Hillary Clinton denies Bill's affair with Monica Lewinsky was an 'abuse of power'
WASHINGTON – Former first lady Hillary Clinton disputed the assertion that her husband's affair with a White House intern constituted an abuse of power and said he was correct not to resign after the scandal became public.
President Bill Clinton was impeached for lying to investigators about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Earlier this year, in the midst of the #MeToo movement, Lewinsky said she now considers the relationship to have "constituted a gross abuse of power" on Clinton's part.
"Now, at 44, I’m beginning (just beginning) to consider the implications of the power differentials that were so vast between a president and a White House intern," Lewinsky wrote in Vanity Fair.
"In retrospect, do you think Bill should've resigned in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal?" correspondent Tony Dokoupil asked Hillary Clinton during an interview on the CBS show "Sunday Morning."
"Absolutely not," Clinton said.
"It wasn't an abuse of power?" Dokoupil asked.
"No. No," she said, adding that Lewinsky "was an adult."
Lewinsky was 22 when the affair with Clinton began.