funds that were very clearly at least from the indictment related to personal benefit. vacations, meals for the kids, dentists bills. in a lot of these cases you can make a colorable argument that these expenses were campaign related. and sometimes it can be a bit of a yoga exercise to stretch that far. but this indictment, if true, all those allegations paid for tuition? how are you going to relate that to a campaign? you can t do it. your kids dentist bills, restaurants, and even allegations not too thinly veiled of romantic dalliances with other folks, not the representatives wife. these are all the kinds of things that paint a broad picture some of real misuse of campaign funds, the kind that really can t be explained away. so in this case what got him from a witch-hunt to a guilty plea? was it just the evidence before him? yes. sometimes. in this case he had an argument in the beginning, look, i m one
pointed message to accused terrorist kingpin osama bin laden. america has battled terrorism for many years. we have quietly disrupted terrorist groups and foiled their plots. but there have been and will be times when our very national security is challenged. and when we must take extraordinary steps to protect the safety of our citizens. within minutes of today s attacks in afghanistan and sudan, some in washington were openly questioning the timing of it. it was the wag the dog question about the movie where a president fakes a war to distract the country from news of his sexual dalliances. there are a quite a few people who believe that clinton is trying to distract americans with a shiny object from what really matters which is his impeachment trouble for the remainder of his time in office. he wouldn t authorize attacks unless the information was absolutely perfect because he anticipated that criticism.
known. joe biden is not running for prime time. he is showing it. if you think that gaffe prone and confuses the way to take down donald trump, donald trump is going to be reelected. harris: democratic congresswoman katie hill has announced she will step down among allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a staffer. she denies it. it was hill s estranged husband who first made the accusation. here s what she now is saying. watch. i made this decision so that my supporters, my family, my staff and our community will no longer be subjected to the pain inflicted by my abusive husband and the brutality of hateful political operatives. but i will not allow myself to be a distraction from the constitutional crisis we are faced within the critical work. harris: the los angeles times running an opinion piece think it s a double standard and that congressmen have been getting away with dalliances with staffers forever. we have covered some of it.
reporter: in court, the prosecutor called a parade of women, presenting them as david camm s conquests. more than a dozen that recounter the fondling, the flirting, and the sex. the stripper in the patrol car. he wanted to have women and his wife was gettin in the way? yes, or that she was an obstacle for the kind of lifestyle that he wanted to pursue, huh? that s correct. reporter: and if the dalliances with the women weren t enough to suggest motivation to the jury, the prosecutor had a capper. something really dreadful, the medical examiner s testimony that injuries observed on the murdered daughter, five-year old jill, were consistent with sexual abuse. so, not a little girl falling on the monkey bars? no, it wasn t monkey bars. wasn t a bicycle. anything like that. reporter: so there was the prosecution s accused, a womanizer. child-molestor. the killer with blowback bloodspatter on his t-shirt. the defense lawyers had their work cut out for them. you had an
flirting, the sex, the striple in the patrol car. he wanted to have women and his wife was gettin in the way? yes, or that she was an obstacle for the kind of lifestyle that he wanted to pursue, huh? that s correct. reporter: and if the dalliances with the women weren t enough to suggest motivation to the jury, the prosecutor had a capper. something really dreadful: the medical examiner s testimony that injuries observed on the murdered daughter, 5-year-old jill, were consistent with sexual abuse. so, not a little girl falling on the monkey bars? no, it wasn t monkey bars. wasn t a bicycle. anything like that. reporter: so there was the prosecution s accused: womanizer. child molester. the killer with blowback blood spatter on his t-shirt. the defense lawyers had their work cut out for them. you had an uphill fight as the defense attorney? oh yes, sir. yes. and that s not unusual but this one was just so much more high profile. coming up it s about them cra