If you watched last night's presidential debate on television... chances are you caught a glimpse of Illinois' senior U.S. Senator in the audience. But his title is not why cameras turned in Dick Durbin's direction. Durbin says something was curious:
"I kept thinking: Why would they have an empty front row?" Then, just before the debate began, "comes Rudy Giuliani, like an usher. Leading them all up there.”
Giuliani seated three women who accused former president Bill Clinton of sexual abuse. Their presence was part of Donald Trump's unorthodox method of fighting fallout from the revelation of a tape on which he's heard bragging of sexual exploits.
Durbin says the accusations against Bill Clinton are "ancient history," while Americans want to move forward. He says Trump's 2005 comments fit a pattern of "derisive and hateful” speech throughout this election cycle.
Democratic Congresswoman Cheri Bustos, of the Quad Cities, and Chicago Congressman Luis Gutierrez, also sat right behind the Clinton accusers.
