all the sort of obsessed with paula jones and monica lewinsky. people inside and outside our country were plotting our attack. for me the only hero and this whole book was the american public who did get the picture very early, long before president clinton committed for his affair. they knew this was wrong. they knew the punishment did not fit the crime. let's go back to the business of governing the country. i continue to believe it is important to look in the mirror. everyone is taking ownership of this. if you do not realize that restraint is important here, we do not know that sometimes prosecutors a president can and should not do things and that he must realize that restraint is an indispensable piece of what we call american virtue. that is what we need to come back on a wider scale. this is why i spent nine years on this book. >> thank you. thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> sunday at 2:30 on c-span, a look at how public offic

jones begat monica lewinsky. monica lewinsky begat im impeachments. it is not provable, but every place that he went, he said, i will restore dignity to the office of the presidency. as close of an election that was, it made the difference. there were other things that made some differences also, but that was the underlying. fame he never had to say anything more. i do not think people were very anxious to see the people leave office. frankly, i was not too terribly anxious to have that happen. it was either about sex or perjury. there was another middle ground that nobody took, and that was proportionality. should the president has been mph and found guilty? that is an interesting question that nobody debated. i think our politics would have been different. the impeachment would not have occurred. it would have been more helpful to have had a decision that says something about to we are as a people in that we all worship our political freedoms. equal justice before the law, that paula jones was not below the law, and president clinton was not above i

jones begat monica lewinsky. monica lewinsky begat im impeachments. it is not provable, but every place that he went, he said, i will restore dignity to the office of the presidency. as close of an election that was, it made the difference. there were other things that made some differences also, but that was the underlying. fame he never had to say anything more. i do not think people were very anxious to see the people leave office. frankly, i was not too terribly anxious to have that happen. it was either about sex or perjury. there was another middle ground that nobody took, and that was proportionality. should the president has been mph and found guilty? that is an interesting question that nobody debated. i think our politics would have been different. the impeachment would not have occurred. it would have been more helpful to have had a decision that says something about to we are as a people in that we all worship our political freedoms. equal justice before the law, that paula jones was not below the law, and president clinton was not above i

>> all the way to bill clinton, putting the monica lewinsky scandal in historical conquest. the political party throwing dirt at each other, turns out not to be true. >> to be included in this book, over the course of nation's history. >> we were asked to show, what we consider personal and important in the grand scheme of the political story. >> we talk about a couple of them. american society which are loosely translated as grow up. can i tell you what you are going to say about the way few sex scandals and politicians? >> i have been in the -- a huge effect on our live and we use this to communicate -- and recommendation to our own age. a much different reaction than we do. we have a very knee-jerk reaction. and politicians have a message -- and don't mean to sound facetious but it is true. and -- career as are destroyed, i don't think fat will happen. it is very dangerous. it would indicate the president was good or bad because he had an active libido or not. to fight two wars and be able to sleep with everyone to. >> in the last 20 years or so would it be fair to say th

paula jones begat monica lewinsky.ky begat impeachment and an impeachment begat the advent of george bush as president of the united states. i mean, it's not provable, but every place he went he said i will restore dignity to the office of the president he. and i think in a close election as that was, as we all know made the difference. there were other things that make some differences also, but i think that was the underlying theme. he never had to say anything more people understood it. i don't think people were very anxious to see the president leaves office. and frankly, i was not terribly anxious to have that happen. as you recall, it was either about sex or perjury. while i was on the perjury side, but there was another middle ground is that nobody, as far as i know, very few people took and not was proportionality. you know, should the president have been impeached and found guilty of impeachment? and that's an interesting question that nobody could beat it really. and so i think our politics would've been diff

jones begat monica lewinsky. monica lewinsky begat im impeachments. it is not provable, but every place that he went, he said, i will restore dignity to the office of the presidency. as close of an election that was, it made the difference. there were other things that made some differences also, but that was the underlying. fame he never had to say anything more. i do not think people were very anxious to see the people leave office. frankly, i was not too terribly anxious to have that happen. it was either about sex or perjury. there was another middle ground that nobody took, and that was proportionality. should the president has been mph and found guilty? that is an interesting question that nobody debated. i think our politics would have been different. the impeachment would not have occurred. it would have been more helpful to have had a decision that says something about to we are as a people in that we all worship our political freedoms. equal justice before the law, that paula jones was not below the law, and president clinton was not above i

justice is he was delivering a booming economy for the person people and so the sideshow of the lewinskyndal was considered irrelevant. these questions have been percolating now nor a while because obama has not been able to deliver economically for the american people. high unemployment, now high inflation. very weak economic growth. if this economy were booming all of these questions would have receded into the background. >> hold on. okay, donald trump on the current state of american media. >> the press is very protective of president obama. very protective. and they're not protective of me, but they're protective of president obama. >> is donald trump right? >> well, perhaps to some determining i just want to go back to why he didn't reveal it earlier, why -- frankly, was insulting. i think there's nobody else in this country who would have had to go through what obama went through, and it had i believe a racist component to it. i don't think the press has necessarily protective of president. it seem to be off the charts kinds of charge. so i don't think -- lot of people didn't take

for newsweek's coverage of the monica lewinsky scandal. is 50,000 word narrative of the 2004 election was honored when newsweek won of national award for best single topic issue. he appeared on numerous television shows including charles rope and the pbs news hour. and a fellow of the society of american historians. mr. thomas lives with his family in washington d.c.. peter bergen is the author of "the longest war". the enduring conflict between america and al qaeda. he is director of the national-security studies program at the new america foundation. and author of the newly released book "the longest war". he is a television journalist, the author of holy war inside the secret world of osama bin laden. and the osama bin laden i know, an oral history of al qaeda's leader. both books are among the best nonfiction books of the year of the washington post and documentary based on these books were nominated in 2002 and 2007. he is cnn's national security analyst and fellow at the university center. he has written for the washington post, vani

said get the picture very early, long before president clinton admitted to his affair with monica lewinsky. they knew it was wrong, but they also knew the punishment didn't fit the crime, and they said to the senate we get it, enough, let's go back to the business of governing the country, and so i continue to believe that it's important to look at mirror and everyone take ownership of this and recognize that if we conot -- if you do not realize as i said earlier, john, that restraint is important here, if you don't realize that sometimes prosecutors, sometimes presidents can do things and shouldn't do things, that you must ultimately realize that restraint is an indispensable piece of what we call american virtue, and that is what we need to have come back on a wider scale so that people studying in law schools like this, the next generation of lawyers and public servants understand that innately, and so that's why i spent nine years on this book. >> well, congratulations on the result of all that effort, ken. thank you very much. thank you for the panel. thanks to the audience. [applause

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