FRANK SESNO, CNN ANCHOR: Ladies and gentlemen, this has been a positively stunning turn of events.</s>SESNO: In some ways, the day I remember most clearly from this entire thing was when the speaker of the House had stepped aside.</s>JEFF GREENFIELD, CNN SR. ANALYST: And he begins to talk to the Congress. He begins to say to the president</s>REP. BOB LIVINGSTON (R-LA), HOUSE SPEAKER-ELECT: You, sir, may resign your post.</s>GREENFIELD: You don't see them, but you hear the yelling in the background, "You resign."</s>SESNO: The reason I remember that one so clearly is we had no clue it was coming down. Jeff Greenfield and I were on the air.</s>GREENFIELD: And then Bob Livingston starts to say...</s>LIVINGSTON: So I must set the example that I hope President Clinton will follow: I will not stand for speaker of the House on January 6th.</s>GREENFIELD: And I remember turning to Sesno, you know, my jaw must have dropped three feet, saying he is going to resign.</s>SESNO: We were shocked because, in Washington, you almost always have an advanced text, somebody gives you the talking points, it's all -- it's out there. This was not. The oxygen was literally sucked out of the room.</s>SESNO: Candy Crowley on Capitol Hill.</s>CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I am wondering if it's appropriate to be speechless.</s>CROWLEY: In the political realm, so much is packaged, so much they tell you three days ahead of time they're going to do it, so they can get three days worth of stories. So little surprises you. This was a genuine surprise.
CNN 20: Bob Livingston Resigns, December 19, 1998