[ horns honking ] ♪ 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. it is a 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 dpoun. >> there is nothing that is going to make him drop out.

>>. welcome to sunday as we kounlt down to the debate tonight. it's 5:00 here an the east coast and i'm christi paul. so grateful for your company. victor blackwell in the place where it's going to happen tonight. victor. >> christi good morning to you. we're live in st. louis at washington university, the site of the next big showdown, the second presidential debate. we're beginning, of course, with the republican party in meltdown. facing a political disaster really unlike anything we've seen in modern times. a few hours from now here at washington university, donald trump will take the stage to battle with his own political survival. we're now less than a month before election day. top leaders of trump's own party are banning together. there is this growing drumbeat of an exodus here. it comes after a stunning video

revealed trump in 2005 casually talking about what many people say is sexual assault. he has apologized. but trump's own running mate is refusing to defend him. senator john mccain saying he will write in a candidate for president. former republican secretary of state condoleeza rice righting, enough, he should withdraw. that's easier said than done. meantime, hillary clinton is planning how to approach trump's vulgar remarks and personal attacks he may lob at her during the debate tonight. more than 80 million people expected to tune in tonight capping off one of the most extraordinary weekends in american political history. as his party spirals into chaos, donald trump is refusing to back down. joining me outside the venue is cnn national correspondent sun land certificate patty. >> it is easy to jump off into

hyperbo hyperbole. we haven't seen anything like this. >> no, we have not. chaos is exactly the perfect way to describe what's going on right now. you have about 30 days out, a gop nominee with republicans revoking endorsement. many calling for him to drop out. donald trump is going into the debate tonight one of the most critical nights of his political life with his back against the wall. >> a defiant and fist pumping donald trump emerging from trump tower to chant support. despite the chaos in the republican party, trump says he's not going anywhere. >> are you exiting the race? >> trump tweeting this. "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." >> you can do anything.

>> whatever you want. >> grab them by the [ bleep ]. you can do anything. >> after a 2005 of donald trump making lewd and sexually predatory comments about women surfaced, trump was forced to make an unprecedented apology before dismissing the controversy as a distraction. >> i said it. i was wrong. and i apologize. washington is totally broken. hillary clinton and her kind have run our country into the ground. >> this morning the gop is in mein meltdown as lawmakers rescind their endorsement. paul ryan wished trump would step aside. >> there is a bit of an elephant in the room. it is a troubling situation. >> republicans saying his running mate mike pence should beat -- governor pence was offended by trump's remarks before canceling plans to represent him at a political

event saturday. >> governor, should mr. trump withdraw? >> meantime, one of trump's closest advisers, rudy giuliani says it will go on. >> most are members of the establishment. i receive this as you want change in washington, you vote for drum. you want to keep things the same, you vote for hillary clinton. >> while all eyes are donald trump in the debate tonight and how he handles all of this fallout around him, this sets up an important night for hillary clinton, too. according to people close to her as she prepares for the deebbat she plans to address it. this will be her first comments since the scandal broke. >> so many are waiting for. sunlen serfaty, thank you very much. one snare dwroe being played out by insiders is keeping the

vice president as an anchor here in this situation. let's bring in errol lewis, cnn commentator to talk about this what mike pence's role will be moving forward. let's talk about what we're hearing from pence and of course that stunning statement from his running mate, donald trump's running mate, criticizing what trump said, that he cannot defend those comments. people for more than a day have been waiting for mike pence to weigh in. >> yeah. i don't think we'll hear much different. in mike pence, you have somebody who consistently describes himself as christian and a conservative and a republican in that order. you know, the tape is just not something that squares with that. he has the choice of either shredding his entire political identity. he's a political professional who wants a future in this business or trying to sort of defend the indefensible.

he's clearly looking out for himself a little bit there. it's the last thing the trump campaign needs at this point. for somebody who like pence to come ou and vouch for trump in a full-throated way would maybe start to right the ship but pence is not willing do that. it's in part, victor, because there are more tapes out there. there is more stuff out there. we've already heard things from the howard stern show that surface hd hours after the damning tape from "access hollywood." there are others on twitter saying there's a ton more out there from the apprentice and everywhere else. there have been a lot of hot mike situations. this is why career politicians like mike pence are headed for the hills. >> the "wall street journal" is reporting that mike pence spoke with a group of republican donors saying that he is fully committed to donald trump. pence's team saying that the claims that he is going to bolt from the ticket, those are

categorically false. is that just a line to get donald trump through the debate or are you expecting that continued full-throated support, that full-throated endorsement of donald trump after tonight's debate? >> as a practical matter, this notion that you can simply have donald trump vanish and put mike pence in his place, that's not reality. there are many states that are -- they've printed and issued ballots. there are thousands of votes already cast since the early voting and absentee voting. it's not as if you can reconvene the republican convention. something along those lines would have to happen. you would have the same 1237 delegates together and have them all agree. it's not realistic. mike pence has no choice at this point but to ride this thing out. i think what we are going to see is him and other conservatives trying to maybe explain to trump

that there's a process. you have to humble yourself and ask for forgiveness from the american people and from the specific individual he was talking about in crude and obscene terms. there's a path back. in mike pence's statement, you can see him sort of suggesting what it is. he talks about him praying for trump's family. there's going to have to be a show of family, of faith, of prayer, of forgiveness and then maybe, just maybe that plus a really strong debate performance tonight could get him back on track. >> we'll see if that happens. many say that donald trump has 90 minutes to save his campaign. the 90 minutes of debate tonight. errol louis, thanks for being with us. >> thank you. of course, we'll continue our special live coverage of the second presidential debate here from washington university. i'll send it back to you christi in atlanta. >> thank you so much, victor. we're talking about this campaign and the fact that it's unlike any other. republicans find themselves at

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welcome back. i'm victor blackwell, live from the set of the second presidential debate. site of the debate. i'm just outside the set. ohio governor john kasich says that donald trump's actions and words on that 2005 audiotape are disgusting. but unlike many of his gop colleagues, he's stopping short of calling for trump to drop out of the race. governor kasich talked with our dana bash late yesterday. while speaking of other elected republicans, he said this. they've kind of come to this

party late. i appreciate their view, but i don't think i need to do any more at this point. nobody has been clear about their feelings toward him or not many as i have been. you have a republican national committee and they have to figure this out. joining me now, cnn political commentator and former romney public policy director and senior adviser to the trump campaign, jack kingston. good morning to both of you. >> lonnie, i want to start with you. you're here with me. we heard from pennsylvania congressman, charlie dent yesterday, saying that reince priebus, head of the republican national convention has to fix this. if he can't, he needs to retire. >> this is an republican national convention issue. there is clearly something they can do about this. it's actually a good thing for the republicans down ticket. that ultimately, victor is the big question. how can republicans save their down ticket candidates? i think the presidential race is largely a lost cause. the issue is how does the

republican party hang on to the senate and the house and if there's a way for the rnc to engineer this and do this, that would be preferable. >> a lost cause, jack kingston, you say what? >> i don't agree with my friend lanhee on this. tonight will be huge. he needs to joe apology, contrition, again even more and he has to pivot and say, you know what, the question still boils down to who do you want to name the next members of the supreme court? who do you want to decide national security and immigration skpurt policy and who do you want to return jobs? i think that if donald trump can do that, that's a big, big order. but if he can do that tonight, he will be in the ball game. i think next few days are also critical. he's got to have a flawless campaign. but the logistics and as you know, some people have already

voted, overseas ballots mailed. those ballots of every single county in the country have been printed. the idea of switching candidates at this points, i don't think gets you back in the game either. he needs to hit the ball out of the park and show that's a serious candidate. >> that's the calculation of the democrats as well. they've determined there is no way that this would be a switch to put pence at the top of the ticket and bring in another candidate. let's put up on the screen the names and faces of many in congress who have said they will not vote for donald trump. i mean, look at this list. these faces here. a gallery of republicans who either at some point said they were going to support donald trump or simply support the nominee whomever that would be. we now know it's trump who are pulling back. how does he stop this? >> i think, again, tonight's performance is key. the next couple of days are

going to be key. he still has to get back out there in the game and say the difference boils down to hillary clinton, a third term of barack obama, if you will, or me. i am an element of -- these are all my friends. but their first instinct is self-preservation. if somebody comes along and says something or does something they're uncomfortablew they have to protect their own program, if you will. but the thing is, he still is our nominee. so many of these people participated more in the primary process if they were that uncomfortable with them. >> however, many of those variables that you named that donald trump has to reiterate tonight were in place when the senators and congressmen made the decision to retract their support for the nominee. lanhee, two endorsements or faces, mitch mcconnell, paul

ryan. how long can they sit essentially on the fence? >> i don't think much longer. i think they've got to make a decision. it's untenable to say, i don't agree with what donald trump says, i don't like what he said. but by the way, i think he should be the leader of of the free world. both the speaker and the leaders have to make decisions over the next few days. i think the debate, tonight's debate will be criticalment donald trump has an opportunity to show contrition, genuine contrition in the first five minutes of the debate to potentially turn things around. i think he's too far gone. i think the comments were so vile and upsetting to so many americans -- >> there's potentially more. >> there very well could be. >> are you saying he can stop the bleeding or he can do a 180 here? >> no. i think he can stop the bleeding. i think the presidential contest -- i think donald trump is going -- i think this could be an epic and colossal loss of

the republican party. >> lanhee chen and jack kingston, thank you for joining us. you have the countdown clock on your screen. 15 hours 40 minutes from the second presidential debate. christi back to you at cnn center. >> thank you. hurricane matthew is causing a path in the southeast. it's a category 1 storm. it's knocking out power and turning north carolina streets into rivers. we'll show you what's happening nix. [ala♪m beeping] ♪

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24 minutes past the hour. grate foul have you with us. hurricane matthew is ripping up the east coast today. it is weakening but the danger is still very much intact here. the major concern is the record breaking flooding. in north carolina, they're dealing with some of it already. look at the roads. i mean, it looks like a lake. cars abandoned as you see there. if gu to georgia, look how powerful the winds are. the trees like this, huge trees out of the ground. the storm has left now ten people dead. we've got people dead in north carolina, in georgia, in florida and of course, the hundreds in haiti. cnn meteorologist derek van dam is in the weather center right now. help us understand, derek, how dangerous this storm still is and where it's headed. >> hard to believe we've been tracking it over two weeks, christi, but the storm has a narrow window of time to cause any more damage.

we're talking about hours, not days any longer. we certainly don't want to see any more scenes like this. this is the latest watches and warnings from the national weather service. we're focusing in on cape hatteras and north carolina. you can see the copious amounts of rain that continue to move across the delmarva peninsula and into virginia. there's a cold front that will sweep the storm system out to sea. you have to see how much rain has fallen. it's been significant as this hurricane moves along the entire east coast of the united states. it brought down a significant amount of precipitation. we're talking about over 17 inches in a few different locations just outside of savannah at the hunter air force base. look at fayetteville, north carolina. over 14 inches of rain in a short period of time. that is why we have the flood threat ongoing. the sewage, drainage system cannot hold up to this and the rivers are still going to flood even after the rain ends.

christi back to you. >> appreciate it. the widespread that matthew left behind across haiti is just stunning. take a look at this video we've gotten in. the fear right now, we want to point out, is the death toll. that it will climb. while aid workers are trying to get to some of the worst-hit areas. the protection service has said 330 people have died. reuters put the count higher at almost 900. survivors are facing a new threat. the possibility of a widespread cholera outbreak. it can spread so badly especially with contaminated water. it's already killed 13 people. that's what we're watching here. but i do want to get you back to victor because that is where we're having our political conversation today as we await whatever is going to happen tonight, victor, at this debate. >> yeah. you know, republicans finally

find themselves, i should say, falling off a cliff politically with lawmakers dropping endorsements and distancing themselves from donald trump saying that the running mate should be at the top of the ticket. how can the party of lincoln put itself back together again. that's a question we'll examine in a few moments. >> all right. sounds good. a month to go until the elections. what will it take to bring republicans back on board the trump train? will it happen?

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louis. the site of tonight's second presidential debate, the big showdown and to say that this is a pivotal day for the trump campaign is an understatement. this is round two. donald trump versus hillary clinton here on cnn. 9:00 is the big show. but the question leading up to the debate. can trump right the ship after this weekend of, call it what it is, chaos in his campaign. the revolt within the republican party. fist pumping donald trump emerged from trump tower to chants from his supporters there thanking them. this comes after that stunning video revealed trump in 2005 casually talking about sexual assault. he has apologized. but despite the flurry of calls to drop out, trump says he's not going anywhere. >> are you staying in the race?

>> saturday saw a tidal wave of those -- >> house speaker paul ryan would prefer trump step aside. eugene scott joins me to talk about this. good morning to you. i want to start with this gallery of republican lawmakers who either said they would -- they would support donald trump by name. who has decided that they are going to retract? let's go to the larger gallery. this is the members of the senate. i want to see the house members too. put this in a context. wie really have not seen something like this in modern times. >> we have not. on cnn politics.com, he shall who has made a comment and where they stand of the it's worth noting, when you look at that gallery, you see john mccain, a state of arizona, a presidential candidate formerly himself.

he has been an advocate for trump and speaking out when he's been criticized for comments in the past about women and jason chaffetz who have been supportive of donald trump supporters. when they make this type of statement, it does have an impact. >> speaking of statements, donald trump, through twitter, let's put that up so people can see it. the media and establishment want me out of the race so badly and then in all caps, i will never drop out of the race. will never let my supporters down. #maga standing for make america great again. donald trump saying that there is zero chance that he is going to weithdraw. >> those of us covering this race for a while and speaking with supporters, we're not surprised at all. many as you saw were standing outside of his office after he came out, very supportive of him. he told a reporter that he's received multiple calls and

e-mails and text messages telling people that they want him to remain in the race. i've certainly heard from supporters on social media who are frustrated with the amount of attention this is getting in comparison to other issues. >> eugene scott, cnn politics reporter. we're 15 hours from the big showdown. donald trump has 90 minutes to save his campaign for president. we'll talk more with you throughout the morning. thank you so much. donald trump says, again, he's not going anywhere, has no plans to step down. republican presidential nominee says he will not be swayed by the 11th hour re -- due to comments he made years ago. rudy jewel yea n, not buying the speculation that the republican party is searching for a new candidate. >> there is nothing that's going to pose his dropping out. that's wishful thinking of the

clinton campaign. those people who opposed him for a long time. he's in the race to win and he is going to win. >> what do you make of some of the fellow republicans backing out -- >> largely, didn't support him in the first place. not much of a surprise. if you look at it, they were republicans who approached him and didn't support him in the past. this is basically the insider against the outsiders anyway. donald trump is the populous candidate. most of the people who turned on him are members of the establishment. i would see this as you want change in washington, you vote for donald trump. you want to keep things the same, you vote for hillary clinton. >> well, trump's running mate, mike pence says that he remains committed to the ticket. speaking to a group of republican donors last night, according to the "wall street journal," saying that he is still with donald trump. his team saying that the claim that he's going to bolt from the ticket are categorically false. cnn has learned that the rnc has

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tonight, donald trump may have just 90 minutes to, what some people are saying, save his campaign for the white house. he's facing off against hillary clinton in one of the wildest weekends in american political history. after the first presidential debate, he hinted to a personal

line of attack he could have used. >> anything you wish you did differently? >> no, i'm very happy i was able to hold back on the indiscretions with respect to bill clinton. because i have a lot of respect for chelsea clinton. i didn't want to say what i was going to say. >> which is? >> which is i'll tell you maybe at the next debate. we'll see. >> now, not a whole lot to lose. we wonder if that is what they'll be facing tonight. anchor for time warner news, errol louis is here. donald trump tweeted something from an account with the name of juanita broderick. she said she was public sexual -- >> she calls the remarks horrific while she lives and protects -- if he's retweeting

this last night, what does that tell us about what we're going to see tonight? >> it tells us that he may be intending to make good on his threat to dredge up all of this stuff from decades past and throw it at hillary clinton and try to make a connection in voters' minds. what makes that tricky, christi is that this is a town hall-style format in which case, he'll have to be doing this in response to questions from legitimate undecided voters who are noncombatants in this war between the past and the present and the republicans and the democrats. it will be awkward to say the least, i think, if someone asks him about his own discretions for him to turn and pivot and attack bill clinton and what he may or may not have done in the 1990s. >> how will hillary clinton react is going to be closely watched. >> well, it's interesting, she has not as far as i can tell, telegraphed how she intends to

respond. keep in mind, this is a complicated case. to the republican faithful, the base votes, the conservatives who listen to a lot of talk radio, this is all rote, been talked about over and over again. for everybody else, you have to go back and figure out the case, who was juanita broderick, what did bill clinton do or not do. what did hillary clinton do or not do? unless you can make that case succinctly, the whole thing leaves people mystified rather than drawing them to trump's side. >> only have a couple seconds left. hillary clinton most likely facing her own scrutiny over the e-mails that were recently released by wikileaks where you -- that was one of the lines used in the wall street speeches. how much do you think she's going to have to be on the defensive tonight? >> well, assuming somebody can bring that up to tell you the

truth. you know, there's explosive video out there of donald trump. television is a visual medium. it has a lot more power than e-mails that people may or may not have been able to read so far. >> but niece are voters and that may be something that one voter cares much more about than the video. we're going to have to, i guess, wait and see what the voters are going to bring to the table tonight for the conversations. errol louis, great to see you. thank you. >> thank you. >> you can watch the debate tonight on cnn, 9:00 p.m. anderson cooper will be co-moderating along with martha raddatz. before the debate begins, you can watch the pre-debate show at 4:00 eastern. there have been scandals and controversies and mike pence has halls supported his running mate. now he says he cannot defend what donald trump said in that

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governor, should mr. trump withdraw? governor, should mr. trump withdraw? will be staying on the ticket? >> governor, will you drop off the ticket? all right. there we have it. that's mike pence, you see, leaving the plane there. not acknowledging reporters as he arrived in rhode island for a fundraiser last night. that was an early appearance after refusing to defend donald trump in the 2005 comments about women. now, this is a pretty stunning move. pence said he was offended by trump's remarks and does not condone them. he canceled his appearance at a

gop event yesterday in wisconsin. despite this, he's standing by donald trump. staying with his running mate. dozens of other republicans, though, they are not. they're calling for trump to drop out of the race. some are suggesting that pence take his place at the top of the ticket. let's talk about that and bring inlahnee chen. former policy director. also joined bip former u.s. representative jack kingston. lanee i'm going to start with you because you're sitting next to me. is this realistic, a possibility that mike pence will take the top of the ticket here? >> i don't think it is. i think most people concluded that people are already voting by early voting. donald trump will be the republican on the ticket. the question is, what can the rnc and the republicans do po preserve their possibility of holding the house and the senate. that's what this is about. i'm not sure mike pence is the

guy. if there were a replacement, mike pence did not run for president in this cycle. there are a lot of guys and gals who did run. they ought to be looked at first. >> he didn't earn a single delegate in the primary. congressman, what is the relationship -- you're a senior adviser to the campaign. you're on the inside between donald trump and mike pence right now. we heard and it seems like the vice presidential debate was decades ago. it was really five days ago now. but after the debate there was reporting that donald trump is not happy that his running mate didn't defend him. now we're getting a statement from the vice presidential nominee that he's not going to defend him against this. give us an insight into how they're doing right now. >> i don't know where those reports came from. because i heard them also. i can say that the two men have a great relationship. their wives have great relationships and their families do as well. not only that, but mike pence is a loyal guy.

he's a team player. i think i know mike very, very well. i think he was correct in saying he could not defend those comments. however, in totality of a choice between somebody who is a long-term big government liberal versus somebody who wants to change washington, d.c., somebody who wants to challenge the culture there, that mike pence is on the right ticket. i think that that's what we need to see out of mike and out of donald trump this week is that pivot to say, you know what, said a lot of bad things 10, 11 years ago. i'm knot the same man. i can tell you this personally speaking, victor, he is not the donald trump that i've come to know or his family. >> we're not seeing that pivot, congressman. we're not seeing that pivot. donald trump went to twitter and retweeted juanita broderick. he didn't retweet anything about an economic plan, bringing jobs back. he retweeted juanita broderick.

>> but i think you will see all of the above. i think he will have to start talking not only about jobs and national security and a lot more, but i think at the same time, he's got to be on the offense in terms of who is hillary clinton, who is bill clinton, who are their -- the colorful characters in their past such as juanita broderick. why is that important and relevant? maybe also, easier to build a case on is the 33,000 e-mails, benghazi, the 400,000 dead in syria, the iran nuclear deal and so i think -- >> congressman -- >> got to hit on all -- >> i hear you we've got got a couple of seconds left. you think that's the wrong way to go to bring up juanita broderick. the rnc has mailings on hold because they've not made a decision which way to go. >> they need to coordinate message with the cam page.

we need to see what happens with the debate tonight. >> what do they need to hear? >> they got to figure out, are we attacking hillary clinton on past indiscretions and or attacking them on benghazi and on e-mails and substance. i think that's the big question. we'll see what happens tonight. >> lahnee, congressman, thank you both. christi, back to you in atlanta. >> as we sit here, hours before the debate, no shortage of material for "saturday night live," was there? was there any doubt that the opening sketch would be about this? >> i would like to take this time to formally apologize -- >> what are you saying? >> i deeply app-lo guise. >> are you trying to say apologize? >> i would never do that.

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that's all, that's it. meals on wheels has given me a mode of freedom that i wouldn't have otherwise. they make sure that i get the nutrition that i need, and it's a balanced meal. my name is maurice mcgriff. america, let's do lunch. narrator: drop off a hot meal and say hello. volunteer by donating your lunch break at americaletsdolunch.org. are you not entertained? that's how alec baldwin as donald trump opened his skit on this weekend's episode of "saturday night live." i don't think i knew what was coming up. what about you? >> i expected them to start with the vice presidential debate and i expected them to stay longer than the breaking news. but they did pretty well between trump's latest controversy, tonight's debate. of course. plenty of material for last night's show. here's part of it.

>> donald trump loves women. he respects women. he's never said a single bad thing about women. i dare you to show me a single shred of evidence that proves otherwise. >> the cnn breaking news alert. >> well, looks like donald trump finally got what he wanted. a working microphone. newly leaked audio shows donald trump and billy bush making lewd comments about women on an "access hollywood" bus in 2005. here to address this breaking scandal is donald trump himself. >> i would like to take this time to formally app-lo-jize. what are you saying? >> i deeply apologize. >> are you trying to say apologize? >> no, i would never do that. what i am doing is talking to people who were offended by my statements but more important to the people who were turned on by

them. i hear it's really 50/50. >> we now go live to hillary clinton's campaign headquarters where they just ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i'm sorry, i didn't see you. we were so busy preparing for the debate tomorrow. i'm studying so hard. i'm really nervous for this one. >> it looked like she had the elaine dance from seinfeld going on there, victor. >> yeah. yeah. a little bit of that. little bit of that. >> we just wanted to make sure that everybody got a glimpse of something a little lighter this morning. there is an awful lot to talk about today. >> yeah. we'll talk more about that a little later in the show. next hour of your "new day" starts right now.