Mark Halperin

Lots of people in public life have done things wrong that they don't get asked about.

Or if they get asked about it, they lie about it.

Howard Lutton, a Commerce Secretary, was asked, what about your relationship with Epstein?

He gave an answer to a podcaster, said it ended.

I met him once.

It was at his apartment, his home in New York.

It was gross.

Never met him again.

Now we know he did meet him again and went to Epstein's Island, exchanged phone numbers, strategized, were in at least one business together.

So there's, do you get asked?

And then do you tell the truth?

And a lot of times people will say, well, we could forgive smoking marijuana.

We could forgive having an extra mile affair, but the people who decide these things, well, you can't lie about it, okay?

So this is a wild west now.

This is a wild west from 1992 to today,

None of you would be surprised if anybody running for president or in the Trump cabinet or President Trump himself, you wouldn't be surprised if anything got asked by somebody, whether it's somebody who works for an old media legacy organization or somebody who works for Howard Stern or a podcaster.

There's nothing that any of us would be surprised about if it got asked.

But not everything get asked, right?

President Trump, of all the things he's been accused of, personal, political, financial, there's some combination of not enough hours in the day to ask him, but also some questions people don't want to ask.

Even now, even in the Wild West, this is where the happenstance comes in.