Gabriel Sherman has an interesting interview with Doug Band — Bill Clinton’s advisor of nearly two decades — who spoke for the first time about what led to his bitter falling out with the former president.

Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, told an attorney in newly-unsealed documents that Bill Clinton was a guest during a trip to Epstein’s private isle in the U.S. Virgin Islands and that Epstein joked to her about Clinton being in his pocket, the Daily Beast reports.

Said Giuffre: “You know, I remember asking Jeffrey what’s Bill Clinton doing here.”

Epstein laughed off her question and said, “Well, he owes me a favor.”

The Hollywood Reporter speaks to Hillary Clinton:

“We wouldn’t have been able to stop the pandemic at our borders the way that Trump claimed in the beginning, but we sure could have done a better job saving lives, modeling better, more responsible behavior. I don’t think we necessarily should have had as deep an economic assault on livelihoods and jobs as we have. So I know I would have done a better job.”

Linda Tripp, whose taped conversations with Monica Lewinsky nearly brought down the Clinton presidency, died today from pancreatic cancer, the Daily Mail reports.

Lewinsky tweeted a short time ago: “No matter the past, upon hearing that Linda Tripp is very seriously ill, I hope for her recovery. I can’t imagine how difficult this is for her family.”

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s (D-HI) attorney told the New York Post that Hillary Clinton has now twice snubbed a process server attempting to deliver court papers for the congresswoman’s defamation lawsuit.

“I feel terrible about the fact that Monica Lewinsky’s life was defined by it, unfairly I think. Over the years I watched her trying to get a normal life back again. But you gotta decide how to define normal.”

— Bill Clinton, discussing the scandal that caused him to be impeached in the forthcoming documentary Hillary.

The New York Post and The Sun have published new photos of Bill Clinton on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet, along with Ghislaine Maxwell, the woman accused of working as Epstein’s madam.

Chelsea Clinton has made $9 million in compensation since 2011 for serving on the board of an Internet investment company, according to Barrons.

Joe Biden denounced President Trump’s comparison of the ongoing impeachment inquiry to a “lynching,” but in a 1998 interview, the then-senator from Delaware also invoked the term in reference to impeachment, calling it a “partisan lynching,” CNN reports.

Washington Post: “A multiyear State Department probe of emails that were sent to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s private computer server concluded there was no systemic or deliberate mishandling of classified information by department employees, according to a report submitted to Congress this month.”

“The report appears to represent a final and anticlimactic chapter in a controversy that overshadowed the 2016 presidential campaign and exposed Clinton to fierce criticism that she later cited as a major factor in her loss to President Trump.”

“The Trump administration is investigating the email records of dozens of current and former senior State Department officials who sent messages to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email, reviving a politically toxic matter that overshadowed the 2016 election,” the Washington Post reports.

“As many as 130 officials have been contacted in recent weeks by State Department investigators — a list that includes senior officials who reported directly to Clinton as well as others in lower-level jobs whose emails were at some point relayed to her inbox… Those targeted were notified that emails they sent years ago have been retroactively classified and now constitute potential security violations.”

“The last time Congress tried to impeach a president, the White House chief of staff had one rule: No one who wasn’t working directly on impeachment, including the president himself, was ever allowed to talk about it,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Clinton’s aides had studied Watergate, and their takeaway was that the public believed President Richard M. Nixon was being buried by the scandal, in part, because he talked about it endlessly. So their approach was that the only way to survive and to keep his job approval rating up was to demonstrate that the White House was still working, and that Mr. Clinton was still doing the job he was elected to do for the people.”

“But the approach is unlikely to succeed with President Trump, someone less concerned with policy than he is with how things play in distinct, daily news cycles. He heads into what appears to be a rapidly unfurling impeachment inquiry unprepared temperamentally, and with a depleted staff, many of whom are shrugging off the seriousness of what the president faces.”

“Hillary Clinton spent an hour yesterday reading her emails at my exhibition of all 62,000 pages of them in Venice. She is pictured here at a replica of the Oval Office Resolute Desk, stacked with her emails.”