 Seven Democratic current and former U.S. senators who had demanded Franken’s resignation in 2017 went on the record in 2019 to tell New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer they had been wrong to do so, though Gillibrand had not expressed any regrets for leading the demand for his resignation.In November 2017, amid the MeToo movement, Gillibrand became the first high-profile Democrat to say that Bill Clinton should have resigned when his affair with Monica Lewinsky was revealed.In 2018, Clinton expressed disagreement with Gillibrand's opinion.