The Fox News Rundown Extra: The Clinton Impeachment 21 Years Later

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

Politics, Daily News, News

3.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

While most people’s attention this week was understandably focused on the impeachment of President Donald Trump, this past Thursday marked the anniversary of another historic political battle. On December 19th, 1998, President Bill Clinton became only the second U.S. President to be impeached by the House of Representatives. On The Fox News Rundown, we took a look back at that time and examined how that partisan fight 21 years ago compared to the one we’re witnessing today. Host Dave Anthony spoke with both Former Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and Former New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Torricelli who both took part in the Senate trial that followed Clinton’s impeachment. They both shared their perspective on what was occurring behind closed doors and the responsibility they felt at the time. Because of time, we could not include our full conversations with both Senators Lott and Torricelli, who both had very unique points of view on both the events of 1998 and today. On The Fox News Rundown Extra you’ll our complete interviews with both former lawmakers. Besides additional stories from 21 years ago, both men offer advice to the Republican and Democrat Senators who will soon have to determine the fate of Donald Trump and his presidency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	This is the Fox News rundown Extra.
0:18.0	Hi, this is Dave Anthony.
0:23.2	Glad you have made us part of what can be a very busy weekend.
0:27.7	I know shopping, wrapping for the holidays.
0:31.0	Well today on the Fox News rundown extra, a look back. for the not the one we just had this past week, the one 21 years ago.
0:45.0	Back on Thursday on the anniversary of President Bill Clinton's impeachment,
0:49.0	we talked to two senators for the rundown podcast,
0:52.0	who were there for the trial that acquitted
0:54.1	President Clinton and kept him in office Trent Lott and Bob Taurus
0:58.2	Elli but for time we were not able to include the entire conversations we had with both of them.
1:03.2	Well, today you'll get to hear them back to back.
1:07.2	First, though, a quick Wikipedia-like refresher course,
1:12.4	the impeachment was the culmination of a sex
1:15.0	scandal you probably remember involving a White House intern and
1:19.0	infamous blue dress and a president who publicly insisted he did not have sexual relations with that woman.
1:27.0	Well that drama played out for months that Independent Council Ken Starr made his case that the president
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