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The NPR Politics Podcast

How Much Has The Country Really Changed Since Clinton's Impeachment?

The NPR Politics Podcast

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Politics, Daily News, News

4.524.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The TV show Impeachment: American Crime Story dramatizes Bill Clinton's impeachment through the stories of three women at the heart of the proceedings, including Monica Lewinsky. We discuss how the country and its politics have and haven't changed in the two decades since the impeachment unfolded.

This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, demographics and culture correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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0:00.0

Hey there, it's YenPR Politics podcast.

0:05.2

I must m'hawle it.

0:06.2

I cover the White House.

0:07.2

I'm Danielle Kertzleib and I cover demographics and culture.

0:10.0

And I'm Mara Lias and National Political Correspondent.

0:13.1

We've got a bit of a retro show today.

0:15.2

We're going to go back to the 90s when Bill Clinton was president.

0:19.2

There's a new TV miniseries about Clinton's impeachment airing on FX.

0:23.2

It's called impeachment and American crime story.

0:25.4

There's a woman I'm very close to in the midst of an affair with the president of the United States.

0:38.1

How do I know it's true?

0:40.7

And that kind of is all thinking.

0:41.7

You know, frankly, two decades later, that impeachment, that political moment looks really

0:46.4

different.

0:47.5

And Danielle, I am incredibly excited about this episode because you actually spoke with

0:51.0

the writer of that FX show.

0:52.6

But before we get into all of that, it has been a

0:55.4

really wild since the 90s.

0:56.8

So it's probably worth reminding folks what exactly happened.

0:59.9

And Mara, you reported on all of this.

1:02.2

Yeah, I reported on this.

1:03.9

It all started with a lawsuit from Paula Jones, former Arkansas state employee.

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