joining me to talk about all of this is maureen o'connor from "new york" magazine and cnn political commentatorlo to both of you. i understand you were a young reporter, a week on the job, just as this broke? >> yeah, i got to washington in january of 1998 to start at the "new republic" magazine and this was the first story i ever covered was lewinsky. back then you know how i found out about it? i was walking to work and found out about a headline from one of those boxes where you bought a newspaper. some of you may remember those. no e-mail, no twitter. >> given that your first year as a cub reporter was spent on this story, what do you make of what she writes in this. she comes off really -- you feel for her. >> absolutely. i think it's a very sympathetic piece. i think what's happened here is she realizes that her story is not going away, and she realizes that she kept her head down through hillary clinton's 2008 campaign. she says in the piece that she did that on purpose. and that recent events have made her realize that if everyone else is going to talk about her and if her story is goin