unity is gone as donald trump is going after critics in his own parties like speaker paul ryan and senator john mccain. in increasingly personal terms after the endorsement of trump in the aftermath of vulgar words caught on video. taking offense that ryan told house trump noting a number of congressmen on the call trying to save the congressional republican mu jorsajorimajoriti. trump did not hold back when asked about paul ryan. >> i don't want his support. i don't care about his support. what i want to do is win for the people. the first sign of a little bit of difficulty he unendorses. i wouldn't want to be in a fox hole with a lot of these people. >> the question is, how much does this feud help donald trump on election day? we know a lot of voters are frustrated with washington and exit polls from the primaries say betrayed by party leaders.

but we're headed into a general election now where trump is trying to grow his support and reach undecided middle of the road voters. energize the republican base by attacking the gop establishment and also try to make hillary clinton even more unpopular and hoping that suppress enthusiasm for hillary clinton. as he goes down this road, chris and alisyn. this gop civil war could cost them control of congress. chris and alisyn? >> manu, thanks for that. joining us now senior political reporter and cnn political commentator and anchor of time warner cable news errol lewis. let's bring our viewers up to speed. a tweet storm yesterday while we were on the air and afterwards by donald trump. let me just read three of these. at 9:05 he tweeted our very

weakened and ineffective leader has had a bad conference call and his members went wild at his disloyalty. 10:00, trump says it's so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and i can now fight for america the way i want to. at 12:52 p.m. yesterday he said the very foul-mouthed senator john mccain begged for my support during his primary. i gave it, he won. and then dropped me over locker room remarks. errol, does he need paul ryan and john mccain to win? >> we'll find out. look, paul ryan is, i think, more of a symbol than anything else. paul ryan was on the ticket in 2012 and couldn't carry his own state. lost to wisconsin by about seven points. in practical terms, not like some kind of giaj gigantic mach. as a symbol, it's incredibly important because it gives everyone else permission to walk

away from donald trump. that's why it got under his skin a little bit and why he's tweeting about it. if you've got dozens and dozens of congressional candidates who are saying, you know what, we're not going to push the trump stuff so much or we've got an add and maybe some palm cards and some of the mailings and some of the joint campaign material that's out there, but we're not going to use it. that really starts to hurt. that's where it really starts to matter in a lot of the swing states. >> portman took until late saturday night, 8:30 saturday night but he had stepped away. he is one of the people, he has a lot of legitimacy in the senate and he is saying, this is our guy. you have to separate the antics and then he went bad on trump, as well. what is interesting trump says the shackles are off, i can now campaign and fight the way i want to. of course, what does he do? he just commits to this tirade of insults. he didn't discuss anything that could supposedly win him this

election. the question becomes, what is the upside to this strategy for him? >> you know, i think the upside for him is that this is his comfort zone. he talks about the shackles being off. i think the shackles weren't ever really on in any consistent way. if you look at the last year and a half or so that he has been campaigning in this political realm. also in that way, he has people around him who reinforce this instinct. people like steve bannon and people like roger ailes and people like roger stone, as well. in that way, i think it's good. for the republican party, it's, obvio obviously, really, really bad. in terms of getting voters i think errol was right about paul ryan being a symbol and also a symbol of actual republican voters, right? if you look at what donald trump needs to do, he needs to get those moderate republicans who voted for mitt romney. i was in north carolina a couple weeks ago and i met a lot of republicans who had voted for

mitt romney who were very skeptical about donald trump and wondering if they would vote at all for donald trump. not likely necessarily to vote for hillary clinton, but maybe they just would leave that part on their ballot blank. so, i think, you know, there's one thing where he's trying to suppress the vote of hillary clinton backers, but i think this scorched earth tactic is really dangerous because he starts to eat into those voters that he needs. even those voters. even, you know, republican voters might not be enough, if you look at what happened in 2012. >> and, yet, errol, a whole slew of conservatives who say, good ridens to the paul ryan, you know, part of the party. laura engram on her radio show. she had congressman steve king on yesterday and they were sort of celebrating this. listen to this moment. >> i also think about the establishment wing of the party could simply be amputated out in this -- >> good. >> they should leave. >> yeah, i think they should

leave. >> and in the end, maybe we can rebuild. >> how does that work? >> i think you probably had among the establishment republicans that they're talking about the flip side of that very same conversation. maybe we can finally get some of these crazies and amputate them and get them out of the party so we can go forward. in other words, instead of waiting another month and then having their little civil war, it's starting already. that's what this says to me. they can't wait to settle scores with the other side and in some ways the outcome of the presidential race isn't even the most important thing for them right now. >> so, what happens here? you got 27 days here. how does this work going forward? i mean, for trump, what is this supposed to do? the key in this race is going to be getting out the vote, right? he has this effort now perhaps to go as negative as he can on the clintons to suppress their turnout, but how does this help him if he doesn't have any of the party machinery behind him

to help get out the vote? >> it doesn't. i mean, at this point, it really is about that infrastructure that the rnc has on the ground there and other conservative groups and personalities. rght. if you're looking at what's going on on the progressive side. you have big groups like planned parenthood and out there mobilizing voters and trump was already behind, right? he didn't have an organization himself in terms of infrastructure and get out the vote the way romney did. the rnc was really carrying that load and now you have the sense that the rnc is not quite onboard, even though ryan is out there saying he is onboard with and a lot of skepticism about that and a lot of skepticism they will continue and whether they want to shift resources, as well, in the way paul ryan is talking about. in terms of how this works, it doesn't work well for the republican party. i talked to one former aide of donald trump and he said donald

trump is the kind of candidate who essentially wants to fly the plane into the side of the mountain, right. that's essentially what's going on at this point. and i think for republicans like paul ryan, i think one of the things that is clear is they are very much setting up for 2020. you can imagine even if donald trump wins there might be a whole field of candidates, republican candidates who challenge him because he's so strayed from republican party orthodox. obviously, he loses. i think you'll have a replay of what we just saw, which is this field of 15 or 15 candidates who tried to carve out an identity vis-a-vis what donald trump is doing to the party. yeah, i think we're pretty much already fast forwarding in the minds of a lot of these republican leaders to 2020. >> guys, stick around. we want to talk to you about what went on with hillary clinton yesterday. hillary clinton and her husband also made news. >> they got al gore out there

teaming up on the campaign trail in miami hoping to clinch the millennial vote. driving home the point that every vote counts. suzanne malveaux is live in washington with more. what have you got? >> the campaign has gotten so nasty and so ugly hillary clinton supporters are worried they are turning off the voters. the strategy now is to make this case that every single vote counts and exhibit "a" was on display in florida. al gore who spoke directly to millennials. anyone under 25 might not remember but it was the spoiler ralph nader who cost him the election. while he was addressing climate change an issue that he and the young voters were passionate about the outcome of supporting a third party candidate like gary johnson. at the same time we saw him back on the trail having a good time in north carolina mocking trump and the republican leadership

trying to exploit this rift between them. >> you can't repeatedly denounce what is said by someone and then say, but i'm still going to endorse him to be the most powerful person on the planet. he's been saying really bad stuff for a while now. what did you think? he was just going to transform himself? >> now, all this comes at a time when hillary clinton is dogged by more hacked e-mails, by wikileaks leading to more questions essentially about the campaign, the dnc and the role of t in the justice department. bill clinton was interrupted on the campaign trail in florida by trump supporters who were calling him a rapist. today hillary clinton is going to be campaigning in colorado, nevada, before she makes a two-day fund-raising swing through washington state and florida. alisyn? >> we'll talk more about all of

that. suzanne, thanks for the reporting. donald trump has this blistering new attack ad and targets hillary clinton's health and her stamina. how is the clinton campaign responding? we'll tell you, next.

all right. so, how does trump think he's going to win the election? by going hard often. he has a new campaign ad just attacking hillary clinton's health and stamina. take a look. >> hillary clinton failed every single time as secretary of state. now she wants to be president. hillary clinton doesn't have the fortitude, strength or stamina to lead in our world. >> although as we learned at the town hall the other night, he does think she is an amazing fighter who will never quit. >> let's bring back our panel. nobody expects any consistency in this campaign, it's whatever works in the moment. errol, when you look at that ad, who is he targeting and doesn't have a shot at expanding his reach at all. >> no shot at expanding his reach and targeted at the portion of the base that wants

to believe that already these things are true and looking for whatever mud they can throw at hillary clinton. all she has to do is what she will do in the next 24 hours come out on a stage looking great, standing great and standing and talking for an hour or show and showing that ad is completely inaccurate. we'll see it again at the next debate, we saw it at the last debate. she stood for 90 minutes going toe to toe with donald trump. the problem with that particular argument is that it doesn't say anything about her character or prospects or anything else. she's weak and donald trump is strong. he has pounded that home to everybody over the lastiary. he's all about strength. fine. strength is to do what is the real question with three weeks left in the campaign. >> i heard so many voters say that they liked that moment in the debate when hillary clinton and donald trump were asked what was positive about the other

one. it was so refreshing to hear them have to come up with something. is this ad and his argument undermine what he said about her at the debate, what chris said, she never quits. >> it's undermined by his statements. it's undermined by the totality of hillary clinton's career. i mean, she's been on the stage for 20 or 30 years, she was secretary of state and clearly has stamina in a doggedness in terms of pursuing, pursuing this presidency. i think, also, donald trump's problem -- it's one thing to argue that hillary clinton shouldn't get this job or that she should be fired but he hasn't made a credible case he should be hired for this job in terms of temperament. if you think about what the presidency is about, it really is about discipline and focus and you're sitting in meetings all day. you're hearing information and processing information. it isn't you're giving these big

rallies at, you know, at events across the country and flying around in your jet. i think that's his problem, right? he hasn't yet made that credible case that he has the temperament and the discipline to do the job of presidency and you wonder, in these last three weeks, if he can turn that around because that's where you look at all these polls. that's where voters are skeptical about donald trump and it's been that way for months and months and months. >> the soft spot is, mia, they are sick of the status quo and they want change and hillary clinton checks every box of what they don't like and that leads us to the wikileaks. better than this ad is any cause for suggestion that comes out that shows hillary clinton is an insider who manipulates the system to get what she wants and not your interests. do you see some smoke in what has come out so far? >> i think so, yeah. the problem for donald trump if you looked at his twitter feed

yesterday. he had three tweets about this whole incident. the wikileaks coming out and some e-mails about the justice department and some e-mails about the clinton foundation and six about the terrible republican party and how they're abandoning him. >> do you think he has any proof of there is clear collusion between the clintons and doj. i think his best clue would be brian fallon's e-mail. what to you have about that? let's put it up for people. doj folks inform me there is a status hearing in this case this morning. we could have a window into the the judges thinking about his proposed schedule as quickly as today. what case, nia? what are they talking about? >> i think at this point brian fa fallon is talking about information he has available to the public at this point and donald trump is arguing that there is a collusion and he has inside information about this

case and about the e-mails. sure. i think the problem, again, is if you are donald trump and you want to hammer this message and maybe you want to have a press conference and the full bench of republicans hammering this case about collusion, corruption, about sort of pay for play and, again, he's so off message and republicans are so reluctant to get out there and talk about this because they know they're going to be asked also about donald trump. it's hard for this message to break through because he's such an erratic candidate at this point. >> errol, the clinton campaign has tried to make the message that this originates rom russia. they are doing the hacking and what do you think about the effectiveness of that argument? >> i think that argument is true, but irrelevant in many ways. it's true it's important that the russians, according to the fbi, apparently are trying to intervene in this election. that's serious. that's important. on the other hand, we've seen a lot of dumps from wikileaks and nobody has challenged the actual

accuracy of the documents nor has the campaign said these are not john podesta's e-mails. it was public information, it was sort of a weigh station about when there was going to be -- >> a status conference. wasn't like a ruling or anything. >> open court and they talk about where things are at and when we will produce more documents. our dear friend donna brazille instead of saying look, from time to time i get questions in advance. here's a question you might want to be ready for. it was during the primary seize so it didn't hurt donald trump or the republicans in any way. this was her going at it with bernie sanders. arguably improper questionable behavior and something they should own up to rather than saying, you know, this is the russians behind this. the russians didn't really care if hillary clinton beat bernie sanders. the campaign will have to do

more than just point to russia in talking about this stuff. >> some of the e-mails they manipulated things. they come from somebody but really a translation from somebody else and they are putting words in people's mouths. you have to be careful about the authenticity. wiki may have the real document, but how is it used? i've done town how longs here and it is zero chance at that cone of silence. they take this question so seriously and i have never been able to leave with any of the copies of the questions. >> there you go. thank you very much. we should mention that christiane amanpour will be up in a moment with an interview with surrogate, foreign minister of russia and, obviously, all of this will have come up. meanwhile "today" show billy bush caught on that leaked tape, is he out at nbc? what we know, the latest, next. my belly pain and constipation? i've heard it all. eat more fiber. flax seeds. yogurt. get moving.

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it's time for the five things to know for your new day. donald trump waging war on his own party. slamming house speaker paul ryan for abandoning him and senator

john mccain for pulling his endorsement. hillary clinton and al gore campaigning together in miami pulling out all the stops to secure the millennial vote. gore reminding the crowd every vote counts. the aftermath of hurricane matthew still a real threat in north carolina. thousands being warned to move to higher ground because of flooding. the storm already blamed for 18 deaths in that state. a humanitarian crisis unfolding in haiti. more than a million people urgently need help in the wake of hurricane matthew. the spread of cholera now a major concern. nbc on the verge of cutting ties with billy bush. sources tell cnn that nbc is working on a separation deal with the "today" show co-host. he was suspended for his comments in the latest videotape with donald trump. you can go to cnnnewday.com for the latest. donald trump insisting that hacked e-mails reveal collusion

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>> the hillary clinton documents released today by wikileaks make more clear than ever just how much is at stake in this election. so much corruption. well, here's what we know. with wikileaks makes clear is how the sausage is made in politics. also interesting, remember, it's illegal to possess these stolen documents. it's different for the media. everything you learn about this you're learning from us and in full disclosure. let's take a look at what's in there and what it means. joining us now senior editor it of "the atlantic" ron brownstein. there are e-mails that are recommended secondarily. not by wikileaks but put out

there and said hillary clinton called them this. no, she didn't. it was a translation of a report from somebody else. now, there is a real e-mail from brian fallon talking about getting an update from the doj and put up the e-mail so that people can see it. he got information about a status conference that's coming quickly. this has been uses by conservative extreme types to say, ah-ha, collusion with the doj. donald trump used those words himself. fair point. >> i think the first point, i mean, the overriding point and i think you may have said this this morning, there is no what in here that is as important as the how and maybe the why. this is not a journalistic leak. this is a hack almost certainly engineered by russian intelligence to disrupt the american election. what the obama administration does to respond is, you know, a critical point in the days ahead. having said that, you know, this

is kind of an interesting example because it is one in which brian fallon is obtaining information from the justice department that is publicly available, i believe, at that point, about a judge's hearing. have toiing to do with the relef hillary clinton's e-mails and the underlying investigation of the propriety of the server. is it inappropriate for the department of justice to have contact. it doesn't go nearly as far as the way mr. trump presents it. >> another one, this one comes from john podesta. the way the campaign spun this one, i had to read it a couple times because i thought they had it right. put up this john podesta e-mail about everyday americans. this is clever what they did. i know she has begun to hate everyday americans. but i think we should use it once the first time she says, i'm running for president -- it

sounds like she's saying she doesn't like people like you. she doesn't like the phrase. is this spin? no. look at the text of the e-mail. use it once. what is he talking about? what would she be using once? it's the phrase. but it's very powerful for people when misconstrued. >> like you said, you're seeing the sausage get made and for, again, with the kind of overriding question of whether we should be amplifying the work of the russian intelligence service and discussing it at length it is fascinating to see their struggle around language on so many fronts. you know, the phrase that she's trying to get to is the one that i believe paul begala coined for bill clinton. people who work hard and play by the rules. that's what they're kind of trying to find some way to describe. the agonies they go through to see how she would speak. it does get to this sense of hillary clinton as a politician who is very kind of practiced. there isn't a lot of spontaneity

and there is a lot of oplanning. someone who is very cautious, careful, deliberate. it does give you that feeling. but beyond that, it doesn't tell you -- a very complex process to get there. >> what about some of the speeches that she wants open borders hemispherically and completely free trade and she wants wall street to be consulted about regulation. what do you unpack in those comments? >> well, first, i think the overriding message from those transcripts are really kind of reinforces what we kind of think about hillary clinton. she is more a kind of art of the possible politician than. kind of the overall message of all those transcripts is she is someone who is very conscious of the parameters of the possible and -- >> what does that mean, pur

parameters of the possible. she wants to take away any distinction between us and mexico. >> by the way, a hemispheric trade zone is something that bill clinton proposed. i mean, something he started to work on in office. and it does, i think, that is the one that is the most kind of jarring departure from where she is publicly and 'cause suggest, as did the first 20 minutes of the first debate how difficult of a position it is for her to be this anti-trade warrior that she is kind of morphed into in this campaign. of all the language and of all the speeches, she is someone who is really talking about how she thinks you get things done in diplomacy and in government and it is kind of a grinding process. right. not a lot of lift and not a lot of inspiration and kind of maneuvering through competing interests and kind of different power centers and what it takes to turn the lovers to make something happen. that is what the overriding message i took out. i think that is the one piece of

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breaking news just in to cnn. russian foreign minister speaking out in a new interview with cnn's christiane amanpour. russia's top diplomat addresses allegations that the u.s. says

it is trying to interfere with our election. the allegation is simple. they are hacking different organizations, including the dnc to try to manipulate the election. what did mr. lavrov have to say? >> well, chris, you know that relations between these two countries have literally fallen off the cliff with those allegations from the united states, which were formally launched over the weekend and saying that the highest government officials in russia would have had to sign off on it. so, i went to the highest government official that i could find and that is the foreign minister sergey lavrov and he denied it. but this is what he said. >> well, it's flattering, of course, to get this kind of attention for regional power as president obama called it some time ago. now everybody in the united states is saying that it is russia which is running the

united nations presidential debate. it's flattering, as i said, but it has nothing, you know, to be explained by the effects. we have not seen a single fact, a single proof and we have not seen any answer to the proposal which one year ago, almost one year ago. november 2015. the russian prosecutor general's office conveyed to the department of justice to start professional consultations on cybercrime. >> let's get back to the facts. you deny this, you know, the international community denied -- >> they didn't approve it. >> are you worried about this proportional response of the white house is going to happen? >> it's really, it's not speculating. if they decided to do something, something led them to it.

>> there he was mr. lavrov. >> it was interesting, he said we did not deny this. they did not prove it. how did you take that? >> well, you know, all these nondenial denials. british intelligence believed that the signatures are very clear in terms of what they have seen before and that's why they point to russia and say it only could have been signed off by very high-placed russian officials. they are denying it. what is very interesting is i asked him about motive. in a rather unprecedented move over the last month, the u.n. ambassador. u.n. russia's ambassador criticized and the u.n. human rights commissioner talked about donald trump, as well as other populous demagogues in europe. and russia went to the secretary-general calling him on the carpet and i asked sergey

lavrov why he appeared to be intervening and he denied that, as well. what is interesting, since they're under pressure now. acclimation for information into war crimes over aleppo and threat of retaliation in the u.s. over the hacking. russian foreign minister told me that they plan more talks with the united states and other interested parties on getting a cease-fire in syria. the u.s. will have more to say about that later in the day. >> you asked lavrov about that. what does he say about the ongoing russian air strikes? in syria we know the uk and france are classifying those as war crimes. >> well, that's right. and they are asking, you know, secretary kerry basically said that this whole civilian slaughter in aleppo begs the question of war crimes investigation into russia and syrian activity, which, of course, i put to him. which, again, he denies. it is very interesting because he keeps putting the ball back

in the u.s. court and continues to insist that the united states is not doing enough to pull out the extremists from there. anyway, we went back and forth on that. but the truth is, this kind of bombardment of a civilian onclao enclave since aleppo it has not been seen since the civilian war. it's very, very grave and the u.n. secretary-general, the pope today. you know, everybody's calling for a cease-fire to end "the slaughterhouse there" and suggesting that russia be investigated for war crimes, as well as syria, of course. >> what did lavrov say the goal is of russia in syria? >> well, you know, again, they're very, very, you know, sort of deflect all that. here's the thing. everybody says the whole sort of conventional wisdom on all sides is that there is no military solution to this war. well, clearly, russia and syria

believe that there is a mill tear solution to what's happening in syria. hence, the massive bombardment of aleppo. in the last few weeks and months of the obama administration the russians are trying to empower syrian to get as much accomplished on the ground as possible before a new president is inaugurated and a tougher u.s. response. that is one thing people think. they don't believe that they're going to try to help assad liberate the whole of syria. but to get aleppo would be a huge, huge victory and then assad would have damascus. and those are big, big populated areas. they don't like to admit it, but that is what is taking place on the ground. now, as i say, russia at the 11th hour saying along with the united states, russia, plus iran, turkey, saudi arabia and

maybe qatar want to have more talks. >> thank you for sharing your reporting with us. great to talk to you. if you went to sleep early, don't worry, we have late-night laughs for you this morning. prepare to laugh in three, two, one. >> donald trump tweeted earlier today, "it is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and i can now fight for america the way i want to." what shackles are you talking about? the only thing that ever shackled you was the 140 character limit on twitter. >> a new national poll found that republicans said only one man to blame for this. and donald trump said, exactly, billy bush. >> billy bush who was the other half of locker room talk on that "access hollywood" tape is reportedly exiting nbc and "today" show and donald trump

will not rest until every bush is destroyed. started with jeb and next billy. >> happy 41st wedding anniversary to bill and hillary clinton. that's right. they celebrated with a quiet dinner. a really, really quiet dinner. did you say something? no. god. >> donald trump told supporters last night, i may be limping across that finish line, but we're going to get across that finish line. how things have changed. he's gone from make america great, again, to certificate of participation. we're all winners. >> which did you like best? >> i guess seth myers wins that one. what do you like? >> fallon on that round. what do you think? a lot of news this morning for you. a big interview with russia about whether or not they're hacking. let's get to it. >> you can't repeatedly denounce

what is said and then say, but i'm still going to endorse him. >> i'm just tired of nonsupport. i don't want his support, i want to win. >> my opponent has insulted everybody. we are in the final stretch. >> the hillary clinton documents released by wikileaks. >> so much corruption. >> russian interference in this election on behalf of mr. trump should be of utmost concern to all america. >> this is collusion and corruption of the highest order. >> just remember what's at stake. we've really got to get this right. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. the gop facing a real crisis after trump declared himself unshackled from the republican party. trump blasting house speaker paul ryan and senator john mccain for abandoning him. >> trump also seizing on a hacked e-mail that he says

proved between the clinton campaign and the justice department. an unprecedented turn of events in the last 24 hours. we are just 27 days from the election. seven days from the final presidential debate. so, let's begin our coverage with manu raju. >> donald trump is settling on a two-sepstrategy firing up his core supporters by relentlessly attacking republican leaders who are unpopular with the gop base while going after hillary clinton aggressively. but the fear among republicans is that this scorched earth strategy could cost them a price. possibly cost them the white house and their own congressional majority. >> i don't want his support. i don't care about his support. >> reporter: donald trump declaring himself unshackled from his own party and lashing out at republican leadership after spending the day unleashing in a tirade of

tweets. >> the shackles are some of the establishment people that are weak and ineffective people within the republican part y, senators and others and paul ryan. >> reporter: announcing he will no longer defend donald trump. >> the first sign of a little bit of difficulties he unendorses. i wouldn't want to be in a fox hole with a lot of these people. especially ryan. >> reporter: blasting senator john mccain for evoking his endorsement. >> john mccain who probably has the dirtiest mouth in all the senate. >> reporter: trump rejecting the idea about his comments forcing himself on women is a valid reason for his supporters to abandon him. >> locker room talk and most people have heard it before and i had a lot of women come up tame and say, boy, i heard that and i've heard a lot worse than that over my life. >> reporter: this as more republicans,