Filly Brown

tepmom h-had come intown for my brother's graduation

and when I had told BC that they were coming

he said, "Oh, do they, you know, do they wanna come

to a radio address?"

We're gonna do the exact words.. Okay.

Good morning.

Tomorrow, millions of Americans will reach out

to their fathers in thanks..

It happened to be

the Father's Day weekend.

Being in that room with the, the President

giving the radio address

it felt like something very, very special.

Because Monica had been working there

we got VIP treatment to be

in the biggest, most wonderful government building of all.

Hillary and I are sorry we can't share this evening with you

but we would like to seduce..

To salute.. Ah. Do it again.

Let me drink something. Dry.

It was just surreal, you know?

Every moment was surreal.

When we walked in, he was very friendly

very familiar with us, and that felt somewhat strange.

But, uh, we accepted it.

You know, we were so proud to be there

and to see the Oval Office.

Not everybody gets to do that.

When he was positioning us for the photo shoot

it seemed a little bit odd.

Little bit odd.

- 'There we go.' - Great.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

Have a good time. Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

It's been a pleasure.

He, at one point, said, "If you ever wanna come back

"just talk to Betty and we'll arrange

for you to come back."

I didn't quite understand the friendliness

and lack of formality, really.

'President Clinton, New Jersey and Maine..'

'Thank you for being here and thank you..'

When I got banished to the Pentagon

there was this six or seven-month period

where the only time I saw him was if I went to an event.

There had also been this pattern

of when he would see me he would call me.

I've heard from him quite regularly.

I never knew when exactly that would be.

I had no way to reach him.

I.. If he called me, I couldn't call him back.

I was completely at his mercy.

Good morning, everyone.

The American people have given

Bill Clinton four more years.

He celebrated last night in Little Rock

after becoming the first Democrat

to win re-election since FDR.

Today the American people have spoken.

They have affirmed our course.

They have told us to go forward.

For the last two weeks

leading up to the election

I didn't hear from him at all.

I had naively invested in his promise

and expected he would have won the election

and within the first few days, he would have called

and, "Okay, great, where do you wanna work?"

That didn't happen.

I had this nagging insecurity.

Maybe he just did all of these things these last six months

because he was trying to keep me quiet during the election.

How stupid am I that I believed this, that I bought this?

I felt so deflated

and so, um, desperate

and it, those were the conditions

along with some other things, that led to me

confiding in Linda Tripp.

I remember being in the cafeteria

and seeing her sitting down at a table

and I remember having this

just heavy dread

of, "Oh, God, she's gonna, she's gonna say something again."

Oh, the election's over

or I could go back to the White House

and I just, I just couldn't.

I just broke emotionally

and...ended up confiding in her

when she did bring it up.

I was like, "Look, you know

"I already had a thing with him, it's over

"and let's just not ever talk about that again.

Move on from that."

And, o-of course, naively

that-that was not gonna shut things down.

I think what unfolded from there

was the most unhealthy of..

I-I don't even know that you can call it

a friendship anymore.

It was a perceived friendship.

She became someone who would listen to my story

listen to what happened, which very much kept it alive

while I waiting an interminable amount of time

between phone calls.

Tell me about the day she told you

about her affair with the President.

She essentially accosted me coming into the Pentagon

and pulled me into the cafeteria and blurted it out.

She said, "I've been involved in an affair for a long time

"I had to leave the White House, um, until after the election.

It was too dangerous for me to stay."

She essentially started walking

through everything that had ever happened.

And she had a photographic memory.

I mean, this is pretty fascinating stuff.

Oh, I was fascinated, completely fascinated

and horrified at the same time.

The inaugural ball gown that her mom bought for her

was one of the saddest points for me.

She looked like Snow White, she looked so beautiful

in this strapless, red,

um, tight-fitting bodice gown

with a long, um, hooped skirt.

Monica stood from the time they opened the doors

till, well, after he left, just waiting.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is my distinct honor to present to you

the President of the United States

'William Jefferson Clinton.'

It was so sad because she was a beautiful young girl

and she should have had a life.

I want you to have a wonderful time tonight.

I want you to be proud and happy tonight.

I want you to know that I am more idealistic

and more optimistic than I was four years ago on this day

because I've seen what we can do to move this country forward.

We'll be there for you. We love you.

Thank you, and God bless you all.

Thank you. And thank you, Kevin Spacey.

The storm swirling around the First Lady is building.

Problem number one, potentially the most serious.

Mrs. Clinton's sworn statements

about her legal work in the 1980's

for a failed Arkansas savings and loan

involved in Whitewater.

Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan was pretty shady.

That there were serious questions

uh, o-of, uh, wrongdoing.

Mrs. Clinton was a lawyer at the top law firm

in Arkansas involved with representing

Madison Gauranty Savings and Loan and the McDougal's Bank.

We suspected that she had worked on a memo

that was given to bank regulators.

That memo was crucial

in deceiving the bank regulators.

The Clintons reached out to me

and said, "You need to go talk to this lawyer

"at the Rose Law Firm

"and he'll tell you that he

that he really brought in the business."

That was arranged.

The young attorney, the young bank officer

did all the work.

So I said, "Fine, okay."

And then I called up the lawyer

and he said, "No, I can't take credit for that.

I'm just a low-level associate."

Because I was, what you call, the billing attorney..

In other words, I had to send the bill

to get the payment made.

My name was put on the bottom of the letter.

One of the problems of investigating t-the Clintons

is they're just, they act like guilty people.

Whether they are or not, they act like it.

The Rose Law Firm billing records

had been subpoenaed by Fiske.

We re-issued subpoenas for those records.

They said, "We don't have any."

I worked closely with Hillary on these issues.

The one instinct that she had that was

very frustrating to me and my role was

this, this overwhelming sense

of privacy and...umbrage

at the way everyone

seemed to wanna invade it.

And that was kind of her Achilles' heel.

The press was flummoxed by Hillary Clinton..

...and grew...almost disdainful.

There's now an avalanche of sharp criticism

of the First Lady who has been called

a congenital liar by a columnist.

Why did you use the phrase "Congenital liar?"

I'm in the opinion business.

Why can't I express my opinion

with a simple English word that everybody understands?

One day, someone who worked for Hillary

in the White House as a, like a personal assistant

uh, had called and said that she had located the billing records.

They say, "Oh! Look what we found.

Here are the billing records."