What do you remember about what happened and how all of this transpired over the next month . Alexis the senate trial was fascinating because of the idea that it is called a trial, but it is not a legal proceeding and is at its heart very political. But it had so many interesting, dynamic characters involved in it. Robert byrd, senator byrd of west virginia, a stalwart constitutional scholar and not a supporter or friend of bill clinton in any particular way, he ended up at one point just throwing up his hands and saying that this should not even have happened, that the trial was misguided. He even told his colleagues that he was going to introduce a motion to dismiss the whole thing. Different senators played different roles. The house managers were fascinating to listen to. The president s legal team was really interesting. He had a strong array of legal representation there. And he also tried to sort of, what would you say, to try to add, to put some english on the ball. His legalen
Senate, the trial against president bill clinton. Joining us here is alexis simmon burgers. We had never seen anything like this before. The last trial was in the 1860s. No television with Andrew Johnson. What do you remember about what happened and how this transpired . The senate trial was fascinating. A trial that it called but its not a legal proceeding. It is very political. It had so many interesting dynamic characters involved in it. Robert byrd, senator byrd of was virginia, stalwart constitutional scholar. Not a supporter or friend of bill clinton in any particular way. He ended up at one point just throwing up his hands and saying , this should not have even happened. The trial was misguided. That hehis colleagues was going to introduce a motion to dismiss the whole thing. Senators played different roles. The house managers were fascinated to listen to the president legal team. Array of legal representation there. Adalso tried to sort of english on the ball. He wanted to repr
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