from the swing state of pennsylvania i'm michael smerconish wondering is it over? with the speed of this news cycle it's hard to keep up and of course the final debate this wednesday here on cnn. donald trump may have literally kissed his chances good-bye as more women surface to accuse him of groping but he continues to double down on denials and now blame a media conspiracy. he also says that he's no worse than bill clinton. and he tries to paint his opponent, hillary, as more of an

enabler than victim but are those attacks valid? i'll ask the man who broke the lewinsky scandal. and trump t ourch ts his business prowess as his chief credential but given the behaviors we've just seen, could donald trump get hired at say walmart? i'll ask the nation's premier business writer, andrew ross sorkin is here. even before this, the electoral map was tilting heavily in hillary's favor. but look at this one. it shows donald trump up 44.2-44.1 and this poll has been right before. i'll speak to two experts who will explain why all the numbers could be off. and thanks to his uncanny ability to get trump to be trump, is the most influential media figure this campaign season howard stern? but first the number it now stands at eight, that's how many women cnn confirms have come forward with allegations of

misconduct regarding donald trump. something struck me while watching anderson cooper interview one of the first. that's jessica leads, the woman who claimed trump groped her on an airplane. the trump campaign said they would froifbt false. the testimony was the testimony of a british man who was discredited who claims he was sitting across the aisle on that same flight and didn't see any groping. trump's denial was more in keeping to his responses to all of these claims. take a listen. >> when you look at that horrible woman last night you said i don't think so. she would not be my first choice that i can tell you. man. you don't know. that would not be my first choice. >> you know that denial set off a light bulb in my head. there was something unusual about jessica leads in comparison to other trump accusers and women with whom

trump has warred. to quote donald just look at her. trump judges men on the size of their wallet and women on their appearance. he talks about his own wealth. this week he repudiated the harassment charges of a "people" magazine reporter as he has others by inis in ysinsinuatingo attractive. this is how he attacked carly fiorina. here's the thing about jessica leads unlike so many others of trump's object of affecttions. she's actually age appropriate for donald. she's a contemporary of his. he's 70 she's 74. at the alleged incident time she was 38 he was 34. she herself explained to anderson cooper in the midst of this controversy she pulled out her own old photographs. she wanted to show them for this

reason. >> because i'm 74 years old. and for him to now look at me at this age, he would never even give me the time of day. but i wanted people to know what i looked like when i met him. >> she's right, of course. and her own self-deprecation as to her place in trump's superficial world it strengthened her credibility at threat of me. the rest of us should be so lucky to age as gracefully as her. joining me now someone who supports trump despite all the latest revelations, florida congressman. congressman at the outset it's got to be tough to be to come on and defend this guy at the end of a week like this. i guess my first question is, why do you still do it? >> well, michael, i'm not defending his actions.

i'm not defending what he said. i'm looking at policies and there's enough insults, accusations and blame on both sides of the campaign with mrs. clinton and mr. trump and i'm not going to defend her or him and he has said what he has said. he has admitted he's said that. we got the audiotapes. there's no denial. as far as the accusations and they are serious i got two choices. i got mrs. clinton or mr. trump. one of these will be the president of the united states. and i'm looking beyond that of what really is at risk here. you know it's not only our supreme court justices, it's upholding our constitution. it's our foreign policy. you know the number one task of the government for the united states of america is to provide for the common defense. if you look at the last seven and a half years of where we're going and you see the hot spots popping up from afghanistan, iraq, yemen, syria, around the world, north korea launching more missiles, the rebels in

yemen firing missiles at our navy ships that have come from iran, this administration backing off and allowing ballistic missile components to be shipped to iran against the jcpoa, i'm looking beyond the allegations because there's plenty on both sides and i think we as americans are tired of the gutter talk and all the stuff that should be on a tabloid and, unfortunately, these are the candidates we have. and so whose going to serve out of these two because i don't know of another option at this point, do you michael? >> well, so paul ryan, you know, your house speaker, your republican leader, the world is a dangerous place, and he's -- >> it. >> he's well aware of all the things you just ticked off but nevertheless he says i can't defend this guy. and may i ask congressman -- >> sure. >> up don't get to be in congress without a certain level of street smarts. you just watch that woman jessica leeds who i note is a

contemporary of donald trump not somebody 40 years his junior. doesn't she have a ring of credibility to you >> you i know think everybody has a ring of credibility until proven otherwise. you know we're proven innocent in this country until we're innocent until proven otherwise. these allegations should be addressed. if you go back to the clinton administration and i know mr. clinton is not running for president but there was an $850,000 paid to one of those woman that accused him. these things will work themselves out. then we're left with the candidates. i can go on with mrs. clinton. she 33,000 emails plus that were possibly hacked into that were not in the vault to northwestern people after congress and tray gowdy and committees on oversight asked for those things and now we have this supposedly russian threat that have hacked into computers. do you suppose maybe they could have hacked into mrs. clinton's computers when they western in a

secured location. what kind of risk did that put our country at? when you look at the number one task for government is to provide for the common defense what's more problematic, excuse me, problematic is it the allegations that are circling around or the factual things that may lead to the national security. >> let me just say because our time is short. i too am very concerned about her use of private e-mail servers and the risk that may have posed to our national security. but i can't discount the fact that in this significance and i'm going to deal with her in just a moment. i assure you. in this instance i'm worried here's donald trump saying things on a tape ten years ago. this is what i do. and all these women now come forward and say yeah he's right. he did it to me. you get the final word but keep it short. >> well, you know, again, i'm not here to defend donald trump his actions or words. he's said what he said and owned it and i think the important thing is let's look forward who best will defend this country,

who will defend our constitution, so that we can continue on the have the liberties and freedoms we have and donald trump will be the one to do that over mrs. clinton who wants to go to a globalist society. >> thank you congressman. i appreciate you being here. >> yes, sir. donald trump's defense against his excuser er-- accuse. he points a finger in bill clinton's direction even going so far to stage an event with three of the alleged clinton victims. want to get my words straight. three he says that hillary was an enabler that she viciously attacked these women. watch. >> bill clinton sexually assaulted innocent women and hillary clinton attacked those women viciously. >> is that last charge true? clearly hillary was a victim

here. but does she also have anything for which she must answer? michael isikoff the chief investigator for yahoo! news national correspondent he was for nbc from 2010 to 2014 is widely credited with breaking the monica lewinsky steer. he covered this in his book "uncovering clinton." let me begin with this brief clip from hannity's program on fox thursday night with juanita broderick. >> back in 1978 when i was working for bill clinton's campaign for governor i was raped by bill clinton. i was viciously raped. and then three weeks later when i happened to be at a fundraiser for him but i didn't attend the fundraiser i was just going there to hand in information to tell them i was no longer going

to volunteer for the campaign hillary personally threatened me. >> okay. she personally threatened me. what was the threat. i refer to another clip. this is juanita broderick. >> here comes hillary straight for me. and starts towards me and starts saying i just want to thank you for everything you're doing in bill's campaign and it's so nice to meet you and all of these things .just nodded and told my friend let's go. and i thought somebody from behind had grabbed a hold of my arm but it was her. she grabbed a hold of my arm and my hand and she pulls me into her and she says with this very angry look on her face which had been so pleasant seconds before and in low voice says do you understand everything you do? and that frightened me. >> do you understand everything

you do? is that the totality michael isikoff of the charge against hillary for having enabled in the broderick case? >> in the broderick case, yes. and it is by its nature am b ambiguous. you don't know what hillary was referring to if she said it exactly the way broderick recounts it today. it's a data point. it's something that has raised questions but, you know, how far it goes is hard to say. i mean we don't know what hillary clinton knew about what juanita broderick said her husband did to her. we don't know how much information was passed. i mean based on everything we know about the clintons and their relationship, bill clinton had relationships with lots of women that as far as we know hillary clinton knew nothing

about. so it's hard to know -- >> i think it's important -- i know i agree with that assessment. it's hard to know what to make of it. on cnn we get accused you won't talk about these women. i'll talk about them. i'm a lawyer. i want to know what's the record. and if that's the worst of it i don't know how in the broderick case you can say hillary enabled because think about this? that would have to mean that bill went home and said i raped this woman and that hillary's response was to then go confront her and say do you understand everything you do. >> right. >> that's nonsensical. >> i tend to agree. there's so many gaps in the record in the evidence that it's just hard to know what to make of that. look, i'm theep talk about this. but i do want to make one point to keep things in perspective.

clearly there were multiple serious allegations against bill clinton during the type much his presidency that i investigated, that i wrote about in the book. and it went beyond infidelities to accusations to sexual harassment. but we've had justin last week more women come forward make being accusations publicly against donald trump for equally serious if not more serious misconduct than we had in the entire eight years of clinton's presidency so it's worth keeping that in perspective in the course of having this discussion. >> okay. but here's the question because i really want to stay focused her. what is the worst of it. you're the expert. what's the worst of it. make the best case you can she was not only a victim but also an enabler. what's in the record i can look

at. >> first of all, i'm not making a case here. i can tell you what we know which is from the beginning of when they ran -- when bill clinton ran for president in 1992, hillary clinton was part and parcel of doing damage control for the clinton campaign. you go back to -- take a look at john dickerson's excellent new book "whistle stop" with a chapter on the '92 campaign. from the beginning accusations ever sexual infidelity by bill clinton was the biggest single baggage that bill clinton had when he ran during the democratic primary in 1992. this was the issue that democratsing talked about the most, this was the issue the clinton campaign was most concerned about. hillary clinton was very much a part of the damage control on that. she was focused on discrediting accusations of misconduct

against her his, discrediting women who had been rumored about, who came forward to talk about relationships that they might have had with bill clinton, certainly jennifer flowers. she was instrumental in the hiring of a private investigator, jack palladino who i first wrote about in 1992 was paid over $100,000 by the clinton campaign for the specific job of digging up dirt, discrediting jennifer flowers and other women who had been linked to bill clinton. so hillary clinton was very much a part of that. i don't know if that makes her an enabler. she viewed this as political combat, accusations against her husband, coming from their political enemies and she was going to do her best to try to push back and discredit those allegations. >> final question if i might. do we know, i'll accept what you just represented. do we know if that's because she

didn't believe the women back in '92 and, therefore, wanted to stand by her man or was there something more to it that regardless of what the truth might be she wanted to support his advancement and her own. >> i think that's something for her people to speculate about. you know, what went on between the two of them, what was in her head. people can infer based on the record. i should also point out that this continued through the clinton presidency whenever accusations came up she, you know, rushed to the barricades when monica lewinsky came up she pushed back immediately this is part of a vast right-wing conspiracy. so, you know, it's been a part of her political career from the get go to stand by her husband and attack the people who were criticizing or coming forward to discredit her husband. >> michael issue cognitiikoff tr being here.

he wrote "too big to fail" and wrote the harassment trump has been accused of would disqualify him from most jobs in america. i will ask andrew ross sorkin and the polls say hillary is starting to run away with election but trump says they are crooked and rigged and he's still drawing huge crowds. who or what should we believe? >> we get crowds like this every where. but they just said -- they said there's no way we're three down. teen polls are crooked. i'm telling you. >> just because you draw big crowds doesn't mean you're winning the election. if all needed to win was a big kroufd people our next president would be ikea on a saturday. [ laughter ] ♪

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box". and now executive producers of the showtime series "billion." who corporate america hire a guy with all of these revelations. >> the answer is not. donald trump would give any hr department, human resources department a heart pal palpitat. in a fortune 500 company today and ironic given that he does market himself as a business person, not so clear a business would hire him. you mentioned walmart. you are not allowed to, prohibited sexually explicit language, off color jokes, remarks about a person's body, using slurs or negative

stereotyping, verbal kidding, teasing or jek or intimidating acts. it's almost as if they wrote the policy for this gentleman that we seem to talk about almost nonstop on television. >> it would be largely with a liability concern right because a guy like this in your midst if there's now a claimant who comes forward that person would say well hell you were on notice. >> you're the lawyer so you know it very well. what happens in a situation like this, if you were to hire somebody, frankly like a donald trump who were to come in to your company and there were to be a problem in the future where a woman, another employee were to come forward and say he sexually harassed me or something like that n-variably they will then go take all the material that's come out over this election period and they are going show it in court and say not just is there a pattern and practice of this but the corporate board whoever hired you, you knew this too. so it does create a larger

issue. no doubt. >> should we cut him any slack because this behavior took place largely if not exclusively when he was in the entertainment industry. andrew, i remember and i know you'll remember that litigation on the west coast a couple of years ago about the writers room where someone brought a harassment claim and said look this is what takes place in the writers room. maybe this is what you get on billy bush's bus. >> i don't think so. i think this was different. i don't think it was in a creative space in that same way. i think there are writers who sit in writers rooms and have to come up with scenes some of which people occasionally find offensive. this is a very different situation and reveals a side of him that's an unfortunate side in this instance. and on the years issue, 11 years, 15 years, if you're a lawyer you're going to bring this material into the case no matter what. whether a judge let's you put it

in front of a jury that's a different question. on the question of timing -- now we have other people coming forward, farther back, more recent. it's every where. >> final subject, put up the tweak from mark cuban so i can ask andrew ross sorkin about the trump brand and the damage. there it is. every incorporatele trump hotel, golf course is the east. done. over. bernie madoff now has a better brand. agree with that? >> yes and no. put it this way. in a couple of years from now -- let's say he does not win, hillary clinton is in office and you have to make a trip, michael to chicago. and there's actually a very good trump hotel in chicago. great hotel as it happens. i'll give donald trump all the credit for building great hotels or the next time you make your trip down to d.c. and you go on expedia and find a good rate and happens tube trump hotel. will you say to your self i'm

not going stay there. some people won't. but i'm not convinced. maybe tomorrow they wouldn't for those who don't like him. the great irony is the people he's most attracted to or attracted to him are very different cohort these days than the people who would normally go to his hotels. sort of the brand that he represents and the people that he now wants to represent, if you will, are a very different piece. if you indulge me for one second. one thing i want to say in fairness. after write that column about the walmart piece and whether he was employable i got a number of emails from a number of ceos who said i'm not sure i would hire hillary clinton. just in fairness i do want to make that clear because of the e-mail issue andy get a number of responses to that effect. >> a point not lost on me, a legitimate question of whether she could pass a security clearance test in the government given her handling of the e-mail

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. so it's over, right or is it? the latest numbers have been showing hillary clinton pulling away from donald trump almost any poll you look at. here's fox. put it up there. hillary by 7% more and that's before the most recent controversies and revelations.

nate virtually 538.com says hillary has an 84.7% chance of winning. and yet are they to be believed? trump accuses that the polls are crooked. he says they are rigged. the usc-"l.a. times" daybreak tracking poll consistently shows trump doing better than the others. as of this morning, 44.2% for trump, hillary at 44.1. what explains the difference and how well do pre-election polls match the final results? i think you're about to be schocked. david lauder is "l.a. times" washington bureau chief. the methods of the poll don't meet the cnn standards and yet in 2012 that poll said obama would win by 3.38% and he won by 3.85 and andrew, a professor of statisticics at columbia

university he proved that the error in polls is double. david how does your methodology differ from the conventional polls? >> well, michael, there are a number of things that are different. probably the most important thing is we ask a different question and because we ask a different question we get a somewhat different answer. rather than forcing voters to say i'm for this person or i'm for that person we ask them on a scale of zero to 100 what's the chance that you're going to support hillary clinton, what's the chance that you're going to support donald trump, what's the chance you'll vote for somebody else and on a same scale what's the chance you'll vote at all? so that is designed to capture the ambivalence that a lot of voters feel about the election, like said it work very well four years. that's no guarantee it will work again the same way but it has a track record. and by doing it that way, when you have one candidate who has very intense support and another

one who is maybe less intense, you're going to do -- you're going show a better result for the one who has more intensity. i have to say as other polls have shown, we've shown a steady decline for trump over the past week to ten days, an increase for hillary clinton. they are now tied in our poll as you mentioned. if those trend lines continue, can you sort of see where they probably are going to go. and the intensity for clinton has been increasing as the election has gotten closer. >> so you call me and i say i'm 100% for trump and then we call your house and you say 70% for hillary. i'm going to get weighted appropriately even though by the way if we both show up we cancel one another out. but you're saying passion, i think what you're saying we factor in passion more than the others. >> that's right. that's one thing we factor in more than others.

once you voted you go from that 70%, you become 100% as neil newhouse who is mitt romney's pollster he learned the hard way an unenthusiastic vote counts as much as an enthusiastic one. once people are on record they move from that 70% to 100 and as early vote kicks in you may see clinton move up. the other big difference in our poll and it's why cnn doesn't use our poll, rather than asking a different sample every week, we have a panel about 3,200 people, we go to them every week and ask the same questions. so as a result when you see the poll move you know that it's actually people changing their minds rather than just a difference in who answers the poll from one week to another. now the risk -- >> david, i'm sorry. if i misstated this at the yo t

outset you said in 2012 he would win by 3.32, he won by 3.85. i wish i had more time. i don't. i'm fascinated by your poll and like everybody else i'll keep watching it on a day-to-day basis. now columbia professor andrew gillman. you're the stats guy i find remarkable your analysis. tell everybody what you just did and with what result? >> we looked at above average of polls for various offices over the past several elections looking at polls during the several weeks before the election occurred. each poll has a margin of error so you can look at that but can you also look at how close the poll is to what actually happens in the election. so you can calculate an elm umpirical margin of error. it turns out the emperrical

margin of error -- >> i'm a knuckle head. you have to break this down for me. when we speak of a three-point margin of error we're talking about a six-point. differental because trump could be three higher than they are forecasting she could be three lower and there's a six-point gap and you're saying it's really not even six that when you look at 4221 polls which you did it's more like 12% or greater. >> well my colleagues and i did it together. i don't want to get all the credit for it. i wouldn't say it's 12%. when they say a 3% margin of error that means there's a 95% chance that it's within 3% of what's actually going to happen. yeah, it was more like 6%. i don't remember the exact number. that's for an individual poll. when you look at the poll aggregates like nate and other people are doing then it will be more accurate.

any individual poll is more variable than you might think because different polls they use different methods as the previous person said. they also get different people. different people respond on a weekday and weekend so forth. >> what's the short answer as to why the pollsters don't have a better track record? >> it's a hard job. they are not drawing balls. they are not getting a random sample of the population. they are getting a bunch of people. nonresponse rates are over 90%. they get a bunch of people who are not representative of the american public or electorate and they have to adjust the sample to match the electorate. different polls get different results. when a candidate is not doing else his or her supporters are less likely to respond to the polls. >> very interesting. your last point. so, for example, right now the big mo as bush 41 would have said the momentum would be on hillary's side of the equation

and you're saying given all the news about that, that might cause trump respondents to be less inclined to participate when a pollster calls their house. >> that's right. if the election were held today i think trump would do better he's shown in the polls. and a few weeks ago it was the opposite, that the news for clinton wasn't so good sign think clinton support erps less likely to turn out to the polls. >> fascinating. as they say professor only one vote matters and that's one coming up on november 8th or if you're an early voter. thank you. i appreciate your analysis. >> good to be here. still to come among many things i could never have predicted this presidential election was the journalist whose interviews would be most impactful. howard stern ahead stern's wrap up show regular and our cnn legal expert.

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asuspects of this presidential election is the platform from which so many of one candidate's controversial statements originated. howard stern show on sirius xm. time and again things said by donald trump before entering the race on stern's radio program have come back to haunt him. yesterday contents were revealed of six recording of stern's shows. in the latest batch trump again brags about his sex life and reminisces about infidelity. >> did anyone ever say i cheated? nobody ever said i really cheated. >> that's true. >> i guess they implied it. they implied it in the strongest tones. >> you have banged some of the greatest beauties on the planet. >> that's true. some of the greats in history. >> seriously, what is it about you? there's a lot of billionaires out there.

and, you know, why do you think -- here you are -- >> i honestly believe it's because i'm a very handsome guy. looks are very important. >> stern is a self-described hillary guy. he hasn't sought to inject himself into trees. he hasn't played favorites on his show. and, in fact, he's joked that if trump gets elected eed trump wo appoint him to the supreme court. our own danny cevallos is not only a cnn legal analyst but a stern super fan who regularly appears on stern's wrap up show and he joins me now. hey now, danny. do you agree with my assessment as one who listens that howard has not sought to inject himself. i think the people who don't listen don't understand that about him. >> as super fans we think a lot about the show. we analyze it. we love to conjecture what

howard's true intentions are. he doesn't appear to be interested in this election any more than being sort of a known hillary supporter. but it's clear from the show and from these tapes he's a long time -- he's maintained a friendly relationship with trump and they talked plenty of times which is why do super fans like you and i i don't know why everybody is so shocked. these tapes were not secreted away. they were hiding in plain sight for the last 10, 20 years. >> were they particularly noteworthy when they were recorded? >> no, they weren't. even trump himself has said that something the effect had i known i would be running for president i might not have gone on the show and said these things. but, you know, even at the time he wasn't speaking in a presidential way. he was a caller. trying to be entertaining. trying to be funny. and that's sort of the beauty of the long form interview that howard has pioneered and perfected. he gets people to open up, be

real and talk about what's really on their mind. he doesn't drag them kicking and screaming talking about sex. if somebody calls in, if somebody is a guest and they want to talk about sex that's being real and howard will make them go there or get them to want to go there because when he has matt lauer on or dan rather they talk about vietnam or fly-fishing. you know guests go where they wanted to go on that show. >> right the. in other words to the uninitiated this may sound stunning the confessional nature it but in those long form interviews -- he interviews people for an hour at a time now for this sort of conversation to unfold is not an outliar. >> not at all. again, these tapes have been around for a long time. in the past, in other elections some tapes surfaced that was at some private event recorded on an iphone. this is material that's gone out the millions and millions of

listeners on sirius xm. so it's no surprise that these tapes are out there and that just now the fact that people are mining them now for material is frankly rather surprising. but, you know, when trump was calling in he was sort of playing along trying to be funny. the reality is people now don't find what he was saying to be funny and they don't find it to be presidential. shouldn't be a surprise. >> final observation from me you can buy into north. my impression if any other media personality were it is tongue crash the treasure trove of trump audio they would be tripping over them stoefls release it. i don't think any of these revelations came from howard stern or anybody on his crew. >> not at all. i'm not an insider. i'm a guest sometimes on the show. again us super fans think a lot about the show from listening. i don't think there's any indication that howard has had some personal interest the outcome of the election.

he's out there just trying to do a good interview. i would guess he would say look everyone who comes on this show gets real. they try to be funny. they talk about what interests them. if it's news worthy it frequently is. that show breaks news all the you going to hit him with the hind? >> bobba boo a to them all and hit them with the hind. >> you never get an invitation to say these things openly. you're being invited to hit them with the hind. thank you. >> thank you. still to come, your best and worst tweets. what do we got? my god, time has flown by i haven't seen anything. su is melania an enabler as trump claims hillary is. i'd love to know the initial courtship between he and her. it makes you wonder, right? how much protein does your dog food have?

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