e-mail us. mike: back with former aide to john edwards. the book they have written is called the politician and all of the studio audience members will be getting their own copy of the book. i will sign them if they want me to. mike: great. during this time, you watched your husband go through some amazing things and one of the things was that john edwards called upon him to claim that the baby was your husband s, not that of john edwards. i mean was there a point at which you said are you kidding me? oh, yes, when riel showed up at our door i thought that was the last straw. when asked andrew and we were in the car that day, i actually said are you kidding me. we were going through the mcdonald s drive-thru. i said are you kidding me, how can he ask for one more thing. i thought we had done everything for that man beyond
had an angel and a devil on one shoulder. both telling him to do the same thing. the angel says we can get the causes and the devil saying power, money prestige. in the first campaign he did have people like you are talking about. in the second campaign he chased them all off. mike: he chased them off if you didn t agree with him he shut them out. exactly. mike: to the devil was wining that discussion. exactly. if the first campaign we had david axelrod and bob scrhum. people with decades of experience and they ran each and every one of them off. as you know, david axel rod went on he called him incompetent. whether you like him or dislike him, he is not incompetent. mike: when we come back from the break i want to talk more about what happened that led to the incredible fall from grace.
has acted as if israel is no longer our best friend. what kind of policy are we doing here just we are more concerned about bedrooms being built in jerusalem than bombs being built in tehran? isn t that amazing we are more concerned with thing going on in israel and housing projects than we are with iran s nuclear program. mike: doesn t that embolden the iranians? of course, it does. the united states is hosting this multination conference to talk about loose nuclear weapons and nuke materials. that is a good thing. supposedly what is happening in the corridors is that we will be talking to china and russia and brazil and other countries saying will you join us in crippling sanctions against iran to stop their nuclear program. well, iran is looking at that and if there are no crippling sanctions, it is yet again we have another round of wimpy sanctions, iran is saying green light, go for it. even general petraeus said in congressional testimony he was asked do you think iran will
like a lot of young couples and thought that we were bulletproof and thought that anybody who knew us would not believe it. and we also politics like i said is very cult-like and you get this there and you get attached to somebody and you get attached to the causes and it becomes what is the greater good, you know. you a smart person and ambitious person especially in d.c. where you have got all these triple-a personalities, all fighting for access to the viable presidential candidate, you can justify almost anything in your mind some way or another. and that is what we did. and i m sorry. mike: there is an extraordinary level required to run for office. i think i may know something about that. hopeful fly it is tempered by the people you are surrounded with so they tell you the brutal truth. i tried to make sure there was
president. and i was taught, you know, i mean i was taught, we had seven or eight years of, you know, 17 hour a day, 7 days a week killing ourselves for this guy. what do i do, walk away? it was should i have walked away? absolutely. but we didn t. we didn t. and we made a mistake and we will pay for it the rest of our lives. mike: i want to say thanks very much for being here today. thanks for sharing your story. i appreciate and i hope it is a lesson for all of us. i truly do. power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. a lot of people get involved in politics for the right reason and they can turn wrong. not everybody who was ever involved in politics turned out that way. democrat and republican there are wonderful good and decent people who still have their hearts and their souls and spirits about them. also be careful. don t put your faith in people. people can fail you.