so clinton, i confess i feel a little sorry for bill clinton because in my view, this is really about the democratic party changing and rejecting its past. but i also wonder as long as we are going to have a reckoning with clinton over his behavior, when do we get the reckoning with all of his defenders in the media? "the washington post" reporter who said that she would get on her knees for him for keeping abortion legal. the feminist leaders who attacked monica lewinsky in effect and dismissed the rape allegations.in when do they get their time under the spotlight for what they did? >> and i think there's alsoun other ones, too. there were ones who didn't attack monica, but i remember for example, being attacked in canada by a feminist columnist who says you are wrong about -- monica isn't the victim here.wh she's going to make millions of dollars. she has had a miserable 20 years. she was essentially ruined and tossed aside by bill clinton and as we saw in this interview, he thinks that he is the victim here and he's out, by the way. he's on a book tour peddling this novel he suppo

but first, bill clinton and a party in denial. that is the focus of tonight's angle. 20 years later, bill clinton and the democratic party refused to learn the lessons of the past. even when confronted with reality, they have a problem processing the truth. during an interview to push his new thriller that he cowrote with james patterson come up warmer president bill clinton was asked this by nbc anchor craig nelkin. >> in 2018, with everything that's going on with the #metoo movement, how would you have approached the accusations differently? >> i don't think it would be an issue because people would have the facts instead of the imagined effects. if the facts where the same today, i wouldn't. a lot of the facts have been conveniently omitted to make the story work. >> laura: which facts are those? maybe this fact? >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. >> laura: this came to light in a sexual harassment case brought to light by paula jones. >> that's an utterly false statement. is that correct? >> it depends on the

his name is bill clinton. the story when "the 11th hour" continues. >>> the question of the day may be this one. who thought it was a good idea to put bill clinton on a book tour at this moment in time? the former president has co-written a book with the prolific novelist james patterson there with him today. the book is about a fictional president, and nbc's craig melvin talth both thors about the book before the interview took a turn to the overarching topic of "me too" and the president's own scandal and the question of an apology. >> i like the "me too" movement. it's way overdue. i think that it doesn't mean i agree with everything. i still have some questis about some of the decisions which have been made. >> one of the things that this "me too" era has done, it's forced a lot of women to speak out. one of those women, monica lewinsky. looking back on what happened then through the lens of "me too" now, do you think differently or feel more responsibility? >> no. i felt terrible then, and i came to grips

you detected, i note, still some anger in bill clinton today. >> bill clinton never thought e sex impeachment that followed was on the level. he didn't think it was really about law. he even didn't think it was really about sex. he thoughtwas about power and republicans using their power against him. and he obviously still believes that. in the current "me too" environment, we see it is about power but a different kind of power, the power that men in positions of influence too often use abusively against women. he's still viewing it through an old prism, i would say, but one that he deeply believes. give him credit for sincerity. i think you saw the real bill clinton there. he's still pretty angry, i think somewhat at himself, but even more at a political system he says is not on the level. >> nancy, it is a curious decision. first of all, the fact that he's co-authored this book. second, that in keeping with what other authors do, they're sending him out on the roa do these interviews knowing that now the questions, if anything, are going to increase about this. it doesn't bode well for his

when the clinton foundation is maligned i think of bill clinton. clinton. we were all standing on the tarmac at the international airport, and i completely run out of topics to ask about. i extended my voice recorder to pick up his a stream of consciousness when a military helicopter emerged on the yellow orange horizon. is that him, chelsea said? moments later a slender 14-year-old ugandan boy in his school uniform stepped out of the helicopter. his name was bill clinton. his mother had named him after clinton visited uganda in 1998. a photograph hangs in their home. clinton is holding the newborn as hillary looks on. he was born on the day before we got there, clinton told me. it was one of the most memorable days of my presidency. he walked over and pulled little bill into his arms. the boy wrapped his hands about one of clinton's hands and rested his head on that debt we spot on the chest beneath the shoulder. they stayed there like that. after they visited for a while and clinton said he would pay the boys school tuition fees, the staff and those prepa

the idea of bill clinton apologizing 20 years sign of the times. it is clear he wouldn't mean it. she said in the clip that he did apologize and when pressed if he apologized to monica lewinsky he said he didn't but made it about himself that he left the white house $16 million in debt because he lied about his affair during a sexl harassment case and tried to obstruct justice. it is a self-inflicted wound. he has several hundred billion dollars so it worked out in the end for him andonky'sbullying activist wasn't her dream job. he didn't just victimize monica lewinsky, the power difference between the pres. and an intern but changed the trajectory of her life significantly. >> i like the me too movement, it is way overdue. is there a missed opportunity to try to be a voice for what happenor now, he thinks it is overdue. >> absolutely. he can use his communication skills we have come to know to try to turn it around in a positive way for all people involved. rebecca tracer has an amazing piece that talks about the lewinsky scandal with president clinton that slowed down the nation

it is ridiculous, bill clinton only, bill clinton only admitted the truth which was that he had an affair with monica lewinsky because the special prosecutor got a subpoena to draw his blood, to force him to admit he left physical evidence. that is how disgusted the facts were that we had to deal with the 90s. rob: viewers reacting to bill clinton's, and everything the clintons do not have to apologize, they do no wrong, he should hide his life in shame after missing a young girl at life. carly: nancy writing clintons always playing the victim and acting like apologies from bill are worthless and meaningless at this point in time. >> reporter: jeffrey saying he and hillary victimized women. jillian: the time is 54 minutes after the hour. why is this pup so fat? so cute. the sausage dog that up like a balloon more than three times his size. rob: proof a dog and a dryer vent don't mix. the good, the bad and ugly, canine edition coming up next. ♪ ♪ the dog days ♪ coming ♪ . an electric toothbrush really cleans better than a manual. and my hygienist says it does but they're not all th

typical bill clinton. he gets defensive. the deference, he didn't receive the deference he expected. most took him by surprise. i don't think bill clinton could have survived if this had happened in 2018. the clinton war room, the way it went into overdrive against fluency on a personal level. they never would've gotten away with that. >> dana: part of that, kimberly, don't you think one of the reasons 2018 is created is because of the story line that kicked off in 1998. 20 years later, the me too movement as part of it. i think been one long story building to this moment. the other thing i wanted to ask, kreg melvin asked bill clinton, did you apologize to monica lewinsky. he said i apologized to everyone. the issue still is a sticking point. >> kimberly: without listing them all. i want to apologize. i want to thank you for the question. he was excited about doing this book and from what everyone is saying, it should be an interesting book. besides that, he is put on the spot. you can tell he's resentful even about being a

is bill clinton a victim? >> marie: no and i don't think that was an appropriate answer in any way, shape, or form as someone who supported him and his administration, i watch that interview and it was uncomfortable. he's a human being, she's a human being, answer like a human. is he so incapable of addressing this like a person? i do notand my decades later, he still cannot come up with a heartfelt genuine thoughtful answer publicly but also to his family and to her. >> katie: i can tell you why. there may have not been a me too movement but there sure was a feminist movement. and they took the side of bill clinton. in the democratic party. then bill clinton is so incensed when he gets asked about this because he has never been held accountable for this before. if for decades, the democratic party has been embracing him, propping him up as a champion of women's rights, all of this in the background. i wrote a book about it a couple of years ago, have an entire chapter about bill clinton, his demo creeps and h

but first, bill clinton and a party in denial. that is the focus of tonight's angle. 20 years later, bill clinton and the deatic party refused to learn the lessons of the past. even when confronted with reality, they have a problem processing the truth. during an interview to push his new thriller that he cowrote with james patterson, former president bill clinton was asked this by nbc anchor craig nelkin. >> in 2018, with everything that's going on with the #metoo movement, how would you have approached the accusations differently? >> i don't think it would be an issue because people would have the facts instead of the imagined effects. if the facts where the same today, i wouldn't. a lot of the facts have been conveniently omitted to make the story work. >> laura: which facts are those? maybe this fact? >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. he did he perjured himself in a deposition. >> laura: this came to light in a sexual harassment case brought to light by paula jones. no sex of any kind in any manner, shaper fo

donald trump went to -- bill clinton went to yale law school. barack obama went to harvard law school. i love this notion that somehow -- >> tucker: i'm trying to assess what the former president said. i'm merely saying here's this liberal icon saying he was a black guy, that's all i'm askin asking. that's what bill clinton said. >> others took a certain sense of pride in the united states electing an african-american given the history of slavery and he said he is a good president. and he said in the interview that donald trump sort of escapades if you want to match accusers versus accusers, that will be a fair fight. >> tucker: i'm saying he derides president obama because it's cool because he's a liberal. what do we know about sexual harassment that we didn't owe 20 years ago? we were defending bill clinton up and down, now we are deriding him. what's changed? we know sexual harassment is wrong now and we didn't know that in 1998? >> i will speak to somebody who was on the airut llnton back in 1998 and my position from day one is i assume moni

no private apology from bill clinton. she was just about six and a half years younger than chelsea clinton at the time. she has spoken in the past about her epic humiliation. she was shamed in silence. even thought about leaving the country. had post traumatic stress disorder and more. and got zero support from feminist and liberal women. your reaction to this, women. >> it's deeply hypocritical. monica lewinsky's name was dragged through the mud, and it's important to remember that this affair happened when bill clinton was president of the united states, and she was an intern in the white house. that's very different from any of the conversations we're having about president trump right now. and i think this interview was extremely unflattering for bill clinton to not be open to offering her some sort of personal apology looking back now from the me too perspective. liz: you know, i think i need to correct myself. i think that -- yes, monica lewinsky is older. six and a half years older than chelsea. your reaction to al

why not a bill clinton? he's nervous. that's why he is acting that way, and probably has some health problems and it has affected histy to respond as well as he used to and tell lies as good as he is two. >> laura: if you are a young woman, 27 years old when he first got involved with him. he was married and that you were not, and you started having this relationship. at some point, you have now decided that it became a nonconsensual harassment relationship, which doesn't really comport with how you were originally classified this. so now how are you all these years later claiming that it was nonconsensual at some point? >> it's very interesting because in 1977 when i met ll didn't have the laws to protect us. we as women, i was in the work world and i had to do that could. when i first met bill clinton it was when i was sent out on my first story by myself after my training with my camera man. he came out on to me that night, i told him to knock it off. he proceeded to continue to come onto me for three months before i d

that was the case with bill clinton too. he got out there and said, i did no have sexual relationship with that woman, monica lewinski and obviously he did. it's always the cover up and lie that gets you in trouble. it seems like politics in d.c. just love to do it. the real problem is, with all the lying goes on, i hard something tonight that rings so true, it's that when you lie so often, it's not that people begin to believe the lies, it's that they don't know what the truth is and that makes them easier to lead. >> chris, let me ask you this, you said the only thing worse as a republican is a democrat. this is what some progressives are saying, they're not saying it publicly. why are you not -- you know, why are you beating up bill clinton, this was 20 years ago, we have someone in the white house now accused of similar things, what do you say to that? >> i say that donald trump's -- the allegations against donald trump as it relates to his behavior with women, do not allow every democrat ever to get a free pass. if it i

you detected, i note, still some anger in bill clinton today. >> bill clinton never thought the sex scandal and the impeachment that followed was on the level. he didn't think it was really about law. he even didn't think it was really about sex. he thought it was about power and republicans using their power against him. and he obviously still believes that. in the current "me too" environment, we see it is about power but a different kind of power, the power that men in positions of influence too often use abusively against women. he's still viewing it through an old prism, i would say, but one that he deeply believes. give him credit for sincerity. i think you saw the real bill clinton there. he's still pretty angry, i think somewhat at himself, but even more at a political system he says is not on the level. >> nancy, it is a curious decision. first a, the fact that he's co-authored this book. second, that in keeping with what other authors do, they're sending him out on the road to do these interviews knowing that now the questions, if anything, are going to increase about this. it doe

why not a bill clinton? he's nervous. that's why he is acting that way, and probably has some health problems and it has affected his ability to respond as well as he used to and tell lies as good as he is two. >> laura: if you are a young woman, 27 years old when he first got involved with him. he was married and that you were not, and you sed having this relationship. at some point, you have now decided that it became a nonconsensual harassment relationship, which doesn't really comport with how you were originally classified this. so now how are you all these years later claiming that it w nonconsensual at some point? >> it's very interesting because back in 1977 when i met bill, we didn't have the laws to protect us. we as women, i was in the workplace of a man's world and i had to do the best that i could. when i first met bill clinton it was when i was sent out ony first sty by myself after my training with my camera man. he came out on to me that night, i told him to knock it off. he proceeded to continue to come o

both donald trump and bill clinton are obsessed with their own sense of victimhood. bill clinton this morning it was l about him. it was all about the many ways he had been wronged. he was $16 million in debt and how he never was able to apologize for his own wrongdoing. he was talking about, a conservative woman defended him by saying everyone's too obsessed with victimhood and that's actually, though, what bill clinton was espousing, and all he could do was talk how been wronged. cut to today and current donald trump, and in politics, it's all about donald trump constantly being the victim and never accountable for his actions. i think it's a disturbing trend that has really infected our politics that people cannot take accountability for their actions and apologize just like bill clinton demonstrated. he is still unable to do today. >> ruth, the president after the interview did want to make sure that i understood two key things. one, that there had been a shift in this country. the standards had changed from what they were back in 1998. and he very much agreed th

what do you think bill clinton -- what do you think of his comments? >> i think he was stumbling. don, i think the reality of it is the rules have changed and that is a good thing. i think it would have been great for bill clinton to be able to pull that sentence off distinctly and he didn't nail it. and i think the challenge is given his history is people are looking for m to say the wrong thin here. and frankly, this is not the right thing. as a father of a daughter, and the grandfather of a granddaughter he has to do better and quickly. he has to precise and right on point and he wasn't. >> here's what a spokesman said. he said it was clear from the context he's not suggesting there was ever a time it was anticipatable to do something against someone's will. he's saying that norms have changed in a variety of ways and how we interact with one another and that's all for the good. so is this a word choice problem or is there more to it? what do you think of that statement? >> for sure it's a word choice problem. i agree with the form commenter. he was asked about senator franken.

former president bill clinton speaking to nbc news abo the monica cllewinsky scandal. what he said when asked if he'd handle anything differently in the age of me too. >> it's a wow. >>> we are keeping an eye on markets. up 200 this morning. remember, very strong jobs report on friday. clearly, we are still at full employment. things are even better. president trump this morning said it is a great time to look for a job. he hasn't mentioned wages. wage growth did go up, but it still continues to lag. the other thing causing market volatility, of course, is trade and the potential trade war on the horizon. stay with us. you're watching "velshi & ruhle." , but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis. because there are options. like an "unjection™". xeljanz xr. a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. xeljanz xr can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infens, l

that was the case with bill clinton too. he got out there and said, i did no have sexual relationship with that woman, monica lewinski and obviously he did. it's always the cover up and lie that gets you in trouble. it seems like politics in d.c. just love to do it. the real problem is, with all the lying goes on, i heard something tonight that rings so true, it's that when you lie so often, it's not that people begin to believe the lies, it's that they don't know what the truth is and that makes them easier to lead. >> chris, let me ask you this, you said the only thing worse as a republican is a democrat. this is what some progressives are saying, they're not saying it publicly. why are you not -- you know, why are you beating up bill clinton, this was 20 years ago, we have someone in the white house now accused of similar things, what do you say to that? >> i say that donald trump's -- the allegations against donald trump as it relates to his behavior with women, do not allow every democrat ever to get a free pass. if it

>> exhibit a of why trump got elect elected, exhibit a is bill clinton and exhibit b is hillary clinton. people were fed up with them and their shenanigans. >> how is it they're fed up with bill clinton for something they did 20 years ago but they're not fed up with donald trump with what he's doing right now? >> you just went through the laundry list of why he hurt hillary. and remember, hillary slammed the four women that accused her husband. slammed them. [ all speak at once ] >> no, no, no. >> i just want to -- okay, i just want to jump in here because of the breaking news. you heard mark say he didn't know who disinvited whom. the eagles are unable to come to the white house tomorrow. it appears to imply the president doesn't want them there, but doesn't come out and say he disinvited them. he makes the whole point about -- that they wouldn't -- the whole issue is about not wanting to stand up for the national anthem. >> look, there are a lot of teams that were invited when president obama or bush -- there were personal players who didn't agree with their politics, about you they s

history doesn't shine a bright light on bill clinton, it's kind of the low ebb of presidency. clinton left not only doing pardons but stripping some things out of the white house. he didn't end his presidency in a good way. but bill clinton did have obstruction of justice charges against him, nixon had obstruction of justice charges. with the letter just released by rudy giuliani and his team, they're trying to say there is no such obstruction of justice for the president of the united states. so that letter is connected to the pardons of this past week, all part of the trump offensive strategy to smear the mueller report findings. >> douglas brinkley, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> coming up, the envelope, please. the president's on again/off again summit with north korea is back on again after a dramatic photo in the oval office.

let's keep in mind, this is bill clinton helping bill clinton. the reason he was on television was not to advance the me too movement but to help sell his next book, so if he wants to be part of a national conversation and put himself out there in a hollywood context, then all of bill clinton era come back as opposed toto, you know, for example, a tour of some of the forgotten places in the economy that were helped during the clinton years, maybe go there and help some determine candidates, not sit on national television talking with comedians about why what you did was okay 20 years ago. >> he's doing this to sell the book that he wrote with james paterson. let me get you both on something that is striking and that is how the education secre betsy devos chose to answer a question her congressional testimony yesterday when asked about, errol, the role of guns in schools. >> will your commission look at the role of violence. >> that is not part of the commission's charge, per se. >> i see. so you -- so you're studying gun violence but not concerni

of course, i mean, bill clinton came along two decades after watergate. so this has been going on for some period of time. but i remember the defense of clinton at e te saying the personal is not political. that's why people liked his policies even though they didn't like the way he behaved in a moral sense. i think we're seeing now with trump that the personal is political. so i think it was wrong to detach it then because it's very much the man is not credible in anything he says. he's dishonest. he's mess treistreated not just but the rule of law. i think that was a fallacy you can be sort of -- have morality privately and still be a good leader. >> the former president also expect some time talking about what he lost as a result of the lewinsky scandal. >> well, i don't think it would be an issue because people would be using the facts instead of -- the imagined facts in other words to even make this case. you have to ignore some of the facts as some of the older women who ha written about this and an amazement, saying, can you believe people were say

clinton seems to think they are. >> why is bill clinton talking? i mean do you really think that having him out there is something that helps democrats? do you think that it could actually be doing harm. >> i think could potentially be doing harm in same interview when he was asked if he has ever apologize to monica lewinsky throughout 20 years ample opportunity to do so he said he hadn't. you know so i think, you know, having out there rehashing a lot of same things i think reminds everyone what happened 20 years ago, how not great things were and how for democrats and --. >> you throw in hillary clinton who -- can't get away from a microphone, like a magnet, that whatid she say one recent speech she gave the last couple weeks i am not over it! >> no kidding. >> should have been a tightly of her book. [laughter] >> yeah i definitely agree i think that honestly, you know it is time to accept the lessons of 2016, on both sides of the aisle except that both parties are radically different now than they were three years ago, it is not the same politic

bill clinton at this point, you know, move on. hillary as well. >> does your generation sense, i mean see that you missed the free love boat kind of thing? >> i don't know what that question means, geraldo. >> i'm encouraging you not to answer. that >> are you going to be his lawyer? >> every show. >> should i withdraw it? >> i would slightly disagree with kimberly, i think that the democratic party is sick of hillary but there's a special place in the democratic party's heart for bill. he was a tremendous fund rauzer, still is pretty solid, and a great strategist. a lot of the books coming out about hillary's loss, talk about how he was imploring the campaign to go to these places in wisconsin, fight for the white working class middle american votes. he was kind of brushed aside, like you don't know the data analytics that we're looking at, you aren't in touch with what we're doing, we got this, bill, run along. he was right. there is a place for bill, in the mid-term elections, i think. and i don't see any democrats shoeing him

bill clinton responded no when asked if he owed m lewinsky an apology. and how is his clean-up being received? >> you you can tell bill clinton is thinking of the of 20 years ago or i wasg about this earlier today when i was younger and hearing monica lewinsky scandal, i remember thinking in my head this is somehow her fault. now i think we see tdifferent c. stephen colbert laid it out pretty well on his show and he confronted bill clinton. he said you are thee a man i a position, using your position in a xually inappropriate way. i mean, the top of the example. and i think it's really stunni that in this era it's sort of these late-night hosts are stepping forward and being these people to push on these subjects. it was pretty clear that if bill clinton realized if he didn't address this and change his tone, his entire book tour, which is the reason he's going on all these shows, would be overshadowed by this. the way he's talking about this, we're just in a totally different era now in how we treat these different situ how most people lookt l now ve sh

bill clinton only, bill clinton only admitted the truth which was that he had an affair with monica lewinsky only because the special prosecutor got a subpoena to draw his blood to force him to admit that lefthysical evidence on a blue dress. that is how disgusting the facts were that we had to deal with in the '90s. >> martha: in terms of the broader investigation, at the time you fought very hard against independent counsel ken starr. you said he was out of control. that there wasn't a scintilla of evidence against bill clinton in the paula jones case and now others are concern and saying i lived through this and it is wrong and what is happening again. do you agree with mark penn? >> i have no idea what he said. he is a good friend of mine. >> martha: he has written five or six columns that says he thinks the investigation is out of control. >> i just said i have no idea what mark penn said. he is a good friend of mine. this investigation has been going on for one year. at one year into watergate, president nixon said one year is enough. let's close the investigation. one year later he re

you think any every day americans did what hillary clinton did or bill clinton did? what about the hillary clinton campaign hiring a foreign spy cooking up a untrue, proven false, russian intelligence to use research against president trump question like anyone in the clinton campaign under investigation for that russian collusion question mike no, the mueller witch hunt is only investigating trump associates. this is the in this country today if we are going to remain a constitutional republic, one that benefits the clintons at every turn, they have left all the way to the back. by the way, you should all be outraged. despite all of this, we do have amazing news to share with you tonight. it is now the 500th day since donald trump was inaugurated and after months of predictions that a trump presidency would lead this country in ruins, it's now undeniable that the entire world is seeing massive, serious progress under the president's leadership. pending talks with the north korean dictator, just days away. we are going to talk about the denuclearization of the korean

history doesn't shine a bright light on bill clinton, it's kind of the low ebb of presidency. clinton left not only doing pardons but stripping some things out of the white house. he didn't end his presidency in a good way. but bill clinton did have obstruction of justice charges against him, nixon had obstruction of justice charges. with the letter just released by rudy giuliani and his team, they're trying to say there is no such obstruction of justice for the president of the united states. so that letter is connected to the pardons of this past week, all part of the trump offensive strategy to smear the mueller report findings. >> douglas brinkley, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> coming up, the envelope, please. the president's on again/off again summit with north korea is back on again after a dramatic photo in the oval office. this is a story about mail and packages. and it's also a story about people. people who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams they're handing us more than mail they're handing us their business and while we make more e-commerce delive

comcast, building america's largest gig-speed network. >>> former president bill clinton setting off a new controversy with this answer to a question about former senator al franken, who resigned following sexual harassment allegations. >> i think the norms have really changed in terms of what you can do to somebody against their will, how much you canwd their space, make miserable at work. you don't have to physically assault somebody to make them, you know, uncomfortable at work or at home or in their utter -- just walking around. that, i think, is good. >> so let's bring in former white house special counsel for president clinton, who is the author of the unmaking of the president 2016, also with me, cnn political commentators angela rye and alice stewart. goevenineveryone. >> hi, don. >> ms. rye, it has never been okay to do something to someone against their will, and that's a fact. but what did bill -- what do you think of his comments? >> i think he was stumbling. don, i think the reality of it is theules have changed, and that is a good thing. i think it would have been great

i think read the piece before you judge her, bill clinton or anyone else. the piece is very interesting. i think she's an eloquent voice not just on this but on issues of bullying as well. >> has she asked the president for a personal apology. >> we do not know that. we didn't know until today really that he had not offered a personal to her apology. right? he would say he offered her an apology. not a personal to her apology. here is what i would say, wolf, even if she didn't want and didn't ask for it, i do think given what we now know about what transpired, it is bill clinton was a former president of the united states who had an affair with an intern who was in her early 20s, 23, 24 years old. i do not think it is the worst thing in th world for bill clinton to have some point in the last two decades say, i understand how difficult this was for you. i'm sorry. i wish we could do it differently. the end. that he hasn't -- he responded the way he did, angry i did this already. how dare you. and basically said in another clipwo thirds of the public agreed

, esp clinton. >> neil: red state republicans and other feel the same with bill clinton as they do with donald trump and vice versa. we live in an age that i don't know if it resonates like it used to. gy -- gianno? >> who would have known and ould be the republicans greatest assets? he aitted that president trump or candidate donald trump was correct against the anxiety people felt, themic angst that people felt and they were the continues of the obama policies, which he i guess forgot that their playbook was four more years of the obama policies. so when it comes to what he's doing, i talked to democrats nationally and locally. he said they want to keep their distance from hillary and bill becaus nng to benefit them for the upcoming mid-terms. >> neil: robin, when you look this back and forth, and it's an understand you'll you'll book of fiction, when it talks about if resident disappeared, it's a topical issue about cyber security, something this president has been warning about but it's all falling on deaf ears. >> it is. what people are hearing are 20-year-old accusations that are

now if you criticize donald -- or bill clinton, it is donald t this is about bill clinton. you ca deal with donald trump separately. but bill clinton has gotten away with this for 20 years. pc terry mcauliffe, former governor of virginia, and kirsten gillibrand, senator of new york, saying that he should've resigned, apologized, 20 years too late, it is a testament to the fact that the clintons are no longer politically -- >> this is much, much bigger than president clinton, much bigger. >> shannon: we'll have you come back and talk about that issue because it is not going away. jehmu and derek, thank you both for your time. >> thank you. >> shannon: the new ambassador to germany, record now, under fire for saying that he wants to empower european antiestablishment politicians. the reaction from european socialists and much more in "we are in the world," that is next. s with some zen gardening. at least we don't have to worry about homeowners insurance. just call ico. geico helps with homeowners insurance? good to know. been doing it for years. that's really good to know. i

and bill clinton still under fire for his disastrous book tour. slick willie is no longer getting a pass from his friends and the democratic party. and amazing economic statistics from 105 days of donald trump. a busy news day in tonight's important opening monologue. abc news reporting that horowit agenda james comey, andrew mccabe and loretta lynch. examining how they mishandled the 2016 criminal case to hillary clinton. we were right and your media was wrong. james comey cleared hillary clinton of all charges but not before many misdeeds surrounding the investigation. one source told abc that the draft report uses the words insubordinate to describe comey's behavior. none of this is surprising. the mccabe report came out and then the criminal referral. we know about loretta lynch's tarmac meeting with bill clinton before she helped clear his wife of all of these charges. we know about mccabe's democratic ties and lying. hillary clinton did commit felonies. she obstructed justice. that's indisputable at this point. andrew mccabe is now requestin

one last question on bill clinton. what complicates this is is not just the politics and the fund-raising it isn't just the fact that he was married or is married to the last democrat presidential candidate. going forth, you have guys like joe biden might jump in. what are those relationships going to be? 's is a guy you take with you on the trail? last thought. >> no, you don't. i think bilinton's useful life on the political trail for the foreseeable future is over. it is a lot he can do overseas. he's made a great contribution, but he really should apologize and get off the stage. >> harris: i tell you, you made it was a year and a half or so ago when you said you did not vote for your long-term friend, longtime friend hillary clinton and now you're saying that bill clinton should step off the stage. it'splicated. >> as it is with a heavy heart it right.ieve it and i think >> harris: we appreciate you being here. thank you again. a short time ago, the white house released a statement amid escalating tensions now ove

clinton is on a book tour >> glor: former president bill clinton is on a book tour promoting his first novel co- authored by james patterson, but the tour so far has been dominated by questions straight out of a history book about the darkest moments of his presidency. here's ed o'keefe. >> you are giving one side... >> reporter: in a combative interview with nbc, former president bill clinton said the "me, too" movement has not changed how he views his affair with white house intern monica lewinsky. >> did you apologize? >> yes, and nobody believes i got out of that for free. i left the white house $16 million in debt. >> do you feel you owe her an apology? >> no, i do not. i have never talked to her, but i did say publicly on more than one occasion that i was sorry. i misled people, including even my wife. i deeply regret that. >> reporter: and you don't think a private apology is owed? >> i dealt with it 20 years ago plus, and the american people, two-thirds of them stayed with me, and i've tried to do a good job since then with my life and with my work. >> reporter: in a separate i

up to you guys, start with democrats or start with bill clinton? >> democrats. i vote for democrats. >> all right. g. >> look, i think that california oing to be really interesting tomorrow obviously as beth is going to explain, the format of the primary makes it a complete and total cluster you know what. so i think there is going to be a lot of post game analysis on whether or not there were too many folks running for the seats and whether or not that's counter-productive. >> the dccc hasn't backed the most successful candidate slirl throughout the primary races and a lot of candidates are looking at the dccc saying i know you e telling me to drop out but m mess notice rohrbacher district. he's the biggest incumbent in the country. what's going on there, the two top democrats who are trying to not come down, at least to get into the top two situations in california are running hard against each other. one is being backed by the california community. they're getting propped up, neither one of them has been willin out of the race. >> what's likely to happen ther

take a listen. >> bill clinton was not the first politician, the first president, to lie in office, but i think if we look back in retrospect we see the beginnings of what we see now. and you saw some of that in your interview with him yesterday. it was a -- it was -- i mean, there was the original lie. there was the, you know, personal indiscretion, but also as joe lockhart said, a tendency to make himself the victim, which we, of course, see all the time in president trump. there was also a tendency to blame the press. >> in an opinion piece, dana milbank described clinton as trumpian portraying himself as the victim here. to a certain extent. do you see it like that? >> i don't know it's necessarily trumpian. i think men that are in these situations where they're accused of wrongdoing, have committed acts of wrongdoing often paint themselves as the victim. it's not necessarily something you can only put within the context of politics. this is a common trend that you see harvey weinstein is portraying himself currently in his trial or upcoming trial as someone who's victimized by an o

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and bill clinton still under fire for his disastrous book tour. slick willie is no longer getting a pass from his friends and the democratic party. and amazing economic statistics from 105 days of donald trump. a busy news day in tonight's important opening monologue. nbc new reporting that michael horowitz is coming out strong agenda james comey, andrew mccabe and loretta lynch. examining how they mishandled the 2016 criminal case to hillary clinton. we were right and your media was wrong. james comey cleared hillary clinton of all charges but not before many misdeeds surrounding the investigation. one source told abc that the draft report uses the words insubordinate to describe comey's behavior. none of this is surprising. the mccabe report came out and then the criminal referral. we know about loretta lynch's tarmac meeting with bill clinton before she helped clear his wife of all of these charges. we know about mccabe's democratic ties and lying. hillary clinton did commit felonies. she obstructed justice. that's indisputable at this point. a

do you think an ordinary american would be given a pass if you did what hillary clinton did or bill clinton did? i doubt it. and paying's spy to dig up untruth to use against president trump? anyone in the clinton campaign under investigation. no the mueller witch hunt is only investigating the trump administration. and this system has benefitted the clintons and you should be all outraged. we have an amazing news to share wu. it is the 500th day of the trump presidency. and it is undeniable that the world is sees progress under the president's leadership. we have pepping talks about the north korean and kim jong-un has halted all of his missile tests and no more missiles fired in japan and desfroiing a nuclear test site and three american hostages were returned and he walked oaf the dnc over to the arms of the south korea president. all good news. and not a dime paid. and breaking today. three long- time north korea generals is fired and a sign of north korea's commitment to reform. we have seen so many great developments, we don't have time to list them. 3 million plus jobs created and 30

but bill clinton was also treated favorably. when he started acting poorly that the media reported on the truth. and the truth is he did lie under oath. the truth is, he did things that were very destructive to monica lewinsky's life and i think an apology would go a long way for him. >> rick: i know you've seen the press be tough on prior presidents. have you ever seen a president get as much grief as this one has from the news media? >> i haven't but that's because from the very beginning, this president declared war on the media and that is a strategy intended to delegitimize reporters who are digging up information about him that he doesn't want published. i think that is an attack on a free press and if we are tough on him, it is that no president has ever been so vulgar, stooped to a level of attacking people based on what they look like, we've never seen behavior like this from the president grade so that's i think what they are looking at. >> rick: and how you have to weigh in but we have to leave it there, i apologize.

twenty-one his educated these are naÏve takes on bill clinton and barack obama. yet the point is the same. that he wasn't afraid, he saw guy who was dying to take advantage of a crisis to get away with murder. that's exactly what happened. that brings us to the inpatient. to not have to happen. there was no imperial japan we were at war with. they were not the taliban. they were the error of afghan and not even most of them. a very small group of men mostly from saudi arabia and egypt were exiled. they had organized the attack to degree. but most of it was organized inside the united states and germany. you don't need a safe haven to make a phone call. there's an argument inside the bush administration about how to exploit the situation and how badly to complete the two groups together. they were determined to go to war. but could have negotiated. the taliban offered to negotiate and turn bin laden over. it's difficult under their system. it's a japanese type honor system. a degree of how seriously it has taken. there is still willing lean to negotiate to turn th

with the bill clinton scandal. he took advantage of her in the oval office and her most vulnerable stay because he was the president of the united states of america and yet feminists did not consider that sexual harassment. the definition. if >> harris: one of the reasons i put her in a different category is because she's within the party that generally generates this type of thing that you're describing in terms of that let's go everybody who is wronging women. >> david: you have to go to the hypocrisy of being a progressive which i think you use the correct term. i've always said they're willing to sacrifice their own for their agenda. they will sacrifice monica lewinsky and nina hill, think of all the women that have come along that have been ponds in this political chess game under the guise of feminism. what have they really done on the left to advance, i really advance for women? legislatively, spend the republican party in this country, women's right to vote, look who actually does the job. women's job appro

. >>> and bill clinton is trying to plug a new novel, but his latest effort to find a public role runs into an old issue with a new #metoo twist. >> nobody believes that i got out of that for free. i left the white house $16 million in debt. but you typically have ignored gaping facts in describing this, and i bet you don't even know them. this was litigated 20 years ago, two thirds of the american people sided with me. >> back to that later, but we begin the hour with very important breaking news, supreme court victory for a colorado baker who refused to bake a cake for a same sex couple's wedding. the ruling, 7-2. the case was one of the most anticipated rulings of this term. held out as a potential landmark test of the line when religious liberty competes with the question of discrimination and gay rights. but the high court in the end skirted that debate. instead, it decided the colorado case on more narrow grounds leaving the broader constitutional questions for another day or another case. let's go straight to cnn's supreme court reporter. break this down, what did the courthere?

please welcome james patterson and president bill clinton! ♪ ♪ ( applause ) ♪ ♪ ( cheers ) stephen: pleasesir-- sirs. please, sirs. welcome, welcome to the ed sullivan theater.i'm ur host, s. >> oh, that's who you are! >> stephen: nice to meet you, mr. patterson. first time we've spoken. mr. president, we've talked many times before. always good to have aounjoy it? >> i do. i think you have a real future in this. >> stephen: thank you very much, thank you very much. i think you do, too. ( laughter ) now, you guys have been on the book tour-- how long have you been doing the book tour so far? >> second day. >> stephen: second day. well, it's been an eventful two days so far. i noticed-- i watch you on "the today" show yesterday morning. i noticed you didn't enjoy the entire interview. i want you to enjoy this one. but i do want to ask you something which is, when i got home last night, on the cnn-- they had a lower-third banner that said something about "william clinton's tone-deaf response to the question from "the today show." my que

bill clinton did. she was a political an spt bbat. she's a victim of the 24-hour cable news juggernaut we've helped build. >> thank you for coming on this busy morning. >>> you have the dems blue wave looking a little less likely than it did before. this new cbs battleground tracker finds if they were held today, democrats would win 219, just one more needed to win back the majority. it is shown in a california district set to vote tomorrow. it is a district hillary clinton won in 2016, but where republicans are feeling more and more confident. jacob soboroff is live in huntington beach, california, in the state's 48th district. you get the good gigs in california. saw you at the beach earlier this morning, right? >> reporter: wasn't that bad. democrats out here are facing what could be caulled resistanc to the reksistancresistance. it was the most vulnerable seat. california's sanctuary state law that, in this district, could backfire, and have two republicans show up in the general election. watch this. those must be your tenants. >

it would be bill clinton. how does anyone defend it? >> i agree there you know, you can't defend the indefensible. he went ahead and he said that he got hot under t collar answered basically what he says. he knows what he said on the left or right side of the aisle his comments are something that really got people in an uproar. what we have to understand here is when it comes to sexual assault and issues of this nature, it's not political issue. and i love the fact that cailee and other members of the g.o.p. are again hot under the collar around clinton's comments. let's keep in mind that we currently have someone sitting in the white house 1600 pennsylvania avenue who has accusers who say the same thing. so i think that's important. abby: you are doing exactly what bill clinton did in that interview. >> no i'm not. don't do that abby. i'm not -- that's rude. abby: every time we have you on the show you turn it back to donald trump. in this conversation and that interview that happened yesterday on "the today show" with bill clinton him

to athere is gore talking very pensive bill clinton. went to try to get a list of the conversations during the recount. there were not that many. less than a dozen during that time. who would not want to be a fly on the wall to know what they were saying in that moment, because there was a lot of anger and bitterness. they did not see each other again until 9/11. the two of them reuniting, al gore had been traveling. on 9/11, it was hard to get anywhere. driving to clinton's house, and the two of them spent the night talking. it must have been emotional for nation wasse the under attack. they had just been in office. it was the first time they had spoken since they had left office. host: who was the most expansive of the vice presidents and talking about their role? dick cheney, absolutely. i think he really appreciates history, is really interested in it. he knew all of the major players in the book. he knew richard nixon, gerald , ronald reagan. he was there when ronald reagan tried to convince gerald ford to be his running mate, whic