Bill Clinton Feels His Own Pain

“I’ve had nothing but women leaders in my office since I left. You are giving one side and omitting facts.”

That was Bill Clinton, , responding angrily to a question posed by NBC News’s Craig Melvin. The occasion for their interview: the release of the novel the former president co-authored with the mystery writer James Patterson. The context for the interview, though: a world that has been steadily shifting under the influences of #MeToo. Bill Clinton has been accused of sexual harassment by several women, and ; he was impeached because he conducted an affair with a 21-year-old intern and then lied about it to the American public. It was predictable—in fact, it was pretty much inevitable—that questions about #MeToo would be asked interview, the question : “Looking back on what happened then,” Melvin said, “through the lens of #MeToo now, do you think differently? Or feel more responsibility?”