“No. 1, it’s fine,” he said in the interview, which aired on “Meet the Press.” “You know what? I wasn’t the President of the United States. And I wasn’t dealing in the Oval Office, all right? A big difference. I wasn’t the president.”

Clinton has ripped Trump as sexist, and Trump has warned that if the criticism continues, he’ll go after her for standing by her husband’s behavior.

“I had to bring it up,” he said.