--- title: Presidential Debate: Donald Trump Explains Lewd Video description: Trump denied having done any of the actions implied in the video that leaked Friday. canonical: https://time.com/4524406/presidential-debate-donald-trump-locker-room-talk-video/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-10T01:55:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-07T06:50:04.115Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Trump Explain the Lewd Video at the Second Debate og:description: "I was embarrassed by it, but I have tremendous respect for women" og:url: https://time.com/4524406/presidential-debate-donald-trump-locker-room-talk-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf8ff26c83f06a19b/6988a949ab6d770aff6ab81a/donald-trump-debate.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: TIMEPOL og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Trump Explain the Lewd Video at the Second Debate twitter:description: "I was embarrassed by it, but I have tremendous respect for women" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf8ff26c83f06a19b/6988a949ab6d770aff6ab81a/donald-trump-debate.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Donald Trump Explain the Lewd Video at the Second Debate > Sponsored content. 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"I was embarrassed by it, but I have tremendous respect for women and women have respect for me"_ by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Oct 10, 2016 1:55 AM UTC by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Oct 10, 2016 1:55 AM UTC Donald Trump tried to downplay a leaked video of sexually-charged comments he made towards women as “locker room talk” Sunday at the [second presidential debate](http://time.com/4523324/second-presidential-debate-donald-trump-town-hall/). “This was locker room talk. I’m not proud of it, I apologize to my family, I apologize to the American people,” Trump said before turning the conversation from [footage of him saying lewd comments](http://time.com/money/4524382/billy-bush-suspended-from-today-over-trump-tape/) that leaked Friday to rhetoric about combating ISIS. “This is like medieval times, we haven’t seen anything like this, the carnage all over the world,” the Republican nominee said. The billionaire denied having done any of the actions he implied in the leaked footage, when asked by moderator Anderson Cooper. “I was embarrassed by it, but I have tremendous respect for women and women have respect for me,” Trump said. Watch the video above. ## Transcript We received a lot questions online Mr. Trump about the tape that was released on Friday as you can imagine. You called what you said locker room banter. You described kissing women without consent, grabbing their genitals. That is sexual assault. You bragged that you have sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that. No, I didn't say that at all. I don't think you understood what was said. This was locker room talk. I'm not proud of it. I apologize to my family. I apologize to the American people. Certainly I'm not proud of it. But this is locker room talk. You know, when we have a world where you have ISIS chopping off heads where you have and frankly. Drowning people in steel cages, where you have wars and horrible horrible sights all over. Where you have so many bad things happening. This is like Medieval times. We haven't seen anything like this, the carnage all over the world. And they look and they see. Can you imagine the people that are, frankly, doing so well against us. With ISIS, and they look at our country, and they see what's going on. Yes, I'm very embarrassed by it, I hate it, but it's locker room talk, and it's one of those things. I will knock the hell out of ISIS. We're gonna defeat ISIS. ISIS happened a number of years ago in a vacuum that was left So. Because of bad judgment and I will tell you I will take of vices. Mr. Trump. And we should get onto much more important and much bigger things. Just for the record though are you saying that what you said on that bus 11 years ago that you did not actually Kiss women without consent or grope women without consent. I have great respect for women. Nobody has more respect fro women than I do. So for the record, you're saying you never did that. Said things that frankly, you hear these things, they said. And I was embarrassed by it. But I have tremendous respect for women. Have you ever done those things? Have respect for me. And I will tell you, no I have not. And I will tell you that I'm gonna make our country be safe. We're gonna have borders on our country which we don't have now. People are pouring into our country. And they're coming in from the Middle East and other places. We're gonna make America safe again. We're gonna make America great again, but we're gonna make America safe again. And we're gonna make America wealthy again because if you don't do that, It sounds harsh to say but we have to build up the wealth of our- Thank you Mr. Trump. Nation. Right now other nations are taking our jobs and they're taking our wealth. Thank you Mr. Trump. And that's what I wanna talk about. This tape is generating intense interest. In just 48 hours it's become the single most talked about story. Of the entire 2016 election on Facebook. With millions and millions of people discussing it on the social network. As we said a moment ago we do want to bring questions from voters across the country via social media. And our first stays on this topic, Jeff from Ohio asks on Facebook Trump says the campaign has changed him. When did that happen? So, Mr. Trump, let me add to that, when you walked off that bus at age 59, were you a different man, or did that behavior continue until just recently? And you have two minutes for this. As I told you, that was locker room talk. I'm not proud of it I am a person who has great respect for people, for my family, for the people of this country, and certainly I'm not proud of it. But that was something that happened if you look at Bill Clinton Far worse mine are words and his was action. His worse what he's done to women. There's never been anybody in the history of politics in this nation that's been so abusive to women. So you can say any way you wanna say it but Bill Clinton was abusive to women. Hillary Clinton attack the same women. And attack them viciously. Four of them here tonight. One of the women, who is a wonderful woman, at 12 years old was raped, at 12. Her client, she represented got him off and she's seen laughing on two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped. Kathy Shelton, that young woman, is with us here tonight. So don't tell me about words. I am absolutely, I apologize for those words. But it is things that people say. But what President Clinton did, he was impeached, he lost his license to practice law, he had to pay an 850, 000 Dollar fine to one of the women, Paula Jones whose also here tonight. And I will tell you that when Hillary brings up a point like that and she talks about words that I said 11 years ago. 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