. >> the white house ripped into the house members and kenneth starr. >> they seek to do nothing moren attack, attack, attack. >> that horrific moment in our history when the union can be preserved only by taking this step as the framers saw as a last resort. >> the house managers the answer was aquarius. >> how rich and powerful a person is they have to play by the same rules. .. >> a new year's message from kim jong un. he hopes to continue nuclear diplomacy with donald trump and is willing to meet with him anytime this year but he also warns the us against continued sanctions and pressure. the two leaders agreed to denuclearization of the korean peninsula a june summit but nuclear talks have since stalled. talk about out of this world. nasa's new horizons spacecraft made its most distance exploration yet. the craft made itself in contact with the icy world ultima through, even further than pluto although images have come in, scientists say it looks like a bowling pin. now back to scandalous. >> the week after the battle of impeachment began, the clash over whether to allow witnesse

. >> the clinton camp thinks independent counsel kenneth starr is the darth vader of clinton haters. released a statement ridiculing the first lady's assertion that his office is part of a vast right-wing conspiracy. >> the white house strategy seems simple -- dig in and get ready for a fight. >> very early on, we realized that this was like an election where bill clinton was running against kenneth starr, and negatives on him were just as admissible as defenses of bill clinton. >> there's something about the clintons that you have to understand. they lie, and those in their personal orbit swear to it. without truth under oath, it is impossible to find justice. >> despite the political thermometer about to burst, president clinton knew he still had a job to do. amid the media frenzy, he prepared his sixth state of the union address. >> tremendous amount of expectation for what will be really unrivaled political theater for a state of the union speech. there will be a tremendous amount of very close scrutiny as to the body language, not just the body language from the president as he d

and monica, the press set their sights on the story's other major player. >> the portrayal of kenneth starroken former appellate judge, deeply religious man, and a very fine man as some kind of partisan monster succeeded. it was an absolute caricature. >> ken starr was a casualty of the truth, as i was. and it's hard to fight that. i'm not sure you ever get your reputation back. but in the case of judge starr, he deserved to get his back. >> starr and his team had little time to deal with the media, however. they were still busy trying to to work out an immunity deal with monica lewinsky and her media-hungry lawyer. >> never calls me. never writes me. he doesn't do anything. he's ignoring me. i don't think he likes me, for some reason. with the united explorer card, i get rewarded wherever i go. going out for a bite. rewarded. going new places. anytime. rewarded! learn more at the explorer card dot com. if you want to get the most details about your family history. my pie chart showed that i'm from all over europe, but then it got super specific. i learned my people came from a small region

and monica, the press set their sights on the story's other major player. >> the portrayal of kenneth starrt-spoken former appellate judge, deeply religious man, and a very fine man as some kind of partisan monster succeeded. it was an absolute caricature. >> ken starr was a casualty of the truth, as i was. and it's hard to fight that. i'm not sure you ever get your reputation back. but in the case of judge starr, he deserved to get his back. >> starr and his team had little time to deal with the media, however. they were still busy trying to to work out an immunity deal with monica lewinsky and her media-hungry lawyer. >> never calls me. never writes me. he doesn't do anything. he's ignoring me. i don't think he likes me, for some reason. coaching means making tough choices. jim! you're in! but when you have high blood pressure and need cold medicine that works fast, the choice is simple. coricidin hbp is the #1 brand that gives powerful cold symptom relief without raising your blood pressure. coricidin hbp. oh! oh! oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited abou

kenneth starr, of course, was someone that acosta would have looked up to.i think it made it very hard feel like heta to was going to go up against all of these people. he was ambitious. he wanteted to go further in his political career. and there is the school of thought out there that if he acquiesced to a lot of these lawyers demands because he knew that if he went against these lawyers, you probably woululd he heard his political career. amy: and now congress members are calling for an investigation into his role -- what has happened at this point with jeffrey epstein? we just have 30 seconds and then we will depart to and post it online at democracynow.org. >> well, he served just 13 months quite a number of years ago. he was released in 2008. he has basically just gone on to live his j jet setting life. amy: and there are civil lawsuits now. close yeah, he is affiliated with them. the two mosost recentnt ones wee settled as soon as my story ran. there is one that he is not a party to that several of the girls are suing the u.s. government, hoping to ov

more than a year after independent counsel robert ray inherited the clinton investigation from kenneth starr jury to determine whether clinton should be indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice after leaving office. >> fair-minded people recognized that just because the issue of impeachment had been resolved didn't mean that that resolved the question about whether or not it was appropriate to bring criminal charges. >> by pure chance, ray bumped into the president at the army navy country club in washington, d.c., on a rope line on the 18th hole. >> i said, "hello, mr. president, i'm bob ray. very pleased to meet you," and he goes right on to the next person. i could tell he didn't know who i was, and any time you're in the zone of the president, the secret service is monitoring the conversations, and they were clearly monitoring, and somebody knew who i was. later that evening, the headline was -- "president disses his prosecutor." >> the next time ray would meet the president, it would be on a more serious matter, and it would be in secret. >> i said, "we're going to have to do thi

i thought it was outrageous, and kenneth starr, prosecutor for whitewater, said yesterday that it wasigation into who leaked that, from the d0] or the fbi. the fact that they are calling president trump a russian agent is preposterous. secondly, we do have a small group in leadership that has been discredited in the fbi, comey was fired, that was the president's constitutional right. we have andrew mccabe, who lied to congress three times... yeah, hang on, on the subject of comey, do you think it's acceptable for donald trump to calljames comey, with his distinguished record and career, "a dirty cop"? well, he certainly did not show best practices... he was... ..when he was fbi director. he was a director of the fbi, he had served the fbi loyally for years, he had served different presidents in differentjobs, always with outstanding success, and donald trump dismisses him as a "dirty bad cop." andrew card had problems with comey way back during bush a3. comey has shown in the past almost a willingness to be above best practices. the fact that he went to the press, exonerated hillary c

. >> glenn, you worked in the clinton white house when kenneth starr released his report. up like starr, now mueller is required to hand his report over to the attorney general. is that a problem in such a partisan environment? >> i think it could be a significant problem, don, good to be with you tonight. it's very different regime, right, as you indicated, as john indicated, under the ethics and government act. ken starr was not an employee of the department of justice. he was independent and there was a mechanism for him to send any grounds for impeachment directly to congress, to the house. in contrast here, the special counsel can only submit a confidential report to the attorney general. presumably, the white house is going to interpose objections under executive privilege and potentially grand jury secrecy objections. so it is quite likely, i think, that the president's team might get an advanced preview of the report and an opportunity to object and potentially raise legal challenges in court before the public would see any substance of the mueller report. there is

all eyes were on judge kenneth starr, who had been called before the impassioned, bitterly divided house judge starr testified was really grueling for him. it was very long. >> i really was not seeking to testify. we had set forth what the office had to say in the referral, but that was a political judgment by the judiciary committee, and of course i respected that. >> it was really the first opportunity for the american people to see "who is ken starr?" and to evaluate him. >> starr began his daylong testimony with a two-hour explanation of the investigation and the lies that it uncovered. >> the president testified that he did not know that vernon jordan had met with ms. lewinsky and talked about the jones case. that was untrue. he testified that he could not recall being alone with ms. lewinsky. that was untrue. >> ken starr came across as very believable, very sincere, and that was, of course, very different from the way the democrats had demonized him. ♪ >> of course, democrats were less impressed. >> ken starr's testimony, at the end of the day, was a nothing burger. if there was e

out of the executive branch from the department of justice unlike the independent counsel like kenneth starr who was appointed by congress which means if president trump fires this person, mueller, he has no right to do anything about it. sec only be fired for certain criteria like misconduct or dereliction of duty or conflict of interest. if he's wrongly fired, there's no recourse. so what this bill would do would allow that to be challenged in court and would effectively bring in another branch. and that's a good thing overall because otherwise, you know, you just have a showcase showdown about whether there should be impeachment. it would escalate very quickly. i think it's a good measure. though practically speaking, i think at this point, the train has left the station and i'm not really sure that the president could do anything to really stop this investigation including by firing mueller. >> michael, i want to play something for you speaker he will pel said this morning. >> as you well know, there is long-standing department of justice guidance that states a sitting president should n

the judges, instead, appointed kenneth starr, a former federal appeals-court judge and solicitor generalan and bush administrations. >> it clearly set back the whitewater investigation. fiske was ramping up for indictments. >> we were really on the verge of bringing some major cases. and there was criticism, you know, i hadn't been doing enough. >> there was some discontent, on the part of republicans in particular, about some aspects of the investigation not being fully explored. >> and i thought, "i've only been here four months. >> and now, suddenly, here was a new person coming in to start the investigation from scratch. >> i think many americans saw the investigation as becoming very political. robert fiske was well-known for not having any kind of political point of view, whereas ken starr was regarded as republican and quite conservative. >> inside the special counsel's office, the mood was grim. >> the lawyers on my staff were very, very upset about it, and some of them wanted to say, "we're out of here." and i said, "no, you can't do that, and this is really important for the co

. >> harris: so, capri, robert ray -- who was special counsel, and took over for kenneth starr with the clinton investigation -- told me on set yesterday that what it's all about is if they find there is no there there we need to move on. in this could be rubbing a brother shortly. and you say? >> capri: it's time for us to get back to work. let's hope that's the case. to speak to what ron just said, i think this is where a lot of democrats are coming from. for every indictment -- and i want to see clearly, i'm not somebody jumping up and down like many democrats. i think the process needs to take its course. but what ron wyden is saying, essentially, is that with each one of these indictments it's showing some sort of a pattern because it's all generally about lying under oath. the question is, where they lying under oath? is there something they are specifically covering up? but to take it one step further, it's because they're covering up collusion -- we don't know that. >> harris: katie, why they are lying and also who is lying? also, could the be the investigation of the weights be

i spoke with robert ray on my show last week, and of course, he took over for kenneth starr at the endinton investigations. what he said is that there is a responsibility to ask him a questions about the mueller investigation. a good attorney would see that and put it in a statement. what did you see today? an attorney who kind of assumed it and was ready for that question. rachel told me, no, it's a port and then again on the record. he said that's what all good attorney's dominic do. >> morgan: are married to one! >> harris: because of the recent criticism. matthew whitaker, part of what they should be writing is the answer so to some of those questions. ray said republicans and democrat should ask them. >> morgan: tomorrow should be a snooze fest. barr is totally qualified. he simply qualified. i think he was at the 20 candidates on the judiciary committee, senator harris, booker potentially, they can't just let the guy through. they will have to make waves. but i don't predict this will be anything like the cavanaugh hearing. what's the alternative? the acting attorney general, who

kenneth starr, andy murray, announcing a tearful announcement of leaving the sport.'s 20th anniversary. hbo sent out trades of baked the 82 members of the press. our top story, shutdown showdown, the partial government shutdown tied for the longest in recent us history. no deal incite on funding for the southern border wall, donald trump trying to make his case to the american people visiting the border yesterday. he spoke to sean hannity about the democrats and their opposition to the wall. >> they come to the southern border because it is considered the center of the place where they can get in and we wants to close it up. these people have done the greatest job. it is hard work and it could be easier. it would be virtually 100% effective. nancy and chuck know that but it is politics, it is about the 2020 campaign, running for president. they are already doing it. it is a shame. dagen: the question is whether the president will declare a national emergency. lindsey graham says that is exactly what should happen. democrats are not working in good faith with you, dec

who owned homes all over the world the police found out about it and in a had alan dershowitz, kenneth starr, roy black, and he managed to lose his money to manipulate, that's another whole part of the story, how he did that, to treat these girls as if they were not the rooms, they were essentially treated as prostitutes because he lured them, they were work rules came from troubled families and had no money so he said, the lord that he used was just come give this old man a massage but it wasn't a massage at all. but somehow, he and his attorney managed to convince the prosecutors that these were not victims they were prostitutes, child prostitutes. so, these girls when i first approached them did not want to talk to me because even though there had been tons of media coverage about the story in their minds that had been covered from the sensationalized point of view were all anybody wanted to read was sex and these were famous and in their point of view and also in the view of the police chief never been interviewed for and detect, no one wanted to look at exact the what went wrong and how

kenneth w starr. judge starr, served as united states circuit judge for district of columbia circuit. and counselor chief of staff to william french smith. he was appointed to serve as independent counsel for five investigations. including whitewater from 1994 to 99. former chancellor of baylor university. and the author of a recently published book, contempt, a memoir of the clinton investigation. our moderator, i will shortly turn this over to, is -- a widely known legal expert and television anchor at times for cnn, fox, nbc news, former criminal defense and civil trial lawyer. she is currently a computer to voice of america. with a program called plugged in. you may have noticed that most recently, she does that conducted an interview with president trump, the g20 summit and lazarus. welcome. with that, -- , thank youu for um for coming today. or watching via livestream. it is exciting to be here. watching the video showing freedom forum, freedom in the united states is -- i have traveled the worl