Billy Bush Says He Raised Alarm About Trump's 'Access Hollywood' Tape Years Before Scandal

The TV host also claimed he didn't clock the crudest part of Trump's comments until the scandal actually exploded.

Billy Bush says he flagged President Donald Trump’s infamous “Access Hollywood” interview back in 2005 but claims NBC executives ignored it to protect their “cash cow.”

During Thursday’s episode of the “Literally! With Rob Lowe” podcast, the television host said he raised concerns with a producer at the time because of a vulgar story Trump told about co-host Nancy O’Dell, which was caught on a hot mic.

While Trump’s crude remarks about grabbing women by the genitals are what dominated headlines when the tape surfaced weeks before the 2016 election, he also boasted in the audio about unsuccessfully trying to seduce O’Dell during a furniture shopping trip.

“The day of the filming in 2005, I called my producer [and] said, ‘You’re not gonna believe what Trump said. ... He is going after Nancy,’” Bush recalled. “All I said was ‘Nancy O’Dell,’ because I didn’t hear the other stuff.”

Bush said he didn’t initially register Trump’s now-infamous line about how “when you’re a star” you can “do anything” to women but he was still shocked by the conversation.