his personal life and business dealings. the white house is anticipating questions about whitewater. the whitewater controversy. whitewater. whitewater. whitewater affair. the president, the first lady, a bad real estate deal, a failed s&l. whitewater, nobody knew what whitewater was. the story begins in 1978. hillary and bill clinton when bill was governor of arkansas invested in a land development project. it was a fiasco. the clintons say they lost almost $70,000. their partners are the focus of widening federal and congressional investigations. the press starts asking more and more questions. who was involved? where did the money go? what happened to all the records? the most puzzling and important questions may concern whether the white house engaged in a cover up. in washington by the 90s, there was a giant scandal machine. i was part of the scandal machine. i remember having this kind of uneasy sensation that what began with watergate, which is a noble
it s a profgpaganda. for us it was bizarre and puzzling. hopefully this is an opportunity to show the american people we won t tolerate this kind of meddling in our elections. i want to play some sound from our global affairs analyst kimberly dozier who had thoughts on this. reporter: we had both george w. bush and president barack obama thinking that russia and the united states could reach some sort of cooperative arrangement on things like counterterrorism, but every time, according to the officials that i ve spoken to who dealt with russia in the past, that they were near to what they thought was a good give and take. russia would sort of use that relationship to get one over on them. so they worry that this is what trump is going to get, convinced to do, enter into some sort of partnership where it s one-sided. that is kimberly dozier and
is unusual for a president to be put in that situation simply because there are laws that protect the president from indictment, for example. however, if a special counsel finds there is evidence that supports an offense, that gets turned over to congress for impeachment progress. experts say that s the road map if this continues to suggest that this is wrongdoing. clearly james comey said that he feels that the president was inappropriate. does that rise to a level where the president would be in some legal jeopardy? we just don t know yet. the position from the white house has been to try to push back as hard as they can to try to talk about other things on their minds, their agenda, things that they want to do on behalf of voters. as hard as that is, given the controversy and how confusing, puzzling, interesting, so many of the elements of this russia story have been now for months.
it is interesting that the runway wasn t hit and maybe wasn t the right mu in addition for that, it wasn t even touched apparently, that probably was a deliberate thing in terms of the strength of the message. isn t the risk here, they sent this message because of the chemical attack that killed a few dozen people horrendously. tomorrow barrel bombs will start falling from syrian helicopters and people will start being torn to shreds. and then does that not require a response? you can kill as many people as you want it appears with conventional weapons. but you drop one chemical round and all of a sudden, you re an international pariah. it is kind of puzzling, there are so many deaths, 400,000 syrians have died so far in this civil war, yet an attack that
elizabeth warren. it is a little puzzling and i can see you were trying to get there, puzzling to understand why she was silenced last night and no one has been this morning. eporter: ali, that s right. she di give a much longer, brder speech on the senate floor before she got to reading coretta scott king s letter but it was the letter that was specifically cited by republicans as a reason to cut this off, and you heard mcconnell down on the floor, when he was talking about this last night say, she broke the rules, she was warned, but she persisted, and that of course has turned into kind of the hashtag of this moment that we have seen it has been trending, i asked elizabeth warren about that also after our main interview concluded. take a look. the hashtag she persisted, what does it mean that exploded on social media? it s that a lot of people care whether or not mitch mcconnell is going to try to shut down coretta scott king s