cage it's struggling against it. look at this thing. they can't swim backwards. that's what happened. here's the good news. the diving instructor in that cage swam out unharmed. what a story to tell and it's on video documented. >> so many questions. we don't have time to get to all of them. >> make some great memories today and thank you for sharing your morning with us. >> we're handing it over to john king for "inside politics". have a good day. the trump campaign has a new slogan, they are lying. >> i am a victim of one of the great political smear campaigns in the history of our country. >> plus as allegations of inappropriate advances mount and his support among women plummets this from trump about hillary clinton on the debate stage. >> she walks in front of me, you know. and when she walked in front of me believe me i wasn't

impressed. >> on the trail the obamas take the lead for team clinton. >> we have seen this candidate bragging sexually assaulting women. >> you said you're the party of family values. what you weren't aprpalled earlier when he said degrading things about women. >> three weeks left. "inside politics", the biggest stories soursd by tced by the b reporters now. welcome to "inside politics," i'm john king. thanks for sharing your sunday morning. 23 days before election day and three before the third and final debate. three questions driving the race. one, who do you believe? >> next thing i know this a hand up my skirt. oh, that's donald trump. oh, yeah that's donald trump. >> deactually kiss you. >> yeah. yeah. >> on the face or on the lips? wherever he could find a landing

spot. >> i am being viciously attacked with lies and smears. >> question two, how dangerous is this? donald trump not only says all those women are lying he says it's part of a bigger global conspiracy. >> false stories, all made up. lies. lies. no witnesses. no nothing. all-big lies. it's a rigged system and they take these lies and they put them on front pages. this is a rigged system, folks. >> question three, question a lot of republicans are asking how much damage is trump doing the long term image of the gop? >> you can't have it both ways here. you can't repeatedly denounce what is said by someone and then say but i'm still going to endorse him to be the most powerful person on the planet.

>> with us this sunday to share their reporting and insights, julie pace, jonathan martin, jennifer jacobs and mary catherine hamm. the election is in three weeks. final debate in three days. donald trump is losing. if you look at the national polls there's a bit of a discrepancy but if you go state by state he's losing big league. he says he knows why. first all those women are lying and trump says they are in cahoots with mexican billionaires to defeat him. hillary clinton scored the winner of the first two debates. trump said she's obviously cheating. >> we should take a drug test prior because i don't know what's going on with her. but at the beginning of her last debate she was all pumped up at the beginning and at the end there was like oh, take me down. she could barely reach her car. so i think we should take a drug

test. anyway i'm willing to do it. >> that was a new one. >> it was. >> let's have a -- if you're going to be in a presidential debate you have to take a drug test. >> interestingly said in new hampshire, a state with a major problem with drugs, a very serious problem. what you're seeing with trump is he watches the polls like the best of them and knows he's losing right now and he is choosing not to take any responsibility for that. he's choosing to point his finger at the media, at clinton, at women who are coming out accusing him. paul ryan other republicans. there's not a lot of self-reflection happening right now and for him that's dangerous because he has a loyal base much supporters. he cannot win the presidential election with those support erosion alone. he needs to expand that base. you're seeing very few signs of him reaching out trying to do anything in these last three weeks to bring new people into the fold. >> he just doesn't deny the

allegations, as he denies them he says number one we're all part of this, part of a media conspiracy to bring these women forward to say these things. these women have said their names to attach to this. and then he said look at them. if i were going to do this, these tarnt women i would do it too. >> because they are unattractive. >> ladies, i see that and i think if you're looking to expand your tent that's not the way to do it. >> he tweeted this morning. knees that something is up. he tweeted that polls show large numbers of women are leaving him for something he didn't know. but 44% of women have experienced unwanted sexual contact at some point in their lives so this strikes home for a lot of women. he's not losing gop women in droves. they are sticking with him for partisan reasons. the polls show he's losing women. >> she's not hot enough defense i don't think is a good one and

his problem as it always s-i don't think he's ever been in self-reflex or expanding the ten it's about the audience he's talking at the moment. his goal has never been these things. moving forward can he get off of this story? no, i don't think key because he's not a person who changes his strategy in a nimble way. the reason people are leaving and reason people believe these accusations, party idea being accused is not my metric for whether i believe these stories or not which unfortunately in this town is often the metric but i don't know if he can move off of this because there's a tape of him saying dethese things. that's the bottom line. >> that's one of the issues. i don't like replay this gratuitously. this is part of the problem. donald trump says this never happened. said he would never do it. then he aedes they are not attractive enough. one of his issues is that the women are coming forward and

essentially saying that donald trump did this. >> again, he said in the debate that he was just talking, he doesn't do those things but these women are saying is when they heard him in the debate deny it that's when they decided to come forward. >> he has a 30 year track record of boasting about his sexual exploits. this is not something we just heard about after that video came out. it was in his own book talking about how he behaves. so this is nothing new. republican party knew what they were getting. they went in with their eyes wide-open. there's a bigger story here than this campaign. he is up ending long standing norms of american politics, not only in terms of his conduct when it comes to speaking about

women or minorities but the very nature of american democracy in a way we haven't seen in this country, and i think for the republican party to sort of stand there and watch him do that -- paul ryan spoke yesterday about it. but i've been very surprised that more people in the party have not spoken out about his comments regarding the very fabric of -- >> not spoken out against it. he was introduced yesterday by jeff sessions which i criticized sessions last week he's a former attorney general, he's a law and order guy and he said what trump describes in his view is not sexual assault. sorry, senator it is. senator sessions said the rigged argument. this is a man who among conservatives has standings on law and order. a lot of conservatives says is donald trump on us. jeff sessions said on immigration, on the supreme court he's a guy that a lot of conservatives look up to. the democrats are watching this

too. listen to tim kaine. he's saying don't think this is over. don't stay home. the margins matter. >> we got to make sure that the margin that he loses by is so big, and so clear, and so powerful, and so unmistakable that when he stands up and says poor me it was rigged against me nobody will believe him. >> we'll find the advance guy about that mural behind senator kaine. we laugh about these and if you read the accounts, you've been to the trump rally, here's a guy who spent so much time delegitimizing president obama, he's not from this country, now in advance trying to delegitimize a clinton victory if that's what it comes to. >> let me say this. i don't think it's not crazy for him to point out and his supporters to be miffed there's

a roll out of these stories about women. you had several stories coming down the pike from cosmopolitan. and look at the media you guys haven't been friendly to us for a long time and this seems like you're working together. i don't think that's a crazy thing to say. when you take at any time extra step and say the entire system is rigged that's problem. he's done that with the republican party knowing what they are getting. he's done that every step of the way. >> i think it's important, though, that people sometimes in these elections you get caught up in the day-to-day and the race we're in. step back and think about this. we had election after election in this country where the result is accepted as fair, it was a free election, and the loser steps aside and accepts the results. i don't think you can say for certain that donald trump will take that position after this election. that is incredibly dangerous not just because you're going to

have his supporters out there thinking that hillary clinton is not legitimate but it could freeze our democracy for her entire four years. republicans would have to choose whether they want to work with her. we're talking about something much bigger than just donald trump's talk and rhetoric on the campaign trail. >> i can't believe you have to say this out loud on tv but the essence of democracy is the peaceful transfer of party between parties every four years. and that does seem to be now the question. real fast to the point about nature of women coming out. two things. first of all, a lot of them said they heard it in the second debate say he had done these things and said hell no, he actually did it to me and i'll speak to that. second of all in the "boston globe" and made my paper "new york times" head story about other women. that was not some part of coordinated idea.

>> if it is all coordinated by the clinton campaign here's what i would say. if i rob a bank and my worst enemy catches me rob fwank and provides the tape to the police i can scream at my worst enemy all i want, but i still robbed the bank. if you're a trump supporter there's encouraging news. you've been listening, nbc/wall street journal poll had him down to 11, came back to 8. fox news had him down to eight. margin is now four. clinton 47, trump 43. if you're a trump supporter you're saying some damage not horrendous. this is one poll. on this day in 2012, 23 days out president obama was plus one. the debates were later in that campaign and on the date of the third debate, romney was plus one. so as we look at these margins yes that's a closer race than some of the other polls show. if it's four points nationally on election day do we have any

doubts that that's a clinton win? >> no. battleground states, trump campaign is targeting 11 battleground states and she's winning in ten of them. the only one he's winning the iowa. he's up by three points. ohio, nevada, florida, ohio they are within three points. but for the most part she's ahead in ten battleground states. >> we'll go seat by state next. republican party worried. first a donald trump tweet this morning calls it a hit job by a boring and unfunny show. here's "saturday night live's" take on the many awkward moments in the second presidential debate. >> can't deny you coverage. number two, no lifetime limits which is a big deal if you have serious health problems. and number three -- sorry. women can't be charged more than men for health insurance.

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now said wow this is really bad. i guess we need to -- we need to walk away. but if you're doing it just for political expedincy that's not enough. >> it's difficult choices when you're a republican. depends on what state you're in. in some places within states depends on what congressional district you're in. before it was what was trump's numbers in the polls. a lot of republicans are having to listen to what trump said on that "access hollywood" tape to the researchers going back and finding all the degrading things he said about women. and they are looking, i don't mean forget all that but set aside they are looking at their own survival and making choice. >> i don't envy these republicans because they are in a real bind right now. trump supporters are coming from within the republican party for the most part and if you're a senator in a competitive race right now you have to make a calculation. if you step away from donald

trump will those voters just not vote for you? will they vote for a third-party candidate? it's a real-time choice for them. more broadly republicans do have to decide what kind of party do they want to be going forward. their loss with african-americans and hispanics are built on years of rhetoric that has and policy positions that have turned off those voters. if they lose african-americans, hispanics and consistently lose a majority of women, very difficult to see how you're a national party at that point. >> as an ageing white guy, let me just say there are not enough of us. thank you. i don't mean this to be flip in the sense that go census.gov don't believe it if you're a conservative. walk around any neighborhood in america. you can't put this geni back in the bottle. >> the republican party doesn't have a donald trump challenge they've voter challenge and that's to say he isn't there --

it's his voter and his supporters and you see that with the contortions. that's their issue after the election how do you construct a national majority consolidation when a portion of your base, the trump base, is seen as frankly deplorable to borrow a phrase by much of the country for their views on issues like race. it's a very tough issue. people like rob portman and roy blount and rubio, mainstream, they can't win statewide elections if they don't have the trump supporters. >> i don't think you can exaggerate how much republican leaders are irritated with him. he diminished our party and our candidates and doesn't believe in anything most republicans

believe. he needs to go down the rotting ship he built. >> where do those voters go and what do they do on january 21st. what happens to the republican party if they lose a third consecutive election. >> there are two hopes in the immediate future for the gop. one that people consider donald trump such an anomaly they don't think of him as the gop. president obama has done the gop a favor by referring to him in that way as a separate phenomenon. he's changed his tune with good reason because he wants the gop to stick with donald trump and some of it deserves to. the other hope is one party doesn't like one-party rule. and in 2016 you may see historic ticket splitting we've never seen before. but the future in earning these votes of many americans, what was an uphill battle is now mt. everest. >> the autopsy after 2012 we needed to get voters especially

latinos nonwhite voters to vote for us. three weeks is a lot of time. to this points paul ryan is the speaker of the house. highest elected republican in the land. he's endorsed donald trump but won't appear with him. paul ryan went home to wisconsin did a big meeting with college republicans, gave a speech, took some questions not once did he mention the name donald trump. the republican party's presidential nominee. here's a little bit of what he said. >> there's a place where the government twists the law and the constitution itself to suit its purposes. it's a place where liberty is always under assault. we're passion, the very stuff of life is extinguished. that's the american hillary clinton wants. and if given control of washington, if given control of congress, it is the kind of america she will stop at nothing

to have. >> so he's not making a case for trump he's making a case keep the congress in rehands. i want to get this in before we have to get to a break. rub, he's running statewide in florida. most people think he's in a good election. watch the end of this ad where marco rubio tries to lead the the needle without dising trump. >> our economy is hurting. terror threats are rising. america faces a very uncertain future. patrick murphy just too risky for florida. >> patrick murphy is his opponent. but he shows both clinton and trump and says america faces an uncertain future. >> as a voter who is riskier trump or clinton. he's leaving the choice open to you. paul ryan's comments are so fascinating. his staff pushes back anthony but paul ryan is all but conceding that hillary clinton will be president. talking openly to make sure the

congress doesn't go fully to the democrats. that's extraordinary that at this point in a race in a relatively competitive race that the top republicans are all conceding his candidate will lose. >> that speech in many ways was a lament on donald trump's candidacy. paul ryan dauks about a dark dismal election. people talk about hillary clinton. they talk about the candidate who is out there saying this will be a rigged election and talking about federal judges who are mexican. >> to that point speaker ryan put out a statement saying he's fully confident that the states will administer the election in a competent way. disagreeing with trump. everybody sit night before the first debate the map was the tilting donald trump's way. but it looks very different in advance of the third and final debate. take our "inside politics" quiz. can you be swayed by the final

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a little back to the future as we map out the race and stakes heading in to wednesday's final debate nuclear program is what the map looked like on september 26th, the morning of the first presidential debate. yes we still have hillary clinton across finish line but donald trump was back in play because he was tied or leading in nevada then, tied or leading in the florida, tied or leading in north carolina and tied or leading in ohio. plus he was closing in colorado. he was closing in pennsylvania. you could say on the morning of that first debate donald trump the race was moving his way. he had a chance to take it away. but let's come back to where we are now. today, turn that off. sorry. secretary clinton leads there. threads. leads narrowly there. ohio there's a debate some polls show trump up some polls show clinton up. she's well ahead of what she needs to win.

here's some of the dynamics at play. donald trump is running in a very different electorate. number two early voting. democrats look at this early voting more than 1.25 million ballots cast already. 878,000 in critical battleground states. democrats think this is a huge advantage for them. then there's this. donald trump won in the republican primaries but 90% white. the general electorate will be more diverse. the majority will be women. trump has a problem with women. in the past week with all these trump attacks the president of the united states the democrats are saying donald trump is trying to get you democrats to stay home. the president says don't fall for it. >> just going to drag this election as low as it possibly can go. and he figures that if he makes our politics just toxic, then maybe you'll just figure out you got no good choices and you just get discouraged and you just

don't vote. don't fall for it. >> president says don't fall for it but even as we discuss trump's troubles there's questions among democrats as to whether african-american communities have enthusiasm for clinton. and b, does this toxic environment make either democrats get over confident when they see some polls with trump way up or think i can't do it. >> the theory has been hurt or the hope has been for a long time that trump is a stand in for what obama was for the democratic coalition. but instead of positive energy it's negative energy. not because i love obama but because they can't stand trump. john i was so struck this week watching the obama-obama ticket a formidable combination. michele and barack obama, and the problem is neither are actually on the ballot this year. you wouldn't know it from watching the tv. they took center stage and where is hillary clinton? raising money once again on the west coast behind closed doors

with wealthy donors. by the way democrats are just fine with that. they are happy to have the obamas out front and center but it does speak to the nature of this election and who actually is the more compelling figure in public speaking. >> plus your colleague wrote a smart piece in the paper today. it's obvious to some. the way she lays it out you would think the first female nominee was united states would be out there but tissues are sexual harassment, alleged sexual assault. obvious repetitive degrading on women and she's been quiet. the part is if she talks about this, it turns on her husband, bill clinton and his past transgressions. the first lady, hillary clinton on twitter and then at one event praised the speech pretty powerful from michele obama. this is in new hampshire. >> i feel it's so personally and i'm sure that many of you do too particularly the women. the shameful comments about our

bodies. the disrespect of our ambitions and intellect. the belief that you can do anything you want to a woman. it is cruel. it's frightening. and the truth is, it hurts. it hurts. >> incredibly personal there from the first lady and obviously she says this was about her personal feelings but out at a political rally no disputing they get the math we were talking about earlier. >> conservative women looked at that speech by her and they turned around and said but bill clinton. that's just the way they are thinking right now. such a partisan divide if you're a conservative and you believe donald trump if you're a liberal you believe michele obama and hillary clinton. but i asked some republicans and independents, bill clinton is not on the ballot why do you guys keep talking about that. they think if she's elected he'll have position of power as

an adviser they do consider him. >> there's some left over issues obviously from tea 90s here. but with good reason. conservatives look at that speech and they go this is rich from the party of ted kennedy and bill clinton and there's merit to that. but whether or not you like the obamas they are clean on this issue. and that's why the clintons are not out talking about it and the obamas are and i'm not sure that working out those issues from the '90s even though i have a little righteous thrill when i hear about it doesn't work with independent vote sneerps they are trying to bait trump into attacking them. and by the way, it does show trump has at least some internal constraints. what he hasn't done this past week is attack michele obama. >> even though they told him not to. >> because clearly -- >> programmed the twitter account. just won't allow it. >> we shouldn't blow past the idea that one issue that i think

hillary clinton is going to have over the next three weeks will be enthusiasm. and the way that she can lose this election is if not just the overall support doesn't match what obama's coalition was but if the turn out doesn't match. they are very worried about young people. that number has not creeped up for her. they are worried you won't see african-american turnout reach the levels of obama. >> the metrics have not shown this huge surge between african-americans and latinos that they want to see. >> and hillary clinton can't talk about this stuff because of bill clinton. donald trump told us we should believe juanita broderick. it's a mess. now to the point about enthusiasm for hillary clinton if you listen to donald trump on the campaign trail he seems to understand that his only hope here is that there's no enthusiasm for her and that every one of his last people turn out for him. this is why what people say this is not what you're supposed to

say in a democracy this is what donald trump says at every rally. >> she should be locked up. she should. [ cheers and applause ] and if i win, i am going to ask my attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to look into her crimes because what she did is a disgrace to the united states of america. now there are even a lot of republicans who spoke for trump at trump's convention saying whoa, whoa we don't talk about that in democracies about jalg your opponents but trump is clearly he think it's important to his base and b, thinks this is a motivational issue. >> it is. if you go to a trump rally, most frequent chant is lock her up. there are a lot of trump voters that believe chinn has done

something illegal and the fbi took a passing not pressing charges against her. but the question about the rigged election. there are some moments where people need to look beyond this election. it is a dangerous thing for a presidential candidate in this country to be talking about j g jailing their opponent. that happens in a lot of country. sometimes we can rise paradise cove our partisan views and look what message that's sending. >> charles krauthammer was talking about just that. this is a hallmark of what other countries with shall we say less advanced democracies do. the current regime puts the opposition in jail. we don't do that in this country. >> i had an e-mail from a prominence republican, i hate to say this donald trump needs to learn a lesson from al gore. everybody sit tight.

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donald trump sees the hacked clinton campaign emails released by wikileaks as proof of an international conspiracy of sorts. >> the clinton machine is at the center of this power structure. we've seen this firsthand in the wikileaks documents in which hillary clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of u.s. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors. >> well that's a bit of a stretch. they don't prove quite that that hillary clinton is out there trying to destroy american sovereignty but they raise a number of questions for the clinton campaign. what was chelsea clinton talking about when she looks at the clinton foundation and wrote an e-mail that says people are

trying to cash in on my father's name. some conflict of interest within the foundation. hillary clinton has refused to answer these questions on the campaign trail. her campaign says russians are hacking into the e-mail. we won't answer specifics. she will be on the debate stage wednesday night with a tough and persistent questioner with chris wallace. she will have to answer some of these. including meeting with bankers in brazil. my dream is to have a hem sphise hemispheric open borders. >> if we haven't been caught up with trump in the last week or so we would be more focused on what's in these emails. there's no smoking gun on foundation or some of her other issues bath lot of questions have been revealed. >> i'm not so sure. why is chelsea clinton saying about -- she's saying i see conflict of interest and there are people unseemingly cashing

in on dad's name. >> if you had a more competent candidate there would be any number of stories to go after her on. look at the financial regulatoriments, there's so much there. >> think how explosive this would have come out for bernie sanders. >> the reason we're talking about some of these again she hasn't answered. her campaign says trump is okay hoot -- in cahoots with donald trump. it doesn't take off the table now that they are out there, somebody leaked the pentagon papers. things get leaked, edward snowden leaked a lot of stuff. there's legitimate questions that come from it. >> trump is right that it's the media's duty to look at this

stuff and report on it at length. it's about her foundation getting heads up on the investigation from doj and state department and fbi. and talking about voters in nasty ways. there's so much there not to mention the pathetic and sucking up to many media figures. >> if there was a felony. >> not a felony but confirms -- >> her advisers are glad he doesn't e-mail. >> in terms of actually who she is and what this tells us about who she will be if she's president next year if you're a bernie sanders supporter you have to be concerned talking about free markets and open trade to bankers in brazil that's not exactly the afl-cio line. >> to tie that back to questions about her enthusiasm particularly with young people

this has been one of their core. trade is such a focus for sanders supporters that they are worried she's saying one incorporate in this election cycle and get in the white house and support tpp. >> going the building trades and saying about radical environmentalists, give me a break, basically and of course we'll keep pursuing natural gas and fossil fuel. at her core she's somebody who is clearly a progressive but who is ambitious enough to tailor her views to get into office. that's been the clinton tension right there. for their part they are center left pragmatic politicians. >> she has to answer this wednesday night. donald trump is in a ditch. a lot of republicans think the race is over. i'm not willing to go there. he still may have a chance. can he turn in a better debate performance? he has some material here. a sneak peek into our reporter's

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let's head around the inside of politics table. let's ask our reporters. >> some senior advisors are pushing for hillary clinton to make a late in the campaign stop in one of these expansion states. is this a place like arizona, georgia, utah that traditionally votes republicans in presidential elections but looking shaky for trump. it's not teen idea that a trip would push these states into clinton's win column although that's not out of the realm of possibility but more of the idea of making a big false splash.

she could draw a big crowd in salt lake city. some of the hold up comes from robby mook, clinton's campaign manager. he's been saying he wants to get to 270 electoral college votes in the most efficient easiest way possible and arizona, georgia and utah were not exactly in that plan. >> cautious. >> speaking of that same issue, georgia on their mind. clinton folks are looking at georgia which bill clinton won in '92 but since then has not gone to a democrat. they feel it's like within reach but tough. the reason it's tough is because the vast atlanta suburbs, there's plenty of voters there who don't like trump that much. they feel like it's less like, for example, northern virginia and raleigh and more like a traditional southern suburb and it's a little bit tougher for them down there. so if you see her there in the last week or so we'll know they

are feeling good. >> that's a sign of confidence. money. one of donald trump's fundraisers told me no major donors have asked for their money back. federal records show that trump's contributions to his own campaign are getting smaller and smaller. now he said on the campaign trail this past week in florida, again, that he intends to donate $100 million to his own campaign but to date he's at $56 million. which is more than hillary clinton has given to her campaign. but trump is going around on the campaign trail boasting about how his checkbook is proof of how much faith he has that he'll win this thing whereas in reality it's a little bit different by his own measure. >> smart businessman maybe. >> the question for the rest of these few weeks, merciful few weeks, how local can you go? for republicans they got this huge nationalized story about trump that's very hard to get away from. the national republican

senatorial committee had these guys running more local sheriff type race from the beginning, saw this might be an issue for them. portman is a puerto rico effect example. can it do well enough to last him these last three weeks. >> republicans frantically trying to save that senate majority. say trump's support the cratering. the big question is where is the line that senate candidates get washed out with him. new gop data shows trump down in double digits in new hampshire and pennsylvania. but those senators are also down in the polling by just a few points. in nevada trump trails by single digit by the republican candidate super. is ten points a line in which a trump loss would wipe out other republicans? republican strategists say it depends state by state. but they are trying to overcome a double digit trump deficit is an extraordinarily hard lift for other republicans on the statewide ballot. their advice to republican senate candidates spend the next three weeks running local and

offering themselves as a check on a liberal clinton presidency. although they view the presidential race as a lost cause they are asking trump to move up a bit in those key battleground states. hope to see you at noon eastern for our weekday edition of ip. our special coverage begins at 4:00 p.m. on wednesday. up next "state of the union" with jake tapper. ...essentially. i'll build a little model in photoshop and add these... ...details in with a pen. i could never do that with a mac. i feel like my job is... ...to put out there just enough detail to spur the audiences... ...imagination to fill in all the blanks. this windows pc is amazing, having all of my tools... ...right at my finger tips is incredible.

and so when i saw that, that was completely disqualifying.

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avalanche. one woman after another after another. >> he was grabbing my breasts. >> accusing donald trump of sexual gression. >> these claims are all fabricated. they are pure fiction and outright lies. >> are more charges to come? plus conspiracy claims. >> the election is rigged. rigged like you've never seen before. >> what willru