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 you is it isn t a true stor
became president clinton. in order to pay bills for these 12 different entities, either jim mcdougal or one of his employees would write a check from account a to account b, creating the appearance of money that did not exist. lewis wrote the first of many criminal referrals related to mcdougal s savings and loan and sent it to federal prosecutors. but it went nowhere. we ultimately, in october of 93, received a letter from paula casey, the new u.s. attorney in the eastern district of arkansas. that letter stated, we are declining your madison guaranty referral. meanwhile, the country was transfixed by drama unfolding on the other side of the world. on october 3rd, united states army rangers and elite delta force operators had set out on a mission to capture a corrupt warlord in mogadishu, somalia.
parceling out the land and selling lots. the idea was to take this big piece of property and puts roads in it. we did all the work, as far as doing the surveys and road-building. and jim and susan kind of worked on the marketing. but by 1980, things took a turn for the worse. bill clinton lost his re-election bid, and jim mcdougal quit politics. mcdougal and several others bought a bank over in west arkansas. and they loaned money to help the whitewater development. they made one loan in the amount of $30,000 in the name of hillary clinton. the loan was for hillary to build a model home on the property. three decades later, the house still sits on what is now a quiet, tree-lined street. it would just be a home for folks to come look at. but whitewater began to struggle. some blamed its remote location. if you didn t have a pretty rugged old pickup or something like that, you just almost couldn t even get in there. at the same time, interest
vince foster was a wonderful man. that changes everything. it changes the white house. it changes the clintons. there seemed to me to be a terrible cloud everywhere. vincent foster was a lifelong friend of president clinton s, and mr. clinton returned to arkansas for the funeral service. in the meantime, he s asked the justice department to coordinate the investigation of this tragedy. but on the night of the suicide and the days that followed, that investigation would be complicated by disputes over the contents of foster s office and who had access to it. vincent foster has died. the president has been informed. mrs. clinton has been informed. people then start visiting vincent foster s office in the white house. there was evidence that documents were removed from foster s office. the white house counsel, bernard nussbaum, presidential aides, mrs. clinton s aides start removing documents. now, what s going on with that? the park police wanted to come in and search t
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 washington with them. hillary clinto