there are clear differences, tucker, between what a prosecutor knows and what the prosecutor can prove. so we were following justice department policy. we knew we had to prove the case, each element of the case beyond a reasonable doubt. we came to the view after looking at an elaborate draft indictment, supported prosecution memo, that as i describe in the book, we decided we just did not have the evidence to bring those charges. tucker: quickly, this jumped out at me, you said you were haunted by the vince foster case, his death in washington during the early part of the clinton first term. why? as i describe in the book, we were trying to get to the bottom of among other things how hillary clinton s billing records at the law firm mysteriously disappeared which was theft from the rose law firm. and then mysteriously reappeared, in the book room where hillary was writing aing boo.
terrific accounting of the city of detroit is out now in paper back. welcome to you. thank you, brian. you and i go back to the clinton first term and when people say those things, when people talk about the clinton women, this is a very, very broad question, how do you react? asked and answered, already litigated or your right to ask those questions, make those charges. i have to say at one point i had to turn the tv off. i was suffering from ptsd from the late 1990s, whatever the clinton s flaws are their opponent s flaws seem to be greater and so obsessed and that s playing out right now on the hyper reality show where the candidate is surrounded only by
clinton first term and when people say those things, when people talk about the clinton women, this is a very, very broad question, how do you react? asked and answered, already litigated or your right to ask those questions, make those charges. i have to say at one point i had to turn the tv off. i was suffering from ptsd from the late 1990s, whatever the clinton s flaws are their opponent s flaws seem to be greater and so se obsessed and that s playing out right now on the hyper reality show where the candidate is surrounded only by this small group of people who have been out to get the clintons for 20 years. how much of this did ken star exhaust?
it delivered before, stacy lindh came out and made that point clearly. now that point will be echoed throughout the week. we saw michelle obama echoing that in her speech. tonight is about michelle obama, it is now about her place in history. if you think back at where hillary clinton was at this point in the in her time in the white house, she was the woman at this point in time who you really couldn t talk about in american politics at the end of the clinton first term, she had led the debacle of health care reform for the clinton administration, and look at how much she has achieved since then. michelle obama is carrying no political liabilities tonight. her political future, if she were to choose one, is virtually unlimited. chris matthews, that s a provocative last point there from lawrence, the prospect of michelle obama for something. michelle obama running, is that the lesson for tonight? is obama care the lesson for