joining me now is former senior white house official david axelrod and his wife, susan, who s a founding member of citizens united for a search in epilepsy. thank you both for joining me. before we get to the reason that we re doing this interview, i want to talk to you, david, about the extraordinary run, first, of news stories that we ve had this year, quite unprecedented i would think in recent times. more specifically, we just had a lively debate on the show about i guess this ongoing, the old-fashioned issue, sex and politics. you re seeing two big sex scandals, very different in their ways. one is a criminal issue. one isn t. what s your take on it? when you hear these scandals you worked with john edwards before his scandal, eliot spitzer before his did. what do you make of this whole issue? well, i think that, first of all, these are always stunning developments when you hear them. we hold people up on a pedestal who run for public office to some degree.
joining me now is former senior white house official david axelrod and his wife, susan, who s a founding member of citizens united for a search in epilepsy. thank you both for joining me. before we get to the reason that we re doing this interview, i want to talk to you, david, about the extraordinary run, first, of news stories that we ve had this year, quite unprecedented i would think in recent times. more specifically, we just had a lively debate on the show about i guess this ongoing, the old-fashioned issue, sex and politics. you re seeing two big sex scandals, very different in their ways. one is a criminal issue. one isn t. what s your take on it? when you hear these scandals you worked with john edwards before his scandal, eliot spitzer before his did. what do you make of this whole issue? well, i think that, first of all, these are always stunning
thing. perhaps his closest white house adviser. what we need to do is focus on what s good for the country, what s good for the american people, and move forward. now david axelrod has another cause with his wife susan, fighting to find the cure of epilepsy. i ll talk to david and susan axelrod. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. a man who heads the international monetary fund, the man who was a likely candidate for president of france, is tonight on suicide watch at rikers island after being charged with sexually assaulting a maid at his new york city hotel. meanwhile, in a shocking political story, elsewhere arnold schwarzenegger admits he fathered a child with a woman on his household staff. his wife, maria shriver, says earlier i spoke to one of the best political minds in the country, david axelrod. listen to what he said about the former california governor. i mean, in the case of arnold schwarzenegger, do you think if the electorate had known that
then my interview with one of the sharpest political minds out there, the man who knows president obama better than just about anybody else, david axelrod. we are a tight group. we are all committed to the same thing. perhaps his closest white house adviser. what we need to do is focus on what s good for the country, what s good for the american people, and move forward. now david axelrod has another cause with his wife susan, fighting to find the cure of epilepsy. i ll talk to david and susan axelrod. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. a man who heads the international monetary fund, the man who was a likely candidate for president of france, is tonight on suicide watch at rikers island after being charged with sexually assaulting a maid at his new york city hotel. meanwhile, in a shocking political story, elsewhere arnold schwarzenegger admits he fathered a child with a woman on his household staff. his wife, maria shriver, says earlier i spoke to one
thing. perhaps his closest white house adviser. what we need to do is focus on what s good for the country, what s good for the american people, and move forward. now david axelrod has another cause with his wife susan, fighting to find the cure of epilepsy. i ll talk to david and susan axelrod. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. a man who heads the international monetary fund, the man who was a likely candidate for president of france, is tonight on suicide watch at rikers island after being charged with sexually assaulting a maid at his new york city hotel. meanwhile, in a shocking political story, elsewhere arnold schwarzenegger admits he fathered a child with a woman on his household staff. his wife, maria shriver, says earlier i spoke to one of the best political minds in the country, david axelrod. listen to what he said about the former california governor. i mean, in the case of arnold schwarzenegger, do you think if the electorate had known that