. >> thanks for spending part of your evening with me on "fox report." i'm rick leventhal, have a safe and productive week. "scandalous" starts in five seconds. >> it was the political story of the decade. >> a remarkable time to be a political journalist in washington, d.c. >> the whole atmosphere was surreal. >> we like our presidents to resonate with the majesty of the office. but they're human beings and fallable. >> we were looking at things we didn't think could survive. >> lying could massively get you in trouble. >> you put a lot at risk when you do such a thing. >> there is such a thing as constitution, and impeachable offense. >> sounds like you're running a hot dog stand, you're running the country. >> the truth did come out but the american public never heard about it. >> the country and the media

would never be the same. washington was engulfed by an >> between 1993 and 2001, washington was ingulfed by endless series of scandals involving the presidency of william jefferson clinton. allegations of suspicious land deals. mysterious deaths. sexual misconduct. and ultimately the subversion of justice fascinated america. paralyzed the political process, and culminated in the impeachment and trial of the president of the united states. 20 years later, the fault lines that divided america in the late '90s are still there. sometimes they move unseen just below the surface, but they also create closures in the political fence. hillary clinton's presidential

campaign of 2016 revived some of the questions her critics never let go. and the same investigative tools used to go after the clintons now loom over the trump presidency. this is the story behind the greatest scandal in american political history. some of the names and faces are familiar, while some of the details already seem long forgotten. as most scandals, this one began in small northern arkansas where white river meets crooked creek.

>> now this is what most folks think of as whitewater. clean, rippling water and stepping stones, but it's really so much more. come see. see for yourself.. >> i'm joe hicks, born and raised right here in this area. pretty much done this all my life. everybody that comes down river will ask you where is whitewater or where do the clintons have their place at? >> before whitewater was synonymous with controversy, it was a straightforward investment opportunity in the ozarks. >> whitewater was a small real estate development on the banks of the white river in marron

county, arkansas. >> whitewater had four business partners. jim and susan mcdougal, bill and hillary clinton. >> bill clinton is an arkansas boy from hot springs, and runs for attorney general of arka is elected. >> j mcdougal was a longtime democratic party operative. >> he had been involved in politics, a college professor. >> smooth-talking, good old southern boy. smart as a whip. >> he considered himself somewhat of an entrepreneur, he would buy land and develop it and sell it. >> i met him at washtabba university, and i locked myself out, and i went over to his office and i said does your key fit this? and he kicked the door down, and i should have known then. i should have said, who does that? >> jim did. that was the kind of man he was. a southern gentleman with a

little edge. >> jim was bigger than life, a few days we got married after i graduated college. >> these two characters, jim and susan mcdougal were straight out of central casting. >> jim got a job working for william fullbright, he hired a man named bill clinton. >> he loved him, not long after i met jim. up roars this convertible, bill clinton came out and told a story being in love for hillary. he said this is for real, he never talks about anybody like that. >> i became friends with the clintons, jim got the clintons to invest with them on a couple little things and they came up to the whitewater estes. >> jim was always looking for property, and we would talk to the professionals in the area, and that would be chris wade and rosalie wade. >> the wades ran a small mom and pop operation in the ozark

mountains. >> they came up to the real estate office and said they were interested in developing property. >> in 1978, chris wade offered jim an undeveloped piece of land, price tag, $303,000. >> it was land on the bluff overlooking the white river. >> he said let's drive up and take a look at it. >> jim and susan fell in love with it. >> we get there, and there's water running through it. trees were beautiful. it was quiet and serene, almost like looking like cartoon of arkansas. >> jim was sold but needed partners. >> i got this piece in the bayou, you want to go in with me? i'll take care of financing it. >> jim offered bill the opportunity to make a few hundred dollars on it. it would be a little bit of a prestige that bill clinton owned a track in whitewater. >> the two couples borrowed money from the local bank and put up a 10% down payment. that same year, 32-year-old

bill clinton became the youngest governor in the country. the newly formed whitewater corporation started parcelling out the land and selling lots. >> the idea was to take this big piece of property and put roads in it. >> we did all the work as far as doing the surveys and road building, and jim and susan kind of worked on the marketing. >> by 1980, thing took a turn for the worse. bill clint lost his re-election bid, and jim mcdougal quit politics. >> mcdougal and several others built a bank in west arkansas and loaned money to help the whitewater development. they made one loan in the amount of $30,000 in the name of hillary clinton. >> the loan was for hillary to build a model home on the property. three decades later, the house still sits on what is now a quiet tree-lined street. >> some blamed its remote

location. >> if you didn't have a rugged pickup, you almost couldn't get in there. >> at the same time, interest rates were skyrocketing. >> whitewater failed because jimmy carter was elected president, and interest rates went through the roof. so for a long period of time, we did not sell a lot of the tract. >> no cash in hand and mortgages due, jim mcdougal dipped into his own pocket to pay off loans. at the time, he claimed he was keeping the clintons in the dark. >> i was trying to carry the load because i was embarrassed. and didn't want them to suffer. >> while mcdougal was struggling, bill clinton was busy moving back into the governor's mansion. >> and in '82 he was elected and stays governor until 1992 when he was elected president. >> if you will raise your right hand. >> meanwhile, jim mcdougal was busy expanding his banking business. >> so mcdgal hass regular bank, while in the meantime in the early 80s all across the

uned states, they have savings & loan associations. >> savings & loans were sleepy little mom and pop banks. >> they could do a lot more than banks. they were less regulation, if you will. >> jim mcdougal bought madison guaranty savings & loan, and began engaging in development loans. loans to help people build properties. >> there weren't a lot of rules in place. and you could loan on anything. >> as he did, he got in way over his head and began to engage in corrupt loans. >> suddenly the deregulation dates were open to anyone lending on anything and everything and to everybody. >> the savings & loan revolution freed up a lot of folks to buy into the s&l's and start lending practices you wouldn't see at ordinary banks. >> mcdougal took it from having assets from 3 million to 100 million in a couple of years. he retained 10% in checking

accounts. >> i don't think i ever saw a savings & loan as dirty as madison guaranty savings & loan. in terms of total dollar amount, it was a drop in a bucket. the self-dealing that went on there, the conflicts of interest were among the most brazen i had ever seen. >> to raise more funds, jim turned to former little rock municipal judge david hale. >> david hale ran a small business administration lending company and capital management. >> somebody invested $500,000 in mr. hale's company, the sba would match that 3-1. they would give hale 1.5 million. >> he was posed to use the money for the impoverished but instead charged with using it helping friends of the clintons. >> hale's capital management services made a $300,000 loan to susan mcdougal. it literally was signing and

then signing and i said is that all there is to this? and he handed me this check. i don't know why i did accept it. jim was a good salesman. >> in the mid 80s, the savings & loans began to drop like flies. >> by march of 1989 madison had failed, requiring a $60 million taxpayer bailout. jim mcdougal had also bottomed out. susan left him, he had been hospitalized for manic depression and he was facing potential jail time. perhaps foreshadowing how politically toxic jim would soon become, the once close relationship with bill clinton deteriorated. >> the relationship that seemed so promising ended formally in 1992. >> as clinton's star was rising. >> today i proudly announce my candidacy for president of the united states of america! [cheers] this is something that i'm

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the guts to be one again. i need your help, let's go win this election. thank you very much! >> there is a lot of excitement among democrats. they had been out of power for 12 years, and here was this wrong upstart governor from arkansas, came out of nowhere. >> on january 17, just before the all-important iowa caucuses and new hampshire primaries, the first clinton scandal erupted. >> i was bill clinton's lover for 12 years, and for the past two years i have lied to the press about a relationship to protect him. now he tells me. >> clinton is hoping to deal decisively with the gennifer flowers story. >> she didn't tell theuth. >> i have been in new hampshire and mississippi aouisiana around real voters. i can't find any citizen who will ask me a question about this. >> the crisis covering the clinton campaign. >> the campaign's response would fore shadow the clinton's

playbook on scandal management. deny and return fire. >> all i can tell you is it isn't a true fire, the article is not true. >> damage control kicked into high gear january 26, following the redskins victory over the buffalo bills in super bowl 26. millions tuned into "60 minutes." >> i have acknowledged wrongdoing, i have acknowledged causing pain in my marriage. >> if that's not enough for people, then heck, don't vote for him! >> to say bill clinton allowed him to become president was the "60 minutes" interview was hillary. she reached out in the ocean and grabbed them and brought them back. >> can't make that up. and he hit a longball home run. >> the mainstream news organizations were digging into bill clinton's record and his past, and the clinton camp was very much on the defensive. >> i think the matter is closed. >> they did not want embarrassing stories that would

get in the way of their march to the white house. >> february brought fresh controversy over bill clinton's vietnam draft. >> after using deferment long enough to avoid the draft, clinton backed out of his deal to join the rotc program. he called the charges a tired old story. >> the character charges chipped away at poll numbers. he suddenly trailed by double digits. >> you didn't finish first or second in new hampshire, it's over. >> bill clinton! >> but bill clinton wouldn't go down without a fight. his back against the wall, he surged to a second place finish in new hampshire. >> new hampshire tonight has made bill clinton a comeback kid. [ cheers ] >> with his new momentum, a wave of national reporters descended on little rock, arkansas. >> he was a democratic front-runner, so digging into who he was and into his past was a key part of what we do.

>> march of '92, there was an article on the front page of the "new york times." >> it was very hard to decipher exactly what the there there was but there did seem to be a lot of unanswered questions that only grew because of the fact that they didn't want to release all their records about the clintons and mcdougals. >> it was embarrassment. so not only it would increase the suspicions that many people just had, that they were hiding something. >> my boss said hey, you see this article. i would like to you go little rock and determine whether or not whitewater called the loss to madison guaranty and the u.s. taxpayers. >> gene lewis was investigator with the resolution trust

company. the rtc. >> under the jurisdiction of the treasury department was conducting investigations into sangs & fraud all around the country. >> and she was the one really who uncovered the problems in madison guaranty savings & loan. >> the fact the clintons were mentioned in the article made it important because the possibility existed that their actions may have caused a loss to the u.s. taxpayers by virtue of their action that this real estate deal. >> as jean lewis started digging, the article went largely unnoticed. meanwhile, bill clinton was in the path to becoming his pare's nominee, many thought impossible. [cheers] >> the people had focus and respect the majesty of the democratic system. >> i still believe in a place called hope. god bless america!

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>> this is a fox news alert. i'm rick leventhal. congress back in session tonight as lawmakers scramble to get the government back open. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell scheduling a procedural vote on the spending bill at 1:00 a.m. eastern time. as a small group of bipartisan senators work to hammer out a deal. president trump saying senators should invoke the nuclear

option to end the stalemate that would effectively lower the amount of votes needed to pass a bill in the senate. majority leader mcconnell is opposed to doing that. as congress debates a solution, lawmakers remain at odds. democrats insisting any spending bill should include daca assurances to protect so-called dreamers, while republicans refuse to negotiate immigration issues until the government is back open. we'll continue to bring the latest from capitol hill throughout the night including the possible 1:00 a.m. vote. for now, i'm rick leventhal, back to "scandalous.". >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations. [cheers and applause] >> bill clinton was presidency was regarded as normal, we were shifting from republican to democrat, which this country tends to do. >> brought with him a strong democratic majority in both houses of congress. >> he also brought with him a number of friends from

arkansas. >> there's a thing that happens withdent presi who are not from washington, and that is they've got a team from their home state and this is the team that got them elected. who's going to tell them they don't know what they're doing. >> many came from the rose law firm. >> the rose law firm was a prominent little rock, arkansas law firm. prominent because it had a lot of great lawyers and among them were hillary clinton. two men who mentored hillary and guide her and smoothed her path. webb hubbell. >> webster hubbell is a very accomplished lawyer, he was on the arkansas supreme court. >> also partner at the rose law firm, versus close with mrs. clinton in particular. foster would be probably the main litigator in the rose law firm. he had been president of the bar association. probably the most highly thought of lawyer in the whole group. >> when president clinton was elected they asked mr. hubbell and mr. foster and bill kennedy

to go washington with them. >> bill clinton obviously became the president of the united states. >> webb hubbell had the number three position in the justice department, was called associate attorney general. >> mr. foster went to washington as both the clintons' personal lawyer and the deputy white house counsel. >> along with vincent foster and webster hubbell, notable figures would feature prominently in president clinton's first term. bernard nussbaum, a well-respected attorney part of the congressional staff investigating the watergate scandal was white house counsel. george stephanopoulos who had run communications for the '92 campaign became white house communications director. and florida state attorney ralgene janet reno was appointed u.s. attorney general after controversies forced two early candidates to bow out. >> it looked like umbrellas, first hundred days were stormy. >> explosion of extraordinary magnitude that ripped beneath

the underground garage of the world trade center complex. >> february 26, 1993, a truck bomb tore through new york's world trade center, killing six and injuring 1,000. two days later, a bloody shoot-out erupted after agents from the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms raided a compound near waco, texas. inside a sect of the branch davidians suspected of weapons violations. before noon, four government agents and six branch davidians, dead. >> the tense standoff continues with little sign of resolution. >> ensuing standoff dragged on for 51 days, until april 19. that morning, the fbi launched a tear gas assault on the compound as shots rang out from inside. a fire soon spread. and 76 branch davidians never made it out. while america watched the

crisis at waco unfold, trouble of a different sort was brewing in washington. inside the old executive office building is the small unit that handles last minute travel for psident and the media who accompany him. >> in the office of the white house, we're going on air force one somewhere and we're going to take 25 media. >> citing corruption and bad management, the new administration wanted to clean house. >> there was a young lady working at the white house by the name of catherine cornelius that has been reported she was the second cousin of bill clinton, and she wanted the job. >> billy dale and the six members of staff most of whom served in the presidencies of ronald reagan and george h.w. bush were released. >> being gassed by the white house travel office, wasn't handled right. we'll get to the bottom of it. >> bad business and smelled bad, and the new people did a

lousy job. >> last weekend we were able to have about a 25% reduction in the travel costs. >> you know it wasn't the same service. we know it wasn't the same service. how come he didn't know? >> i think the same travel service. >> it was an ugly episode. >> the white house would backpeddle, issue apologies and chalk it up to, quote, inexperience, but years later, a memo would surface written by white house staffer david watkins. >> he said there would be hell to pay from the first lady if we didn't do this. mrs. clinton's position, she had no role in that. there was evidence to the contrary. ultimately it was concluded that you can't chae her wh not telling the truth about at. >> in the press, the situation became known as travelgate. >> one of the worst things the media did is attach the word gate to every political sin the administration committed. travelgate was a lot of nothing. when you put the word gate on

it, ah-hah, it must be a crime the way watergate was a crime. >> focused on the inner workings of the west wing. >> continued focus especially by the "wall street journal" on editorial page. >> particularly people like deputy white house counsel vince foster. >> he was kind of being a scapegoat on the trafg office firings, like who is vince foster. >> foster had a very good reputation before he went to washington. all of a sudden he's in the limelight. >> one of the things that bothered foster is the journal was raising questions about what was going on there? >> foster clearly is depressed. >> white house spokesperson dee dee myers said the president telephoned foster to come to the white house on the evening of the 19 to watch the movie. >> the movie in the line of fire starring eastwood as a secret service agent. the question is are you willing

to step into the line of fire to protect your president? >> july 20, 1993, was a busy day. supreme court nominee ruth bader ginsburg began confirmation hring befe the senate judiciary committee on capitol hill. >> my approach is neither liberal nor conservative. >> in little rock, the fbi obtained a search warrant for the office of date of hale's capital management services and in the white house rose garden, president clinton announced a major nomination. >> good morning. >> just one day earlier, bill clinton became the first president in history to fire a sitting fbi director. after william sessions refused the opportunity to resign over ethical misconduct allegations. >> today i'm pleased to nominate a law enforcement legend to be director of the fbi, judge louie freeh. >> the appointment of a new fbi

director was meant to bring calm to the justice department and embattled attorney general janet reno. around noon, vince foster returned to his office in the west wing. he was seen by white house counsel bernard nussbaum and three assistants, including one whose part of the greater story wouldn't become clear for five years, a woman named linda tripp. tripp would later tell investigators foster seemed preoccupied. before leaving the building, without his briefcase, he said i'll be back. the events of the next 12 hours may forever be clouded in history but the catalyst that would lead from the whitewater land deal to one of the wildest political stories of all-time. been jimmy's longest.

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♪ ♪ohhhh, ou! guess what i just got? uh! ♪i used to be spellbound hello again. ♪i used to be spellbound hi. ♪i used to be spellbound that's a big phone. ♪in your arms. [screams] ah, my phone. ♪you built the flame ♪that warms my heart, ♪but lying and cheating ♪has torn us apart ♪and i'm moving on. ♪ >> after leaving his office in the west wing on july 20, 1993, deputy white house counsel . >> after leaving his office in the west wing on july 20th, 1993, deputy white house counsel vince foster got this his honda accord and drove to fort marcy park on the virginia

side of the potomac river. at some point, foster exited his car and walked into the park towards a pair of civil war cannons. on a nearby slope, he pulled out a 38 caliber revolveer. >> put the gun in his mouth and shot himself, and then he fell back. >> wasn't until shortly after 6:00 p.m. that authority arrived at fort marcy park. that timeline and the account of the various witnesses would become a point of contention for years to come. at the white house, when news of foster's suicide reached chief of staff mack mclarty prent clinton was in the middle of a live tevision interview with larry ng, the first lady was visiting her mother in little rock and told her the news. television interview ended a short time later. the president learned the death of his childhood friend. both clintons were shocked and heart broken by the news. >> he was adicus finch.

he was kind, he was loving, he was a quiet man who believed in the law. >> original investigation was done by the park police. they concluded it was a suicide. a lot of people said no, he couldn't have committed suicide, he must have been murdered. >> cottage industry of conspiracy theorists would allege all sorts of wrongdoing. >> crazy theories, he was murdered in the white house and rolled up in a carpet. murdered in the saudi embassy next door. >> i had forensic experts among others including the chief medical examiner from new york, charles hirsch, like it is my unequivocal, categorical opinion that it is 100% impossible that he was murdered. >> we spent years looking into it. the overwhelming weight of the evidence is that mr. foster committed suicide in fort marcy

park. >> multiple investigations concluding the death was suicide did little to silence the conspiracy theorists. >> i was asked in the last montouon't think foster killed hims the answer was yes. the right wing did not like that. they wanted to believe it was murder. >> what the american public wouldn't know for many months is that the tragic death of the president's old friend is only part of the story that night. the response inside the white house, and the legal and political maneuvering and the hours and days to come would put the presidency in danger. >> the intrigue and the hustle and bustle of the white house came to a halt. president clinton canceled his public schedule after learning the death of his childhood friend and white house lawyer vincent foster. >> the president shared a private moment with senior staff and stepped into the rose garden to address the nation.

>> and it is very important that his life not be judged simply by how it ended because vince foster was a wonderful man. >> that changes everything. it changes the white house. it changes the clintons. >> there seemed to me to be a terrible cloud everywhere. >> vincent foster was a lifelong friend of president clintons and president clinton returned to arkansas for the funeral services. >> he asked the justice department to coordinate the investigation of this tragedy. >> on the night of the suicide and the days that followed, that investigation would be complicated by disputes over the contents of foster's office and who had access to it. >> vincent foster died, the president is informed, mrs. clinton informed. people then start visiting vincent foster's office in the white house. >> there was evidence that documents were removed from foster's office. >> the white house counsel bernard nussbaum, presidential aides, mrs. clinton's aides, start removing documents.

now what's going on with that? >> park police wanted to come in and search the office for his papers. >> mr. nussbaum is denying them access. >> his position was i'm just trying to do what any lawyer would do to protect the interests of their client. >> are they relevant to madison? are they relevant to whitewater? what are those? >> the behavior of the president's aides would lead to years of unanswered questions about the nature of the documents in foster's position. while some things were removed from the office, others seem to suddenly appear. >> six days after mr. foster's death, a tornup note is found in the bottom of his briefcase. >> vince foster's hasn't written letter of distress was found in a briefcase in white house office torn into more than two dozen pieces. >> dee dee myers says the note appeared to confirm suicide because of the despair about his high-pressured job.

>> it did show him to be in a distressed state of mind or troubled state of mind for work. >> the note read i was not meant for the job of the spotlight of public life in washington. here ruining people is considered sport, and that the public will never believe the innocence of the clintons and their loyal staff. >> one of the "wall street journal" editors lie without consequence. on july 22nd, the "wall street journal" publishes another article concerning mr. foster. the death is a tragedy but owe it to mr. foster to find out what's going on? life happens. that's why feeling safe is priceless. with adt, you can feel safe with an adt starter kit

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>> when the story linking the clintons to jim mcdougal, the owner of the failed madison . >> in the story linking the clintons to jim mcdougal, the owner of the failed madison guaranty savings & loan was first published in 1992, it had gone largely unnoticed. >> didn't amount to a hill of beans at that point in time. nobody was really paying attention to it. >> nobody but jean lewis. an investigator for resolution trust corporation digging through madison's files in an arkansas warehouse. >> i identified the 12 accounts that have funds blowing between them, all of which touched a combination of people, jim mcdougal, susan mcdougal, jim guy tucker.

>> jim guy tucker, former lieutenant governor and became governor after governorlinton became president clinton. >> in order to pay bills for these 12 different, jim mcdougal or one of his employees, would write a check from account a to account b, creating the appearance of money that did not exist. >> louis wrote the first of many criminal referrals related to mcdougal savings & loan and submitted it to federal prosecutors but it went nowhere. >> we in october of '93, received a letter from paula casey, the new u.s. attorney in the eastern district of arkansas. that letter stated we are declining your madison guaranty referral. >> meanwhile, the country was transfixed by drama unfolding on the other side of the world. on october 3rd, the united states army rangers set out on

a mission to capture of group of war lords in mogadishu, somalia. things went bad fast. the horrific images what became known as black hawk down were broadcast live while america watched in horror, jean lewis sent nine new criminal referrals to the u.s. attorney's office. on halloween day 1993, the "washington post" reported on the referrals and their links to the clintons. >> there was nothing standard about the investigation of madison guaranty savings & loan and attributable to the fact it was politically charged because it identified bill and hillary clinton. >> three days later, webb hubbell, former law partner of hillary clinton recused himself from all whitewater matters. suddenly, the questions surrounding whitewater were landing on the front page. >> when investigators were

barred from foster's office, there was suspicion aides were hiding documents about the clinton's involvement in a failed arkansas land deal called whitewater. >> two days before christmas in 1993 with criticism growing and the subpoena looming, the white house agreed to turn over whitewater documents to the justice department. as questions related to whitewater continued to hound the administration, republicans called for attorney general janet reno to appoint independent counsel, but it had been a republican filibuster in congress that let the independent counsel statute expire after gop discontent with the iran-contra investigations of the 1980s. >> people, including democrats, came to realize that the statute was a terrible mistake. that it made politics into a crime. >> so reno refused. arguing it was up to congress to re-enact the statute after which a three-judge panel could appoint an independent counsel.

>> she said since i report to the president, there will be an appearance of a lack of independence. you want an independent counsel, you will re-enact the statute. >> that particular time, whitewater seemed to be relatively small issue, but the only way to get it out of the way was to get somebody to investigate what happened. >> in january 1994, the calls for a whitewater investigation followed president clinton overseas as he attended an international summit on arms control and nonproliferation. but the international diplomacy was overshadowed by questions from back home. >> finally got to the point where politically smart thing to do became the appointment of a special counsel. >> president today has directed white house counsel bernard nussbaum to request the attorney general to appoint a special counsel. >> after the announcement, reno said she would honor the president's request. >> it is important that public confidence be preserved. thus i do not think we can wait until the independent counsel

statute is re-enacted. >> she appointed what they call a regulatory independent counsel named bob fiske. this is the same as bob mueller is today. >> i was looking for somebody who would be fair and impartial and i think mr. fiske fits that description to a t. >> she basically said do you have all the authority you need? i said yes. she said, thank you very much for doing this and i won't be talking to you again until this is over. >> the investigation of whitewater was the beginning of what i call the criminalization of political differences. he doesn't just get the ability to ask questions. he gets a fishing license. he can go on anything. >> gng to take a leave of absence from my law firm, so that i can conduct a complete, thorough and impartial investigation. >> expect him to report to the american people and i do not expect to monitor him. >> a new investigation into vince foster's death, utilizing

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>> remarkable allegations about how basically they spend a lot of time facilitating bill clinton's sexual liaisons. >> the story was written by a conservative reporter, david brock, who made a name for himself two years earlier attacking anita hill. >> which didn't like bill arclinton and hell bent to go after him. >> with backing from a man in pittsburgh, the spectator began an assault on the clintons that they internally referred to as the arkansas project. the initiative began in the days of following the death of vince foster but the article raised the stakes. >> there was a great pushback from the clinton white house and it's defenders. one of the lines that was used by the clinton camp is if this is really all true, where are you. >> there were two sentences deep

within the article to prove being the biggest bock shell. bombshell. he approached the woman, tell her how attractive the governor thought she was and to take her to a room in a hotel.ld only identified by her first name in the spectator, two short months later in february 1994, the world would know the story. on the next episode of "scandalous." >> this is paula jones. >> to slide up my leg. >>ay may not have committed suicide, the body may have been moved. >> it became yet another glitch for who wanted to accuse the clintons. >> so that's how it began. >> a phone call many the early summer. >> a stack of papers suddenly

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