investigation. on that note, let us bring in our lead-off panel on a tuesday night, ashley parker, pulitzer prize-winning reporter for the washington post. frank paluzi, fbi investigator, and mimi roka, now a criminal justice fellow at the pace university school of law. welcome to all. frank, you alone here have worked for and with robert mueller. i d like to begin with you. this caught our eye tonight from our friend and frequent contributor barbara conveyquaid a former u.s. attorney. requesting an fbi investigation is what innocent people do when fal false accusations are made. frank, i m tempted to say at this point when you hear about tales of drinking and womanizing, you think of robert
investigation. on that note, let us bring in our lead-off panel on a tuesday night, ashley parker, pulitzer prize-winning reporter for the washington post. frank paluzi, fbi investigator, and mimi roka, now a criminal justice fellow at the pace university school of law. welcome to all. frank, you alone here have worked for and with robert mueller. i d like to begin with you. this caught our eye tonight from our friend and frequent contributor barbara quaid, also a former u.s. attorney. requesting an fbi investigation is what innocent people do when false accusations are made. frank, i m tempted to say at this point when you hear about tales of drinking and womanizing, you think of robert
the party of reagan, even, is long gone. it s heartbreaking because i have friends who are republican. it s deeply un-american. it s not true. i m not a security threat. i was given a clearance by the fbi. the security threat is duncan hunter who was criminally indicted for spending a quarter million dollars and the corruption smoking gun that you talked about was when he paid back $60,000. he is guilty. and it s only a matter of time until people hold him accountable. i should note, we invited duncan hunter to appear on the program. we did not hear back from him. of course not, of course not. i would note he probably couldn t pass a background check if he were to get a routine job in the federal government that needs security clearance. that s right. for a couple reasons. one, the indictment. two, financial instability. he had to overdraft his account by $35,000. three, his well-known documented excessive drinking. and then fourth, the womanizing. all those things are things t
today, he would be so appalled. he stood up against a woman who tried to disparage president obama on the same line of argument. i think the party of mccain and the party of reagan, even, is long gone. it s heartbreaking because i have friends who are republican. it s deeply un-american. it s not true. i m not a security threat. i was given a clearance by the fbi. the security threat is duncan hunter who was criminally indicted for spending a quarter million dollars and the corruption smoking gun that you talked about was when he paid back $60,000. he is guilty. and it s only a matter of time until people hold him accountable. i should note, we invited duncan hunter to appear on the program. we did not hear back from him. of course not, of course not. i would note he probably couldn t pass a background check if he were to get a routine job in the federal government that needs security clearance. that s right. for a couple reasons. one, the indictment. two, financial instability
that point, a photographer took a picture. we went directly from there to jim s hotel room. we had the little portable laptops at that point, and i sat down at the laptop and just started writing that story. the expose published on that first sunday in may in 1987 just, again the controversy over gary hart and miami actress. gary hart s private life rumors of womanizing. while his wife was in colorado. that was the story about sex and power and beautiful women and boats and all the elements that appealed to the tabloid press, and, of course, all the elements that affected a