bill clinton s favorability rating down from 66% to 47%. here s joe johns. reporter: the stolen e-mails by wikileaks appear to contain no smoking gun, but detail just how far president bill clinton profited from his role at the clinton foundation. the document says nothing about former secretary of state hillary clinton, but that isn t topping republicans from linking her to her husband s involvement. if the clintons were willing to play this fast and endless with their enterprise when they weren t in the white house, just imagine what they ll do, given the chance to once again control the oval office, and we ve had enough, honestly, i think we ve had enough of the clintons in all fairness. the newly released document written in 2011 by long time aide douglas band said he profited largely, from some of
martha: fox news alert. a top political adviser to former president bill clinton reportedly will now vote republican in november. his name is douglas band, he s a very well top aide to the former president. he has surprise he a lot of people by saying he will vote for governor romney at this time. that according to a report coming out in the new yorker magazine. the relationship between press and former president clinton has been frosty at times and friendly at other times and complex. we will talk about that with beene lni davis. he knows the clintons very well. we will be glad to talk to him about that coming up. back to the campaign trail a
martha: let s get you back to our top story today. this is an intriguing one. a former major political adviser to the clintons, douglas band who you see pictured here, has reportedly said that in this election he will vote for governor mitt romney. that according to a story in the new yorker. alice stewart the former press secretary for the santorum campaign and worked on several national campaigns. and lany davis, a special assistance to former president bill clinton and a fox news contributor, welcome. glad to have you here today. is it surprising that doug band will vote for mitt romney? not particularly. it has nothing to do with bill clinton or hillary clinton or me or anybody else. doug band has his own views and attributing doug band s decision to anybody associated with president clinton just violates all sense. he has his own views, it doesn t mean that president clinton
than one person telling him that who is not named. with all due respect to a great reporter who i love to read in the new yorker it doesn t mean anything, it s speculation, and as far as i m concerned i know that hillary clinton and bill clinton and i support barack obama on the major issues they have fought their political lives for. national healthcare. no tax cuts for the wealthy and choice rather than a supreme court justice who will overturn row versus wade, over and out. martha: you know what, you can never seem to stop the curiosity though about the clintons, about their relationship with obama. speculation. martha: understood. let me bring alice in here. she s been listening to this back and forth. what do you make of this report about doug band, alice. i m very familiar with the author s work as well and you have to cut through to some of the facts that do shine out in this piece. i think the fact that douglas says he s going to vet for romney says many things.
hospital. i want to read a statement on the condition of former president bill clinton coming from douglas band, his former counselor. he says that today, bill clinton was admitted to the campus of columbia campus of new york presbyterian hospital after feeling discomfort in his chest. following a visit to his cardiologist, he underwent a procedure to place two stenlts in one of his coronary arteries. president clinton is in good spirits and le continue to focus on the work of his foundation and haiti s relief and long-term recovery efforts. he reminds us that in 2004, president clinton understood went a successful quadruple bypass operation to free four blocked arteries. i want to bring in dr. sanjay gupta in haiti who spent time with the former president, and this is a week ago, sanjay, that you interviewed him and what was the sense when you saw him and spent time with him and you got a chance to really be with him.