Monica Lewinksy Reveals Details Of Affair With Former President Bill Clinton — Transcript

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1. 0:00welcome back Monica Lewinsky is
2. 0:01revealing new details about her affair
3. 0:03with former President Bill Clinton in a
4. 0:05new television series CBS News
5. 0:06correspondent Tony Jacobo explains how
6. 0:09the public perception of Lewinsky has
7. 0:11now changed in the me2 era he you know
8. 0:15paid a lot of attention to me Monica
9. 0:17Lewinsky says she still feels ashamed in
10. 0:20how she behaved after meeting President
11. 0:22Clinton as an intern at the White House
12. 0:23in 1995 my underwear had showing my
13. 0:28thong underwear and I thought well I'll
14. 0:32up the game it was unnoticeable to
15. 0:35everybody else in the room but he
16. 0:37noticed once the affair began Lewinsky
17. 0:40says parts of the relationship moved out
18. 0:42of her control if he called me I
19. 0:44couldn't call him back I was completely
20. 0:47at his mercy in that way three years
21. 0:49later the affair made national headlines
22. 0:51I did not have sexual relations with
23. 0:55that woman
24. 0:56Bill Clinton eventually regained his
25. 0:58footing on the public stage there's a
26. 1:00lot of votes still in play here Lewinsky
27. 1:03meanwhile reveals she considered suicide
28. 1:09[Music]
29. 1:11what she's doing now is just taking back
30. 1:14her own identity he laura nanos is an
31. 1:17attorney and columnist who's written
32. 1:19about Lewinsky for the website law and
33. 1:21crime while President Clinton has
34. 1:23largely avoided discussing the affair
35. 1:25you didn't apologize to her I have not
36. 1:27talked to her nan-oh says the public
37. 1:29perception of Lewinsky is changing in
38. 1:32the me2 era Monica Lewinsky has recast
39. 1:34herself as someone who was done harm by
40. 1:39Clinton by his presidency by the press
41. 1:42by the public so to some degree she has
42. 1:45flipped that script but Bill Clinton is
43. 1:46still a very powerful man and as a
44. 1:48result she still does not have the full
45. 1:51ability to rid herself of everything
46. 1:55that went into vilifying her for decades
47. 1:57Tony Tecopa CBS News New York