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[ ♪ ] >>. >> the presidential in august race of donald trump is friday january 20th. c-span will have live coverage of all the event and ceremonies, watch live tonne c-span and c spoon.org and listen live in memorial 2016 continues with remarks by former arkansas senator and governor dale bumpers, he died in jan at the age of 90. slortly after his retirement he returned in january 1999 to deliver the closing arguments of the guess in the impeachment trial of bill clinton, who he had known for decades. here is a portion of those remarks. >> the question is how do we come to be here? we are here because of a 5-i can't remember relentless, unending investigation of the president. $50 billion. hundreds of fbi agents spanning across the nation, examining in detail the microscopic lives of people. maybe the most intense investigation not only of a person, but anyone ever. >> i feel strongly about this state because of my state. you'll have to excuse me, but that investigation has shown that the judicial system in this country can and does get out of kilter unless it's controlled. because there are innocent people, innocent people who have been financially and mentally bankrupt. one woman told me two years ago that her legal fees were $95,000. she says "i don't have $95,000." the only asset i have is the equity in my home, which corresponds to my legal fees of 95,000. she said the only thing i can think of to do was sell my home. this woman was innocent. never charged. testified before the grarned jury a number of times. since that time she as accumulated an additional $200,000 if fees. jolbert's pursuit pales by comparison. i doubt that there are few people, maybe nobody that could withstand such scrutiny. and in this case those summoned were terrified not because of their guilt. because they felt guilts or innocence was not really relevant. after all of those years, and $50 million of white water, travel, thousands, you name it. nothing, nothing - the president was found guilty of nothing. official or personal. we are here today because the president suffered a terrible lapse. of marital infidelity. not a breach of the public trust. not a crime against society, the two things hamilton talked about in paper 65 - i recommend it to you before you vote. but it was a breach of the marriage vows, of family trust. it is a sex scandal. it was said when you hear someone say this is not about money, it's about money. when you hear someone say this is not about sex. it's about sex. you pick your own adjective to describe the president's conduct. here is some that i would use. indefensible. outrageous. unforgiveable. shameless. i promise you the president would not contest any of those or any others. but there's a human element in this case that has not even been mentioned. and that is the president and hillary and chelsea are human being. this is intended only as a mild criticism of our distinguished friends in the house. but as i listen to the presenters to the managers, make their opening statements, they were remarkably well prepared and spoke eloquently. more eloquently than i had hoped. but when i talk about the human element, i talk about what i thought was on occasion unnecessarily harsh in description of the president. i thought that the language should have been tough at some point to acknowledge that he is the president. to say constantly that the president lied about this, and lied about that. as i say, i thought that was too much. for a family that has already been as decimated as a family can get. the relationship between husband and wife, father and child has been incredibly strained. if not destroyed. there has been nothing but sleepless nights, mental agony for this family for almost five years, day after day from accusatio accusations. it has been bizarre. >> i didn't sense any confession. and perhaps none is deserved. the president has said for all to hear that he misled, he deceived, he did not want to be helpful to the prosecution. and he did all of those things to his family, to his friends, to his staff, to his cabinet, and to the american people. why would he do that? >> well, he knew this whole affair was about to bring unspeakable embarrassment and humiliation on himself, his wife, whom he adored, and a child that he worshipped with every fibre in his body. and for whom he would happily have died, to spare her this. or to amil yorate her shame and her grief. the house said shame and embarrassment is no excuse for lying. well, the question about lying, that's your decision. i can tell you, you put yourself in his position. and you have already had a moral lapse as to what you would do. we are none of us perfect. sure he should have thought of that beforehand. indeed he should, just as adam and eve should have, just as you and you and you and millions of other people caught in similar circumstances should have thought of it before. none of us are perfect. i remember chaplain, the - the chaplain is not here, is he. that's too bad. he ought to hear this story. there was a great revival meeting. at the close of a meeting it was said is there anyone in this audience who knows anyone that even comes close to the perfection of our lord and saviour jesus christ. >> nothing. >> he repeated the challenge. finally someone at the back came forward. "are you saying you know such a person?" stand up. share it with us. who was it? >> he said my wife's first husband. >> announcer: next on in memorrium 2016. janet reno, the first woman to hold that position. leading the justice department through event like the ohio city bombing. several high profile terrorism cases, and she died from complications related to parkinson's disease. here is a portion of the 2000 commencement address to law students at north western university if 50% of human responses learnt in the first year of life, if the concept of reward and punishment are learnt what good are all the prisons going to be 20 years from now if that child doesn't understand punishment. what good are all the educational institutions going to be if a child never learns in the first year, the learned responses that are so critical. we have got to make sure as we address these ages that parents are old enough. wise enough and financially able to care for a child. people talk about glibly teaching parenting skills, you don't teach parenting skills in one course. but universities to better inform young parents, and how we get young parents to be better parents. one of the keys that no university system is going to solve because it hasn't solved the problem for itself. but what we are going to have to solve, and it is going to be your great challenge, is how we create time in the work place and give parents the opportunity for professional advancement while at the same time providing quality time with their children. i remember my afternoon... [ clapping ] >>. >> i remember by afternoons at the school and in the summer time. my mother taught us to play baseball. bake cakes, listen to beethoven smim phonies, she loved us. no childcare in the world will be the substitute for her in our life. >> as you go out either with elderly parents who need love and care or children that come into this world, make sure that up tell those what has he got say about family life and opportunity to be with children. not just in the first three years, but for the soccer game and the school recital and all the time that comes thereafter. if we can send a person to the moon. this nation should organise itself so that parents can spend quality time with their children and still be partners. let this great medical school, work with the law school, with others, to see how we design a programme that makes sure that every child in america has proper prenatal care and proper health care. it is wrong for a nation of this wealth to not have that exist. >> the child that watches his father beat his mother. even at the earliest of life, comes to accept violence as a way of life. this nation has begun to focus on domestic violence, but doctors, lawyers, must start earlier than the criminal justice system, and we must look at the whole picture and organise ourselves better by getting doctors to figure out what they do when they see a patient, to warn them about problems associated with domestic violence, and let people know that it's unacceptable. they do not have to accept it, and their alternative otherwise. this nation has got to come to grips with the problem, and as we see time go down. we got to see domestic violence go down in this nation. [ clapping ] >> and in public schools, they can do so much. something is wrong with a nation that pays football players 6 digit figures, and pays school teachers what we pay them. >> and we can do so much in terms of truancy prevention and other efforts if educators understand the criminal justice system and exchange information in an appropriate way. let's take our enforcement apparatus and figure out what the most important priorities are. design, federal and state authorities, efforts at getting at the crime problem that is the post important. and let us be prepared as we have never been before to deal with the issues of cyber crime. the law school, the university system can do so so much in terms of preventing cyber crime and working together to help to solve the terrible situations. >> we can do the same rights. we can give to young people opportunities that they didn't have. why do we wait to consider affirmative action in law school and university, why don't we consider affirmative action when children come into the world. if we look at the whole picture we can make a more effective issue in most of these leading issues of the day. thank you. [ clapping ] >> finally, for all that we do, we must do more. it has been a privilege for me to meet with my colleagues with the emerging democracies of eastern europe. as they talk about the wonderful initiative that they have take edge. when i see the frustration are ration, when i see it fail on too many occasions, i see the established democracy. do not take your democracy and freedoms for granted. cherish them and give them your best. that means supporting the rule of law. speaking out against hate red in this nation. hate red that undermines the fabric of our society. haters are cowards. when confronted. they'll back down. none of that will work. >> the rule of law, and majority rule will not work unless we establish stronger foundations of mutual understanding and tolerance. that requires that we speak out positively. candidly and constructively, not with victim tistness. with purpose. collegiality. unless we do, we will see segments of society alienated. outraged and violence. let us work together to listen to each other with a listening ear, to talk with respect, understand and try to put ourselves in the shoes of others. and go forth to lead this land we love. and to build stronger communities, and give the children that come today the opportunity for tomorrow. >> announcer: the c span video library is an easy way to search and view c-span programs, to help with its use is dr robert browning, the executive director of the archives. >> go to cspan.org, the main site. look at the front page. on the left are hearings and presidential events of that day, and the political campaign events. righted underneath that on the left is a link that says recent events, and they appear in the order they were on the network. you can search for a person's name. every person, 117,000 people have pagers that contain their video, and on that page is a link, a search box. you put in a word. let's say you want two of jackson lee, and you put in a word - let's say they talked about climate change. >> memories of the congressional black caucus tomorrow will receive signatures and public statements of those demanding this body support president obama's clean power plant. >> speaking on the floor, talking about that, in those words, and that will get you to particular small