hundreds of thousands to the committee. wynn denies the allegations against him. a police officer shot in the head last week while on duty died sunday from injuries. detroit officer glen doss, jr., responding to domestic violence call sunday night. when officers arrived, the suspect carlos brooks opened fire and got out of the squad car. police took brooks into custody. he s facing murder charges for doss s death. i m rick leventhal, now back to scandalous. bill clinton s presidency, i think, was regarded as pretty normal. we were shifting from republican to democrat, which this country tends to do. he brought with him a strong democratic majority in both houses of congress. he also brought with him a number of friends from arkansas. there s a thing that happens with presidents who are not from washington.
let s go win this election. thank you very much. there was a lot of excitement among democrats. they had been out of power for 12 years, and here was this young upstart governor from arkansas. came out of nowhere. but on january 17th, just before the all-important iowa caucuses and new hampshire primaries, the first clinton scandal erupted. i was bill clinton s lover for 12 years. and for the past two years, i have lied to the press about our relationship to protect him. now he tells me to deny it. clinton and his wife, hillary, are hoping to deal decisively with the gennifer flowers story. [ chuckles ] your thoughts. she didn t tell the truth. i have been in new hampshire and mississippi and louisiana, allowing real voters i can t find any citizen who will ask me a question about this. an air of crisis is hovering over the clinton campaign. the campaign s response would foreshadow the clinton playbook on scandal management deny and return fire. all i can tell y
controversy over bill clinton s vietnam draft deferment. after using a deferment long enough to avoid the draft, clinton backed out of his deal to join the rotc program. clinton called the charges a tired, old story. the character questions chipped away at clinton s poll numbers. less than a week before the new hampshire primary, he suddenly trailed by double digits. if you didn t finish first or second in new hampshire, it was over. bill clinton! but bill clinton wouldn t go down without a fight. his back against the wall, he surged to a second-place finish in new hampshire. new hampshire, tonight, has made bill clinton the comeback kid. [ cheers and applause ] with his new momentum, a wave of national reporters descended on little rock, arkansas. he was the democratic front-runner. so digging into who he was and into his past was a key part of what we do. march of 92, there was an
and that is, they ve got a team from their home state, and this is the team that got him elected. so, who s gonna tell them that they don t know what they re doing? many of them came from the rose law firm. the rose law firm was a prominent little rock, arkansas, law firm. it was prominent because it had a lot of great lawyers, and among them were hillary clinton. there were two men who mentored hillary and guided her and smoothed her path. one was webb hubbell, and the other was vince foster. webster hubbell is a very accomplished lawyer. he was on the arkansas supreme court. vince foster also partnered at the rose law firm. very close with mrs. clinton in particular. foster would be probably the main litigator in the rose law firm. he d been president of the bar association. but he s probably the most highly thought-of lawyer in the whole group. when president clinton was elected, they asked mr. hubbell and mr. foster and another rose lawyer, bill kennedy, to go to washin
in 1978, chris wade offered jim a piece of undeveloped land in marion county price tag of $203,000. it was just some land on the bluff overlooking the white river. and he said, let s just drive up and take a look at it. jim and susan fell in love with it. we get there, and there s water running through it. and the trees were really beautiful. it was quiet and serene. it was almost like looking at a cartoon of arkansas. jim was sold, but he needed some partners. actually, i got this piece of land up in the white river i m gonna buy. you want to go in with me? i ll take care of setting the financing up. jim wanted to offer bill that opportunity to make maybe a few hundred dollars on it. it would be a little bit of a prestige that bill clinton owned a tract in whitewater. the two couples borrowed money from a local bank and put up a 10% down payment. that same year, 32-year-old bill clinton became the youngest governor in the country. the newly formed whitewater deve