Typically when a politician doesn’t give the socially acceptable answer on a hot button issue such as the #MeToo movement, the media’s rage for the faux pas spurs headlines and conversations that last for weeks on cable news and print. That is, unless it’s a beloved Democrat politician. For political royalty such as the Clintons, the media always saves room for yet another chance to fix whatever politically incorrect slip up they made.

Radically anti-Trump talk show host Stephen Colbert gave former President Bill Clinton just that chance on his Late Show June 5, after the former president received backlash for not being sympathetic to questions from an NBC reporter about his role in the #MeToo movement, earlier this week.

Clinton appeared on the CBS show late Tuesday evening with author James Patterson, promoting their new fictional book entitled, The President is Missing. Host Stephen Colbert immediately asked about the backlash Clinton received for his “tone-deaf” response to NBC’s Craig Melvin on the Today show Monday, when he became angry when asked if he ever apologized to Monica Lewinsky, and how he would have responded differently to the allegations of sexual assault against him, if he was president today.

But the liberal host started out by schmoozing Clinton and giving him the chance to fix his mistake.

“I noticed you didn't enjoy the entire interview. I want you to enjoy this one,” he said sympathetically. “My question is, would you like a do-over on that answer? Do you-- do you understand why some people thought that was a tone-deaf response?” Colbert offered.

As Clinton backpedaled and apologized for his hostile reaction the questions in the original interview, Colbert helped him along, dismissing Melvin’s assertion that Clinton hadn’t apologized already to Lewinsky. “Well, you said in the interview you did apologize. You said you apologized in the interview,” he came to Clinton’s aid.

Later on, Colbert did press Clinton more harshly.

“It seemed tone deaf to me because you seemed offended to be asked about this thing when, in all due respect, sir, your behavior was the most famous example of a power man sexually misbehaving in the workplace of my lifetime,” he pointed out, adding that Clinton shouldn’t be “surprised” for being asked the question.

Again, Clinton claimed that the NBC reporter had it wrong, that he had apologized already and been asked these questions before in the context of the #MeToo movement, and that was why he was irritated. Colbert offered no further pushback to Clinton’s claims of being taken out of context.

Read the full transcript below: