President Bill Clinton told “CBS Sunday Morning” that he disagrees with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s statement that he should have resigned over the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
“You have to really ignore what the context was,” Clinton said, in an interview set to air on Sunday.“But, you know, she’s living in a different context. And she did it for different reasons. So, I — but I just disagree with her.”
Gillibrand, who has confronted sexual harassment among her colleagues on Capital Hill, said last year that the “appropriate response” to Clinton’s scandal over his affair with Lewinsky was for him to resign.
Clinton appeared to tell CBS that during his scandal in the 1990s the public was largely behind him.
“It was a fight that I was glad to undertake after the elections, when the people had solidly told, by two-thirds or more, the Republicans to stop it,” he said.
“They knew there was nothing impeachable. And so, we fought it to the end. And I’m glad.”
The interview is expected to be aired at a future date.