Vanderbilt Television News Archive

(Studio: Anderson Cooper) A "New York Times" report on the Roy Moore story that President Trump is suggesting the "Access Hollywood" tape with his comments about women was not authentic introduced; tape excerpt of Trump with Billy Bush played; "New York Times" quoted. [Oct. 7, 2016, TRUMP - apologizes about his words.] [Oct. 17, 2016, Melania TRUMP - calls the tape's language inappropriate "boy talk."] [Today, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee SANDERS - says this was answered by the election.] The president's tendency to rewrite history noted with the example of his exchange with "Time" magazine about being man of the year quoted.

(Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live phone interview held with "New York Times" reporter Maggie Haberman about the "Access Hollywood" tape authenticity issue. [HABERMAN - explains what Trump said about the tape: whether it was his voice, that he found the tape to be embarrassing & now its comparison to the Moore issue.]

(Studio: Anderson Cooper) Live discussion held with CNN's David Gergen & David Axelrod about Trump, authenticity & the tape. [GERGEN - offers views on Trump's troubling pattern of believing a second version as reality which raises questions about where he is in life, how he must understand the press will revisit the stories from these women.] [AXELROD - offers views on how Trump persuades himself of things & really seems to believe it, how Moore, too, is denying all these charges from women.]