The Republican told Fox News host Bill O'Reilly he's 'looking to do that to Bill'

Donald Trump meets Hillary Clinton for the first presidential debate on Monday in New York

It's up to Hillary Clinton whether or not the first presidential debate ends up including an exchange over her husband's White House affair with Monica Lewinsky, Republican Donald Trump said Monday night.

'I don't think I'm looking to do that,' Trump told Fox News host Bill O'Reilly when asked whether he was planning to bring up the affair – something Trump raised in media interviews during the primaries.

'I don't know what I'm going to do that exactly. It depends on what level she hits you with, if she's fair, if it's unfair,' Trump said. 'But certainly I'm not looking to do that.'

Trump, who slashed through his GOP opponents one-by-one in televised debates during the primaries, said he'll decide on the spot whether to launch personal attacks on Hillary Clinton based on whether she treats him with 'respect.'

'I have absolutely no idea. I think this. If she treats me with respect, I will treat her with respect. It really depends,' Trump said.

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Republican Donald Trump says he's not 'looking' to bring up Bill Clinton's infidelity during his debate with Hillary Clinton next week

'People ask me that question, 'oh you're going to go out there and do this and that. I really don't know that. You're going to have to feel it out when you're out there. She's got to treat me with respect. I'm going to treat her with respect. I'd like to start off by saying that because that would be my intention,' he said.

One longtime Clinton advisor isn't so sure Trump will unilaterally disarm when it comes to Lewinsky.

'You can't put it beyond Trump that Monica Lewinsky will play a role in this debate,' former Clinton and White House counsel Greg Craig told Politico in August.

'She's got to be prepared to deal with the [Clinton] Foundation and Wall Street and super PACs and all of that. They need to be less focused on dealing with his policy proposals and more on dealing with the unexpected. He's going to be in attack mode, probably the whole time,' Craig said.

At several stages in the campaign, Trump has brought up Lewsinsky, Bill Clinton rape accuser Juanita Broderick, Whitewater, the death of former Clinton aide Vince Foster, and other 90s era scandals and allegations.

WINGING IT: Trump says he'll decide what topics to raise based on how the debate proceeds. 'You're going to have to feel it out when you're out there'

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Trump said it is up to Hillary Clinton how he behaves. 'If she treats me with respect, I will treat her with respect. It really depends,' he said

IT COULD HAPPEN: Trump said when asked about bringing up Bill Clinton's infidelity during the presidential debate Monday: 'I don't think I'm looking to do that'

Trump brought up Lewinsky in January during the primaries.

After Hillary Clinton said Trump had a 'penchant for sexism,' Trump called Bill Clinton 'one of the great woman abusers of all time.'

A lot of things happened that were very seedy. He was impeached for heaven's sake,' Trump said of Bill Clinton's tenure in the White House.

Trump's own conduct toward women could certainly come up, as it did in the first Fox News primary debate when moderator Megyn Kelly asked him about some of his harsh language.

Trump in the Monday interview brought up a months' old New York Times story that charged Trump treated women poorly in his personal life – and hinted 'we're going to take that up with them at a later date.'

'Well, you know the New York Times wrote a story about me and women and it turned out that it was a false story and honestly we're going to take that up with them at a little bit later date,' Trump said.

Trump called NBC News anchor Lester Holt, who is moderating the first debate, a 'professional'

'We'll get rid of this first, we'll go through this little process first which I think is going to end very successfully on November 8th.'

'The New York Times wrote a story about women and the women called the office and said, 'We never said that about Donald Trump. We really like him. He's really good.' They quoted women and they never even said it. It was on the front page, centerfold, massive big color picture. It was disgraceful.'

'There is nobody that respects women more than Donald Trump,' Trump said. 'That I can tell you. I'll help women because we have the women's health problems. We have a lot of problems and I will help a lot more than Hillary can. That I can tell you.'

Trump telegraphed some of the attacks he is likely to make. 'I can talk about her deleting emails after she gets a subpoena from Congress and lots of other things. I mean I can talk about her record which is a disaster,' he said.

'I can talk about all she’s done to help ISIS become the terror that they’ve become and I will be doing that. So I mean we’re going to go back and forth and she’s got a lot of baggage.'

He continued: 'She’s been there a long time and we need change in this country. I mean she’s been there, Bill, a long time. When I hear her talking about what she’s planning to do… why hasn’t she done it for the last 30 years?'

Trump called NBC host Lester Holt a 'professional,' and said 'Today Show' host Matt Lauer, who got panned for how he hosted a two-candidate forum with Trump and Clinton, a 'pro' who 'did a great job.'

'I do and I have respect for Lester. Well, I mean the only problem is Matt Lauer is a pro and he did a great job ... I think Matt did a fantastic job last week I’m sure you read about it. They came down on Matt. Matt was very tough on me and he was tough on her. I thought he was equally tough, maybe even tougher on me,' Trump said.

'What they are doing is they are gaming the system, like gaming the ref. They are also going after Lester. They’re trying to intimidate Lester and I think the world is going to be watching that. Lester is a professional, but we’ll see what happens,' Trump said.

Then Trump engaged in a bit of gaming himself as he weighed in on each of the moderators.

'By the way, Lester is a Democrat. It’s a phony system. They are all Democrats. It’s a very unfair system,' Trump said.

He said he's not 'okay' with ABC News' correspondent Martha Raddatz. 'No, not really. I’m not okay with Anderson Cooper because I think he treats me very unfairly at CNN. I think he’s very unfair on CNN.'

Of the final presidential moderator, Chris Wallace of Fox News, Trump said: 'He’s fair, he’s tough. He’s fair. I don’t mind. As long as he’s fair and I’ve done a lot of work with Chris and I’ve never had a problem with him.'

Trump himself repeatedly commented on whether Lauer would be fair to him during the forum in advance of the event.

Hillary Clinton, appearing on the Steve Harvey radio show indicated on Tuesday she is ready for whatever Trump dishes out.

'I am going to do my very best to communicate as clearly and fearlessly as I can in the face of the insults and the attacks and the bullying and the bigotry that we have seen coming from my opponent,' Clinton said