is that the clinton doctrine? >> it's just hard to comprehend of why you would give us that blow by blow in something that we're not investigating here. >> yes, ma'am, leaders lead. >> why weren't you just plain with the american people? >> why is the white house upset that you're taking the credit. >> state department experts knew the truth. you knew the truth, but that's not what the american people got. >> the classic moment of gop clinton overreach which is the impeachment hearings of bill clinton. the republicans thought they had clinton dead to rights and somehow managed to turn the fact that the president had an affair in the oval office into a net political positive for the president. joining me now, democrat of new york who was in congress back in 1998. congressman, do you feel any sense of deja vu watch thing today? >> oh, yes, i feel a great sense of deja vu. it's in many ways similar. it's a total fixation on either