Graciously come back to the festival this year to talk about his latest book, a memoir of his time leading the 19 nineties investigation into whitewater and Monica Lewinsky mattered judge starr needs no introduction with his distinguished career is a graduate of George Washington university and us solicitor general. Dean of Pepperdine Law School and chancellor andnd president of Baylor University and the established private attorney and of course washington dc and also with the independent counsel. Even though we have a very bright crowd because this is the annapolis area if i said the three names i bet nobody knows who they are. You know im talking about a very select group of special prosecutors and independentpe c councils or special councils appointed or have been appointed to look into high level cases part one dash involving the executive branch. But first take us back to 1994. And then you get a call from the judge who calls to ask and those that were heading up the whitewater i
Graciously come back to the festival this year to talk about his latest book, a memoir of time leading the 1990s investigation into whitewater and the matter during the 10 years of bill clinton. When you have been in the whitehot center of the public eye has he has judges probably needs no introduction but i will give you a quick snapshot of some of his distinguished career in law and public service. Is a graduate of George Washington university, Brown University law school. He was the us solicitor general. He was dean of the pepperdine law school. He was chancellor and president of baylor university. Hes been a very distinguished private attorney with firms in california, texas and washington dc. He also is something called [inaudible] even though we have a very bright crowd and this is the annapolis area, i bet if i asked you or if i said the three names you are not allowed answer, can i bet no one know soon they are, but if i said the names Archibald Cox, ken starr and bob mueller y
Kreme doughnuts with Vladimir Putin in 2004. Thats a public picture. Theres a big distinction between something thats happening behind closed doors and something that potentially the press could have had access to. The white house is saying this is much ado about nothing. The conversations between Jared Kushner and Michael Flynn were part of numerous, almost dozens of conversations they were having with foreign leaders as they were trying to set up and try to figure out how they could hit the ground running at the white house. One example we just learned today there will be a meeting between Angela Merkel, the chancellor of berlin, and President Trump here on march 14th. So, yes, there was a lot of transition work to be doing. Now what the white house is saying is theyre saying, look, a lot of people had meetings with russia. Dont just focus on us. Take a look at the tweet donald trump sent out about 30 minutes or so ago. Its a picture of Chuck Schumer and Vladimir Putin back from 2003