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: 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. Mueller, by contrast, was hired to probe the Trump campaign and Russia, and the potential for collusion or other kinds of skullduggery, but he could now feasibly get bogged down in Trump’s financial transactions. JOYCE NALTCHAYAN/AFP/Getty Images
April 14, 1999: Independent counsel Ken Starr testified to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee that the act should not be renewed as, in his view, it is a violation of the separation of powers. ( JOYCE NALTCHAYAN/AFP/Getty Images)
The August 1998 exchange yielded what Starr would ultimately characterize as three lies – or instances of perjury. First, when Clinton denied engaging in oral sex (answering the question of whether it was performed on him, “As I understood it, it was not, no.”);