joining me now is former senior white house official david axelrod and his wife, susan, who's a founding member of citizens united for a search in epilepsy. thank you both for joining me. before we get to the reason that we're doing this interview, i want to talk to you, david, about the extraordinary run, first, of news stories that we've had this year, quite unprecedented i would think in recent times. more specifically, we just had a lively debate on the show about i guess this ongoing, the old-fashioned issue, sex and politics. you're seeing two big sex scandals, very different in their ways. one is a criminal issue. one isn't. what's your take on it? when you hear these scandals -- you worked with john edwards before his scandal, eliot spitzer before his did. what do you make of this whole issue? >> well, i think that, first of all, these are always stunning