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 1850 s, 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 l
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. h
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