nancy o'dell, billy bush, in the -- billy bush, and the soap opera actress never got back to me. it is a fastening contrast between washington publicists and hollywood publicists. you can not get a senator on the phone right away but you can get a senator's spokesman on the phone right away. in hollywood, it is a grievous loss of face if the publicist speaks to you when you call. you have to leave a message and they call back three days from now to establish they have better things to do. bill: they are busy. david: right. i call, dear god, do you have any idea what is going to happen to you, and they didn't call until days later. nbc did not call back on the record. that they had a chance to tell us they would sue, and they didn't. billy bush didn't call back. and trump, we send in just a transcript, not the full videotape. they said, "it doesn't sound like mr. trump. can you send us the videotape?" after talking to the editors, we sent them the videotape and we told them, we will push it back until 4:00, but at 4:00, we will publish. the lawyers were fine with publishing withou

bill: billy bush was your story. david: we were not expecting it. it is not something we knew existed before it showed up. there were rumors of a tape from "the apprentice," this low-light reel of bad behavior from "the apprentice." we searched for and searched for it. i think a lot of other people did and never found it. this tape we did not know existed until we had it. we got it at 11:00 in the morning on a friday, it is about a five minute video. in the beginning you just see andbus, and you are trump billy bush, but you don't see their faces. and after about two minutes of them talking, they get off and they meet this soap opera actress who has come to be their tour guide, and the next two minutes is a very boring tour of the backlot -- here's the cafeteria -- trump was appearing on a cameo on "days of our lives" that day. we can see it and you can hear the audio -- all the bad stuff happens when you can't see their mouths moving, you just hear them. we could take this video -- we need to subtitle it, we need to cut it down to only the interest

billy bush didn't call back. we send in just a transcript, not the full videotape. they said, "it doesn't solid mr. trump. can you send us the videotape?" we send them the videotape, and we said we would push it back until 4:00 but after 4:00 we will publish. the lawyers were fine with publishing without trump's commented this is as close as you got to stop the presses moment in the digital era. the clock strikes 4:00. one of the editors walks back to the desk to hit the button to publish the story, and trump's people calls -- she is in transit, 40 yards or whatever -- she says, hold on, we have a statement. the statement arrived and i was surprised because their strategy had been deny, attacks, don't respond. they said basically, yes, it is him, locker room talk, 10 years ago, bill clinton said something worse, but yes, it is him. i else stop and we added that into the story and published it at 4:02. we didn't worry that nbc was going to beat us on the story. they had it in the archives. we learned later that they had it for a week. we beat by four minutes. we get

billy bush and the soap opera actress never got back to us. washington, if you what to talk to -- you can't get a senator on the phone right away, but you can get the senator's spokesman on the phone right away. and hollywood, it is a grievous loss of face if the publicist speaks to you when you call. a have to establish they have better things to do. bill: they are busy. david: and i said, my god, do you have any idea what is going to happen to you. and they never called back. back andh didn't call trump's people got back to us originally and said a sent them originally the transcript, not the videotape, they said it doesn't sound like mr. trump, so you can send the videotape. so, i sent the videotape. i said, we will push it back to 4:00, but then we are going to publish. at 4:00, this is the closest where one to get to a stop the presses moment. there is no button that you hit or anything, but the truck -- the clock struck for clock. trump's people called as she is in transit. and they say, hold on, we are going to send a statement weird th

have two granddaughters, nothing donald trump can say whatever apologize, remarking in private to billy bush where they realize they would be and that is republicans. hillary clinton, she sold off her position as secretary of state, national assets, made $100 million for herself and her husband, she lied to the fbi, she lied to the american people. she put our highest level secrets on a private server, violated her oath, violated the espionage act, opened our secrets to our enemies china and north korea, iran, the russians, horrific, she lied about benghazi, she lied to the mother of a fallen hero of benghazi, not one, not one democrat elected official said this is a bridge too far. i can't support this candidate. not one. brought this up in discussing the communist party because that is where the communist party was effective in political warfare. everybody in lockstep. that is the way the left behaves today. political correctness is like a zipper with a lock over everybody's lips, you just don't say things, you don't say to a woman, you are a liar and a crook. a former first lady, former s

in the beginning, you see the bus and hear him and billy bush but you don't see them. then after two minutes of talking, they get off, meet the actress who has come to be their tour guide. the next two minutes is very boring. trump was appearing on a cameo on "days of our lives" that day. we see it, and you can hear the audio, all the bad stuff happens but you can't see their mouths moving. the question was, ok, the video team says to me, we can take this video, we need to subtitle it, cut it down to the interesting part, and talk to our lawyers before we can publish it. that's my timeline. my story is ready by 3:30. -- it wasn't call that hard because it was just a transcript, but i had to call billy bush, i had to call nbc, because it's an nbc show, they might have a claim, when they say it was a hoax when it wasn't -- the voices were dubbed in. then i called trump, he would say it was a hoax. then to call the actress, billy bush's cohost from "access hollywood," there's a story at the beginning where he says he took a woman furniture shopping. that was nancy o'dell.

the first two minutes were trump and billy bush were on the bus. you can hear them but you can't see them. that was the part that we cared about. we had a couple of questions right off the bat. at 11:00 a.m. we get it. our video people tell me, look we're gonna cut this and make it into a video. we're going to subtitle it so you tell what they're saying. we need til 3:30. 3:30 in the afternoon. that's the soonest we could have it done. so that's the time frame we had. so we had to call nbc to see if they were gonna sue us because it was their video. or if they were gonna say it was a hoax. and then we went to trump to see is he gonna say it's a hoax because as i said you can hear them you can't see them. you can't see trump's mouth moving so will they say oh that's not really him. we sent the trump people first a transcript of the offending part of the video and the said well it doesn't sound like mr. trump. can you send us the full video. there was some debate among the editors and they decided yes send them the video. that was a little after 3:30

we don't support what he said in the billy bush thing but he's our nominee. meadows and mo brooks and these guys in the freedom caucus, when ryan and company wanted to cut and run on candidate drum, they stood by his side. i think it's really, really unhelpful to donald trump's ultimate agenda to slam the very people who are going to be propping up his border wall, all the things he wants to do on immigration, on trade. i don't know where he thinks he's going to get his friends on those issues unless he completely flips to become more of a democrat. >> shannon: they keep talking about reaching across the aisle. >> that's good as long as it's a populist, conservative agenda because that's when he ran on and won on. >> democratic chairman tom perez today had zero interest in cooperating. >> he wins nothing by criticizing the freedom caucus. >> won't get democrats to side with him. they got two today. they won't cooperate with him on a deal that pares taxes with infrastructure. if donald trump is going to be looking for friends, it's going to be people on the fr

the only person harmed was billy bush, he lost his job.lly people thought it had to have been a rogue staffer when in fact, it was people in the nbc news division. the man by the way running the w today show at the time, just last month was promoted to heading up nbc news in its entirety. what transpired some help. there is a desperation to in fact -- if this was personal, they had an interest in influencing the election. when you get desperate and it suddenly news is not the issue or a genuine critique it, you i will make mistakes and won't know where to stop and your judgment is clouded and that is what is this entire framework. >> tucker: they put their political aims above their jobs. it was a real story, real tape. you can debate whether trump sew he was on camera but it was a real thing. they didn't run it on their own network, they gave it to "the washington post" because they wanted the outcome to be the same but they didn't want to be tied to what was clearly a partisan act. >> there was some debate evenhe then, california lost --

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the pussy grabbing tape, billy bush, he didn't even say much. he was just like, yeah, yeah." now he's banished from society. trump was like pussy grabbing, billy was like, "what..." now he's living on an ice flow fighting polar bear for fish. donald trump is the bus. so, paul ryan, i hope you've got good health care. ( laughter ) because that bus is coming. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ nature made it delicious. we made it a snack. chobani flip. ♪ ♪ heigh ho ♪ heigh ho ♪ heigh ho heigh ho it's off to work we go here's to all of you early risers, what's up man? go-getters, and should-be sleepers. from all of us at delta, because the ones who truly change the world, are the ones who can't wait to get out in it. because the ones who truly change the world, where plans start at onlycricket $30/month. and more 4g lte coverage than t-mobile or sprint. plus, when you switch now you can get a brand new smartphone for free. cricket wireless. something to smile about. >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show." it's time to check in on news from the tech world with ron

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. >> oh, wait, those are from the bush -- billy bush administration.what i think is going on. because this is now going past nuts and into tin foil hat territory. here's what i liken this too. president obama is the ex-boyfriend a lot of people in the family loved. he was nice, polite. after dinner, he helped clear the plates. he's the guy the family wishes their daughter had married. but she didn't. she broke up with him and married her boss who owns an equipment rental company, but he's a jerk. and the husband is now sick and tired of hearing about how much everyone loved the old boyfriend. so he sees a tiny little nugget of something to grab on to and he runs with it. what he doesn't realize, it's making the whole family think, oh, no, we might have a lunatic in our midst. that's donald trump right now. does that make any sense? [ cheers and applause ] does that make sense to you? >> perfect sense. >> jimmy: it does? >> yes. >> jimmy: doesn't make sense to me, but i came up with it. we have a good show tonight, from beauty and the beast, emma watson

. >> he was good friends with billy bush and several other young ladies in hollywood model models. >>d you were left off the second season of a show because you were too right-leaning. what shall? >> i can't say that right now. sorry. i can't talk about that. >> still looking for that third season, i think. >> "scandal." >> andy: i forgot you are on season one of "scandal." >> i was the lawyer. >> shonda rimes wrote the part for him. >> it was a big deal. let me take this off, it's going to get serious. >> i want to see your hair. >> he has great hair and he's hiding it under that hat. andy, do you want to fact-check that all? okay, still there. [laughter] >> andy: high school team apologize for wearing red, white, and blue against the school with a lot of wreckage he families. tom, you said refugees are now part of america. i think it's kind of an insult to them to think that wearing america's colors is offensive to them. >> tom: exactly. >> andy: they chose to come here. i don't think they complained. >> it's implying that they are not from here. >> andy: why can it just be that the

was speaking to house republicans just days after trump's vulgar comments to "access hollywood's" billy bush was made public. the audio was released by breitbart, the media outlet formerly headed by steve bannon. >> his comments are not keeping with our party's principles and values. there's two things i want to make very clear. i'm not going to defend donald trump. not now, not in the future. as you probably heard, i disinvited him from my first congressional district gop event this weekend. i thing i do every year. and i'm not going to be campaigning with him over the next 30 days. you know i have real concerns of the nominee. i hope you appreciate that i'm doing what i think is best for you, the members, not what's best for me. >> the release of the audio comes as deserters are hammering ryan on his republican health care overhaul. cnn reported on the speaker's comments about mr. trump last october. this is the first time the public is hearing that audio. >>> for days, white house officials ducked questions about explosive claim from president trump. coming up, a new spin on it. plus, we'

. >> again, that was back in october after the billy bush tape. we reported on it when it happened.> the breitbarts don't like paul ryan. they think he is too mushy. i think it is a stab at paul ryan when they view him as vulnerable. >> is it breitbart or is there more to it? is this potentially linked to someone in the white house? >> there are a lot of currents and cross currents in there. are there internal enemies? >> why don't they see paul ryan as an ally? >> you are right. >> ellis, nice to see you. are you careful? did you wear snow boots? >> i have grown up shoes on today. >> not a good play in the snow. >> nothing but class. thanks, ellis. >>> marissa mayer is would to lose her job as ceo, but she has a nice consolation prize. >>> and tens of millions getting ready to dig out of a major winter storm barrelling through the northeast. we will have the latest forecast next. z2a1fz zx9z y2a1fy yx9y nobody does unlimited like t-mobile. while the other guys gouge for unlimited data... t-mobile one save you hundreds a year. right now get two lines of data for $100 dollars. with t

nothing that donald trump could say that could ever apologize for a remark he made in private to billy bush in a bus where they didn't realize they were being -- that's republicans. now, hillary clinton, let's see, she sold off the, her position as secretary of state, our national assets, and made $100 million or whatever for herself and her husband. she lied to the fbi, she lied to the american people, she put our highest level secrets on a private server, violated her oath of office, violated the espionage act, opened our secrets to you our enemies from china to north korea, iran, the russians -- who thousand the democrats propose to -- she lied about benghazi, she lied to the mother of a fallen hero of benghazi. not one, not one democrat elected said this is a bridge too far, i can't support this candidate. not one. i bright this up in discussing the communist party, because that's the way the communist party was really effective in political warfare, everybody in lockstep. and that's the way the left behaves today. political correctness is like a zipper with a lock on it over everybody'

. >> oh, wait, those are from the bush -- billy bush administration.y, here's what i think is going on. because this is now going past nuts and into tin foil hat territory. here's what i liken this too. president obama is the ex-boyfriend a lot of people in the family loved. he was nice, polite. after dinner, he helped clear the plates. he's the guy the family wishes their daughter had married. but she didn't. she broke up with him and married her boss who owns an equipment rental company, but he's a jerk. and the husband is now sick and tired of hearing about how much everyone loved the old boyfriend. so he sees a tiny little nugget of something to grab on to and he runs with it. what he doesn't realize, it's making the whole family think, oh, no, we might have a lunatic in our midst. that's donald trump right now. does that make any sense? [ cheers and applause ] does that make sense to you? >> perfect sense. >> jimmy: it does? >> yes. >> jimmy: doesn't make sense to me, but i came up with it. we have a good show tonight, from beauty and the beast, e

the only one who went down over "washingtonpisode post" releasing the tape, was billy bush. >> to me,t was so alarming to me having worked all of these years to get an ideaea of what rape is and what sexual assault is and what it means for women to have agency over their own bodies and to see not only a president who arrogantly just grabbed women and filled yet access to women, but also to see republicans and to see so many people around him normalize that so quickly. that story was in the news for maybe two weeks before it was normalized, before it was accepted. ok, that is just what men do. even the talk of this is locker room talk -- remember that whole period? whose locker room? whose locker room are you in? he lolocker rooms youou are -- amy: i saw a poster, a waitress who carries a towel with her that she wrote on that said she can protest anywhere shehe wants to. she bolted up and puts it in her back and is is "the world is not your locker room." >> let's take the women's march, which was an unbelievable outpouring of women demanding, speaking of four, and cherishing and knowin

okay, i didn't mind when you talked dirty with billy bush or told russia to hack hillary's emails, butn you start stealing bits from "weekend update" anchors -- [ laughter ] it is on. also -- [ cheers and applause ] also, i happen to know this isn't the first time you've done this. >> i'm norm macdonald and now, the fake news. [ laughter ] >> seth: you know, i hate to say this, but donald, you ignorant slut. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] press secretary sean spicer said today that the white house was optimistic about the chances of the republican healthcare bill, but, quote, "at the end of the day, we can't make people vote." "tell me about it," said one woman. [ laughter ] according to sources, the last time president trump and former president obama spoke was inauguration day. said obama, "that wasn't me." [ laughter ] vice president mike pence today met with honduran president juan orlando. coincidentally, juan orlando is also the alias joe biden uses when he's on spring break in cancun. [ laughter ] "put it on the orlando room." [ light laughter ] newly released e-mails show

because you are saying when things look rough for trump after that thing that went on between him and billy bush on that bus, he was willing to dump him and go on and try to hold the house and serve together with hillary clinton. that was his battle plan, work with hillary, get rid of trump? >> yeah, i think that's one of the reasons breitbart surrunticiously dropped that out on the conversation about health care as a reminder to the trump team and in particular donald trump, that be careful as you go into this process, if it gets too squirrely, you may not be able to rely on the speaker. i don't think there is truth to that. i think these gentlemen, the president and the speak rer joined at the hip on this, they can try to deny it's ryancare or trumpcare, it's trump-ryan-care, they will have to take it to the american people and make the case t. second point, chris, i find it amazingly crazy, that folks are running around trashing the cbo. i don't know what the [ bleep ] you have a cbo for if you don't believe anything they tell you. whether it's democrats or republicans. so congress needs to g

but because billy bush was involved most people assume it was that. the jeb bush campaign is relieved and they begin looking for the silver bullet. this will be something easy to find because the clintons are telling us about it. i was a part of a presidential campaign with george w. bush. his opposition research was something to behold. you push the buttons and in that office on 14th street, there were dozens and dozens of people in little cubbyholes and it was pre-internet. the stacks of national geographic in life magazines and camcorders following every candidate everywhere, it's hard to imagine how much money was spent on opposition research. jeb bush's opposition research and the intelligent officers cannot find it. so finally they get closer to the nomination jeb bush's people , one person in particular approaches the clinton people and says now what was that you were trying to tell us? can you help us. they needed a hint. by that time the clinton campaign is saying no way. if you cannot find it, you are on your own. they thought this guy is goi

islamic women -- what do you -- billy bush was who listening and fluffing him on you might say gets firedtrump gets elected president. doesn't that amaze you? >> it does amaze me. >> that conversation about women. >> it makes him a very flawed vessel for a comment like he made today. >> did you vote for him? >> i have very publicly said i did not vote for him. >> i know you didn't. go ahead. >> i think -- what he brought on, the way he brought on sexual violence into a conversation allowed people to have for the first time a conversation between their spouse as and the loved ones. at the same time, what he signals is it almost didn't matter. >> because he won. >> because he con. >> 42% of women voted for him. >> no consequences. 53% of white women voted for him, too. no consequences for those actions. the reason people keep marching, these are people who may not have voted and are coming into the political process, saying what do we do next? our job is to harness sthat. >> you know what i learned? women say, men are all like that. i go, they're not like that. >> more are like that than yo

but because when billy bush was involved, most people assume it wasn't that. right away the jeb bush campaign is related in the begin looking for the silver bullet. this is obviously going to be something that will be easy to find because the clintons are telling us about it. they started looking for it, and i was a part of a presidential campaign with george h. w. bush, and his opposition research with something to behold. he punched the buttons in, you went into this labyrinth and there were dozens and dozens of people in local cubbyholes and it was pre-internet, and stacks of national geographic and life magazines and camcorders following every candidate everywhere they went. it's hard to imagine how much money they spent on opposition research. such jeb bush opposition research in the state intelligence officers and bugs, couldn't find it. so finally as they got closer to the nomination, jeb bush and his people, person in particular, approaches the clinton people and says, now, what was that you were trying to tell us? their asking, are we getting warmer?

brian: speaker ryan said drop donald trump after the billie bush. ainsley: he tweeted that out.his generals reached out and said he was looking for immunity in terms of his testimony. and then he tweeted this out. steve: president trump tweeted this out just within the last minute. mike flynn should ask for immunity in that this is a witch-hunt. excuse for big election loss, by media democrats of historic proportion. keep in mind, michael flynn, pictured right there, he was the national security advisor to the president of the united states. he was early on in the days of the trump administration. he was asked apparently by the fbi, hey, did you talk to the russians during the transition period about sanctions? and he said no, i don't remember doing that and then suddenly somebody from one of the major newspapers has got the intercept between flynn and russians and said nope, he said it right here. how did that newspaper wind up with this? that's really what the committees on capitol hill and the fbi are looking at. how did american names get unmasked and passed illegally and pe

decade old "access hollywood" video surfaced of donald trump making lewd comments about women to billy bush. ryan can be heard telling house republicans he would not defend trump then or in the future. >> there are basically two things i want to make really clear. i am not going to defend donald trump, not now, not in the future. you guys know i have real concerns about the nominee. is it going to be a turbulent month? many of you on this call are facing tough re-elections, some of you are not. but with respect to donald trump, i would encourage you to do what you think is best and do what you feel you need to do. >> i guess he did what he needed to do eventually. >> you remember when this happened, the monday after the second presidential debate. >> everyone was horrified. >> the "access hollywood" tape. there were reports, not on the audio, reported widely monday that paul ryan basically cut donald trump loose and told his members do what you have to do to save your skins and that was seen as a big moment politically in the course of the campaign. there's not really news here. what's inte

a tape has surfaced in the washington post of billy bush and donald trump talking what they thought was in private, doing their man boasts, and trump famously or infamously said that when you're star in hollywood, they let you grab their genitals. a stupid remark. of course, it was completely translated by the left into i, that's what i do rather than, you know, that's what i would like to do but i'm too civilized to do it, perhaps. i don't know, i don't know trump personally. but, okay, this was a private conversation from 11 years previously, and one republican after another was horrified. this is a bridge too far, i can't support this candidate. this is a bridge too far. and jeb bush actually embarrassingly said i have two precious granddaughters, and there's nothing that donald trump could say that could ever apologize for a remark he made in private to billy bush in a bus where they didn't realize they were being -- that's republicans. now, hillary clinton, let's see, she sold off the, her position as secretary of state, our national assets, and made $100 million or whatever for he