they asked for the video. when we showed them the video, they responded quickly. they confirmed it was him. confirmed the authenticity and included the half apology. and david, did you get any sense in your communication with them that they recognized the enormity of what you were about to reveal? it is hard to tell. my conversations with them while helpful were rather brief. i couldn t tell you. i m not sure i knew what it would become at the end of the day. i m amazed to see how big a story it has become. i could not tell you if they did. certainly they did not say that at the time. so it is one of those things, david, we have a right to feel where we have seen certain things like this in donald trump s history. certainly things like this have been reported about donald trump s attitude.
provide them at that time with a transcript of not of the whole video which is more than five minutes long of a transcript of the parts that everyone is reporting. they asked for the video and we eventually showed them the video and after that about 4:00 they issued the statement, the first apology sort of a half apology which trump striend as locker room banter. and david, this is more cooperation in many ways that you re used to getting from the trump campaign. you have been relentless this year in tracking down donald trump charitable contributions and actually not finding any donald trump personal charitable contributions and the trump campaign has been very good at times at ignoring your requests for information. today when you told them you had this video, it sounds like they responded rather quickly. yes, they did actually.
apologizing and then he checked the box on talking about how he s a changed man by traveling the country, meeting with grieving moms, meeting with immigrant and then it was solid trump, same man he always is, hasn t changed, is going to go after bill clinton s infidelity. we re going to go back to our night of video momentarily. we re going to show the access hollywood video again which start thd crisis in the trump campaign. we re going to show the donald trump new apology video tonight. first i want to get in a word with mike murphy before we do that. mike, donald trump said i m wrong and apologize period. no words came after the word apologize. he did not specifically apologize to nancy o dell who is named in this video as someone who he specifically tried to have sex with when she was
we never had video like this and you were not sure whether that first donald trump response might just be what gets them through it which is to say locker room banter and minimizing it. that is exactly the kind of response that the trump campaign used in the past in situations that resemble this in certain ways. so even you were surprised by where the story went from there. that s right. the thing that sets this apart. two things that set this apart from the previous comments trump made about women. it was not made publicly. it sounds odd. the other comments we heard were made on the howard stern show or television and everybody saw them. it is a private comment that trump made that he didn t think anybody else was listening. that makes it more interesting
murphy and others in crisis meetings in campaigns. one of the questions when a disaster like this strikes, one question you ask the candidate is how much more is out there and how much will people find? trump s answer will be i don t know because access hollywood is saying they have dozens of hours of individuvideo they have not people involved if their programs. what is your sense of likelihood of more video from access hollywood or other sources like that emerging during this campaign? it is hard for me to judge. i will say two things. one, there is no reason to believe that this particular access hollywood episode was special or different. or they would meet this beautiful actress and tour the studio back lot for days of our