- The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that the
president responded repeatedly with "weak and confusing" answers
during his historic testimony -- answers that are bound to haunt him in
future months!
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- "His story was all over the place,"
one well-placed source disclosed late Monday night.
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- "He had major trouble with the time
line [of his contacts with Monica Lewinsky]... he stumbled all over the
Vernon Jordan questions. And his Betty Currie story was full of inconsistencies."
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- Clinton contradicted documents and tapes,
according to the well-placed source, and appeared "lost" during
one heated exchange.
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- The DRUDGE REPORT was first to publish
the Monica Lewinsky story in a series of exclusive reports last January.
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- The WASHINGTON POST in Tuesday editions
confirms that President Clinton was combative during his closed session
with Starr's prosecutors and investigators were not able to ask all the
questions they wanted to because Clinton refused to extend beyond the predetermined
amount of time.
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- Clinton took several breaks from his
testimony on Monday to confer with his lawyers in the doctor's office next
door to the Map Room, the NEW YORK TIMES reports on Tuesday. "At
about 3:30, he took a break that lasted roughly an hour," one Clinton
ally told the paper.
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- Prosecutors were completely frustrated
by Clinton's performance, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned from several sources.
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- "At times, [Clinton] refused to
provide specific answers to even the most basic questions," revealed
one insider close to the action. "His answers did very little to
convince investigators that the evidence they've collected in the past
7 months could be flawed."
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- FOX NEWS CHANNEL ace reporter David Shuster
was reporting late Monday night that Clinton was hit with an unexpected
line of questioning during his grand jury testimony.
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- It is not known the nature of those questions.
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- Susan Schmidt and Ruth Marcus on 15th
Street reported that Clinton's "defiant stance appeared to be a gamble
that Starr will be left without enough evidence to bring a criminal case
against him or be able to convince Congress to launch impeachment proceedings."
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- It was not clear if any questions posed
to Clinton on Monday were sexually graphic. But if questions posed to
another star witness in the case are any indication -- things likely turned
explicit at the White House.
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- The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that Monica
Lewinsky, when asked by prosecutors if the president performed "cunnilingus"
on her, responded by saying she did not know what the word "cunnilingus"
meant.
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- In his nationally televised address to
the nation Monday night, President Clinton acknowledged an improper relationship
with Lewinsky but denied that he lied under oath in his deposition in the
Paula Jones sexual harassment case.
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- And it's a good thing.
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- Because Bill Clinton, if he admitted
to a lie, would have to follow his own advice.
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- At the height of Watergate in the summer
of 1974, during Bill Clinton's race to become a U.S. Representative from
Arkansas, Clinton once declared: "If a President of the United States
ever lied to the American people he should resign."
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