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Days. so, someone leaked this tape to the washington post. within hours, bam, an apology tour, parade of republican deflection and first 30 minutes of the northeastest debate we have ever seen. question is, are there more tapes to come? joining me, senior broadcast producer at "access hollywood" and he worked with both billy bush and nancy o'dell. with me, senior media course, host of "reliable sources," mr. brian steltzer. "access hollywood" said, we remember we interviewed trump, let's go to the archives. they pull the tape from 2005. they alerted nbc news. they sat on it. you have been in t...

The video was essentially sitting on a shelf at nbc. the network that produces "access hollywood." and on monday, some of the producers at "access hollywood" started to think about the tape, started to wonder if they could find it and if they should broadcast it. what triggered all of this was actually an associated press story. the a.p., one of the biggest news wires in the world, published a story early monday with explosive allegations from about 260 former employees who worked on the -- 20 former employees who worked on "the apprentice," the reality show that helped trump get to where he i...

Allegations were absolutely false. it got "access hollywood" thinking about the video. they dusted it off, put it into nbc servers and were preparing a story about it. my sources said a script was written and everything, but it wasn't going to be broadcast until at least next week. perhaps for that reason, there was a leak, a leak from inside nbc to the "washington post." and that's why the reporter was calling at 1:30 on friday afternoon with this tape. at 4:00 is p.m., trump was half apologizing saying he was sorry if anyone was offended. that was clearly not enough. throughout friday evenin...

With the "rolling stone" investigation, too. a source says it will be published in early april and pub accomplished lish he says he has no comment on what he might do editorially because he hasn't read the report yet. one other unanswered question will we hear from the columnist? i think "rolling stone" should get some credit for doing this investigation, for having it done independently and for agreeing to publish the findings. there is another investigation of journalistic trouble ongoing, inside nbc, the internal fact checking of brian williams still under way according to my sources. nbc h...

>> let's bring in a couple other friends to hash this out. maria guthrie, larry hackard, and hadas gold. so as i was thinking about this all today and this morning, this situation is different from others that have come out in recent. in one significant way, there was no independent reporting that came out before nbc moved on this, before he was -- it was handled swiftly and internally, even though as brian says, there were reports coming. what does that mean? >> most of the other people we've seen have been fired, term natd after nated after an expose exposed their behavior. but this has been...