Tell me they didn't just say that by asking everyone to leave the room and engaging Comey in a discussion to divert an ongoing investigation against Flynn, Trump was merely engaging in light-hearted banter?!!!

Oh, shades of groping and grabbing and live mikes and all the excuses about light-hearted locker room talk, that has to be one of the most ill-thought-out apologies or excuses I've ever heard of.

I wouldn't say that no male in a gym ever has said anything as misogynistic as what Trump was saying about women, but most athletes were revolted by the notion of being associated with that type of lewd, chauvinistic talk and behavior. Banter indeed!

And now some well meaning congressmen are resurrecting the spectre of Trump's past outrages and repackaging them for the Oval Office? What were they thinking? Light-hearted banter does not require that the room be cleared of all witnesses. No matter how detached from reality the congressmen are, they should realize that at the very least.