Lewinsky affair not an abuse of power : Hillary

Hillary Clinton has said her husband Bill’s affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky was not an abuse of power and he was right to not resign from the US presidency in the wake of the scandal.

The two-decades old episode has come under renewed scrutiny in the #MeToo era. Some, like New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, have said that Clinton should have stepped down after he was impeached by a Republican-controlled House in late 1998 for lying about the affair. But speaking on CBS News on Sunday, former presidential candidate and secretary of state Hillary Clinton said she disagreed. “Absolutely not,” she replied when asked whether her husband should have resigned.