Abedin defended her decision not to name the senator, saying this is her story, not his.
Longtime aide and adviser to Hillary Clinton tells"The View" why she's telling her own story in her new book"Both/And" and looks back on her relationship with Anthony Weiner., accustomed to spending her life behind the scenes, told ABC's"The View" on Monday that she's taken control of her story with the release of her new memoir,"Both/And."
Among reported details in her new memoir, Abedin recalls an incident from her twenties -- she's now 45 -- in which she says, following a Washington dinner that she writes was attended by"a few senators and their aides," one senator invited her up to his apartment for coffee, asked her to get comfortable on the couch, and then kissed her without her consent -- describing it not as a"sexual assault" as some headlines have stated, but as an"uncomfortable situation.
Abedin first entered"Hillaryland," as she called it, when she started as a White House intern in 1996 before following the former Democratic nominee for president first back to the Senate and then to the State Department. She served as a top adviser to Clinton on both of herbut not without some costs to her own personal life and mental health, she says.
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