apparently, he repeated that claim recently to an adviser. part of the reason that this tape has come up in the conversation, we should mention, anderson, at least according to the new york times , is during discussions about the president s response to the allegations against roy moore. so we followed up with sarah sanders again after that to try to find out specifically what she meant when she said that the president questions the reporting, but she has not gotten back to us yet. i should also point out, i talked to maggie haberman in the last hour, and she said just then within the last two hours, so now within the last three hours, she has talked to a third person who has said that the president questioned the authenticity to that person. but just to be clear, the president did acknowledge it was he who made those comments when the tape first came out. i mean, i not only did he do it on video, he did it at the debate that i was co-moderator of. yeah, the president literally
that i was co-moderator of. yeah, the president literally said, i did it, i apologize. you had a series of surrogates come out and say that this was just locker room talk, including the first lady, melania trump actually told you this was just locker room talk. there s never really been a denial from the white house as to whether or not this tape is authentic, whether or not this is the president s voice on there. one other note that we should mention, billy bush who lost his job and has suffered significantly, his career because of this tape, has never denied that the tape wasn t real so there s really an interesting imbalance between what was said last year and now what the president is suggesting in private or in public. joining me now is arianne zucker who was in the tape doing the interview with citizen trump ands also billy bush. so the president questioning the
political correspondent dana bash and co-moderator of the cnn debate about health care. very timely, dana. what are the changes to the graham/cassidy bill? they re varied, but mostly it is about trying to sweeten the deal, sweeten the pot for some of those undecided republican senators whom they actually really need for any if there s any chance of getting this passed. for example, the main senator lisa murkowski of alaska, among them, special help for native americans in her state who she says have very special, unique needs and they would need to be taken care of, and also just an increased percentage of money of the federal pot of money because, look, what this comes down to and what we re talking about is a fundamental change, a really fundamental change in the
for all of us. the fact that she kept her battle so private. right. and she really did, because those of us who were friends knew it was going on, but when i e-mailed her, she really didn t want to go into any detail. she kept it very quiet. i was stunned by today s news. i did not know it had gotten this far. so, she really did want it kept very, very private. gloria, we know her and love her from being on pbs with judy woodruff, but before that, and nia hit on this, all the campaigns she s covered, the vice presidential debates she had the honor of moderating. i think she was a co-moderator for the democratic primary this last go around. talk to me about how big of a deal that was for her and for women and for african-americans
matter to you but it will? i will know more about it than you know and believe me it won t take long. let me clarify. the person, hugh hewitt, will be a questioner not a co-moderator. a little difference there. i want to bring in brian stelter today because my colleague interviewed the interviewer which is something we have to do in this very unusual circumstance we are in. so predictably, donald trump was not happy about having to answer questions about stuff like, you know, terror and who runs what. and now he s gone after i guess this is the predictable pattern. he s gone after the interviewer, even a conservative interviewer. walk me out of this and take me forward. that s right. hewitt was blasted by trump. trump was calling him a third rate radio announcer. a lot of people think hewitt is a first rate radio interviewer. he s had so many candidates on his radio show. he had trump on four times this month and when i talked to him this morning i asked him why he thought this