my question for mr. starr is if he's saying that fairness and justice is premier of all things, and i think it is, why is he siding in every explanation that mr. kavanaugh is innocent? f of these accusations? the 65 people that is saying that mr. kavanaugh was a nice guy and the only one that's important to the whole issue is the one that seemed to have forgotten what happened that night. >> guest: well, i have a different perspective as you might imagine but you're right. i do talk a lot about fairness and justice and that's what our system is designed, including our political system. we do not want witnesses browbeaten, right? we would recoil at that. the so-called mccarthy hearings from now a half century ago. as a nation, we recoiled as a united states snoefort in a position of power abusing his power. power can be abused and we need to have checks and balances in order to prevent that. what i'm testifying to kind sir, is i know brett kavanaugh. i know him and i worked with him. it's not that i went out wi

i >> yes, mr. starr, i have a question for you as far as what does g dust being accused of a legit act that turn out to be false, does he have any recourse? and also, i would like to tell you i come from a small town back in new york in the next town over was a high schoolol football star and his girlfriend. they had consensual sex but ultimately he wasow charged with rape, sent to prison for 10 years and was put on the national registry for sex offenders. pat to me is wrong. >> host: ken ken starr. >> guest: very quickly, there is no remedy in this arena, however we see in the college and university arena lawsuits being brought by individuals recall responding and believe that their due process rights were violated when they were found guilty or responsible in either kicked out of school or otherwise sanctioned in their career substantially ruined. we are seeing increasingly judgment being brought against colleges and universities for their violation of basic due process and fairness. false charges are

morning.ood mr. starr, with all due respect, and i have no issues with what happened to bill clinton. you are referring to do process -- due process as far as brett kavanaugh is concerned, but how about the republican strapping 40,000 documents on the eve of where the hearing started and not waiting for the other bedred thousand documents to reviewed by the library of congress? guest: i truly don't have of you with respect to the issues of document access and the like. i view that as an issue and trusted to the discretion of the senate. i do think there needs to be process, orderly and respect to declassification of documents. a number of the documents, as i understand them, had to go to the archival review process under the law. sometimes we on the outside do respect the way their operating. they may say let's just postpone hearings for a year or two years. that is a judgment call. my own view is, given what i saw, the senate judiciary committee has before and had before it a very elaborate record of judg

mr. starr i value your opinion. i wanted to get a couple quick comments from you about the case that is happening now on the independent. i have been trying to follow this without any left or right leaning. -- arestions i ask is they admitting there is no collusion i hear into this investigation, what do think of that? what do think of president trump releasing documents and texts? would we really do that if there re?n't something in the if brett kavanaugh gets booted, will he lose his seat on the district court? guest: thank you. it iser, i think intriguing that lisa page, the former fbi agent has made the statement that she did and council cautioned that she was an important agent. i would not take that to the bank in terms of the overall investigation. let's see what happens in the investigation. that being said, i see no evidence whatever of collusion. i have seen lots of evidence of what we all know, and that is russian interference. great the contributions of robert mueller was the indict

the late senator john mccain reminded me attacking the motives of mr. starr was a mistake. howie: you said i have my regrets by attacks on starr's motives. you said -- told me you made a mistake in your dealing with cnn. where did you go wrong. lanny: i respect cnn. i have known jeff zucker for years. i respect them as journalists. i took this responsibility because i was unsure about the issue of the trump tower meeting. i thought there were other people who could have been in the room and it was up to journalists to go look at that. howie: did you ever confirm to cnn reporters this allegation about the trump tower meeting. lanny: i was never sure in my confirmation. i was uncertain. in fact i expressed my uncertainty, but not clear enough. i can understand they interpreted what i said as a confirmation and i have not blamed cnn, i blamed myself for not being more clear. in my mind i did not know the details about that meeting and i should not have encouraged any reporter. the lesson i learned. i'm not certain even on back ground i should not be asking reporters to do inves

the whole thing that's my story i love enough not to mention it so often as mr starr going to make it well this. gives me a good old cock and bull shit. thing for the political pawns on ticket the common hide my constant father by like i'm told by the super cool fans my placement. it was a secret find a government. you know jose. it isn't for me not real they don't appreciate about being able to watch a game like that. so most of us will see only it's younger people and begin to buy all this again it's all different igniting the homes again in saudi national guard and. it's not just the tourists who are responsible for the suffering atmosphere the locals off to rule ways here but for a boy in jewelry has become believe it's no wonder the atmosphere has followed suit . the boy in anything less than domination is in underachievement so maybe different i've just had it too good for to go and it's so sad actually because if you just wouldn't just win the championship it's here like ok next next thing like it's really don't some people don't care because it's almost every year i think we d

well from both sides do you have enough for me not to mention it so often as mr starr going to close on it so you don't contemplate that sort of ocean. sensitive political bones on to the common. through the fog of war i can go to find . information and it's much more to see you find the government done you know jose . it isn't for me not we have it all appreciated i able to watch a game like that. so most of us was young yet so young for. the good times and by all this again it's all different igniting the homes again so i guess you know and . it's not just the tourists who are responsible for the suffering atmosphere the locals off the roof always here but for boy and glory has become believe it's no wonder the atmosphere has followed suit. the boy in anything less than domination is an underachievement so maybe the foreigners have just had it too good for to go and it's so sad actually because if you just wouldn't just win the championship it's here like ok next next thing like it's really don't some people don't care because it's almost every year i think we do if we wanted like

mr. starr, i have a question for theas far as, what does male that is being accused of a legend acts that turn out to be false? does he have any recourse? you -- also like to tell i come from a small town back in new york. the next town over had a high school football starr and his girlfriend. , buthad consensual sex ultimately he was charged with rape, sent to prison for 10 years, and was put on the national registry for sex offenders. that, to me, is wrong. host: answer? guest: very quickly. this is no remedy in arena. we are seeing in the college and university arena lawsuits being individuals called respondents in the title ix area who believe that their due process rights were violated when they were found guilty, are responsible, and kicked out of school or otherwise sanctioned and career substantially ruined. we are seeing increasingly judgments being brought against colleges and universities for their violation of basic due process and fairness. false charges are in fact -- i am sorry,

mr. starrue your opinion. i wanted to get a couple quick comments from you about the case that is happening now on the independent. i have been trying to follow this without any left or right leaning. -- arestions i ask is they admitting there is no collusion i hear into this investigation, what do think of that? what do think of president trump releasing documents and texts? would we really do that if there re?n't something in the if brett kavanaugh gets booted, will he lose his seat on the district court? guest: thank you. it iser, i think intriguing that lisa page, the former fbi agent has made the statement that she did and council cautioned that she was an important agent. i would not take that to the bank in terms of the overall investigation. let's see what happens in the investigation. that being said, i see no evidence whatever of collusion. i have seen lots of evidence of what we all know, and that is russian interference. great the contributions of robert mueller was the indictment o

mr. starr what i am saying about the clinton experience is we learn our history from our people, and impeachment was not the wise way to go. formeron "after words," secretary of state john kerry discusses his book "every day is extra. " ceorviewed by president and of the harman center, jane harman. hear is whatÑor to brought us together, and we had a conversation into the night, talking about annapolis and his father and grandparents, his family, his own service, and his time as a prisoner. he wanted to learn more about what happened with us, how we fought, what it was like, and so forth. we pledged to each other that the country was still too divided over the war. we felt we needed to try to find a way to not just make peace abroad but make these at home. >> watch this weekend on c-span2's book tv. mitchell: 100 years ago, on september 12, 1918, the american expeditionary force launched their first independent operation of world war i. on "american artifacts," we travel to northeastern france

. >> president hillis: thank you , mr starr. is planning staff initiated, write great we will go to public comment on this item, if there is any. seeing none, we will close public comment. commissioners? commissioner koppel cream. >> commissioner koppel: moved to initiate. >> vice-president melgar: second. >> clerk: and also schedule a hearing. very good. on that motion -- [roll call]. >> clerk: so moved. that motion passes unanimously at 6-0 and places us on item 14 a and b. this is a general plan amendment and zoning map amendment. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm from planning staff. before you today are two proposed ordinances don't make changes to the property at 175 golden gate avenue. the proposed zoning map amendment ordinance was introduced by supervisor kim on june 12th. the ordinance to rezone the subject property from rc for, which is residential commercial high density, to see three g which is downtown general commercial so that it may participate in the transfer of development rights program. the proposed gener

thank you, mr. starr. >> clerk: i cannot remember what happened yesterday. historic preservation commission did meet and initiated landmark designation of the paper doll and 524 union as well as several landmark businesses. if there are no questions, we can move on to general public comment. at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the commission in subject matter jurisdiction except for agenda items. with respect to agenda items, you can address the committee when we get to that on the agenda. i have one speaker card. >> hi. good afternoon. over 3 1/2 years ago, i sent an email to the commission and to the director and to mr. huey and the mayor's office and some of the supervisors on land use at the time talking about the demolitions and i basically said the developers changed the buildings and it's demolition and they do not meet the planning code for 101b prop m for neighborhood preservation. that was sent 3 1/2 years ago. here i am today and i brought with me the zoning controls on the removal of dwelling uni

mr. starr is the author of the new book, "contempt," a memoir of the clinton investigation. now. thanks for being with us. congratulations on the book. >> thank you, anderson. >> first of all, do you think there's truth to what donald trump jr. is saying, essentially that mueller is out to get the president and he'll do anything to do that. is that how it works? >> i have a different perspective, anderson. it shouldn't be how it works and i don't think that is the way that it's working with bob mueller. >> you don't think he's that kind of a person? >> he is not that kind of person. now, there have been concerns. i share those concerns about some of the people around bob mueller and their partisanship. i think those are fair issues to comment about. but bob mueller is an honorable guy. and i served with him in the administration of president bush 41. and i know him to be an honorable guy. he's going to give it his best judgment. >> does it make sense to you that donald trump jr. is giving television interviews? i mean, there's no -- i mean, i'm not sure i understand the stra

a once-in-a-generation spectacle: he became a deputy on independent counsel ken starr's investigation of president and mrsclinton, and helped draft blrts of starr's report that detailed poslegal grounds for impeaching mr. clinton. since then, kavanaugh has openly questioned the power of independent prosecutors, including the supreme court ruling that upheld their exisnce as constitutional. >> can you think of a case that deserves to be overturned? >> yes. >> would you volunteer one? >> no. actually, i'm going to say one: morrison v. olson. >> they said that's the independent counsel statute case. >> it's been effectively overruled,ut i would put the final nail in. >> desjardins:avanaugh has also questioned if presidents should be prosecuted at all, writing in a 2009 law thview article,indictment and trial of a sitting president... would cripple the federal government... such an outcome would ill serve the public interest". kavanaugh soon had another brush with history, joining the george w. bush campaign team in florida in 2000 for the state's decisive recount. the bush win led kavanaugh to the bush white

because unlike ken starr in the late '90s, mr. mueller just like mr.tleman ajaworski does nor authority on his own to send evidence that he has been gathering to congress. the only clear authority he has is to make a report to his supervisor which is currently rod rosenstein. but trump maybe could fire rod re ro rosenstein to not transmit that to congress. already rudy giuliani has hinted that trump might excerpt executive privilege if the democrats would suddenly want to investigate these things. so it still might never reach congress. so the notion is here is a little used mechanism by which the prosecutor can harness the power of a grand jury to make a report and invoke that historical precedent to send the information directly to the house judiciary committee without going through the deputy attorney general, without giving the president the opportunity to order his subordinates to keep whatever that information is secret. so they are trying to draw attention to that and show it as an alternative model that mueller could use. and i would say the mo

starr said in january of 1995, he deposed both president clinton and mrs. n about the suicide of a white house advisor and other things dealing with the whitewater land investigation when led to the monica lewinsky investigation. starr said president clinton bobbed and weaved and avoided answering questions. he said the first lady was different and claimed over 100 times she didn't recall. starr acknowledges it would have been difficult to prove that she lied. he regrets taking on the monica lewinsky phase of the investigation but writes there was no alternative. starr says there are eerie parallels to his investigation and the robert mueller investigation saying both came at times when the american economy was thriving. then he was asked about president trump's comment that democrats would not impeach him because he is doing such a good job. >> if we don't have the rule of the law in the country, we have not done what the founding generations said. we are here to establish justice. that's the preamble of the constitution. that means the rule of law and ever

in the starr investigation and questions about his response to multiple allegations of sexual assault he is now facing by evidenced by those who knew him coming forward to dispute his statements. mr. president, the eyes of the country and the world are upon us. and i fear what they will see in the coming days. it is not too late for the senate to pause this sham process and make clear that this body listens to survivors and takes their experiences and their pain seriously. however, if the senate continues on its present course, it will be an abject failure by this body that will not soon be forgotten. thank you, mr. president, i yield the floor. >> we're live in the senate hart office building on capitol hill where the senate judiciary committee will hear from supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and christine blasey ford, a california psych go i-- psychology professor who accused kavanaugh of trying to rape her when they were teens. the judiciary committee is scheduled to vote tomorrow on the kavanaugh nomination to the nation's highest court. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaud

ken starr has written a book about his time investigating mr clinton — it's called contempt.ou. 20 years, why 20 years to get it out? i was not writing it all that time, i must say. i was otherwise occupied and frankly, eager to write about a very unhappy experience for the entire nation certainly for all of us certainly for all of us certainly for all of us in it. but the time had come. hillary had lost the election. we were coming up on 20 yea rs. election. we were coming up on 20 years. my memory was in danger of fading andi years. my memory was in danger of fading and i wanted this to be a memoir, a very personal account of what happened to our nation 20 years ago. you say that you felt besieged while you with a special prosecutor which i'm sure bob mueller, the current special prosecutor, as well. did you feel that bill clinton was coming after you in the same way that donald trump is going after special prosecutor mueller? yes, bill clinton was much more effective than the current president, i think. bill clinton was a person, is a person of great gifts and charisma, bu

starr. he is the author of the new book "contempt: a memoir of the clinton investigation." mr.. >> hey, great to be here, alisyn. thank you. >> it's been 20 years. what took you so long to write this? >> slow writer. combination of circumstances. it was a milestone. and hillary lost the election. and so i felt given my own personal circumstances, it's sort of now or never. so i wanted to recall this. >> but you would not have written this had hillary clinton won the election? >> it would have been a different set of circumstances. i'm an old-fashioned person who wants the president to succeed. i had no interest in raining on a parade, but i did think this was important to share the historical record, especially, as it turns out, it has lots of resonance, lots of echoes from yesteryear being heard right now. >> it's deja vu all over again, for you, it sounds like, in reading this. there are so many parallels. you felt besieged while you were the prosecutor by president clinton's surrogates. you were under attack by them. so what do you think of the president and his surrogates n

did.ng as kenneth starr he is looking at russia trying to take over our country through our electoral system. that worries me. i don't care who is president. russia is not our friend. i hope mr. mueller is able to find out exactly what they have done and to stop it from happening again. greta: senator patrick leahy, thank you for being this week's ."ewsmaker thank you so much. we are back with our reporters. kate, let's begin with the brett kavanaugh nomination for the supreme court. you heard the senator request not just in light of the letter that senator dianne feinstein has made public about alleged sexual abuse when judge kavanaugh was in high school, but beyond that, democrats say a vote should not take place here when is a vote supposed to take place? senator feinstein did not make the letter public but the . allegations are public. the vote is scheduled to go forward on thursday, october 20. senator grassley has made no signs that he plans to delay. as the allegations came out this morning, his office sent out a letter that 65 woman from judge kavanaugh who know him in high school who spoke toward his character. they have accused senator feinstein as using a delay ta

mr. rosenstein himself is a republican and he also worked on the kenneth starr campaign -- on his staff duringill clinton's administration and his record is drawn behind republican politics . i think he has done to a point where he looked that trying to have some degree of integrity within the department of justice and most folks, on the donald trump side, with all due respect to them, i just don't understand their mentality in terms of a crooked president who work -- sued people who worked for him and would not pay them and told othery lies and independent media outlets cannot keep up with the lies. the most recent caller brought up president obama. it appears as if former president obama is the biggest liar in the world, but he happened to make a mistake thinking his plan would include them being able to see their individual doctors. i pray for the country. i am also a vietnam combat veteran. the last caller, i could not figure out what he was saying, but we have a crook in the white house. hopefully mr. rosenstein will not resign. there are so many people who ,rank the kool-aid of this guy

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