What is your job now? I don’t have one, really. I’ve got a consulting company with a handful of clients — a couple of nonprofits, a universe of businesses and executives whose instincts are good. Sometimes they just want to kibitz.

During the week of the Democratic National Convention, you appeared on both Stephen Colbert’s and Bill Maher’s shows. What’s your current philosophy on media exposure? I’m more experiential. When you do media as an elected official or as a candidate, you have a very clear message that you’re trying to impart and an idea of who you’re talking to. Now I don’t have all that. It’s more just to say what I think.

You’re an unusual public figure in that you are known as a former member of Congress and candidate for mayor — and now you’re a guy who had an embarrassing sex scandal featured in a recent documentary. Do people approach you differently? The interactions I have with people have gotten clouded lately because of the movie. The movie seems very much to be a Rorschach test of what people thought about the thing itself. Some people approach me, and they’re like, “Oh, you got a raw deal.” Some people approach me saying, “Oh, man, I wish you hadn’t messed up.” Some people approach me and say, “Man, you are such an idiot.”

Have you or your wife, Huma Abedin, seen it? No.

Do you regret giving access to the filmmakers? Obviously, when I agreed to do the movie, I anticipated a different outcome.