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 19 98 for those impeachment hearings. 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 ridiculous or off-stated charges, anything to make a clinton look bad.
with majority and minority staff. there is a certain amount of interstaff just process work that has to be done. i am struck from the outside, and i would like your perspective on this, this seems as bad a relationship between the majority and the minority as i ve ever seen on any committee that i ve ever covered or watched. i think that is a very fair assessment. adam shift said it best, the only way this committee was ever going to have any relevance is if we reached a bipartisan conclusion. and the republican majority made no effort whatsoever from the beginning to try and attempt to do that. i would agree with you, this is as bad secretary clinton herself pointed out when the beirut bombings happened in 1983, a democratic congress investigated it with a republican president in a very professional manner. she even cited the embassy bombings in 1998 when that republican congress investigated a democratic president did it in
interstaff just process work that has to be done. i am struck from the outside, and i would like your perspective on this, this seems as bad a relationship between the majority and the minority as i ve ever seen on any committee that i ve ever covered or watched. i think that is a very fair assessment. adam shift said it best, the only way this committee was ever going to have any relevance is if we reached a bipartisan conclusion. and the republican majority made no effort whatsoever from the beginning to try and attempt to do that. i would agree with you, this is as bad secretary clinton herself pointed out when the beirut bombings happened in 1983, a democratic congress investigated it with a republican president in a very professional manner. she even cited the embassy bombings in 1998 when that republican congress investigated a democratic president did it in a responsible way. so in the past, we ve been able
ridiculous or off-stated charges, anything to make a clinton look bad. in that case bill, in this case hillary. travel gate and file gate and white water, all of which were nonsense. then you had the starr report that published huge volumes of pornographic material in the public record. after all these investigations, they found the president had an affair and tried to make an impeachment of what should have an private sexual affair and people ultimately said enough of this. there was no point at which the shovel in the ground was going to hit a bottom. the hearing going known hours or however it ultimately goes. you know, this is a very there is no end to this.