Mark Halperin

And the Clinton's point of view was, why is Bill Clinton's personal life getting all this scrutiny?

What about George Bush?

Everybody knows he's had this affair.

But no one is ever going to ask the president of the United States, who's the incumbent president, nobody's ever going to ask him about that.

And then Barbara Bush did an interview and was asked about Bill Clinton and about the female vote.

And here's what she said.

This is 1992.

S2, please.

So the Clintons are already seething about what they perceive to be unequal treatment.

They're already seething about why Bill Clinton gets all this scrutiny.

And then Barbara Bush says that.

So then we get to the general election campaign and some book comes out that has in a footnote a thing about President Bush and this woman, Jennifer Fitzgerald.

And the New York Post says,

writes like three stories about it.

It's everywhere in the media.

And President Bush is at Kennebunkport doing a press conference with the Israeli prime minister.

And this was just not done back then.

But Mary Tillotson, who was a correspondent for CNN, decided to ask President Bush about it.

Okay.

And, um,