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thattise why she's chaining more aggressively to get the early vote so it can be banked before something changes in the race. >> thanks to uleoff fur watching. anderson's next. which. thamgs for joining us. we begin with breaking news. two women going on the record telling the "new york times" that donald trump either kissed them inappropriately or in the case of jessica leeds, that he groped them. she spoke on camera with the times. here is a portion of her account. >> it was over 35 years ago. i was hired by a newsprint company. i was a sales rep. i was traveling in the middle west. i was coming back into new york city. and it was on that flight that the stewardess asked me to, would i like to move up to first class. i didn't need to be asked twice. and i sat down next to a young man, blond, tall. and he introduced himself as
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donald trump. i was not really aware of the real estate world of trump. we just chatted back and forth. nothing particular. it wasn't until they cleared the meal that somehow or another the armrest in the seat disappeared. and it was a real shock when all of a sudden his hands were all over me. he started encroaching on my space. and i hesitate to use this expression. but i'm going to. and that is he was like an octopus. it was like he had six arms. he was all over the place. and if he had stuck with the upper part of the body, i might not have gotten -- i might not have gotten that upset. but it is when he started putting his hand up my skirt. and that was it. that was it. i was out of there.
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>> well, the other woman says that trump inappropriately kissed her on the mouth. she says it did not feel like an accident but a violation. this allegedly happened in 2005, the same year trump was caught on the holt mic in the "access hollywood" taping. >> we received a lot of questions online about the tape released on friday. you could imagine you called what you said locker room banter. you described kissing women without consent and grabbing their their their genitals. that is sexual assault. you bragged that you sexual assaulted women. do you understand that? >> no that isn't what i said. what i said is this is locker room talk. i'm not proud of it. i apologize to my family. i apologize to the american people. certainly i'm not proud of it. but this is locker room talk. and we need to get on to much more important things and much bigger things. >> just for the record though, are you saying that what you
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said on thatbus elevenyears ago that you did not actually kiss women out consent or grope women out consent. >> i have great respect for women. nobody has more respect -- >> so you're saying for the record you never did that. >> -- frankly you hear these things are said. and i was embarrassed by it. but i have tremendous respect for women. >> have you ever done those things -- >> and women have respect for me. and i will tell you, no i have not. >> again it was that answer that moved the two women they say to come forward. as you might imagine this latest chapter in the noshlgrktsz is drawing sharp reaction from the trump campaign. how is the campaign responding. is drawing sharp reaction from the trump campaign. how is the campaign responding. >> reporter: at this point they are dismissing the story as being false but i can tell you from stories top staffers were concerned about the story before it was even posted online. one says this article is fiction and for the "new york times" to
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launch a completely false character assassination against mr. trump on a topic like this is dangerous to. reach back decades in attempt to smear mr. trump trivializes sexual assault and sets a new wlou for where the media is willing to go in efforts to determine this election. so you can see in that statement anderson they are setting a standard here for any stories that are any stories that are unflattering between now and the election. anything this late in the game is basically not to be believed. and while it does throw donald trump off message. he was a trying to talk about hillary clinton's e-mail scandal today and his on again, off again relationship with house speaker paul ryan. i think something much more serious is happening anderson. this story along with others starting to surface in the media this evening with respect to donald trump's behavior around women is just going cement those doubts inside the minds of women voters who just don't think they can trust donald trump. >> we'll have more from you throughout the hour. i want to get the panel's reaction.
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phillip, how damaging do you think this could be? >> i think it could be significantly damaging. we saw after the tape came out last friday with these comments from 2005. we saw polling that suggested it was very damaging to donald trump with women. women are core constituency. he's doing poorly with them. polls suggest he's doing even worse after. because potentially of this tape. there was some rebound after the debate in part because he denied the charges. and this is going to undercut that. with this nbc wall street journal poll showing women had started to move back a little on monday. it is hard to see how women who were already worried about donald trump, about his candidacy f they are worried about that tape, this doesn't help. >> kayleigh, as a trump supporter, does it worry you? >> it doesn't. he's denied the accusations.
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me as a trump supporter, i take him as his word. i think this is better litigated in a court of law than on a media set. i think both sides always deserve to be heard. both an accuser and someone who's accused and for me i'm voting on issues. i'm voting who's going to better my life economically. who's going to keep my family safe from terrorism. i'm not voting on someone's passing. someone they may have or may not have done. >> the campaign has made much of the bill clinton's accusers. is it then fair that these women are making accusations against donald trump? >> politically in all honesty i think this is going to be a wash. >> a wash in what sense? >> a wash in the sense that you got he said, she said here. with one side making the same set of accusations that the other side is making about them. >> you have been bringing up juanita broderick for quite a while. >> right. let me with this.
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the "new york times" is flat out in their news columns campaigning with donald trump. they don't do a long sit down with juanita broderick. they are not going to. this is their attempt to get off the e-mail story. this is their attempt to do this. this is totally political and if i might add a cultural word. liberals, i'm a baby boomer. it is my generation, the sexual revolution and all of this sort of stuff that none of this stuff mattered. and now all of a sudden it does. it didn't matter on my side when people brought it up against clinton. >> is it a double standard though to be saying well it matters in the case of juanita broderick, her allegations versus. >> anderson, in truth i'd like to see one single standard for everybody. but i think this country is so confused about these issues and they have been so politicized. they went after clarence thomas and said -- just saying whatever it was. it was a pubic hair on top of my
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coke can was sexual harassment. i went back and there was a big article in the "new york times." and then the bill clinton things happen and everybody said oh it is just about sex. it is nobody's business. and my friend paul's friend james carville said you drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park whatever. the reaction was to the opposite. i'm just suggesting here that there are a lot of double standards here. we need to focus on the issues, what goes on in these e-mails, what is the economy, foreign policy etc. >> but is your candidate posting on the issues? he's the one who held a press conference before the second debate and -- >> right because i think you do have to fight the stuff. as a republican when they went after mitt romney for the steel workers wife commercial. the rom campaign more or less rolled over. and the mccain campaign more or less rolled over. donald trump fight asks that is what people like. >> i don't think it is a wash.
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off. as as the last tape story was breaking -- in fact he went down to 28% among women. 28%. that is a catastrophe. think this is going to hurt enormously. why? because it comports with what trump himself said. his most damning wince is himself. now you have women coming forward saying precisely the same thing. by the way in the last hour on this network another story ed lavenderry ra reported about the miss arizona in 2001 who claims trump came backstage while she and other young women were changing clothes. she was 18 at the time.
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teenagers. this is perfectly with what trump boasted about. he said he likes going backstage when these teenagers are changing clothes. it is -- it is disgusting. >> yeah. i mean look. these allegations are horrific. and they should be taken very, very seriously. and unfortunately this is becoming part of a larger theme, right? a broader theme that we are seeing with donald trump. and it is not an isolated -- they are not isolated incidents and that is the problem. so if you talk about -- if you look at the tape from last friday, what we hear from that tape is sexual assault. he's talking about what he's doing to these women. so this cannot be a wash. this is just added to everything that we've been hearing about donald trump and who he really is. >> do you put any credence in any of this given that it is his actual denial of actually doing what he just called locker room talk is what according to these two women who talked to the times made them come forward. >> what's -- to me is it
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happened thirty or so days before the presidential election. if this happened in first class. look i don't get to sit in first class. i don't sit there but i get to walk through there and see what it's like. and if someone was being molested or raped, other people in the cabin would see that. it is not like it is not a visually. it is open. it is actually closer in the cheap seats where i sit where you couldn't see it as well. but a big open cockpit you would see something if someone was being mistreated immediately. and to sigh it now to tie it in it is bad politics. but as an american anderson it is sad that this is where we are. republican, democrat. it is sad that american politics is no longer about issues. it is how bad can each candidate tear the other down. and we can laugh and say it is not. but it didn't happen in a republican primary. it happened now. thirty days before the election. e didn't happen by happenstance. this is all timed. it all came together. >> so you are blaming the clintons for this or blaming
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trump is this. >> i'm not blaming anybody. i'm saying it is a deplorable time in our history of our country that we have now got on the where we are discussing this instead of discussing issues and it wasn't an issue for the last 25 years. she felt violated. she should have come forward then but she decided to come forward now and she even said look i plan on voting for hillary clinton. she had planned on voting for hillary clinton. she already said she's a supporter. so it just doesn't seem like it washes. >> you can bet juanita broderick means nothing to her. >> do you think -- well how do you know that? >> why didn't she talk about it. if groping me is bad, raping juanita broderick is not so good. she didn't go there, did she. >> right? >> i'm not sure i understand -- >> no i don't. >> first that was an interview of what happened to her and you're saying you wanted to her to talk about juanita broderick? >> if we're going to get into the entire issue then we have to get into the entire issue. >> why do you believe juanita
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broderick and you don't believe these two women? >> all i'm saying is give them the equal forum. >> well -- we've had -- we just reported them. we reported on juanita broderick. >> the "new york times" is not going to sit down and do a long sit down with juanita broderick. there is a story in tmz today about nbc executives having this tape, this last tape that was released, for months. and they held it deliberately before that debate. that is the accusation here. >> well actually no, i think the reason they held it. they say they were working on legal issues. possible they were trying to protect billy bush. first of all you believe nbc itself released that to the washington post instead of releasing it themselves and getting the media benefit of that? >> this is the large irissue that -- >> what proof do you have of that? >> well you have the executives saying it. anderson what i'm trying to -- >> nbc wanted to make a big splash before the debate,
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wouldn't they have released the tape themselves. i think it was more about protecting their people. >> anderson, what i'm trying to communicate to you is a lot of american, i met a couple from virginia this evening. >> anecdotal stuff. i know, you know -- >> anderson, wait wait wait. it is important here because there is a view in the countryside that there are elites -- >> you know a couple from virginia who bolster your opinion. i had a cab driver who had a different opinion. what does that matter? >> anderson, outside of manhattan in new york you have a lot of people who see elites in this country thumbing their nose at americans. and they use things like this selectively. that if it is clarence thomas it is a big deal. if it is bill clinton it is not. if it was donald trump. >> and bringing up juanita broderick. on our air waves three hours ago kellyanne conway brought this up and she was melt by the host with those are exaggerations. you can't one class of sexual
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assault victim exaggeration and the other -- >> we not only reported on that and we're reporting on it again. both what bill clinton is accused of doing and hillary clinton is said to have done in all those cases. i don't think it is fair to say that the mainstream media has completely ignored. >> except for breitbart news. >> -- >> busby has do you live. >> busby and breitbart. >> as an employee of the washington post i feel like you are maligning my employer. by got this greet scoop and published it because it was news worthy. and the fact we're sitting here and debating whether or not this topic should be discussed after literally the trump campaign has spent two weeks an bill clinton and he's not running for election. >> washington post -- >> -- all of the things that have to do with bill clinton. the thing about news is you report on it when it is new. this is new and that is why we're talk eighty.
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>> exactly right. >> quick breakout and then -- >> i want to say to my trump supporters over there. once again there is only one clinton on the ballot. and her name is not bill. >> she's -- >> no. that is the definition of sexism when you blame the woman. >> there's other women blaming her. >> when you continue to do that, blaming hillary clinton for that that is the definition of sexism. >> i'm a female, i assume i'm not sexist against women and when there is a deposition that says private investigators -- >> you guys -- >> -- problem for me as a woman. >> you use the situation when it best suits you. >> that is what you do. >> that is what you do and you brick up old cases for someone who's not running for president. >> -- >> she is running for president and not bill clinton. period, end of story. >> after the break we're going the get late reports from brian stelter from possible legal action on the trump side. and more. for lower back pain sufferers,
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jessica leads says it was on a flight to new york more than 35 years ago. trumps hands she said were everywhere. >> culture had instilled in us that somehow it was our fault. the attention that we received from men, that we were responsible for their behavior. you didn't complain to the authorities. you didn't complain to your boss. if something happened to you, you just bucked up and you went on. i thought to myself, gee, i wish the stewardess would come and rescue me. >> the times said donald trump denied the allegations. the campaign publicly calls it fiction. brian stelter has new reporting. you talked to one reporter how they got this story. >> yeah. one of the times reporters who wrote the story, said it may not have happened were it not for your questions on sunday. and the other reporter told me one of the women reached out of
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a story in may. this was a previous story the times wrote about the issues. about donald trump's behavior. the other woman only reached out to the times after the debate on sunday night. >> you have some reporting also on how trump personalry rereacted. >> he was yelling on the phone to megan touhy, yelling at her and saying she was a disgusting human being. he delivered a threat verbally that night and trump's office followed up this afternoon with another warning to the "new york times" threatening to sue the newspaper if it published the stur. and there was no question the times was going to move forward despite the legal threats. he said i think it is pretty evident this story falls clearly in the realm of the public service journalism and discussing issues since the tape and his comments have surfaced. >> the fact that donald trump is threatening to sue the "new york times." he threatens to sue lot of people. and he's carried through on those threats, interesting to see if he actually does this time. >> it will.
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i think we've seen a pattern of donald trump having a negative interaction with the press, so to speak. there are times at rallies when he calls out the press for negative --. he's talked about opening up libel laws. loosely suggests he's going to go after the press. and that makes members of the press nervous. i realize it doesn't make members of the public as nervous because the public doesn't really like the press. but it makes us nervous because we see our job as reporting the truth on what people do on what politicians do on what they are doing and we don't like to hear things like that. it makes us nervous. >> what do you think hillary clinton's move on this? does she comment? does she just stand back and let it play out? >> i think so far she's just stood back. she doesn't have the facts. so people can judge for themselves. i do think. i'll say again. the most damning witness is donald trump. he shouldn't have said. when a reporter is reporting about you being mean to women, you shouldn't say you are a disgusting person.
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i've said a lot worse. i scream at reporters all the time. it's fun. i enjoy it. i almost can give him a pass on that. but the stuff he said on the bus to billy bush. the stuff he said on the radio to howard stern comports the fact that hillary clinton doesn't even have so day. donald trump is saying it. >> -- says there was a similar incident happening. does it -- do you think it's just a coincide this comports to what donald trump said on the bus? or do you think this women are somehow influenced by that. >> i don't think he said that on the bus at all. he said when you are a celebrity women let you do x, y and z. >> he said he didn't wait for it. he kisses them and grabs their genitalia. >> go back and watch. women let you do this when you are a star. they are despicable comments. i don't think he was advocating sexual assault on that bus. >> that is sexual assault. >> i think it was very horrific discussion between two men.
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>> to be honest, sexual assault is any kind of behavior -- sexual behavior without consent. >> and rape is rape. >> and rape is rape. and i don't think he was saying that on the bus. i really don't think they was condoning that. >> grabbing a woman's genitals. >> i don't think he was saying that that's what he does in his observe life. i think this is ha he does in his own life. >> let's listen to the sound. >> i got to use some tic tacs just in case i start kissing her. i'm automatic wli attracted to beautiful people. i just start kissing them. like magnet. and when you are a star they let you do it. you can do anything. grab them by the pussy. you can do anything. >> those legs. all ki can see is the legs. >> oh looks good. >> come on shorty. >> oh nice legs. >> o because a woman doesn't fight back it is not sexual assault. >> let me start by saying what i've said before. i know all of these liberal outlets will completely take me out of context those comments
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are despicable. he says he starts to kiss a women and then they let him do x, y or z. that implies consent first of all. i don't think he was advocating sexual assault. >> how does that imply consent? >>. >> i think viewers and voters will make up their own minds. >> -- -- >> it's very sad and i think the media is a big perpetuator of this that we talk about this on a daily basis instead of how the person in the inner city is going to get out of there. how the woman has resource on table -- >> donald trump is the one who held a press conference. >> -- >> trump is the one who held a press conference moments before the debate. >> he's accused of baseless things, like sexual assault, that he's come out and denied that actually done but the media goes out of their way to suggest that he has, he's going to fight back. but do you know what else -- >> he never actually denied he did it until the actual debate which is actually after the
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press conference but you're seeming to take issue. >> trying to hold back. here is the thing, anderson. here you have a man, on sunday, on the debate stage, talked about jailing hillary clinton. and he continued to say he's going to put her in jail. and basically he doesn't understand the presidency. he's unfit because what he's saying he wants to do he can't. but this is the man who is bragging about sexual assault, which is actually a crime. and he's bragging about grabbing women. and the irony of all of that is he needs to look in the mirror because he should be the one in jail. because you do not say things like that. and it is inappropriate and he is running for the president of the united states and he's talking about grabbing women? >> we got to take a break and we're going to continue the conversation in a moment. this all comes as trump and his surrogates continue to attack the clinton's marriage and the accusations against bill clinton
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breaking news tonight. two women have come forward and told the "new york times" donald trump touched them inappropriately. one incident occurred on an airplane. the other in 2005 the same year that trump talked about what is by definition sexual assault on a hollywood bus. all of this as trump campaign officials continue attacks on bill clinton. at the last debate trump tried to -- brought forward bill clinton's accusers as a -- right before the debate began. he allowed the women to speak. he didn't actually say much at that press conference. it is all very difficult to cover. the cases against bill clinton were litigated decades ago. fact checked but we asked tom to go over one more time some of the details we know. >> there are two chief accusations from the trump campaign. first that bill clinton used his power and prestige to manipulate and sexual assault women. and secondly and more importantly for trump, that
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hillary clinton helped bill clinton by then insulting and intimidating the victims. you mention that he's brought in some people to help him out, trump has in this case. let's go through the cases. starting off with the first run here. juanita broderick. this is back when bill clinton is the attorney general of arkansas. she says bill clinton raped her and at a public event shortly after hillary clinton grabbed her by the arm and the wrist because she had something to tell her. here is an article posted a couple of days ago by the conservative paper breitbart. >> she says with this very angeli look ing an angry look on her face do you understand every you do? so that frightened me. >> first of all bill clinton denied there was ever this rape taking place. broderick gave an affidavit once where she said there was no rape. and in 1999 when asked did bill
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clinton ever intimidate you to do anything to keep you silent, wrod rick said no. since 199 she's stuck with her story that there was a rape and there was intimidation afterwards. second is paula jones. when bill clinton was governor of arkansas. in 1991 he propositioned her and exposed himself to her. she filed a harassment lawsuit which eventually she he settled by paying her $850,000 while admitting no guilt. so what is the problem with this? in terms of how trump capitalizes on it. it is not at all clear what hillary's role in any of this if there was intimidation and there is lack of evidence. for example jones told me after the lawsuit was filed they sent out people to dig up trash on me. but again there is no real proof of that. >> a third person is kathleen willie.
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she was at the white house when bill clinton was president. a white house aide. in 1993 she says he fonlded her. and then tells story of odd encounters. a dead cat on her porch. a mysterious man under her deck. another man asking around the neighborhood about her children. all she says to intimidate here. and bill clinton has said under oath there was never any type of sexual encounter and there's no physical evidence to support the claims, anderson. >> what about other women who have shown up in discussions of bill clinton. >> a couple of very famous cases we've heard a lot about. jennifer flowers, back when bill clinton was running for the presidency for the first time she showed up and said she shad had a long running affair with bill clinton. and hillary clinton dismissed this publicly, calling flowers some failed cabaret singer who doesn't have much of a resume to fall back on. however, after bill clinton was president under oath he did
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admit having at least one sexual encounter with her. and of course there is monica lewandowski, the most famous, the white house inintern who bill clinton admits he did have improper relations with while he was in the white house. hillary clinton has said very little publicly about monica looungs over the years. however her most pointed comment steals seems to come from a close friend who wrote in a journal that knew about the -- called lewinsky a narcissistic looney tune. it only became public when the friend passed away and her journal was made public. >> thanks. los to talk about. back with the panel. also joining us jeffrey toobin. the charges against bill clinton, just in terms of evidence against him. how much was there exactly? >> it is important to remember that ken starr who was investigating, starting with the white water situation many other
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things and eventually monica lewinsky. he also investigated the juanita broderick matter. the kathleen willey matter and decided not to take any action as a result. none of the stories are new. they have never led to any sort of legal proceedings, except of course for the paula jones case, where bill clinton did pay $850,000 and people can draw their own conclusions about why he paid the money. he said he wanted to get rid of it. she said he paid because he was guilty. >> what the trump campaign keeps saying is it is not just about bill clinton's behavior but hillary's. what about the evidence on that? >> there the evidence is really thin. on the juanita broderick situation there is allegedly this one contact between the two of them in 1978 between hillary clinton and juanita broderick where she sid something vaguely
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threatened and subsequently denied that took place. and with the others there is nothing on record. because the only thing as tom pointed out in his piece was a private conversation between hillary clinton and her best friend diane blare back in arkansas who subsequently died. and die diane blare took some notes but here is a woman accuse of having an affair with hillary's husband. just to emphasize the point there is virtually no evidence that hillary clinton had anything do with the situations involving the accusations against bill clinton. >> it wouldn't be a stroemp imagine that someone on the clinton side would have sent out private investigators or tried to discredit these people.
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bill bennett represented clinton in that lawsuit. he hired private investigators to defend the case. i don't think there is any doubt about that. but when somebody is sued, they are certainly allowed to hire private investigators and hire lawyers to defend themselves. so there is no doubt that there was a defense put forward. and an investigation conducted by bill clinton's lawyers in the paula jones case. again, as far as i'm aware there was nothing involving hillary clinton had anything do with that situation. >> jeff, stick around we're going continue the conversation with the panel after a short break. lot more to talk about including donald trump eats escalating attacks over hillary clinton's e-mail controversy and words and tone getting sharper by the day try new alka-seltzer heartburn relief gummies. they don't taste chalky and work fast. mmmm. incredible. can i try? she doesn't have heartburn. new alka-seltzer heartburn relief gummies. enjoy the relief.
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the breaking news tonight. two women tells "new york times" on the record that donald trump forced himself on them. one saying he groped her on a plane the other saying he forcibly kissing her. the kind talked about in the 2005 recording leaked last week. you may remember i asked donald trump during sunday's debate if
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he has ever done the things he talked about on the debate. he says he has not. and saying the women's claims are false and threatening to sue the "new york times." he says categorically this didn't happen. before the break we look a loot at bill clinton's accusers and those allegations. back now. where w twenty-some odd days left to go. where do you see this going? the allegations from these two women can't be proven one way or another. i assume all the evidence is out there on the bill clinton accusations and hillary clinton's role or lack of a role in there. so it seems like it is going to boil down to just what voters believe or see. >> it is true. and donald trump is in a very hard position. because when you have accusations like this, which he's denied. you want to fight back against them. and you want to throw mud back in that direction. and that is the temptation. but we have to move past this. donald trump has to move past this and put forth his message
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to the american people and not let this cloud the discussion for the next 23 days. he needs to turn the discussion to the wikileaks where clinton top aids are making fun of catholics and evangelicals and wikileaks, this doesn't really do much for the american voter i think and it is up to donald trump to turn the conversation. >> paul, how do you see it? >> trump can't turn the issues because he's not running on on issues. there was a time. jeff worked for him. i'll bring up ronald reagan. they talked about ideas. lower taxes. smaller government. things i don't agree with but they were ideas. standing up to the rugtszs. what as amazing concept. same with bill clinton. he ran on a set of idea. when tough times hit -- trump does have immigration and trade. these are two issues that do matter that he has run on. ynt groo with them but that is at least two issues.
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but the whole rest of the issue terrain he has abandoned in exchange for grievances and conspiracy theories and personal attacks. and so when he is now being personally attacked he's got nothing to fall back on. >> the -- the "new york times" last night, monica has langley was reporting. strategy is energize the base. and paul ryan and the e-mails and wikileaks but also try to depress the democratic turnout for hillary clinton. talking about these issues, do you think accomplishes that? >> i think it does. and here is why, anderson. if i can just take a stick and move some of the particulars of what we've been discussing here. for a while. aside. when he talks about paul ryan. when he talks about the "new york times" or the washington
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post with all respect. and the media. and he talks in a larger sense about a battle between american elites and the american people, immigration, trade, this kind of presentation that these women are bringing forward and the attention they get, that it is all knit together as basically a battle between elites and american people. and that battle, i think that he can bring on more people absolutely. >> that does resonate a with a lot of people. >> absolutely. but i think that one of the things that we've seen, you know, over the course of the past decade or so is the fact that now media and reporters. not to be sitting here defending media constantly. but they are seen as elites not representing the truth to folks which i believe is inaccurate and i think does disservice to the american people as well. i also think as we move forward what we've seen donald trump do over the past couple weeks is focus on the bill clinton allegations. he's got two ads out recently.
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one going after hillary clinton for her health. they are the focus -- they focus on bringing -- on suppressing the vote for hillary clinton backers. because he has this core base of support that he hasn't been able to expand outward. so he's trying to compress hillary clinton's base down. so that is where this election is. it is the stated strategy. think that is somewhat disappointing but i also feel like pitting this as the elites against the people i think is disservice. >> do you think the democratic vote will be suppressed by donald trump's doing this? >> what we're seeing is a civil war over the last couple of days with paul ryan and almost as if you have an arsonist standing in the middle of the house passing -- you know, throwing gasoline around and holding a match. like he's burning down the house. the more he nights with paul ryan and the gop it is better for the democrats. i believe that. and what he's going to do is depress his own party.
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>> this is the most serious thing that i've ever seen. it's an injustice in the history of the united states.
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it is now running for the presidency. >> podesta brushing aside the attacks claiming trump's scorched earth tactics are trying to energize the supporters but turn off everybody else. >> this seems to be their strategy that stops everyone with, you know, democratic dialogue. >> reporter: if there is an effort to depress turnout, the clinton campaign says the way to fight it is to continue to press for early voter registration. they hope to sell their voters on something to vote for and not just voting against trump. >> john, thanks very much. just ahead, a preview of cnn films "we will rise." it's michelle obama's mission to educate girls around the world. switch to directv and lock in your price for 2 years, offer starting at $50 a month.
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not debt. and an economy where every young american can find a job that let's them start a family of their own. i've spent my life fighting for kids and families. i want our success to be measured by theirs. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message.
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>> "we will rise" michelle obama's mission to educate girls around the world. that's the name of the film. thank you very much for watching. the cnn film "we will rise" starts right now. cnn films presented by volkswagen. the car has been stuck for the past 20 minutes. it's the one that has all our equipment. my name is isha sesay. i'm a correspondent at cnn, and this is how my trip to liberia is getting started. >> i'm meryl streep and i'm here in morocco. >> meryl and i are joining