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The new FX limited seriesImpeachment: American Crime Storythe third in atrue-crime anthologythat started withThe People v. O.J.
Meanwhile, Clintons team seizes its opportunity to grill Jones under oath.
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The major plot and character beats that shapeImpeachments narrative.
Lewinskys reaction to Tripp being subpoenaedShe was really freaked out by that.
At this point, their relationship becomes a lot more fraught.
So she was definitely somewhat suspicious of Tripp and confused about what she was up to.
And to some extent, it felt like Tripp was being honest and up-front with her.
She was planning to wear it to Thanksgiving, actually, rather than to a job interview.
Monica was like, Im going to get it cleaned because I think it looks good.
Thats when Linda says, You might want this someday.
This is the advice I would give to my own daughter.
And that apparently worked.
Lewinsky explicitly asking Tripp to deny the affair under oathThis is true.
At one point, apparently, she offered part ownership of this apartment in New York that she had.
She was offering her a lot.
She would have done anything.
By this point, it did seem in some ways that things were winding down.
There were disagreements about whether certain other avenues could be included or not in the investigation.
Theyd reached a lot of dead ends of where they could go with this.
Then he decided to stay on.
So there was a lot going on here behind the scenes.
But there was a lot of disagreement about this.
Something the show skips over in these discussions is just how time-sensitive they were.
So you should go for it.
Then they get approval from Janet Reno.
So these discussions are not just internal to them, like the way they show it onscreen.
But he clerked for Anthony Kennedy and worked for Starr for about four years.
He was pretty young, but he did a lot for them.
He was very involved in a lot of discussions.
He infamously suggested including extremely explicit questions to ask Clinton during the investigation.
There was disagreement among the team about what to do about that.
Paula Joness mother meeting Susan Carpenter-McMillanI dont know about this very specific meeting.
Other than Clintons deposition, the rest of these depositionsaretaking place in Little Rock.
So Paula was there a lot.
She didnt watch TV.
She was somewhat naive about the way the case worked.
Those are the parents of Miranda Lambert, the country singer.
They were hired to go out and take a stab at interview people and track down these leads.
Anything she says about him is true thats something she said during that conversation.
Oh, so then where does your experience come from?
So yes, questions were basically as intrusive as they show here.
One dynamic thats slightly changed for TV is the drama of Paula seeming blindsided by this.
This was something they knew was coming.
They were prepared that it was going to be an awful grilling.
Clintons legal strategy regarding JonesIn her initial lawsuit, Jones is suing Clinton.
She wants to be the presidents regular girlfriend.
She sued him for defamation.
That was the approach here.
From her perspective, obviously this is horrible and very painful to go through.
And the judge ends up granting that, in December of 97.
On Lewinskys evening with Jake TapperThis happened.
They eventually went to dinner just before Christmas of 97.
Almost instantly, this is going to become really public.
He remarked that she offered to pay, which I think they show in the episode.
Kind of all over the board.
Ken Bacon eventually got in trouble for releasing personal background information about Linda Tripp after everything became public.
Information from her personnel file.
So he gets wrapped up in this, too.
On whether Starr would open a meeting with a Bible verseHes a very deeply religious person.
And the answer seems to have always been No.
He had a scripture-a-day calendar, for example, but he kept it at home.
He wrote in his memoir that when he worked as the solicitor general under George H.W.
The rumor mill was pretty expansive by that point.
