We didn't know how this political world worked. People often ask me, how did you end up with a malpractice attorney as your lawyer?

It was because my dad was a doctor and we didn't know whom we could trust.

You know, this was Republicans and Democrats and neither wanted me. It was a terrifying time.

I'm Joanna Coles. This is the Daily Beast podcast. Today we're taking a slight break from

full-on politics. We're kind of politics adjacent because we're talking to Monica Lewinsky,

who you will remember burst onto our global consciousness in 1998 after her relationship with

President Clinton was revealed to the world. She's now become an

executive producer. She told her own story, and if you haven't watched it, impeachment is such a good

television series. She made it with Ryan Murphy, and it's really, it really shines a light on

the horrors that she went through as a young 24-year-old managing the global media.

But she's now produced a new story, the twisted tale of Amanda Knox with Amanda Knox,

who you will probably remember is the American college student who got falsely accused and wrongly

imprisoned for murdering her college roommate.

I found the story fascinating.

It's on Hulu.

It launches this week.

And I couldn't wait to talk to Monica about what it was like when she and Amanda Knox

met and shared their frankly incredible and almost unique stories of being young,

vulnerable women at the center

of a global media firestorm where it felt like they were animals being feasted on by the

media. So let's get into it. Monica Lewinsky, I feel like I just saw you. We were together last night at the screening

for the twisted tale of Amanda Knox, and I had the enormous fun of moderating a panel with

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