. >> well, you know this was my case, diane blair, jim blair -- >> that is the woman. >> yes, these are her papers. and diane blair, as you just stated, was very close to hillary clinton. and these documents that came out today are her notes from telephone conversations over years taking during the clinton administration. and in those documents we find that there was conversations between hillary clinton and jim blair, her husband, who is also now deceased. but jim blair is the one who made famous the commodities trading. hillary clinton taking $1,000 from 1978 and turning it into $100,000 in just a few months time in cattle future trading. no one ever did that. and of course, that was one of the big investigations that we uncovered during the white water investigation. >> all right, doctor, let me ask you, she talks a lot about bill's affairs, and talks about monica lewinsky, calling her a loony tune. she says she defended her husband in a phone call with ms. blair, and said that bill had made a mistake fooling around with the narcissistic looney tune, but said he was driven to it by t

jim blair was the one who helped hillary clinton make extraordinary profit with cattle future. going way back. she invested $10,000 and came away with $100,000 in a very few months. this reremain close. diane blair died in the year 2000. her husband gave her papers to the university of arkansas. the washington free beacon went and looked at the papers. i think what we are seeing now is in the reaction of this we are going to get a bead on how far you can go back in mrs. clinton's past as a campaign issue in 2016. will be in. >> you know, a.b., did secretary clinton know these notes were being taken? that's what i don't get, like if my friends did that to me that's what i wondered as well. what started in faith yet should stay in fayetteville. they were detailed and there were many of them. it is quite revealing. she, at the ceremony, when the archives, you know, were given to the library herself, hillary clinton said this was going to be great because she could pass on this history. but i don't know that she knew how much about herself would be revealed in these diaries. >> it i

the first friend she and jim blair whom hillary made when she moved to arkansas.fessor for 30 years in fayetteville. she died in 2000, and she was friendly with the clintons all through whitewater, lewinsky, impeachment, practically living at the white house by some accounts in 1993. so what is new here? these are the archival documents that her husband put in at the university of arkansas and put in to be released i guess four years ago. and now they're being made public by a conservative website. >> well, there's no doubt, as you suggested, andrea, that diane blair was very close to hillary clinton. from that point of view, we're dealing with somebody, while she was alive as an adult, no one was closer to hillary clinton amongst her friends. that adds -- that puts a foundation down that says we should take this seriously. on the other hand, what we have so far, because we all need to go down and look at the regional documents ourselves, are things out of context without corroboration, and it's not clear when she's diane blair is quoting herself, paraphrasing hil

her husband jim blair donated them recently. it has a lot of hillary's opinions ranging from her take on monica lewinsky, gennifer flowers. this is her take on monica lewinsky 1998. she says, quote, it was a lapse. she says to his credit, he -- bill clinton -- tried to break away, someone who was a gnashing -- loony tune. >> they were close friends, this diane blair. the correspondence back and forth between hillary clinton. this was personal information she was keeping diaries of. they were schoolmates. these have never been heard before. remarkable. sitting there behind closed doors so the washington freebie -- free beacon started uncovering stuff. >> this is the stuff you want to know that you don't find in a biography or her old books that are bestsellers and she is about to write another one. this is what you want to know, how she really felt as a wife and first lady as she found out about monica lewinsky. almost find out how she felt as a first lady, found she couldn't do anything, found congress whiney and hard to deal wi

diane blair and her husband jim. for years she cataloged the reactions to the press. all available at the university for four years getting little notice until excerpts were posted last night on an anti-clinton website. >> it's very selected. >> reporter: blair quotes clinton saying "i'm a proud woman. i'm not stupid. i know it confuses people when i change my hairdos. i'm used to winning and i intend to win on my own terms." their friendship ran deep. the women shared everything. >> their friendship was originated here at the university of arkansas as young professors, moms and they met for lunch regularly and they were two of the only female faculty on campus. >> reporter: september 7th, 1998, bill clinton finally admi admits. she says to his credit he tried to pull away. blair did not survive to provide context for her diary. her notes are fair game. >> everything is on the table. i don't know sooe how someone gets a pass on pecially in toda politicians. we're going to have a truckload of research. >> reporter: rand paul has called bill clinton a sexual predator. ev

inaugural, the clintons' first overnight guests were their closest friends from arkansas, diane blair and her husband jim. for years, she chronicled the clintons' reactions to the rough relations with the press and scandals, including monica lewinsky and impeachment. getting little attention until inflammatory excerpts were posted last night. >> i think it's very cherry picked. >> reporter: thanksgiving, 1996, blair quotes clinton as saying i'm a proud woman, i'm not stupid. i know i should do more to suck up to the press. i know it confuses people when i change my hairdos. i know i should pretend i don't have any opinions, but i'm just not going to. i'm used to winning on my own terms, their friend shreveport >> their friendship was originated when they were both here at the university of arkansas as young professors, moms, and they met for lunch regularly. and they were two of the only female faculty on campus. >> reporter: september 9th, 1998, bill clinton had finally admitted his relationship with lewinsky. blair writes of hillary, she is not trying to excuse him. it was a huge personal lapse. but sh