♪ >>> the following is a cnn special report. >> trump! trump! >> he's the most unconventional candidate in modern history. >> i'm not using the lobbyists, i'm not using donors. i don't care. i'm really rich. >> an outsider. >> our politicians are stupid. >> upending the rules of the game. >> he represents sort of an earthquake in a box to washington, d.c. >> thank you. >> winning more primary votes than any republican ever. >> you've given me the honor to lead the republican party to victory this fall. >> he's a father of five. >> i'm the woman i am today because of how he raised me. he taught me to dream big. >> a billionaire businessman. >> anything he touched turned to gold. >> donald's a star. like him or not like him. >> he nearly lost everything. >> how close was he to going personally bankrupt? >> very. >> he's the master of the comeback. >> trump is definitely back. much to the chagrin of some people. >> anybody who can take a building for a million dollars and turn it into $550 million, that's fantastic. >> he's combative. like to punch him in the face, i tell you. >>

. ♪ >>> happening now. avalanche of accusations. two more women come forward claiming that donald trump forcibly kissed and groped them. one a total stranger. the other an apprentice contestant. you will hear from both. melt down of trump accusers, calling their claims 100% fabricate. he's also targeting, democrats, media, and theest lishment saying he is facing one big fix. >>> matter of hours? that was nine hours ago. can mike pence back up his claim. >>> and come on, man. president obama answers trump with a verbal equivalent of a shrug and a sigh. >>> i'm wolf blitzer you're in the situation room. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news, two more women come forward alleging donald trump assaulted them. saying trump forced himself upon her when she met with him, looking for a job. >> he then asked me to sit next to him. i complied. he then grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me again very aggressively and placed his hand on my breast. >> another woman telling the washington post trump reached under her skirt and groped her in a club in the 90s. >> the trump campaign calli

on the areas feeling the effects we begin with donald trump's presidential campaign in what is clearly i think objectively the greatest crisis it's ever faced. trump vows today to stay in the race. the fact that he has to talk about that in october shows you how dire it is. just last hour, this was the scene outside of trump tower in midtown manhattan, came out to greet supporters who came to gather in an impromptu rally of support. in the upper echelons of the gop, we can tell you there are calls coming up and down for trump to step aside, publicly and privately. all of this of course after that infamous audio leaked yesterday of offensive comments that trump originally made about several women back in 2005. it was on a hot mic during a recording for "access hollywood," a show owned by nbc universal, which is the parent company of msnbc. >> i have to use some tic-tacs in case i just start kissing her. i'm automatically attracted to beautiful women. i just start kissing her. when you're a star you can do anything, including grabbing them by the [ bleep ]. >> and mike pence weig

that are awkward right now about being a true blue died in the wall donald trump supporter and they definitely are. they are all over the country and in all 50 states. you probably know some of them. if you weren't one yourself. you are definitely related to one of them at least by marriage. so em fa thiz -- or sympathize even if you can't empathize. say you are a donald trump supporter for real, say you live in virginia. you're a woman who supports donald trump and for whatever reason, your politics or your own, you really like donald trump. you fervently like donald trump and you want him to be president. and you are a little bit worried and, frankly, a little bit annoyed with your own political party because you have heard over the last few days that the national republican party is wavering in its support for the republican party's own presidential nominee this year. this guy who you very much support. you've seen news of that over the last few days. you've seen prominent republicans running for office and republican prominent elect owed figureses over the last few days dump don

as if kaine couldn't stand hearing anything said well about donald trump, couldn't stand hearing anything said bad about hillary clinton. it was emotional. pence was solid if often misleading. kaine was forever trying to get his point in, sometimes successfully but not impressively. but if you think this is how i look at the two of them generally, you couldn't be more wrong. my job isn't to say who i preferred on the issues going into the debate, it's to say who i thought did well and advanced his position during it. after trump's bad week last week, the big question now whether pence's strong performance last night was enough to reverse the momentum toward clinton. before trump and her face off again on sunday night, so they have a few days to do this. will trump be able to exploit his running mate's performance last night to get things headed back in his direction? well, throughout last night, tim kaine tried repeatedly, as i said, to engage with pence, attempted to hold him accountable for everything donald trump has said and done over the course of the campaign. but pence del

. donald trump and hillary clinton in their second presidential debate. >> one big issue hanging over the match up, of course, the video of donald trump making lewd comments that has caused republicans to abandon him in droves in just the past 36 hours. seemingly putting his entire campaign in jeopardy, tonight. >>> it all comes down to this, three hours away, two candidates, one winner. >> good afternoon, wolf. i'm erin burnett. >> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> welcome. in matter of hours hillary clinton and donald trump will come face-to-face again. the debate could be donald trump's last chance to save his campaign and make it anywhere near the white house. both candidates landed in st. louis just a little while ago. it's the first time trump left his building in new york city since the scandal of a leaked audio tape broke friday night. one of trump's top advisors say he will apologize. the candidate is also promising to go further and make clinton answer for her own husband's infidelities. first, i want to play for you the tape looming over this evening. i must

night's showdown in st. louis. trump nonetheless took his own trumpian version of a victory lap. he continued his line of attack against hillary clinton. mr. trump: bill clinton was the worstof user of women -- abuser of women ever to sit in the oval office. he was a predator. hillary clinton systematically attacked and discredited the victims of sexual harassment and assault. these things are not written by the media, but they are true. written by many books. these victims included kathleen willey, one nina broderick, paula jones, connie handsy, eileen, sandra allen james, chris cesar chavez. there are many more. mike pence, after a weekend of wavering, made an unequivocal affirmation of support of his running mate in charlotte. gov. pence: it takes a big man to know when he is wrong and admit it and have the humidity to -- humility to apologize and be vulnerable with people. donald trump last night showed that he is a big man. as i said last weekend, i do not condone what is said, and a spoke out against it, but the other part of my faith is that i believe in grace. [applause] gov

"new day" starts right now. >>> tumultuous 24 hours for the donald trump campaign. a ton of republicans have pulled their support. >> there is a bit of an elephant in the room, and it is a troubling situation. >> there are growing calls for trump to step down. >> governor, should mr. trump withdraw? will you be staying on the ticket? >> the media and establishment want me out of the race so badly. i will never drop out of the race. i will never let my supporters down. >> there is nothing that is going to cause his dropping out. >> are you staying in the race? >> 100%. >>> 7:01 on a sunday morning, and always so happy to have you with us. keeping us company. i'm christi paul. victor blackwell in st. louis, missouri. victor, because, of course, big day. >> yes. yes. it is a very big day. i'm at washington university, the site of tonight's second presidential debate, and as the final preparations are made, the republican party finds itself in a state of chaos facing political catastrophe unlike anything in modern times. in just a few hours here at washington university donald t

updates on the storm and its aftermath throughout the hour, but we begin with donald trump's campaign in what is clearly its worst crisis ever. donald trump himself defiant, vowing on twitter he will stay in the race but calls going all over the place from top republicans saying he should step aside. this is essentially unprecedented territory. the audio, of course, leaked. you probably heard by now, of deeply offensive comments trump made about women and potential assault back in 2005, on a hot mike during a recording for "access hollywood." a show we show note owned by nbc universal, the parent company of msnbc. >> in case start kissing her. you know? i'm automatically attracted to beautiful -- i just start kissing them. it's like a magnet i don't know. and when you're a star thet he you do it. you can do anything. >> whatever you wantants grab them by the [ bleep ]. >> a fluid story with a range of eresponsibles rolling in. new one from trump's wife melania saying, "basically the words my used are unacceptable and fnszive to me. this does not represent the man that i know." also do

abandoning donald trump today, saying he won't campaign, he won't focus on and he won't advocate for donald trump's efforts to win the white house. for his part, donald trump has come out firing with this scorching tweet. let me read it for you. quote, paul ryan should spend more time on balancing the budget, jobs and illegal immigration and not waste his time on fighting republican nominee. all of this after this video we spent the last six or seven minutes discussing and one of the most vicious debates in u.s. political history. let's go to manu raju from st. louis. walk me through this stunning face-off with trump and speaker ryan. >> reporter: this has been going on for several months, as you recall, right after that presidential primary when donald trump became the presumptive nominee. paul ryan decided he was not ready to endorse donald trump. they spent several weeks trying to come up with a reason why paul ryan should get behind donald trump. eventually, he did. paul ryan spoke at the republican national convention. then a few months later, donald trump said he's not ready to

and donald trump. but this debate is sure to feature plenty of jousting pence as theyand defend the honor of their respective nominees. mark: this campus attracts a pretty raucous crowd. there are a lot of cheering protesters round both for and cleansed clinton -- for and against clinton, for and against trump. pleased to vice presidential nominees are mild-mannered. this is their moment in the sun. they will not be talked much about after tonight. this is an opportunity for two g about the ideas they are putting forward and their negative critiques of the other side. we might get clarity about policy and critique that does not come through often when clinton and trump are front and center. john: it is interesting because tim kaine and hillary clinton basically agree on everything, mike pence and donald trump do not. it is a substantive debate. both of these guys have been in politics for a long time. watching mike pence trying to do what is his one job tonight, which is literally the only thing, making voters a little more comfortable with electing donald trump. pence has ties to t

trump. criticism of hillary clinton and her policy. when it comes to debating skills, donald trump may have been upstaged by his number two. it was a narrative mike pence was trying to knock down. he called trump the ultimate winner of last night's face-off. trump was in a credit-taking mood today in nevada or putting pence on the ticket. mr. trump: how many of you watched the vice presidential debate last night? [cheers and applause] mr. trump: mike pence did an incredible job, and i am getting a lot of credit because that as my first so-called choice. my first hire as we would say in las vegas. he was a good one. phenomenal. he was cool. he was smart. just take a look at him. he was meant to be doing what he is doing, and we are very proud of governor mike pence. thank you, mike pence. >> speculation and reporting that donald trump did not like the notion he would be called not as good of a debater as mike pence and mike pence was seen as helping him out of the hole. how do you think mike pence is reacting personally? john: there is another element. the defense of trump policies. tha

debate day. >> 90 minutes is what donald trump has if he survives another 30 days in this race. all this because of the stunning video of 2005 of donald trump casually talking about what amounts to sexual assault. bragging about the fact that he could grab a woman's genitals and get away with it because he's famous. this is the video which, needless to say, is quite graphic. >> i better use some tic tacs. you know, i'm automatically attracted to beautiful. and when you're a star, they let you do it. grab them by the [ bleep ] and you can do anything. >> donald trump has since apologized. some are saying the apology does not go far enough. this all as the top leaders of his own party are now jumping ship. it is easier to track who is still with him than who is against him at this point. among those condemning his remarks, trump's running mate mike pence issuing an astonishing rebuke, refusing to defend him. hillary clinton for her part has remained largely silent on this likely by design. she's expected to break the silence early on in the debate when she takes the stage in just a ma

arizona senate debate. today, donald trump responded to comments made by john mccain last night. we will show you some of senator mccain's comments and then donald trump's tweet. i agreed with congresswoman kirkpatrick about the importance of infrastructure. that is why i was able to get i 11 into the highway bill for a cord or that goes all the way into canada. forpreciate congresswoman -- kirkpatrick's support. if someone wants to say something disparaging of me, i understand that. i do not understand it when it is said about other men and women who have been imprisoned. i spoke out strongly against it. i spoke out strongly on several other issues where i thought mr. trump was absolutely wrong. i have not been shy about it. y, ason of the khan famil man who literally sacrificed his life, all those things i thought were very wrong. when mr. trump attacks women and demeans women in our nation and where i that is a point have to part company. it is not pleasant for me to renounce the nominee of my party. he won the nomination fair and square. but i have daughters. i have friends. i have s

>>> happening now. sore loser. donald trump stands by his refusal for certain to say that he'll accept the outcome of the election. the backlash growing. after the debate bombshell. tonight, trump is about to be face-to-face with hillary clinton again. can they contain the fireworks we saw on stage? >>> one-two punch. the president and first lady ramp up their criticism of donald trump in back-to-back campaign appearances on behalf of hillary clinton. this hour, the obamas on the campaign trail and on the offensive. >>> putin's puppet. just hours after trump and clinton sparred over the kremlin leader's influence, new evidence of russia's link to a politically charged cyber attack. we'll have the alarming details. could your e-mail be vulnerable to foreign hackers? >>> failure to launch. north korea tests its missile power again, as the u.s. and south korea take new steps to counter kim jong-un's nuclear threats. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> let's get

last night when the family guy gets on the access hollywood bus with donald trump. you' g to see this. donald trump is changing the subject to rigged elections, and he wants that to be the subject, because it's changing the subject from accusations of sexual assault by donald trump and donald trump himself bragging about sexual assault on video. i hope you don't mind if i don't change the subject for donald trump. >> this is a rigged election, folks, okay? >> i am in charge of elections in ohio, and they're note going to be rigged. >> people who have died ten years ago are voting. >> are there cases of voter fraud? absolutely. but it's rare. >> you are, as a statistical matter more likely to be hit by lightning. >> he can't get fair coverage. >> he's a victim. >> yeah, that's a victim. >> the media is trying to rig the election by giving creddance to false stories. >> we would probably believe him more if he wasn't groping the air the entire time. >> he's made comments about the way some of the women who are accusing him look. >> he will say it as he feels it. >> do you feel you're mo

>>> so donald trump claims sees going to dig deeper. reaching into his pocket for campaign cash, but can he buy a big comeback with 13 days to go? >>> the nominee just renewed his feud with the gold-star father who lost his son in the iraq war. >>> michelle obama, the first lady of the united states, set to appear side by side with hillary clinton today. >>> good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it is thursday, october 27th. 4:00 a.m. in the east. is donald trump going to open his wallet in the final weeks of the campaign? he will need to shell out $40 million in 12 days to meet his pledge. more on that in a moment. this morning, donald trump finds himself in a new back and forth with the father of the slain american army captain kahn. overnight, donald trump repeated his claim that khan would still be alive if he were president at the time. khan's father is lashing back. >> had i been president, captain khan would be alive today. we would not be in the horrible, horrible mistake. >> this is the most cruel thing you can say to grieving

loses a billion dollars in a single year? this is trump to a tee. he has taken corporate excess and made a business model out of it. he abuses his power, games the system puts his own interest ahead of the countries. it's trump first and everyone else is last. mark: he gave extended compared marks on this matter at a rally. thetrump: the unfairness of tax laws is unbelievable. it is something i have been talking about despite being a beneficiary. i am working for you, not for trump. i have legally used the tax laws to my benefit and to the benefit of my company. my investors and my employees. brilliantlyhave used those laws. john: that is not the only area where he is on defense. and some article out describe crass and sexist behavior i trump. -- by trump. he rented office space to an arabian bank with purported ties to hezbollah and hamas and today we learned that on friday the new york attorney general eric schneiderman sent him a letter letting him know the foundation -- ordering it to seize fundraising immediately. donald trump does not have all the many more new cycles left a b

donald trump over one response in the debate, sparking an outcry whether he'll accept hillary clinton if she wins. >> the media is so corrupt and the pile-on is so amazing. i will tell you at the time. i will keep you in suspense. >> one of the most stunning things i've ever heard in a presidential debate, ever. >> he basically laid in his own coffin with a hammer and nail and pounded the lid. lights out in american politics when you say something like that. >> he hit himself in the head and knocked himself out. >> giving the media yet another hammer to pound trump into pudding. talking points does not understand why donald trump does not understand that stuff like that hurts him. >> how many people in scranton, pennsylvania care about what he said in that answer compared to people in newsrooms that are whimpering and whining with their, you know, their lattes. >> are the pundits giving trump short shift on his otherwise solid performance? are they soothing themselves for his conduct? and is chris wallace praising himself on the question about sexual assault by trump and bill clinton.

>> i think it's important that we let trump be trump. >> tonight new poll numbers. a new down ballot reality and new concerns about donald trump damages going beyond the republican party. >> for me personally, if hillary clinton gets in, i myself, i'm ready for a revolution because we can't have her in. >> yeah. don't say that. >> i'm just saying it. >> plus more trump tape fallout. >> when you're a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. >> the conservative uprising against gop leadership for refusing to disavow trump. meanwhile, in florida. >> your vote, really, really, really counts. a lot. >> team clinton calls in backup to avoid repeating history and "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. with four weeks to the day until the election, the republican party's nominee for president has declared open war on the republican party. on defense and hemorrhaging endorsements after being caught on a 2005 tape making obscene predatory comments about what he likes to do to women, trump delivered a red meat performance making provocative attacks

heights. allege thaten donald trump sexually assaulted them years ago. the washington post published an account from a woman named kristin anderson claiming trump groped her at a new york nightclub decades ago. claimedovered -- she her decision to come forward was after the video of march. >> that explains it. 1990's i was in new york city and in a club with my friends. i am very clear on this. this is the vivid part for me. right, whoon my unbeknownst to me at that time was donald trump, put their hands up my skirt. he did touch my vagina through my underwear, absolutely. and as i push the hand away and i got up and turned around and i see these eyebrows, very distinct eyebrows of donald trump. i got up and i moved and i continued to talk with my friends. they said that is donald trump. i was like, ew. he is gross. he just put his hand up my skirt. that is not ok. we brushed it off and moved on. mark: after that, another woman named summer who was a contestant on "the apprentice" held a news conference. she said trump made sexually aggressive advances on her in 2007. here

with us, we begin with politics and the number of women coming forward to accuse donald trump of unwanted sexual advances has grown. a total of now eight women claim that donald trump touched them inappropriately. some say he forcibly kissed them. others say he groped their breasts and other private areas. >> he then asked me to sit next to him. he then grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me again aggressively and placed his hand on my breast. >> trump denies these accounts. this is the accusations that prompted trump earlier today to make these remarks. >> how about this crazy woman on the airplane? okay. can anybody believe that one? how about this. after 15 minutes, we don't know each other. after 15 minutes, she said, well, that was too much. 15 a minutes. with the ladies in this place, it would be one second then it would be smack. >> at the same rally just hours ago, trump made one if not the boldest statement of his campaign. >> the election is being rigged by corrupt media pushing completely false allegations and outright lies in an effort to elect her president. >> to

tonight with some breaking news. new allegations from women who say they were groped by donald trump without their concept. now, the word groped should imply that there wasn't con sent, but just be extra sure we all know what we're talking about here. let's just say i have been looking forward to the time when covering national politics no longer has to include a warning to get the kids out of the room, but we're not there yet, so i'll give you a second to put headphones on junior. okay, since last friday, since the release of the 2005 tape from access hollywood, showing lewd and frankly predatory remarks from donald trump, behind the scenes at a california tv shoot. that tape recording about grabbing women in the genitals and kissing them without their consent and getting away with it because he's a star. ever since friday, the hunt has been on for more tapes in tv show archives more tapes wrchb donald trump had a habit of talking that way. but what happened tonight is women coming forward on their own to talk about what they say is donald trump's past behavior toward them. in real

final faceoff between hillary clinton and donald trump. >>> up next, steve kornacki. steve, i will head to the airport. see you there. >> see you in vegas. try to keep losses to a minimum at the craps table. >>> good afternoon, i am steve kornacki live in new york. we are 21 days away now, three weeks and counting until election day. also we are now one day until the final presidential debate. first on our agenda today, donald trump's last ditch effort to try to close that double digit hillary clinton lead. >> this is our final shot, folks. in four years it's over. never going to be able to win. it is tilting, going to be a one party system. this is your final shot for the supreme court, for your second amendment. i mean, this is your final shot. >> minutes ago in that speech donald trump unveiling a new plan that he says will overhaul washington. we'll tell you what he's proposing in a minute. >>> also on the agenda, president obama back on the attack, going after donald trump over his claims that the clinton team is stealing the election. >> i would advise mr. trump stop whining

donald trump and hillary clinton will hold rallies in critical battleground states. but up next, donald trump's first interview with cnn in a month after his big event in washington, not for his candidacy but for his hotel and when we asked him talking about why leave the campaign trail for this ribbon cutting just 13 days before election day, he hit back. here he was. >> reporter: there's new audiotape of you talking about the fact that you really have relied on your popularity and the fact that people come to your events and that helps you with free advertising. is that what this was about? >> no, not at all this was just under budget ahead of schedule. we built a hotel that will be one of the great hotels of the world, just opened today, it officially opens today and we built it for less money than was anticipated and we built it ahead of schedule by over a y r year. >> reporter: and so for people saying you're taking time out of swing states to do this, you would say? >> i say the following. you have been covering me for the last long time. i have been covering eight stops and three

next wednesday. thank you for watching. >>> happening now, new low. donald trump hits bottom in his debate with hillary clinton, and in a new national poll which has him trailing by double digits, is the trump campaign in freefall and dragging down the republican party with it? >>> ryan's revolt. house speaker ryan says he no longer will defend donald trump and will focus on keeping the republican party's hold in congress. ryan tells republican voters to head for the exits if they need to. expanding the map. donald trump may step up their effort of getting more states. they may capture more states than the democrats thought they could capture. >>> is jim jong-unmaking a new rocket launch or some other flaws with the election? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >>> breaking news. after a shockingly nasty debate, the presidential candidates are back on the campaign trail today, and that presidential campaign has turned into an all-out brawl. after downplaying the explosive video of his vulgar and sexually aggressive remarks, trump went all out in last night's debate, aggr

they will vote for trump, i don't know. maybe i should be saying it. i may be hurting myself, you're right. you're right. maybe they are going to vote for trump. all right. let's forget that. it's okay for them to do it. >> vote early and vote often as long as you're voting for trump. donald trump -- good morning and welcome to "a.m. joy." saturday was a busy day for the campaigns. donald trump gave his version of the gettysburg address which his campaign said would be a serious policy speech outlining his first 100 days as president. >> every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign. total fabrication. the events never happened, never. all of these liars will be sued after the election is over. >> or that. just 11 hours -- just hours later an 11th woman came forward to accuse trump of sexual misconduct. >> in the penthouse suite i met donald again. when we entered the room he grabbed each of us tightly in a hug and kissed each one of us without asking permission. he was wearing pajamas. >> drake also said that trump asked her repeatedly to come back to his suite, at one

from the "new york times," two women on the record saying that donald trump did exactly to them what he had boasted about in that now famous "access hollywood" tape. she encountered donald trump outside the building. she said she turned and introduced herself, they shook hands but trump would not let go, and he began kissing home run cheeks, and he kissed me directly on the mouth, she said it didn't feel like an accident. another woman, jessica leads, says in the 1980s, she was seated next to trump on a flight to new york, in first class, after a meal was served, that's when donald trump groped her. >> it wasn't until they cleared the meal that somehow or another, the armrest in the seat disappeared. and it was a real shock when all of a sudden his hands were all over me. he started encroaching on my space and i hesitate to use this expression, but i'm going to and that is he was like an octopus. it was like he had six arms, he was all over the place. if he had stuck with the upper part of the body, i might not have got on -- i might not have got on that upset. but it's when he

. check this out. just outside is where donald trump will be appearing a couple of hours from now. he and hillary clinton set for back-to-back rallies here. new trump tapes, new obamacare numbers and new polling all complicating the picture. also grabbing political headlines this hour. new comments from the secretary of defense on the attempt to claw back enlistment bonuses. we have a lot to get to. first we'll talk about donald trump taking a question from the press. it's been weeks since it happened. he suggested maybe a rigged election stahappened in 2008. >> ask obama. tell him to look at his tape when he was running eight years ago. >> let's go live now to my fellow road warriors. we have jacob rascon and msnbc's katie hunt in coconut creek, florida, joining us in a little bit at the hillary clinton rally. jacob, talk us through what we are seeing as the biggest headlines today. we have trump, new tapes that have come out. what's standing out to you? >> what trump seems to want to focus on is the question you talked about, the first time it seemed he had taken a question like that. h

that's very clear. but not one clear sentence tonight from donald trump about anything involving syria that he would decide to do as commander-in-chief. >> lawrence o'donnell, thank to trump about anything involving syria that he would decide to do as commander in chief. >> lawrence o'donnell, thank you for being part of this conversation. let's bring chris matthews in. chris? >> well, thank you. i do think it was not a great night for american politics. it was probably something to slow the fires of frustration with the candidate of the republican party. but we'll see in the next 48 hours. we're here again on the campus of washington university in st. louis. a beautiful campus. after the second presidential debate between hillary clinton and donald trump. this one had a far less clear outcome, i believe. it did offer plenty of fire work. after a weekend of crisis, trump held a press avail with several women that accused bill clinton of sexual misconduct and rape. trump and clinton traded blows, accusing each other of lying, not paying taxes in his case, and being full of hate. l

. about news and pop culture. team trump verses, well, the entire media. his latest week of whoppers has some beat reporters say that his lying is getting worse. we'll ask two experts and this question, do newspaper endorsements still matter. we'll look at the red states papers speaking out against trump. plus, sean hannity was the subject of jokes on "snl" last night. first, let's peel back the curtain of this first surprise of october. trump's taxes are the story of the day, all over television, all thanks to this "new york times" headline. trump tax records, he could have avoided paying taxes for nearly two decades. this landed on the front page of this morning's paper. how did "the times" get ahold of these records. september 23, reporter suzanne craig walked over to his mailbox and pulled out a pile of mail and spotted a manila envelope. it said "trump tower. ' she was astonished. she wasn't sure if she believed it. here to tell us the rest of the story is reporter suzanne craig. so you received this envelope in the mail. what were the three pages inside and what did they tell u

holding up. >> they have a debate next wednesday. it will be interesting. >> what trump said, he is unshackled. we will have to see. >> thanks and have a good weekend. that with respects up this hour for me. see you sunday night, 6:30 eastern for nightly news. up next, steve. >> thanks for that. a busy afternoon and good afternoon. live here in new york, the countdown continues. 25 days away from election day. topping our agenda, more accusations now. two more women coming forward accusing donald trump of inappropriate conduct while trump steps up the campaign against them. >> some are doing it for probably a little fame. free fame. it's a set up. after many, many years, phony accusers come out less than a month before one of the most important elections in the history of our country. >> one of the new accusers, a former contestant on the apprentice tearfully describing a traumatic encounter with trump. what about trump's promise to produce evidence that will clear him of these accusations? >> i think it's coming and it's coming in a matter of hours. >> that's what trump's running m

going to be a lot of hot trump action that day in florida. at least keep your beeper on. >> i will do that. thank you, rachel. >>> a woman who was a participant on donald trump's show "the apprentice", will join us tonight and tell us what she heard and how she felt behind the scenes with donald trump, but first, does anyone know exactly where johnny knoxville is tonight? because it sure feels like he's running the trump campaign. >> i don't think i'm that outspoken to be honest with you, bill. >> oh, come on! >> he's attacked paul ryan. >> he's attacking john mccain. >> john mccain who has probably the dirtiest mouth in all the senate. >> i don't know what good it does to trash people. >> he's running an ad. >> north korea threatening, isis on the rihe rise. >> it's like apocalypse now. >> you're watching the split of the republican party. i think it's important that we let trump be trump. >> i'll compare my iq with anybody, okay? >> i think it's in his best interest, the party, his family, that he withdraw. >> why'd it take so long for some of them to finally walk away? we saw this

themselves from the top of their ticket. now the first resmons from trump the wife melania calling her husband's worse unacceptable. the latest crisis in trump's campaign and he's vowing to stay in the race. trump saying there's zero chance he's stepping down. this tweet just out "the media and establishment want me out of the race so badly. i will never drop out of the race. will never let my supporters down." that last part is all in caps. this after audio was leaked about offensive comments made back in 2009 happened on a hot mike i "access hollywood," parent economy of nbc news and msnbc. trump's wife melania weighed in, "the words my husband used are enacceptable to me." trump did apologize for his remarks last night in a video releases on his facebook page. take a look. >> i've never said i'm a perfect person. nor pretended to be someone that i'm not. i've said and done things i regret and the words released today on this more than a decade-old video are one of them. anyone who knows me knows these words don't reflect who i am. i said it. i was wrong, and i apologize. >> now

well under way, in person, early voeing kicking off today in florida. donald trump is wrapping a live event in tampa, crisscrossing the state, mixing what sounds like his closing argument with long running grievance about the polls, media, rigged system and all the rest. he says he thinks he's winning. cnn/orc polling shows otherwise. cnn inside politics anchor john king is here to lay it out by the numbers >> anderson, our new numbers show a tighter national race than other national polls but still a lead for secretary clinton heading into the stretch. let's pop up the numbers. 49%-44% among likely vote us in our new cnn/orc poll. abc poll over the weekend had it a at 12. 49%-44%. the third party candidate dropping a bit as we get closer to election day. that's fairly typical. five-point advantage among likely voters in our national poll. let's look at some of the reasons why. one, the gender question always prominent in this race. these numbers make the clinton campaign happy. yes, donald trump is winning nothing men, just barely. hillary clinton trying to make history as the f

trump. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. two words showcase today's campaign story. michelle obama. what she said about donald trump is the headline and the story of what she had to say promises, as we say in the news business, to have legs. it's going to go on. michelle was the undeniable star of this thursday, october 13th. she told a crowd in new hampshire she was shake ton the core by what donald trump said in 2005 about how he treats women. >> this is not something that we can ignore. it's not something we can just sweep under the regular as just another disturbing footnote in a sad election season. because this was not just a lewd conversation. this wasn't just locker room banter. this was a powerful individual, speaking freely and openly about sexually predatory behavior. and to make matters worse, it now seems very clear that this isn't an isolated incident. it's one of countless examples of how he has treated women his whole life. i know it's a campaign. but this isn't about politics. it's about basic human decency. now is the time fo

presidential nominee donald j. trump and i encourage you to vote for him on november 8th. as the allegations of sexual misconduct pile up, my conscience will not allow me to support the man i plan to vote for. several people have all condemndorsed over the last several days. "with all due respect" starts right now. >>> i'm jennifer jacobs. >> and i'm mike heilemann. the whole time, this real threat to america was carlos slim? >>> this already unprecedented week in presidential politics today reached new heights of drama and denial. two more women are alleging in stomach-churning detail that donald trump sexually assaulted them years ago. "the washington post" was out first today, publishing an account this morning from a woman named kristen anderson, who claims in vivid description that trump groped her at a new york nightclub decades ago. she explained her decision to come forward after the "access hollywood" video emerged. >> i was just like, wow! wow. that explains it. that explains what happened to me. in the early '90s, i was in new york city. and i was at a club with my fri

would be very serious. >> it was wicked funny without the visuals. well, last night, donald trump was offered yet another chance to apologize to the parents of captain khan who was killed if iraq. and once again donald trump didn't do it. instead, he said captain khan would be alive today if donald trump had been president then. captain khan's father will join us with his response, and we will also be joined by an army veteran who served with captain khan in iraq, but first, the biggest thing that the political media chose to pretty much ignore about last night's debate, and it was also the single strangest, most inexplicable thing that we have ever seen or heard in a presidential debate. >> did anybody see that debate last night! you never saw anything like that before. >> she was flabber fwasted, i can tell you. [ sniffing ] >> when he was pressed about how he behaves, he just doubled down on his excuse. >> this was locker room talk. >> a really weak excuse. [ sniffing ] >> i brief in redemption. i believe in second chances. >> it's just awfully good that someone with the temperamen

. before the debate, i stress, before the debate. donald trump appeared with some of the women allegedly assaulted by bill clinton and they were then seated in the front row and when it was started he apologized for what he called locker room talk. very embarrassed and i hate it. he pivoted and never stopped. at one point said he would appoint a special prosecutor, and later she would be in jail. and hillary attacked trump character. and foreign policy, taxation, the issues, yes, they came up. at the center of the debate was the trump videotape, hillary's e-mail and open borders revelation and just who is fit to sit in the oval office. my opinion? trump went in reeling and came out stable. clinton went in on a roll and she did not knock him out. we've said this many times. you have never seen anything like this. well, stay right there. "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ . >> if i win, i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. >> it's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in cha

airing tomorrow night here on cnn. we're glad you're with us. donald trump telling the "wall street journal" there is zero chance he'll quit this race despite a newly surfaced video in which he uses vulgar language and uses sexually aggressive remarks saying quote, when you're a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. you will hear him in his own words in just a moment. first, this stunning rebuke from trump's own running mate, mike pence just issuing a statement saying, quote, as a husband and father, i was offended by the words and actions described by donald trump in the 11-year-old video released yesterday. i do not condone his remarks and cannot defend them. i am grateful that he has expressed remorse and apologized to the american people. we pray for him and his family. and look forward to the opportunity he has to show what is in his heart when he goes before the nation tomorrow night. donald trump was supposed to be in wisconsin today for long awaited show of unity with the nation's highest ranking elected republican house speaker paul ryan. ryan was so sickened by th

. in t 10:00 a.m. out west. we begin this hour with a live picture of donald trump's rally in portsmouth, new hampshire. his first two rallies today amid the latest allegations of sexual misconduct. he's been denying the charges at his latest rallies and this morning on twitter. here's what he said moments ago about one of his accusers. >> it's a rigged election. because you have phony people coming up with phony allegations with no witnesses whatsoever. ending up from 20 years ago. 30 years ago. how about this crazy woman on the airplane? okay? i mean, can anybody believe that one? how about this? after 15 minutes, we don't know each other. after 15 minutes, she said, well, that was too much. and i decide -- 15 minutes? with the ladies in this place, it would be one second, and it would be smack. >> hillary clinton is off the campaign trail today after weighing in on the controversy at a fund-raiser in seattle last night. >> he has now said that he's going to engage in scorched earth attacks, as if what he had been doing wasn't already scorched earth attacks. maybe one of the

marine ignited charges against donald trump. but what does the marine think about all of that? the factor exclusive. he will be here tonight. >> no one has happier no, one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the donald. we can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter like did we fake the moon landing. >> also ahead, why did donald trump run for president in the first place? might it be because he really really doesn't like president obama? >> what a shame. >> caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins did right now. ♪ ♪ >> hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. the vice presidential debate and the election. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. well, it was livelier than i thought it would be. governor pence and senator kaine brought high presentation and very pointed attacks. mr. pence won the debate on points largely because he seemed more presidential and was more in control. according to abc news, senator kaine interrupted pence 70 times. the governor interrupted the senator

wallace, on october 19th. here's shep. >>> it's noon on the west coast. donald trump is fighting accusations from at least five different women that he groped or kissed them against their will. he says they are outright lies, that they never happened, and now donald trump is threatening a lawsuit. we'll hear from both sides and how the clinton campaign is looking to capitalize. >>> plus, the swing states are getting more and more important. we'll check on the state of the race in ohio, pennsylvania and florida because they matter. and the trump team's denial that it's pulling out of virginia. >>> the leak of apparent clinton e-mails is now growing into more of a flood. another couple of thousand documents out today. we'll see what they show. let's get to it. >>> and here we go again. donald trump is denying a firestorm of independent accusations from women who say he either kissed them or groped them without consent. in just the past 24 hours, reports have emerged from at least five different accusers who say they have come forward in response to the latest presidential debate wh

melania trump just into msnbc and nbc's katy tur is here with us with those very details. we're just getting these words in from her. >> melania trump just releasing a statement coming in through the campaign, saying that the words that my husband used are unacceptable and offensive to me. this does not represent the man that i know. he has the heart and mind of a leader. i hope people will accept his apology as i have and focus on the important issues facing our nation and the world. these 2005 audio recordings coming eight months after donald trump married melania, his third wife. >> right. >> and while she was pregnant with their child, barron trump. this is a scandal and a controversy that is unfolding by the minute. republican leader, republican senator, republican congressman, republican voices coming out one after another and either condemning donald trump or calling for him to step aside. many, many of whom say that they're just, frankly, not going to vote for him. kelly ayotte even saying that she's going to write in governor pence when she goes into the ballot booth in nove

trump would be a disaster for the country and the world. >> he is right now in prime time in the presidential election and he is on stage with hillary clinton. he got away from electoral politics. this was a guy whose whole career until the 2000 election and the house of representatives, he ran for president when she was 39 years old initially in 1988. ran again in 2000. talk about that adjustment after the 2000 election for al gore. he thought about running again in 2004. how close he has gotten to getting back into politics. if you looked at the polls, he had a lead for the nomination. he would have been the democratic nominee. he decided that he was going to take a different crack. that has been with him and he sdded it and carried it through his time. we would work on the state of the union message and he hadda list of things centered around the environment. he wanted to take up a cause to make a profound difference. >> al gore and the clinton, 1992 and bill clinton put al gore on the ticket and became vice president. by the end of the presidency, they were running in new yor

east, 6:00 out west. now here's what's happening. we begin with new reaction from donald trump amid the latest allegations of sexually inappropriate behavior n a series of tweets this morning, he ramped up his conspiracy theory behind the allegations. for example, in one tweet, he says this election is being rigged by the media pushing false and unsubinstant yated allegations. at one the rallies in north carolina last night, he told his supporters all of the claims are 100% false and pointed to a series of other possible motives. >> it's not hard to find a small handful of people willing to make false smears for personal fame. who knows, maybe for financial reasons, political purposes, or for the simple reason they want to stop our movement. they want to stop our campaign. very simple. >> trump's running mate mike pence didn't address the allegations as he came to his defense at a rally in florida yesterday. >> despite the willful ignorance in the media bull things clinton and the constant, the constant attacks levelled at my running mate in the national press, we continue to see mo

. trump to stop whining and go and try to make his case to get votes. >> on the eve of the final presidential debate. >> i don't believe the polls anymore. >> donald trump still questioning the legitimacy of american democracy. >> they even want to try and rig the election at the polling booths where so many cities are corrupt. >> new backlash from the left and the right. >> there's no evidence behind any of this. >> if whenever things are going badly for you and you lose, you start blaming somebody else. then you don't have what it takes to be in this job. >> obama's 2012 campaign manager jim messina joins me. plus veteran campaign lawyer ben ginsburg on what happens if a candidate refuses to concede. then as melania trump stands up for her husband -- >> did they ever check the background of these women? >> -- six people come forward to corroborate one allegation of sexual assault. tomorrow's debate and the issue notably absent from the first two showdowns. >> who is going to pay for the wall? >> mexico! >> when "all in" starts right now. good evening from beautiful las vegas wh

breaking news. >>> breaking news, scorched earth, donald trump takes new aim at hillary clinton and his own party. this is "cnn tonight," i'm don lemon. trump unleashing an angry hello of tweets against leaders calling house speaker paul ryan weak and i know effective and calling them no longer supporting him disloyal and now he's going to do what he wants. president obama reacting for the first time on camera about the infamous "access hollywood" video about trump making lewd comments about women. >> you don't have to be a husband or a father to hear what we heard just a few days ago and say that's not right. >> and donald trump speaking right now at panama city, florida, let's listen. >> the state of florida's lost one in four manufacturing jobs since nafta and china deals happened. thank you. i love you, too darling. it's beautiful. i love florida. i love the people of florida. i've created many, many jobs in florida. many, many jobs on miami beach, dural is a tremendous success, and mara lago and the clubs. hillary has done nothing for florida. when we were in the primaries i ran ag

john: i'm john heilemann. mark: and i'm mark halperin. all due respect to donald trump's statement today, he may have been above schedule, but you are a little lower count. mark: a schoolyard fistfight. dan hillary clinton message finale. less than two weeks away from the election, donald trump did what every underdog presidential candidate would do, attend a hotel ribbon-cutting with his family in washington dc. there has been some head scratching over this move, with critics accusing trump of foolishly taking time away from his campaign to promote his business interests. a perfect example of his management and leadership ability. for his part, trump gave what some are calling the most focused speeches of his entire campaign, in which he touted his hotel. and said the project was finished under budget and ahead of schedule and promised to bring the kind of ethnic to washington. for an interview for "the circ us" produced in conjunction with bloombergpolitics, i asked donald trump about what was a personal speech today. mr. trump: i was just trying to say we built a great building.