Clemens Vs. McNamee Part 3

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has turned his formidable investigative talents on Roger Clemens. The star pitcher has claimed that he was not a a Jose Canseco barbeque in 1998; McNamee said he was. "The Sanseco barbeque is a key event in 1998 where your testimony differs," Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) said early in the hearing.

One person who might be able to settle whether he was there, McNamee had told the committee, was Clemens' nanny, who was also there. Last week, Waxman asked Clemens for her number and asked him not to speak to her before the committee did. Clemens took a few days to give up number and when the committee finally spoke with her,  the woman said that not only was Clemens at Canseco's house, but that Clemens had spoken with her on Sunday about what she remembered.

Waxman immediately suggested that Clemens might have been trying to obstruct a congressional investigation, but Clemens demurred.

"I was trying to do y'all a favor," said Clemens.

Waxman, however, had drawn a bucket of blood, and he pressed his attack home. "The impression it leaves is terrible," Waxman told Clemens 

Clemens lawyers objected strenuously to Waxman's characterization of their client's conversation with the nanny. "This is nothing but inuendo," Lanny Breuer said. "The innuendo is terrible."