. >> and a documentary about former president clinton and including the lewinsky scandal and the left leaning immediate why cries foul. a fox exclusive, a courageous war correspondent and american hero talks about the risks that ultimately caused her death. on the panel this week, writer and fox news contributor judy miller. syndicated columnist cal thomas, jim pinkerton contributing editor the american conservative magazine and bureau chief of talk radio news service, ellen ratner. i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. since birth control is the latest hot topic, which candidate believes in birth control, and if not, why? >> the first, is there's a legitimate question about the power of the government to impose on religion activities which any religion opposes, but i just want to point out he did not once in the 2008 campaign, not once did anybody in the elite media ask why barack obama voted in favor of legalizing infantside, let's be clear here. >> newt gingrich going off cnn's john king in the debate this week, this time, as you heard, a question about birth control. newt

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we have a sadness of the monica lewinsky thing comes in is the loss of time.h to a president. seriously, month and months were taken up which could have been put to something else that might have had the talent used for other part of our country's well-being. and i think that's the sad loss. he must feel it too. can you imagine if he could only go back and say oh, my god, go away monica lewinsky. >> let's turn to president obama. what's your assessment of the first four years and in the context of what presidents do when they come to the white house. >> talking to me? >> yes. >> i will answer then. i think the interesting thing is that he seems to have taken strands from different presidents as does -- he does read history and loves history. i think for a time after the recession started, he had some of that fdr in him when he called the fat cat bankers and talked about reckless practices on wall street. it didn't fit his temperament the way it did fdr who was good at that aggressive kind of fighting. recently, i think he's taken a stand from theodore roosevel

the lewinsky matter, yes. certainly personal failing. president clinton acknowledged that. it led to an impeachment. party line vote. the united states senate, 55 republican senators, they couldn't get 51 to vote for either one of the counts from the very partisan house process. so that's really yes, worth mentioning but in that very limited context. >> i think there are people who are going to disagree with you on that. go ahead. >> i think one of the things interesting about this is that it's a pbs documentary. as you know the entire system of public media has often been criticized as a left-leaning institution. so i'm wondering if part of the makeup of this was actually sort of strategic on the part of pbs to say, well, we can also have right wing-leaning content on. i don't know if that's part of it. it also shows that the political past is not the past. the clinton era will be relived again and again. >> here's robert talking -- he was interviewed for the documentary. let me play you a little chunk of that and then tell ask you a question on the other side. >> i've ask

. >>> and reliving the lewinsky affair. staffers are opening up for the very first time in a brand new documentary. they are saying the white house was consumed by it for nearly an entire term. that documentary is getting some mixed reviews this morning. we're going to share that with you. >>> and the president singing the blues, not over the campaign, literally singing the blues with bb king. yeah, get down. you're going to hear the rest of that coming up. >>> we begin this morning with breaking news out of syria. opposition activists telling cnn two western journalists were killed in heavy shelling by syrian government forces on a neighborhood in the besieged city of homs. we are not naming the journalists yet. we are pending notification of their next of kin. we are working our sources on this story, and we'll be following it throughout the morning for you. again, two western journalists were killed in heavy shelling by syrian government forces in homs. >>> also, in another area but a lot more violence as well, the ameri

years before monica lewinsky. >>> good monday morning, everybody.

some of them, like the monica lewinsky thing was a big fare. talk about impeachment, this wasn't a small-time scandal for a president to deal with. why do you feel it was disportional. >> i'm here on my own as an old friend of the clintons. i didn't call them and ask to do this. i did it on my own. the lewinsky story was a big story and president clinton apologized to the american people. the impeachment was a vote needed to be in the story. they forgot to mention out of 55 republicans, they couldn't get 51, a majority to support that very partisan impeachment process. yes, that had to be part of this. what my point is, proportionality, four hours. none of the four hours, three of the four, higher than 75% were devoted to bogus scandals. for example, white water took up four years of the clinton presidency led by an independent council. white water, according to mr. star led to no charges being made against either clinton despite the time spent on the pbs broadcast and all the other scandals in the first term were rabbit holes leading to nowher

i mean, when he uses the president's name and sol lewinsky in the same paragraph it is a good indication that he is talking not to the nation, he is talking to republican primary voters and the particular sub set -- >> not that anybody who knows who sol louie ski, lewinsky is. >> and the president and the white house and the obama campaign have never taken their eyes off of mitt romney, they have never even tried to launch and attack on newt gingrich so it will be interesting to see that after night. mark shields, david brooks, thank you, gentlemen, very much. >> thank you. >> back to you, judy. >> thank you, gwen. >> and with that we do end this special edition of the pbs news hour on the florida republican primary. i am judy woodruff in tampa, and i am gwen ifill on the news hours. >> we will see you on line tonight where you can check our interactive map all night for totals. plus video of the campaign speeches. all of that on our web site. thank you. and good night. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs stat

a couple of years ago, monica lewinsky wrote me, she was looking for a job. i met her more out of curiosity. she came up and i felt so bad. she was a victim. you know, bill clinton has moved on with his life. he's still a hero. she can't get a job any place. and so, you know, i so empathize with these women. and i believe that 99.9% of women in that position would have done the same thing. it's intoxicating, a man of power. i don't know if i would call it rape. >> she was, as she said to me, he chose me. and i think to be chosen, when you're 19 and then to be in this very tight circle is phenomenally intoxicating. >> this woman, mimi, who is wonderful, maybe we should relook at monica lewinsky instead of making her a tart, and see her as a victim. >> in both scenarios, who has the power? >> we know who has the power. >> i think you stand at attention and there's a big band that plays when they walk into the room. >> there's a moment in which the president gave her away to someone else for someone else's sexual gratification. >> and then also -- >> that then b

years before monica lewinsky. >>> good monday morning, everybody. i'm rob nelson. >> and i'm tanya rivero. paula faris is on assignment. >> new york will honor the giants tomorrow with a ticker tape parade for the winners of super bowl xlvi. >> oh, what a game. it came down to the very last play in a celebration. eli manning with the lombardi trophy on the home field of his brother peyton. >> tahman bradley has all the reaction from the big game. good morning. >> reporter: they did it again. the new york giants knocked off the mighty new england patriots. >> the new york giants given last rites by many in december are the super bowl champs in february. >> reporter: there's something about this giants team, they know how to beat new england. new york captured its second improbable super bowl. >> this is amazing. >> reporter: eli manning does what he does best. the quarterback engineered another fourth quarter comeback. on the winning drive, manning completed five passes, none more spectacular than this grab by mario manningham. >> what a catch by man

monica lewinsky had given legal trips. this was sort of the great white whale for people who were trying to find that thing that would bring the president down because if it had existed, that would have been the connection that someone directly tied to the president was trying to interfere with that investigation. it was never found. you do not always know what you are naming when you name 90. when i first came up with it, it was an art reference to that. my take on answers to important questions of the day. >> had bill o'reilly called a the talking points memo? >> i did not know anything about it. i realize it a couple of years later. he may have started using it a short time before i did. even now, i do not know. >> does it cause a problem? >> no. his is on tv. this is a website. it has never been an issue. >> how long were you the only person at the website? >> the first employee that we hired was in the spring of 2005. that was five or six years. i had a couple unpaid interns before that who were very helpful, but they

economy and a real opportunity to solve some big problems and he sabotaged that with the monica lewinskybetter. >> you spend a lot of time in the documentary on the monica lewinsky affair, do we learn anything new about it? >> i think it deepens the portrait. one thing i didn't know was that clinton did confide in one person in the midst of the affair while he was essentially lying to the country, to hillary, to everyone. he called up dick morris, i'm sure a favorite person around these parts, he called up dick morris and he confided in him. he said to him on the phone, according to dick, you know, i didn't do what they said i did, but i may have done something. and true to form, dick morris immediately says, i'm going to conduct a poll to see what you should do now, and comes back to him and advises him to tell the truth. to confess it, because people will forgive the sin, but they won't forgive the cover-up. >> do you believe that dick morris was the only one who knew for a while? >> i do believe that. it makes sense, clinton saw morris that way. he thought morris was the one person wh

it was touching to me to watch it play out during the lewinsky, she put herself between him and the comingrealized it was something real, it was all the greater that moment. >> we talk about second and third and fourth acts in politics. do you guys feel the current climate, we look at newt gingrich who is still a candidate for president, who knows may end up being the nominee, does it feel like a difference era when bill clinton was in america? >> one of the fascinating things have reported closely to bush white house and obviously to obama campaign as well, it's the sense of perspective you have looking back at those years, because you know, for people on the right, they will say, well the clinton did not prepare enough for terrorism and war, and people on the left say the clinton years laid the foundation for one bubble and maybe two, and we are dealing with the economic problems of that. so, two presidents later, either that was a very naive time or a very great time, depending on your perspective. i would be interested to know what you think looking back into that, reque -- did you see

like i said, we were so blown away by the lewinsky scandal, this is child's play compared to what thisys. remarkable stuff. >> wow. >>> if you were watching "saturday night live." do you stay up on saturdays? >> no. if i do, ima he not watching television, i'll tell you thach. >> stop right there, i don't want to know. there was this hilarious sendup about newt gingrich and his plans for the moon. he's not got a moonocracy. president of moontopia. his ambitions lamb poon. you're watching "early start." for a limited time, passages malibu will be giving away free copies of the alcoholism & addiction cure. to get yours, go to ssagesmalibubook.com. >>> you just knew that thfts going to happen, right? we were teasing a little bit about the moon colony. >> i didn't watch it. i'm looking forward to this. >> you're going to see it now, my friend. "saturday night live" doing a huge send-up about newt's plans for the moon. i can't even explain it so watch. >> hello, moon president, gingrich. >> what do you do, little girl? >> gi to school. >> and when you're not at school. >> i work as a janito

the second thing happened, the affair with monica lewinsky and i was laughing, he slept with the internicans went to impeach him and i said that's crazy. i said these guys are a little loose here. then there's the iraq war. i said i like your foreign policy but not when we invade random countries for no reason. they lost me he there. then they tortured people and did warrantless wiretapping. the question is why is anybody in the country still republican not why i left. it was an eventual

simpson and monica lewinsky. the islamic world did as the greatest favor of vegetable. attacked us. overnight terrorism replaced communism and george bush jr. like reagan in characterizing the soviet union did not hesitate to frame this as a cosmic war between good and evil. crusade. wrong word to use with arabs by the way. there was no possible discussion of american foreign policy. it was tantamount to treason as susan saw tech lost her job with the new yorker and others suggested. our enemies were evil or in st. anne that is the end of the story. to this day under the obama administration, american tax dollars pay for workshops that teach the police and military that islam is an evil religion out to destroy america and we must therefore be destroyed first. these workshops go on all the time well funded by the government. once again it is civilization versus the savages. george cannon tried to warn the american government that making a monolith out of communism was a gross misunderstanding and there were huge concepts between russia and china. but it requires cardboard figures beg

and of course she was 19 before monica lewinsky was born. can the nbc interview be defended on the grounds that it's revealing presidential character in >> you know, i would argue that this is -- it's something that changes the picture of kennedy. even for all of the knowledge that he was not a faithful husband, that there were a lot of affairs, when you have something like this, a teenage intern who was almost coercively seduced on her fourth day on the job, this is something that would be a career killer at any point in history for a politician. >> yeah, imagine if it had come out at the time, althou i guess there's a question about given the press would have reported it if it could even be confirmed. but you said almost coercively seduced. look, the gap in power between the leader of the free world and a 19-year-old intern who just started there. but she certainly doesn't -- alford certainly doesn't describe it as a case of coercion. she doesn't say she was talked into it, pushed, pressured. in fact, she seemed to enjoy to some degree rel

a big question a lot of people are talking about today is did jfk have his own hohn ka monica lewinsky. is in ways more scandalous than what rocked bill clinton's presidency. and new allegations against disgraced penn state coach jerry sandusky. is he spying on kids from his front porch? fference between a trader and an elite trader? it's this... the etrade pro platform. fast. beautiful. totally customizable. finds top performing stocks -- in three clicks. quickly scans the market for new trading ideas. it can even match options strategies to your goals and lets you see the potential risk and reward. and, it also comes with a dedicated elite service team. got it? get it. good. introducing new etrade pro elite. ♪ yoo-hoo. hello. it's water from the drinking fountain at the mall. [ male announcer ] great tasting tap water can come from any faucet anywhere. the brita bottle with the filter inside. just cover your bases. bring her the all-natural sugar in the raw and the all natural, zero calorie sweetener stevia in the raw. then learn that she doesn't drink coffee, just tea. it's only nat

talk with the director of the new four-hour documentary, one of the many topics with the monica lewinskycandal and how mr. clinton survived it. and behind the scenes of the british drama, fountain abbey that has taken america by storm and tyler perry is also here with us in studio 57. and so we will see you at 7:00. >> couldn't get the day off, huh, charley? >> i'm trying. >> i know. we kid you much. happy monday. >> how about you? you've been longer than i've been here. >> well, that's touche. >> tv is never pretty. all good. thank you very much. >> see ya. >> cbs 24 this morning starts at -- cbs this morning starts at 7:00. >>> another guy who doesn't have the day off, comedian stephen colbert is back in his chair and the network halted production suddenly of the colbert report on wednesday and it didn't comment about caring for his 91-year-old mother but he tweeted everyone saying thanks for thoughts and prayers. >>> lindsey lohan is about to make a comeback. and hosting saturday night live. nbc says her guest host appearance will be march 3. and her career has been sidelined recently

guest: one point, i do not know about the lewinsky scandal.ould say that the issue of sensitive u.s. technology falling into u.s. hands -- into chinese hands continues to be an issue. congress has tried to reform laws so that it would make it easier to sell technology. that has run into problems, particularly among conservative hawks in congress. because of the china issue. that is a big point of contention. host: 10903 tweets in -- this is a chart that originally appeared in the wall street journal. soybeans alone, in 2011, at $10.5 billion. $6.4 billion worth of civilian aircraft. that is what the u.s. exported to china in 2011. new and used car $5.3 billion. semiconductors $4.6 billion. and copper, $4.3 billion. any thoughts about these products we see on the screen? guest: its fees to the question of whether china can feed itself. it is importing a lot of food now. you mentioned copper. china has been going brought the world trend get access to natural resources because its economy is so huge. everything that happens in china is huge from

bill clinton, his monica lewinsky affair, he told monica lewinsky i'm concerned that our conversationscould use that against me. all of this is such risky behavior, it goes beyond what we should ignore in someone's private life. we have to recognize that this kind of behavior would get anyone in the united states military to lose their security clearance or even be fired. >> it's so interesting because it seems that since president clinton and the revelations, the american public has been more willing to accept flaws in candidates' personal lives. and yet, you're pointing out now that we should still be concerned about that? >> the only person who doesn't get a security clearance in our government is the president. he's elected by all of us. the standards we have for trusting people in our government with security secrets is very high. if you engage in high risk behavior, it allows you to be potentially candidate for blackmail and you lose your security clearance and you might lose your job so yes, we're much more open minded about what people's private lives are. but when it comes to

>> on the issues related to monica lewinsky, i wish it had been different. our wish in hindsight, ken starr is a wonderful mayor, and he went where the case took him. >> you were part of the investigation. >> i feel strongly that we had parallel investigations, and if we have stopped to financial crimes aspect of whitewater, if we had taken the records, if we had done the things, and people do not remember these things and the reason mike huckabee became governor of arkansas, we uncovered something called casa grande, the governor of arkansas, we uncovered his illegal activity, and he was indicted and convicted byron -- by a jury, only the 10th time that a sitting governor went to prison. your mike huckabee ascended to become governor of arkansas. that is how he became governor. he was the deputy attorney general. the guys who want to blow of what happened to do not recall the they were really influencing the financial structure of those campaigns. there is a plethora of opportunities, so to go to your question, i wish it had been a different set of articles

covering the historic trip to africa and landmark legislation, the news was dominated by the monica lewinsky but it was the independent council unbridled power that kept it going. wurn of the most memorable moments was the day president clinton was impeached by the house and made this appearance in the rose garden. myself and another correspondent shouted questions to him after his brief appearance and i asked him, if he would, for the good of the country, step down. he left the podium without answering and of course, the senate later acquitted him. clinton has gone on to do great things for the world through his clinton foundation. so of all of the 43 men who have served as united states presidents, who really stands out in terms of changing the course of our country? joining us to talk about that, from new york, douglas brinkley. thank you, douglas, for being here. you've done research and written dozens of books on the american presidency. who stands out for you in the best of the best? >> best of the best in everybody's mind is abraham lincoln because no matter how bad president obama or

. >> well, was monica lewinsky willing to do it?lder man and this power over younger people, they admire you, they see your charisma. is it a right to take advantage of that? is it right to have this young woman do a sexual act on one of your friends as you watch? i don't think so. >> she mentioned she felt that this was not a romantic relationship, let's listen to that and i want to you weigh in on it. >> why do you feel sad now when you talk about it? >> wasn't a romantic affair, i don't really remember the president ever kissing me. and it makes me sad. i don't remember really kissing him, either. >> you never referred to him as jack, always mr. president. >> always mr. president. >> that is tough to listen to. do you think that he had any feelings for her or any of the other women that you say he had affairs with? >> look, whattism important tabt about this is the other women tried to put a veneer of romance, judith exner was his mistress and also a mistress of a mafia man, they try to pretend it's more important than it is. thi