Mark Halperin

I was in the midst of, and you can go on YouTube, you can find clips of all this stuff.

I was in the midst of just massive scandals.

He was the front runner for the nomination.

He was the it candidate for the cycle.

And here he was enmeshed in two massive controversies that would have knocked a normal candidate out of the race.

He survived those.

He survived whitewater.

He survived more allegations from women.

And Bill Clinton demonstrated then that he was superhuman as a political athlete.

And so there's three, at least three, but three that I focus on, then and since, in covering political scandals.

Three strands of thinking.

One is, what are the facts?

What are the allegations and facts?

What are the charges against a public figure, whether they're in elective office, running for office, member of a cabinet?

What are the allegations?

Two is, how do they handle it?

And then three,

How does the press and other players involved, what do they do about it?

Do they demand someone fired, get fired, demand someone quit the race?

They demand someone be indicted.