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presidential primary, whether or not the republican party was going to have a hard time accepting donald trump as their party's new leader and as their party's presidential nominee. there has been a lot of opinion expressed, a lot of speculation about it. on this show we tried to stay focused on the data rather than just the opinion on this matter. i think most of the data suggests that the republican party is not having that hard a time accepting donald trump as their nominee. after all mr. trump received more votes in the republican primary this year than any republican presidential candidate has ever received before. we've also been reporting that for all of the beltway ink that's spilled over this idea that republican elected officials and party leaders are having a hard time with mr. trump there isn't that much evidence of anybody saying no to him. we reported last night we could find so few republican members of congress who were explicitly opposed to donald trump we thought as of last night there were so few of them that you could actually fit all of them

into a station wagon. in the senate, the three republican u.s. senators known to be opposed to mr. trump are lindsey graham, dean heller, and ben sasse. that's it. in the house we reported last night that the two republican members of the house known to be explicitly observed carlos car bell low and scott ridge. that brings us to five members of congress, three in the senate, two in the house. that would imply not evenings saktly a great rift in the party. since then though, four more members of congress have been in touch with us today to let us know that they would like to also be recognized as being crammed into that car. oh, really. yes. so behold we happily correct the record. four additional confirmed members of congress from the republican party who say on the record today that they are opposed to donald trump. we've got the three senators on

the top row, and in the house we've got two and now we add iliana of florida, bob dold, richard hannah of new york and add congressman reed hribal of wisconsin. we have spoken with all of their offices today, they have all confirmed that they should also be crammed into that midsize sedan or station wagon previously holding all of the republican party in congress who is against donald trump. because there are now nine of them confirmed being no to trump republicans. we are going to have to get them a bigger car. turns out they would not all fit in a station wagon. they would fit in a chevy tahoe if you got the one with the third seat in the back. as long as they have no baggage, these nine members of congress, this brady bunch, in the proverbial chevy tahoe, that is

the sum total what we know so far. in terms of the split in the republican party over donald trump becoming that party's presidential nominee. these updated numbers mean the no to donald trump caucus is roughly 3% of congressional republicans. oh, how will the party survive. this terrible schism. i should say if you are a republican member of congress or republican member of the senate and you are explicitly opposed to donald trump being your party's leader and nominee, if you are encouraging other people to not vote for him as well, let us know. we'll get you guys a bigger proverbial car action we'll even get you a bus if it ever turns out that there are that many republican members of congress who are actually opposed to him. right now all we know of is nine. we will update it every time we get another one. if we ever do. i don't know if we will though.

all of the momentum in the party seems to go the other direction, toward mr. trump. nine committee chairman from the house of representatives today signed on with mr. trump. the house of representatives is controlled by the republicans so they control all of the committees, the chairs of nine house committees all came out today and endorsed mr. trump. and you know, it's a real decision to do that if mr. trump is a problem for republican incumbents, those nine like every member of the house come november they will be up for re-electi re-election. every republican may be except the few who said no to him, every republican is going to run to one degree or another along side the leader of their party. to a certain extent every republican in the country is going to be running on what donald trump stands for. and today the question of what donald trump stands forgot very wooly. it might possibly have fallen

apart altogether. >> you said we're going to stop muslim immigration till we find out what the hell's going on you said. and then you walked back the other day say listen, that was a suggestion, but you're going to put together a commission headed by rudy giuliani. would you like to expand on that? >> yeah. it was a suggestion. look, anything i say right now, i'm not the president, everything is a suggestion, no matter what you say it's a suggestion. >> speaker ryan said after the meeting there are clearly issues on which you two disagree. we know that one of those is on that ban of muslims. he is not for it. you have said you are. in recent days you called it more of a suggestion than a proposal. i'd like you to clarify that for me because i think millions of people who voted for you across the country during the primary process felt as if you were actually proposing that. are you softening your stance? >> i'm not the president right now so anything i suggest is really a suggestion. i'm always flexible on issues, i am totally flexible on many

issues. i think you have to be that way. >> everything is just a suggestion. i am totally flexible. mr. trump says now basically that he has no policy platform. he's not overtly proposing to do anything particular as president. everything he said that the country ought to do, it's a suggestion. totally flexible. and it is remarkable to hear a major party presidential nominee admit that they don't really stand for anything, everything is up for negotiation, they don't have firm policy proposals that you can count on them for, you can count on him to enact when he becomes president. it's remarkable to hear it. reasonably speaking it's not an illogical way to run. it's cynical. the trump campaign apparently is sort of moved into a part of the election where they say they do not want mr. trump to be judged on the basis of his policy proposals. all are subject to change. they don't think that's what's important to voters about mr.

trump. they are basically saying what's more important than any promise on policy is that people should just trust donald trump to do a good job, to be a guy who would be good at being president. don't vote for him because he -- something specific, vote for him because you think he would be good at the job, because you think he is generally capable as a person. he vaguely wants the right things for the country, he'll be good handling stuff when it comes up, the kind of guy you would like to be president no matter what it is he wants to do with the job. it's an unusual way to run for president but it's not irrational. in fact, that's probably the way a lot of voters think about their choice. they vote for who they wanted to have a beer with. those voters know they are never going to have a beer with the president. they are telling pollsters they cast their votes for who they liked the best, they thought was the best person, they thought would be a better person in that job regardless of their platform

or promises or what they said they wanted to do. voting for the perceived capabilities of a politician as a person, rather than anything specific about their agenda, it does in a way make sense. unless your perception of your candidate's capabilities is completely wrong for some reason. i mean it's one thing to vote for somebody who stands for nothing because you think they'd be a generally capable person, it's another thing to vote for someone who stands for nothing who it turns out is a crank, or is fundamentally unstable, or who is a con artist or prone to bizarre behavior. this is the bon wit teller building built in 1928 and 29 on the corner of 56th and fifth avenue in new york city. a great example of art deco architecture. it's feature on its facade were

big stone sculptures. they weren't at the street level, they were high up on the facade. each about 15 feet high, really distinctively art deco, up on the building and these sculptures were up on the eighth and ninth floors of this 11-story building. interesting design. the building was designed by the same firm that built grand central terminal. in addition to those notable sculptures, it also had a huge 20 foot by 30-foot intricate super heavy metal sculpture thing. it was a grille, basically, on the front of the building, built into the main entrance, really striking. it was made of solid nickel, very distinctive. built in 1928-29. 1980 that building was due to be demolished because a developer wanted to put up a glass tower in its place. the developer promised the metropolitan museum of art in new york city when the old

building was demolished the met could have all of that important art. they could have the giant grille work, the sculptures from the front of the building. that was the deal. and then on a thursday afternoon in june with no warning the real estate developer instead had the stone statues jack hammered into pieces. quoting from "the new york times" the next day, two stone sculptures high on the facade on fifth avenue pieces that had been sought with enthusiasm by the metropolitan museum of art were smashed by jack hammers yesterday on the orders of a real estate developer. now the destruction of the art deco panels elicited surprise and disappointment from officials where they were to have been installed by the department of 20th century art. everybody thought these sculptures and the grill were going to the met. "the new york times" interviewed

a gallery owner across the street from the building, quote, yesterday mr. miller said he was stunned when he looked out his 11th floor window and saw workmen attack the sculptures with jack hammers. quote, they were just jack hammered in half and pulled down in such a way they shattered. it was just tragic. you will have guessed by now the real estate developer in question who did that in 1980 was donald trump. wa went up on that site after the bon wit teller building came down in a heap was trump tower. when a significant portion of new york freaked out about him destroying this art that everybody thought was going to the met from the old building, jack hammering it off the building with no warning like they were buddha sculptures, a representative of the trump organization was made available to the press to explain the trump organization's side of this disturbing story. john baron, a vice president of

the organization, said after the demolition that the company decided to not preserve the sculptures because quote, the merit of these stones was not great enough to justify the effort to save them. remember, the metropolitan museum of art was going to take them and put them up. but the trump organization decided they had no merit. for the giant gilded nickel grille work, again the museum, the met thought they were getting that too. but the trump organization's explanation for that one was that they lost it. quote, we don't know what happened to it. said john baron, a vice president of the trump organization. looking back on this, as far as we can tell, there never was a john baron, vice president of the trump organization. that was not a real person. we actually had it confirmed a decade later that there was no john baron. that confirmation came in a court proceeding a decade later, in the course of a bunch of

legal wrangling over the fact that mr. trump used illegal immigrant laborers. mr. trump testified under oath in 1990 that he and another sometimes used this alias john baron in some business dealings when for whatever reason they didn't want to use their own names. he admitted under oath. that created a minor media scandal in 1990, a bunch of headlines that ran at the time how he had been using this fake name john baron described as an open secret in the new york press somebody named john baron would call reporters to say things about donald trump but the john baron calling reporters to talk about donald trump was donald trump himself. but he admitted to that in a court proceeding in 1990. got a bunch of headlines. people started making fun of him for that in 1990. in 1991 mr. trump apparently

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>> what's your name again? >> john miller. >> john miller. i guess we're going to try to put a story together. >> this is a recording made in 1991, by reporter from "people" magazine called sue carswell. she was calling donald trump's office and she ended up speaking with somebody who sounded very much like donald trump but said his name was john miller, a publicist work forge donald trump and said he was brand new to the organization, just started. but each though he just started was brand new was eager to help this reporter with her queries about donald trump's love life. now, for a man who was just a

hired hand who had just started at the organization, brand new, he did seem to know a lot about donald trump's love life and inner feelings. >> marla -- >> marla would want to be back with him. he just feels it's too soon. i can tell you there was never a talk of marriage from donald's point of view. i can also say that marla would like to get married but it was something, just too soon. hopefully he'll maintain a good relationship with marla. >> what about -- >> but it's just too soon. >> what about this ivana thing it says trump -- indicates that she would be interested in reconciliation. >> ivana wants to get back. what is she going to say. he's with somebody else and has others lined up. is she going to say yes. she is a pretty savvy woman.

she's not going to say, he's living with marla and has three other girlfriends and she's not going to say i really want to get back you know. she wants to get back, she's going to a lot of her friends, going to him but it's so highly unlikely. off the record. he left. i mean, it was his choice to leave. and he left. >> for marla. >> that's the biggest misconception. the biggest misconception. he didn't leave for marla. he left for himself. he didn't leave for marla. he never left for marla. he was going to leave. marla was there. he was going to leave whether marla or not. he does things for himself. when he makes the decision that will be a very lucky woman but he's not going to do that until he makes the decision. when he makes the decision he is capable of a total commitment. when he makes the decision. but he felt it's too soon.

off the record he probably felt marla wasn't the right one or whatever. but he just felt it was too soon. >> for a pr guy who had just started, who was brand new at the trump organization, boy, he really had very quickly tapped deeply into his boss's psyche. when he makes the decision he is capable of a total commitment he makes a decision but he felt it's too soon. probably felt marla wasn't the right one. felt it was too soon. that pr guy is just tapped right in. that happened in 1991. "people" ran an article about it at the time that gave the game away. the top headline was trump says good-bye marla, hello carla. the subtitle explained how they got this story. mysterious pr man who sounds just like donald calls to spread the story. if you think it is weird that somebody would impersonate another person, not just to give

a quote under a fake name to the new york times about some embarrassing business thing, right, or accomplish other business goal, but simply not even for something like that but instead to brag to "people" magazine about how many people wanted to have sex with him and what he really thought about his girlfriends and how much they wanted to get back together with him, if you think it's a weird thing to form an alias for yourself to do, "people" magazine at the time also thought it was a really weird thing to do. this is their lead from that story that they ran at the time. quote, there are interesting stories there are moving stories and there are funny stories and there are stories that are simply bizarre. last week donald trump after years of edging ever closer seems finally to have landed squarely in that last category. bizarre. the reporter took the tape of that interview, played it for several people who knew mr. trump well including his former fiancee. they all confirmed to her it was donald trump pretending to be someone else on that phone call.

quote, said a former close associate who i.d.ed the voice is he wacked out or what. two weeks later "people" ran a follow-up story including, this is key, donald trump's admission that actually yeah, it hadn't been john miller, it had been him on the phone. it also included his apology, quoting from "people" magazine, july 1991, quote, the john miller fee as cohe called a joke gone awry, i'm very sorry newly humbled tycoon. it's a little strange as a business practice to use a fake name and pretend to be someone who you are not. it's a little weird for a big business right to invent a fake vice president, give them a fake name and have them give quotes. speaking on behalf of your business. that was a minor scandal when it was john baron, mr. p trump in 1990. he killed john baron and came

back as john miller. as john miller it was really strange, even in celebrity tabloid culture to pretend to be somebody you are not to talk to gossip reporters to tell them about your love life and how much women want you. that was even seen as bizarre at the time by the tabloids. it earned him a slew of headlines how strange this behavior was. and not incidentally he admitted it. apologized and he played it off as a joke. now the "washington post" obtained the tape of that conversation that he had with "people" magazine reporter in 1991, posted it on their front page today. and now today, now that he's running for president in that tape is circulating, now mr. trump is a very different explanation for this and a very reaction to what he used to admit to. >> it doesn't sound like my voice at all. i have many, many people that are trying to imitate my voice and you can imagine that.

this sounds like one of the scams, one of the many scams. >> the post says that you acknowledged a couple decades ago that in fact that was you but it was a joke. >> i don't think it was me. it doesn't sound like me. i don't know even what they are talking about. have no idea. >> the post also says this is something you did routinely, that you would call reporters and plant stories and say either you were john miller or john baron, but in fact it was actually you on the phone. is that something you did with regularity? >> no, and it was not me on the phone. it was not me on the phone. and it doesn't sound like me on the phone. i will tell you that and it was not me on the phone. >> used to admit it was him on the phone, now he says it was definitely not him on the phone. well today "the washington post" followed up on this bizarre development and something interesting happened. friday afternoon, "washington post" reporters 44 minutes into a phone interview with mr. trump about finances asked him a question about this john miller situation. did you ever employ someone named john miller as a

spokesperson. the phone went silent, then dead. when the reporters called back and reached trump's secretary she said i heard you got disconnected. he can't take the call now. i don't know what happened. that was today. this was tonight on "nbc nightly news." cynthia mcfadden interviewing the reporter for "people" magazine back in the day who made that tape in the first place and thought this was all a settled issue. >> you published in 1991 you believed this was donald trump pranking you, pretending to be a publicist. >> i didn't believe it i knew it to be true based on the fact that cindy and marla maples confirmed it. >> not someone pretending to be donald trump. >> not just someone pretending to be donald trump. he really prank marla and cindy adams too? could he really punk marla, his fiancee. well he said it wasn't his fiancee that day, sorry. >> so, why does this matter?

>> why does this matter. because this man is possibly be the leader of this country and he -- is he going to punk people when he's president? and say he's john doe calling. >> at the time, when he told you he was sorry tell us about that. >> when he said he was sorry he had done it, he asked if i would go out as a sort of you know, apology with him and marla and we went to one of the hot clubs of the time, i don't remember the name. he picked me up in his stretch limousine and we picked up a friend of mine, the editor of the story and went out and we -- we went into this room and he stayed for about 15 minutes and said you know what, i don't like to stay at parties, i don't drink and he left. and he and marla both left. we went home soon there after. >> but he made it absolutely clear to you that -- he

acknowledged, there is no -- >> there is no doubt in my mind that he apologized to me and he made it clear he was the man on the tape. there is just no doubt in my mind. >> why is it important? >> well, it's one thing to punk me about his love life but to punk the nation is another thing. and i think that's what he's doing now even today. >> and beyond that i guess you would say that to lie about it in addition. >> he's still lying about it which is ridiculous. i woke up to all of these e-mails about this conversation that everybody in my life knew happened. and now he's saying it didn't happen. why? and where did the tape come from since i didn't get -- give it to the "washington post." >> so if you could speak to donald trump, what would you like to say to donald trump? >> is i'd say donald, please. you and me, come on. you did it, you know you did it.

>> it's one thing to vote for somebody for president because you think they have got a great policy agenda, you like what they are proposing to do for our country. it's another thing to vote for somebody for president because you don't know anything about what they are proposing but you think they are great. you think they'd be really capable of handling the job well, you think they are just a solid person who would do a good job, just because of who they are. and what you know about them. which case does the republican party make for its nominee this year, donald trump. when you find something you love, you can never get enough of it. change the way you experience tv with xfinity x1.

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it doesn't sound like my voice at all. i have many, many people that are trying to imitate my voice. and you can imagine that. and this sounds like one of these scams, one of the many scams. doesn't sound like me. >> the "post" says you acknowledged a couple decades ago that in fact that was you but it was a joke. >> i don't think it was me. it doesn't sound like me. have no idea. have no idea "the post" says this is something you did rather routinely, call reporters and plant stories and say you were john miller or john baron, but in fact it was you on the phone. is that something you did with any regularity? >> no, it was not me on the phone. it was not me on the phone. it doesn't sound like me on the phone, and it was not me on the phone. >> when he makes the decision, that will be a very lucky woman. but he's not going to do that until he makes the decision. when he makes the decision he's very capable of a total

commitment when he makes the decision. but he felt it's too soon. off the record he probably felt, well, it wasn't the right one. or whatever. but he just felt it was too soon. >> joining us is steven ginsburg, senior politics editor at "the washington post" which broke this story and published this tape today. which is one of the weirder turns thus far in what's been a weird campaign. mr. ginsburg, thanks for being with us tonight. >> good to be here. >> so mr. trump is saying this definitely wasn't him on this tape. there is considerable evidence that contemporaneously in 1991 he admitted to the reporter who made the tape that it was him on the tape. he passed it off as a joke. he said it was a joke gone awry. do you at "the washington post" treat this as a settled matter, that it is him on the tape? >> yeah, we believe that it's him on the tape. the progression here is "people" magazine wrote that first article in 1991.

this sort of tease that they thought it was him a couple weeks later he acknowledged that it was him. then this morning on the "today" show he said it wasn't him. then we had him on the phone this afternoon about a different story and we asked about it and then the phone line went dead. you know, he's claiming it's not him. we believe it's him. and i think it's a question he's going to have to continue to answer until he comes forth with it. >> one of the things that happened in cynthia mcfadden's interview with the "people" magazine reporter who originally made the tape which aired tonight on "nightly news," she said she did not give the tape to the "washington post." obviously i'll not going to ask you to give up your sources. she says she didn't know that anybody else had a recording of it. she supposed on air tonight in this interview that donald trump himself supplied this tape to "the washington post." again, i don't want to pressure you to say anything about sourcing that you don't want to say. but can i ask you if mr. trump himself gave you this tape?

>> i'd rather not say anything about how we obtain our information. >> are you confident in the sort of chain of custody of this tape, that it hasn't been doctored and it's the real deal? >> yes, we're very confident. we published the story and we back it up completely and we're confident in the facts in it. >> the thing that is now emerging as the newly strange thing today for donald trump as a presidential candidate that is he would be so robustly denying something that he previously admitted to without too much trouble, calling it a joke, laughing it off, making it right with the woman who he called himself a different name while speaking to. that's today's scandal of this based on you publishing this report. is there anything else in the tape or anything else in this episode that you've now brought to light that itself is strange or concerning or you think mr. trump should be answering questions about as a presidential candidate. >> my interview is the tape itself is fascinating.

what we aim to do in our reporter is reveal everything we can about the presidential candidates. and here we have 14 minutes of a phone conversation from 25 years ago where donald trump is posing as his own publicist and talking about intimate affairs in his own life. he talks about how he didn't mind bad press because it made it look like he had less money, but then once his divorce went through then he didn't mind that people said he had more money. and that's a revealing moment, to me. he went on to talk about all the women who wanted to date him, madonna and others on that tape. i just think it's a fascinating moment and i'd encourage people to listen to the tape. >> oh, a lot of people have. >> yes, they have. >> fascinating for the obvious reasons and for a lot of reasons we didn't expect even once you first published it. thanks for helping us understand this reporting today, appreciate it. >> sure. >> it has been a really, really weird day. the news started off weird

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a lot of unexpected things happened in today's news. the giant drug company pfizer decided to cut off the last legal open-market source of lethal injection drugs today. we don't know how states will ever legally lethally inject prisoners again in the future. that was unexpected.

donald trump impersonating a fake pr guy to hype his love life and then denying it was him even though he previously admitted it was him, that was unexpected. nine republican house committee chairmen all endorsing donald trump all at once today, all joining hands and leaping off the same building today in those political terms, a bunch of unexpected things happened. but there was one expected thing in today's news and we knew to set our watches by it. it was noon today. the big deadline in the bridgegate scandal involving the current new jersey governor and the man who donald trump has tapped to build his transition team when he inevitably gets elected president in november. the bridgegate deadline was today at noon. you know what happened? stay with us.

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♪ you can see from the freeway >> that is john doe. that is john doe. that's when john doe and xine cervenka led the band "x." they were on "american bandstand" in the 1980s. an impressionable time for me as a human being. john doe was the first famous person i ever patterned on as a cool person. the first super-cool person i recognized, i always wanted to be like john doe. my brother and i never agreed on anything, the one thing we agreed on was loving the band "x" and loving john doe and everything he's done since then. i kid you not, after a lifetime of me being a john doe fan, last year i ended up on a train trip, a long-haul train trip with my partner susan and my parents, a little vacation. turned out john doe was on our train.

and my mom and john doe, yes, that john doe, sat together and played crazy 8s on the train. the card game, they played crazy 8s and gin rummy, they were very competitive with each other, and it was amazing. that is john doe who i've always worshipped. john doe. and john doe is also what went wrong in the bridgegate story that was supposed to break wide open today. you may remember today was supposed to be a big deadline. noon deadline for bridgegate. the chris christie administration scandal in new jersey where a manmade days-long traffic jam was created on purpose using the world's busiest bridge, allegedly to punish a small-town mayor who wouldn't endorse governor christie for re-election. today at noon the judge overseeing the case ordered release of the list of unindicted co-conspirators from

bridgegate. the list of people who prosecutors say were in on the scheme even though they themselves didn't get indicted. now, cut to the chase. part of what everybody wants to know if chris christie himself is on the list, the sitting governor of new jersey, tapped to oversee the white house administration for the trump administration if donald trump is elected president. it would be awkward to say the least if chris christie is all of those things and also a named unindicted co-conspirator in a big ongoing federal criminal case. so today at noon was the deadline to release the list of unindicted co-conspirators. late last night an 11th hour appeal, somebody who was on the list filed an emergency motion saying that if the list is made public he will, quote, suffer irreparable harm. once he is named as an unindicted conspirator t stigma a this the government believes

to shut down the bridge the stigma can never be removed. who filed this motion? to block the publication of the list? who says he is on the list and the list should be kept secret? john doe. not my john doe but john doe, generic name for somebody who doesn't want their name used. only by permitting john doe staying this action pending a hearing can the court honor his right not to be labeled a criminal without due process of law. so, nobody knows who this john doe is. who stopped the list from coming out today. i can tell you that the lawyer who filed john doe's motion used to work for chris christie in new jersey when he was u.s. attorney there. but we have no idea if it's him. we have no idea who this john doe is. i can tell you that it's not this guy, don't blame him.

i can also tell that you the next deadline for getting the list of unindicted conspirators is now tuesday at noon. i wouldn't hold my breath. think we're going to get the list and find out who the unindicted co-conspirators are before trump announces his running mate? watch this space.

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we've been talking about how the supposed split in the republican party over donald trump being the nominee is basically a made up story. also how the idea that all republican incumbents are going to be vulnerable because donald trump is the top of the ticket. there's not much real evidence to support that. but, should also be said that having donald trump at the top of your ticket is not the only way that republicans can screw up elections they might otherwise expect to win this year. the big thing that democrats

really want to try to do this year other than hold on to the white house is the democrats really, really want to try to win back the senate. and the democrats think it's within their reach to win back the senate. part of the reason why they think it's within reach there is one democratic incumbent who is up for re-election who is seen as being in any danger of losing his or her seat. and that one potentially vulnerable is michael bennett in colorado. republicans want to take that seat, they want to flip that from blue to red more than any seat. republicans think that might be their only shot at picking up a senate seat this year. but they kind of seem to be blowing this race. in a way that at least so far has nothing to do with donald trump. first they had trouble with finding a candidate despite michael bennett's supposed vulnerability all of the republican party's top choices passed on the opportunity to take him on. then when republicans in colorado did find a candidate they liked, a state lawmaker john kaiser, they had trouble

getting him on the ballot. 86 signatures short when he filed to get on the ballot. missed it by that much. kaiser had to go to court to persuade a judge to put him on the ballot which the judge did. it was interesting the judge's argue summit that the signature requirement wasn't so hard and fast. it was really about stopping fraud, it wasn't just about stopping mistakes. so, a few signatureses short, legitimately by mistake, the judge decided no biggy, we'll let it slide. but then this week thanks to intrepid reporting from marshall zelinger at 7 news denver we learn there is another problem with the signatures that got him on the ballot. this is a doozie. >> someone who collected sikts turned in these petitions to help earn his spot in the race. and based on what i found there is a question on whether or not he actually has enough valid signatures to stay on the

ballot. >> did you sign that petition? >> no, sir. >> did you sign this petition? >> i did not. >> to be clear, did you sign that petition? >> no, i didn't. >> denver 7 identified more voters who confirm they did not sign these petitions to help former state representative jon keyser qualify for the ballot though their names addresses and signatures appear on these documents. >> someone forged your name. >> i think so. >> so first i don't curl my r's like that and my m's like that. there are no l's and my name is spelled incorrectly. >> rachel's signature has two problems, the first whoever printed her name spelled it incorrectly which should have been caught but wasn't. the second problem, that's not her hand writing. >> feel violated. >> someone forged your signature. >> yes. >> it's clearly not the way i sign my name. >> denver voter david keen did not sign the petition, compare his forged signature with the d

and k to this. his actual signature. six other voters who did not want to appear confirm these are not theirs. >> marshall zelinger, 7 news denver doing great amazing shoe leather reporting. when a candidate collects signatures to get on a ballot it's not unusual for some of those to be disqualified but it is unusual to have actual people whose signatures were forged speaking out on the evening news. now 7 news set up a handy tool so colorado voters can search the petitions filed for john keyser to get on the ballot to find out if they were forged too. the district attorney's office say they are reviewing the petitions keyser submitted. when he showed up yesterday he was over and over about these signatures. the reason he was asked over and over is because he refused to answer questions about it. he kept saying quote here's the important thing. i'm on the ballot. that's all he would say over and

over. in the forum and a follow-up jon key ser repeated that i'm on the ballot 13 times. it's true. the first ballots are due to be sent out tomorrow and jon keyser's name is on them. wow, this really is supposed to be the republican's best or maybe only shot at flipping a senate seat in the country this year. and their best shot is a candidate who didn't technically make it on the ballot and appears to have gotten there by blatant fraud and cannot answer a question about it to save his life. so you don't need donald trump at the top to screw things up for you. in the right race you can screw things up on your own. jordan and chelsea were searching for the perfect place for their wedding on booking.com. oh! yurt. yes! earthy... just rustic. [laughing] oh my gosh. wow.

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