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Sanders Dodges Question on Whether Bill Clinton Should Have Resigned Over Lewinsky Affair

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“I don’t think that at this point our goal is to look back 20 years…”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday declined to re-examine how the country, and Washington specifically, handled past allegations against former President Bill Clinton, refusing to join Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) who recently said he should have resigned.
On “State of the Union,” Jake Tapper asked Sanders if he agreed with Gillibrand, who said last week that Clinton should have resigned after it came out that he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a White House intern.
Sanders pivoted from answering the question on Clinton’s actions, instead making a broader point about the current “real crisis” of sexual harassment in the U. S.
“I don’t think that at this moment our goal is to look back 20 years or 30 years,” Sanders said.
“Our goal is to go forward and our goal is to understand that we have a real crisis in this country today within the political world, within the corporate world, within the media world where women are being harassed every single day.”
“And our job is to change that culture,” Sanders added.
Sanders balked at joining his progressive colleague Gillibrand, who is close with the Clintons and revealed last week that she believes the “appropriate response” during the Monica Lewinsky scandal would’ve been for the president to have resigned.
Tapper also briefly pressed the Vermont senator about the allegations against Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), and when asked if he thought Franken should resign amid these allegations, Sanders said he will leave that to the comedian-turned-senator and the people of Minnesota.
“My understanding is that Al is a very popular senator. People in Minnesota think that he is doing a good job and his political future will rest with the people of Minnesota.”
Watch Sanders’s comments below, via CNN.

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