Kenneth Starr Talks Clinton Scandal Regrets And Redemption.
CAMEROTA: Ken Starr -- if you lived through the 90's you remember that name. Starr led the investigation that resulted in President Bill Clinton's impeachment. Well, here's something no one could have predicted. Ken Starr is now praising Bill Clinton.</s>KENNETH STARR, PRESIDENT OF BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: President Clinton was, and perhaps still is, the most gifted politician of the baby boomer generation. Leave aside the unpleasantness, his genuine empathy for human beings is absolutely clear. It is powerful, it is palpable, and the folks of Arkansas really understood that about him -- that he genuinely cared.The "I feel your pain" is absolutely genuine.</s>CAMEROTA: OK, and in a further ironic twist, Ken Starr, now president of Baylor University, could lose his own job over his mishandling of sexual assault allegations on campus. Joining us now is Jeff Toobin. He's our CNN senior legal analyst. He's also a former federal prosecutor and staff writer at "The New Yorker". Jeffrey, great to see you.</s>JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST: Good morning.</s>CAMEROTA: Are cats living with dogs? Can pigs fly? I mean, how strange is it to hear now Ken Starr talking about Bill Clinton's genuine empathy?</s>TOOBIN: Well, it is a peculiar thing. I think Starr would say his empathy is a separate issue from his behavior in the context of his investigation. But I think it is indicative of how much Bill Clinton's reputation has recovered since the 90's. And how the whole impeachment scandal, the whole Monica Lewinsky matter, looks, even to Starr, like what the hell were we -- what'd we pay that much attention to it for?</s>CAMEROTA: Funny you should say that because it has been revived in this campaign season.</s>TOOBIN: We were just discussing it moments ago, yes.</s>CAMEROTA: Absolutely. So you say that it looks to Ken Starr, the man who led the charge, of what were we doing. He does sound regretful, frankly, in some of this. At the same time that it's being revived by Donald Trump to say for all of you who don't know what happened, let's rehash all of this.</s>TOOBIN: Well, let's talk about one thing just as an example. Yesterday, Donald Trump was saying well what about the death of this Vince Foster. Very mysterious, very shady. Ken Starr devoted months and months to investigating the death of Vince Foster and concluded that this was a man who had depression and committed suicide. There was no political scandal. There was nothing political about his death. Yet, here we are, decades later -- Donald Trump is reviving it as if there's something suspicious there.</s>CAMEROTA: The police also investigated Vince Foster's death, as did CNN. In very thorough investigations they all concluded it was, in fact, just a tragic suicide. However, the scandals about the women are different. Those really happened, as we know from the long Monica Lewinsky investigation, the Paula Jones investigation. So what do you think? Will that have traction now, all these years later?</s>TOOBIN: You know, I doubt it will move new voters. I think the people who really dislike Bill and Hillary Clinton will find it another reason to vote against her. But remember, as we keep pointing out, that it's Hillary Clinton who is the candidate here, not Bill Clinton. She was not implicated in any misconduct. She was not someone who was accused, even, of doing anything untoward with regard to those women. I mean, they are her -- Donald Trump is raising the specter of misconduct, but there is just not even an allegation.</s>CAMEROTA: There are allegations by the women. I mean, the women say that the felt intimidated by her. There's no evidence of that. Juanita Broaddrick says that, you know, he gave her sort of a side glance and shook her hand too long, and lingered and said something in a coded way. The women --</s>TOOBIN: Well, Juanita Broaddrick, by the way, another matter investigated by Ken Starr. The alleged sexual misconduct of Bill Clinton with regard to Juanita Broaddrick, which he did not decide to bring any charges from. So, again, you've got to keep that in mind.</s>CAMEROTA: Back to the ironic twist of Ken Starr. Ken Starr now the president of Baylor University and he appears to be on the precedence of losing his job over his mishandling of sexual assault allegations by students there -- female students -- who say that they were raped or sexually assaulted by some of the sports players, some other students, and that he didn't address it with enough vigor.</s>TOOBIN: It is kind of bizarre and you can't make this stuff up. Right before I went on the air I was reading one of the complaints. There have been lawsuits now filed against Baylor by these women and the story, not just of how these women were assaulted by, in this case, members of the football team, but the institutional contempt for the victims. The fact that these women got no help from the Baylor administration. That's really what Starr is on the verge of losing his job about. Obviously, he can't control football players or anyone else who commits misconduct but he can control a system that is supposed to be somewhat responsive.</s>CAMEROTA: Absolutely, and after the exhaustive investigation into Bill Clinton's misconduct and then, you know, turning what they say is a blind eye at his own university.</s>TOOBIN: Of all issues, he should be alert to them.</s>CAMEROTA: Indeed. Jeffrey Toobin, thanks so much for being here on NEW DAY. We're following a lot of news for you this morning, including some violent protests outside of a Donald Trump rally last night. Let's get right to it.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Anti-Trump protesters have taken to the streets.</s>H. CLINTON: He actually said he was hoping for the crash.