Anthony Zurcher

He's a changed man.

He's trying to be better.

If we can change politics in this country, then you have to believe that we can a person can change, too.

And he actually we didn't hear in the clip, but he attributed the force for that change.

The person who has helped him realize that change was Amy, his wife.

We brought up on stage and had kissed must have five or six times on stage at various different times.

Amy, Amy, Amy.

I talked to someone, Amanda Littman, who her job is to recruit novice political candidates for office, people who may not think about politics, people who haven't run for office before to run for local, state, federal elections.

And she says, you know, a lot of the people that she brings in, they have skeletons in their closet.

They're not perfect.

They never thought they were going to run for office.

So they may have made mistakes in their lives.

And she said that the thing that was most important was for them to be honest about it,

for them to paint this kind of redemption arc.

They learned from their lessons.

They're a new person now.

And the thing that is most dangerous is if after you do that and more stuff comes out, then it starts feeling like you're just making excuses, that this is not an authentic kind of acknowledgement of your past, but something you're throwing out there to get the media off your scent.

And she wasn't thrilled with Platner.

She thought there should have been more choices

running for Senate besides Plattner and Janet Mills, the governor.