bill clinton and ken starr are "time's" men of the year." i think this was a water shed event in the history of the united states in a profoundly teg nigh way because this did mark the popularization of this angry divide in our country that we see today. certainly, you had other instances of the country fighting over iran contra, the water gate, other hearings, but this was the first time where the public was really dragged into the fray, and literally you went to supermarkets and people pointed their fingers saying this side was evil and this side was evil, and it is the beginning of literally the beginning of red states blue states. that was created at the end of the clinton prosecute sigh and the dysfunction in washington today with the unhealthy discourse on health care, budget impasse, and other issues. he's the scarry part, john. one of the things that was so chilling in researching this book and interviewing lou, it turned out that at the time we were fighting over this, and at the time fbi agents and investigators were in arkansas tr

but we did not use those words with ken starr. i do not know if you were there. >> i was. >> you were. >> saul didn't tell us he would e one of his associates. we simply cannot plead guilty to anything. we left. we said the same thing. >> i do not remember that meeting. >> i remember you came in and said we were man enough. you were. >> we had nothing to do what transpired. we came in the case. >> what if you had been able to strike a deal right at the beginning in january? how would that have been different? do you think he would actually would have done that? >> i was persuaded that their people on the staff that wanted her prosecuted. the probably blow. >> it is a question that has been talked but many times. the consensuses is that we are by entering the statement. it was not significantly different. there is a historical thing. it is standard operating procedure. when someone wants to enter into a guilty plea, there is a proper section. ginsberg did not understand the significance of that. he wanted to strike an agreement of

starr.written the biography of archie bald who was fired in the infamous saturday night masker. because that book came out right as the lewinsky episode was explode anything the media, i became a talking head on all this special prosecutor stuff. there weren't a lot of us around to talk about it. and most -- so i was writing op-eds for "the new york times," l.a. times, most of what i wrote would have been viewed as pro-clinton because i did not believe this was an impeachable offense. i'm a constitutional law professor, i had read the federalist papers and the constitutional convention discussions. i did not think it was impeachable. but i never criticized ken starr personally. i had great respect for him. he's a lawyer's lawyer, former federal judge, former solicitor general of the unite, so i did not view -- of the united states, so i did not view him as a right-wing conspirator out to topple the president. so i figured if ken starr and his prosecutors shut me off, i did not want to write

a revisit of the starr vs. clinton case. daughter on her memories of the president and her grandfather. and a discussion of bob dole. for a complete list of this weekend's programs and times, go online at c-span.org. in his annual address to the russian parliament, vladimir putin spoke to members about the state of the country's economy. the speech lasted several hours and included questions on spending and modernizing weapons programs. here is a 50 minute portion. >> the risks were real and they could have weakened the country. in 2008, the world crisis started as a purely financial crisis. the problems in financial exchanges led to the structural breakdown of global economies. in many countries, there were fiscal and balances -- there were fiscal imbalances. portugal had to ask the european union for emergency financial assistance. askeder, other countries for assistance. many of our neighbors in europe had to either raise the retirement age or freeze pension benefits and welfare benefits. in france, you perhaps know and h

but we did not use those words with ken starr. i do not know if you were there. >> i was. >> you were. he said he would prosecute like one of his associates. we simply cannot plead guilty to anything. we left. we said the same thing. >> i do not remember that meeting. >> i remember you came in and said we were man enough. you were. >> we had nothing to do what transpired. we came in the case. >> what if you had been able to strike a deal right at the beginning in january? how would that have been different? do you think he would actually would have done that? >> i was persuaded that their people on the staff that wanted her prosecuted. the probably blow. >> it is a question that has been talked but many times. the consensuses is that we are by entering the statement. it was not significantly different. there is a historical thing. it is standard operating procedure. when someone wants to enter into a guilty plea, there is a proper section. ginsberg did not understand the significance of that. he wanted to strike an agreement of so

ken starr looked into this. he came to the same conclusion. it did not make any difference to the people that bought this is a some sort of a wet dream -- sir -- sort of a white ring conspiracy. >> why did they not announced when the president was cleared that he had been cleared until the impeachment had been done. no one had announced this. >> this had been announced. was maybe three or four other matters that were open. that understanding is that we announced this. we have been criticized for taking too long on the investigation. we are in a public prosecutor. there are things that we might have done differently. i do not know the particulars of it. there is no evil intent are anything. and the people thought we took too long on the white house files. >> i cannot speak to it. it strikes me as something reason people can disagree. >> i am not aware of that. >> any recent graduate. i was about 12 and this is going on. -- 12 when this was going on. >> you probably read in your bedroom at night. >> did you interview newt gingrich about his affa

with all the details, here's alexi starr. >> reporter: no hiding the joy as passengers from southwest flight 812 finally made it to their destination. made it to sacramento, california. hugs, kisses, tears. relatives overjoyed at seeing their loved ones. ashley mann couldn't contain herself. she'd been waiting for hours for her boyfriend. ever since receiving a frightening text message. >> he sent me a text when he was on the ground. and told me there was a hole in the ceiling of the plane. and that he was all right. he did assure me that. but i still don't believe him. >> reporter: the harrowing day began more than six hours earlier. the southwest flight, a boeing 737, had taken off from phoenix around 3:45 p.m. local time. 118 passengers on board. flight attendants had just taken drink orders when passengers reported hearing something unusual. loud pops. several minutes later, the roof opened up. astonished passengers saw a gaping hole. perhaps three to five feet long. and a foot wide. right next to the luggage compartment. aviation sources provided abc news with these photos of the

of the book dumping scandal, even state librarian emeritus kevin starr said, "san francisco public library should divest it is toward a collection that was moving towards 100 years old, to disestablish it without any public mandate or public discussion is shocking. the post-occupancy evaluation said the building had been developed without regard to those who would run it and would take $26 million to fix. even willie brown, maybe willie brown, said that library was a very sad story. the new main library is the poster child for everything that is wrong with abandoning public responsibility for public-private partnerships. what we got was wasteful, dysfunctional, ugly and too expensive to run. in short, the classic white elephant. people ask, why did the private corporation interests want to destroy the library? but, of course, they wanted to make sure that nothing stood in the way of private money. yet, there is no accountability because everyone knows what will happen. no matter how much harm is done, no one wants to examine the proposition that privatization is not the best social model a

these bankers don't see that their massive payouts come on the backs of millions of people who suffer starr and endure violent turmoil when their economies collapse these guys are making literally billions destroying people's lives and i'm willing to bet that turkey will be their next target now that roubini has pointed out its vulnerability . so why should we care because after turkey the united states could be next as long as these insane tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires persist too much hot money running around out there then we will see for ourselves looking at a debt that could take down our economy just last week yes m.p. credit rating agency said there was a one in three chance the u.s. credit could be downgraded and if that happens you really think the bankers won't turn their sights on pillaging of the america and pillaging us these are the same guys who are selling off our nation's infrastructure in bulk to foreign nations and the same guys who are shipping us jobs overseas by the millions and they're the same guys who already showed us back in two thousand and eight if

friday, three former secretaries of state talk about american diplomacy, a revisit of the starr vs clinton sunday, president ford's son stephen talked about public officials handling of the ethical issues and jenna bush hager on our memories of her father and grandfather and tom brokaw and vice president joe biden on our former presidential candidate, bob dole. on monday, political strategists on same-sex marriage in america. for a complete list, go on line at c-span.org. >> this year's studentcam competition asked students from across the country to consider washington, d.c. through their lens. the second prize winner addressed an issue that better help them understand the role of the federal government. ♪ >> december 31, 2010 was an important date for the federal government and the people of our country. major changes in the tax policy would be made. these changes could possibly increase the amount of money paid by the citizens to the federal government. the bush tax cuts were set to expire on december 31, 2010 and congress have to decide if there were going to extend them or let them ex

kenneth starr's behavior was much more inappropriate than bill clinton's ever was. >> guest: obviously they felt very much about clinton the way they do about president obama and wanted to get rid of him and they would willing to do it that way they possibly could. from the time efforts were started to prosecute clinton, they were totally out of control. of a set earlier in the show i think people are going to be discussing this decades to come about the pros and cons of how bill clinton was treated. >> host: you are on quaid tour with this book unusual in "1 nation under sex: how the private lives of presidents, first ladies and their lovers changed the course of american history" is available in your book store or online bookseller is. why spend so much time talking about this? >> one of my main goals is to introduce history to the audience. if it takes something a little fallacious, it is great and this is a great primer for anyone to discuss the history because you're going to learn a lot more about sex lives and politics in foreign relations. >> host: we are -- you have a civil wa

michael starr to the morning. we will warm up this afternoon, chants every spring coat. system stays mainly to the north. larger cold front moves on through this afternoon the next batter rain wednesday we'll advance the clock to then we have a system that dips down a little bit lower. stronger chance of the bay area white sprinkles wednesday. the weekend more on that in a minute. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. temperatures this afternoon 50 degrees, 63 in concord. 61 in oakland. 62 for hayward, fremont. livermore, 62 for you. in the delta 64. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. on and off char activity today. tuesday looks great, wednesday greater chance. although will be that much. thursday, friday we tried out. the weekend looks good, sunshine and warming. >> george: thank you, we like to start to are with the things you need to know, we don't have any hot spots. bridge check, westbound ride looks good. it is still very light heading to the bay bridge san mateo starting a pretty good. take a look at the right side of your screen that's the westb

up if you want to, but far, far, far more editor those criticizing bill clinton and criticizing ken starr and his prosecutorial tactics. the paper broke the whitewater story. i'll finish up in a couple of minutes. the paper broke the whitewater story but it kept on clinton pretty hard. throughout his time in office. the paper more recently, it broke the eliot spitzer story. david paterson is another democrat at the paper didn't go soft on. i can cite a lot more examples than that. also, on the subject of the war, it's much more pungent criticism in my mind that the times, like most american newspapers and news outlets published far more stories, basically taking the administration line through background quotes like the famous stories. then it ran critical of the administration's arguments for war against iraq. bill cites this, to his credit. so there are many, many criticisms to be made from the left and "the new york times." what doesn't all add up to? bill keller would say i guess that now without justification, that if we attack like this on both sides, maybe that tells us that if we

the pamela starr matthew and richard come vice president international rescue committee, richard bowers, a regional program director for south asia mercy corps, michael clauson, vice president save the children and bethell, director of the intergovernmental affairs institute of peace. i will note for the record that all four of the ngos represented here today participated in the white paper smart development. the effort to organizations involved with the foundation and the cooperative relief everywhere better known as care. we just witnessed all for five minute testimonies and the full text will be entered into the record, hearing record and post on the commission's website. we would also ask the witness is to provide within 15 business days response to any questions for the record and any additional information that makes offered to provide on behalf of the commission we think of our witnesses for participating in what i view as an important interest in hearing, and so now if our witnesses will rise and raise their right hands i will swear them in. you do you solemnly swear or affirm t

friday, three former secretaries of state talk about american diplomacy, a revisit of the starr versus clinton case, including a lawyer for monica lewinsky. on sunday, president ford's son, then general -- jenna bush hager. tom brokaw and vice president biden will talk about bob dole. on monday, political strategists on same-sex marriage in america. for complete list of this week and's programs and times, online programsis weekend's and times compan, go online at - span.org. >> this weekend on "booktv," jennet conant. then ed lengel debunks centuries-old myths. sarah bell -- vowell, also this weekend. find the schedule at booktv.org. sign up for book tv alerts. >> the ipod mini is no more. no! don't take it away! i give you the ipod nano. [laughter] >> in his monologue, mike daisey comments on the world as he sees it. but agassi -- the agony and ecstasy of steve jobs. >> my monologue comes out of my obsession. >> find out more sunday night on c-span's "q&a." you can download podcasts of "q&a." it is available at c- span.org/podcast. "washington journal" continues. host: robert nichols

three former secretaries of state, about american diplomacy, a revisit of the starr vs. clinton case, and memories of the white house during the presidency of her grandfather and father. on bob dole. for complete list of this week and cost programs, go online at c-span.org. the congressional directory, a complete guide to the 112th congress. contact information, including addresses, maps, and assign this. information on the white house, supreme court justices, and governors. >> robert gates told reporters the president had authorized the use of drones in libya. he was joined by james cartwright. here is part of that news briefing. >> i thought we would take this opportunity, so we'll go to questions. >> the situation in libya, where hair and reports the british, french, and the italians are going to send trainers. has there been discussion about the united states providing additional military and air support over the course of time as things move ahead, particularly considering things appearing to be a stalemate, and whether or not you think it is a statement. secondaril

kenneth starr case.ormer news anchor tom brokaw and vice president joe biden on bob dole. >> this weekend on american history television on c-span 3, an artist takes us back to the 19th century white house. and the constitutional effect of the election of 1800's. get the complete weekend schedule at c-span.org/history. >> this weekend on book tv on c- span 2, paul and julia child's career during world war ii. also this weekend, sarah vowell examines the americanization of hawaii. find the complete schedule at booktv.org. >> next tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of the chernobyl nuclear plant disaster in what was the soviet republic of the ukraine. it is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history. there was a forum looking at the history and its short and long term effects of the environment and public health. this is about two hours. >> distinguished participants, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for accepting the invitation and coming to the embassy of the ukraine for today's important event. i

then a conversation with the lawyers in regards to the president clinton, ken starr case. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> go inside pivotal moments at the c-span video library. it's washington your way. >> now a discussion on minorities in the news media and popular culture. speakers include film director spike lee and chairman director will griffin. it was held at the museum in washington, d.c. and it's moderated by richard of msnbc. this is about 90 minutes. urging people to kind of move up front. take a seat. [inaudible conversations] okay, and just to remind you, we've looked at different contexts for our look at racial questions, and we've gone through the home and family, politics, and them the last session, the institutions, # and now basically a public sphere, the media and popular culture, and i turn it back over to richard lui. >> thank you, charlie. what a great panel today to talk about this. donna byrd here, thank you for being here today. will griffin, thank you, present ceo o

"the washington post" wrote that the president's chief paul starr said that there would be 18 people the first time in 2012. >> chamber of commerce officials say that the draft goes beyond the nation's. the chamber and the white house have been at odds over contributions since the supreme court ruled that corporations and unions could pay for political attack ads anonymously. mr. obama complained bitterly about it. the press secretary said debt the president deserves -- things the taxpayers deserve to know how other taxpayers -- tax dollars are being spent. officials said that taxpayers deserve to know that contacts like those are not the result of political favoritism. for chamber officials they say the favoritism shown in new be executive order leaves out. -- in who the other executive order leaves out. -- diane who the executive order leaves out. -- in who the executive order leaves out. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> president obama is expected to focus on his debt reduction plan during the town hall. the u.s. will reach their current credit limit by may 16. after the easter break, congress is e