"Access Hollywood" began digging into its archives for videos of Donald Trump earlier this week.
The impetus was an Associated Press story, the show's host Natalie Morales
said on Friday evening, where former staff members of the show "The Apprentice" described Trump's behavior toward women, calling them "lewd" and "inappropriate."
Morales said that in the course of their reporting, "Access Hollywood" staffers looked back at the many interviews they've had with Trump and
discovered the footage of Trump with then-host Billy Bush chatting on a bus about women and using vulgar language.
But though "Access Hollywood" was preparing a segment on the unearthed video, the Washington Post altered the show's plans.
According
to the Post, at 11a.m. on Friday, reporter David Fahrenthold received a phone call offering the video (the Post did not say who the source was). By 4p.m., the Post had its story up.
NBC News, which is under the same parent company as "Access Hollywood," published its own version of the video and story mere minutes after the Post on Friday afternoon, having been tipped off that the newspaper had it as well when Fahrenthold called the network for comment.