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Billy Bush, former Access Hollywood host, spoke to Tucker Carlson about President-elect Donald Trump’s infamous “grab her” quote, and what he remembers.

Leftist hysteria has immortalized a flippant quote from the incoming president, and now Bush is finally speaking out about it two decades later. The clip, filmed in 2005, was brought to light in 2016 as Trump ran for president for the first time. Liberals argued that his saying “grab her by the p***y” was a disqualifying moment for the candidate, who would go on to win the race, and then win again in 2024.

Bush told Tucker that he found Trump’s comments “absurd” at the time and that he’d told his bosses about them.

“It’s unbelievable. I was playing catch-up the whole time. I found out that the Access Hollywood bus tape was in the NBC News building by Matt Lauer. Matt Lauer came to me after I got off the air at The Today Show on a Tuesday morning and he said, hey, what are you going to do about the tape?” Bush revealed.

He also talked about what led up to the infamous quote, including a moment where he complimented co-host Nancy O’Dell by calling her “hot.”

“The Donald at that point, while we’re waiting, he gets into his — what he likes to talk about and, you know, you don’t choose the agenda with Donald Trump. He talks at you. He started by talking about my co-host Nancy O’Dell, and he [says], you know, she’s so hot, whatever. I handled that beautifully, and he keeps going.”

Carlson couldn’t help but chuckle at the behavior which is totally on-brand for Trump who is notorious for saying what’s on his mind, regardless of whether you want to hear it.

“I’m sorry, I’m just too amused,” he laughed.

Bush goes on to explain that he actually has no recollection of Trump saying the line, and didn’t remember anything about it until he was fired in 2016.

“[Trump] just starts talking and talking and talking and everybody knows what he talked about, and then when we arrive for the shot, except for the end part, the most amazing thing about the whole famous line that starts with ‘grab’ — I just can’t even say it because it’s never funny to me, but the amazing part about all of that is I have no recollection, the first time I ever heard that was 2016, days before they fired me because I always remembered, for the personal connection, him talking about taking Nancy O’Dell furniture shopping and I thought, ‘oh my God, that is so funny,’” he explained.

At another point in the nearly two-hour-long interview, the pair discussed the firing of Megyn Kelly “by the same man who fired” Bush.

Kelly was fired by NBC after asking when blackface fell out of fashion, with Bush noting that several people working in late-night comedy have photographs of them wearing blackface floating around on the internet. Instead of going after the men who wore the offensive makeup, NBC went after Kelly for asking a simple question.

“There was a time where, if a girl dressed up as Diana Ross, it was she legitimately loved Diana Ross. But then it- all Megyn did was ask the question ‘When, give me a year or a period when that became absolutely unacceptable to the point that your career and everything will be taken,’” Bush said.

“That was the equivalent of lynching a bunch of people in Mississippi,” Carlson chimed in.

“She just asked a question. She didn’t say ‘we should be allowed to do blackface again’ she said ‘when was the-‘ all she did was raise the question,” Bush said later, saying her firing had nothing to do with a discussion about blackface but rather, was a sneaky form of “retribution.”

“Now remember this was also retribution. The man that was the chairman of NBC News at the time who fired her, she had recently put out an email calling him a liar,” Bush recalled.

“Who was that?” Carlson asked

“Andy Lack,” Bush responded. “She called Andy Lack a liar because she said wait a minute we have someone who has corroborated Rose McGowan the actress, with the ‘Me Too’ movement with the who [Harvey] Weinstein case.”

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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.

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