Anthony Zurcher

And that put him on MSNOW, the liberal network here in the U.S., trying to explain away all of this and saying that that's not who he is now and that he has changed.

Right.

And the girlfriend shared messages that she sent to other people talking about the tattoo and saying he had a Nazi tattoo, which corroborated at least the fact that she knew it was a Nazi tattoo well before Plattner admitted that or said that he found out about it.

So

And Platner's response is that, well, he had this tattoo and he wore it.

The reason it became revealed is he took off his shirt at a friend's Jewish wedding or a family Jewish wedding, and he never would have been cavorting about with a Nazi symbol on his chest if he knew that.

But yeah, it undercuts...

his believability on this and your honesty and your reputation when you're trying to knock down these kind of stories is the best defense.

And if that gets undercut, then you could be in real trouble.

So, Justin, that was Plattner's victory speech at that YMCA that I attended last night.

And he looked a little different, actually, during that speech.

He was wearing business slacks like suit pants and a white collared shirt.

He did have his sleeves rolled up so you could still see the tattoos.

And he was also reading off a teleprompter.

But I think listening to that, it sounded like a pretty well-delivered speech, and it hit the notes that he wanted to.

This, you know, it's not about me, it's about us thing.

Who does that remind you of?

A recent unconventional politician who was dogged by scandals and managed to shake them off.

Right.

And you could hear early in that clip we played what he's trying to do there, which is to try to paint a redemption arc that he had problems that he came back from.