‘This is about power’: the truth behind Impeachment: American Crime Story

A new series relives the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky and here, those involved remember and reflect on a national scandal

Bob Shrum had known Bill Clinton since their student days at Georgetown University in Washington. Working as a political consultant, he was at the White House to advise on the US president's State of the Union address when it was rocked by one of the scandals of the century.

I was walking up the driveway and camera crews were trying to chase me to get me to comment on it," Shrum recalls of the first reports that Clinton had an affair with Monica Lewinsky, a 22-year-old intern. The president, when we all assembled in the cabinet room, was very down and just said, well, we'll reconvene tomorrow.