Mark Halperin

It hurt her career.

The White House basically said she can't cover the White House anymore.

Here's President Bush, war veteran, had never confronted such intrusive personal questions before, but he got one from Mary Tillotson about this book alleging he had an extramarital affair.

This is S3, please.

All right, clearly a pre-written answer, and it's a lie.

Didn't say what he said about the report was a lie.

You know, whatever.

Anyway, then he goes back to the White House and he's got an interview with Stone Phillips, who back then was my colleague at ABC News.

He worked at NBC eventually and a great guy, a very good reporter.

And he's doing an Oval Office interview with the president and decides to ask him also about whether he's ever had an extramarital affair.

Again, I can't tell you if you're if you're new to media and political media, you'll look at this.

You say, well, yeah, people get asked tough questions.

This was unheard of back then.

OK, so here is just it's uncomfortable to watch.

I've seen it a million times in my life.

Here's Stone Phillips in the Oval Office of the White House with President Bush right after that Mary Tillotson confrontation, asking President Bush another version of the question about this topic.

S4, please.

That's it.

Never answered a question, as far as I know.

Never answered the question in public, at least.