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To: Lee who wrote (47657)	7/12/1998 9:21:00 PM
From: ViperChick Secret Agent 006.9	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58727

Lee pees way off the lows....usual typical overreaction... cant wait for the morning is there a site that gives you the 142.41 quote...I dont want to have to try to convert and everything i see gives the .70 quote "The Sept yen is tanking also, down 136 to 0.7022 or about 142.41 on the $." been awhile since we had a post about Clinton's debacle so I thought I would remind you all To: +Al Gordon (14418 ) (Trial Member) From: +goldsnow Sunday, Jul 12 1998 9:12PM ET Reply # of 14426 Who needs meeting/golf more now Hashimoto? Hatch: Clinton must testify about Lewinsky 03:40 p.m Jul 12, 1998 Eastern By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch said Sunday any refusal by President Clinton to tesify about his ties with Monica Lewinsky could constitute an impeachable offense. The Utah Republican said Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr should indict Lewinsky, a former White House intern, if he could not get her testimony voluntarily and should name Clinton as an ''unindicted co-conspirator if that's what it comes down to.'' ''The story I get is that the reason why (Starr is) pursuing the Lewinsky matter is because he has other evidence and other indications that she doesn't want to tell the full truth on it,'' he said, referring to her relationship with Clinton. Starr has been investigating, as an add-on to the Whitewater real estate tangle, whether Clinton had an affair with Lewinsky and encouraged her to lie about it. Clinton and Lewinsky have denied the allegations. Speaking on the NBC program ''Meet the Press,'' Hatch said he was ''not necessarily'' opposed to the start of the impeachment process in the House of Representatives if Clinton defied a subpoena to testify in the criminal investigation. Once subpoenaed, ''if he doesn't come in...tell the truth about what has happened, then I think that's a very serious problem,'' Hatch said. He added he favored being ''very, very tight'' on what constitutes grounds for impeachment, the start of a process that could -- but seems highly unlikely at this point -- to lead to Clinton's removal from office. Rep. Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Republican who appeared alongside Hatch, suggested that this meant Hatch did not think defiance of a subpeona alone would be enough to justify impeachment. ''Not necessarily, not necessarily,'' the Utah lawmaker shot back. The U.S. constitution provides that the president be removed from office ''on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.'' The House has authority to bring articles of impeachment; the Senate turns itself into a court to try the case and requires a two-thirds majority vote for conviction. Starr's aides have said he is weighing whether to compel Clinton's testimony on the matter, something Hatch said Clinton should offer voluntarily. Lawyers for Linda Tripp, who taped Lewinsky's telephone conversations about the alleged affair with Clinton, said Sunday they expected Tripp to testify to the grand jury for at least another week. That would make Tripp, a Pentagon employee and key witness in the investigation, the person to give the longest testimony so far to the grand jury, which last week wound up its 24th week reviewing perjury and and obstruction of justice allegations concering Clinton and Lewinsky. Anthony Zaccagnini, one of Tripp's lawyers, declined to ''discount'' the possibility that she might write a book about the matter later but said on NBC that she was not currently involved in one. White House political adviser Rahm Emmanuel, appearing on the CBS program ''Face the Nation,'' left open whether Clinton would comply with any subpoena in the case. He said the matter was being handled by Clinton's personal lawyer, David Kendall. In a telephone interview, Kendall declined comment. On another matter, Hatch called on the Justice and Treasury departments not to appeal a new court ruling rejecting the Secret Service's attempt to block its officers from testifying in the Lewinsky investigation. He said he planned to hold hearings in the Judiciary Committee next year to craft legislation to suit any need for a new legal provilege shielding the president's bodyguards from having to testify about what they observe while on duty. Copyright 1998 Reuters Limited Next Previous Respond