Colbert to Bill Clinton: You Seemed ‘Offended’ by #MeToo Questions and You’re a ‘Famous Example’ of Misbehavior

Stephen Colbert further pressed former President Bill Clinton about his Today Show appearance and his remarks about Monica Lewinsky and the #MeToo movement.

After giving the former president a “do-over,” Colbert didn’t exactly let Clinton off the hook.

“If I could, I would think some of the reason why people saw that interview and thought that it was tone deaf or whatever word they wanted to use  is that you seemed surprised that that question would come up, that somehow that this had all been adjudicated in the past and there’s no reason to talk about it again,” Colbert told Clinton. “Where it seems like the spirit of the Me Too movement is that it doesn’t matter how long ago it happened. Examples of men who were not held accountable for their behavior, especially men in power with younger women or people who worked for them, is worthy of being readjudicated or adjudicated for the first time, no matter how long ago it happened.”

The audience applauded in agreement.

“It seemed tone deaf to me because you seemed offended to be asked about this thing when, in all due respect, sir, your behavior was the most famous example of a powerful man sexually misbehaving in the workplace of my lifetime. And so it doesn’t seem surprising that the question was asked,” Colbert continued.

Clinton pushed back, insisting that such questions have been asked and that he “didn’t mind at all,” but he didn’t like this specific interview because it pushed an assertion that he “never apologized” for what happened during the scandal.

“People need to know I apologized. I meant it then. I mean it now. I’ve lived with the consequences. And I still support Me Too,” Clinton said. “And I think we all need to keep trying to be doing better. And I– I would never dispute that.”

Watch the clip above, via CBS.