She defended him in the sense that what he had done at the time, sexting with a consenting adult (and different than sexting he did with a minor that got him thrown in jail ) , wasn't any more scandalous that what Republicans routinely do in office : Lets see David Vitter caught with prostitutes, Danny Hastert a former child molester...the list goes on and on. She was saying that Democrats should stop being such wusses and immediately attacking their own.