wrong now and we didn t know that in 1998? i will speak at somebody who was on the air talking aboutut bill clinton back in 1998 and my position from day one is i assume monica lewinsky wasn t somebody who was unable to think straight and what the story was was true. and yet under the constitution, this wasn t treason, bribery, high crimes are misdemeanor which incidentally, the first word treason might apply to our currentt president. tucker: congress agreed with you. he was not convicted. but there s a much deeper question about what constitutes mistreatment of another human being and at the time all of us knew because we were hearing it from them, the white houseat was deriding her as a stalker. yes, they were. sidney blumenthal was kind of off on his own y tucker: he worked at the white house.. i understand,th but he had hs own thing. tucker: they were saying they were dismissher and the other accusers as trailer park trash and that was cool, but now it s not. so what
they did treat him differently than other democrats and republicans.n they liked him. and they liked having the first african-american president and he was a good president. tucker: oh, so obama got special treatment because he was black. do you agree with that? i think is talking about two different things there. one, it s stuck in his craw that obama got better treatment than his wife did when they ran against each other in 2008 and i think it s not unique for the press that americans, not just democrats and people who voted for barack obama, felt actually a sense ofisfaction the country had accomplished something by electing an african-american president. that something to celebrate tucker: i m not making fun of but i m noticing here with the president bill clinton who said it a number times, that barack obama was an affirmativel action case and benefiting from lower standards from white liberals. he never said that. tucker: he said that repeatedly.ac absolutely did no
history, he somehow is the real victim here. watch this. do you think differently or feel more responsibility? no, i felt terrible then. nobody believethat i got out of that for free. i left the white house $16 million in debt. i have had nothing but women leaders since then. you are giving one side. mr. president, i m not trying to take a side. do you think president kennedy should resign? do believe president johnson should have resigned? someone should ask these questions to you because of the wayy you formulate these questions. tucker: it went on like that, it s pathetic. that s pretty much it for bill clinton s life as a public figure. it is over, but what do the rest of us learned from watching allt of this? if you are a progressive leader, the lesson probably is not don t
with former president bill clinton. for decades as you watched, both clinton s had license to do essentially whatever they wanted to do and they did. fellow democrats wouldn t criticize them and neither would their obedient toadies in the media. the clintons ran the democratic party, so they were too important to be held accountable. that has changed. bill clinton is now politically irrelevant so there is no longer any reason to protect him. the media smell blood. here, for example, is whatel happened when bill clinton visited the today show this morning to sell a new book. the conversation went directly to monica lewinsky. watch. but you didn t apologize to her. i have not talked to her. do you feel like you owe her an apology? i have ver talked to her, but i did say publicly on more than one occasion that i was sorry. tucker: ouch. he almost lost it and then sort of recovered and then he went on to explain that even though monica lewinsky s life was completely destroyed b
that s who is held on a pedestal in the trump orbit. tucker: did you not know that it was wrong to attack interns and then deny after you had sex with them? i think what he said is supposedly consensual. there is no dispute whether it was consensual. whether it was an imbalance of power there,er it was wrong for a bill clinton tucker: why doesn t he call her and apologize? i wonder. you would have to ask him. he has said over and over tucker: he is an awful person, let s be honest. i m serious. he has said he has apologizes. donald trump hasn t apologizeddo to a single person. he calls them liars. tucker: you are against trump, i get it.he it s a sincere question. he was asked four times by that nbc four times and he lied about it at first, i ve apologized and then the reporter pressed and said in person and he finally conceded i haven t talked to her. why doesn t he just call her? i don t think there s any news there. tucker: but why doesn t he? again, yo