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.

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 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%. counting down to the debate tonight. where voters will get the chance to direct questions directly to both of these candidates. good morning to you. 6:00. 6:01 in fact on this sunday morning. i'm christi paul. my colleague, victor blackwell

is in st. louis, missouri, where of course we will be watching very closely what happens tonight. good morning, victor. >> reporter: yeah, more than 80 million people expected to watch the big debate tonight at washington university. the second presidential debate, of course, between donald trump and hillary clinton. final preparations being made right now. the republican party though finds itself in a state of chaos facing maybe political catastrophe unlike anything we've seen in modern times. in just a few hours, 15 to be exact, here at washington university trump will take the stage in a battle for his political life. we are less than a month before election day and top leaders of trump's own party are banning together in an exodus here. a mass exodus. look at the gallery on your screen. this comes after the stunning video revealed trump in 2005 casually talking about sexual assault. now he has apologized, but trump's own running mate refuses

to defend him. senator john mccain says that he'll write in a dant for president. former republican secretary of state condoleezza rice says enough. donald trump should not be president. he should withdraw. but that's easier said than done. meantime, excuse me, hillary clinton is planning her approach to trump's remarks and personal attacks that he may lob at her tonight. more than 80 million, again, are expected to tune in to the debate capping off one of the most extraordinary weekends in american political history. now as his party spirals, donald trump is refusing to back down. joining me now outside the debate tonight, the debate venue is cnn national correspondent sunlen serfaty. sunlen, good morning to you. >>. >> reporter: good morning to you, victor. chaos is the perfect way to describe what is going on right now. you have the republican nominee under 30 days to election day having members of his own party revoking their endorsements of

him and others, many others, calling for him to point blank drop out of this race. donald trump is heading into tonight's debate 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 chance of support. despite the chaos of the republican party, trump says he's not going anywhere. >> are you staying in the race? >> 100%. >> trump also tweeting this, quote, 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. >> he can do anything. grab them by the [ bleep ], do zbl. >> after a 2005 video 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. >> reporter: this morning the gop is in meltdown as lawmakers rescind their endorsements of trump and sources tell cnn those at the top of the gop including paul ryan wish trump would step aside. >> there is a bit of an elephant in the room and it is a troubling situation. >> reporter: some republicans now saying trump's running made mike pence should leave the ticket. in an extraordinary move governor pence said he was extended by trump's remarks before canceling plans to represent him at a political event saturday. >> governor, should mr. trump withdraw? >> reporter: meantime, one of trump's closest advisors, mayor

rudy guly annie said he should continue on. >> if you want change in washington, you vote for donald trump. if you want to keep things the same, you vote for hillary clinton. >> and while all eyes certainly are on donald trump tonight and how he handles all of this, a fallout swirling around him from up there on the debate stage, this certainly sets up an important moment for hillary clinton tonight as well. according to people close to her as she prepares she does intend to bring up this growing scandal early on in tonight's debate, victor. this will be her first public statement since the scandal broke. >> sunlen serfaty, thank you so much. tonight's debate could be donald trump's last stand. last chance to stop the campaign free fall after the release of that controversial video. joining us now mark preston, cnn politics executive director and brian stelter, and host of "reliable sources." good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> mark, when we were talking

yesterday, the defections were in the single digits. we have the gallery we can put up. we're talking about a mass exodus from the trump campaign, the supporters in congress. you have condoleezza rice who hasn't said much at all saying, enough. he can't be president. >> 24 hours we were saying how jason chaffitz came out and all of a sudden you're starting to see a mass exodus. you're starting to see more today. specifically, if we see donald trump go there, when i mean go there, go after hillary clinton through bill clinton, then i think you're going to see a huge mass exodus come tomorrow. i do expect democrats to continue to try to hit trump very hard, try to hit your opponents who aowe pope nents -- opponents.

>> where is kellyanne conway? we haven't heard from her since this video is out? >> kellyanne conway was booked on morning shows. chris christie was booked on morning shows. they were all canceled yesterday, scrapped last night. rudy giuliani coming in instead. he will be a fierce attack dog for his candidate. that is a reminder in some ways, it underscores the divide that exists that only rudy will be out front and center. i see people, i see republicans on twitter saying why aren't you all talking about clinton? why aren't you talking about her scandals 20, 30 years ago? why aren't you talking about the e-mail leaks? one of the answers is the stories are covered. there is democratic unity. there is not republican unity. this is the gop civil war that people talked about a year ago theoretically that is now actually playing out. >> people are sitting on the fence waiting on what they'll do next, namely paul ryan, mitch mcconnell, because the question is what else is there potentially. cnn k file released this 17-year

legacy from the howard stern show and some of those comments. you marry that to what we've seen in the 2005 ""access hollywood"" video and the narrative is cementing. >> you might call it ironic that the nbc show "the apprentice" which built up donald trump for years, which established him as an entertaining figure in american households that it was an nbc video that leaked out by "the washington post" who has gotten them to this point. >> lenny chen said there is a way for donald trump to turn this around, and i pressed him on turn it around, 180 or just stop the bleeding? what can stop the bleeding tonight? >> you know, i've been of the mind set and pretty vocal in the last two days that i think donald trump's campaign is over. the reason being is -- when i say over, the sense is i see no path -- >> like it's a zombie. a walking dead. >> there's nowhere for him to go. the fact of the matter is he is going to have his supporters, victor, who will stay with him.

some will leave him. it's the small sliver in the middle. the voters that hillary clinton and donald trump are trying to get now that i think will be very difficult for him to get. i will tell you having talked to senior advisors of the trump campaign, they do see a path forward. they think there could be a huge bombshell that is going to hit regarding hillary clinton. we did see some e-mails that got released from wikileaks. we don't know if they're necessarily true that had we not been in the situation right now with donald trump would have been very bad for hillary clinton, but as brian said, you have a democratic party that are unified. you have a republican party that is beyond fractured, it is broken. >> is there a way to repair it at all? sunlen used the term predatory. that's a word that's going to be heard on the debate stage in a number of hours. that is so beyond damaging for donald trump. i'm not sure -- all the reporting so far indicates he does not realize it. that he is in trump tower, he is relatively isolated from what's going on.

that sometimes is a consequence of being a billionaire businessman, of having your own tower, of having your own advisors that you depend on. i would assume he's been watching cable news. maybe it hasn't sunk in for him the consequences of what happened. >> especially what we saw yesterday afternoon. he had scores of supporters there cheering him on. >> soaking it up. >> soaking it up. >> not very presidential for him to do that. >> you have to understand that he feels under siege. the brightest point, he retweeted or tweeted yesterday been an interesting 24 hours. yeah, it has been. >> it certainly has been. >> mark preston, brian stelter. thank you very much. we'll continue tomorrow morning. tonight's debate is sure to be one you do not want to miss. anderson cooper co-moderates. how does this weekend of turmoil for donald trump and the gop affect the electoral map. is trump's lead in battleground

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welcome back, i'm victor blackwell live at washington, university. the site of tonight's second presidential debate. donald trump entered the weekend already on shaky electoral footing. the shocking 2005 audiotape that dropped on friday most likely, almost certainly did not help. will the fallout move the polls in states like ohio, the one battleground trump had strong numbers against hillary clinton. the quinnipiac poll taken at the

beginning of the month shows trump there with a 5 point lead, outside the margin of error. this morning ohio senator is joining other ohio republicans who say they cannot support trump. in a statement he writes this, while i continue to respect those who still support donald trump, i can no longer support him. i will be voting for mike pence for president. then there's ohio governor john kasich. he says donald trump's actions and words on that audiotape are disgusting but unlike many of his gop colleagues he stops short of calling for trump to drop out of the race. governor kasich talked with dana bash yesterday while speaking about elected republicans. you know, they've kind of come to this party late. i appreciate their view. i don't think i need to do any more at this point. nobody has been clear about his feelings towards him or not many as i have. you have a republican national committee and they have to

figure this out. back here with me is mark preston. having to figure this out. we heard from charlie bent, congressman from pennsylvania, saying they have to get donald trump to get out of the way? >> right. >> and if reince priebus can't do it then he needs to resign. >> a couple of things, too. john kasich interestingly enough isn't saying donald trump needs to get out of the race. let's take a step back. i think he wants to run in 2020 himself. john kasich also hosted the republican national convention in cleveland and refused to go because donald trump was the nominee. as far as charlie dent goes, he comes from pennsylvania. donald trump needs him in pennsylvania. talking to people in the state right now, they think donald trump has no shot of winning pennsylvania at this point due to those comments. >> utah, you had governor herbert rescinding his support. we had the first, jason chaffitz, utah congressman,

retracting his endorsement. is there potential here for a democrat, for hillary clinton to win the state of utah? >> i don't think so, but what it does tell us right now is that utah is an interesting state. let's not forget the electorate is mormon. jason chaffitz sent us a signal as did governr herbert when they decided to back off early realizing donald trump is political kryptonite in that state. what you could see is a third party candidate, mcmullen, hasn't gained enough traction. he could siphon votes from donald trump. i don't see hillary clinton winning it. >> we've heard some estimates that potentially on november 9th we'll wake up with donald trump in the mid 30s, percentage of the electorate. is that realistic? >> i don't see how he goes up.

a lot will have to do with tonight and how he handles himself and how he tries to show some kind of contrition. he was not asking for forgiveness. he was laying down a marker that he was going to go after bill clinton. whether he does that tonight on the stage we'll have to see. if he does, we will have entered an entirely new phase of this presidential campaign. having seen what we've seen so far, that very well could happen. >> mark preston, we'll have you all morning with us. chris christi, i'm going to send it back to you. hurricane matthew still causing flooding out there today. streets look like rivers in some areas. this monster still has some push to t. we'll tell but it. also, two police officers shot and killed in southern california. a manhunt for the gunman just ended.

going to get you back to politics in just a moment, but police in palm springs, california, have identified now this morning the man accused of killing two police officers. those two responding to a domestic disturbance call. investigators say they were met by gunfire by 26-year-old john felix. take a look. you feel for these people in this community as they try to

reconcile what's happened. one was a 35 year veteran of the force and ready to retire in a couple of months. the other a new mother with a 4-year-old daughter. they were both shot and killed overnight. a third colleague was wounded and is being treated at the hospital. now the police chief has his own emotions as they described a confrontation they encountered at the front door. >> the officers from what i understand were at the front door trying to negotiate with the suspect to comply. it was a simple family disturbance and he elected to open fire on a few of the guardians of the city. >> police did eventually bring that shooter into custody after an overnightstandoff. >> so here you have a wonderful, young, dedicated female officer that pressed forward every day to make it better for everybody

else and she gave her all. and you have officer vego, you know, this line of work is designed for 30 years to max out before you retire, so in essence you have an officer that was qualified for retirement five years ago. here he is 35 years in, still pushing a patrol car for our community to make it better. on a day he wasn't even scheduled to work. >> and, again, just a couple of months from retirement. look at how people are dealing with this as they try to reconcile this, the candles, the flowers at the scene there where residents and law enforcement communities are leaving their appreciation and tangible -- tangible material of their thoughts and prayers with the police station there. no immediate word of a motive for this.

certainly thoughts to that community. all righty. weather's next. matthew leaving record breaking flooding behind. it is still moving up the east coast. a post storm cyclone. we'll bring you the very latest. also, just hours away from tonight's debate, donald trump may be tipping his hand a little bit showing what his debate strategy could be, and it is expected to get personal.

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tower to chance, crowds outside the building. this comes after a stunning video revealed trump in 2005 casually talking about sexual assault. he has apologized. despite the flurry of calls to drop out, trump says he's not going anywhere. >> are you staying in the race? >> 100%. >> saturday saw a tidal wave of lawmakers retracting their endorsements of trump, and sources tell cnn that those at the top of the gop, house speaker paul ryan, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell would prefer that trump step aside. all righty. let's talk some politics with tara setmeier and scotty fell n nelhuse. thank you for being here. we had a cnn political commentator and former mitt romney public commentator, scotty.

he said tonight is very critical. he said donald trump has to show contrition within the first five minutes in order to turn this thing around. how likely do you think that's going to be? what are you hearing from the trump camp? >> absolutely. i think that's something we can agree on right now. he's going to have to come out and be humble and he's going to say, you know what, i apologize. those words were wrong. they should not be spoken against any woman at any time. please, america, i ask for your forgiveness and i open myself up to any questions you have because i do believe that i should be held accountable for those words if that's going to allow us to move on. that was my past. i hope this debate will be about the future and talking about the policy between the two candidates. >> this is what you're hoping but you don't know what is in store, is that right? >> well, i don't know except for the guidance that you think you are going to see. this is going to be addressed. this is the elephant that's going to be on the stage. i think it will be taken care of, knowing the moderators and both candidates. from the initial start this will be one of the first items that will be taken care of. i hope it is.

i hope we can address it and move on and actually go to the american people. what i fear though is what we've known hillary clinton did the last time is she is going to try to find some way to knock him off his game, off his -- off his messaging from the very beginning whether it's going to be another shock -- shock revelation or at some point try to bring up something that he's not ready for. but at least i think the american people are due the chance for mr. trump to apologize in person live on stage from the very beginning. >> how much -- how much -- how much road do you think that will buy him, tara, if he does it? >> well, look, i think it's -- the likelihood of donald trump humbling himself in front of the american people tomorrow and being, you know, offering humility and contrition is slim to none. if any -- if his behavior in the last 48 hours is any indication of what he's going to do tonight, then that's not what we're going to see. he's been very defiant up until this point. his personality has never been

to apologize for anything and humble himself for anything. he had a mentor in roy cone who taught him who is a ruthless, ruthless lawyer who taught him never to apologize for anything. so we've seen that there's nothing to indicate that's how donald trump is going to approach this tonight unless -- unless everything he's been doing for the last two days is just a ruse and he's going to show up a new candidate, a new person, i don't think we're going to see that tonight. it's clear that this is not about necessarily righting the ship for him because if it were, he would not have been conducting his campaign this way from the very beginning. i think donald trump does not care about the republican party, that's clear. he's going to go out the way he wants to and to hell with everybody else. that's been quite obvious, which is why the party at this point has -- is in a total freakout mode which is an exact quote from a friend of mine who works within what goes on here. he told me they are, quote,

freaking out. the party is looking down ballot and how this will affect him and how it will affect our house and senate races which is where the focus needs to be. that's why the rnc has halted funding anymore operations for the trump campaign. >> senator john mccain tweeted out, cindy and myself will not vote for donald trump. we will not vote for hillary clinton, we will write in the name of some good conservative republican who's qualified to be president. who is that, tara? >> well, we could go down a list of a bunch of folks, unfortunately, who lost in the primary who were good, solid, competent, conservative republicans that didn't make it out of the primary unfortunately that are more qualified to be president of the united states. any one of them. you know, some folks might even write in mike pence. he's more qualified. unfortunately, this is the situation that the party has chosen to put themselves in because they refused to call donald trump out for being unfit

early on and now they're where they are. and there is no -- this is -- this is a fiction if they think they're going to replace trump now. it's a virtual impossibility. that came and went on september 1st. god bless john mccain and those who have finally come out and said we can't do this anymore and finally put some principle behind their actions, but it's a little late. >> scotty, when we talk about the debate tonight and what donald trump may do, what is different about tonight is that he will be facing voters directly. this isn't about hillary clinton coming at him, this is about real voters asking real questions that they have on their mind. is he cape faable of keeping it under control in your opinion? >> absolutely. this is where he's going to shine. i think that's why we saw this revelation come out on friday. there could be another revelation if he does very good tonight. possibly more to come -- >> what revelation on friday night, scotty? >> i'm talking about on friday when they came out with the

original tapes that came out from 2005. i think that's the reason why this is happening, because they know donald trump, the one great thing, this is the reason why he was chosen, why he won the primary, because it wasn't about the politician's endorsements, it was about the people. it is a movement of the people. it's why donald trump is able to beat 17 other candidates. this is why i think all of these others falling out, they were never really on board, why it doesn't really affect. i think the issues of protecting the unborn, appointing a judge, opposing the iran deal and economic freedom are the reasons why mr. trump and the people resonate and the problem hillary clinton will have when it comes to the issues. >> unfortunately he's unfit to ever put any of those things forward. he's never had any conviction or investment in those issues prior to now. >> we'll see, tara. i'm sorry to interrupt. we'll see what the voters ask him. we always appreciate you being here. thank you. >> thank you. >> victor?

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i'll always have pence. >> well, actually, today he said he can't condone your remarks and then he canceled his campaign events. >> mike pence is a loser. >> alec baldwin taking on donald trump's tough week during "saturday night live's" opening sketch there. no shortage of material for this week's episode from last week's vice presidential debate. when we say last week, i guess

being when we started the week, it's five days ago. it seems like it's been a long time. there's a controversy around trump's comments in 2005 and the second presidential debate tonight. let's bring in cnn senior media correspondent and host of "reliable sources" brian stelter. clearly no doubt what this opening skit was going to be about. it was strong. >> it was a cutting segment capping off a horrible few days from donald trump. alec baldwin was hired a couple of weeks ago to play trump through election day. people wondered are we going to see him this week? it was all about the vice presidential debate. we're looking forward to tonight. this was supposed to be the week for mike pence/tim kaine. snl very wisely did that for a few seconds, interrupted and then brought in trump. >> what's so strong about the writing there and what we've learned from the tina fey and sarah palin exchange of 2008 was that they work on an existing narrative here. >> for sure.

>> when they had donald trump mispronounce apologize, it highlights that difficulty that many see that he can be contrite, which many say he'll have to be tonight. >> absolutely. starting with trump showing that side of him, which has, you know, been the reputation for the last 16 months, that he never apologizes. that's why the last day has been so interesting. to cut from him and then to clinton. here's how she reacted. >> i deeply apologize. >> are you trying to say apologize? >> no, i would never do that. what i am doing is apologizing to all the people who were offended by my statements, but more importantly to the people who were turned on by them. i hear it's 50-50. >> we now go live to hillary clinton's campaign headquarters where they've just received news of the leak. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> this is why snl is so

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welcome back. i'm victor blackwell live in washington university. the site of tonight's second presidential debate. this will not be a simple rematch of the first debate. this is a different format.

a town hall style debate. candidates will be challenged by voters. that format can often reveal a stark contrast in styles between candidates, and never was that more clear than the first town hall 1992 and this pivotal exchange. >> tell me, how has the national debt personally affected each of your lives. >> well, i think the national debt affects everybody. obviously it has a lot to do with interest rates. >> you personally. >> maybe i'll get it wrong. are you suggesting that if somebody has means, that the national debt doesn't affect them? >> tell me how it's affected you. you know people who lost their jobs and lost their homes? >> yeah. uh-huh. >> well, i've been governor of a small state for 12 years. i see people in my state, middle class people, their taxes have gone up in washington and their services have gone down while the wealthy have gotten tax

cuts. >> joining us now, the woman who asked that question 24 years ago, marissa hall summers. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> did you know in that moment that that would be or that was such a pivotal exchange? >> i had absolutely no idea. i thought i was asking a question just like the other folks in the audience. >> so when you asked the question initially it was to then president bush. what was your feeling? what was your opinion of his answer and then compare and contrast that from what you heard from the would be president clinton? >> i thought that president bush was being a little bit evasive, and when i came up with the question i wanted to ask something that they hadn't been prepared to respond to. and i was hoping to get a very honest answer about how the -- you know, the recession had affected them personally, and i felt like he was being a little bit evasive.

when president clinton got up -- well then governor clinton got off of his stool and approached me, it made me feel special and as if he was connected to what a lot of the american citizens were feeling at the time. >> that was the first town hall style debate. there's been a town hall debate ever since 1992. take us into that chair, into that space. there will be 40 or so voters chosen by the gallup organization that will be on the stage. what's it like being on the stage with the candidates? >> it's very exciting. it's -- it's unbelievable, and you're anxious because you're not quite sure if you're going to be able to answer a question. everyone in the audience has a question, everyone does, and you're just waiting to see if you're going to be picked. and your heart is beating.

just listening to the candor is amazing. it's very, very, very exciting. >> so your question then was about essentially how these candidates are personally affected by the fiscal challenges of the country. we've now got two candidates who are pretty wealthy, two new yorkers. you've got hillary clinton, she and the former president over 70 years made about $140 million. we really don't know how much donald trump earned because he hasn't released his taxes -- those tax returns, but ""forbes"" estimates he made or is worth about $3.5 billion. what question would you have for these candidates if you were chosen to sit on that stage tonight? >> based on what's been going on in our country over the past couple of years, i would probably focus on our inalienable rights and life, liberty, and the pursuit of

happiness. my goal 24 years ago was to ask a question that was relevant to everyone i knew, my co workers, family, friends. and i would try to do that this year. i feel like our inalienable rights are dwindling. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. >> you are a clinton supporter. your husband was for a time a state delegate, a democratic delegate in the state of maryland. what do you want to hear from her tonight? >> i'd like to hear honesty. the questions that the people in the audience are asking are questions that the candidates are probably not going to be prepared for so they should probably take a moment and listen to the question and then give an honest answer because we can see through the evasiveness. so just honesty and speaking from the heart. >> all right. marissa hall summers, who has a

place in presidential debate history 24 years ago asking such a poignant question that really showed the difference between the candidates on that stage and guaranteed there was, as there has been, town hall style debate every cycle. thank you so much for spending some time with us this morning. >> you're welcome. and of course you at home, you do not want to miss this debate 207tonight. anderson cooper co-moderates. our coverage starts at 4:00 p.m. the debate is at 9:00 p.m. christi, i'm going to send it back to you. we have to talk about the worst of matthew, hurricane matthew. it's already passed over haiti, but you know what? it left a new threat looming. >> with flooding and water contamination, the risk is almost certainly very high now in the south. anything. even a wreck 'n' wash.

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weakening. it is still churning up the east coast but it's leaving behind record flooding and major power outages. take a look at what's going on in north carolina. that's a road, not a lake, a road. cars have been abandoned as you see there. in savannah, georgia, people are waitid wading through streets in knee high water. thank you so much for starting your morning with us. your next hour of "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 establishme