

"Everybody did [know about it],” Bush replied. "Well, everybody at the network. I was comfortable that it wasn’t going to be weaponized."

When asked about Trump's comments, Bush, the cousin of former President George W. Bush, said "he was just being him."



"Are you angry at Donald Trump?" King asked.



"No," Bush replied.



"Not at all?" King pressed.



"Not for that," Bush insisted. "No. I mean, he was being him. I think part of that personality and character was why he was successful in a boardroom, making people fight over lemonade stands."



Bush also revealed to King he received a phone call from the 43rd president after the tape was released.



"I'm so mad, I should fight back," Billy Bush recalls telling George W. Bush.



"He said, 'Nope. Just, you know, take what they give you and walk away. And work on you,'" Bush recalled the former president saying.



Bush, 47, was also a co-host of the third hour of NBC's "Today" before being fired in October 2016.