Woodward--understandably flustered by this unenviable task--takes 56 seconds to say, in effect, that l'affaire Lewinsky is but one episode in a larger scandal.
Woodward dismissed the Lewinsky affair as a non-issue.
mnli hypothesis: Woodward dismissed the Lewinsky affair as a non-issue. premise: Woodward--understandably flustered by this unenviable task--takes 56 seconds to say, in effect, that l'affaire Lewinsky is but one episode in a larger scandal.