Former White House press secretary Joe Lockhart praised special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE for not leaking any details of the Russia investigations while taking a dig at former independent counsel lead investigator Ken Starr for doing press conferences "at the end of his driveway."

The comments came during a debate between Starr and Lockhart on CNN's "New Day."

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The conversation was the first time the two men spoke face-to-face about the investigation conducted by Starr that led to President Clinton's impeachment in 1998.

Lockhart served as Clinton's press secretary from 1998 to 2000, at the height of Starr's investigation.

"The thing that even 20 years on that still probably bothers me the most is that you have all of these things, you have counterintelligence, you have our national security at risk, and Bob Mueller and his team have managed to do this the right way, which is to keep this redacted," Lockhart said with Starr sitting across from him at CNN's New York bureau. "And they'll reveal their cards when they want."

"With Judge Starr and his team, I read about it every day in the paper," Lockhart continued. "I read about secret grand jury testimony every day in the paper. I saw Judge Starr at the end of his driveway doing press conferences. This was an attempt to put political pressure on the president to get him to resign. It didn't work. He was eventually acquitted."

Just incredible hearing @JoeLockhart describe the differences between Robert Mueller, who has run the most tight-lipped operation in recent memory, and Ken Starr, who used to address the media from the end of his driveway.



As Lockhart spoke, Starr sat right across from him... pic.twitter.com/BpwuLfMLmR — Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) March 8, 2019



Starr held impromptu press conferences outside his Virginia home during his investigation into Clinton.