CNN 20: Paula Jones Files Lawsuit, May 6, 1994
CHARLES BIERBAUER, CNN ANCHOR: President Clinton says he's not going to dignify a sexual harassment allegation by discussing it. The charge came from a former Arkansas state employee who filed suit against the president today.</s>JOSEPH CAMMARATA, PAULA JONES'S ATTORNEY: Only after Mr. Clinton and his staff denied these events had ever happened and called me pathetic and, in effect, a liar did I decide to seek legal relief for the wrong done to me by Mr. Clinton and trooper Ferguson.</s>BOB FRANKEN, CNN CAPITOL HILL CORRESPONDENT: The Paula Jones case, of course, involved a woman who said that when President Clinton was governor, in a Little Rock hotel room, he called her up there -- she was a state employee, a low-level one -- and exposed himself. That was her charge. She originally made her charge in front of conservative organizations that had such a political agenda that most of the news organizations, including ours, paid very little attention to it. That ended in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1994, when she filed her lawsuit.</s>FRANKEN: President Clinton denies it happened, as does his lawyer.</s>ROBERT BENNETT, PRESIDENT CLINTON'S ATTORNEY: In a single term, this complaint is tabloid trash with a legal caption on it.</s>FRANKEN: In Washington, the president's attorney Bob Bennett attacked the motives for the lawsuit.</s>BENNETT: This suit is about publicity, it's about talk shows, it's about money.</s>FRANKEN: Subsequent to that, the Clinton side and the Paula Jones lawyers were able to get together and work out a financial settlement which stopped it dead in its tracks.