Title: When Presidents meet the grand jury | CNN Politics
Headings: Clinton’s Lewinsky scandal underlines grand jury’s threat to Trump
Clinton’s Lewinsky scandal underlines grand jury’s threat to Trump
Ken Starr: We don't want a fishing expedition
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President Bill Clinton - Grand Jury Testimony - C-SPAN

Content: Just ask former President Bill Clinton. Or the special prosecutor who led the probe that took us from Whitewater to Monica Lewinsky’s blue dress. Ken Starr, in an interview on CNN Friday, warned about the danger of Mueller ranging too far from his mandate – remarks that, as CNN’s Chris Cillizza noted, confirmed irony’s untimely death. But years have gone by and there is, perhaps, an argument that Starr, as much as anyone, has a sense of precisely how these things can go haywire. We are coming up now on the 19th anniversary of Clinton’s big grand jury testimony, the first given by a sitting president into an inquiry focused on his own behavior. Nixon took his turn after leaving office. Clinton answered the Starr team’s questions from the White House, his image and voice beamed out over closed-circuit television. Given Trump’s predicament, the subject matter that day underlines a certain ironic twist. Starr began his inquiry because of a controversy surrounding Clinton’s finances and Whitewater investments. He ended up elbows deep in graphic inquiries about the President’s sex life.