Bill Maher questions why Doug Emhoff isn't being grilled over his many controversies

Real Time host Bill Maher questioned why Democratic second gentleman Doug Emhoff wasn't enduring more scrutiny over his past treatment of women.

DailyMail.com reported that Emhoff impregnated the family's nanny while married to his first wife, allegedly slapped an ex-girlfriend at the Cannes Film Festival and was 'inappropriate' and 'misogynistic' at work .

During last week's Overtime segment , Maher pointed to this reporting and asked his panelists if the liberal media would keep ignoring it.

'And wouldn't that make it look worse?' Maher asked.

Maher spelled out to his audience details about the 2012 incident at the Cannes Film Festival. 'He slapped her. He thought she was flirting with the valet,' the longtime HBO host said.

'And he knocked up the nanny, right? That's confirmed,' chimed in panelist Buck Sexton, a conservative talk show host.

Maher answered in the affirmative.

'That's confirmed. He definitely knocked up the nanny,' the comedian chuckled.

Shortly after DailyMail.com broke the affair story a statement was provided to CNN confirming Emhoff's relationship with the family nanny, which resulted in a pregnancy.

'What I'm saying if this becomes more credible and we don't know yet. I mean, a lot of the conservative outlets still aren't reporting it, so I wouldn't go after anybody for not reporting it yet because these things have to be checked out. But if it becomes more credible, certainly on the level of Brett Kavanaugh, which was that kind of thing was reported by everybody pretty quickly,' Maher said. 'Does the liberal media keep ignoring it?'

CNN's Laura Coates argued that it was appropriate to both investigate the claims but also be 'cautious before you put something simply into the ether that has those substantiations.'

'Just politically speaking, this is a problem for the Harris campaign in large part because she is so ill-defined,' said The Atlantic's Tim Alberta. 'Americans are trying to fill in the gaps around her, around her family.'

Harris will have run the shortest modern presidential campaign, taking over the top of the Democratic ticket from President Joe Biden on July 21, the day the 81-year-old decided to bow out of his reelection bid due to age concerns.

Not even two weeks later, the news of Emhoff's affair broke.

'I think that there is now a little bit of blood in the water - the nanny thing was the first drop and now there's more and it's not going to be long now - I can guarantee you that there are investigative teams at the Times and the Post and elsewhere that are looking into this,' Alberta also said.

As of now, the Harris campaign is heavily utilizing Emhoff on the campaign trail, with less than three weeks to go before Election Day.

'I do think it's very convenient that allegations demand more study, demand more evidence when it's really important for a Democrat that we don't all say, "hold on a second, this guy seems like a huge jerk,"' Sexton added. 'And he is being used as a surrogate on the campaign for masculinity ...'

Sexton was talked over by Maher who pointed out that former President Donald Trump has faced similar allegations - of cheating, of physical assault - and he's the actual candidate, not the candidate's spouse.

'He is not going to be president and the guy on the Republic side who is running for president did these things himself,' Maher said of Emhoff, also shortening the name of the GOP after Sexton had referred to the Democratic Party as the 'Democrat Party,' which is considered a slur.