you present the case to impeach a president of the united states. for the next 3 days the managers may their case to the jury of senators and the chief justice of the supreme court but the legislative branch was not one big happy family. one unsettled member caused intense friction between the two houses of congress. prosecutors pressed their request to call witnesses later in this trial. the senate limited the amount and type of evidence we could present. not only does the president s claim strain all boundaries of common sense but is directly in conflict with monica lewinsky s detailed and corroborated accounts of their relationship. utterly physically exhausted. this is been going on one or 3 hours. we would be in trial all day and they would not tell us until that evening whether they expected to hear the next day. we couldn t prepare the trial. they began the 3-day defense
how we do business going forward. i think that s a great credit in many respects to our institution. we did our job. we did it in a way that left us with the ability to go forward, to get some things done for the american people. he s going to have to answer the question forever. you know, you were impeached by the house, you were acquitted by the senate, but that s a significant thing to have to carry around for the rest of your life. president clinton had put the impeachment trial behind him, but accusations of sexual impropriety would continue to pop up. in an interview conducted by nbc news during the impeachment trial but not aired until two weeks after the president s acquittal, an arkansas woman named juanita broaddrick went public, accusing clinton of sexual assault stemming from an incident in 1978. his missteps in the now-settled paula jones case would also continue to haunt him. a federal judge, susan webber wright, ruled president clinton in contempt of court for gi
affidavit in the paula jones case. the statement that there is no sex of any kind, in any manner, shape, or form with president clinton was an utterly false statement. is that correct? that s when he said with kind of a smart-alecky look on his face. it depends upon what the meaning of the word is is. because what his attorney had said was, i have an affidavit that says, there is no sex of any kind. if is means is and never has been, that is not a. that s one thing. if it means, there is none, that was a completely true statement. so, i guess because the president was not having sex with ms. lewinsky at the moment that the question was asked by paula jones attorneys right there in front of judge susan webber wright, that it was technically true. i just want to make sure i understand, mr. president. do you mean today that because you were not engaging in sexual
will not let us call witnesses, we leave the senate chamber and refuse to proceed. days of arguments and secret deliberations, a senate vote shot down the idea of calling live witnesses. the motion is not agreed to. the senate approved a motion to authorize depositions from 3 witnesses. monica linsky, friend vernon jordan and sidney blumenthal. we were all in a state of disappointment. it was not the climactic day for us as house managers. every 12th is the goal for ending the trial unless something new and explosive emerges from the depositions. the white house hopes and predicts that will not be the case. house managers hope that it will. on for very 6, 1999, portions of the videotaped depositions
saw president clinton s january 17 paula jones deposition and heard the misleading answers that brought him to this point. and i d like you to listen to the president s deceptions for yourself. at any time, have you and monica lewinsky ever been alone together in any room in the white house? i think i testified to that earlier. i think that there is a. it is. i have no specific recollection life was so much simpler before they found that dress, wasn t it? there were four articles of impeachment that were referred from the judiciary committee to the full house. the first two articles involved perjury in front of the grand jury and in the paula jones case. article iii charged the president with obstruction of justice by trying to conceal evidence, and article iv with abusing his office by lying to congress in his answers to the 81 questions. many in congress had still been hoping for some sort of an escape hatch from the looming