Former President Bill Clinton said it was a “grievous” mistake for former Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., to resign last year amid mounting sexual misconduct allegations, while comparing that situation to his affair with Monica Lewinsky two decades ago.

“I think that, I will be honest, the Franken case for me, was a difficult case, a hard case. There may be things I don’t know. But I, maybe I’m just an old-fashioned person, but it seemed to me that there were 29 women on ‘Saturday Night Live’ that put out a statement for him, and that the first and most fantastic story was called, I believe, into question,” Clinton said in an interview conducted last week.