i'm brianna keilar in nor wolf blitzer. it is 1:00 p.m. here in washington. wherever you're watching from around the world, thank you so much for joining us. we're now exactly four weeks from election day and donald trump put his campaign in a new gear tweeting, "it is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and i can now fight for america the way i want to." trump has been waging war for the past 24 hours against republican house speaker paul ryan for comments ryan made saying he was done defending trump and would focus instead on house races instead of the presidential race. now, this morning trump tweeted this -- he said despite winning the second debate in a landslide. every poll, i should point out that is inaccurate, it is hard to do well when paul ryan and others give zero support. then this -- "our very weak and ineffective leader paul ryan had a bad conference call where his members went wild at his disloyalty." referring to several member

whose took issue with paul ryan's new move. and what he just tweeted oemts ago from -- about john mccain. saying the very foul-mouthed senator john mccain begged for my support during his primary. i gave, he won, then dropped me over locker room remarks. locker room remarks, leaving to that "access hollywood" tape. we have cnn correspondent john acosta joining us. what do you think that means? taking the shackles off? >> i talk to someone saying the shackles were off along along and this person didn't understand what donald trump was talking about. in the last several minutes went after john mccain in response to john mccain talking during a debate in arizona saying he can no longer vote for donald trump. probably going to write in lindsey graham, but people in paul ryan's orbit right now are obviously very upset about donald trump's comments but they're not going to engage or

respond in kind. put the statement up on-screen from brendan buck, top aide for the house speaker who says, "paul ryan is focusing the next month on defeating democrats and all republicans running for office should probably do the same. that's the extent of that. if you talk to his political spokesman, zach roada, basically saying the same thing. not trading insult for insult with donald trump at this point. >> seems like republicans are aware they could very well lose the senate and now are making sure they have a big majority in the house and want to keep it. new jersey governor chris christie, someone who backs up donald trump, but we haven't heard a lot from him especially about these comments from 2005. what's going on there? >> he was supposed to be at the debate sunday night. all of a sudden we were surprised with the news he was not going to be there, and keep in mind, brianna, this is after chris christie almost took over a debate prep heading into sunday's debate. was supposed to be the town hall

expert and guru and we told by the trump campaign he'd watch the debate from home. and then earlier this morning, chris christie, the new jersey governor, was on wfan radio in the new york city market, and he had this to say. he's still standing by donald trump, but listen to how he couches it in terms of his support at this point. >> i had issues to deal with in new jersey and decided not to go to the debate, but on the video itself, let's be really clear. it is completely indefensible, and i won't defend itened a haven't defended it. i've known him for a long time and i'm -- i'm really upset by what i heard, but in the end, this election's is about bigger issues than just that, and so at this point i still support him, and you know, but certainly you take time to think about that when going through this. >> so there you can see the new jersey governor is basically saying he's sticking by donald trump, but he is just as concerned and upset about these

comments as everybody else. talking to a person who worked with paul ryan for a long time about all of this, none of this is surprising. this person was saying that all along the fear has been inside at least the establishment of the republican party that donald trump was on an ego trip and that it was going to be a damaging ego trip for the rest of the party. the question is, are we now watching the splitting of the republican party right before our eyes just four weeks before the election? >> it seems like paul ryan obviously is wearing two hats. when in house leadership when you're the speaker of the house you're in charge of something beyond your district. so it seems from what i've been hearing, privately, if it were just paul ryan thinking about paul ryan, this is kind of something he would have wanted to do a long time ago and maybe wouldn't have even endorsed donald trump. but it sounds like he for a while has been trying to think of what the best thing is to maintain that house majority. >> yeah. >> and that's really -- now that that is sort of a line maybe

more with his private feelings, that's what's going on. >> i agree with you. you work and capitol hill many years and i remember before the last state of the union speech, invited into his office with other reporters. paul ryan said at that point, donald trump is expanding the republican party. look at the people he's bringing in, excitement he's generating. i think paul ryan was torn, obviously, donald trump was an unconventional candidate during primaries but winning these primaries fair and square. and so i think paul ryan even though it took him away to get there, he came to the conclusion, listen, he needs to support the republican nominee. but it didn't take much for paul ryan to pull back from donald trump. i think all of this was always contingent on, can donald trump behave himself all the way to the election? and now we're getting that answer from paul ryan. brianna, you know, they are now very concerned about keeping the majority in the house, the senate, a lot of republican people feel like could be lost at this point. when donald trump goes up by

this kind of lead in the national polling, he's starting to cross that threshold when both houses of congress could be at stake. >> and worried about the brand. >> worried about the brand. absolutely. >> jim acosta, senior white house correspondent. thank you for that. >> you're welcome. we are four weeks and counting now until election day. if the last few days are any indication, the next four weeks will be a battle like we have never seen in a presidential election. joining me now from west babylon, new york, congressman steve israel, a democrat from new york. he's a hillary clinton supporter. and first, i wonder what you think about donald trump threatening to unleash more personal attacks if there are anymore tapes released, like the one on friday? i mean where do you think -- one, do you think there are going to be more tapes released? is that your expectation? and how worried might hillary clinton be about what -- i think it was clear sort of an unsettling experience during the debate on sunday. >> well, brianna, donald trump said that the shackles are off,

but it's sounding more people believe the straight jacket should be on. this guy needs to expand his electorate. he continues to obsess over his base. i get that, but at certainly mind to expand his electorate. you cannot do that by continuing these vicious personal attacks. people want to know if they're not decided yet, they want to know, what are you going to do to create jobs? to build infrastructure? what are you going to do to keep me safe? what about my college debt? the more you talk about these vicious attacks and try and become president by being the insulter in chief, the more your electorate shrinks. that's why paul ryan has already basically conceded the presidential election and is worried about the survival of lis own majority in the house of representatives. >> as he deals with what is a terrible story line for his campaign and really rocking his party, hillary clinton has a bad story line of her own and that is these e-mails, these hacked e-mails that appear to be from john podesto's e-mail account.

one of the latest we've seen la to do with the campaign communicating with the justice department. about the releasing schedule of e-mails. i mean, that seems like -- seems a little untoward at the very least that there was a communication between a campaign and between a justice department that is supposed to be independent. >> well, brianna, in all fairness, the russians have hacked e-mails. the russians decided that if they could, they would endorse donald trump. they can't endorse donald trump. they are trying to influence this election. >> congressman, i'm going to stop you there, because -- you don't give them credibility. if they were fake you don't think the campaign would say they were fake? you're questioning the voracity of e-mails? >> i think we have a responsibility to understand all of these i malee-mails, to appreciate the fact these e-mails are hacked.

>> songman, thcongressman. >> i want to see it before i comment on it. >> isn't that sort of cynical for there to be this -- >> no. >> -- let me finish. isn't it somewhat cynical for democrats supporting hillary clinton to sort of throw out there that perhaps these e-mails are not accurate? when we know that if they were inaccurate they would be telling us they were fake. they would be telling us that they were edited, to sort of -- look, i get it. these are e-mails that were hacked but still e-mails that exist. we can still read them and they are what they are. they tell us things. isn't it inappropriate that there was this communication between the clinton campaign and the justice department? >> given the fact that the russians have hacked into these systems, the deep ccc, the dnc, had a history of doctoring these facilities to influence

elections. i don't judge until i understand are these e-mails authentic? i'm not commenting on these specific e-mails until i understand its veracity. >> should a campaign communicate with an independent justice department about a candidate doing something investigated by the fbi? >> brianna, with all due respect, i don't know the context. i'm very suspicious of these e-mails and would counsel the american people, it's not a campaign e-mail versus e-mail. it's about fitness to serve. >> you know the contents. she was -- you know the context, her practices looked at by the federal government. you know that context. you know that. should a campaign be in touch with an independent justice department over that? and you do know the context. you know the sort of specifics of what was going on there. >> again, brianna, without understanding the full context, without having that information available to me, i'm not going to make a judgment. this campaign, the next several

weeks, is about who is fit and who is ready to be president of the united states? and if you contrast what donald trump has said and what he does, and what hillary clinton has said, her specific solutions to rebuild infrastructure, reduce college debt, improve the economy, there's really no comparison. >> all right. congressman stephen israel, thank you so much for joining us. backing up your candidate big time there. hillary clinton supporter talking to us. coming up, is this ugly presidential race about to get even uglier? donald trump is promising to retaliate against the clinton if more damaging videos of him surface, and attacking members of his own party. one of trump's advisers dr. ben carson is going to join us, right after this break.

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behind donald trump. trump's former opponent ben carson one of those people, adviser to donald trump joining me now from florida, and i'm -- i know you've seen the tweets. i want to get your reaction to what he's saying. he's attacking paul ryan. do you they is smart? >> it's probably not what i would be concentrating on right now. you know, the place where donald trump is going to win this election is on the issues. you're not going to win the issue on attacking people or getting into fights, quite frankly. particularly when the media is not on your side. so why even go there? why not concentrate on what two out of three americans are concerned about, and that is the direction of our country. that's one that he can win easily. >> why doesn't he address the -- the tape more, or point a finger at sort of his own behavior of

this tape that came out 11 years ago that shows him basically talking about sexually assaulting a woman. i mean, why doesn't he instead atone noor instead of lashing out at everyone, including his own party? >> well, you know, he has apologized for that. i'm not sure that you can give a good enough apology for, you know, those abominable words. there just is no excuse for it. you have to apologize for it, and move on. what i'm hoping is that everybody can recognize that right now the united states is like a locomotive that's heading off the cliff. and the engineer has to decide, you're going to try to stop that train, or are you going to go deal with the fight in the coach car? you know? why not stop the train, and then let's deal with the fight in the coach car. because you know, you look at the national debt. you look at our immigration crisis. you look at the terrorist attacks. you look at education.

you look at health care and how it's spiraling our control. you know, these are -- these are things that are so important, and the two parties are diametrically opposed in a way they want to solve those. the american people have the right to hear what those diametrically opposed opinions are to make an intelligent choice. >> sounds like you are saying when talking about this train that is sort of barreling down the tracks, for you that is what you would see as a president obama third term, someone who's going to, you know, sort of take the -- >> has nothing to do with president obama. >> well, i'm sorry. >> nothing to do with president obama. >> let me -- >> it what do did with the direction of our country which is been going on for the last several decades. >> okay. and that you feel that hillary clinton is just going to continue to take something in the wrong direction, is what i'm hearing you say, and you seem to be describing this fight back in a car of the train? >> no, no. >> is that donald trump? >> no. what i'm saying -- what i'm saying is, look at the platforms of the democrat.

look at the platforms of the republicans. listen to the policies of donald trump. listen to the policies of hillary clinton. but let's concentrate on those things so that we can make an intelligent decision as a nation, as to which direction we want to go. >> so what is the fight going on in the coach car? is that donald trump? is that sort of what you see as an issue that doesn't deserve as much attention as the policies? >> well, the fight going on is looking at all of this subterfuge. all of these things that -- i'm not saying they're not important. but stopping that fight or dealing with that fight is not going to stop the train from going over the cliff. >> but how is donald trump saying that you need to grab a woman by her genitalia in that tape coming out subterfuge? >> because you can talk about that until you're blue in the face. it is not helping the electorate

understand what the policies of the republicans and the democrats are. what their platforms are and which direction they want the country to go in. right now, that is a critical issue, and it needs to be dealt with. so anything that detracts from you being able to put that information out there and i'm hoping that -- that your industry, the news industry, will actually become very mature and say, look, we're just not going to deal with all of this peripheral issues. we are going to hold your feet to the fire. you should tell that to donald trump. you should tell that to hillary clinton. we're not going to listen to all of this garbage. we want to know what's going on. we want the people to know. that's why -- that's why the press is the only business protected by the constitution. they're supposed to do that for the people so that the people can make an intelligent decision. this country is supposed to be run by the will of the people. not by the political establishment. >> he said these things, and that's why we're talking about them, and i want to talk to you

about a way that you characterized this. you described this as a locker room talk and you've said that donald trump was someone else 11 years ago, wasn't in the political sphere. you were not in the political sphere 11 years ago. are you a terriblydif persferen person than 11 years ago? >> 11 years ago he's a billionaire playboy. now running for president of the united states. that means you're out there among the people. you're listening to their concerns. there's a certain gravitas attributed to you because you begin to understand these things that you weren't even concerned about before. it makes a difference. >> but he's talked even as a presidential candidate -- about physical appearance -- >> let me just say -- let me just say this -- it doesn't excuse the words. it doesn't excuse what was done. i think it's abominable. i don't think there's any way

that you can justify it, and i don't hear anybody trying to justify it. but -- but let's move on. >> why did you call it locker room talk? >> call it whatever you need to call it to make it feel good to you. but the fact of the matter is, i mean, i've been in lots of places -- >> i mean, dr. carson -- dr. carson, there's not a lot. >> -- tales of sexual conquest. >> you said say whatever you need to say to make it feel good to you or to the viewer. that's not the viewer's job. to characterize this to make it feel good for them. this is what it is. why did you call it locker room talk? >> don't mischaracterize, if you mind. don't mischaracterize what i'm saying. what i am saying is that, that kind of banter goes around all the time. is it the right kind of thing to do? absolutely not. >> so you hear -- you've heard people talking like this?

>> absolutely not -- i've heard people talking like that -- of course. are you kidding me? >> where are you hangsing out and with whom are you hanging out that you hear people talking like that? >> as i was growing up, people were always trying to talk about their sexual conquest, and trying to make themselves appear, you know, like the -- don -- casanova. i'm surprised you haven't heard that. i really am. >> i haven't heard it and i know a lot of people who have not heard it. and i -- >> maybe that's the problem. maybe that's the problem. you know -- people -- >> the problem is that i haven't -- >> maybe -- maybe that's the problem. but -- whether they've heard it or not, the issue is the train that's going off the cliff. we can come back after we save the country, amp we keep the train from going off the cliff, and -- i would welcome, quite

frankly, a discussion of morality in this country. i think it would be a wonderful thing if we'd bring back our judeo-christian values once again. i think it could do nothing but help us. i would be all in favor of that. >> i think this may have pror t prompted a conversation about some values and dr. carson we appreciate you participating in it. dr. carson supporting donald trump and speaking with us today. in less than two hours, hillary clinton and former vice president al gore will be taking the stage also in florida. they'll be in miami. and then later president obama hits the trail again in support of hillary clinton. cnn white house correspondent michelle kaczynski is live in greensboro, north carolina and michelle, tell us what are we expecting from president obama, and do we think as he has before, that he'll be going after donald trump? >> reporter: i think he absolutely will. it's just, it depends how he does it. will it be an oblique taeg? will he reference those words we

heard from the tape again? when you look what he said sunday. he did reference the tape pap short reference. the president doesn't like to get too much into the fray. but you look at the words he used. he called it disturbing. unbelievable. he said, donald trump is insecure and likes to pump himself up by putting other people down. he said he's careless about basic values and the civility and respect that a democracy requires. he also said he didn't want to repeat any of those words that he heard on the tape, because there were children present. i think something similar to that. the president knows when he comes to a place like this, north carolina, the polls are so close. one yesterday showed hillary clinton leading but only by three percentage points, if that. it's close by a hair. but the president knows he's preaching to the choir. remember, the white house still sees the president's primary goal not to change minds necessarily about donald trump, but to persuade people to actually get out there and vote,

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at sunday's presidential debate amid the sniping and bickering between the two candidates, there were moments where actual policy was discussed. you might have missed them in you blinked.

one of those moment was on ta s taxes. >> i will tell you, hillary clinton is raising your taxes. you can look at me. she's raising your taxes really high, and what that's going to do is a disaster for the country. >> now, here's what i want to do. i have said nobody who makes less than $250,000 a year, and that's the vast majority of americans as you know will have their taxes raised, because i think we've got to go where the money is. >> well, while clinton and trump have more specifics on their tax plans and cristina alesci is here to walk us through this. give us the main points, what we need to know, the main point is, when trump was talking he was talking to the wealthy for the most part. about increasing the taxes. if you're voting with your pocketbook, pay close attention to this, because the two plans are very different. clinton's plan is more complex and trump's is more simple, but it leaves many questions unanswered. look, very high level here,

trump will cut taxes for everyone. but the disproportionate benefit will accrue to the wealthy and clinton's plan will cut taxes a little for low to mid-income american, probably not that much, but the wealthy will get hit with the bulk of her increases. now, on corporate taxes, trump will cut the corporate tax rate to 15%. clinton doesn't touch it, but will try and close those loopholes, like companies keeping cash offshore. let's take a close are look at the numbers. with trump, the averages tax cut about $2,900. you've got to figure the ranges here. the extremes. the highest income earners will get a 1.1 million dollar reduction in their tax bill. under clinton's plan, the highest earners there see an increase by $800,000. what is the collective impact of all of this brianna? trump's proposal would reduce

tax revenue by 6.2 trillion dollars over ten years. clinton would raise it by $1.4 trillion. now, trump's team is taking issue with some of these estimates. especially the revenue estimate we just showed you saying it doesn't count the economic benefit that companies instead of paying tax will save that money, spend it on hiring more people, making investments, but critics say, look, when you raise debt, when you reduce revenue like that, you're probably going to raise debt and interest rates will rise, and problemably negate the positive impacts you just talked about. bottom line, it's really hard to see how trump's plan would help the average person day one, brianna. >> okay. and then what about say, him? she a wealthy person. you talked about how the wealthy will benefit from this. so if he was looking at his own tax bill, you know, how do we think that would sort of -- what would that look like under his plan? >> yeah.

an excellent question. talking about that billion dollar loss that the "new york times" broke, you know, for the past week and a half. talking about his ability to take losses, to offset future income, or other benefits, real estate developers get, there doesn't seem to be anything in his plan for limit or restrict his ability to do that. trump's plan, though, here are the thing -- it does benefit him in one very big way. eliminates the estate tax. so he could pass his wealth to his children without them getting hit with a big tax bill. clinton's plan leaves the estate tax in place, and she wants to expand it so that it hits more wealthy people. so -- >> yeah. >> there is a big diverge, on that front and people get very upset about the estate tax, because they think, oh, i've worked all of this time, and my kids are going to get taxed on all of this hard-earned income. the reality is, only .02% of

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mateo gold. okay. donald trump is saying that he's -- one, unshackled and going to do things the way he wants to and also putting the clinton campaign, seems like, on notice. saying if more tapes go out he'll go after them in basically a nastier way. where's this headed? >> i think he's a candidate who doesn't know where to attack first. right? he spent the entire morning tweeting about paul ryan and john mccain. let me remind you, are republicans. rather than hillary clinton. it might be -- it might be more lucrative for him if he were going to actually campaign against his political opponent. then he raises the specter of more tapes, and i'm going to get even worse if there are more tapes. i mean, this sounds like somebody hoop just sort of up against the wall, and punching anywhere, indiscriminately, because he knows he's -- he's on

the ropes here. >> and if he were to be president, he would want a republican congress. >> you think? >> so why is he hitting an endangered republican senator? >> because i think he takes things personally and he can't not, you know, fight back when he feels offended, but there just seems to be no -- for a brief period, from mid-august until shortly before the first debate, there seemed to be a strategy on the trump campaign. they seemed to recognize that identify demographics he needed to do well with, and seemed to have a message that would appeal to those demographics. basically, politic 101. basically college educated whites. hit romney's number among college educated whites, he had a chance to win this race. a game plan. all has gone out the window since the last two debates. this idea unshackled and trump being trump means he going back,

playing to the same 40% he'd had in the country and no longer a campaign about addition. >> and so clear, as you say, really just speaking to his base. something that there's a sort of amplification effect we see that his information that he's getting, that he's using to process this strategy are the people at his rallies. the screaming fans. all signs that tell him he's on the right track, and you know, my colleague bob acosta reported sitting in trump tower with steve bannon, tweeting's in a bubble surrounded by people reinforcing what he should be doing, and why republican strategists are worried and anxious because she not helping the rest of the ticket. >> there is an article in the "washington journal" poll giving a lot of republicans pause thinking about separating from donald trump. that is, two-thirds of registered republicans believe that republican candidates should continue to support donald trump. so what they're trying to do is not anger the base of the party. that's who that number represents.

while attracting these higher educated white voters, particularly college educated women that they would like to get, and so they're trying to figure out how to do this, and it's not easy. the more angry trump gets. >> isn't he working against that, mateo? look at -- if paul ryan by just saying, having a call and saying we're going to focus on the -- he could come out and say i'm outraged, denounce him. he didn't to that. right? sort of saying, look, we have to focus on the down ballot races and is teams maybe thrown in the towel on a donald trump presidency, but if he's sort of -- if donald trump is hitting him, the base is against paul ryan and sort of splitting, seems, this electorate. >> this is a schism that is really perilous for the party postelection. several strategists posted, similar to trump once he goes away.

he almost can't win on either side now. he's getting blamed for continuing to endorse him and for not supporting him on the trail. >> this is not going aaway. the base going away. the issued tapped into, none goes away. a media infrastructure supports trump if not trumpism and this fight goes on. >> it's a nasty divorce. a really nasty divorce, and it's going to continue to be litigated one way or another after this election. i mean, when you step back and you think what we are looking at. we are looking at a party's presidential nominee in a major fight with the speaker of the house, and leading republicans, i think a third of republicans in the senate now have shgood-bye to him. this is going to continue.

>> they'll be some -- i think some common ground among the establishment and the trump wing after the election. if hillary clinton is the president. >> sure. >> there will be, you know, a common enemy and they will fight her together. so -- >> i want to ask you guys about something that dr. ben carson said. trying to get the sound ready. i don't think we have it. i'll paraphrase or quote him, actually's he said -- he basically said what donald trump said in that tape was locker room talk. i questioned, was surprised i'd never heard something like that. he said maybe that's the problem. >> yeah. >> which i -- >> the problem? >> the problem you're not spending enough time -- >> perhaps i am naive. i was on the boys' golf team in high school and never heard talk like this. quite a lot of talk, but nothing certainly that even drifted into that kind of territory. when you hear his surrogates making this defense, mateo, these kinds of defenses what do you think? >> i think what's remarkable is that we're now having the debate about what constitute sexual

assault from what the candidate for the republican nomination is saying. i mean, this is something that is now the center of this presidential campaign, and an argument you hear not just from trump surrogates but at the rally. i hear if all the time. a normalization, finding alarming. this idea accept as part of the normal discourse. >> and as if you are a part of some elite that somehow doesn't understand that this language occurs, or that you are overplaying it, because you call it something predatory. >> or naive. >> or thatty are naive, which, of course, you're not, and that you don't understand it for what it is, which is -- by calling it locker room, you're calling it harmless. you're saying, it's banter. it's nothing. it's harmless. well, it's not harmless. it's harmful. >> nobody denies that there are people out there who say terrible things. anyone on the internet knows.

>> sure. >> an egg account on twit ker say the most disgusting things. >> i've never had that happen. really? >> what's so strange about this, the argument from trump and the campaign is that this is just normal. it's not normal. you only see this in a sort of worst reaches of american life. >> it's not normal and it shouldn't be normal. thank you all so much. coming up, donald trump riles up a crowd with the wrong information. the story, after the break. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ geico motorcycle,

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donald trump. this is what he would like to focus on. he says "i hope people are looking at the disgraceful behavior of hillary clinton as exposed by wikileaks. she is unfit to run." so there is stuff in these e-mails that the clinton campaign should answer for. it seems like what they're doing is casting doubt on whether they're real. if they were fake i would think they would say they were fake. but a russian news outlet totally misrepresented one of these e-mails and donald trump read it. >> this was interest iing. campaign officials have been concerned for some time. first of all just about hackin of the system and then you have documents put out there but also the concern and this is straight out of the russian -- in fact the soviet playbook, you release documents, 100 of them are authentic and one is not. you sneak in something that's been doctored to look worse than what it is. that's been a real concern. but what happened this weekend is probably -- either the clumsiest attempt at that or just an outright mistake.

let's have been to what donald trump said. >> so blumenthal writes a quote. i have to tell you this. one important point has been universally acknowledged by the nine previous reports about benghazi, this is sidney blumenthal, the only one she was talking to. she wasn't talking to ambassador stevens even though 600 calls, probably desperation. the attack was almost certainly preventable are, benghazi. clinton was in charge of the state department and it failed to protect the united states personnel at an american consulate in libya. he meant benghazi. if the gop wants to raise that as a talking point against her, it is legitimate. in other words, he's now admitting they could have done something about benghazi. this just came out a little while ago. >> now, the trouble with that is that those words were not sidney blumenthal's to hillary clinton, they were, in fact, cut and pasted from a "newsweek" article

written by curt ike iken wald. >> sidney blumenthal cut and pasted? >> cut and pasted to share with other members of the clinton staff. he's been following this story closely, he said these words sound familiar, let me look at my copy, that was something i wrote years ago describing this. it was not snooblumenthal's assessment. >> and nothing from the trump campaign? >> not on that. to be fair, as you say, as this be happening, wikileaks is release rag whole host of other communications that appear to be authentic, the question is, how damaging are they and what do they reveal? >> jim sciutto, thank you so much for that report. we appreciate it. that's it for me. i'll be back at 5:00 eastern on the situation room for our international viewers "amanpour" is next. for our viewers in north america, "newsroom" with brooke baldwin starts right after this.

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here we go today, i'm brooke baldwin, you're watching cnn. thanks for being with me. after the first presidential debate, donald trump attacked miss universe. after the second one, he attacked just the most powerful republican in congress. and now here we are four weeks before the election, he just declared war on his entire party. the nominee opting for a scorched-earth approach embarking on yet another twitter rampage. it all started with this man in the cross hairs. this is house s