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According to the constitution and the laws so help you god. The clerk will call the names and record the responses. Was january 7, 1999. From the floor of the senate the trial of president till clinton. We had never seen anything like this before. Thelast trial was back in 1850s, no television with Andrew Johnson. What do you remember about what happened and how this transpired . The senate trial was fascinating because of the idea that it was called a trial but. T is not a legal proceeding it had so many interesting dynamic characters involved in it. Robert byrd of west virginia, a stall wart constitutional , not a supporter or friend of bill clinton. He ended up at one point throwing up its hands and admitting this should not have happened. And heal was misguided even told a colleague that he was going to introduce a motion to dismiss the whole thing. Different senators play different roles. The house managers were fascinated to listen to the president the president s legal team was
Live gaveltogavel of the house. Theyll gavel in next. Up the resolution on the appointment of managers of impeachment. Live coverage on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God, we give you thanks for giving us another day. You helped promise god, you are with us wherever we are and whatever we are doing to heal and to help, give strength and make us whole. On this day, the house and the senate draw our nations attention as the process of impeachment moves forward. Bless all members of congress with wisdom. Give them the courage to honor the constitution as they have promised to do so that all americans can proudly observe their government in action. Opinion and feelings will be on edge, may all members be filled by your holy spirit and engage each other with goodwill and respect. May all that is done this day and in the days to come, be for your gritter honor and glory. Amen.
Coming up in just a couple of minutes, we will show you some of the highlights of that debate. You are covering this for national journal. Lets begin with the political environment in 1998. What led to the impeachment of president clinton . Alexis one of the interesting things we might forget, all this time, going forward, bill clinton was under investigation for almost his entire presidency. Ken starr had begun to investigate the whitewater investment deal back in 1994. By the time we were in the fall of 1998, president clinton and his entire white house were very used to being under investigation for a whole variety of allegations related to his past in arkansas. Even his fundraising efforts, when he was prident. In the fall of 1998, he was elected to a second term, but they were going into the Midterm Elections. What Kenneth Starr as the independent counsel had uncovered was a whole series of alleged relationships the president had had in the past that he had investigated. Then he h
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