Mark Foley
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Sep 22, 2026
speaker_16SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The stunning political scandal that is rocking Capitol Hill.
speaker_16SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned Friday after questionable emails he sent to a teenage boy.
speaker_17SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Dennis Haster convicted of a financial crime, part of a scheme to mask something more egregious.
Kyle KulinskiHOST
By the way, we don't talk about that enough, that the former Republican Speaker of the House was like a serial abusing pedophile.
Sam SederHOST
Um, he was rep- recruiting, uh, real corporatists.
Sam SederHOST
Uh, and this was the argument, and, um, the reality is that election was, in part, about the war, um, going really sideways, but also, uh, in part because Mark Foley, uh, a Republican congressman, was essentially caught as a predator, uh, with, uh, pages in the House.
Sam SederHOST
And, um, it w- it was quite clear that the Republican, uh, leadership knew about it.
Sam SederHOST
In fact, I remember a, uh, press conference by the-
Sam SederHOST
He was a Buffalo congressman.
Sam SederHOST
I think he might have been the whip at the time.
Sam SederHOST
He had a press conference in, like, two weeks before the election where he was so determined not to take questions on Mark Foley that he invited all of his staffers' kids to be on stage with him.
David DayenGUEST
Hmm.
Hugh HewittSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But she went there.
Hugh HewittSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The question is, are we going to have a replay of what happened 20 years ago with Mark Foley or Christine O'Donnell in 2010, Todd Akin in 2012? It used to be when Republicans said or did outrageous things, legacy media would run around to every other Republican and ask them, what do you think? Well, right now, every other Democrat ought to be asked who's running for office, what do you think of Hayden's comments in North Carolina? Because this, by the way, not so unique.
Hugh HewittSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It actually occurs fairly commonly across everybody's lives who's watching right now.
Hugh HewittSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They've got friends with TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Hugh HewittSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
... uh, Donald Trump supporters, but she went there.
Hugh HewittSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The question, are, are we gonna have a replay of what happened during 20 years ago with Mark Foley or, uh, Christine O'Donnell in 2010, Todd Akin in 2012? It used to be when Republicans said or did outrageous thing, legacy media would run around to every other Republican and ask them, "What do you think?" Well, right now, every other Democrat ought to be asked, who's running for office, "What do you think of Headen's comments in North Carolina?" 'Cause this, by the way, not so, um, unique.
Hugh HewittSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It actually occurs fairly commonly across everybody's lives who's watching right now.
Hugh HewittSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They've got friends with TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome, and those people say outrageous things on their Facebook pages or in their social media chat rooms, and you just kinda get used to it.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Is that a real news organization? Is this what you do for a living, man? Congressman, thank you.
speaker_1NARRATOR
How do you explain a party that has included the likes of Dennis Hastert, Mark Foley, and John Weaver? Papa Neocon, George Herbert Walker Bush, was part of the Hillbillies camp at Bohemian Grove, a hangout for the elites in California.
speaker_1NARRATOR
As House Speaker, Republican Kevin McCarthy wore the Bohemian Club owl logo when speaking in Hawaii during the wildfires.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Like his father and his son, George Bush was part of the Skull and Bones Secret Society at Yale.
Amy ParnesGUEST
Not at all.
Amy ParnesGUEST
I mean, Mark, so when I first came to Washington, the Mark Foley story was bouncing around, you might recall.
Mark HalperinHOST
Yeah,
Amy ParnesGUEST
I did.
Amy ParnesGUEST
And that's how it goes.
Mark HalperinHOST
Yeah.
Mark HalperinHOST
Speaking of Mark Foley and congressmen from Florida, here's Joe Scarborough.
Mark HalperinHOST
Joe, you served with Mr. Foley.
Tim MillerHOST
And then really, you know, kind of nothing of note as far as, like, scandals or whatever until October, until a month out.
Tim MillerHOST
And Bush's numbers are low, but they really f-- The bottom falls out Octo-- uh, late September, October first, where M- the Mark Foley page scandal happens.
Tim MillerHOST
Mark Foley was sending inappropriate texts to young male pages.
Tim MillerHOST
He resigns.
Tim MillerHOST
House Republican leadership had covered it up.
Tim MillerHOST
Republicans circle the wagons around him.
Tim MillerHOST
I remember this ruined the last month of the campaign for my candidate, Jeff Lamberti.
Tim MillerHOST
It's like every interview, you know, "What do you think about this?" Like, we'd go to a local news interview, we'd want to talk about whatever, you know, uh, national security, and the clip that they'd show in the local news is whatever his response to was to Mark Foley, you know, sending messages to teenagers.
Steve SchmidtHOST
And it is an astounding number that served inside the George W. Bush White House, but also around Speaker Dennis Hastert, around some of the top House leaders.
Steve SchmidtHOST
20 years ago, You had a congressman named Mark Foley, who was the final nail in the coffin for Republicans in 2006 when they caught him drunk at two in the morning, scratching on the door of the Page residence in Washington, D.C., And so there there has been a long history of this.
Steve SchmidtHOST
This is all we all know this.
Steve SchmidtHOST
Right.
Steve SchmidtHOST
And it is an astounding number that served inside the George W. Bush White House, but also around Speaker Dennis Hastert, around some of the top House leaders.
Steve SchmidtHOST
20 years ago, You had a congressman named Mark Foley, who was the final nail in the coffin for Republicans in 2006 when they caught him drunk at two in the morning, scratching on the door of the Page residence in Washington, D.C., And so there there has been a long history of this.
Steve SchmidtHOST
This is all we all know this.
Steve SchmidtHOST
Right.
Katy TurHOST
scandal.
Katy TurHOST
GOP Congressman Mark Foley, remember him, resigned.
Katy TurHOST
This is not Mark Foley, guys.
Katy TurHOST
I'm just going to put that out there.
Katy TurHOST
We should take this down.
Katy TurHOST
Mark Foley resigned just over a month before the midterms after reports revealed he had sent sexually explicit messages to teenage house pages.
Katy TurHOST
And Republican Senator George Allen of Virginia faced backlash after using a racial slur against a campaign staffer for his Democratic opponent.
Katy TurHOST
None of it was connected, Gonzalez says, but it all happened under Republicans' watch.
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