. >> prosecutors announced a pair done witness wish list that includes monica lewinsky, vernon jordan white house advisor sidney blumenthal. >> but the senate majority leader was pushing back hard. >> i heard from henry hyde that trent lott told him there would be no witnesses on the floor of the house. i was appalled by that. absolutely not, will not have monica lewinsky testifying about the stained blue dress. it would sully the floor of the house to have monica lewinsky there and we will not have it. i don't think it is appropriate and i will not be part of it. >> i want to make this very clear. at no point will we ask any questions of monica lewinsky about her explicit sexual relations with the president. >> if the senate tells us they will not let us call witnesses, we leave the senate chamber and refuse to proceed. >> days of arguments and secret deliberations, a senate vote shot down the idea of calling live witnesses. >> the motion is not agreed to. >> the senate approved a motion to authorize depositions from 3 witnesses. monica linsky, friend vernon jordan and sidney blument

. >> some of the consulting work was arranged by the president's other golfing buddy, vernon jordan. well with the office of independent counsel, so they started investigating -- again. great news, liberty mutual customizes- uh uh - i deliver the news around here. ♪ sources say liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. over to you, logo. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >> president donald trump signaling he might be ready to negotiate with democrats to any partial government shutdown. he tweeted this, border security and the wall and shut down is not where nancy pelosi wanted to start her tenure as speaker. let's make a deal. the president also inviting leaders to the white house tomorrow. house democrats plan to vote on funding bills on thursday, money for a border wall is not included. meanwhile investigators are looking into two new year's eve attacks in europe. in western germany police say a driver injured five people by ramming his car into a group of migrants, he made antiforeign or comments. in manchester, england, people are tre

potential witness in the paula jones case to lie and that they're arranging a job for her through vernon jordan >> we got in saul's mini van and drove out to linda tripp's home. >> prosecutors jackie bennett, saul weisenberg, stephen benhack, and fbi agent steve irons departed the independent counsel's office in washington and headed toward suburban maryland. >> you would have thought, from other people's accounts, that we were licking our teeth to get to her house and hear this, but we were really not. >> we assumed that nothing would come of it. we were wrong. >> the quiet neighborhood was lit only by a few street lamps when the federal investigators arrived just past 11:00 p.m. >> we went into her living room, and there, under her christmas tree, she told us the story from beginning to end of monica lewinsky and linda tripp. >> i don't believe any of us were expecting that the information would be as breathtaking as it was and that linda tripp would be as credible as she was. >> the prosecutors sat on linda tripp's couch that night silent and in sheer disbelief. tripp did not hold back as sh

, the world was able to hear from the players themselves, including president clinton's friend vernon jordane your efforts carried out at the request of the president of the united states? >> there is no question but that through betty currie, i was acting on behalf of the president to get ms. lewinsky a job. >> ...and the person many people were most eager to hear from, monica lewinsky. >> i thought to myself -- i knew i would deny the relationship. >> if you believe her, you will see, how the president wove a web of perjury and obstruction of justice. >> it was 24/7. we listened to all the testimony and all the evidence. i'd went and spent 4 or 5 hours listening to monica lewinsky's deposition. it dominated everything. >> two days later, house prosecutors and the president's lawyers made their closing arguments. >> the next morning, the senate shut its doors to the public for 3 days of private deliberations. the historic importance of the proceedings was palpable. >> no staff, no press. >> this is 100 senators. the doors are shut. you're in the room, and it's just you. >> each senator, in

. >> the president testified that he did not know that vernon jordan had met with ms.ones 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 ever an opportunity to change the arc of that fall, that day was it. and he didn't accomplish it. >> judge starr was cross-examined by david kendall, president clinton's lawyer, and endured hour after hour of questions from committee members. democrats demanded to know why his referral focused only on lying about sex. >> it is clear to me that if this case, as it seems to be, and as it seems clear to me, is only about sex and lying about sex, that it will never be found impeachable by congress... nor should it be. >> they tried to turn the tables and shift the focus from the president to the independent

president clinton's assistant, betty currie, testified, as well as his friend vernon jordan, who wased of buying monica lewinsky's silence with a job offer. after questioning from deputy independent counsel sol wisenberg, monica's mother, marcia lewis, left the grand jury room in tears. >> not a scintilla of guilt. there's no mother-daughter privilege. there's no father-son privilege. there's no brother-and-brother privilege. >> monica, look over here! >> as for monica herself, negotiations between her eccentric, tv-friendly attorney and the independent counsel's office had gone nowhere. >> the issue of immunity is always at the discretion of the prosecutor. >> but as the lewinsky investigation intensified, deputy independent counsel hickman ewing had remained in little rock, arkansas, trying to wrap up what began as an investigation into the whitewater land deal. along the way, ewing had drafted some possible indictments to potentially be used depending on how the investigation progressed. one draft centered on the first lady of the united states and the mystery surrounding missing

later in life, he and vernon jordan split, probably over quotas, but i wish you would deal with both of those. >> i'm very happy to. in the last question i said there were arguments back then and the arguments centered precisely on some of those issues. as you mentioned, morris abram deeply committed to racial equality and civil rights, nevertheless became very critical of where the civil rights movement was going, vis-a-vis affirmative action and the idea of special preference for minority groups. is this actually createing a new kind of discrimination? so he came down clearly on saying that affirmative action is not a good thing for racial equality? why? because he thought it's about creating total equality in the law and also, i think it's fair to say as a jew, he did not want to have special laws, precisely of the kind you mentioned there are in europe to ban certain types of speech. today with the rise of anti-semitism, some people say we need new laws to protect jews and jewish students from hate speech. others say that's a violation of freedom of speech. he said individualism,

golub was the editor, the general series editor for the serious, he was my editor for the book i jordan. vernon this is two friends, you know how it is when friends ask you to do things. i said sure, i put aside my misgivings. fascinating topic, there's so much material, but i wondered if i would be able to curb my natural feelings of thisathy about looking at particular time in american history and i agreed to do it. that was many years ago, this book i confess is long overdue. in between saying i would do that i wrote about monticello which took a lot of time and energy and i came back to this and finished it. i'm very glad that i did. the first thing i had to do was think about how do i approach this? andrew johnson is not known by lots of people, not loss is known about him. one thing people probably know is that in almost every survey of rankings of american presidents, he is at the bottom. he's in the bottom five. ince 1997, i participated these surveys and sometimes i look at the results, sometimes i don't, but he's usually in the bottom five. buchanan is usually the worst, but he's in t