Vanderbilt Television News Archive

(Capitol Hill: Wolf Blitzer) Live interview held with Republican Representative Christopher Shays and Democratic Representative Chaka Fattah about today's Congressional hearings into former President Bill Clinton's pardon of fugitive financier Marc Richard [SHAYS - comments on the decision to make DNC fund raiser Beth Dozoretz appear before the House Government Reform Committee even though she was going to exercise her Fifth Amendment right; says the committee keeps learning new things such as Tony Rodham's involvement; defends Congressional oversight as the way to handle abuse by a president.] [FATTAH - questions the committee's purposes; says the Senate is backing away and that then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak interceded on Rich's behalf; suggests the Justice Department rather than Congress handle the pardon matter; says Clinton's waiving of executive privilege has opened up the issue.]