and when you're a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. >> whatever you want. >> grab 'em by the pussy. you can do anything. >> donald trump and billy bush in a recording from 12 years ago. now, here's what "new york times" correspondent, maggie haberman, alex burns, and jonath jonath jonathan reported on saturday. quote, in "the new york times," he sees the calls for mr. moore to step aside as a version of the response to the now-famous "access hollywood" tape in which he boasted about grabbing women's genitalia and the flood of groping accusations against him that followed soon after. he's suggested to a senator earlier this year that it was not authentic and repeated that claim to an adviser more recently. so, let's just let that sink in for a moment. on two occasions, according to "the new york times," the president of the united states suggested that the tape that you just saw is somehow not authentic. now, on one level, this might not be such a bad strategy. there's just the small matter, of course, of timing.