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To: Bobby Yellin who wrote (15155)	8/2/1998 3:59:00 PM
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Clinton set to confess all on television By James Langton in New York ---- PRESIDENT Clinton is considering an emotional television apology to the American people - possibly within days - which would include confessing to a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky. A number of senior aides are understood to be urging a presidential admission of infidelity. While the tactic is high risk, they believe that it would bring to an end the scandal that has plagued the White House for most of this year. More importantly, the White House would hope to kill Kenneth Starr's investigation into more serious and possibly criminal aspects of the affair by making it politically almost impossible for him to continue. Reports from Washington yesterday claimed that the White House chief of staff, Erskine Bowles, had been canvassing congressmen for reaction to a possible mea culpa speech. The strategy was boosted by a new opinion poll yesterday showing that most Americans would be satisfied with a simple apology from the President. The Time-CNN survey found that nearly 70 per cent of Americans believed that the independent prosecutor should close the case if Mr Clinton admitted having sex with Miss Lewinsky and apologised to the nation. The poll also revealed that Americans now believed reports of the former White House intern's relationship with the President by an overwhelming majority of three to one. Mr Clinton has only a short time to consider a confession. FBI forensic experts are already attempting to recover DNA samples from a black cocktail dress Miss Lewinsky handed over to Mr Starr on Tuesday as part of an immunity deal and will complete their examination this week, possibly as early as tomorrow. If the dress, which has what one legal source calls "an identifiable stain", is found to contain dried semen, Mr Starr will ask the President to hand over a blood or hair sample, with the threat of court action if he refuses. Mr Clinton is due to give evidence to Mr Starr's investigation on August 17. While he promised in a press conference on Friday to answer questions "completely and truthfully", he failed to repeat denials made earlier this year of any sexual relationship with "that woman". The President has appeared increasingly relaxed and confident in recent days, suggesting that he may have decided to bring matters to a head. He is spending the weekend in the Hamptons, the glitzy seaside refuge for the rich and powerful 100 miles north of New York. Along with his wife, Hillary, Mr Clinton spent much of yesterday relaxing at the secluded mansion of the film director and producer Steven Spielberg, one of his closest supporters. Last night he attended a $500,000 fund-raising party for the Democrats at the $1.75 million farmhouse owned by the actors Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger. Guests included the actors Robert De Niro and Tom Hanks, who stars in the new Spielberg war epic Saving Private Ryan, and the singer Billy Joel. Opinion polls continue to show the vast majority of Americans untroubled by the allegations as long as the economy remains healthy. At the same time, the slow but inexorable progress made by the Starr investigation suggests that some of the most difficult and damaging months of Mr Clinton's presidency still lie ahead. Mr Clinton will become the first sitting president to be interrogated by a grand jury. Mr Starr's legal team will ask the President why he denied, under oath, any relationship with Miss Lewinsky during a deposition he made for the Paula Jones sexual harassment case in January. Mr Clinton has also rejected allegations that he and a number of advisers put pressure on Miss Lewinsky to lie under oath about the affair. Miss Lewinsky and her mother are now understood to be prepared to admit the relationship and the cover-up after being granted immunity from prosecution. The President could face possible impeachment and criminal charges if the grand jury decides that he perjured himself to Miss Jones's lawyers and attempted to pervert the course of justice by orchestrating a cover-up. Mr Starr announced on Friday that he was taking unpaid leave from his law firm until the investigation - which was at a "critical stage" - was complete. The President has admitted to lying about an earlier affair with the television reporter Gennifer Flowers, also in his testimony for the Jones case. Lawyers for Miss Jones filed an appeal on Friday seeking to overturn the ruling of an Arkansas judge who threw out her lawsuit in April. A senior Republican has also announced that he will begin hearings to explore whether the President should be prosecuted. Senator John Ashcroft, chairman of the Senate judiciary committee on the constitution, and a White House hopeful for the 2000 election, said in a statement: "I believe perjury is unacceptable conduct and that it is an impeachable offence."