some today had said he should have stepped down. in retrospect, do you think bill should have resigned in the wake of the monica lewinsky scandal? absolutely not. wasn t an abuse of power? no. people say president of the united states cannot have a consensual relationship with an intern, the power imbalances too much. she was an adult. let me ask you this, where s the investigation? tucker: even the ladies of the view are not buying this line of argument, and said they ripped hillary clinton believe it or not for her abrasive interview tactics. what she just said is exactly what the republicans do, they change the subject. that is why we never get anywhere in the uterus. you know you have a bad argument when your meeting argument is, they are worse. she can have it both ways.
president. ainsley: i understand the laws are you can t sleep or be with a subordinate. you can t do that you can t be the boss and employ someone and people think that s taking advantage. brian: arafat is in the waiting room. ainsley: worked for someone worried about saying no because you would lose your job. i understand point. she is saying monica is at fault, too. she could have said no. she knows right from wrong she was 22 when it happened. steve: kristin gillibrand the senator from new york state a couple months ago said absolutely, he, bill clinton, should have stepped down. bre payton joined ainsley in the first how and had this to say about hillary s denial of the question. of course bill clinton abused his power when he abused monica lewenski. when you take power imbalances someone being the president of the united states and someone being an intern.
because they really remind me of the preweinstein reporting, which is that once weinstein, other allegations came out, there was all this back reporting, and you wrote a great piece about this. here is first the new yorker saying locals were troubled by roy moore s interactions with teen girls at the gadsden mall. and then i think crucially, al.com, local outlet with locally sourced quotes from folks in gadsden say moore s predatory behavior at mall restaurants not a secret. this guy has been a public guy for 40 years. and 40 years you have folks in his small town in hometown alabama alabama say oh, yeah, people knew roy moore used to cruise the mall. this why these stories haven t come out until now. this is what women and in some cases men have been living with for all of our lifetimes and for our parents and our grandparents and great grandparents that these power imbalances meant these rumors could exist. the whisper networks could exist. we could all sort of know these guys were
cruise the mall. this why these stories haven t come out until now. this is what women and in some cases men have been living with for all of our lifetimes and for our parents and our grandparents and great grandparents that these power imbalances meant these rumors could exist. the whisper networks could exist. we could all sort of know these guys were doing these things. but whenever it was talked about it was laughed off or ignored. everybody could nudge each other, but it doesn t matter. they kept on getting the jobs. they kept on getting elected. again, that just happened. there has been that is systematic of why when this explosion is happening, it feels like it s happening in so many different directions and there are so many stories. it s because there are thousands of stories that have been smothered and suffocated for our lifetimes. rebecca, a fantastic piece i really recommend. thank you for being here. author of god: a human history and michael steele msnbc