Ken Starr says he's considered the perjury charges against Hillary Clinton in a new explosive memoir

Former independent lawyer Ken Starr writes in his new brief that he was considering – but ultimately giving up – the idea of ​​perjury charges against Hillary Clinton, then First Lady, after his "absurd" testimony. With the investigators in 1995.

"I was upset by Mrs. Clinton's performance and even considered bringing the case to the Washington grand jury for a possible charge of perjury," wrote Starr in "Contempt: A Brief of the 39, Clinton inquiry ".

Fox News obtained an advance copy of the book. In this statement, Starr recounts a January 22, 1995 statement with President Bill Clinton and the First Lady regarding the suicide of White House counselor Vince Foster, as well as other issues arising from the incident. Inquiry on the Whitewater Land Agreement.

Recalling the president's responses during this interview, Starr writes: "Clinton has been heckling and weaving, but it has always been nice to avoid answering.

The first lady was another story.

"In three hours, she claimed, through our accounts, more than a hundred times that she" did not remember "or" did not remember, "wrote Starr. "This suggested total begging. To be sure, human memory is notoriously fallible, but its tense performance seemed absurd.

But Starr suggested that he finally decided not to pursue the criminal charges against Hillary Clinton because it would have been hard to prove that she had lied.

"[P]"It is extremely difficult to take someone who lied knowingly by saying" I do not remember "or" I do not remember, "especially if that person is the First Lady," he said. "What was clear was that Mrs. Clinton could not be bothered to make it appear as if she was telling the truth."

A Hillary Clinton spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment.

"You have to be able to prove the case," Starr continued in an interview Monday on "Tucker Carlson Tonight." "There are clear differences between what a prosecutor knows and what an attorney can prove."

"We simply did not have the evidence to bring these accusations," he said.

The publishers charge Starr's book as the first time he gives his full and candid view of the investigation that led to the scandal of Monica Lewinsky and led to the removal of President Bill Clinton.

Starr, in the introduction to the book, says that the two Clintons "made an informed commitment to a course of conduct that despised our venerated justice system."

In another part of the book, Starr wrote how, as Solicitor General of the United States, he went to Little Rock in 1992, while Clinton was a candidate for the presidency. He recalls being taken in charge by a member of the government at the time. Clinton's security details, which told him "the salacious story after the salacious history of the governor's notorious out-of-school escapes".

"The very specific details of the soldier suggest that the stories were not invented," Starr writes.

He added that the soldier had told him about Hillary Clinton's "salt tongue" when she had "discovered a clandestine episode in the Governor's Mansion House".

"A former queen of the beauty pageant," said the soldier, was Bill Clinton's guest, "writes Starr.

He added that "little did I know that in less than two years, after the governor became president, I would be in charge" of investigating Clinton. Similar allegations emanating from soldiers from the state of Arkansas would later be made public in the controversy known as "Troopergate".

At another point in the book, Starr said, "Vince Foster's death haunted me," as he recalled investigating the suicide of Clinton's long-time associate who had sparked conspiracy theories. .

"In many ways, I looked a lot like him: serious about the law, conscientious and faithful to a fault. Foster had been needled by the media, which I knew too well could be brutal, especially for someone who is not used to the public eye, "wrote Starr Foster.

Starr told Carlson that Foster's death was still ringing with him.

"I've been haunted by … what did Vince Foster do, as the president's assistant advisor? He's kidnapped life, "Starr said. "We knew that he was depressed. We had very significant evidence that he was clinically depressed. Why was he clinically depressed? Complex question But that's why I was haunted. Why does this very bright and high-performing lawyer have committed suicide within six months of the administration's takeover? And that … haunts me today.

On several occasions in his memoirs, he quoted Brett Kavanaugh, the current Supreme Court associate who previously worked for Starr as part of the Clinton Inquiry. He writes about the report they produced about Foster's death, claiming that he was "written primarily" by Kavanaugh, "a key member of our trust in the brain."

He also refers to Kavanaugh as "leader" as his team drafted the so-called "Starr Report" detailing the findings of his investigation into Clinton.

Starr briefly quotes Kavanaugh's appointment to the high court, saying that President Trump's selection of the 53-year-old judge shows how presidents "want longevity in their appointments to the Supreme Court".

Reflecting on his work, Mr. Starr stated that he deeply regretted that he had "taken the Lewinsky phase of the investigation".

"But at the same time, as I see it again twenty years later, there was no practical alternative to what I was doing," Starr writes.

Starr, a conservative, also remembers being overtaken in 1990 by then President George H. W. Bush for the seat of the Supreme Court who went to David Souter, a reliable Liberal.

He thinks that he could have been finally appointed to the Supreme Court by another Republican President "if I had not participated in the Whitewater Inquiry, and especially at the very Inquiry. criticized Lewinsky ".

"Maybe," writes Starr, "but we'll never know."

Matt Richardson of Fox News contributed to this report.