weekend newly uncovered audio of donald trump speaking to howard stern making comments about women, including his daughter ivanka. discussing how during beauty contests he would go back stage while contestants were naked. >> i'll tell you the funniest is that i'll go back stage before a show. >> yes. >> everyone is getting dressed and ready and everything else. no men are anywhere. i'm allowed to go in because i'm the owner of the pageant and therefore i'm inspecting it. i'm inspecting. is everyone okay? standing there with no clothes. is everyone okay? you see these incredible looking women. so i sort of get away with things like that. >> chuck todd played that exert yesterday for rudy giuliani appearing in lou of kellyanne conway who canceled appearances after the tape dropped. insisted rumors she was considering leaving the campaign are, quote, a crock. here is giuliani in his interview with chuck todd yesterday trying to minimize the damage. >> he's bragging about making unwanted sexual advances. >> words. >> how about the actions? >> the actions would be worse if they were act

listening to his howard stern interviews and how he describes the exact same thing as these poor kids, these teenaged girls describe. it's not even -- i don't know how you deny something that they have tape of you saying, except i sort of watched that candidate doing that repeatedly. as if you're not seeing what you have seen and you haven't heard what you heard. it's like seinfeld's bizarro world. i don't get it. >> we're also joined tonight by maria teresa kumar and ana marie cox. ana marie, donald trump told a lie in the middle of his response to anderson cooper when he said no, i don't actually do these things. he felt compelled to tell the lie, no one respects women more than i do. so there is a pathological liar publicly laying down a lie right in the middle of his answer. >> yeah, you know, i -- the term gas lighting has come up a lot in this campaign to describe what trump does when he just directly contradicts something that we have evidence for him doing. i'd like to point out that's something that abusers do a lot. i'm not saying he is one necessarily. but that techniq

into contestants' changing rooms, something he, himself, bragged about doing on "the howard stern show." >> our first introduction to him when was we were at the dress rehearsal half naked changing into our bikinis. to have the owner come waltzing in wean we're naked or half naked in a vulnerable position and have the pressure of the people who work for him trying to go fawn all over him, go walk up to him, talk to him. >> trump has yet to comment on dixon's story. yesterday buzzfeed reported trump had done something similar with teenage beauty queens some as young as 15 though some of the contestanted disputed that account. this morning on "today" show, miss utah 1997 recounted her own story of being kissed on the mouth by trump. >> he turned to me and embraced me and gave me a kiss on the lips and i remember being shocked and, because i would have just thought to shake somebody's hand. it's really hard because you think of sending your little daughter out there -- sorry -- with men like that that think like that. i think of the possibility of having somebody like donald trump be

" director howard fine. you're on the site right now. let's talk about donald trump this weekend. was there an effort to get him to talk along the liens that co-win the election? i've been saying this myself. he had a winning message for weeks. the polling we've got tonight to show you shows that he's blown it. he has blown the lead in the campaign. he is now down behind her. about 5 points on average. that can be lethal in a campaign a month out from an election. why doesn't he talk about the issues that got him to where he is? jobs, illegal immigration? stupid wars. yes is he talking about matcheda and everything else that will never get him a single vote. >> right. and bill clinton and hillary clinton and all of these questions. he seems to be unable to help himself. when you look at saturday night. i think there was evidence of this. his campaign wants him to be talking about jobs and the economy and national security. i had an adviser, somebody close to the campaign say to me today, i wish i didn't have to go out and talk about these issues. i will because the media is picking up

was trump on the howard stern show sitting beside his daughter joking about sexual assault a year after he sexually assaulted natasha stoynoff according to her report in "people" magazine. we'll be right back with our panel for more from that "people" magazine report. >> the claims are preposterous, ludicrous, and defy common sense and logic. we already have substantial evidence to dispute these lies and it will be made public in an appropriate way and at an appropriate time very soon. >> and if you believe that, donald trump has tax returns to show you. >> you stole my line. >> the idea that a politician with 20 something days left in a presidential campaign has the evidence to prove his innocence but it will wait for some time in the future. >> why not now? it's crazy. >> yeah. let me go back into -- so we can complete this challenge that donald trump issued us that we look more closely at this article. i want to read a final passage of natasha stoynoff's account in "people" magazine of what happened with donald trump. she writes "back in my manhattan office the next day, i went

donald trump said on the howard stern show and other places. "the new york times" had extensive reporting on how he treated women. there's something about the pressure of october and of the focus of people and focus of press where things are more explosive. the idea that people didn't know who donald trump is, thousands of pages saying exactly who he is. >> if "access hollywood" tape had come out in, say, january or february, would it have changed the nature of the primary campaign in the same way it's changing the nature of the race at the end of the race? >> it's a hard question to ask, but i think one thing about this "access hollywood" tape, we've seen him on tape before. the content of this tape is definitely something beyond anything we had heard. that's why it hit so hard. that's why it shook loose these news stories. a lot of women say they're coming forward because they were upset by the type and his answer at the debate that he had never done these things. >> his answer at the debate is really crucial. like a classic reporting tactic to get somebodiy to lie in publc so

. >> hey, you don't know if that's her allegedly e-mail. let me ask you about howard stern. >> take a listen of what howard stern says about locker room talk. >> this idea of locker room talk, i got to tell you, all the times i have been around guys. when i am around guys, 85% of the time you are talking about [ bleep ]. i have never been in a room where someone has said grab them by the [ bleep ]. >> i have never heard of that term before. no one advocated going that step where you get a little hey, i am going to invade some of my space. >> so chuck todd made the comment, you know things are weird when howard stern is distancing himself from donald trump. >> not classy enough. >> what howard stern said, you have gone too far. >> it is no question, it sends questions to him and he apologized to his wife. >> i think it is when donald trump loses this election, all the pollings, this will be the moment as people watching back on of the final mail in the coffin. >> if he is going to win, he needs to to be photoi-- for a l the women of the way he reacting of the alicia machado and the wo

on billy bush. melania did that. she's taking it for the team. >> and then howard stern saying it. >> in third debates, candidates don't change their personalities. if they dorgs it doesn't look genuine. so i think you may see doubling down on what has happened before. the theme he's gotten away from, the income inequality populist divide. >> why doesn't everything after hillary saying in public and private speeches when you're paid $250,000, you're big a free trard. you get out in front of a group, you're miss protection of the union guy. >> he needs to go back to, i'm the disrupt overrule has gotten away from that and defending personal things. >> what about talking about open borders. >> the round table is sticking with us. up next, these people tell me more that i don't know anything about. this is "hardball." hive from unlv. >>> we're back from unlv. with just over an hour to go before the final presidential debate right here at unlv. ben, tell me something i don't know. >> what you don't know is as donald trump goes along, he's relying more and more on low propensity voters.

howard stern. take a listen. >> i will tell you the funniest is that i will go backstage before a show. >> yes. >> and everybody is dressed and men are everywhere and i am ale loued to go through because i am the pageant and inspecting. >> you know, yes. >> the dresses, and is everybody there okay? and no clothes on and you see the incredible looking women, and sort i sort of get away with things like that the. >> and this is by the way not 11 years ago, but that is now july 20 2008. >> yeah, but that is still not running fort president, and on a shock jock show, and howard stern happens to be a friend of mine and i have been on the show. >> and why is this not -- wait, let me ask you this, mr. mayor, why is the idea of he was not running for president and so it is okay to be a my soj nis, and he is not running for president, and so it is okay to make unwanted sexual advances. >> chuck, chuck. i am not saying it is the right thing to do. i am saying that for example, when i was the mayor of new york and i went on the howard stern show, i made sure that we didn't fool around or tell jok

women problems. he said it on howard stern and these public forums. but this is always going to be an issue. the fact it comes out this late. his problem with women has been there from the beginning. >> yeah. he's been on the record in materials of his views about women. my colleague chris matthews, he said can you imagine the women problems i would have. >> so it is a case where these women felt brave enough and emboldened enough to come forward. but this is not out of caring for who donald trump is. >> are ailes and trump still in contact? do you know the relationship? >> basically ailes and trump have a personal relationship. ailes has been phased out the best that i can tell. he hand had any formal part of debate prep as reported by kellyanne, reince priebus will be there this weekend. so ailes has been edged out. he has a personal relationship with trump. they speak on the phone. he is not in the bunk we are trump strategizing. >> it does seem like bannon, a very colorful figure, if i can use that term. who is the ceo of the campaign and ran breitbart. this does really sound like

kind of get it now. as he told howard stern, he doesn't like it when women have been around for more than 35 years. but donald, we have so much more in common than actually you may realize. for example, i tried to inspire young people by showing them that with resilience and hard work, anything is possible, and you're doing the same. a third grade teacher told mow that one of her students refused to turn in his homework because it was under audit. and here's another similarity. the republican national committee isn't spending a dime to help either one of us. so tonight let's embrace the spirit of the evening, let's come together. remember what unites us and just rip on ted cruz. i hope you enjoyed my remarks tonight. i said no to some jokes that i thought were over the line. but i suppose you can judge for yourself on wikileaks in the next few days. donald will tell us after the benediction whether he accepts if this dinner is over. he has to wait and see. but there's nothing funny about the stakes in this election. in the end, what makes this dinner important are not the jokes we te

howard stern, even on places like fox news, talking about how he felt entitled to go up to women and to touch them. if he felt like he could, because he was a celebrity, he was allowed to do these things. so while we can't say that these claims are true, what we can say is that they do line up with donald trump's own words. >> it's got to be the first time a public figure has served as the narrator of the story he's denying. if you listen to what he said on those programs, including "access hollywood," that bus, howard stern, it sounds like he's describing himself. trump denied that he forcibly kissed the "new york magazine" writer. >> i ask a very simple question. why wasn't it a part of the story that appeared 20 or 12 years ago? i was one of the biggest stars on television with "the apprentice" and it would have been one of the biggest stories of the year. and by the way, the area was a public area, people all over the place. take a look. you take a look. look at her. look at her words. you tell me what you think. i don't think so. i don't think so. >> insult to injury. he's insul

. melinda gates. mary barra. bill gates. howard schultz, starbucks, get your caffeine going. and get the since, and tim kaine, of course. looking at a broader sort of stripe of the american public. >> these are folks who have been vetted. they vetted these folks. >> and these are formidable figures in their own right looking for the outside the box option for clinton, if she wanted someone not an elected official but had a long portfolio of accomplishment. a what might have been moment. >> good to see you. for carly fiorina's campaign. thank you for being with me, sarah. >> morning. >> if donald trump, if he had the capacity to discipline himself and not come out with these claims about there being some grand conspiracy, the election is rigged, how damaging could this latest e-mail story or all of these e-mail stories, how damaging could those be to hillary clinton? >> i know, if only we all got puppies and unicorns, but it would be extraordinarily damaging in any other cycle. the fact the e-mail itself said quid pro quo, this isn't inserted by reporters or commentators. patrick kennedy

you're in the trump realty distortion field that things he said didn't happen. he told howard stern these things, he said these things on the billy bush tape. he said these things over and over again about the sort of behavior he exhibits with women. you can't just redact them now and say that's not what he really meant, that's just a character he's playing on tv, i'm sorry, it doesn't work that way, especially when it's eyewitness evidence and direct evidence on the record from these folks and this is a guy who would get shredded if this went to discovery. i would be surprised if he comes through with any of these bluff about suing the times or suing these women. because if he gets in court, his story will collapse like a house of cards. >> the fallout of that tape was swift and severe, the bottom dropping out, a little bit post from the total depths. he can't win the election with the margins he has right now, you can attack the demographics and then give them what you want that to me strikes me as the biggest one. >> mathematically, with women voters, there's no path to victory for him

seen howard stern clips. i have ben offended by much of it, but donald trump, one of the first things he says is nobody has more respect for women than i do. >> it's interesting. i saw the shock and i was shocked by it, not by his behavior, but his admission to having committed what is an assault. but putting it in perspective, and of course, i didn't know about all the howard stern things when i worked for him, but taking that in and thinking about the way that he talked when i was there, it makes sense. he did talk about women wanting him and chasing after him. and you know, he had to tn people down, and women calling him all the time, movie stars and wives of friends of his. i can see where this kind of brag a -- >>io would lead to a comment like he made on that bus. >> whether it's talk or action, people want to say this is sexual assault. was it, when you were there, or even when you watched that tape at the very least, a man abusing his power to get things from women? >> yes, i think that's what he was saying, actually. i'm such a star that i can do this. and it didn't surprise

this weekend that donald trump, there is a released tape that donald trump on howard stern talked about when he owned these pageants that he would go into the women's dressing room to inspect when they were changing. it was reported in "times magazine" that not omnivonly he go in the dressing room to inspect the women but he will also go to miss teens u.s. a when they were undressing. these girls are freaking out when a man walking in when they were naked. that to me is utterly creepy. that >> we have asked do you support a man who would go in a dressing room of teenage 15-year-olds beauty contestants as they are changing. >> as you say, we have asked the campaign and the trump organization and the trump campaign for comments and at least as of my e-mails a few minutes ago, we have not yet received any comments. i am guessing they may say it is unstan sh unsubstantiated. we'll see what they say. mike pence to be fair, hey, lets not use that language. >>> good for him >> does that concern him? >> yes, of course, what donald trump is doing is setting himself up not just with a media

appearing on howard stern and being as he says, an entertainer. this is donald trump having a private conversation with somebody in a bus, that was picked up by a hot mike. and donald trump knew he had a microphone on him. i spoke with somebody who worked on "the apprentice" who said that this was not uncommon, that he would talk like this about members of the cast and crew, female members, judging them about -- by whether he would want to sleep with them, have sex with them. and that always, he knew that he was wearing a hot mike. he was aware of it. he didn't do anything to censor himself. and i think chuck is absolutely right to brick up the fact that he is only apologizing for the words, not the sentiment, and he is not apologizing to his wife, melania. most people, when they are caught doing something while they are married, saying something inappropriate, especially in a public way, the first apology they would give would be to their spouse. and when you're a political figure, you make that a very public apology. >> which he did not do in the 90 seconds, as you and chuck are say

different ways. in the archives of trump talking on the howard stern radio show, it's one of the things he talks about and sort of brags about with howard stern, he bragged about his status as the owner of the pagtd giving him cart blanch to walk backstage when women are changing and men generally aren't xed or allowed to be there. he can do it because he's the owner. we have seen him brag about doing that on the radio. now there's these new allegations, it's not an nbc story, nbc hasn't verified this, but there are young women who were involved in his pageants who say this wasn't just talk, he did just that? >> that's a buzz feed story that came out earlier today, another thing that is trump campaign has categorically denied, and in statement of denying that, they asked they wondered why this would be coming forthright now, we're very close to election, this is clearly not something the donald trump campaign wants to be bogged down in, but when you hear those allegations from those pageant girls about donald trump saying that he can go in because he does own the pageant. those are just

bad will things get for republicans on election day. joiping me now cornell belcher and howard dean former chair of the dnc. cornell, let me start with you. this is something you and i have been talking about through this election that agree that the top of the ticket and the down ballot congressional senate races and even others gubernatorial races for instance in north carolina are tethered they seem to have become untethered about a month ago now it seems that a big enough trump loss can't help but drag a lot of them down. >> that's a good point. i mean, i think what you'll see now are democrats really trying to tie the republican brand around one of the most unpopular candidates for president ever. and one of the things that i will point to is back when i was actually working for governor dean as his pollster at the dnc, around 2006 in our internal polling, we saw the generic horse race open up to 11 or 12 points. and historically, you do need that sort of ten-point gap to be opened up in order for us to flip the house because, as you know, the seats are so ger gerrymandered. th

respectful. again we have him using hyperbole on howard stern. this is what people do. megm megman kelly went on howard stern and talked about the size of her breasts. now that's being twisted and used against him. the media is trying to turn it into a factual statement about how he behaves. it is silly talk on howard stern. this is how people behave. meghan kelly is a great example. >> there is a tape. we have to take donald trump at face value. about what he says about himself. >> thank you. >> coming up, from the clinton camp, a clinton supporter joins us next. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc, the place for politics. you can go ahead and stick with that complicated credit card that limits where you earn bonus cash back. or... you can get the quicksilver card from capital one. quicksilver earns you unlimited 1.5% cash back on ev-e-ry purchase, ev-e-ry-where. i shouldn't have to ask. what's in your wallet? ugh. heartburn. sorry ma'am. no burning here. try new alka-seltzer heartburn relief gummies. they don't taste chalky and work fast. mmmm. incredible. can i try? she doesn't have

said when he's spoken about women, on the howard stern show, saying that it's very hard to be a ten if you're flat chested, they've written it off and donald trump himself has written it off to saying that he used to be an entertainer and this was all part of his act, part of his show. that he wasn't a politician, that people understand that there's a separate personality involved here. this conversation, though, chris, is much different. it's a conversation that was captured, that was supposed to be a private conversation, that was captured on a hot mike. he didn't think these words would get out there. and they're even more graphic, explicit, lewd than we have heard in the past from donald trump, even though we've heard some pretty outrageous statements from him, when it comes to women in the past. i will say this, there's been a number of articles outlining donald trump donald trump's alleged sexist behavior towards women, his misogyny towards women, there was the ap article dham out last week that interviewed 20 different cast and crew members from "the apprentice" all tubb dona

done those howard stern interviews. if i know then what i know now. you go on there and of course it's whatever. but what he said, again in the light of day in the middle of a presidential campaign is absolutely searing. >> it's almost an apology right there. almost. it's this close to saying i shouldn't have said that. but instead he said i played it for laughs. it was a joke. i did it for that reason. i'm not sure that's going to fly. >> which will be very offensive, willie, to other people for other reasons. >> it's the same rationale he used when he was talking to howard stern and you have to dismiss it and throw it to the side. that's his entire life? are we supposed to discard everything he said and believed in for 69 years and only take into account what he said for the last year and a half. >> especially when that celebrity is what's gotten him to where he is now. you take good with the bad. there's no doubt that some of the comments regarding the women especially what he did last week on his own when his staff wanted him to move off of it was so devastating. think it's on

. i'm joined now by beth fouhy, along with howard fineman with the "huffington post" and an msnbc political analyst. beth, let's try to figure this out. if we say it's not illegal, but there's an interesting packaging going on. if you want tom hanks, you have to take these other two people. you want the director, you've got to -- in the case of doug band, it seems like if you want to get involved with the clinton global initiative, okay, the clinton foundation, can you get some speeches for the former president. by the way, can we borrow the airplane? i don't know how it works, but this is how it looks in these e-mails. >> bill clinton at the time was this incredibly popular ex-pet. everybody wanted him. we all know how charismatic he is. but apparently he knows nothing about managing money or managing his own time. he trusted doug band to do that work for him. so doug band, ingeniously, one might say, figured out how to make himself rich and enrich the clinton foundation, all at once. >> so when people want to be grabbed for a generation contribution, the clinton foundation, why

to do all the tapes on howard stern. they hook him on. they try to get from him some, son unappropriate and dirty language. >> and now quickly, let's listen to what howard stern himself has said about this. >> a lot of the show that i've been doing for my entire life, radio show, publicly, is an effort to sort of do quote-unquote locker room talk, to just express all kinds of [ bleep ] and just not even care what anyone thinks. you know, that kind of thing. but you know, this idea of locker room talk, i got to tell you something, all the times i've been around guys and believe me, when i'm around guys, 85% of the time you're talking about [ bleep ]. but i have never been in the room where someone has said grab them by the [ bleep ]. >> so even howard stern disagrees with donald trump about what locker room talk is. >> well, also, he talks about things an awful lot and knows that's not something you can do, to grab someone by that area. there's no handle. trump talking about this stuff is a little like rick tamblyn from "anchorman", or he doesn't know what he's talking abou

once said something to howard stern on howard stern's radio show about vajienas. it's something he said years ago and something he said at the end of a week. we've discovered he said at the end of a week where donald trump said everything he could possibly say in the first presidential debate to lose that debate and then said everything he could possibly say every day since then to lose the week. >> there is a tweet storm that is rising over trump tower. >> it's very small writing. >> who gets up at 3:00 in the morning to engage in a twitter attack against a former ms. universe? >> that, i don't know. i just don't know. >> really, why does he do things like that? >> i'm a big boy. >> this is a 70-year-old man running for election. 39 days before the election, who's tweeting about a sex tape. >> there is no sex tape. it's all made up. >> somebody said, donald, you're a politician. >> the weight shaming of that woman and the fact that he still did it today is disgusting and perverted and makes women really angry. >> what a bunch of losers. >> there's only one pig in this whole story,

at "the washington post" and howard fineman, global editorial director of "huffington post" and an msnbc political analyst and katie packer is a republican strategist, formerly with the romney campaign. i'll leave the pugilistics aside for a second here. robert costa, i've never heard biden lay this out so clearly. the fact that we have this meritocracy gone bankrupt, where only the people at the very top academically are given any consideration by the democrats in terms of policy. he speaks with personal experience, it seems, for a guy who went to university of delaware for example, about this almost british-style system, if you didn't go to oxford or cambridge, don't talk, we're not listening. >> it's a fascinating interview, especially at this political moment as democrats look at the map and they wonder, in places where trump has been popular in the industrial midwest, can they make some gains? can they connect with these aggrieved voters who look at globalization and are unanticipate, are frustrated with the economy. and biden made the point that is not just about policy and i

to point out, when howard dean made claims that donald trump may have taken some sort of drug after the first debate, me included went after howard saying this is absurd. to frank, to you first, what is donald trump thinking here, and david axelrod said hillary clinton shouldn't even participate in the next debate. >> i think we have to stop looking for logic and reason in what donald trump is doing. you're asking this about the hillary drug comment. i think someone asked this earlier in the program about going after paul ryan. donald trump isn't behaving rationally or with any strategy at this point. he's behaving as a hurt, wounded animal who is making a lot of noises. sort of death throws rattle. i don't thing we can look for logic in it. the trajectory he's on, he could end up wearing an aluminum foil hat and saying he's receiving transmissions from mars at the rate he's going. >> charlie, paul ryan, what is donald trump's plan here going after paul ryan? and if he continues to, what is paul supposed to do? >> well, keep in mind that donald trump is coming to wisconsin today. we

about not treating women respectfully when he goes on "the howard stern show." republicans, you've got what you paid for. there's no surprise here. and now the question is, how bad is it going to get? >> i could talk to you all day. we've got to take a break but thank you so much. greatly appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> up next an nbc news. arian speaking up on trump's lewd comments made about her in that "access hollywood" video. we're going to play what she's saying now, plus, talking live with the ohio republican chairman who's called the donald trump whisperer and said he needs to change course to win ohio. that's next. i'm only in my 60's. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized med

committee chairman and former vermont governor howard dean. good morning, governor dean. besides that tweet, hillary clinton has not publicly spoken on this. what is her strategy? she's just warming up? >> good morning, stephanie. i think there is an old saying in politics, when your opponent is digging a deep hole, don't get in the way. you really can't say much about what donald trump has to say. everybody said it, ordinary people in the street are saying it, so what is the point of people like me or certainly sillry tsill hillary the candidate getting into this at all. it is most extraordinarily destructive thing i've seen a candidate say. >> there is a lot of calls out there from republicans for donald trump to drop out. he says he won't. what do you think happens next? >> i have no idea. i'm not an xhert expert on poli. but from what i can tell, there is no way of getting him off the ticket unless he says i don't want to be on the ticket anymore, unless he drops dead. neither of which i think is very likely. this will go on for another 31 days and we'll have an election on n

belcher and howard dean, that's "all in" for this evening. the rachel maddow show now. >> i owe you one. >> no. >> thanks, dear. in the fall of 2007. the gods of fate and chance and gambling in las vegas decided that it was time for the frontier casino to come down. because it was las vegas and americans love to see things blow up, they decided to do it right. it slated for demolition, but they built basically a fireworks display, like flares on to the center of the building. rather than just saying four, three, two. they had the lights count down. then they had a big tnt plunger. you didn't just hear them announce they were going to blow it up, you could see it acted out on lights in the front of the building as they were destroying the building. just in case the explosion alone was not entertaining enough for you, they put extra explosions on the thing they were exploding. >> three. >> two, one. and then comes the tnt. yeah, this is like the most american explosion in the history of america. this is like meat with meat sauce. that is how they took down the frontier casino in las vegas

, howard schultz of starbucks. michael bloomberg, tim cook. senator sanders. you have a little bit of a mix here. ceo, government officials. the rival senator elizabeth warren was voted as well. it is interesting to see the internal machinations in terms of a good vp pick. i was covering the campaign at the time. i have been covering it since the beginning. i can tell you the one consistency was tim kaine was high at the top of the list. she was interested in tim kaine not only because of his background and what he brought to the table. she genuinely likes him. thinks she can work with him. ultimately that became her pick. i want to make a point about the news conference. the president saying i will be subdued about donald trump today. he unleashed on him at the end. it under scores this notion that for president obama this is something personal for him and he really does feel concern about what all of this might mean for the democracy. i think you will see the clinton campaign pick up on that. i wouldn't be surprised if we heard echoes of what president obama said when she takes t

piece. >> have you seen ron howard's beatles documentary if. >> i hear it's spectacular. >> "morning joe" is back. >> you can watch it on hulu. >> in a moment. >>> it's been an interesting few days. i don't condone what was said and i spoke out against it, but the other part of my faith is, i believe in grace. i've received it. i believe in it. i believe in forgiveness and we're called to forgive as we have been forgiven. last night my running mate showed the american people heart, he showed humility to the american people, and then he fought back and turned the focus to the choice that we faced and i'm proud to stand with donald trump. >> that is my good friend "meet the press" -- mike pence. we turn to mika. >> "wall street journal," this is fred stevens. donald and the enablers. indiana governor mike pence is supposed to be the sober side of pence/trump, imposes ideological discipline on a ticket that would otherwise blow which ever way mr. trump puffs. but that misreads mr. pence's role in this disastrous gop season. mr. pence isn't his boss's junior political partne

huffington post," howard fineman, april ryan, and "the washington post'" robert costa. robert, let's get to this thing. the way we were looking at this coming up debate on sunday is, well, the bar is so low after the disastrous performance in the first debate. but now i'm getting from your reporting and others that trump has to win. he has to be a whiz on sunday, because he has to turn things around the from what looks like right now a sinking ship. >> the bar is very high on sunday. are they really going to have strong, across-the-board performances this november 8th? trump is not the kind of guy, based on his friends and associates who wants to even be having a mock debate or a dry run. but he feels compelled to do so tonight in new hampshire. >> what kind of a bar do you put for him? make a call here. does he have to clearly win -- let's put it this way. does he have to do at least as well as his running mate did on tuesday, and walk away known to be by all quarters, including podesta, the chairman of the clinton campaign, he had the poise, he was likable, basically, he won. does

and howard fineman at "the huffington post" and msnbc political analyst. tomorrow night i said it's the kitchen sink night. i think he'll throw whatever he has, the last chance to speak to 80 million people. >> speaking of trump advisers today debate prep is all about aggression. trump will come out and throw everything he's got at secretary clinton, personal, professional, political. it's all going to come out. >> how big will the issue of the email of the fact there was this discussion between the undersecretary of state and an fbi agent over how to grade an email which related to benghazi? >> at his speech in colorado springs it was at the top of his remarks. it was scripted so behind the scenes steve bannon bringing it to the top of its list. >> you can't bring a prompter to the debate. >> when donald trump is on the talking points can he deliver attacks effectively and hillary clinton will face tough questions about this tomorrow night as she should, but he gets sidetracked easily. she got under his skin memorably at the first debate and it is not always easy for him to stay fo

interview on the howard stern show from 2005. this is just three months after marrying his current wife, melania. >> i'll tell you. i'll go backstage before a show and everyone is getting dressed, ready, no men are anywhere and i'm allowed to go in because i'm the owner of the pageant and therefore, i'm inspecting it. make sure. >> you're like. >> is everyone okay? standing there with no clothes. is everyone okay? you see these incredible looking women, so i sort of get away things like that. >> responding saying in part, quote, these accusations have no merit and have already been disproven by many other individuals who were present. mr. trump has a fantastic record of empowering women throughout his career and a more accurate story would be to show how he's been a positive influence in the lives of so many. that coming from the trump campaign. with me now on the phone, women's rights attorney, gloria allred. gloria, i understand that you were also representing some women who are accusing donald trump of inappropriate conduct. what can you tell us? >> hi, good morning, craig. let's put

there, he bragged about that on "howard stern" years ago. this is a pattern as secretary clinton said of things he's said and done throughout the last two decades at least. so i don't think she'll shy away from it and respond strongly. >> if this was a man as a democratic nominee, would you advise differently? >> no. look, i think the speech that michelle obama gave in new hampshire earlier this week or last week, actually, was an incredible speech. and she said, what example does it make for our children, for our little girls, what do they feel about hearing someone call them all sorts of names? and worse for the young boys, is this a role model that we want our young boys to act like? look, the president of the united states isn't perfect, we know that. they transgress and many presidents have. but to say and brag about conduct like this is beyond the pail. what donald trump said on that tape is a crime. you understand, if someone were against a woman's will to grab her in her genitals, that's a crime called indecent assault. it's a criminal offense. in some states a felony. and in

tactics in this race, let's take a look at our "hardball" roundtable, howard fineman, a familiar guy here, global editor, director of "the huffington post," susan page, with usa today, and jonathan capehart. we've got heavyweights. i think it's kind of dismal they have a 59% dead even negative. that's high. that's not a happy -- it's halloweenish, but it's not happy for -- >> it's appropriate for halloween, and i don't think there's anybody who studies politics who's covered it the way we have for a long time for heavyweights. we've never seen a presidential campaign this negative, this sort of lacking in the lift of a driving -- >> yes! >> no talk of the future, no talk of the sunny road ahead and the hope that we would have. the word hope has basically been banished from this campaign. >> i'm with you! >> and it's grim. there's never been anything like it in our memories. >> i go back to 1952, and the only thing i can think of is '68 after bobby and martin luther king was killed. all of that stuff, we're left with an old liberal who's been around too many times, and another guy looks li

we've heard for made on the howard stern show or on television, everybody saw them. that's an anest sizing effect. these are private comments that trump made. he didn't think anyone else was listening. that makes it a more revealing picture of him. the other thing that's interesting about this, what we're talking about is not trump just words. it's not just trump saying look at that lady, she's a ten, isn't she beautiful with her legs, it's not just a description. it's what trump is saying about his own actions. he's describing things he's done in theast and will do in the future, not just words but actions, kissing women, groping them. both of these apologies deal with this as words. it was the wrong thing to say. doesn't really address it as an indicator of trump's actual conduct. was interested to see if in the second apology he would say i know i said that i kissed women and groped them but that was just a joke. i don't really do that or didn't really do that. he didn't address it as contact. it was more improper speech in both cases. >> well the things he's actually describing

nothing and no one. what do you call a father who publicly gives howard stern permission to call his daughter a piece of ass. to reduce her to that. a man who doesn't respect his daughter respects no one. respect is something donald trump demands from everyone in his family and on his payroll but does not know how to give, because donald trump has no comprehension of what respect actually is, and i want future historians to understand that about donald trump. 100 years from now, 200 years from now, i want it to be very clear to historians, that donald trump was a candidate like no other. i want donald trump to occupy as many poisoned footnotes in our history as possible. he, himself, will surely be a minor footnote in presidential history, in the era of the first black president and the first woman president. there will be no uprising by the trump brigades when he loses, no matter what he says to them. those voters have been on the losing side of the last two presidential elections, and they immediately turned against the candidates who led them to those defeats, john mccain and mitt

in the past. >> the guy used to go on howard stern to talk about, you know, chest sizes and whether a woman could be a ten. >> he said it's hard to be a ten if you're flat chested. melania if she got into a car crash would he still love her. as long as a certain part of her body was still intact, he'd be fine. listen, he was an entertainer. this is howard stern. but if you looked at how he changed his rhetoric about women, it hasn't changed that much. he said he cherishes women on the campaign trail. he used to at least. she gained a massive amount of weight and that's a real problem. does that matter to those who support donald trump? not at all. we talked to 20 women the other day in florida. not a single one of them cared. they thought hillary clinton was worse. >> he needs a lot more than the 40%. >> he's doing so poorly with women right now in general that he needs to find a way to connect with them, to convince them that he's on their side. the campaign knows this. he hasn't done that. >> katy tur, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> joined now by wendy davis from texas and r

, alex with democratic strategist of numerous presidential candidates including howard dean, steve mcmahon. thank you, and alex, for being with me. donald trump called hillary clinton a nasty woman wednesday. texas congressman brian bayhbon. this is what he said on fox news a short time ago this morning. >> he called her a nasty woman. >> well? >> is that appropriate? >> you know what, she's saying some nasty things. >> do you think it's appropriate to call her a nasty woman. >> i'm a genteel southerner. >> that means no? >> i think sometimes a lady needs to be told when she's being nasty. >> alex? what? >> wow. >> donald trump should focus on the issues. when donald trump talks about the issues, talks about hillary clinton's record or barack obama's record and now hillary clinton wants to continue that, that is when he does the best. the first 20 or 30 minutes of the debate on wednesday night were probably the best 20 or 30 minutes of the entire campaign for donald trump because he was focused on the issues. he was serious. he was sober. he was talking about where he wants to lead