Clinton Tells Trevor Noah What He’s Learned From #MeToo: I Can’t React to ‘Raw Pain’ of Reliving Something From 20 Years Ago

Former President Bill Clinton was asked yet again about his handling of the #MeToo movement while promoting his best-selling book.

Before wrapping up his interview with Clinton and co-author James Patterson, Trevor Noah addressed the former president’s poor handling of the questions that were asked to him about the #MeToo movement, which Clinton admitted wasn’t his “finest hour.”

“Over the weeks I’ve watched your interviews and I’ve read what you said on how these conversations have shaped your mind and your understanding of the Me Too movement,” Noah told Clinton. “Honest question: Has it been hard for you to reprogram your brain? Has is been difficult for to you go, ‘I have to relearn something that is happening now as to how I have always seen the world?'”

“No, it means I need not to react to the raw pain of having to relive something that happened 20 years ago,” Clinton responded. “And I need to be aware that, unfortunately, there are still millions of people every day who face objectification, disrespect, discrimination, and sometimes outright abuse in the workplace, on the street, and at home. And now we’re all alive to it in ways we weren’t before. And we’re all trying to work our way through– not all of us, but most of us are– trying to work our way through how we can use this moment to build a better country in person after person after person’s lives. And that should be the number one priority of everybody. That’s what we should be– how we should think about this #metoo moment. We can’t waste it. We’ve got to do better.”

Watch the clip above, via Comedy Central.

Trevor Noah to Bill Clinton: ‘Has It Been Hard For You to Reprogram Your Brain’ During the #MeToo?

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