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It s a shame that that s the way the media is viewed. that women now come forward and tell their story and americans will hear that and go i m not sure if the media is telling that right. and so i hope roy moore steps aside. he should do the right thing. i think we saw this as another story past the washington post. my guess is you re going to see more things come out on and eventually the weight of it will get him out of the race. i want to ask you, rick, because even now, i think, i don t think that in this day and age, as with bill clinton, that that activity would be put up. i think the culture has changed and referencing bill clinton is like referencing bill cosby, you know, ten years ago. i think the culture has changed and they wouldn t put up with that activity now. i think that s right, don. i mean, i think look, what i think what bill clinton did with monica lewinski in the white house and with the other women ....
went back to him and his lawyer and asked for the communications to be handed over, which happened. and so they didn t know about it when he initially met with them behind closed doors a couple of months ago, don. julie, so let s go through some of the timeline here. okay? on october 2nd roger stone, an informal adviser to trump tweets wednesday hillary clinton is done. hashtag wikileaks. the next day wikileaks messages donald trump jr. and says hi, it would be great if you guys could comment on push to this story, attaching a quote from hillary clinton and wanting to just drone wikileaks founder julian assange. and he responds twice. he said already did that earlier today. it s amazing that she what she can get away with. and then two minutes later trump junior responds again. what is behind this wednesday leaky keep reading about, possibly referring to what roger stone was talking about. so explain what s going on here. ....
well, who is surprised by this at this point? every time the trump campaign or organization denies they re in contact with the russians we find new information about it. and the fact of the matter is our intelligence community has identified wikileaks as an element of the gru, the soviet military intelligence agency and julian assange is an active part of russian intelligence matters. and so of course don junior s relationship with him shouldn t surprise anybody, but of course, once again, they ve lied consistently about their contacts with russia. they ve lied consistently about their relationship and the quid pro quo and the discussions and the involvement level of their campaign with russia. and i think it the story never gets any better. and for don junior the story got much worse today. i think that this may be a preview of coming attractions from robert mueller in the near future. i have to ask you, any potential crimes being committed here and how likely is this going to b ....
It was interesting, during the campaign he kept saying it s going to be rigged. well, it was rigged, it appears, but it was rigged by donald trump, vladimir putin, wikileaks and any number of other individuals. you were not aware of these exchanges, were you? i m sorry. were you aware of the exchanges between donald junior and wikileaks? i can t really say. you can t say. okay. fair enough. because there is an investigation going on, and you re part of it as a congressperson. so, listen, do you think some of these interactions suggest that donald trump jr. was telling his father about what wikileaks was telling him, because at one point wikileaks messages donald trump jr. about a story and then 15 minutes later donald trump sr. tweets about wikileaks? yes. i thought that was very interesting. and we ve got to remember, this was a family-owned business and donald trump was the patriarch of that family business. and they worked very closely together. ....
That he over the years was accused of inappropriate conduct with was reprehensible. right. and i think that, you know, we can t just say bill clinton got away with it so it s okay for our guy, roy moore to get away with it. i think we are in a position of great moral peril if we put political a single political seat ahead of the fact that these women that have come out are telling these stories on the record, that they are credible, that they are serious, that they obviously have all suffered from some emotional damage based on this. and this pattern that is emerging isn t driven by politics. it isn t driven by some conspiracy by the establishment to hurt steve bannon s hand-picked candidate it isn t evil opposition research. this was good reporting of an emeasurable and difficult story for these women to tell. and we owe the honor of tleeting them as seriously as they took the risk of talk coming out and ....