Washington Free Beacon reporter Alana Goodman appeared on Fox and Friends Tuesday to discuss her article, "The Hillary Papers," which explores documents from a Clinton friend that shed new light on the former First Lady's time in the White House.
Among the revelations included Clinton's urging her husband, President Bill Clinton, to reject his preferred 1994 candidate for the Supreme Court because of political considerations, a cavalier attitude toward a U.S. congressman accused of sexual harassment, and her feelings about Monica Lewinsky, the young intern with whom Clinton had an affair.
Also, internal polling revealed voters could view the ambitious Hillary Clinton, widely viewed as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in 2016, as "ruthless." Also, she and her husband were suspicious of the press and outside "adversaries" as being the driving cause of their scandal-plagued two terms.
"I think this is a recurrent theme that you see, at least when I was going through the archives, this idea of these outside adversaries against the Clintons, and the press was a big part of that," Goodman said. "The Clintons really saw all of the scandals of the White House years and even to the Arkansas years as kind of these media-manufactured -- almost like an opposition thing."
Host Elisabeth Hasselbeck asked Goodman for her take on what some of this new information could mean for Clinton's much-discussed political future.
"One of the benefits of having such a long career in Washington is that she can point to that as experience, and that's a benefit for her if she runs," she said. "But the downside obviously is that the Clinton White House years, there were a lot of scandals there, and she's going to have to figure out a way to answer for those or to discuss them if she does decide to run in 2016."