first lady michelle obama sharply denouncing the gop nominee. donald trump is defending himself from the latest allegations lashing out against people in his party and rigged elections as poll >> this is a struggle for the survival of our nation. >> reporter: an apocalyptic call to arms. portraying himself as the victim of a smear campaign, a conspiracy orchestrated by clinton, the media and the establishment. >> this is a cross roads in the history of our civilization. >> reporter: the republican nominee flatly denying the accusations against him. >> these claims are all fabricated. they're pure fiction and they're outright lies.

>> reporter: even suggesting that natasha stoynoff, a writer for "people" magazine was not attractive enough. >> look at her. look at her words. you tell me what you think. i don't think so. >> reporter: trump's speech a stark contrast to michelle obama's emotional call to women to rise up against him. >> i have to tell you that i listened to all of this, this shameful comments about our bodies. the disrespect of our ambitions and intellect. the belief that you can do anything you want to a woman. >> reporter: the first lady condemning trump's lewd comments captured on tape about women and sexual assault. >> it is cruel. it's frightening. and the truth is, it hurts. >> reporter: speaking in deeply personal terms while refusing to mention trump by name. >> this isn't about politics, it's about basic human decency.

it's about right and wrong. and we simply cannot endure this or expose our children to this any longer, not for another minute and yet alone for four years. >> reporter: president obama and vice president joe biden also taking on trump while campaigning for hillary clinton. >> his admission of what is the textbook definition of sexual assault is not inconsistent with the way he has abused power all along. >> reporter: the president hammering republican leaders who have just decided to withdraw their support. >> you claim the mantle of the party of family values. and this is the guy you nominate? and stand by and endorse and campaign with until, finally, at the 11th hour you withdraw your nomination. you don't get credit for that. >> donald trump has two rallies in battleground north carolina, the state where the latest polls

have him falling behind. hillary clinton is actually off the trail again today. she has a star-studded fund-raising swing on the west coast and she has her husband, bill clinton, and her daughter, chelsea, campaigning for her as well as president obama in ohio who will try to rally voters in that state that he won to vote early. chris? >> thank you very much. one of trump's accusers is a woman named jessica leeds and she is telling her story to cnn. she said trump's alleged assault happened on a plane decades ago. she laid out her allegations in details exclusively with anderson cooper. here's a look. >> he wasn't flirting and i don't think i was flirting. we were just talking. >> and then the meal finished. >> then the meal finished and the stewards cle s cleared away dishes and suddenly he's encroaching on my side of the seat.

and his hands were everywhere. >> did he say anything? >> no. and i didn't either. >> you didn't say anything? >> i didn't say anything. >> you say his hands were everywhere. can you be specific? >> well, he was grabbing my breasts and trying to turn me towards him and kissing me and then after a bit, that's when his hands started going, i was wearing a skirt. and his hands started going towards my knee and up my skirt. and that's when i said, i don't need this. and i got up. >> is that literally what you said? >> i don't know if i said it out loud -- >> that's what you were thinking. >> i do remember thinking the guy in the other seat, why doesn't he say something? >> could other people see? >> the guy in the seat across the aisle could see. and kept thinking, well, maybe

the steward is going to come. >> do you know how long that went on for? >> not real long. i would say just 15 minutes. >> that's a long time. did he actually kiss you? >> yeah. >> on the face or on the lips? >> wherever he could find a landing spot, yes. >> and, i mean, 15 minutes is a very long time. >> well, you know, it seemed like forever. so, but i got up, got my bag and i went back to the coach section. and i went all the way back to the tail of the airplane in the last seat in the last aisle and sat down. >> we have a lot to talk about. let's bring in our panel, cnn political analyst and "new york times" political correspondent patrick healy and errol lewis and "washington post" reporter

abbie philip. great to have all of you here. donald trump says all of this is lies and none of this have happened from the women who have come forward with sort of similar accounts and yesterday at a speech he said he's going to be able to prove that this didn't happen. listen to donald trump here. >> these vicious claims about me of inappropriate conduct with women are totally and absolutely false. we already have substantial evidence to dispute these lies and it will be made public in an appropriate way and at an appropriate time very soon. >> okay, patrick, as chris just pointed out to me, now would be the appropriate time to bring these forward. also, how do you prove a negative? how is he going to prove he didn't kiss women? >> he's also going to say he is going to reveal his tax returns for months. so, all this information is still to come out. he's going to have a hard time,

alisyn. the large number of voters, 70% of women, about 50% of men reacted very badly to the 2005 videotape remarks of donald trump. this is not complicated comments that are being made. people have visceral, personal reaction to the kind of language he's using and the kind of behavior he's accused of. how he comes forward when he simply says, this never happened. this never happened. is he going to come forward sort of proving that he wasn't on a certain flight? is he going to say i was out of town when this sort of encounter happened? it's very hard. >> what is going to be his best defense to this? in the interest of fairness, i know this isn't popular to question victims. but these happened a long time ago, errol. >> 2005. or many of them. >> 2005 are a couple of episodes. i'm saying the "new york times ones. you're talking about 30 years

ago. the cooperation that "the new york times" did talking outwardly to four people but they're intimate. they don't put out the names. you are probably too young to remember, but in the '90s with the clintons if it was paula jones you had to have cooperation of that time of people who were not connected to her to show an objectivity of vetting this out. that's his best defense. these are really old. why didn't they come forward then? where is any proof of having this happened and where is the proof other than an intimate? >> that is assuming he can do that. with 25 more days until the most important day of his life, he has the resources and personnel to make that happen. patrick is exactly right. we don't know what that appropriate time is. there are also plans to defeat isis that we don't know about. the appropriate time for this is probably after the election. we shouldn't kid ourselves. frankly the trump campaign has spoken with a lot of different,

they scrambled a little bit on this. to the extent that they say this is a distraction and the american people and the future of the country depends on us talking about something more important, he should probably go to that thing that is more important. even though everyone in the media is going to want to ask him about the different allegations and the reality is, they just don't have the resource os to do this. there are many, many things going on in this campaign that they have to worry about that take precedence over him trying to disprove a claim that took place 30 years ago. >> things have changed since the '90s. we have been through as a society the bill cosby saga where 30 or 40 years after the fact came forward and i think the american public have a different view on how to approach these sort of things and not only that, but trump has the challenge of the preponderance of evidence that is out there that people are looking at and it makes it easier for them to accept these women's stories.

it's just a challenge he has to overcome and starts by not compounding the problem with all these various excuses that only make things worse. >> another challenge he really has to overcome is talking to the wider group of voters who he needs to win over. undecided voters, soft clinton supporters. he's going out yesterday saying, you know, i'm a victim of this conspiracy and i'm willing to take the slings and arrows, he said, for our movement. he's talking to his supporters. he's talking to his base. the 26 days before an election, you're going after hillary clinton's soft supporters. you're not supposed to be just trying to rally and stabilize your base. >> hillary clinton has responded to this. she went on "ellen" which will air today. but we have a little snippet of it. let me play it for you. >> there's a lot that is coming out, which is distressing on many levels. but i don't want anybody to think this election is over because it's been so unpredictable up until now that i'm not taking anything for granted. we've got to work really hard

for the next three and a half weeks because who knows. who knows what could happen. >> errol, this election is unpredictable. if donald trump went back to all of your points about just talking aboutthe issues. if he became that man that we saw at the podium in mexico after the meeting with the president there where he seemed more presidential, there are still people who don't want to vote for hillary clinton and are looking for an alternative. could he turn it around in these next 25 days? >> he has some opportunities. i mean, looking at some of the ads he is running and looking at some of the ads yesterday. he has a whole slew of money. we always knew he was going to have his campaign spending and now is the time to start spending it. they set aside money in a lot of key swing states and he is going to make his case to people who didn't want to hear it before or might be more willing to listen right now. if you want to delve into this stuff and go back 30 years and we know from his personality and

temperament that's what he's inclined to do. it's going to end up being political quick sand instead of trying to climb the mounten . >> he almost drowned in it yesterday with one of his first lines saying, look at her. well, look at her words. almost fell in the hole of saying what everyone says he is. let's change topics to michelle obama. we're going to do that in just a second because she is now clinton's most effective surrogate. she delivered a unique address yesterday. there was an emotion in it. she didn't want to talk politics. she said she wanted to talk about decency. what she said that is resonating so widely this morning, next.

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first lady michelle obama delivered a really blistering and emotional take down of donald trump. she never even said his name. she says, hearing the lewd comments about women on that 2005 video shook her to her

core. here's a sample. >> and last week we saw this candidate actually bragging about sexually assaulting women. and i can't believe that i'm saying that a candidate for president of the united states has bragged about sexually assaulted women. and i have to tell you that i, i can't stop thinking about this. it has shaken me to my core in a way that i couldn't have predicted. so, while i'd love nothing more than to pretend this isn't happen and come out here and do my normal campaign speech would be dishonest and disingenuous and move on like this is just a bad thing. >> let's move on to our panel. she made another point that i want to play for the audience right now and for you guys to digest where, you know, often you would dismiss it.

politicians, toughen up. people talk like that. that's the rationale. she said, no, i'm not going to toughen up because i haven't heard talk like this before. not from the men in my life. listen to this. >> because i can tell you that the men in my life do not talk about women like this. and i know that my family is not unusual. and to dismiss this as everyday locker room talk is an insult to decent men everywhere. the men that you and i know don't treat women this way. they are loving fathers who are sickened by the thought of their daughters being exposed to this kind of vicious language about women. they are husbands and brothers and sons who don't tolerate women being treated and demeaned and disrespected. and, like us, these men are worried about the impact this election is having on our boys who are looking for role models

of what it means to be a man. >> what did michelle obama get done in that speech that hadn't been done to this point in refuting these lewd comments? >> this is the dynamic we're looking at here. michelle obama talking about something that she knows that every woman in this country understands. sexual assault, sexual harassment, being talked to when you don't want to be talked to. being leered at when you don't want to be leered at. it is a profoundly common phenomenon and she gave voice to that. on the other side, you had donald trump just maybe an hour later saying none of that exists. we will see, i think, in this election which of those two things is the most powerful for us here. i think it is much more common. women in this country know what sexual assault is. they know what sexual harassment is. it is more common than many people think. it is more common than many men think. michelle obama said that. she said, you know what, this is not normal and you should not

have to feel like it's normal. that is, i think, going to be extremely powerful. >> patrick, could hillary clinton have given that speech? >> that's a great question. >> that tapping into exactly what abby is saying and delivering it with that kind of emotion. >> michelle obama, i think, has a reservoir of trust with voters that hillary clinton has struggled with. that when people feel when hillary clinton gives a personal speech when she draws on her own emotion that there's another agenda at work. that there are doubts that people bring. but the part that is because voters have experienced her, you know, for 30 years as a political figure. i think one thing that michelle obama has been able to do incredibly effectively for eight years is that she's largely been seen as a mother first. as a wife and supporter for barack obama. she doesn't go out and give

overtly obviously partisan speeches. but she's also -- not to take anything away from the content of her speech, but she's also a great performer. i think she knows how to connect with crowds and use her voice, use her hands and use pauses and body language in a way that just reinforces not only how personal she's getting at, but also the sevilcivility that i think a lo americans still aspire to or for ourselves in our politics. >> messages often necessarily matched by the messenger. michelle obama was somebody in 2008, if you can't take care of your own house, you can't take care of the white house. she is talking about the clintons and a perception of imora imorality. that has been exposed in the rest of the media. and she used that to say, how about what we're learning and what our kids are learning for the first time. that really resonated with me.

i remember that with bill clinton when all that discussion about all the oral sex and all that stuff and how kids were hearing that for the first time. what is the impact on those voters who are still deciding? >> look, some of that is generational. when the impeachment was going on i wasn't married and didn't have kids. my son is coming to me now. telling as an 11-year-old what he thinks of all this stuff. i think of michelle obama as giving people permission to feel what they already knew. for women who wanted the country to move forward and wanted the culture to move forward. for this to not be okay, it's almost something akin to what we saw during the clearance thomas hearings where sexual harassment in the workplace and the standard shifted because we had essentially a national conversation about it. that's what i saw michelle obama as doing. sort of pushing things so that it will never be the same for the next presidential candidate. that hot mike moment and

discussions about sexual harassment and sexual assault. they're going to be very different. >> we have less than five seconds. is michelle obama ever going to run for office? >> no. >> too smart. >> there you go. that's what makes her, in part, popular. thank you very much, panel. a computer glitch overnight that has caused flight delays nationwide for a major airline. what it could mean for you if you're flying today or if you're christine romans. we'll explain. prepare for challenges specific to your business by working with trusted advisors who help turn obstacles into opportunities. experience the power of being understood. rsm. audit, tax and consulting for the middle market. pure is big, bold, bright and just better.

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time now for the five things you need to know for your new day. donald trump that he made sexual edadvance advances. tru trump's hands were everywhere during the alleged incident one more than 30 years ago. michelle obama on the trail saying look what has been done through the lens of decency. calling trump's lewd comments and his behavior towards women disgraceful, intolerable and not normal. pentagon officials warning iran backed rebels that the u.s. will strike again if iran moves its warships off yemen's coast. struck three radar installations in yemen in response to attempted attacks. extending a cease-fire with farc rebels through the end of the year in an effort to strike

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here is the fact about where the wikileaks hacks come from. the there is growing evidence russia is behind the hacking. they belong to john podesta and her opponents, especially trump,

for using them against her. but what they say and how they're used not always the same thing. here to take us through, cnn political analyst and editor in chief of "the daily beast" john avalon. you believe we're glossing over the source of this information and it bothers you. >> it's fundamental that we need to confront the fact that homeland security and other agencies say that senior officials have hacked this information with an eye towards impacting the election. one of the questions and part of the russian playbook is not only hacking information, but doctoring some of it. we can't know, we don't know what, if anything, has been doctored. but this whole conversation and many of the e-mails seem authentic but may not be entirely be and need to be understood against that backdrop. >> they're only doing it to one side. so, latinos is one of the e-mail back and forths that they've seized on the trump campaign. here's his son, eric, talking about it.

>> it is, you know, they talk about us being the party of bigotry and the party of hate and assange comes along and releases these e-mails. >> so, he's saying look at what they say about latinos in here. here's the e-mail he's probably talking about. >> this is an e-mail from podesta talking about reaching out to prominent officials like bill richardson but has the subject line latinos and the text of the e-mail itself, that fact you get endorsements. citing this and praising julian assange and the fact that roger stone is talking about back channeling with wikileaks makes this whole series of e-mails really fascinating and troubling. >> you see bigotry in this? >> i see at the very least -- >> donald trump jumped on this.

here's what he said. >> the new e-mails show members of the clinton team viciously attacking catholics and evangelicals. they attack catholics and evangelicals viciously. anybody of religion, i think you have to vote for donald trump to be honest. >> right. so, here's the e-mail. >> what trump meant to say was, but, i mean, these e-mails, chris, i really rough. you know, these e-mails. but then, again, john podesta is catholic. palmieri is catholic and this isn't deurg the campaign when they were working in 2011 talking about this dynamic. what do you see in the e-mails justifying clinton hating catholics. >> it really showed a liberal elite dismissiveness towards

fate. they're talking about in this case that rupert murdoch's kids were raised catholics and the most socially acceptable political conservative religion. that language is almost stereo typical dismissive of people of faith. >> but they are catholics talking about their own faith. >> at least podesto and palmieri. it really does confirm some of the most stereotypical. >> the third one that i think we should get to is this back and forth between doug ban who is bill clinton's real main man who, you know, works with him on a day-to-day basis and chelsea clinton. she had said that i think doug ban is abusing using my father tahelp his own corporate interests and then this e-mail pops up. >> that's right. i should say here that chelsea clinton is on the board of ic, which is the parent company of

"the daily beast" where i'm editor in chief, but this exchange is extraordinary. chelsea clinton is trying to raise a red flag early on saying there are at the very least perception problems shaken up people at state -- >> that's how the trump campaign is using this. pay for play. >> i don't see pay for play and i see an enormous amount of bad blood and one of the mysteries of this campaign is how political professionals like the clintons have been clueless about the perception of many of their decisions when they're preparing a run for president. at least this e-mail exchange indicates that one person was trying to wave their hands and say a perception problem here at the very least and a lot of bad blood between staff and family that can happen too often in politics. >> john, thank you very much, appreciate it. a frantic scene at the london zoo after a gorilla breaks out of his enclosure. we'll tell you what happened and how it all turned out, next. "is that credit karma again?"

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it'sering a offering $100 credi users trade in their 7 for other phones. there is panic at a london zoo after a gorilla broke out of his enclosure. when people at the zoo heard about it they ran inside wildings. he was subdued by a tranquillizer dart and returned to his den safely. it is unclear how he got out, chris. >> do you know what you do when a gorilla is coming at you? >> run? >> no, you die. there's nothing you can do. you win. what i want to know, how long it took after that dart hit him did he go down. all right, bring on the cubs. >> disappointed you in, cuomo. you get in an arm wrestle and you dominate. >> that's you, coy. you have arms the size of pythons. tell us what's happening in the sports world, my friend. >> what a game last night. win or go home in washington.

the dodgers clayton kershaw showing why he is considered the best pitcher on the planet. let's skip ahead to the bottom of the ninth inning. dodgers are up 4-3 on the road. dodgers closer though, jensen in trouble. he walks jayson werth to put him on second. comes in to pitch from the bull pen for the first time in seven years. he's supposed to be resting, guys. he just pitched on tuesday before the game, there is no way kershaw would be available to pitch, but he rallies, he digs deep. he gets the last two outs of the game and the first save of his career advancing his team. the dodgers win 4-3 and now they have a date with the chicago cubs at wrigley field on saturday. don't forget tonight over in the american league championship series toronto and cleveland at 8:00 eastern on our sister station tbs. thursday night football action. told you it was going to be a good game. broncos and chargers going into this game. the chargers had blown fourth quarter lead in four of the five times they played this season.

looking like that was going to happen, again. broncos get the on-side kick late in the game and they get a shot with a hail mary and chargers fans are like, no, not again. we're not going talose. you're right, they hang on for the win, denver all kind of quarterback trouble, alisyn. peyton manning is off doing commercials and the broncos they don't look so good. >> that was a good play on the nationwide commercials that peyton does. nicely done, coy wire. >> coy, fantastic, as always. all right. back to politics. donald trump is intensifying attacks against those e-mail accusers. can he turn this around with female voters before election day? our panel on that, ahead.

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ivanka trump on the stump in the suburbs of pennsylvania trying to court women voters. but can she turn things around for her father given this flurry of sexual assault claims? cnn chief political correspondent dana bash hit the trail to find out. here's her story. >> reporter: donald trump gets the raucous crowds, but his daughter's trip on the trail is speaking volumes. ivanka trump's whirlwind schedule is to determine whether her father becomes president. the suburbs of philadelphia. >> i wouldn't be able to go into the office every day if i didn't have a safe place to bring my child. >> reporter: she played it very safe. fielding some of the same softball at multiple events. why she thinks her father would make a good president and dartding out and ignoring our attempts to ask questions. first in chester county. >> what was your reaction when you heard your father's tape? >> reporter: and later again in delaware county. she preaches to the choir,

pennsylvania women already all in for trump. despite his lewd language caught on tape and the new multiple allegations of groping. >> i'm voting for donald trump. >> reporter: you sound a little reluctant when you say that. >> well, i think it's just been a hard road. >> he wasn't saying what he does to women, per se. i think he was just bragging. >> reporter: team trump is hoping local media coverage will help with the political reality, not reflected inside these suburban philly events. gop officials privately tell us that donald trump's 2005 comments hurt him big time here, especially among women. a new poll shows trump trailing hillary clinton by a whopping 43% among female voters right here in the philly suburbs. >> the suburbs of philadelphia because we got to get that vote. we want to get that vote. >> donald trump is a changed candidate and the right person to get things done. >> reporter: a group called women for trump is feverishly

trying to do just that, even those who are not thrilled with his behavior. >> i'm a feminist. of course, it bothered me. however, the topics that are facing this country are far greater than the words on that tape. >> reporter: on the suburban philadelphia streets, some female trump supporters say they're motivated by their opposition to hillary clinton. >> i think she's a liar, i think she's a fraud. i think she covers up a lot of things. >> reporter: but the owner of this yoga studio in westchester, pa, says her female clients are now more likely to vote hillary. >> i'm hearing a lot of women that are really starting to dig their heels in and feel empowered about themselves based upon what's happening in the campaign. >> reporter: even some who say she is hardly their first choice. >> if it were any other republican candidate, maybe i would. like try to write bernie in, but it's just not the time.

>> reporter: democrats at this clinton phone bank say trump is making their jobs easier. >> a number of people have said to me what was a sort of i will hold my nose and vote for secretary clinton has turned into steadfast support. >> reporter: the question is whether ivanka or any trump can turn that around in under four weeks. dana bash, cnn, malburn, pennsylvania. >> so, the battle for female voters. is it too late for donald trump to turn it around with women in light of the aldpagz legations sexual assault. let's discuss it with kerstin powers and a veteran of two veteran gop presidential campaigns. ladies, great to have both of you here. donald trump says that very soon he will be presenting evidence that proves that these allegations, that these, at least five women, have come forward with are not true. but, thus far, kerstin, what he

has decided to do is go after the women coming forward with these allegations and let me play for you a snippet of what he said yesterday about one of them. >> take a look. you take a look. look at her. look at her words. you tell me what you think. i don't think so. i don't think so. >> what did that mean to you? take a look at her, take a look at her words. i don't think so. >> well, i think i've heard some trump supporters trying to defend him. but to me it was pretty clear hat he w that he was saying, look at her. she is not attractive enough for me to sexually assault because sexual assault isn't about lust, it's about power and about abuse. but i don't find it all that surprising considering the things that he has said in the past in terms of defending roger ailes for sexually harassing

women and saying himself if his daughter was sexually harassed he said this to me in an interview, find another job. his son is now on tape. donald jr. in a 2013 interview that buzz feed just posted basically saying women who can't handle sexual harassment should become kindergarten teachers. so, there is a really, there's an underlying belief system here that i think a lot of women are sort of tapping into and i think that dana bash's piece was just fascinating. hearing about women who are saying, i was going to hold my nose. i heard this from other people, too. i was going to hold my nose and now an opportunity for women to stand up for themselves and say i am going to vote against misogy misogyny. >> if he does not come forward with some sort of proof these didn't happen. i don't know how you prove a negative. how do you prove you never tried to kiss someone, but then what happens if he doesn't? >> i don't think it matters one way or another if he does or doesn't. what he's trying to do is

deflect. he's trying to change the story. this is what he did before the debate by bringing the accusers of bill clinton to the debate. take a story going negatively against him and spin it around in his favor. which is an effective distraction mechanism. here what is troubling for me. first of l trouble having leading republican men in the party talk to their wives and stand up against donald trump. >> did you feel it's too late? >> against these sexual assault charges, that was the last shoe to drop and that caused many, many men to stand up and that is critical because there has been this normalization. i mean, the reason michelle obama yesterday said this is not normal is because there has been a normalization of trump's behavior. as if this is not criminal behavior. >> as though it's locker room talk. >> it is not lock er room talk. what is disheartening for republicans is that the other shoe, i mean, this is really

having a significant impact on down ballot races. for republicans like me who do not think there is any hope for holding the presidency, but hope to goodness that we can hold the senate and keep some of these really moderate seats in the house of representatives so that paul ryan has a majority. this is having a really consequential effect. >> it is also having a big effect on his poll numbers. let's look at the latest fox news poll here. these are likely voters and these are women. clinton is 19 points ahead of women with suburban women she is now 24 points ahead of him. kirsten, why was this the inflection point. why over this crazy race of a year and a half of all the inflammatory things and frankly the audiotape frankly from "access hollywood" of what he said he want tad do with women, why was that the tipping point? >> there's something very powerful about hearing somebody in their own words, for one thing. i think hearing the tape of it

and i think it involves sexual assault and it involves, you know, a threat against women, i think that you sort of laive in fear of being attacked. for women, i think when i did hear that woman in the dana bash piece say there are so many other issues and i have heard this from the few women, the trump supporters i have spoken to. saying there are so many other issues. you know, it's a much bigger issue than trade, for example. you know -- >> very quickly. hold on. i want to give you the last word, margaret. we only have ten seconds. what if today he was to get back to the issues, he would look presidential like the man we saw at the podium. can he turn it around? >> the polling bears out that the bottom is dropping out with women. if he can't hold the 70%, i mean, john mccain won 89% of republican women and mitt romney 93% of republican women. the bottom has dropped out, it has only gotten worse since

then. i don't know if he can change this with women. >> margaret, kirsten, thank you very much. we're following a lot of news this morning. let's get right to it. >> his hands were everywhere. >> these events never, ever happened. >> textbook definition of sexual assault. >> it is cruel and the truth is, it hurts. >> these vicious claims are totally and absolutely false. and the clintons know it. >> be clear, this is not normal. >> this is a conspeiracy agains you, the american people. >> this is not who wins the election, it is bigger than that. >> remember when they go low, we go -- >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. we have a lot to talk about in this show. good morning, everyone. donald trump angrily denying

allegations of unwanted sexual advances calling them pure fiction and outright lies. >> the person calling trump out the most is not hillary clinton, it's first lady michelle obama. she delivered a blistering rebuke of trump for bragging about sexually assaulting women on video. the stakes could not be higher right now. you've got just 25 days until the big election. and only five days until the third and final clinton/trump debate. we have it all fcovered for you. there's lots of news. let's begin with brianna keilar live in washington. good morning. >> good morning. this race is getting nastier and more contentious. you had first lady michelle obama in new hampshire and sharply denouncing the nominee and donald trump is defending himself. he is lashing out against people in his own party as his poll numbers keep dropping. >> this is a struggle for the survival of our