00:00:12October 3rd 1997 9:45 p.m. 32 miles away
00:00:19from the nation’s capital Columbia
00:00:22Maryland hi how’d you know with me
00:00:26they’ve call ID I was at a Linda Tripp
00:00:31Linda Tripp an aide at the Pentagon is
00:00:33calling a 23 year old co-worker named
00:00:36Monica Lewinsky tripping Lewinsky a
00:00:39former White House intern worked
00:00:41together in the Pentagon’s Public
00:00:42Affairs Office despite their age
00:00:45difference the two women are close
00:00:47friends Lewinsky is troubled about a
00:00:50recent relationship yeah how do you want
00:00:54to talk about it hate his behavior at
00:01:03time this is no ordinary romance
00:01:07Lewinsky is talking about an affair with
00:01:09the President of the United States
00:01:12William Jefferson Clinton is eight and a
00:01:15half months into his second term his
00:01:18public approval rating is at fifty five
00:01:20percent it is a prosperous time in
00:01:23America
00:01:25stock prices are soaring jobs are
00:01:27plentiful and the country is not at war
00:01:33at the same time the Clinton presidency
00:01:36is operating under a cloud of scandal
00:01:39for the last three years an independent
00:01:42council Kenneth Starr has been
00:01:44conducting several investigations
00:01:46related to the president what triggered
00:01:49the investigations they began with
00:01:52allegations of misconduct in an Arkansas
00:01:55real estate deal
00:01:56between 1978 and 1992 Bill and Hillary
00:02:00Clinton were partners with two others in
00:02:02the Whitewater Development Corporation
00:02:05in 1992 allegations surfaced that the
00:02:08Clintons may have profited illegally
00:02:10from the venture in January 1994
00:02:14Attorney General Janet Reno appoints a
00:02:16prosecutor to investigate the so-called
00:02:18whitewater case against the Clintons 7
00:02:24months later he is replaced by Kenneth
00:02:26Starr over the next three years other
00:02:28unrelated allegations against the
00:02:31president surface accusations of
00:02:33campaign finance abuse the mishandling
00:02:36of legal files and the improper firing
00:02:39of White House staffers
00:02:41you
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