ROTHMAN: "It is. And I kind of find the reaction among Republicans, Republican pundits to be a little unsatisfying. The notion that Democrats will have to embrace some disqualifying amount of hypocrisy in order to argue that at the fundamental level, this is about sex, paying off a paramour, and they can’t do that having defended Bill Clinton on those same terms. I find that unconvincing not just because embracing hypocrisy is no obstacle for a political actor, but because it's — these are different in kind. And also because the President’s legal team aren't arguing Bill Clinton, they’re arguing John Edwards. They're saying this is not prosecutable because of this precedent, because John Edwards was acquitted on one charge, mistrial on five others and nobody wanted to prosecute again. There are distinctions as the nature of this case, Donald Trump’s case might be more prosecutable because it happened so much earlier in the campaign. But all that aside, they’re arguing now that these allegations which destroyed John Edwards, which ruined his career, rendered him politically toxic, are the model that they are following. That seems like a very bad bet."