The entire country, maybe even the world, feels like it’s been set on it’s edge.

Courage.

His interests are pretty much aligned with Putin’s.

“Blackmail” implies putin can convince him to do something he wouldn’t otherwise be willing to do.

He has lots of enemies and decades of wrong doing.

but that's exactly what Bill Clinton set himself up for when he had his fling with Monica Lewinsky. Indeed, during the time he was fighting for his political survival, he was not fighting for the issues that you and I cared about. His political capital was expended on saving his own ass, and not the asses of downtrodden people who had supported him through his previous personal crisis made public.

What if Monica, who was Jewish, told Bill Clinton that he'd better not issue that waiver, and let the US embassy to Israel move to Jerusalem, or she'd make a certain blue dress available? We might never have known the reason why he did that.

All the meetings with Trumps people on tape. Trumps people are bunch of idiots in case you haven't notice. You don't think he could use that against Trump. Putin knows more about Trump than we do.

That is the worst part of it all, and they need to own it.