The Clinton Impeachment | 1. Deal or No Deal

Slow Burn

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News, Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Politics

4.6 • 25.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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For 11 hours, Monica Lewinsky faced off against federal prosecutors who wanted her to help them take down the president and threatened her with decades in jail. Want more Slow Burn? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately access all episodes of Slow Burn (and your other favorite Slate podcasts) completely ad-free. Plus, you’ll unlock subscriber-exclusive bonus episodes that bring you behind-the-scenes on the making of the show. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/slowburnplus to get access wherever you listen. Audible is the world's largest audiobook publisher. For a 30-day trial and a free audiobook, go to audible.com/slowburn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.0	Monica Lewinsky didn't know it,
0:31.0	but her lunch meeting with Linda Tripp was never going to happen.
0:34.8	Lewinsky was waiting for a trip at the food court inside a shopping mall in Pentagon City, Virginia,
0:39.3	just outside Washington, D.C. It was a typical suburban mall, brightly lit with a movie theater, a
0:45.6	Macy's, and white tiles in the floor. Lewinsky had come from the gym. She was
0:50.4	still in her exercise clothes, and she was reading a magazine while she waited for her friend.
0:54.4	It was Friday, January 16th, 1998.
0:58.0	Lewinsky was 24 years old.
1:00.6	About two years earlier, she'd become involved in a precarious relationship with the
1:05.0	president of the United States. As Lewinsky later told her
1:08.4	biographer, her relationship with Bill Clinton had come to overwhelm her life.
1:12.3	She found it hard to think about
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