SUSAN MCDOUGAL ON TRIAL
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Court TV) — To bolster her charge that Whitewater prosecutors had a vendetta against her, Susan McDougal wants to call as a witness another woman unhappy with her treatment by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr — Julia Hiatt Steele.

Arguments over whether Julia Hiatt Steele can testify are expected to lead off Tuesday's court session, where McDougal is on trial for criminal contempt and obstruction of justice because she refused to cooperate with Starr's investigators and testify before a grand jury.

McDougal said she feared Starr would charge her with perjury if she didn't provide incriminating information about the president.

Steele is charged with making false statements that contradicted the testimony of Kathleen Willey, who accused Clinton of making unwanted sexual advances to her.

Steele, like McDougal, says Starr mistreated her but the prosecutors in the McDougal trial say that her testimony would be irrelevant and would drag out the trial, which has already lasted almost a month.

McDougal is expected to spend a sixth day on the stand Tuesday. On Monday, the prosecution showed a 3-hour videotape of a 1996 television interview, including outtakes, suggested that McDougal has changed her story in the past three years.

In the interview, McDougal does not mention the most explosive charge she has yet levelled at Starr's team during this trial — the allegation that her late ex-husband James McDougal prodded her to invent an affair with Clinton, which deputy prosecutor Hickman Ewing Jr. would use to attack the president before the 1996 election.

Ewing vehemently denied those charges.

McDougal, who was convicted of fraud in 1996 along with James McDougal, has already spent 18 months in jail for refusing to testify for the grand jury. James McDougal, who agreed to cooperate with Starr in exchange for a lighter sentence, died in prison last March.

The McDougals were former business partners of the Clintons in a failed land deal in northern Arkansas in the early 1980s.

Starr has tried to link their fraudulent dealings, particularly a suspicious $300,000 loan, to the Clintons. The Clintons have denied any such involvement and Susan McDougal said Clinton knew nothing about the loan.

Court TV's Catherine Heins and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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