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not a single time, never. >> the man had lied to me, to my face and sent me out to lie to you. >> that none of us is above the law is a bedrock principle of democracy. >> the question is not should he stay, what if he says? >> is it the best thing for the country to remove this person from office? >> i put my head in my hands, just how much can this country take? >> this is easily the most important vote you will ever cast. >> is the respondent, william jefferson clinton, guilty or not guilty? >> midway through president bill clinton's second term, 100 u.s. senators gathered to determine if the 42nd president of the united states was guilty or not guilty of impeachable offenses. their decision would either keep him in office or send him away in shame. the trial of william jefferson clinton was the first presidential impeachment trial in 130 years, only the second in

u.s. history. and it began then just as the next one will, after months of posturing, threats, and dramatic gestures from the opposing sides. the result was a unique moment in time, shrouded in partisanship and steeped in history. >> we are awaiting a historic day that begins here. >> it was january 7, 1999. >> as they leave the house chamber in a somewhat solemn procession. >> it was a small walk with big significance. >> coming across to the united states senate. >> i thought this was going to be a real experience because house members just don't go on the senate floor. >> house members were headed to the senate floor because the u.s. constitution dictates that only house members can impeach a president, and only senators can host an impeachment trial and vote to remove him. >> it was a very big deal to be, you know, managing an impeachment trial. >> then-congressman bill

mccollum had been named a house manager for the trial, meaning he would help make the case against the president. >> prosecution is actually done by members of the house of representatives, house managers they are called, back in 1999 there were 13 of them. >> once on the senate side, there was an official convening of the trial. >> here ye, here ye, here ye. all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment, while the house of representatives is exhibiting to the senate of the united states articles of impeachment against william jefferson clinton. >> and managers on the part of the house will be received and escorted to the well of the senate. >> then, the chief justice of the u.s. supreme court was sworn in. >> please to welcome you. >> chief justice william renquist presided because the constitution states that when a president is impeached, the

chief justice presides. >> you will do impartial justice according to the constitution and laws, so help you god. >> i do. >> then he administered an oath to all 100 senators. >> do you solemnly swear? >> who then proceeded to come up and sign an oath book. it's all very formal, very dramatic. >> mr. feingold. >> when i took that old, i thought this is serious, this is sacred oath under our nation's laws, and i felt it was essential that i listened to the house managers and see if they had a case. >> this democratic senator said he began the trial undecided and openminded. >> i felt that was my absolute obligation. >>. >> stood in stark contrast to the tawdriness that triggered a trial, a trial that would never have happened without independent counsel kenneth starr. >> he was appointed to investigate whitewater, which

was a land deal in which the clintons had invested and went bad. and there were questions about whether the clintons exercised any sort of improper influence. >> over time, starr's inquiry expanded to include clinton-erc scandals. >> the president had in this issue with paula jones. >> paula jones was an alaska state employee who accused clinton of sexually harassing her while he was governor. >> paula jones accused him of expose of himself to her in a hotel room, and it was a civil case. and so there was the question of whether a president could actually waste his time, as it were, if his lawyers that's what you thought being sued in a civil case, and the courts decided that, in fact, he could. so the paula jones attorneys were going to dispose bill clinton. >> in doing so a federal judge said to them you can look for a

pattern of indiscretion. >> the ruling allowed the jones lawyers to ask the president about a white house intern named monica lewinsky. >> and when he did give that deposition, he was asked about his relationship with monica lewinsky, and in simple terms, he lied about it. >> i never had sexual relations with monica lewinsky. i never had an affair with her. >> ken starr believed the president had perjured himself so he got permission from the justice department to question the president about it in front of a federal grand jury. again, mr. clinton wasn't fully truthful, and that led to this. >> i will now read the articles of impeachment. house resolution 611 resolved that william jefferson clinton, president of the united states, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the

united states senate. article i, william jefferson clint willfully provided perjurious, false, and misleading testimony. >> the strategy of the house managers was really very straightforward. bill clinton testified under oath. he lied. lying under oath is a crime. that's a crime that is a high crime and misdemeanor under the constitution. >> article ii. in his conduct while president of the united states, william jefferson clinton has prevented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice. >> the house case against the president on obstruction of justice was based on the fact that he met with a number of people, seemed to be trying to make sure everybody's stories were on the same page. so there was an allegation, for example, well-documented that he met with his personal secretary betty curry and leading her. i was never alone with monica, right? >> but did any of the

allegations against the even, even if true, amount to what the founders called high crimes and misdemeanors? >> that provides for impeachment and removal of the president is focused on abuse of governmental power. the purpose of the impeachment clause is not to punish presidents for past misconduct. one of our arguments in the clinton impeachment was, although president clinton's conduct with ms. lewinsky might've been wronged and blameworthy and something you could disapprove of intensely, there was no abuse of the presidential power, there is no threat to the country. >> we are getting very close. >> i think when people look back on it, they say, oh, that was a partisan exercise and a foregone conclusion. that's wrong. it was not a foregone conclusion at the beginning. it would've been remarkable if the dam had broken, but there were plenty of warning signs

that it could happen. >> to happen, the house managers would need to sway 12 democrats to get to 67. the two-thirds needed to remove a president from office. >> i really don't think any of the impeachment managers thought we were going to get the president removed from office and get 67 votes. >> unless. >> the house is pushing for witnesses. >> we are hopeful we could persuade the senate to let us have live witnesses. >> live witnesses is the only way you could move the mood and the attitude and the convictions of the american public. and that's the only way you'd move the united states senate. >> the hope was alive because there was a lack of established rules. >> one of the important things to remember about impeachment trials in the senate is that the senate makes its own rules. >> will make the proclamation. >> would there be live witnesses? would there be open debate about the charges? would there be closed debate? none of these things were terribly clear. >> so the senators decided to meet without cameras to hammer out the rules.

eventually they agreed to some but left the difficult issue of witnesses for down the road. opening arguments would finally get underway a full week after first gaveling to order. >> the senate will convene as a court of impeachment. almighty god, we ask you for a special measure of wisdom as they act as jurors in this impeachment trial. >> two days earlier, president clinton sent paula jones an $850,000 check. >> it was part of a deal he made months earlier to settle the case without admitting wrongdoing. up next, the house managers make their case. >> this is not about sex. this is about obstruction of justice. >> i think there was a feeling like, boy, i hope our guys are ready for this. breathe.

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thursday, january 14th, 1999, republican congressman, the house impeachment managers, began three days of arguments laying out their case against president bill clinton. >> every trial must have a beginning, and this trial begins on a cold day in january 1993. >> clinton's first inauguration. >> will you please raise your right hand and repeat after me? i, william jefferson clinton, do solemnly swear. >> i, william jefferson clinton, do solemnly swear.

>> and as we progressed throughout the day, i would ask that you be reminded of the importance of this oath. >> an oath that house managers said president clinton violated by lying to a grand jury and obstructing justice. >> their arguments were not a surprise because the arguments had been the same in the house. >> failure to bring president clinton to account will cause a cancer to be present in our society for generations. >> for the staff, that first day was pretty rough. they laid out a pretty tough case. and i think there was a feeling like, boy, i hope our guys are ready for this. >> mr. chief justice, senators, i'm from the third congressional district of arkansas. >> asa hutchinson from president clinton's home state. >> these acts of obstruction included attempts to improperly influence a witness in the civil rights case. >> lewinsky was deposed as part

of the federal civil rights lawsuit brought by former arkansas state employee paula jones. jones alleged then-governor clinton had her transferred after she spurned his sexual advances. >> the procurement and filing of a false affidavit in the case. >> representative hutchinson took the senators through obstruction of justice allegations step-by-step, including president clinton playing a role in his secretary betty curry retrieving and putting under her bed the gifts the president had given to monica lewinsky. after lewinsky had received a subpoena for paula jones' attorneys requiring the gifts be produced as possible evidence. >> betty curry, a subordinate employee would not engage in such activity on such a sensitive matter without the approval and direction of the president himself. she retrieved these items and where does she place them? she hides them under her bed, significantly a place of conc l

concealment. >> i am going to a break, and the new senator john edwards came over to me and said in his charming way, russ, what do you think about how the house managers are doing? and i said i think they are doing pretty well. john said to me so do i. >> listen to the president addressing the american people on the subject of his credibility. >> i want you to listen to me. i'm going to say this again. i did not have sexual relations with that woman, ms. lewinsky. i never told anybody to lie, not a single time, never. >> repeating the claim he had made nine days earlier in his deposition for the jones case. >> he just flat outside denied it. and i said careful. he said relations, he didn't say sex. and so i remember that day what did he mean? when he lies to the he me, he l

to the country. >> when he was asked how he could have sat silently at his earlier deposition while his attorney made the false statement that there is no sex of any kind in any manner, shape, or form to judge wright, the president first said that he was not paying a great deal of attention to mr. bennett's comments. >> your next statement is a completely false statement, whether or not mr. bennett knew of your relationship with ms. lewinsky, the statement that there was no sex of any kind in any manner, shape or form with president clinton was an utterly false statement. is that correct? >> it depends on what the meaning of the word is. if is means is and never has

been, that's one thing. if it means there is none, that was a completely true statement. >> if you had covered bill clinton for a long period of time, your alarms went off when he started playing tense games. there is no sexual relationship, what does that mean? does that mean was there is no, does that mean today, does that mean now? >> when that day's trial session ended, the house managers then took their case to the court of public opinion. >> if you're going to win the day, you have to communicate with the american public as well. and so the managers would be going on media in the evening and then doing late-night work. >> the next day, congressman bill mccollum addressed the senators. >> these impeachment proceedings aren't before you because of one or two lies about a sexual relationship. this is not about sex. this is about obstruction of justice. >> there was a pattern of

obstructing justice. you see, we had monica lewinsky at that point very supportive of what we were doing. she was more than agreeable at that juncture. and, so, he had, we know, coached her to do an affidavit that was false, that was submitted to the paula jones court. >> mccollum hammered home the point. >> he lied when he said he paenz paying attention. he lied when he said he told monica lewinsky she should turn over the gifts and he only told the truth to his white house aides. >> you could see he had planned to obstruct justice, tampering with witness, tampering with evidence, not just lying about his relationship with monica lewinsky. >> on their third and final day, house managers urged senators to convict and remove president clinton. >> and i would suggest to you, ladies and gentlemen of the senate, that if you believe he's

a perjuror, the question is not should he stay, what if he stays? >> the house managers had presented a very strong case against the president. >> i remember clearly being told by people at the white house, wow, that was good, they were good. they were powerful. that was a great presentation. they sold it on television, and they had this moment of step-backs saying, whoa, we need to worry about this and we better be able to answer it. >> we were all a little worried because the house managers had done better than we thought they were going to do. next. >> dale got up and said, essentially, bull[ bleep ]. >> the president's defense. >> and when you hear somebody say this is not about sex, it's about sex. ♪ it's a thirteen-hour flight, that's not a weekend trip. fifteen minutes until we board. oh yeah, we gotta take off. you downloaded the td ameritrade mobile app so you can quickly check the markets? yeah, actually i'm taking one last look at my dashboard

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let's be brave. here ye, here ye, here ye. >> on tuesday, january 19th, just before 1:00 p.m., president bill clinton's lawyers took on the house prosecutor's impeachment case. >> they were the best lawyers in america. that was our team. so it's like you look up and you have the dream team here.

you know, i got lebron james and james hardin. chuck ruff was white house counsel. he had a brilliant opening statement. >> ruff opened on a humble note. >> there was no one who does not feel the weight of this moment. >> then struck a harsher tone. >> constructed out of ceiling wax and string and spiderswebs, a theory that would land to a theory of otherwise innocuous, indeed exculpatory events, a dark and sinister cast. >> but to put into context what the senate was debating. >> you are free to criticize him, to find his personal conduct distasteful but ask whether this is the moment when for the first time in our history the actions of a president have so put at risk a government the framers created that there is only one solution.

>> ruff had set the stage for the defense arguments, but that would have to wait until the next day. this night was reserved for the president's state of the union address. >> the idea that the defense would open their arguments on the day of the state of the union, i think to people on the outside would think, oh, my god, that's the most bizarre thing. >> the president of the united states. [ applause ] >> bizarre and nerve-racking. everyone wondered if the comeback kid could rise up from the impeachment scandal to address the nation. >> thank you very much. thank you. >> the president dove into that speech. >> this year, our deficit is projected to be $10 billion and heading lower. [ applause ] >> i've never seen him more engaged. >> we can unite a diverse people

in freedom and mutual respect. we are many, we must be one. [ applause ] >> there is no way that republicans could not stand up and applaud that along with democrats. it was very important for the american public to see that bill clinton was still doing his job. >> the ratings, by the way, went up over time. people were calling their friends and saying, hey, you got to check this out. >> ladies and gentlemen, the state of our union is strong. [ applause ] >> and he knocked it out of the park, standing ovations during an impeachment trial. >> the next day, clinton's dream team was back on deck. >> i thought we nailed it every day. >> attorney gregory craig was the president's designated quarterback during the trial. craig launched a point-by-point

attack on the perjury charges against the president arguing against the assertion that clinton allowed his lawyer, robert bennett, to unknowingly make false statements in the paula jones sexual harassment case. house managers replayed a now infamous excerpt from clinton's august 1998 grand jury appearance. >> you stated that there was no sex of any kind, in any manner, shape or form with president clinton was an utterly false statement. is that correct? >> it depends upon what the meaning of the word "is" is. >> you may find it frustrating, you may find it irritating when you watched him do this. but he is not committing perjury. he is committing the offense of nitpicking and arguing with the prosecutors. >> craig wrapped with a strongly worded plea.

>> if you convict and remove president clinton on the basis of these allegations, no president of the united states will ever be safe from impeachment again. and it will happen. >> deputy white house counsel cheryl mills followed craig. >> i thought it was a calculated decision to put cheryl mills on the team, the way he treated a young white house intern, to have a young woman attorney come in and fight for him was a critical part of the white house defense strategy. >> mills argued against the house's obstruction of justice charges. one of those was that clinton had instructed his secretary betty curry to retrieve the gifts he had given to monica lewinsky trying to keep them out of the paula jones case. >> why does she agree to hold the box of gifts for ms. lewinsky? because she's a friend. and that is not obstruction of justice. >> and mills fought back on the house prosecutor's assertion that this was a civil rights

case. >> this president's record on civil rights, on women's rights, on all of our rights, is unimpeachable. i can assure you that your decision to follow the facts and acquit this president will not shake the foundation of the house of civil rights. >> it was a homerun. it was very powerful. at the end of the second day, the momentum had shifted entirely. >> the third and final day saw arguments from two more of the president's defense team. >> the presiding officer recognizes mr. counsel kendall. >> they told you that they had painted a picture with circumstantial evidence. i think what they've, in fact, done, is given you a rorschach test.

>> the final defense attorney was revered senator dan bumpers. >> i went around in the white house and made sure all the tvs were on, made sure all the young people were watching because bumpers was from a different era. >> when you have difficulty because of an intense dislike of the president, rise above it. he is not the issue. he will be gone. you won't. >> his job was to just pull the reset lever. the republican argument had been this is not about sex. and so dale bumpers got up and said bull [ bleep ]. >> when you hear some time say this is not about money, it's about money. [ laughter ] and when you hear somebody say this is not about sex, it's about sex. we are none of us perfect, but i can tell you this. the punishment of removing bill

clinton from office would pale compared to the punishment he has already inflicted on himself. >> it was a master class in summing up a legal case. >> clinton's defense team had wrapped their case. and in los angeles, monica lewinsky boarded a plane headed to washington. coming up. >> but, for the record, would you state your name once again? >> they knew it was hail mary time. if your glasses aren't perfect, we'll fix them. so will we. no we won't. use your 2020 vision insurance on your first pair and get 50% off a second pair. visionworks. see the difference.

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the house definitely holds to the position that we should call witnesses. >> what would the witnesses add? >> the need for witnesses is so basic and fundamental to our truth-seeking system of justice in this country. >> we didn't know whether there were going to be live witnesses, whether there would be any witnesses. >> we are not afraid of witnesses. but we do want fairness. >> the big uncertainty was is monica lewinsky going to be a live witness? is she going to be sitting there in the well of the senate on national television, on global television, saying those things? >> i never expected to feel this way about him, and i'm not kidding you. >> and if that happened, would

the democrats stay with the president? >> good morning, sir. >> we were worried and we had reason to worry, byrd was the one that in some ways we were most worried about, because he was the president's harshest critic. >> we want to bring you some news that we have just gotten. >> friday, january 22nd. >> there is a statement we received from u.s. senator robert byrd, democrat from west virginia. >> robert byrd, widely respected on both sides of the aisle, announced his plan to bring a vote to end the trial altogether. >> he says witnesses won't add anything. >> we really thought he would be the one democrat who would support witnesses and might be the most likely democrat to vote to remove. when he did that, it took away that hope altogether. >> but that didn't stop house managers from pursuing their star witness. >> monica, how do you feel about possibly having to testify? >> the day after byrd announced

his plan, lewinsky returned to washington, ordered by a federal judge to meet with house managers. >> what will you be asking monica? how long will you be in there? >> i was in the pre-interview with monica lewinsky, which i will never forget. >> we agreed to meet on sunday evening at the mayflower in a suite. >> she came in there with about three lawyers, and i've never seen somebody more prepared. >> i must say she was charming. >> she was smart. she was very open. >> here come the managers now. bill mccollum is the one who was coming to the microphone to talk to us. >> i was the lead on this, and press availability was outside the mayflower. i just said we had had a very good meeting. >> we found her to be a very personable and impressive young woman, and we found that she might be a very helpful witness to the senate if she's called. >> the chair recognizes the senator from west virginia.

>> mr. chief justice, i send a motion in writing to the desk. >> the following day, senator byrd followed through on his plan. >> the senator from west virginia, mr. byrd, moved that the impeachment proceedings against william jefferson clinton, president of the united states, be, and the same are, duly dismissed. >> senators would not come to a vote on a motion that day, but the following afternoon they would finally address the issue they had long been avoiding. >> we are now prepared to hear arguments regarding the subpoenaing of witnesses and the taking of their depositions. >> they first said, well, show us your three most important witnesses. if we were going to have three witnesses, who would they be? >> the three people that the prosecutors would like to depose are, in fact, vernon jordan, sydney blumenthal, and monica lewinsky. >> they knew it was hail mary time that if you were going to remove the president from

office, the only way to do that was just to have a tornado moment, and that tornado moment would've been monica lewinsky sitting there as a live witness. >> hours later, january 27th. >> the senate will convene. >> both motions came to a vote. up first, the motion to dismiss. >> on this vote, the yeas are 44, the nays are 56, the motion is not agreed to. >> the trial would go on. but the vote count sent a powerful message on the state of play. >> senator byrd's motion showed that there was absolutely no way there were 67 votes to convict clinton. but there was some good news for the prosecution, too. witnesses. >> the senate was voted no to dismiss this case and yes to have these three witnesses. >> the sole crossover vote on both measures, the democratic senator from wisconsin, russ

feingold. >> i thought if depositions could be taken, that would at least give us some opportunity to judge the credibility of the charges against the president which included obstruction of justice. >> the senators decided that did not require live testimony. instead, witness depositions would be videotaped and excerpts played on the senate floor. >> bob frankin, what's the significance of that? >> it's huge significance because this re-enters drama into the senate trial. >> for the record, would you state your name once again, your full name? >> yes, monica lewinsky. >> monica lewinsky had become one of the most famous people in the entire united states. but no one had seen her give an interview. and so there was intense curiosity. >> house prosecutors would play over a dozen exchanges from lewinsky's deposition. >> prior to being on the witness

list, you both spoke about denying this relationship if asked. >> yes. it was discussed. >> did the president ever tell you, caution you, that you had to tell the truth in an affidavit? >> not that i recall. >> the key point about lewinsky's testimony was not about her sexual relationship with the president. the key point was clinton never told her to lie. >> he didn't discuss the content of my affidavit with me at all. >> once she said that didn't happen, that really made her value to the prosecution very small. >> it definitely undercut the argument that the president was involved in some kind of major conspiracy or obstruction of justice. >> the testimonies of jordan and blumenthal would proven even less impactful to the prosecution's case on obstruction. >> was your assistance to

ms. lewinsky, which you described, in any way depended upon her doing anything whatsoever in the paula jones case? >> no. the president never told you that he was not being truthful with you in that january 21st conversation about monica lewinsky. >> he never spoke to me about that at all. >> i listened carefully, but the one that sort of was decisive for me was the deposition with monica lewinsky. her deposition gave me the information i needed to know whether the president was intending to obstruction justice. next. >> it was kind of a surreal environment. >> the final vote. >> mr. abraham, guilty. mr. akoka, not guilty. into a smaller life?

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with a prayer. >> amen. >> as the senate approached the end of the impeachment trial of president william jefferson clinton. >> the president is a spiritual somewhat religious person. i would say the first lady is a full-on religious person. so i think there were a lot of people in the building relying on their faith. >> here ye, here ye, here ye. >> closing arguments would begin in the afternoon. >> the chair recognizes -- >> first up, the republican house managers. >> at the outset -- >> i was very hopeful that maybe we would persuade one or two -- >> it was the president that knew he had a dangerous relationship with ms. lewinsky. >> there was a lot of unknowns as to how individual senators would vote. so we were making the strongest case we could for each individual senator. >> an ordinary citizen who lies under oath four times to a grand jury is subject to substantial time in a federal prison.

>> here we are at the end of this very solemn exercise. and this was the last chance for the house managers to make their case. >> will moral fortitude or political expediency rule the day? >> we weren't sure of the exact math at that moment. and my take always was, you know, never rule out a surprise trap door >> he swore to god to tell the truth and then he lied. >> while more than a dozen house managers came out swinging against president clinton. one man came to his defense. >> as he had the whole time, white house council charles rut. >> president clinton is not guilty of the charges that had been brought against him. he knew there is not enough folks to convict his client but he would leave nothing to chance. >> he did not committed perjury.

he must not be removed from office. >> thank you. the republicans would get the last word. >> the white house is a bullet pit. there is an old italian saying we dress in the shepard and the shirt, you will still smell the goat. >> and then. >> i move the door for final deliberation to be closed and ask consent for the yay as and nays. >> what's happening on the senate floor behind closed door. the mood isma mellow because th tv lights are off. >> there is not enough critical matt to convict the president. yet, you are still behind closed door. could something be happening. so you are just waiting and waiting. >> we were getting regular

reports and the kinds of things that they were debating looked light it could open up some new avenues and the president had lost his patience with it. >> according to press secretary, joe lockhart, he was getting concerned. all we have to do is not screw it up. when they went into private session, 100 senators, there is a high probability that they could screw it up. >> they would not know for sure until friday, february 12th, when the vote finally began. >> this is a special report from cnn. >> the senator expected to open its door to the public and vote on the two articles of impeachmentmen. impeachmentme. impeachmentmet. . we were highly tuned in. we started to hear the yays and nays. vote guilty or not guilty.

>> on the 1st article of impeachment, perjury. . >> guilty. >> mr. akaka, not guilty. >> 55 not guilty. two-thirds of the 67 votes needed to convict. the president of the united states is not guilty as charged from the first articles of impeachment. >> article two, obstruction of justice. >> mr. warner? >> guilty. the final tally, 50 guilty and 50 not guilty. sure again of the 67 votes needed for conviction. >> the senate, william jefferson

clinton, the president of the united states is not guilty is charged in the second article of impeachment. >> it was such a big moment. the republicans and democrats in the senate felt that justice had been served. in fact, the vote attested that, it was a bipartisan result. >> there was a disappointment that there was not anyone that crossed the isle in terms of a democrat voting for conviction. >> like the soul democrat, the senator crossed the isle and voted for republicans not to dismiss the charges earlier was now back in line with the democrats. >> i think you can conclude that somebody has committed an offense that it is an impeachable offense that you

don't believe it is appropriate for them to be removed from office because we could harm the country. >> this was very somber and sad. there was no celebration. >> it was to the president to heal that pain and division. >> testing, one, two. >> i sat down with him and wrote a short statement for him. he didn't try to shift the blame. >> i want to say again to the american people how profoundly sorry i am for what i have said and did to trigger these events and great burden it had imposed on the congress and the american people. >> he truly was sorry.

he truly did want to reconcile. >> we'll rededicate ourselves to the work of serving our nation and building our future together. >> president clinton walked away from that podium and back to the white house. impeached but not removed. left to serve his remaining two years. his presidency intact but his legacy forever altered. the wait is over. t-mobile is lighting up 5g nationwide. while some 5g signals go only blocks, t-mobile 5g goes miles... beyond the big cities to the small towns... to the people. now, millions of americans can have access to 5g on t-mobile. and this is just the beginning. t-mobile, the first and only nationwide 5g network.

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1787, the founders create the american constitution. they ask do we need impeachment? james madison's answer, you bet. if men were angels, no government would be necessary. james madison meets donald trump. >> there are no crimes, they are