. >> reporter: a white house intern with bill clinton. >> the white house started to receive subpoenas from the independent counsel kenneth star involve all of the records involving monica lewinsky. >> reporter: clinton was questioned about an extramarital affair with lewinsky. he denied it all and reiterated as much days later to reporters. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman, miss lewinsky. >> reporter: hillary clinton said it's some sort of conspiracy. >> the vast right wing conspiracy has has been conspiring against my husband since the day he was announced president. >> reporter: clinton admits he did have a relationship with lewinsky and withheld information during his deposition. >> while my answers were legally

clinton is to watch for the people who don't vote for you, too. my other experience is i know how much it matters who is on the inside of the white house. there were probably four moments that stand out at a time where it could have gone the other way for clinton. i don't think he's ever in danger of getting convicted in the u.s. senate, but was definitely danger -- in danger of democrats. we can get wobbly on supporting our own people. the day of the impeachment itself. david was a staff person on the hill this is when bob resigned , as speaker. on that day, he resigned because he was caught having an affair with a lobbyist. we were terrified in the clinton white house that it would be a cascade. it was quick decision-making on the part of the staff and president on how to handle it. politics in prison of -- politics in prison of distraction had to stop now. there are moments like that. i'm not sure that crowd has that. >> i want to ask elise, somebody who has had experience with the national security apparatus, having served in that capacity on the communications side. we have an allegation from the president, he talked to the presiden

the one place where people were not talking about impeachment was the clinton white house. the lifeblood of this presidency is grievance and controversy. right? so this is not actually -- impeachment is not a distraction for them. impeachment is their ballgame. >> it's gasoline on the bon fire. >> i understand that it's going to help them in some ways. but it helps them in the ways that's like 40% of the country. >> to jen's point, there's two ways to think about the senate races particularly. one is that it makes it harder for the democrats to win back the senate. the other is that you put susan collins on the spot, you put cory gardner on the spot, you put marketa mcsally on the spot and you say you are now going to be forced to do something you haven't done before and that is choose this guy or choose not this guy. >> the political consequences of the clinton impeachment in 1998 were that following o'-- or on the eve of republicans impeaching president clinton, they won the popular vote for the congress across the nation. they got more votes than the democrats. i realize

just with that from everything else in the white house in order to try and have the appearance that this impeachment proceeding is not paralyzed in the clintonstration. chlorl clearly this is an approach that is rejected so far by the trump white house. >> steve, you mentioned u.s. special envoy to ukraine, kurt volker, a couple minutes ago, who resigned. the current former diplomat calls it disturbing and said one cannot overlook this in strengthening our partnership with the u.s. we know volker will be questioned next week by the house affairs community. do you believe he will incriminate giuliani, and is this a big loss? >> this is a complicated story for a lot of viewers. it happens in a very far-flung part of the world. ukraine, who is in an existential position with russia, they already cut off a chunk of the country when they took ukraine. so the united states is really the primary force that allows ukraine to remain as a country in europe. we are the ones who are supporting them against russia, or at least that's what should be doing and that's what we had been doing for a number of years. guys like volker and other professionals lik

joining us now, former clinton white house press secretary. joe lock heart. ew york times" did a look back on how the clinton white house faced impeachment including the strategy by his chief of staff. a water cooler discussion about the monica scandal and i will quote break your neck, he recalled telling staffers using an expletive. mr. clinton's aides had studied watergate and their take away was that the public believed richard nixon was beiury with t scandal so the only way to keep his rating up was to demonstrate mr. clinton was still doing the job he was elected to do for the people. did that strategy work for clinton and should president trump take note? >> well, you know, it did in a sense that his popularity not only was strong, it increased from 63% to 73% the day he was impeached. it worked because the public wanted the president to do their business. not what the republicans or democrats wanted to do in d.c. so i think it was a very effective strategy. as far as the trump administration, they followed the exact opposite strategy. the president can'

clinton. bush revised it. and then trump else white house has again reiterated it. if a president can't be indicted and a president can claim executive privilege on almost just about anything now, and a republican party which is refuses to put guard rails on this president, the only way outside of november 2020 to hold this president accountbility -- there is no other way other than impeachment. so to me that's the principled argument that you have to do it. i don't think he'll be convicted in the senate. there's no way. i don't think richard nixon would have been impeached or what have resigned if they held the senate. he would have never gotten impeached. you can go back and look at the transcripts. republicans stuck with him for a lengthy period of time. >> is there not someone who can step up and cause the avalanche to happen? >> so is there idea that there could possibly be somebody? >> if there's one or there's two. amar alexander or mitt romney. >> the theory is correct. i think mitt romney who has said certain things will -- will high tail it back to a safe

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and clinton white house aid. hell yes is what he said. taking away assault weapons.as the applause louder in the room of democrats or among republicans who support the nra position? >> well, from a policy and campaign standpoint, let's say the republicans can say he gave a gift to republicans who have said all along the ultimate goal of democrats is to confiscate guns. congressman o'rourke received well deserved praise for the leadership and the compassion he showed in the wake of the terrible shootings in el paso. hats off to him for that. he's understandably emotional and that led to extreme comments on confiscation of guns. even democrats have said today it under mines current bipartisan efforts to go about sensible gun violence control. and also is counter productive to the progress that has been made. so in my view i understand why he is extremely emotional. efts are under way. efforts are under way. they have been talking for weeks president and republicans and democrats. we are making progress. this unfortunately gives republicans a pause. >> it does give them

the white house, the white house says national security council attorneys directed this ukraine call can transcript to be moved. you were on obama's national security council. jack quinn, former clinton white house counsel, just said that sounds so odd to him, that white house lawyers would say that should be moved. what do you think? >> i completely agree. the white house lawyers, lawyers for the national security council of to protect the you'll of law. their job, essentially the traffic cop making sure nsc officials are following the rules and the law. it's deeply troubling these reports suggest nsc lawyers or white house lawyers were directing information to be mishandled or handled inappropriately. that raises serious red flags and real does need to be investigated. >> conducting themselves or whether or not that happened? >> both. >> talk about nancy pelosi. the speaker said that the attorney general, barr, who is mentioned in this phone call, but insists the doj does, that the president didn't actually reach out to him in the way he said he was going to in the phone call. pelosi says he's gone rog, adam schiff has little confidence the doj will be able to investigate barr or g

. >>> now to dig down further into these new numbers, with me now are former clinton white house pressecretary joe lockhart and former hillary clinton spokesperson karen finney. joe, i want to go first to you. we see here now this dead heat really at the top of these polls. we have warren at 22%, biden at 20. but given the 4% range there, they are essentially tied or at least in a dead heat. how important a sign is this for warren? >> well, i think it signifies and memorializes what a good campaign she's been running. she's really been the candidate who has moved. biden started at the top. i'm sure he expected someone to move to be, you know, the co-frontrunner. and she's done that. you know, the one word of caution here, though, is where we are in the calendar, that this race is most analogous to 2004, where you have lots of candidates. and, yes, john kerry went on to win and he won iowa. but estimate in september he was way back in the field. everybody was talking about howard dean. so it is very good news for elizabeth warren. i don't think it's bad news for biden. i think he's hold

. >> i covered the clinton white house the last time we went through this.he jokes and the tweet readings and the snarkiness around the town, you krosh that threshold, you're in a different pla place. you made the point about the freshmen. you have to think of the democratic pie, above 60%, heading to 70%. we suspect that number will grow. the speaker's voice is the most important point. her rationale for months has been go slow. we have 30 or 40 members from difficult districts back home, if you want to fight for health care, all the things on the democratic agenda, we need to keep the majority. you read the op-ed written by seven freshmen members, in a big democratic year. they write, if these allegations are true, we believe these actions represent an impeachable offense. we do not arrive at this conclusion lightly. we call on our colleagues to consider the use of all congressional authorities available to us including the power of inherent contempt and impeachment hearings to address these new allegations. find the truth and protect our national security

white house especially among senior staff. they don't have a set communications team the way that for instance the nixon white house did by this point. the clinton and so to be thrown into chaos with a new team is incredibly challenging. at the same time there can be no question that releasing the transcript was the correct thing to do because they were going to have to turn over the whistle-blower complaint. if you turned over the whistle-blower complaint without the transcript i think they would be in a lot worse shape than they are today. i think the president gets frustrated when things aren't going well without ever considering this is still the best option he could be in. >> i want to get your reaction to what former republican senator jeff flake is quoted as saying. he thinks at least 35 republicans senators would vote to impeach trump if the vote were private. what do you think? the vote is not going to be private. >> an interesting interview with mitt romney this week with "the atlantic" and i thought he was pretty forthcoming. whether he represents all senators or not it is hard to say but i think over the course of history to your poi

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also joining us joe lockhart, press secretary from the clinton white house and ran the clinton war roomthat impeachment. when you hear about this ambitious timeline, what do you see in that? >> i think two things. one is they have what they need on articles of impeachment pertaining to the mueller report. they've -- you know, that won't take many up. i don't think they'll have to do any public information gathering on that. secondly i think the speaker wants this done ahead of the campaign next year and get it done while people are focused on it. it's a chick and an egg thing, but the polls have moved. the public now is in a poll this morning supportive by one point of impeachment. that was a 12-point deficit last week. i think what she's done is very smart. she's narrowed it. she's put it in probably the best prosecutor's hands. and also the most serious committee. which you don't have the crazies on the intel committee except for maybe mr. nunes but that's a whole other subject. i think by narrowing it, she'll be able to move with enough speed so they can politically take advantage of

stan and i cross paths in my previous incarnation as a speechwriter in the clinton white house back in the jurassic period of american politics. he was then assessing voter moods and preferences in providing political strategy as the clinton's chief poster. helping an upstart young governor when the presidency and then becoming one of his chief advisers would be the high water mark for most political professionals. but in stan's case just one of the many ways in which his influence progressive politics and policies over her remarkable career. let me just say that one of his very very best moves politically and personally was marrying rosa delauro, who is here somewhere. there she is in the back. i hope you all know she is not only a smart and wonderful great woman. she's also one of the most consistently progressive feminist voices in the united states house of representatives. from connecticut. it's great to have you here. also great to have some other greenberg family members who are chips off the block when it comes to being active in trying to write the world's wrongs. in addition

joining me now, former clinton white house press secretary joe lo lockheart and former congressman charlient. glad to have you both with us. speaker pelosi telling cnn tonight, quote, we will have no chance other than to reference an impeachment inquiry. with the ukraine issue something seems to have changed. >> i think person personally for me, everything that's happened to now is looking backwards at what trump did back in 2016 and 2017. that i thought could be decided at the ballot box in 2020, but this is now about corrupting the next election, and for me this was crossing the red line. i think what you've seen tonight, particularly with "the washington post" op-ed from seven freshman members with national security backgrounds, these were the moderate members of the caucus that nancy pelosi was trying to protect. because they're in republican districts. this is how the democrats took back control of the house. they now have come out. so literally the dam has broken. i think what tomorrow's meeting is about is not how -- not if to impeach but how to impeach. whether you set up a select

. >> i worked in the clinton white house when that process was happening and the speaker of the houseshe's communicated over and over again she's not desperate to have an impeachment inquiry and trump did force her hand by acting potentially illegally after the mueller report. >> it took about four months for the clinton impeachment to go through sort of start to finish. you talk about timeline, some sources are saying weeks, not months. you heard the congressman say i think it's going to take a few months. >> four months including both the house and senate action. >> do you think that that timeline is realistic for this situation here, emily? >> i think something that could -- i think it probably is realistic to take a little bit longer. i think weeks does seem a little bit short. just considering how much work they have to do. there's a lot of people they need to speak to. but i actually thought the thing that was interesting that was missing from congressman man castro's comments was that trump essentially admitted it. he was talking about the fact that it was hearsay, the whistle-

yet the white house still seems ill prepared. nothing like the clinton white house with their impeachment war room. nothing like nixon's white house as well. this remains even in the most dire of times for this president and this administration a one-man circus act. >> joe, you put it right. he's his own war room. he's making himself in effect his own lawyer. as this gets more serious, he's certain to take on counsel as he did during the mueller investigation. giuliani's role is already problematic. he's one of the targets in effect of this inquiry. the contrast to me that's most interesting after this last week is the careful and quite methodical way that democrats are proceeding. pelosi's tone is more sorrow than anger. this is our last resort, we don't want to make things worse, and she's chosen adam schiff to made this inquiry, a person who is very controlled, doesn't get spun off, doesn't appear as political as some of his colleagues, and i think that contrast between a white house that's in a fever and democrats who are trying to keep the fever dow

cnn political commentator and former clinton white house press secretary joe lockhart and cnn politicaldoes swearing typically make a presidential candidate seem more authentic, more passionate maybe, or does it seem contrived? >> i think if it comes off as authentic, it helps you break out of the pack. and i think for beto in particular, who was having trouble getting traction and is still in the lower tier of the candidates, this was something that hit close to home, and it was authentic when it came out. i'm not sure he'll continue doing this. but we've had a general coarsening of our politics. remember, the president has said a number of things on camera that are on par with what beto said. so, you know, i think if you need to say, hey, everyone, pay attention to me, you know, short of lighting your hair on fire, using profanity is one way, and i think it's worked for him. >> it gets your attention, no doubt. sarah, by "the washington post's" count, president trump has cursed at least 87 times in public. do you think some of these democratic candidates are trying to show they can co

. >> so joe, again, you helped run the war room in the clinton white house impeachment. u seeing today? alisyn has been suggesting that all of a sudden there's some responsiveness to the white house now that the i-word is thrown around. they're promising transcripts. we don't know what they'll be. they're promising whistleblower complaints. >> i thought it was striking after all the stonewalling, after forcing democrats to go through the court process for three years, yesterday was different. >> because they think it's real. i think they have -- it took them a couple days, but they figured out the gravity. and it seems to me it's fairly simple, it's a fairly simple political calculation, which is i think the public looked backwards on the mueller report and said all that stuff happened. and you know what? we're smart enough to figure out whether we want to vote for donald trump in the next election. it will be a free and fair election. you know, i'll vote for him or i won't vote for him. i can forgive them for that. this is fundamentally different. this is donald trump sa

. >> patrick healy, former clinton white house aide keith boynkin and rob asterino. patrick, this has become lying to cover up a mistake, which -- which turned into a lie over time. >> yeah. the president was wrong and it seems like enough administration officials now decided to say, to fix this and we'll put out false information basically through weather forecasters and these were people who were in charge of the united states government that are, you know, that the population is supposed to have faith in, that they're dealing in facts and in accurate weather forecasting who were being pressured from as high as the white house chief of staff to change their scientific-based reports because the president had his facts wrong. this is an extraordinary involvement by a white house to go into science, directly into science and how whether storms like this are forecasted, basically just to make the president, it seems like, feel better about his own, you know, guessing and predicting about -- about dorian's path. >> especially -- look, it's unacceptable the president wou

. >> reporter: a white house intern with bill clinton. >> the white house started to receive subpoenasrom the independent counsel kenneth star involve all of the records involving monica lewinsky. >> reporter: clinton was questioned about an extramarital affair with lewinsky. he denied it all and reiterated as much days later to reporters. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman, miss lewinsky. >> reporter: hillary clinton said it's some sort of conspiracy. >> the vast right wing conspiracy has has been conspiring against my husband since the day he was announced president. >> reporter: clinton admits he did have a relationship with lewinsky and withheld information during his deposition. >> while my answers were legally accurate, i did not volunteer information. >> reporter: the information was not so much the affair as the president had lied about it and concerns he asked others to lie about it too though he denied doing so. still independent counsel kenneth starr investigated and later telling the house judiciary committee saying clinton showed deception. >> the evidence

it, cnn political analyst margaret tall lib, the politics and white house editor for axios and commentator joe lockhart president clinton's former white house press secretary. start with what clarissa reported, joe, if the ukrainians are not going to put out their verbatim transcript of this conversation then it's very hard to trust actually what the white house has put out. they don't have the best record with transparency and the fact that, as jim points out, this was a five-page summary of what we understand to be a 30-minute phone call, of course it just raises the question of what are we missing? what have they expunged and hiding in the other computer network that is not supposed to be designed to store conversations like this but was. now what? >> i think that's what investigation and what adam schiff is going to be leading, because if you believe the reporting around this, and there's no reason not to, there has to be an e-mail record of people talking about, you know, did you hear what the president said and why it was moved from the normal server to another server. so i think they will try to -- you know, there

white house officials and lawyers. joining me now is nelson cunningham, former federal prosecutor and clinton white house lawyer.n i just say you are the man. look at the connections you have to so many people involved here. not only, nelson, is giuliani your former boss, he hired you at the southern district of new york. so i'm curious given all that we know about higgs role in this ukraine situation, how do you think he has handled this? >> well, you know, last year a group of us got together for a reunion. we had all been hired by him years ago. we've all gone on to do other things. over dinner we looked at each other and we all agreed we don't know this rudy giuliani. this is a different rudy giuliani than the man that we knew who was always hard charging, but was always deadly careful and i'd say fired with dead aim. that's not the rudy giuliani we're seeing today. >> i'm going to add to that and say i was a local news reporter in new york when he was the mayor of new york city. i would say the same thing from a journalistic point of view. do you think giuliani could be the person to take down the trump pre

and i guess that explains what happened to hillary clinton's official white house portrait.eople think it's easier now to do a comedy show. it's not. earlier, the chart would be the joke. our president cares so much about being right what if we made a chart that he drew on with sharpie. but in this case, he actually did do that. he's stealing our jobs. and once again, our commander in chief meteorologist doubled down. he wrote, the fake news media was fixated on the fact that i properly said at the beginnings of hurricane dorian that in addition to florida and other states, alabama may also be grazed or hit. they went crazy, hoping against hope that i made a mistake, which i didn't. which you did, by the way. check out maps. this nonsense has never happened to another president. four days of corrupt reporting, still without an apology. and, he claims he doesn't know anything about a sharpie. in fact, this is what he had to say when a reporter sheepishly asked him about that. >> that map that you showed today looked like it had been used with a sharpie. >> i don't know, i don

clinton's unsecured in- box could add up to security violations. state department officials deny the revived probe has anything to do with the white house. clinton's use after private email server when she was secretary of state was a reoccurring issue during her run for presidential three years ago. >>> the highway patrol is investigating a crash on an east bay freeway that left two people dead and another injured. it happened before four this morning on westbound interstate 80 in richmond south of the san pablo road. the driver of a honda crv was killed and the passenger of a nissan altima died. another person was hurt and rushed to the hospital. it forced authorities to close all westbound lanes and they reopened by 8 this morning. the c hp has not release add cause for the crash but say drugs or alcohol do not appear to be factors. >>> police are investigating a deadly shooting in the parking lot of the peta louma factory outlets. officers had self reports of gunshots last night at 8:00 and they had a call about a car crashing in ved theyfound a driver of the car that had crashed. he was unconscious and died in the parking lot. police

clinton. president trump told the white house counsel in the spring that he wanted to order the justice departmento prosecute two of his political adversaries, his challenger hillary clinton and the former fbi director jim comey according to two people. isn't that exactly what william barr is set out to sort of undertake with an investigation into the origins of the russia investigation which was opened by mccabe himself? >> well, not necessarily. the problem is, is that the president has done so many things in private and public that it allows people to raise that question. it's the perception that is the issue here. the president may have done something like, you know, what we reported about, how he's talked about how he wanted to prosecute hillary and comey. but in this case you have the president out there saying these things about mccabe. put aside whatever he did behind closed doors. he has advocated for this in public. this is something that he has wanted. and if mccabe goes on trial, his defense lawyers will simply point to that and say, look, his political appointees at the justice depart

. >> reporter: personal conduct by president bill clinton with a white house intern. >> the white houseed to receive subpoenas from the independent counsel kenneth starr seeking all the records involving monica lewinsky. >> reporter: during a deposition in the paula jones lawsuit clinton was questioned about an extra marital affair with lewinsky and denied it later with reporters. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman miss lewinsky. >> reporter: the first lady suggested it was all some sort of conspiracy. >> this vast white ring conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband isn't the day he announced for president. >> reporter: seven months later clinton admitted he did have a relationship with lewinsky. >> while my answers were legally accurate i did not volunteer information. >> reporter: the issue wasn't the affair so much as he lied about it. there were concerns he asked others to lie, too, though denied doing so. still, independent counsel kenneth starr investigated later telling the house judiciary committee clinton chose deception. >> the evidence suggests t

a very long and expensive campaign including political donations and hiring president clinton's former white houseinal hours of the administration he got that pardon, and you signed off on that pardon and that became a real big story, a scandal of sorts after the administration. what happened at that moment? >> yeah. you know, i'd like to think that if people that looked at the entirety of my career would think he did a good job and that doesn't mean i was perfect and that's one that i blew. >> were you under pressure? did you feel pressure to do that? >> it was interesting. it happened on the last night of the administration. i was going to be the acting attorney general, the next day we were dealing with the inauguration of friday and we were concerned about his safety along the route. the call came in and i didn't do what i should have done which was to interact with the woman on my staff who handled all pardon matters and said deborah, what do you think about this? i just made a decision where i said, you know, i'm not sure. i'm kind of for it. i didn't really kind of weigh in in the way that

and then with those policy positions with president clinton in the white house. but when i came home from that war had to stand in a military hospital with my wife with malignant brain cancer they said they could not get it you think it's blast oma. only 80 percent of kids have survived. and she was one of them. i had a health care plan in the military where photon beam therapy. we have to get to it. and is here because of this country and with a two / one district i was a second democrat since the civil war. i ran on one campaign refrain. but now i take what's in 2005 with now obama care and i put that up but 100 percent of the organization for women and 95 percent of the human rights and i was reelected. [applause] surprised by 20 points and raising $3 million to run again and i did not spend one penny. not one scenting campaign ads. but we also knew when we disagreed we would disagree well. i got out of government so arlen specter a republican senator who try to humiliate anita hill for sexual harassment now supreme court clarence thomas furcal i put out a vid

i recall another time, the clinton problem with the white house intern, mr. r, not his white house lawyer, came to the brinkley show one day and had to defend the fact that the clinton camp was saying oral sex was not sex because he had famously said he had had no sexual occasions with that woman. cokie looked at him and said, sir, you think you can convince your wife of that? once again, the poor guy, a very fine lawyer, got up during the break, tried to find the door and walked into one of the lights and almost knocked it over in the studio. >> she was certainly, sam, a voice and a perspective that this country needed and will always remember. we thank you for your thoughts of cokie roberts on this sad day. thank you so much. i want to bring in martha raddatz who worked alongside cokie roberts for nearly 30 years, martha. >> i did, amy, and her office riebt n right now is just down the hall from mine. she is just an extraordinary woman. george said, she knew it all but she was never a know-it-all. it was her office where you would go if you were having a bad

worried about inside the white house, they're worried about the same worries that you had with trump/russia where they don't have a good political operation the way that the clintonse white house does not have a carvill in place. i've heard words about jared kushner and his ability to handle this. >> so chris, we've talked a lot this morning about process, but what we haven't talked a lot about is strategy, kind of to susan's point. you've been in the middle of it. i'm just thinking, for example, at the end of the week is house is supposed to go home for two weeks. i don't know if they're going to decide that now that we've launched this impeachment inquiry, we shouldn't do that. talk to me about the strategy on both sides and ultimately is the way this plays out about who is more thoughtful and better organized? >> it's also important to understand when you talk about the politics of impeachment where public opinion is at the outset may not be where it is at the end. and part of that depends on the weight of the evidence and your ability to present it. you'll wall back in the watergate hearings when they started back in 1973, only 19% of americans supported remov

-- was selected for the 200 anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of the white house it was selected by mrs. clintonte house historical association. it is similar to the eisenhower baseplate and also very different in that it is the only base plate that has the white house itself in the center, as opposed to the eagle from --ving -- from plea best from previous base plates. it alternates with the bush base plate as well. that is a lovely green lattice selected by ms. bush during the end of the administration. as i understand, she chose the itna because it reflected or had the same image, a semler image to china that was once used by president and dolley madison in their personal china in their personal dining room. she really wanted that to draw that out, and to use that image for their selection of white house china. not every administration has has china. house -- notte every administration has white house china. it has to be replenished because china breaks over the years. there's very little lincoln china or truman heine -- truman china. the last hole service is the ragan china which is an exqui

. >> reporter: personal conduct by president bill clinton with a white house intern. >> the white housetarted to receive subpoenas from the independent counsel kenneth star seeking all of the records involving monica lewinsky. >> reporter: during a deposition, clinton was questioned about an extramarital affair with lewinsky. he denied it all a. and reiterated as much days later to reporters. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. lewinsky. >> reporter: hillary clinton suggested it all was some sort of conspiracy. >> this vast right wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president. >> reporter: accept months later, clinton admitted that he did have a relationship with louisiana lewinsky.months later, clinton admitted that he did have a relationship with louisiana lewinsky. the issue wasn't so much the favor as that the president had lied about it and he had asked others to lie about it too. still kenneth starr investigated and later telling the house judiciary committee clinton chose deceptio >> the evidence suggests that

send me off to a policy position such as working for president clinton in the white house. when i i came home from that war, i had to stand in the mull tear hospital with my wife as they rolled my daughter out 4 years old with brain cancer. they couldn't get it, they said. when asked, they said we think it's glee owe blas toe ma. we were able to take what whe hd to to save her life. no, you saved her life. i had a health care man in the military that i could do and take her anywhere. up to massachusetts for therapy. two machines in the nation at the time. we got to get to it. and she's here because of this country. so my payback tour was stop being an i object dependent. become the second democrat since the civil war. and i ran. i ran on one campaign refrain. i'm a retired navy admiral. running on national security begins at home. i took what's now in 2005 back then was now called romney care. it became the legacy that turned into obamacare. i put that up and said that's what i'm running on. and then over the next two years, with an f from the national rifle association, 10

white house looking at another. these two are not coming together. unlike what happened with bill clinton, the personal attorneys and the white house are kind of working in conjunction. have you two different factions' the fallguy is donna brazi-- >> let's talk about that. you covered the clinton administration. the response there, were they walled off the response legally and message wise from the operations of the white house? you've got stephanie grissom who is responding to questions about the impeachment. she is the press secretary. but also the communications -- no briefing -- but she is the press secretary and the communications director, and still the press secretary for the first lady. that a lot of work when you're doing the official work, the east wing, west wing, and impeachment. >> i remember those days 20 some odd years ago. there were briefings every day and the white house press secretary stood there for at least 45 minutes fielding questions, answering questions on the side of the white house and from the attorneys. i remember after that, had joe lockhart. you saw people

government reform and oversight, and the blizzard of scandals that were always coming out of the clinton white houseicans. so everything that came up, again, they just glazed over it and said, oh, it's just democrats and republicans fighting each other. it's just a republican congress that doesn't like bill clinton fighting a democratic president. we would actually have hearings on bill clinton transferring missile technology to the chinese that profited his -- the biggest contributor to the democratic national committee. the pentagon told him not to do it. the state department told him not to do it. everybody told him not to do it. he did it anyway. no american could focus on that because there had been so many investigations throughout the clinton administration. we find ourselves there again. that's why i think it's critically important that the scope of this impeachment inquiry stays narrowly focused on national. the democrats do what they keep doing, what they've been doing over the past 24 hours, sending out one member after another who served in the military, who served in the intel community

as i set foot on soil again, they sent me off to work for president clinton in the white house as director of defense policy. so when i came home, from that war, i had to stand in a military hospital with my wife and rolled my daughter out, four years old with malignant brain cancer. he couldn't get it, they said and when asked a said it's glioblastoma. 80 percent of kids have ever survived and she's one of them. we were able to takewhat we had to save her life . you saved her life. i had a healthcare plan from the military and i could take her anywhere. up to massachusetts where therapy was one of only two in the nation at the time. we got together with her. she's here because of this country so my pay back to her is stop being an independent, go back home and become a democrat in a nearly 2 to 1 the republican district become the second democrat since the civil war and iran. iran on one campaign refrain from a retired navy admiral. running on national security begins at home. and i took what's now 2005 what's now called romneycare which became the legacy that turned into obamacare, i sai

we also talked to uh la years involved in impeachment hearings for president clinton and saidl let' at what the white housedealing . with rudy giuliani is beinget subpoenaed, sey of date mike pompeo now revealed to be on the call with the ukrainien pres president trump pressuring the australian prime minister to essentially be part sos r wcrd editn to disellep white house does not have a strategy to handle this. they might have a messaging, they might want to put out tv s but they nee legal strategy to deal with this and make the case these are not impeachable offenses an right now the white house is not doing that. >> woodruff: yamiche, the white house, e president very focused on joe biden and his son hunter. how is the biden campaign? respondi >> president trump and republicans are making the case joe biden and hunter biden were engaged in unethical behior as part of their ukrainian business dealings, rather hunter's ukrainian business dealers. the ukrainian prosecutor working as a part of this said rudy giuliani was trying to pressure him to look into the bidk ens bt he saw no wrongdoing observe any pa

clinton. frankly, the white house was showing confidence republican dan bishop would run away with this.sent president trump there yesterday to campaign presumably so they could take credit for having pushed bishop over the finish line when he ultimately wins this. if the original election results, initial stuff coming in tonight, is any indication, there's no reason for anybody to be confident in terms of how this is going to work out. skro joining us now with the very, very, very latest on this race is steve kornacki. steve, please let us know how this is proceeding. >> votes are coming in. we got another update. i'm looking at them right here. see dan bishop the republican has moved into the lead in this race. this has all happened in the last couple minutes, about a little less than a point right now is the lead for bishop over mccready, the democrat. why this has happened, why bush shop who started out when we counted the early vote, to start the night, he was nine points behind. how has he come back? what's happened is basically this eastern part of the district here, less populate

clinton. frankly, the white house was showing confidence republican dan bishop would run away with this.mp there himself yesterday to campaign, presumably so they could take credit for having pushed bishop over the finish line. the great steve kornacki is here now with the numbers. >> all right, rachel. the race has now been called. dan bishop, the republican of very narrow winner.h district you see the margin here, two points over democrat dan mccready. a margin of about 4,000 votes for dan bishop. as you say, the backdrop in this district, trump won it by 12 points in 2016. hey, four years before that mitt romney won this district by 12 points. so the republican does win. but that margin just two points. mccready came very close here, couldn't get over the top. why couldn't he get over the top? the answer is this district in a lot of ways is a microcosm of two different trends, two different phenomena, whatever you want to call them, that have really defined politics in the trump era. let me show you one of them. you see charlotte, this is the charlotte suburbs. this is mecklenburg cou

planned for, at least not now, is for the white house to set up a war room like was established at the white house during the last impeachment drive during the clinton administration. and when the house republicans leading the effort against impeachment was asked last night on "60 minutes" how does he expect this defense of the president to lay out, congressman mccarthy said defense of what? there's nothing to defend here. so, obviously, dana, right now there is a counter messaging campaign that is under way. in terms of who is leading it, how formalized it is, very much unclear. the only person we know leading it right now is the president himself. >> dana: indeed. he is on fire. that's true. kristen fisher at the white house, thank you very much. for more on this mess, co-founder of third way and former deputy assistant to president clinton and former deputy press secretary to george w. bush. good to have you both here. you're both, i believe, trent, for sure, creatures of the house. i wanted to play two sound bytes. one first from a house member doug collins, who is the vice chair on the judiciary committee. watch. >> this is not about what whist

republicans are done because trump will peel off all the conservative votes and hillary clinton will coach the white house said he's trying to do anything he can to appease donald trump and convincing they are not going to stack the deck against using he comes up with this idea in concert with his advisers and it is a loyalty pledge they are going to have all of the candidates sign a pledge swearing their allegiance i will not run as an independent and trump gets on the phone and says i will sign your pledge but i'm too busy to come down to washington, d.c.. i need you to come here to new york. this is a symbolic but it's incredibly important because when the advisers hear this they say to him don't do it. you are the party chairman. tell him to get down to dc. we will call to march hi both me camera see him. he will sign the document and then you go to the cameras and declare victory but you have teamed donald trump does and what happened. he said that doesn't matter. and he goes up to new york to the trump tower, he signed the document and the then shoved hif the back door and goes on and addresses the

meanwhile, the clintons came into the white house, they couldn't pay their bills before they came in white house and now they have hundreds of millions of dollars. the obama's just bought an $80 million house on the oceanfront. you have all kinds of power and influence in order to sign netflix deals. he doesn't have it while he is in the light white house. they are still good at breaking down what people are worth that it makes people angry. i don't want them to know how much, how to think at this level of detail? they are so good at it and they can quantify just how much less the president is worth now that he's in the white house. they are just so stupid when they start making these remarks. >> harris: of the president defends himself in the way that melissa francis just played it out, what does that do politically for him or her to teach is? >> lisa: i'm glad that they conceded. to your point, democrats are doing this because they want to bring down his approval numbers and i think democrats are hurt in the districts that they have more president trump one: 2016 and now going to b

(rock music) - clinton reached out to newt and white house staff reached out to me and said, "hey, wouldt down "and talk to you about this welfare reform thing "and try to work out a bill that we think "the president could sign." - i am very prepared to cooperate with the clinton administration. i am not prepared to compromise. - i was polite because people in the white house staff were some friends of mine. i didn't want to be rude, but i said, "nah, can't do it. "republicans are going to pass their bill. "we have to. "it's in the contract of america. "it's what we promised to do. "i understand the president would like to negotiate a bill, "but, can't do it. (upbeat music) "let's pass our bill and see what happens in the senate, "and if people want to sit down and talk to the white house, that's fine." - the bill passes, reconsiders laid upon the table. (applause) - ultimately, we passed, i think, was about 70% of the contract into law. but it took months to do it and those were months of a good deal of frustration. - you said we'd do it all in 100 days, we did it in 93. - [bob walker]

moment, potentially the white house is sort of preparing some sort of battle plan for the impeachment process. that may involve you know, setting up something akin to what president clintonon this one. the talk is, in some quarters, that that might be headed up quarters, that that might be headed up by quarters, that that might be headed up by corey lewandowski, the man who for a brief period of time ran the trump campaign, and who is here on capitol hilljust trump campaign, and who is here on capitol hill just a trump campaign, and who is here on capitol hilljust a few days ago infuriating democrats. and gary, what about the lockdown of information, the story about attempting to disappear the transcript, all of those things that led to the by nancy pelosi. to those ta ke led to the by nancy pelosi. to those take us anywhere new? yes, that's really interesting. so the allegation here is that after that call on the 25th ofjuly with zielinski, the white house staff effectively tried to sort of quarantine the notes and transcripts of those who were listening on the call. we are talking about a dozen people, so some of them sitting around in the situation room, and tra nsfer

points, some clear direction, they're urging to follow a model more akin to what bill clinton did, but the white house hasn't yet decided on that. there is uncertainly, making people, especially republicans on capitol hill and people outside the president's orbit, increasely frustrated. >> and his aides are among thoughs increase by nervous. i'm sure there's officials hiring criminal defense attorneys, and some names are being retained, maybe upping their hourly rate. there are people not just worried about donald trump's political help, but worried about their own exposure. >> i think they're all out hiring lawyers today, if they didn't already have them. it makes me think about a part of the mueller report, where mueller expressed frustration and said, look, here's what we found, but it might be that we would have found something different, we would have viewed this whole situation in a different light if people had been honest with us. he goes on to talk about the different ways that evidence was kept from him. it was destroyed, people shut down their apps or used secret information. some of the ev