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Joe Scarborough: I want to come to this side of the aisle to impress upon my friends on the Democratic side to start moving forward and…

On the recordSeptember 18, 1997
I want to come to this side of the aisle to impress upon my friends on the Democratic side to start moving forward and doing things to clean up their own house on campaign finance before they go to the other side and talk about how we need to reform laws that they are not even obeying. Today, Bob Woodward writes, ``New documents provide stark new evidence that the party advertising in the Democratic scheme was illegal.'' On the front page of the New York Times, not regularly a Republican supporter, it says in one instance, ``blatant improper lobbying of the President's security council, Ms. Heslin, told of her amazement that the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Donald L. Fowler, dared to call in October 1995 to say that a CIA agent would be telephoning'' to lobby to let this dangerous international criminal into the White House. Of course, we know the rest of this shady scheme. What this is amounting to on the side of the Democrats is covering up for the White House and the Democratic National Committee. Do your job. Do the American people's job. Clean up this mess.
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Joe Scarborough
Florida

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Addressing campaign finance issues and alleged misconduct by the Democratic National Committee.

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