Suzan suzanne, as young as we both are, we did work the lewinsky scandal back in the day. Whats our take on the essay . 16 years ago that we covered that and we saw her outside the watergate complex, the apartment complex. Run into her at a coffee shop occasionally. Gracious, kind, but clearly a difficult time for her. Shes speaking out now because at 40 years old she wants to move on with her life, give her life purpose as well as her past and show those who have experienced public humiliation like she did that you can survive. In her tell all vanity fair essay Monica Lewinsky says shes opening up about her scandalous past in an effort to move forward. I would give anything to go back and rewind the tape. Lewis ski writes about her affair with president clinton. Beyond the salacious details splashed across the headlines. It was an authentic connection with emotional intimacy, frequent visits, plans made, phone calls, and gifts explained. Now she examines the situation with new perspective. Lying back now, shake my head with disbelief and i wonder what was i, what were we thinking . Lewinsky has remained mostly reclusive, an effort to protect herself from the shame she felt when their affair went public. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, ms. Lewinsky. Reporter following president clint clintons first ve meant denial and subsequent. I did i had a relationship with her that was not appropriate, in fact, it was wrong. I felt like a piece of trash. I feet i felt dirty and i felt used. Larry lewinsieu w reporter lewinsky said it changed the entire trajectory of her life and remained unemployable, stuck in time, never getting married or having children. She writes, with every man i date, yes, i date, i go through some degree of 1998 whiplash. Lewinsky said she considered the consequences of telling her story on the clinton universe and felt compelled to speak out now before Hillary Clintons potential 2014 president ial bid, something that means more than her other than just the possibility of having a female president. When i hear of hillarys perspective candidacy i cannot help but fear the next wave of paparazzi, the next wave of where is she now stories. But should i put my life on hold for another eight to ten years . And she responds to Hillary Clinton calling her a narcissistic lonarcissist ic loony tune. She plans out her life on some part on the political calendar. Shes anticipating when is the next time she can be thrown into the spos light if hillary runs in the 2016 election and the books that will follow. But she spoke of Tyler Clemente, she wishes she could have talked to him and said even in your darkest moments of humiliation, your life can go on. Kate . Thanks so much. Its an interesting read and honest essay. A lot to discuss throughout the morning about this. Theres another ghost of Hillary Clintons past back to haunt her today. They are expected to vote on a republican proposal to open a new investigation into the 2012 attack in benghazi, libya. That attack left four americans including a u. S. Ambassador dead. Democrats are calling this a partisan witch hunt. Hillary clinton is also finally weighing in in. Cnns Brianna Keilar is in washington weighing in with more. It appears that Hillary Clinton feels that assessment is right on. Heres what she said yesterday evening at a Clinton Foundation event. Despite all of the hearings, all of the information thats been provided, some choose not to be satisfied and choose to continue to move forward. Thats their choice. And i do not believe there is any reason for it to continue in this way. Now, adding to democratic claims that this hearing is motivated by politics, Senate Republicans have been trying to fund raise off of it. You really cant escape the president ial politics of this. Hillary clinton, as the current frontrunner in the polls for the democratic nomination, well, when it comes to her time at the state department, voters really feel this is a positive. So republicans have been looking at that trying to take a positive and turn it into a negative. Theyve said that, yes, she travelled a lot as secretary of state but theyre really saying she didnt accomplish a whole lot. So as Hillary Clintons allies are out there both behind the scenes and very publicly trying to back her up laying out her accomplishments, theyre doing that, chris, ahead of the fact that were still waiting for her word on this. Her book comes out next month. Its about her time at the state department. So mark your calendars for that, june 10th. Assumption is that will be a very careful explanation in the book and they express a different set of needs in the situation. So well follow it through. Its certainly not done. Brianna, thank you very much. The latest in ukraine. Putin claims hes pulling back troops from the ukrainian border. He also says he is asking separatists to delay a vote for parts of Eastern Ukraine to succeed. But the u. S. And nato arent buying it. Just this morning nato secretary general says again there are no signs that russia is moving its troops. Senior International CorrespondentMatthew Chance has the latest from moss co. Matthew . Chris, thank you. The doubts cast on these claims of the russian president has fueled the war of words between the nato chief and the russian for written ministry on their twitter feed. Anyone who cant see the troop movements must be blind. There are significant statements as well made by Vladimir Putin. Hes not a guy thats known for his flipflopping. But he has played it seem some very significant uturns over the course of the past 24 hours when it comes to ukraine, saying its the right step forward for president ial elections to take place on the 25th of may, a few days earlier he said it was absurd given the security situation on the ground. Calling on the prorussian separatist groups in the east and south of the country to postpone their plan, independence referendums, adding fuel to the fire in that on going conflict. Calling on them to postpone it to a later date. Its not clear what the action will be on the ground. Not clear at all as we march closer to that may 25th election that is supposed to be happening. Thank you so much. We need to talk to you about a horrible turn in the nigeria battle against the terrorist Group Boko Haram. It left 300 people dead. Thats a new number coming out of how many people are killed in is a village used as troops as a base in the search for those hundreds of abducted schoolgi schoolgirls. This attack by the militant group comes amid growing outrage following the kidnappings. First Lady Michelle obama is joining the cause holding a sign that reads simply bringbackourgirls. And now nigeria is accepting outside help in the search. Lets start our coverage on this w. Live in nigeria. Vlad, what do we know . Reporter attack on a market bordering the town not far where they kidnapped more than 276 girls three weeks ago. This is a classic boko haram technique. They came in armor ed vehicles. This is what people need to understand about how vicious this terrorist organization is. And just the first three months of this year i want people to sort of absorb this number. 1500 people have been killed in the first three months of this year in boko haram related violence in the northeastern part of the country. And right now it appears that the government as the world is taking note is unable to stop these attacks because they happen with such regularity and with such impunity that many are wondering what exactly the Nigerian Government will be able to do to so this rein of terror. Kate . Ill take it, vlad, thank you. Watching the situation very carefully. We understand that the United States is among several countries now sending a team of experts to ney jenigeria to hel find those girls. Barbara starr, we do know there are existing channels of communication. But about this new afinformatio about a team going there . Military, intelligence, and Law Enforcement experts are going to nigeria to try to offer help. Dont look for any u. S. Military operations. No u. S. Commando raids here. But they will offer help with intelligence, information, how to plan a hostage rescue mission, that sort of thing if nigerians will have to accept the help in each and every instance. You know, theres been some a talk on capitol hill, why arent you a special forces going in . The intelligence is so spotty here they dont know where the girls are, they dont know who is holding them. If they are dispursed, if they have gone across borders or have been taken across borders. There could be multiple targets. Very difficult intelligence problem. Almost impossible at this point to figure out how to get them back, so theyre going to try to go to nigeria and offer the help that they can. Michaela . Thats the key, just because its hard doesnt mean they cant do something. Lets hope they are successful. Lets look at more of your headlines. Breaking overnight, a new arrest in the south korean ferry disaster. The ceo of that company that operated the sunken ferry has now been arrested and charged. Cnns Paula Hancocks is following developments live in hong kong for us. Paula . Michaela, he is now behind bars. He has been charged by causing death by negligence. We know that he spoke to reporters a little earlier this thursday and he basically made a public apology saying to the relatives of the victims of the disaster, i am sorry i have committed a crime that can only be paid back with my life. That is little consolation of those who lost their loved ones. Many losing their children in this disaster. 35 people are still missing, still in the frigid waters of the yellow sea. That desperate diving operation to try and retrieve all the bodies is still on going. Theyre expected to finish the first stage of this search by saturday. Investigators have confirmed to cnn this ferry was overloaded. There was more than double the am of cargo on this ferry and this is the fault of this company which is why the head of the company has been or rered. According to the investigators this is not an isolated event. Since march of last year more than 50 of the ships that they sent back and forth on this route were overloaded. So certainly that is causing even more anger in a country that is already shocked and also making Many South Koreans believe this company put profit before safety. Michae michaela . Never acceptable, when so many lives are lost, mostly children. The state department is shutting its embassy in yemen down to the public. Officials telling cnn that theres credible information about a threat against western interests there. Just last year that embassy and several others in the region were shut down because of similar security concerns. So far, no american personnel have been evacuated. Democrats claim Election Year politics are behind a house slot to hold former irs official lois lerner in contempt of congress. Cited lerner for refusing to answer questions about targeting of conservative groupses that sought tax exempt status. The Justice Department will decide whether to bring criminal contempt charges against lernor. A tornado tore through parts of northeast colorado wednesday. Powerful storm system brought several twisters to the region. Want to get over to Indra Petersons for the latest. Incredible to see what went on there in colorado. Its one thing to hear they had severe weather. Its another thing to look at that video. Hail. Quarter size hail. There was so much of it. Almost like it was snow out there. Look at people trying to drive on the highways with all of this hail still on the ground. This is the same storm system were going to be looking at today. Very easy to see. Same storm system that brought about four or five tornado rr reports. 51 million of you today, you have slight risk for severe weather. I really want you to focus out towards minnesota and iowa. Heightened risk for severe weather. That is the moderate risk for today. What are we looking at . Same system. Bringing showers even in the northeast this morning. Right around that warm front. Way behind it when you have the low itself in the cold front, this is what its going to have to watch. Notice the storms really start to pop up towards the afternoon and evening hours tonight. Keep that in mind if you have traveling plans. Across the entire middle section of the country were going to talk about problems. Not just today, even in through tomorrow. Eastern half of the country, still talking about showers as we go through the entire weekend. It takes its time to kick out here. Temperatures will rebound. Warm air spreads farther to the east and starts to feel a little bit better where temperatures start to climb up for the weekend. But unfortunately a middle of the country another tough day. Especially if you have travel plans. Tough out there as well. Thanks, indra. Thank you for that. Lets take a break. Coming up on new day, after a decade of silence, Monica Lewinsky has a lot to say in a new piece out today. Hillary clinton wont like a lot of it. 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The one thing that i felt overwhelmingly was, wow, how empathetic it really does very honest. Its so honest, its so sincere. You just want to let this woman who is now 40 years old take back her life and take back her narrative and stop living in the shad doesz and stop being a victim of something that happened to her, bad choices she made when she was 21, 24. Which of us didnt make bad choices when we were 24 . Coming out coming out now, 16 years later, in a glassy vanivanity fair, can she do t amy . Do you think that accomplishes what Monica Lewinsky wants, to put her past behind her . Yeah, obviously not coming out wasnt helping her. Shes a lyric in a beyonce song. Good point. I like the way she positioned herself as a poster girl of internet shaming. She was the first face of internet shaming. So for her to take a role and sort of that cause, i think makes sense. She positioned it well. To consider that she did this this all happened to her in 1998, long before the internet could have made a scandal. The internet she was the first internet scandal, this is before twitter and youtube and facebook. And she still had the notoriety of someone who had been victimized by those mediums. Imagine, the Tyler Clemente story that Tyler Clemente is what pulled the heart strings of her mother and helped her realize she can speak positively for victims of bullying, its remarkable. I think it is a must read. I rarely say that, especially about political scandal. But i think that she is going to come across so differently than people think she is. Before the piece came out you can see it, people want to call her dumb and what sh se doing, she screwed up with the president. All of these things that i believe that would never exist if it happened today. Heaven, if a president were caught with an intern today who would blame tin tern . No one. If i sat on this set and said i want to know who this lewinsky is and how did she dupe the president , you would stone me. I think she says interesting things about social media. Heres my provocative point for you guys, i think she makes a decent case for women gathering around hillary as the obvious choice for them, may want to rethink it based on how she characterizes her role in her husbands affair and how she chooses to see the woman involved. She raises the hypocrisy of the women in the late 90s. My impulse to blame the woman whether its herself or me, is deeply troubling. Women need to think about that. She calls out the hypocrisy if this is george w. Bush, theres no way women would have defended him. Do we have that one quote . Ill read it if weve got it. She said this, Hillary Clinton wanted it on the record that she was lashing out at her husbands mistress. She may have faulted her husband for being inappropriate but i find her impulse to blame the woman, not only me but herself troubling. Exactly to the point. Thats an important issue for Hillary Clinton. Shes speaking every day. Yesterday y