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obviously, monica lewinsky and a lot of pain and tumult and turmoil for the country. the fascination stems from basically our society's infatuation and obsession with celebrity and the president of the united states. you've got this dramatic romantsic affair. so i think the sort of nature of that is something that has drawn in a lot of attention over the years and the 20th anniversary coming up, this documentary coming up has resparked some interest in that. >> there's another woman who also is at the center of this story. and that is linda tripp, someone who monica lewinsky decided to confide in and, obviously, that had consequences, not just for her, for bill clinton, for hillary clinton, but also historical implications as you know. but there she is. i think at the time she was 23 or 24 years old. she's in a room with fbi agents who have now been contacted by linda tripp. and she has to decide whether or not to tell them what happened. i want to play part of that interview again. >> you are 24. you don't need to call your mommy. you need to make a decision about wh

tonight, monica lewinski reflecting on the scandal that rocked the nation and forever changed her lifeea era of "me lewinski's story cast in a new light. now she's revealing the intimate details and embarrassing moments in hopes of helps others avoid a similar fate. here's my "nightline" coanchor juju chang. >> he paid a lot of attention to me. he spent time sort of standing there and held my hand longer than he should have and gave what others have described as the full bill clinton. it feels as if you're the only person standing there. >> reporter: it's the infamous start to an illicit affair. one that nearly toppled a president. >> my underwear had been showing, my thong underwear. and i thought, well, i'll up the game. >> reporter: monica lewinski speaking out about the flirtatious moments that landed her squarely at the center of a white house scandal. >> i kind of have to laugh at my younger self. but that was when my crush started. >> reporter: the unpaid intern and the commander in chief. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. >> reporter: now for lewinski, a new r

now that's eatin good in the neighborhood. >>> monica lewinsky is speaking out. rk releasing clips from its highly anticipated docu series, the clinton affair. it's an inside look at the impeachment of president bill clinton. lewinsky detailing on camera what was going through her head during the early stages of her affair with president clinton. >> it's not as if it didn't register with me that he was the president. obviously it did. but i think in one way the moment we were actually in the back office for the first time, the truth is that i think it meant more to me that someone who other people desired desired me, however wrong it was, however misguided, for who i was in that very moment at 22 years old, that was how it felt. >> joining me now to talk about it, "new york times" chief white house correspondent and msnbc analyst, peter baker. he has covered clinton's impeachment extensively, he detailed it in two books, and nbc national correspondent kate snow is with me. kate, let me start with you. what do we expect to learn now that we haven't known for the pa

people were asking me, was monica lewinsky paid.paid for the interview. >> interesting. we have another trip of monica lewinsky that was released. let's look. >> it's not as if it didn't register with me that he was the president. i think in one way the moment we were actually in the back office for the first time, the truth is that i think it meant for to me that someone who other people deseared desired me. however wrong it was, however misguided, for whom i was at that very moment 22 years old. that is how it felt. >> one of the things i thought was so interesting, also a piece in "vanity fair," and she pointed out this is called the clibten affair instead of being called the monica lewinsky scandal. such an interesting distinction. the way that the cultural posture towards monica lewinsky has shifted in the me too movement just seems so striking. >> yes, i was not covering the white house at the time, i actually covered the white house right after the impeachment trial ended. but it sounds sort of antique and maybe possibly disr

monica lewinsky was denigrated by the media for a very long time.watch that interview where she is tearing up. it drives home. bill clinton should be the one who is ashamed. gillian: for the #metoo and the' timesup movement, it's hard to imagine she would receive the same treatment today. >> the moment we were actually in the back office for the first time the truth is i think it meant more to me that's somebody other people desired, desired me. however misguide for who i was in that very moment at 22 years old. that was how i felt. howie: you know what they were doing in the back office. she was very candid. she loved bill. she was a 22-year-old intern. you went to the white house when you were 23. did you think about what happened to her? gillian: i did. when i joined the bush administration i was 23 years years old. seeing the oval office for the first time, being in the west wing. being around people who worked in the clinton administration. it dawned on me how incredible this escapade in american history had been. understanding exactly how many

. >>> and her side of the story, more from the upcoming documentary where monica lewinsky relives the raw emotion she felt during her affair with bill clinton and during the scandal that followed. >>> but we begin with that breaking news involving the white house. in just the last hour, a judge granted temporary order forcing the white house to restore the press credentials to cnn correspondent jim acosta. now, the judge who made his decision it's important to point out was appointed by president trump, and it all started with this incident, acosta asking questions to the president, a white house intern tried to take the microphone away from him during that east room press conference. now, at first the white house said it took the credential because he placed his hands on the intern. then they kind of changed their story, said it was because acosta was rude. well, cnn and acosta then sued the president. chief of staff, john kelly, deputy chief of staff bill shine, press secretary sarah sanders and the secret service. this ruling is a victory for the press, for cnn, and a blow to the p

you may think you know the monica lewinsky story. there's so much we don't know. new details and also new perspective. one question, imagine if it happened today. how big a difference would me too make? we are turkey day minus three. let's get after it. >>> this would be some headline all by itself. a top administration official using a personal e-mail account for official white house business. then you add to that, it's the president's daughter ivanka. what's he going to say about it? nothing. you are not going to hear chants of lock her up at some trump rally about this. what are ivanka's people saying? her private account was used, quote, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family. she only did so until the white house told her it was a no no. let's get after it with two of the biggest names in intelligence, former cia director general michael haden and james clapper. i'm not going to take up too much time on smaller matters. using a private e-mail to do government business, even after our reporting is she was told that it's a no no. how b

monica lewinsky says sheep contemplated suicide.hy her comments resonates now 20 years howie: 20 years after the impeachment of bill clinton, monica lewinsky is opening up ab . . i just felt northified and afraid of what this is going to -- felt mortified and what it was going to do to my family. i was in love with bill at the time. i felt really responsible. . . for a very long time. when you watch that interview where she is tearing up. it drives home. bill clinton should be the one who is ashamed. gillian: for the #metoo and the' timesup movement, it's hard to imagine she would receive the same treatment today. >> the moment we were actually in the back office for the first time the truth is i think it meant more to me that's somebody other people desired, desired me. however misguide for who i was in that very moment at 22 years old. that was how i felt. howie: you know what they were doing in the back office. she was very candid. she loved bill. she was a 22-year-old intern. you went to the white house when you were 23. did you

. >>> monica lewinsky opening up about the clinton affair. like we've never heard before. >> i was mortified and afraid of what this was going to do to my family. >> tonight, what an apology from bill clinton, what she would say to hillary clinton and why she's speaking out now? >>> parents behaving badly. a wild brawl caught on camera. >>> and the adorable best friends bonding for life and inspiring america. the little girls we can't wait for you to meet. >> this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening to our viewers in the west. we begin if california where they're seeing the destructive fire. 42 people have been killed in the northern part of the state. there is a desperate search for people still unaccounted for. new evacuations in the south as fires explode. we start off in california. >> reporter: tonight as a volcano of fire explodes in the hills outside malibu, the orders to evacuate came immediately. >> i didn't think it was coming back this way. looks like it's going to head -- >> reporter: police clearing a subdivi

god bless. >>> monica lewinsky is back in the news and for good reason.is documentary series is going to take people by surprise. yes, you know the story but not really and not from her perspective. i don't know if you read her book, but even if you did what happened with the president, what it meant to her, how it changed her, how it was dealt with, it's all so different than you may acknowledge. and then there's the big question, imagined if it happened today. i have people who cover it then as did i, i we're going to discuss about what we learn in this documentary series and what would happen if it happened today? it's a provocative discussion and one we're going to have next. ♪ can you feel it ♪ can you feel it ♪ can you feel it ♪ can you feel it ♪ can you feel it ♪ can you feel it ♪ can you feel it ♪ can you feel it shhh... [whispering] ♪ can you feel it the bill clinton scandal. it always struck me as odd because she was an intern and he was the most powerful man in the world. it's been 20 years. can you imagine that? monica lewinsky is now speaking

and wrote the piece monica li lewinsky is finally having her moment. said from this moment forward i will call it the intern scandal. not the lewinsky scandal and i'm sorry it took me so long. your first words reference the way we labelled it then. why did it stick? >> i think at the time there was an outside focus not on bill clinton who is himself the president but on monica lewinsky seen as the other woman and mr. clinton called her that woman. when the focus should have been on the president of the united states having an affair with someone who is his subordinate. >> i know it's called "the clinton affair". you say people's reactions 20 years ago are inexplicable, viewed through the prism of otwo decades. >> i mean it's very hard to identify with people who made fun of her. i think we should have a better appreciation of owhat they go through when they're in relationships that have this pow and balance. maybe we have more vivid understanding of how that suffering feels but it's very hard to identify with the people who mocked her and ridiculed her

. >>> new this half hour, more of monica lewinsky's revealing new interview. >> there were always narratives of secrecy in this relationship. there were always ways that we talked about it. how do we be careful? of course, you're going to deny this. >> how she says she and the president tried to hide the affair. >>> plus, murder on a cruise ship? the fbi called to investigate. >>> tempers flare as this political brawl spirals out of control today. >>> and later does taylor swift really hide in a suitcase to avoid the paparazzi? >>> we made it to thursday. i'm kendis gibson. >> i'm lynda lopez. >>> and we begin withwinter awa. >> a powerful storm is moving from the deep south into the snow, sleet, ice, as well as flooding rain and threatening to make a mess of this morning's commute. this morning, more than 100 million americans bracing for a winter-like wallop. this storm already turning deadly. this tour bus losing control on an icy highway near memphis flipping over killing two senior citizens. more than 40 other people injured. >> it was scary, i mean, watching the bus, it's like it spine

. >>> monica lewinsky revealing new details about her affair with president clinton.t she wants to say to hillary ♪i am beautiful in every single way♪ ♪words, can't bring me down♪ >>> so, this happened. we're back with that brawl between parents and coaches at this youth football game outside atlanta. it broke out when the players, who are 5 years old, were shaking hands after the game. it's the adults who were the fools. a witness said someone pulled out a gun, but no shots were fired thankfully. no word on any arrests. >>> prosecutors in ohio say a custody dispute was the motive behind the murders of eight members of the same family. jake wagner and three of his relatives are charged with killing 19-year-old hanna rhoden, her parents and five other victims.veigy rhen had shared custody of a daughter. the massacre was allegedly planned over months. if convicted, the wagners face the death penalty. >>> a retired firefighter from michigan will spend at least four years in prison for jurensng at a black teenager who a jue nded down the sentfired shotgun at brennan walke

>>> well, 2020 years -- 20 years later, monica lewinsky is opening up about the affair that almost costent the oval office. the three part docuseries, the clinton affair premiers sunday. lewinsky talks about her early flirtations with president clinton. >> i didn't get it until the first time i was really in his presence. i was struck in a way that he had this ability to hold everybody who was there, not just young women, not just older women, but young men, older men, guy, straight, everybody is sort of starry eyed in his presence. i kind of have to laugh at my younger self, but that was when my crush started. >> with me now two journalists who covered the scandal, eleanor cliff, jonathan alter, "the daily beast" columnist. eleanor, you were able to see some of this a&e docuseries and when we see just now what monica lewinsky was saying, what's your takeaway and what has time done to the words and the very scandal itself you think in the eyes of americans? >> well, she's exactly right. that bill clinton did have this captivating quality that was summed up in his ability to, i feel your

. >>> monica lewinsky opening up about the clinton affair like we have never heard before. >> i was mortified and afraid of what this was going to do to my family. >> tonight what about an apology from bill clinton, what she would say to hillary clinton and why she's speaking out now. >> parents behaving badly, a wild brawl caught on camera. >>> the adorable bes friends bonded for life ang inspiri america. the little girls we can't wait for you to meet. >>> this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, everyone. in an unheard of move first itti lady melania trump tonight is publicly calling for the firing of a top white house adviser. the object of her scorn the deputy national security adviser. ihe first lady's offiuing a written release today calling for her ouster. after s reportedly clashed with mrs. trump's staff as well as others in the w wing. but the call to fire her may also be unmasking a deeper white house power struggle. one that could put chief of staff john lly's job in jeopardy as well. kristen welker has more. >> reporter: tonight the first flexing her muscles

for years monica lewinsky is this very vocal, outspoken advocate for victims of bullying.amed herself notly necessas a victim of bill clinton, but the ridicule that she faced afterwards. >> but she was always so careful. that's what's sonteresting. she was so careful until i think last year saying, oh, it was consensual and always to kind of own her portion o responsibility. it seems like she, herself, is now looking at thisn affair a new light, a new context. >> that's exactly right. it goes back to february when she penned a piece about this. e said watching all t women come forward to tellheir stories about suffering violations atds the h of powerful men made her change her own relationship with what hade happith clinton all those many years ago, and that now she would categorically say it was an abuse of power on his part. full stop. >> it's very interestingook. first of all, she never really talks about the affair itself until now, and then to see, in light of how our culture has changed, how it's being reexamined. ank you. thank you. >>> we are going to head over to

this is not the first time monica lewinsky has spoken out.nity fair," the former white house intern explains her decision to participate in a docu-series, looking back on that scandal and how she feels about it today. this morning, monica lewinsky in her own words, explaining that her decision to participate in a new a&e docu-series was due to the fact that most of the filmmakers were women. throughout history, women have been reduced and silenced, she writes in an article for "vanity fair." now, it's our time to tell our own stories in our own words. lewinsky calls the process of filming exceedingly painful and traumatic. filming the documentary forced me to acknowledge to myself past behavior that i regret and feel ashamed of. despite all of the ways i tried to protect my mental health, it was still challenging. the process of this docu-series led me to new rooms of shame and delivered me to grief's doorstep. in the new article, lewinsky also addresses whether or not she feels she is owed a personal apology from bill clinton, something the

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it was a powerful exposition by monica lewinsky. she is still reeling from that apparently.ow do you think about how that whole thing went down and now it's resurfacing. >> i think she was taken advantage of by a powerful older man, bill clinton. i'm so happy to see her and hear her tell her story. you have to get that out to set yourself free. i'm happy she is able to tell her story. but her story do need to be told. >> tell her story and her truth about it. jess require was a tough time in the 90s for the country. everybody struggled with that and it divide the nation. if you look back at that now, if that happened today about the #metoo movement it would have gone a different way. let's get to michael avenatti, the lawyer representing stormy daniels skyrocketed to fame with that. now allegedly has punched a woman in the face. he was booked on charges. here is what said when he came out of the jail. >> i have never struck a woman. i never will trike a woman i have been an advocate for women's rights my entire career, and i will continue to be an advocate. i am not going to

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reporter: when you put the commentary, the punch lines and the headlines in one place -- >> i think monica lewinskyshould apologize to america. >> reporter: -- the theme is obvious, she was to blame. >> people started to chip away at my integrity and my character. >> reporter: lewinsky says there was the real her and the caricature that was created. jennifer palomarry said she ran into lewinsky and knew what to say. >> i said i was sorry. that i was just, you know, not apologizing that i had some role in this. but i was just so sorry about what they did to her, how it affected her life and how it affected her life in a way that it didn't affect president clinton's life. >> reporter: in recent years, lewinsky said she found ways to make positive contributions. penning essays. >> you can insist on a different ending to your story. >> reporter: giving a famous ted talk. >> i never could imagine the impact that this would have on others, on the presidency, on my life, of course, the country. you know, i don't know, i guess though my life has moved on in ways for which i'm incredibly grateful, i still m

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so she is not directly in the news, but monica lewinsky is. is hillary clinton. so she is not directly in the news, but monica lewinsky is. the new docu-series has a look at the clinton affair. here is what she had to say about being questioned about what happened with bill clinton. watch. >> i would be hysterically crying and then i'd just shut down. and in the shutdown period, i remember looking out the window and thinking that the only way to fix this was to kill myself, was to jump out the win do doww. i felt terrible. i was scared and i just -- i was more fil mority filed and afraid of what this was going to do to my family. and you know, i still was in love with bill at the time. so i felt really responsible. >> are the clintons ever going to be able to escape this. >> politicbill clinton was ill impeached because of this, so no. >> and lewinsky said if she spoke to hrillary clinton, she would tell her about how sorry she is. >> and power dynamic in the workplace has changed so much that now everybody is looking at it in a new light and

and now more clinton news out there as well and their old baggage, 20 years after monica lewinsky became a household name, after president bill clinton engaged in sexual misconduct with the white house intern, lewinsky is speaking out about the clothes in air on the horrible damage that it did to her life. she talked about why they participated in the documentary and she said if he she saw hillary clinton in person, she said i know i would summon up whatever force i needed to again acknowledge to her how sincerely sorry i am. by the way, good for her. it was extraordinarily brave, gracious and honorable. here's a clip from the documentary. >> i just, i felt terrible. i was mortified and afraid of what this was going to do to my family. you know, i felt really responsible. >> sean: in the op-ed lewinsky said she was disappointing dist bill clinton said he didn't owe her an apology when he spoke with nbc news back in june. >> but you didn't apologize to her, at least according to folks we talk to? >> i have not talked to her. >> do you feel you owe her an apology? >> noel. >> there is one

. >>> now to monica lewinsky's new interview as she opens up about new details about her affair with president clinton. >> this morning what she now says she would say to hillary clinton if she saw her today. here's abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: it was the affair that could have brought down a presidency. >> i kind of looked into the open doorway and bill happened to be standing there, and he motioned me in. i don't think my heart had ever beat as fast. unbeknownst to me, i was on the precipice of the rabbit hole. >> reporter: monica lewinsky, now 45, says even though reliving the ordeal for a new a & e docuseries is traumatic, it's important if it helps another young person make better decisions. >> i felt terrible. i was scared and i just -- i was mortified and afraid of what family and -- you know, i still was in love with bill at the time. >> reporter: and in a new "vanity fair" article, lewinsky talks about remorse and sympathy for hillary clinton, saying if she were to see hillary clinton in person today, she would tell her directly how very sorry i am. when it comes to bill

it was a powerful exposition by monica lewinsky. she is still reeling from that apparently.hink about how that whole thing went down and now it's resurfacing. >> i think she was taken advantage of by a powerful older man, bill clinton. i'm so happy to see her and hear her tell her story. you have to get that out to set yourself free. i'm happy she is able to tell her story. but her story do need to be told. >> tell her story and her truth about it. jess require was a tough time in the 90s for the country. everybody struggled with that and it divide the nation. if you look back at that now, if that happened today about the #metoo movement it would have gone a different way. let's get to michael avenatti, the lawyer representing stormy daniels skyrocketed to fame with that. now allegedly has punched a woman in the face. he was booked on charges. here is what said when he came out of the jail. >> i have never struck a woman. i never will trike a woman i have been an advocate for women's rights my entire career, and i will continue to be an advocate. i am not going to be intimid

. >> monica lewinsky speaks out about her relationship with president bill clinton as never before. intimate details and what she'd say face to face with hillary clinton. >> parents behaving badly in a wild brawl at a kids peewee football game. >> and a frightening hit and run where the driver literally ran omhe scene. rivera.od" starts right now.odc new signs tha first lady. in an unprecedented move, melania trump is publicly ca one of her husband's top advisors. senior national security council official deputy to john bolton in a statement. her spokeswoman saying, in part, she no longer deserves to serve in the white house. nbc's kristen welker has more on the first lady's feuds. >> reporter: the first lady flexing her muscles. melania trump taking the unprecedented step of publicly calling for the firing of one of her husband's top advisors, mira ricardel amid other clashes with the chief of staff, john kelly, so significant it could lead to kelly's departure. seven people familiar with the situation tell nbc news kelly has tangled with the first lady's team over everything frog

when you put t commentary, punch lines and headlines from the '90s in one place. >> i would say monica lewinskyshould be apologize to america. >> reporter: the theme is obvious. e was to blame. >> people started to chip away at my integrity and my character. >> reporter: lewinsky says there was threal her and the caricature created by the mia. jennifer paul marry ran into winsky recently and knew what to say. >> i said i was sorry. that i was just, you know, not apologizing that i h some role in this, but just so sorry that whathey did to her, how it affected her life, how it affected her life in a way that it didn't affect his tefe. >> reporr: in recent years lewinsky says she found ways to make positive contributions, attending -- >> you can insist on a different ending to the story. >> reporter: giving a fame ousted talk. >> i never could have imagined the impact this would have on others, on the presidency, on my life, and of course the country, but, you know, i don't know. i get though my life has moved on in ways for which i'm incredibly grateful, i still meet regret every day. and it's t

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monica lewinsky, hoping to help other young women by sharing how she felt at 22, and how she says she was swept up into something she couldn't handle. >> he had the ability to hold everybody that was there. not just young women, not just older women. but young men, older men, gay, straight, everybody is sort of starry-eyed in his presence. i kind of have to laugh at my younger self, but that was when my crush started. >> reporter: lewinsky recalls how she felt when a president paid attention to a white house intern. >> he, you know, paid a lot of attention to me. he spent time sort of standing there and held my hand longer than what he should have and gave what others have described as the full bill clinton. >> reporter: in that new a&e docu-series, she explores what she was thinking, that led to what she calls her own poor decisions. she believes he was wrong, too. >> the moment we were actually in the back office for the first time, the truth is is that i think it meant more to me that someone who other people desired desired me. however wrong it was, however misguided, for who i wa

. >>> next tonight, to the new monica lewinsky interview. the scandal that could have ended the clinton presidency. tonight, what she now says she would say to hillary clinton if she saw her today. here's abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: it was the affair that could have brought down a presidency. >> i kind of looked into the open doorway and bill happened to be standing there, and he motioned me in. i don't think my heart had ever beat as fast. unbeknownst to me, i was on the precipice of the rabbit hole. >> reporter: monica lewisky, now 45, says even though reliving the ordeal for a new a&e docu-series is traumatic, it is important if it helps another young person make better decisions. >> i felt terrible, i was scared and i just -- i was mortified and afraid of what this was going to do to my family, and -- you know, i still was in love with bill at the time. >> reporter: and in a new "vanity fair" article tonight, lewinsky talks about remorse, and sympathy for hillary clinton, saying, if she were to see hillary clinton in person today, s

he has, i think, not matched the authenticity that monica lewinsky has demonstrated in the last severalths on this issue. you know, i'd be surprised if they can get through this entire tour without him having to address it more thoroughly. >> that was a very good answer, a very honest answer. what do you think, scott? final thoughts. >> you know, i think hillary is right. i think that bill clinton has fallen short on this, and he's fallen short since the moment it happened all these years ago. i think if i were hillary clinton and i were serious about the next run, i wouldn't be on a book tour with him. i'd be on a book tour by myself saying, i'm out here speaking in my own voice. i don't need this guy. and honestly he's done some things that i don't like, and he's handled some things in a way i didn't like. to me, that's what people are craving. i think authenticity, a world that hilary used, is the exact right word. people are craving that in our politics, and she's probably better able to do that with him not sitting right next to her. i think at some point if she's serious, she need

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. >>> the new interview set to air tonight with monica lewinsky. opening up about her affair with president bill clinton and revealing why she shared her secret with linda tripp. here's abc's lana zak. >> okay, great. where do you want to work? >> reporter: tonight in a new interview, monica lewinsky revealing what led her to confide to linda tripp about her affair with president clinton. saying she felt clinton first misled her about a future job and then froze her out when he was re-elected. >> i had this nagging insecurity, maybe he just did all these things this last six months because he was trying to keep me quiet during the election. how stupid am i? those were the conditions along with some other things that led to me confiding in linda tripp. >> reporter: in a new a & e documentary "the clinton affair" lewinsky recalls how tripp -- the co-worker she thought she could trust -- secretly recorded her. >> let's just say they're going to try to trick you. okay, "did she ever tell you about her affair with that one." >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: even

you have notably called this the clinton affair as opposed to the monica lewinsky scandal. tell me the cultural or gender politics around this, particularly in the me too era. >> one of the most notable, we we went back a little and deep dive into all the archival material, all of the footage, the coverage of this, and when you look at how when the scandal first broke, how it was covered, it was automatically assumed that the president was frksz -- if not innocent, even if you believed he had this affair, no one had a problem with it. monica had the burden of it. she was referred to as a fantasist, she was a stocker. she was making this up u. one nightly news show showed a clip from "fatal attraction" and compared her to glenn close. then she was the victim and the seductress and she's mocked on late night talk shows. but she's not taken seriously by anyone. no one comes to her defense. with the me too movement, we're in a moment now we're starting to rethink how we respond to these allegations that women have much more credibility when they come forward and make these kind

order it. >> we're going to have no comment about that. >>> let's take a look at our exclusive on monica lewinskyith president bill clinton ahead of the 20th anniversary of his impeachment. a new docu-series premieres tonight. we're getting a sense of lewinsky's thoughts as she found herself in the nation's spotlight. >> there were also narratives of secrecy in this relationship. >> reporter: monica lewinsky providing new details in a new documentary "the clinton affair" airing on a&e. she describes how the famous talking points came to be, saying she coached linda tripp on how not to testify in the paula jones sexual harassment case against the president. >> the day after the meeting at the ritz carlton hotel she told me she decided she would not tell and do what i did and try to sign an affidavit to get out of having to testify. i was excited by this. i thought, hurray, okay, she's coming around to my side of thinking about things. i sat and wrote up a document based on my own affidavit to help her possibly not testify. >> reporter: what lewinsky didn't know is tripp, her co-worker at the time,

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