position of authority to take advantage of young women in the work place. >> national political reporter joins us now. tell us more about diane blair and the private papers. >> diane blair was a long-time friend of the clinton's. hillary clinton refers to her once as her closest friend. she is mentioned as a very dear fri

the diary belonged to dianne blair one of mrs. mrs. clinton best friend who died in 2000. her notes were do naturally the to the university of arkansas where she was approve. in them blair gives us insight into what hilary thought about the monica lewinsky sex scandal wrote it was a lapse 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 unquote but it was beyond control. the diary also portrays hillary clinton as hard nose political operative who blair said is in despair nobody in the white house is tough and mean enough. >> business owner in mill valley blame the city for recurring flood problem down. whenever there is high tide or heavy written like we had this weekend the creek here pool on miller heavy. the 2:00 a.m. club and joe's taco lounge can flood like they did this weekend once again. now the owner say the city needs to fix a faulty storm drain. however the city says the problem is businesses in low lying areas. city is considering anti-flood measures but they are all expensive.

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if he tony blair or is he margaret thatcher? >> like tony blair. let's see. [laughter] guy johnson. the pulse is coming up in 14 minutes. the bank of japan put its foot on the gas. markets tons for the jonathan ferro. i was a pretty easy session and japanese trading. is yen is higher and nikkei higher. the arrow of abenomics is firing on all cylinders. shows no steps of stepping back. the amount of qe is unchanged. they doubled to ¥7 trillion. banks can borrow twice as much low interest rate from the central-bank stop a, a lending facility. great. a problem. japanese companies are already sitting on record piles of cash. at 220 ¥4 trillion. how much benefit will japan get from expanding the program? that remains to be seen. >> how high our expectations? >> incredibly high. check out our latest survey. expectations are calling for more action. -- byorecast the boj will the end of september. here is what today's news is supposed to do. a symbolism of the move. andre not a stepping back we are committed. the perception is they are ready to do more. when expectations are this high, so

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 this diary would come out, how are they responding? >> clinton supporters are saying that they don't see anything particularly damaging in any of this. her spokesperson simply declined to comment on the papers at all

blair called hillary clinton, portrayed her as ruthless, driven. hillary clinton was excusing bill clinton's daleiances because she was concerned about how it would look for the family, a, and b, for the pledz. unbelievable. unbelievable. so insightful. really long piece, but it reads really quickly, like you're sitting on a beach reading a novel. so many insights into the way hillary saw the presidency. maybe she looked the other way because she thought she was going to be there some day. >> daleiances. is that what you called them? >> that's a plight word. >> a nice way to say it. okay. >> do you disagree? >> not my turn. go ahead. >> it could be. >> let me just say this. i think these revelations are meaningless. did anybody not think hillary clinton is not a ruthless political person? is there anything new to that? no. the fact she called the bimbo a loony toon. >> it's her fault that a 50-year-old president was fooling around with a 21-year-old intern. >> 21, i think it was, and she was of ancient. what could you say? it was a bad idea. was an

it was a lapse, blair writes, but she says to his credit, he tries to break it off, pull away. tried to manage someone who was clearly a narcissistic alony toon. rand paul trying to do keep them from fading. >> democrats say we're the great defenders of women's rights, when the leading fundraiser was bill clinton, a perpetrator of that kind of harassment. >> thanks for that. >>> and the roundtable. jonathan karl, and alicia menendez, and katrina vanden heuvel, and peggy noonan. katri katrina, let me begin with you. and what happened in the house this week. john boehner allowing a clean debt limit to go through. exactly what the president wanted. but probably shrewd for boehner too. clears the decks in a year where he thinks they can pick up a lot of seats in november. >> the failure of the shutdown concentrated the mind, and the hostage takers left the scene. we have seen manufactured crisis by a party which has eroded business confidence, hurt the economy, hurt families, and i think as 2014 approaches, the republican party decided they needed to pull up their bootstraps and ge

hillary connected with her friend diane blair weeks later. she is not trying to excuse him and she is not taking responsibility for her husband's action, blair wrote. but she thinks she was not smart enough, not sensitive enough not free enough of her own concerns and struggles to realize the price he was paying. blair wrote that hillary described lewinsky as a narcissistic loony toon. congress, a bunch of whiners, no courage, she reportedly told blair in 1993. hillary says press has big egos and no brains blair penned later that year. republican national committee chairman reince priebus said it's fair game if hillary runs in 2016. >> a truckload of research on hillary clinton. >> reporter: like this memo from the 1992 campaign examining public opinion about hillary. only someone too politically ambitious, too strong and too ruthless could survive such a controversy so well. one of her potential rivals kentucky senator rand paul has repeatedly raise the kwish of her husband's infidelity. >> for all of people that stand up for bill clinton wh

they have come into the spotlight after blair's death her husband donated the documents to the university of auckland so the purpose he said was to preserve her memories what can you tell us about these journals that they ever come into your book oh you did you have no knowledge of them. we didn't really at the time we didn't have any knowledge at the time of press but you know i think the clinton campaign or the clinton folks say they don't want to really address this you haven't seen them talk about it hillary clinton kind of referred to it the other day when she said or alluded to it when she said that politicians should have skin like a loan officer but i think for the most part they're not going to address this going forward this isn't going to be in her book i think in her book she's going to focus mostly on the state department and i think you're going to see them not address this as much and. based on all your research john do those journals surprise you. not terribly surprising but i don't think anybody would be terribly surprised by the content of them you know if somebody were

they have come into the spotlight after blair's death her husband donated the documents to the university of auckland so the purpose he said was to preserve her memories what can you tell us about these journals that they ever come into your book though you did you have no knowledge of them. we didn't really at the time we didn't have any knowledge at the time of press but you know i think the clinton campaign or the clinton folks say they don't want to really address this you haven't seen them talk about it hillary clinton kind of referred to it the other day when she said or alluded to it when she said that politicians should have skin like a loan officer but i think for the most part they're not going to address this going forward this isn't going to be in her book i think in her book she's going to focus mostly on the state department and i think you're going to see them not address this as much and. based on all your research john do those journals surprise you. not terribly surprising but i don't think anybody would be terribly surprised by the content of them you know if somebody w

they have come into the spotlight after blair's death her husband donated the documents to the university of auckland so the purpose he said was to preserve her memories what can you tell us about these journals that they ever come into your book did you have no knowledge of them. we didn't really at the time we didn't have any knowledge at the time of press but you know i think the clinton campaign or the clinton folks say they don't want to really address this you haven't seen them talk about it hillary clinton kind of referred to it the other day when she said or alluded to it when she said that politicians should have skin like a loan officer but i think for the most part they're not going to address this going forward this isn't going to be in her book i think in her book she's going to focus mostly on the state department and i think you're going to see them not address this as much and. based on all your research john do those journals surprise you. not terribly surprising but i don't think anybody would be terribly surprised by the content of them you know if somebody were followi

we'll examine the papers of the late diane blair. what's gotten the most media a stengs a description of ruthless and how blair describes hillary's views of her husband's sexual conduct with lewinsky. >> this is really something for people to look back at. the idea that hillary is ruthless is not news. >> republicans tend to reach back two decades if necessary, to fight old wars that has been settled for most people to tear down hillary clinton. >> get this, hillary clinton apparently didn't think too highly of monica lewinsky. wow. i guess she's toast for 2016. >> according to the journal, it was a lapse but she says, hillary says to his credit he tried to break it off, pull away, tried to manage someone who is clearly a narcissistic 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 with any real meaning. stand up, lie down, oral, et cetera of the term. so is this news for 2016 or a narcissistic rehash by the media? joining us now lauren ash

they have come into the spotlight after blair's death her husband donated the documents to the university of auckland so the purpose he said was to preserve her memories what can you tell us about the journals that they ever come into your book oh you did you have no knowledge of them. we don't really at the time we didn't have any knowledge at the time of press but you know i think the clinton campaign or the clinton folks say they don't want to really address this you haven't seen them talk about it hillary clinton kind of referred to it the other day when she said or alluded to it when she said that politicians should have skin like one officer but i think for the most part they're not going to address this going forward this isn't going to be in her book i think in her book she's going to focus mostly on the state department and i think you're going to see them not address this as much and. based on all your research john do those journals surprise you. not terribly surprising but i don't think anybody would be terribly surprised by the content of them you know if somebody were follow

blair's diary portrays mrs. clinton as a hard-nosed political operative who is, quote, in despair that nobody in the white house is tough and mean enough. the papers describe personal conversations blair writes that she had with mrs. clinton during her time in the white house. offering new insight into hillary clinton's mindset immediately after bill clinton admitted having an affair with white house intern monica lewinsky. >> indeed, i did have a relationship with miss 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 who was clearly a narcissistic looney toon. but it was beyond control. blair also writes about mrs. clinton's frustration with critics who called her too aggressive and too political. i'm a proud woman, blair quotes mrs. clinton saying in 1996. i know it confuses people when i change my hairdos. i know i should pretend not to have any opinions, but i'm

diane blair was close. jim blair was the one who helped hillary clinton make extraordinary profit with cattle future. we're going way back. she invested $10,000 and came away with $100,000 in a very few months. this reremain close. diane blair died in the year 2000. her husband gave her papers to the university of arkansas. the washington free beacon went and looked at the papers. i think what we are seeing now is in the reaction of this we are going to get a bead on how far you can go back in mrs. clinton's past as a campaign issue in 2016. will be in. >> you know, a.b., did secretary clinton know these notes were being taken? that's what i don't get, like if my friends did that to me that's what i wondered as well. what started in faith yet should stay in fayetteville. they were detailed and there were many of them. it is quite revealing. she, at the ceremony, when the archives, you know, were given to the library herself, hillary clinton said this was going to be great because she could pass on this hist

. >> well, wolf, according to these papers that were written by clinton's family friend, diane blair, hillary clinton had said that bill clinton's affair was a lapse, essentially, and as you know, he had said he had caused problems in their marriage before. but she said he tried to break it off, and then he tried to manage monica lewinski. but all of this is very interesting, given what republican senator rand paul has been saying in the past few weeks. hillary clinton forgave bill clinton years ago for his affair with monica lewinski, someone she called a narcissistic looney tune, according to old writings first unearthed by the washington free break con. though she called his behavior gross and inappropriate, mrs. clinton confided to friend and colleague, diane blair, she blamed her husband's transgressions on the personal toll, the deaths of his mother, her father. she said the affair was meaningless and consensual, not a power play by bill clinton. an interesting twist, now that republican senator rand paul has called the 42nd president a sexual predator and is challenging democra

today it's the private papers of diane blair that are shedding some new light on the clinton's life. notes reveal some of the lightest and darkest times. among them discussions about hair and makeup and there are references to recent books and movies. hilary was frustrated with the white house staff writing hc dumbfounded by people 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

she said it to diane blair. that she thought that the white house was a golden cage that would keep these old habits of her husband and temptations at bay and particularly she said to diane blair, with a nosy press corps such as the white house has. well, she was wrong. >> carl, great to have you here. thank you so much for coming on. >> good to be here. >> remember, i love your feedback. look me up on twitter or facebook and my user name brian stelter and i've be reading your comments after the show. after a break here, chris christie as tony soprano. the media goes to town on the new jersey governor, is all the negative publicity paving the way for a new political player? a tale of two republicans after this break. [ male announcer ] this is the cat that drank the milk... [ meows ] ...and let in the dog that woke the man who drove to the control room [ woman ] driverless mode engaged. find parking space. [ woman ] parking space found. [ male announcer ] ...that secured the data that directed the turbines that

he, relating to tony blair, is available for you. krm, rupert murdoch, and me are but it needs to be between us. those are e-mails that brought up. this is mr. blair simply giving informal advice over the phone. hnow this trial here has been going on since october. there are several people on trial. it shows how big, how complex it is that it has taken four months for the prosecution to get to the case, to get to the point where it is only now able to sum up the case. the judge has more of the jurors here and it may continue until the middle of may. rebecca brooks and all others here deny the charges against them. >> members of the punk group pussy riot are under attack for protesting during the sochi olympics. one appeared to use pepper spray while the other hit them with a horse whip. the police were there, and it's been used as an auxiliary police force. >> it is the fourth day that the two busy riot members have been in sochi, and it's the fourth day that they've had the tangle or other with the authorities here. in tuesday they

this hyped up show, about diane blair is not being hyped up on your show. freedom of religion is much better. >> one of the things i have learned and james have told you we've gone out on the road and spoken together. when james carville speaks or mary matalin speaks, i always think there is some truth to it. and mary made a suggestion today, she doesn't think hillary is going to run. >> i think she will, mary thinks she knows, who knows. one of us will be right, one will be wrong. >> do you both think she is running? >> i have no idea. i think she should run, she would be a great president. i also think between mary and james, james married up the same way i did. >> well, we all agree on that. >> all right, last question i have for both of you. will the issue of her support for a single payer plan, will her -- what difference does it make comment, how big an issue will that be to her if she runs? >> can i jump in on that one. first of all, medicare for all, she said single payer, excuse me, same thing, she ended up with the managed health care program and

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 enough of her own concerns and struggles 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 mr mrs. clinton as hard nose political operative who was quote in despair nobody in the white house is tough and mean enough. especially frustrated with criticism of her own assertiveness. i'm a proud woman the diary quotes her saying in 1996. i know it con fasts people when i change my hair do. i know issued pretend not to have any opinion. but i'm not going to. i gave up my name. i got contact lenses. but i'm not going to pretend to be somebody that i'm not. clinton supporters don't see any particularly damageing in these papers. and her spokesperson simply declined to comment on them. january thon karl, abc news washgton. >> hea

. >> diane blair. and this is interesting to me as a woman, is that she seemed to take a lot of the blame for bill clinton's personal lapses. she didn't excuse him at all but at one point she thinks she was not smart enough, not free enough of her own concerns struggles to realize the price he was paying and what united them was their enemies, you know, and that's when she came out with the right-wing conspiracy. >> i don't think there's any doubt, though, that we're talking about this in part because senator rand paul and his wife have made it an issue over these past several days. >> that's absolutely right. when i was in texas with rand paul on friday, i asked him about this. he's pretty upfront about it. he says, look, i'm talking about this because democrats are talking about the war on women and there's a fund-raiser in kentucky with bill clinton, his home state. so he was saying that democratics should give money back to bill clinton and also beyond talking to the base and helping his numbers wi

>> according to blair, it was a lapse but she says hillary clinton he tried to break it off, tried to pull away and manage someone who was clearly a loony toon but it was beyond control. >> however, its was consensual and not sex with any real meaning, stabbed up, lie down, oral, et cetera. is this news for 2016 or just a rehash by the media? we have fox news contributor who writes the top twitter column on fox website and anchor of "the hot lift" for the blaze and washington correspondent for the daily beast. how news worth they is this? >> applause to the author who wrote the story and giving us a scoop here. these are documents that have been at the university of arkansas for four years and she is the only one who thought to do it. the mainstream media, including joe klein said that it is nothing. it is really not a story. there have been many people who is played it up as ruthless, quoting blair talking about hillary clinton. >> the ruthless part is that it wasn't blair's assessment but a 1992 democratic strategy memo, saying that the voters perceived her at that time as ruthless.

arkansas political science professor named diane blair. blair died in 2000. the conservative website the beacon reports these papers were unsealed in 2010 at the university of arkansas special collections library and include documents relating to the clintons that span from the mid 1970's all the way to y2k. during the lewinsky saga in 1998, blair recorded the contents of a telephone conversation she had had with then first lady hillary clinton and it included some harsh words for the white house intern whose affair triggered the impeachment trial that ended in acquittal for the 42nd president of the united states. it was a lapse, blair quotes, of her husband back then but she says to his credit, he tried to break it off, tried to pull away, tried to manage someone who was clearly a narcissistic looney tune but it was beyond control. no matter what people say, it was gross inappropriate behavior but it was consensual, not a power relationship and was not sex within any real meaning, stand up, lie down, oral, et cetera, of the term. the blair papers also inclu

who took copious notes of her conversations with hillary leading up to blair's death in 2000. among the revelations, clinton

her husband jim blair donated them recently. it has a lot of hillary's opinions ranging from her take on monica lewinsky, gennifer flowers. 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 wi

get to chris christie in a moment, but let's start with those papers from close clinton friend diane blair. in the papers, hillary clinton calls monica lewinsky a narcissistic loony toon and adds it was con centusensuaconsensua power relationship and not sex within any real term. and hc still in despair that nobody in white house is tough enough and mean enough. and then going after former president bill clinton as a sexual predator. >> their standard bearer seems to be a guy committing the workplace kind of violence that we should all be opposed to. >> karl, i understand that republicans are going to need an affirmative agenda, but does all that history have any traction in 2016? >> well, it may, but the trouble for republicans is going to be it's easier to say what you're against and harder to say what you're for. go back to 2000, for example, it would have been easy for then candidate governor george w. bush to have repeated some of the charges made by newt gingrich and others against the conduct of bill clinton in the white house, but instead of being against something, he said i will