Billy Bush Says Matt Lauer Defended Him to ‘Today’ Bosses Amid Trump Bus Tape Fallout
Billy Bush sat down with Stephen Colbert on Monday for his first TV interview about the now-infamous Donald Trump bus tape, getting candid about the recording and subsequent fallout.“It was a difficult time,” Bush recalled.
“I think it was very hot, emotionally in the country.
A lot of people were not comfortable with the man who was close to winning the election and a lot of things happened quickly.”The former NBC host penned an op-ed this week in response to New York Times reports that President Trump has recently been questioning the authenticity of the 2005 recording -- in which Bush, then a reporter for Access Hollywood, is heard laughing as Trump makes lewd comments about women."He said it..
Of course he said it," Bush wrote.
"Along with Donald Trump and me, there were seven other guys present on the bus at the time, and every single one of us assumed we were listening to a crass
