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Twenty years after the president’s affair with an intern led to congressional action, A&E and Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions will reexamine the events with a three-part event featuring new accuser interviews and explosive never before seen footage.

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00:00A&E is set to produce a six-hour series that will explore former President Bill Clinton's

00:04impeachment and the investigation into his alleged sexual misdeeds that led up to it.

00:09The series currently has the working title The Impeachment of Bill Clinton and includes

00:13explosive never-before-seen footage of Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, whose life was turned

00:18upside down by special counsel Ken Starr's investigation, as well as new interviews with

00:23Paula Jones, Kathleen Wiley and Juanita Broderick, who alleged that Clinton raped her in 1978.

00:30According to Elaine Frontain Bryant, the executive VP and head of programming at A&E, the

00:34docu-series is a real-life political thriller and the most in-depth and intimate account of

00:39how one of the biggest scandals in our nation's history unfolded forever changing the

00:44landscape of American politics. The interviews with Monica Lewinsky certainly take on a

00:49whole new significance as the MeToo movement continues to dominate headlines and at a time

00:54when another special counsel investigation is looking into a sitting president. It's the

00:59first time Lewinsky, who has re-emerged in recent years, has talked so candidly about her experiences.

01:03In an episode seen by The Hollywood Reporter, Lewinsky speaks frankly about the betrayal of

01:08her friend Linda Tripp secretly recording their conversations, of being in love with Clinton,

01:13and that fateful trist during which she was wearing the Blue Gap dress.

01:16Lewinsky first re-engaged with the topic earlier this year when she penned a first-person piece for

01:21Vanity Fair reflecting on her experiences through the current MeToo prism, but for the most part,

01:26she's kept quiet. On September 4th, she cut short a live interview at a TV conference in Jerusalem

01:32when an interviewer asked her if she expected a private apology from Bill Clinton. Lewinsky responded,

01:38I'm so sorry, I'm not going to be able to do this before walking off stage. Lewinsky later took to

01:43Twitter to explain that there were clear parameters for her appearance, that the interviewer was aware

01:48that the topic was off-limits, and that the questions were in blatant disregard of the agreement.

01:52I laughed because it is more important than ever for women to stand up for themselves and not allow

01:57others to control their narrative, she wrote. To the audience, I'm very sorry that this talk had to end this way.

02:04The impeachment of Bill Clinton will air over three nights on A&E, starting November 18th.

02:08To read more on this story, head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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