What Trump Learned From Clinton’s Impeachment

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🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton survived impeachment after casting himself as the target of partisan motives. What lessons has President Trump gleaned from that strategy? Guest: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, who covered the investigation and impeachment of Mr. Clinton. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarale.
0:02.4	This is the Daily.
0:03.9	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:09.0	Today, 20 years ago, President Clinton survived impeachment
0:14.7	by convincing the country he was the victim of a witch hunt.
0:19.9	What President Trump has learned from that strategy.
0:24.2	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:28.7	It's Tuesday, May 29th.
0:31.8	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:33.8	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:34.8	President Clinton said today he is very pleased with his first year in office,
0:39.1	but not a bit happy about how it's ending.
0:41.6	Under a cloud of controversy over his personal life and business dealings.
0:45.4	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:46.8	In 1994, questions were raised about a land deal.
0:50.2	President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had been involved with back
0:53.5	when he was governor of Arkansas.
0:55.2	Peter Baker is chief White House correspondent for the Times, a land deal known as a Whitewater
1:00.1	deal.
1:01.1	The tangled relationship between an Arkansas land deal, the savings in loan and Hillary
1:05.2	Rodham Clinton's former law firm, is again under scrutiny today.
1:09.3	That led to the appointment of an independent council, Ken Star.
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