Fox News Channel will unveil a new documentary on Sunday about events leading up to the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton almost 30 years ago.
The hour-long episode of Scandalous, which will be narrated by actor Bruce McGill, will air January 21 at 8pm.
Scandalous will feature interviews with more than 40 people, among them principals in that saga, including special prosecutor Ken Starr, former Senator Joe Lieberman, current Senator Lindsey Graham, and Linda Tripp.
The documentary will focus on the sequence of events that led to the impeachment, including the Whitewater controversy.
Whitewater was a failed Arkansas real estate venture which involved Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Fox News Channel will unveil a new seven-part documentary series on Sunday about events leading up to the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton almost 30 years ago
The series will begin by tackling the Whitewater controversy. Whitewater was a failed Arkansas real estate venture which involved Bill and Hillary Clinton (left). It was investigated by then-special prosecutor, Ken Starr (seen right when he was president of Baylor in 2014)
In 1992, when then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton was running for the Democratic nomination, it was learned that he and his wife lost money in a land deal from the 1970s and 80s.
Despite a series of investigations, authorities failed to find enough evidence to criminally prosecute the Clintons for their role in the Whitewater affair.
One of the Clintons’ associates, Susan McDougal, ended up going to prison for refusing to answer questions related to Whitewater.
McDougal, who received a pardon from President Clinton before he left office, is one of the people interviewed in the upcoming Fox News documentary.
Clinton’s impeachment was preceded by a chain of events, most notably the revelation that he engaged in an extramarital affair with a White House intern named Monica Lewinsky.
Clinton’s impeachment was preceded by a chain of events, most notably the revelation that he engaged in an extramarital affair with a White House intern named Monica Lewinsky
In 1998, it was learned that the then-22-year-old intern and the president had a number of liaisons on the White House grounds, including in the Oval Office.
Lewinsky testified that she and the president had nine sexual encounters in the Oval Office between November 1995 and March 1997.
When the president’s aides noticed that their boss was spending too much time with Lewinsky in the White House, she was transferred to the Pentagon.
It was there that she met a co-worker, Linda Tripp.
The affair became public after Tripp secretly recorded conversations with her and passed them on to Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel investigating Clinton for his role in the Whitewater deal.
Both Clinton and Lewinsky denied having a sexual relationship under oath when testifying in the Paul Jones lawsuit accusing the then-president of sexual harassment.
The affair became public after Linda Tripp (above) secretly recorded conversations with Lewinsky and passed them on to Starr
Clinton first forcefully denied the allegations, saying in January that year in a public statement: ‘I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me… I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.’
He eventually admitted in August 1998 to having an inappropriate relationship with Lewinsky.
‘I know that my public comments and my silence about this matter gave a false impression. I misled people, including even my wife,’ he said at the time. ‘I deeply regret that.
‘Indeed I did have a relationship with Ms. Lewinsky that was not appropriate.
‘In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.’
Clinton became only the second president in US history to be impeached by Congress.
He was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice.
After Clinton’s impeachment, a trial was held in the Senate, where Republicans fell short of the necessary amount of votes to remove him from office.
In the two decades since the scandal, Lewinsky has largely stayed out of the public eye – only to re-emerge in recent years as an advocate for preventing cyber-bullying.