yet heard from president clinton. the last person to talk to is the main participant, and that is president clinton. and he s not going to appear voluntarily. we got the brush-off, and so, ultimately, we subpoenaed him. david kendall, the president s lawyer, called me and said, i want to work out a deal. the two sides would agree that president clinton would testify for four hours on august 17, 1998. it s gonna be at the white house, but it s gonna be live. it s gonna be piped in to the grand jury. it was very clear, obviously, this was a historic event, where a sitting president of the united states is testifying under oath about a criminal matter that he is the subject of. we just hoped that what we would be met with was the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. we did a mocking examination of president clinton. obviously, he couldn t come participate in that, so we used
yet heard from president clinton. the last person to talk to is the main participant, and that is president clinton. and he s not going to appear voluntarily. we got the brush-off, and so, ultimately, we subpoenaed him. david kendall, the president s lawyer, called me and said, i want to work out a deal. the two sides would agree that president clinton would testify for four hours on august 17, 1998. it s gonna be at the white house, but it s gonna be live. it s gonna be piped in to the grand jury. it was very clear, obviously, this was a historic event, where a sitting president of the united states is testifying under oath about a criminal matter that he is the subject of. we just hoped that what we would be met with was the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. we did a mocking examination of president clinton. obviously, he couldn t come participate in that, so we used
read all over the internet, quote, i regretted the whole thing. yeah. a quote from you talking about the clinton investigation. the full quote is i regretted the whole thing but it had to be done. what element of the clinton investigation do you regret today? well, first of all, i think it would have been better for the nation it goes without saying for the president to have been truthful in the first instance and not to have committed perjury. he has apparently just unlimited belief in his acts to convince anyone including the court of law and the reason this book is named on tempt is he is the only president in american history to have been found in contempt by united states district court judge and he didn t appeal from that ruling. so just tell the truth. so i was hoping that he would tell the truth in the august 17, 1998, grand jury appearance. he was urged by members of his own party who recognized that by this time they knew he had committed perjury in the civil depositi
federal court if he chooses to. well, i love rudy, but rudy was right then and as i describe in the book the take away from the book is rudy is not correct now. it is, in fact, the case, as i describe in the book contempt that the president is subject to subpoena and eventually after we were pushed back by the white house during the lewinsky phase of the investigation, we invited the president through letters five times to come before the grand jury and to give an account before the grand jury. push back, push back. so i authorized the issuance of a subpoena promptly with his very able lawyers from williams and conley we reached a resolution that is now part of history, his famous august 17, 1998, appearance before the grand jury. my view then and now is a president can be subpoenaed. ken, you made some headlines earlier this week, the headline
president clinton. the last person to talk to is the main participant, and that is president clinton. and he s not going to appear voluntarily. we got the brush-off, and so, ultimately, we subpoenaed him. david kendall, the president s lawyer, called me and said, i want to work out a deal. the two sides would agree that president clinton would testify for four hours on august 17, 1998. it s gonna be at the white house, but it s gonna be live. it s gonna be piped in to the grand jury. it was very clear, obviously, this was a historic event, where a sitting president of the united states is testifying under oath about a criminal matter that he is the subject of. we just hoped that what we would be met with was the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. we did a mocking examination of president clinton. obviously, he couldn t come participate in that, so we used