TAPPER: Welcome back to the lead. Time for the politics lead now. Since his wife returned to, quote-unquote, "private life", former President Bill Clinton may be second only to her when it comes to knowing what's going on in her life, sources close to him say. And though he attended the Peterson Foundation Fiscal Summit here in Washington today to discuss the economy, journalists being journalists, he was asked about controversy surrounding her and her potential presidential run. Now, to the former president, Republican strategist Karl Rove's attack on his wife, the insinuation that she may have suffered a traumatic brain injury after a fall in 2012 was, as one Clinton adviser put it, to me was so stupid as to be a low-hanging curveball.</s>BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT: First of all, I have to give him credit, you know, that embodies that old saying that consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. First, they said she faked her concussion. Now, they say she's auditioning for a part on "The Walking Dead." Now, they say she's really got brain damage. If she does, I must be in tough shape because she's still quicker than I am.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you think this is their way of inserting her age or her physical capabilities into the 2016 debate?</s>CLINTON: I don't know, but if it is, you can't be too upset about it. It's just the beginning. They'll get better and better at it. I mean, you know, it's -- I'm still waiting for them to admit there was nothing to Whitewater.
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