Bill Clinton's impeachment: How it happened

In 1998, President Bill Clinton claimed a place in American history as the second US president to be impeached. Find out how it happened and watch "The Nineties" on CNN Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

[revevangelismjohnson]

He lied. Committed perjury and lost his law license -- disbarred.

[mbords]

“I did not have sexual relations with that women”

[snow-rmjx]

I was almost convinced that bill Clinton was innocent but then I saw the CNN logo at the bottom.

[ervin]

And we thought cheating and lying was bad lmao

[queenstatus]

Who’s here after Trump was impeached, 12/18/19?

[notoriouseagle]

Was it immoral, yes, but to waste the money of the American people on IMPEACHING him for something that is NOT illegal baffles me to no end.

[obeyamichael]

How Hillary was quiet and supportive of him back then, I don't know.

[cherahsBroll]

Bill Clinton's impeachment is the most ridiculous impeachment. An affair is not a "high crime." It's a personal matter between the two married individuals, and the 3rd or 4th parties involved in the affair. Bill Clinton's offence had nothing to do with government affairs.

[sabarca]

Interesting to note that the overall question during the trial was: was his conduct preventing just governance from occurring? I think we should be very careful with how that question is handled. If someone is found to be guilty of any crime they should not be given special consideration to be in any office. That my personal opinion.

[mohammedaminabdythahir]

When having love affairs was once considered illegal and disqualify from becoming presidency. Unlike Trump era. Wtf had happened to America?

[PhilipJackson]

Wait he was “impeached” but he stayed till the end of his term? So can someone explain to me what “impeachment” actually means?

[thomasmoeller]

It's still funny how hard Starr fought to bring down a consensual sexual cover up but totally failed following up on aggravated sexual assault just a few years later at an institution of high learning. Was there a class on rape not in the official curriculum?

[rexiiforsure]

I remember ‘99 how sick I was when Strong Thurmond start the impeachment

[RaffyCrespo]

Is very important to people understand how was the process and why even if got impeached in the House, there was not even close to the necessary # in Senate. Cause when u are going to do that, the people who you need to convenience are the Senators. takes 3/4 of them to move forward and if you have a tie, the VP decides.

[michaelhorner]

If the cigar did not fit....then you can't acquit!

[milodelcampo]

Compared to what Donald Trump did that resulted in BOTH of his impeachment, this was just a crappy Tuesday at the office for Billy that got overstated and we've all had Tuesdays like that haven't we?

[chanandlerbong]

What a softball reason to impeach someone

[ba]

Doesn’t the senate make final decisions for impeachment? He was acquitted

[BoqPrecision]

I remember thinking Kenneth Star was such an old fuddy-duddy. Ahh the innocence of youth.

[Borisjola]

Thank you ex-President Bill Clinton, his administration and Hillary Clinton . I was growing up in the 1990'S , now I am Part of this Strong Democracy the light of the entire world.
The time that are we living today is similar and so different at the same time .
I am not sure who will read this ( my english is not perfect at all ;) ... To all other friends that live in different countries I hope you follow up CNN the Nineties