Exchange of the Day

Bill Clinton was interviewed by Craig Melvin on NBC’s Today Show about whether he ever apologized to Monica Lewinsky:

MELVIN: “I asked if you’d ever apologized. And you said you had.”

CLINTON: “I have.”

MELVIN: “You’ve apologized to her?”

CLINTON: “I apologized to everybody in the world.”

MELVIN: “But you didn’t apologize to her?”

CLINTON: “I have not talked to her. I– I thought it—”

MELVIN: “Do you feel like you owe her an apology—”

CLINTON: “No, I do—I do not. I’ve never talked to her. But I did say, publicly, on more than one occasion, that I was sorry. That’s very different. The apology was public.”

Clinton is on a book tour promoting his new novel with James Patterson, The President Is Missing.