bite and the look on his face when he gave that answer. he was never going to explicitly answer some of the questions that we had for him because doing so would absolutely implicate him. nothing else summarizes quite so clearly the fact that this is a man who is lying and who is simply using wordsmithing to avoid saying the obvious. amazingly, after the tape s release, the president s approval ratings ticked up another notch. to republicans in congress, this was an ominous sign because a major decision was looming. on capitol hill, the house judiciary committee is expected to vote in two weeks on whether to start a formal impeachment inquiry. guys, it s that time. and nothin s happenin .
go to an impeachment proceeding. it was almost unanimous, this feeling that the public should have a right to see this. without conducting any formal review, in a bipartisan vote of 363 to 63, the house of representatives decided to publish the full report on the internet. if i d been a duly elected member of congress, i d have said, i ve got some reservations about that. it was only supposed to go to a select group of people in congress. and it was supposed to be in a room where people could read it but they couldn t take it out. we had no inkling that there was going to be as much graphicness, and had we reviewed the report in advance, we would have seen judge starr s referral that said, you might want to take a look at this before you toss it out there in public. the 455-page report reads more like something you d find inpenthousemagazine than a grand-jury investigation. it is filled with explicit details about the president and monica lewinsky. the tawdry detai
bite and the look on his face when he gave that answer. he was never going to explicitly answer some of the questions that we had for him because doing so would absolutely implicate him. nothing else summarizes quite so clearly the fact that this is a man who is lying and who is simply using wordsmithing to avoid saying the obvious. amazingly, after the tape s release, the president s approval ratings ticked up another notch. to republicans in congress, this was an ominous sign because a major decision was looming. on capitol hill, the house judiciary committee is expected to vote in two weeks on whether to start a formal impeachment inquiry. hey, who are you? oh, hey jeff, i m a car thief. what?! i m here to steal your car because, well, that s my job. what? what?? what?! (laughing) what?? what?! what?! [crash] what?! haha, it happens. and if you ve got cut-rate car insurance,
september 9, 1998, the starr report was complete. judge starr, ever the careful editor, was, you know, fixing the commas or kind of changing the phrases, and then it was ready to go. the team boxed up the 445-page report and sent it all off to congress. i remember them bringing the trolleys up the elevator and loading it in. we were loading all the boxes into the paneled truck. the starr report arrived on capitol hill with a swarm of media trailing behind. after investigating the president for four years, ken starr s office has finally delivered a report to congress. 36 boxes of evidence and a 445-page report to congress containing what he called substantial and credible information, which could lead to impeachment proceedings against the president accusing him of perjury, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and abuse of power. when ken starr s report was delivered to congress, it was like the entire media establishment was on red alert.
article iii is adopted. the adoption. at 1:22 p.m., by a party-line vote, the house approved articles of impeachment alleging perjury and obstruction of justice against president william jefferson clinton. for the first time since 1868, the president had been impeached. when the speaker brought down the gavel on article i with a majority of votes, it was a very quiet moment in the chamber. people were not applauding. people were not clapping. i think we were all very sober. a stunned congress and nation had just witnessed a day in washington unlike any other. it was a very, very serious and.and emotional day in many ways for a lot of people. and we were mesmerized by these events. you don t see a leader of the house of representatives go down on the same day a president is impeached very often. so, this was, you know, huge news. following the vote, president clinton addressed his supporters from the white house rose garden.