group. thank you both. na is "all in" for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. what the heck happened today? >> one of those things where you had a show planned, i had a show planned. everybody had a night planned. i feel like there's a pretty good chance that we don't know who the republican candidate is for president by the end of this weekend. >> there's things that make me start to think that may not be so crazy. >> within the realm of the possible. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. as chris mentioned and as you may have heard, there's a lot going on right now. there's a lot going on this hour. there's a lot going on in the news tonight. of course, don't lose perspective. we are continuing to keep eyes on florida on the southeast atlantic coast as hurricane matthew continues its slow churn through that part of the country. the more information we get out of where matthew has been thus far, the more it seems clear that haiti is actually the place that has taken the most

devastating blow and it's one of the places on earth that can least afford something like this. we're going to be talking about that devastation later on in the show including how you can help if you're in a position to do so. we have details on the weekend, friday night, you're thinking ahead about your weekend, but part of your weekend planning does have to include sunday night. here we'll carry the second presidential debate live and without commercials. i should also tell you that the first presidential debate between donald trump and hillary clinton has now been subjected to the bad lip reading treatment. that's bernie sanders, that's not donald trump. but you know what i mean. there's bad lip reading of the first presidential debate. we've got that coming up this hour. but we need to start tonight, of course, with the new red hot relevance of a story that actually -- it feels like it came out a million years ago now because of everything that has happened this week and tonight.

but the story that is newly hot in terms of its relevance to the presidential campaign is a story that did just come out on monday. monday this week, the associated press published a story about the tv show called "the apprentice." ap spoke with nearly two dozen crew members and producers and former contestants from "the apprentice." some went on record and used their name. some would only speak on the condition of anonymity. speem signed nondisclosure statements. they didn't want to be caught breaking their nondisclosure agreements. but on the record and on background, the ap got a very large number of people who had been associated with that show over the years to talk about how donald trump behaved while he was the star and central figure in that reality tv show. and what they reported was not good. this was the lead from monday's story. quote, in his years as a reality tv boss on "the apprentice,"

donald trump repeatedly demeaned women with sexist language according to show insiders who said he rated female contestants by the size of their breasts and talk about which once he'd like to have sex with. a former crew member who signed a nondisclosure agreement and asked not to be identified recalled that trump asked male contestants whether they would sleep with a particular female contestant, and then he expressed his own interest. quote, we were in the boardroom one time and he just stopped in the middle and pointed to someone and said, you'd bleep her, wouldn't you? i'd bleep her. come on, wouldn't you? the quote continues. everyone's trying to make him stop talking and the woman is shrinking in her seat. then the allegation here from the associated press from the story on monday was not that this was something that happened in one of the shows that was broadcast and everybody's forgotten about it. it's not like the a prk dug up

old broadcast material that went down the memory hole. what they're saying in terms of this behavior, this is how donald trump behaved on set during the production of the show. they're saying this stuff never made air, it was never broadcast, but multiple, multiple, multiple witnesses saw it happen on the set of that tv show. now, "the apprentice" started running in 2004. it was broadcast on tv. the show was created by and produced by a tv production company that's called mark burnett productions. i should say even though we're msnbc and we're under the same corporate umbrella as nbc television, i should tell you i have no insider information here. i have no access via corporate connections or anything else to any inside line on this story. the reason that's relevant and the reason everybody now wants the inside line on this story, everybody wants one, again, i do not have one. the reason everybody wants access, not just to what was on

tv, but to the production material that went into making that show, the behind the scenes stuff, the stuff that was left on the cutting room floor. the reason everybody is looking for that now and gunning for that now is because of the fact that we shouldn't just have to rely on the statements of multiple people who were there and say they saw it happen. we shouldn't have to rely on the statements of the cast members and the people on set in order to check out for ourselves whether these allegations are true. in order to assess whether there really is evidence of donald trump's very bad behavior in a workplace environment. according to the associated press, this story they produced and published on monday, according to them, we should be able to see donald trump's sexist, lewd, borderline harassing workplace behavior because it happened on camera. we should be able to see the tape of it. they didn't broadcast it. but it reportedly exists. quote, in portions of boardroom

sessions never broadcast, trump frequently would ask male contestants to rate the attractiveness of their female competitors. according to former crew members and contestants. quote, if there was a break in the conversation, he would then look at one of the female cast members saying, you're looking kind of hot today. i love that dress on you. then he'd turn to one of the male ast cast members and say, wouldn't you sleep with her? then everybody would turn and laugh. that was from a crew member who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of a nondisclosure agreement. there would be 10 or 12 cameras rolling and getting that footage, which is why everybody was like, this guy just doesn't care. it feels like a million years ago that the associated press reported this story, but it was the beginning of this week. monday of this week. these allegations go to behavior in the workplace, right? this reality tv show thing, this was the last payroll job that

donald trump had. he's now running for a new payroll job which would make him the highest paid employee of the american people. right? it would make him the boss in charge of the entire u.s. federal government. and if in is the way that he behaved in the workplace in the past, it feels relevant in terms of we the american people deciding whether or not we want to hire him for his next gig, it feels relevant to know whether this is his workplace comportment. and it is vivid enough to have these quotes from people who were there, from people who also worked in that environment, for people who were in a position to see it, right? this is vivid enough. everyone's trying to make him stop talking. and the woman is shrinking in her seat while trump points at her and said, you'd f her, wouldn't you? i'd f her. come on, wouldn't you? the woman shrinking in her seat. it's vi it's vivid enough to read these allegations. but if these things happened when 10 or 12 cameras were

running? the if conceivably he's going to be the next president of the united states, any tape of him behaving that way would suddenly seem to be very, very important. it would seem to be of great civic importance. now, when this ap story first came out on monday and since, nbc has referred requests for comment to the production company that actually made the show. they've referred requests for comment to mark burnett productions. when the associated press went to mark burnett productions and asked if they could review the raw footage in question to verify these claims mark burnett productions reportedly did not respond. we've renewed calls to the production company. they wouldn't even give us a no comment. they gave us nothing at all. but if this story, this ap story from monday, if this was lurid and newsworthy and basically hot to the touch on monday, it is now, as of tonight, become

absolutely scalding because tonight corroborating reporting about donald trump's workplace behavior. "washington post" obtained and published online tonight a tape of donald trump in a different television environment sounding very much like the person these former "apprentice" employees described in this ap story on monday. the tape "the washington post" released tonight is from 2005. it is donald trump in los angeles on his way to tape a scene for a soap opera. he arrives a the set of the soap opera on a bus that has a big vinyl wrap on it for the show "access hollywood." he was on the bust with one of "access hollywood's" hosts and staffers for the shoot. but it seems clear that at least donald trump maybe neither donald trump nor billy bush, the "access hollywood" host he was speaking to, it seems that neither one of them may have been aware that they were being recorded. but they were.

they had microphones on. the tape was recording. it's their voices. no one is denying it was them. you heard this tape today. if it rings a bell for you, if hearing donald trump speak this way -- speaks this way, connects for you, resonates for you, it may be that you happened to read that ap story earlier in the week about how donald trump allegedly talked about women on the the set of "the apprentice." so here goes. there will be a lot of bleeps here. >> the thing is -- >> i moved on her, actually. she was down in palm beach. i move pd on her and i failed. >> whoa. >> i'll admit it. she was married. no, nancy. >> gorgeous. >> and i moved on her very heavily. i took her out furniture shopping. she wanted to get furniture. i'll show you where there is nice furniture. i moved on her like a bitch. she was married.

now she's got these phony [ bleep ]. >> she's your girl's hottie in the purple. >> whoa. >> yes, the donald has scored! oh, my man. wait, wait. you give me the thumbs up. >> you are a [ bleep ]. >> you got to get the thumbs up. >> you and i will walk in. >> maybe it's a different one. >> it better not be the publicist. no it's her. >> yeah, that's her with the gold. i better use some tic tacs just in case i start kissing her. you know i'm automatically attracted to beautiful -- i just start kissing them. it's like a magnet. and when you're a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. >> whatever you want. >> grab them by the [ bleep ]. you can do anything. >> those legs. all i can see is the legs. >> no, it looks good.

>> come on, shorty. >> nice legs, huh? >> oof, get out of the way, honey. go ahead. >> it's always good if you don't fall out of the bus. like ford, gerald ford, remember? >> down below. pull the handle. >> after "the washington post" obtained that video and published it at their website tonight, the clinton campaign put out a two-sentence, 11-word statement in response to the video. this is the clinton campaign response. quote, this is horrific. we cannot allow this man to become president. that was their entire statement. the trump campaign put up their own statement as well. they are not denying this is mr. trump's voice on the tape or that he said any of these things. this was locker room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago. bill clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course, not even close. i apologize if anyone was

offended. the trump campaign and the candidate hips mself so far not elaborating on what mr. trump means by bill clinton or if there are tapes of bill clinton talking this way or worse to donald trump. that's what the campaign is alleging but they've done nothing to substantiate that claim. and there is a little bit of a mystery here. an interesting whodunit in terms of how this tape got out there. it doesn't seem all apparent that they knew they were being recorded. in a statement tonight, "access hollywood" tells us they reviewed their extensive library footage and discovered these comments, mr. trump. as for "the washington post," we don't know how they obtained this material or from either of these source, we don't know whether there's more where that came from. but when the story about the apprentice came out monday, donald trump did flatly deny

that story. the quotes about him rating women by their breast size and saying who he wanted to sleep with and demanding that men tell him in front of specific women if they wanted to sleep with that woman. and saying whether or not he wanted to sleep with that woman, sort of forcing people to engage with him on that subject while the woman sat there and shrunk in her chair. these outlandish, unsubstantiated and totally false claims were fabricated by publicity hungry, opportunistic, disgruntled former employees, and they have no merit whatsoever. and that's a categorical denial. the production company that holds the tapes that would prove whether or not that denial is accurate, they so far are refusing to answer any questions whatsoever. not only are they not releasing any footage they have, they're not answering questions, they're not commenting, they're not even not commenting, they're not even

saying no comment, just nothing. they're pretending like they don't exist. if the man that republican party has nominated to be president of the united states of america has behaved this way in a workplace environment rjs not just once but a lot over a period of years and there is a record of it, an incontrovertible taped record of it, that's really important information for the american people to have. as we are now deciding whether his next paid workplace environment should be the white house. again, i have no inside line at nbc. all right. in the case of "the apprentice" the production company that created that series is apparently who would have that footage if it exists. today they would not return our call. but that's where we are two days from the next presidential debate with the candidate not denying that it's him in this tape bragging about trying to get a married woman to sleep

with him, though that's not the phrase he used. also bragging that when you're a star, you can get away with anything. when it comes to women, you can grab them by the crotch, although again that's not the phrase he used. and this is the cover of the "new york daily news" for tomorrow. just going to let this curdle the pixels on your television for just a moment. here's when a newly married trump said he'd like to do to attractive women he meets. grab them by the -- on the bottom there it says now he's trying to blame bill clinton for it. one of the high profile political events that got canceled this weekend because of the storm in the southeast was a planned appearance by donald trump's running mate mike pence in north carolina. he's supposed to campaign tomorrow in north carolina. mike pence, of course, famously calls himself -- his standard political line is that he's a christian, a conservative and a republican, in that order. when this story first broke at "the washington post" mike pence

was traveling in ohio, at a hot dog restaurant doing an event with his usual array of traveling press. a reporter started hearing this news about this news from the donald trump tape and the way he talked about women on this tape and what he could get away with from women because he's a star and how he likes to grab them and where, the pence press pool, when that story came out, they were reportedly dismissed from this event. we don't know exactly what happened. and the pence campaign is now saying what happened in this ohio hot dog place that has nothing to do with the donald trump story in "the washington post" and whether or not mike pence wanted to comment on it, but this is how it was written up at the time by the pool reporter who was following mike pence. quote, a pence staffer, after leading the press pool further into the restaurant, appeared to grow suspicious of the press pool, which had been looking down at its phones and chatting. the pool did not address the trump stories at all, but the pence staffer then left the press pool to head to the back of to restaurant where pence and other aides were. upon returning, the staffer said

the press pool needed to leave. so the press traveling with mike pence, they're all at this restaurant. they're expecting to be able to cover on camera mike pence viewing a hot dog bun that donald trump had previously signed at this restaurant. that's the thing they do. they were going to have a cute on-camera moment with mike pence and the press traveling with him and the donald trump-signed bun. but once this story broke about trump's comments broke on tape, a pence staffer apparently told the traveling press to beat it. quote, presence would no longer be going to view the signed bun and instead would go directly to i had campaign bus. how does a religious right, pious, conservative, family values guy like mike pence handle this new development with his running mate, right? donald trump has confirmed on the record that those were his comments. mike pence will not be able to avoid commenting on this matter by insisting that donald trump never said these things. it's on the record. trump confirmed it himself.

he did it. he said this stuff. that next campaign event for mike pence tomorrow in north carolina was canceled because the pence campaign booted their reporters today. we don't know when mike pence will first have to comment on these new revelations, but i think it is fair to say we can expect some interesting moral gymnastics on the subject tomorrow from any number of republicans. house speaker paul ryan takes a lot of the same approach to these issues that mike pence does. he has the political misfortune to make his first joint campaign appearance with donald trump tomorrow in his home district in wisconsin. that had been the plan as of today. any questions for the speaker? mr. speaker, mr. trump, could you two please stand together? could we get a picture of the two of you together. would you hold your hands together and raise them up. speaker ryan did you view "the washington post" last night? they are slated to do a campaign

event in paul ryan's district tomorrow. two things have happened. since actually since i've been speaking tonight, since i've been on the air, since 9:00 p.m. eastern, two things have happened. number one, paul ryan has just released the following statement which was just handed to me. quote, i am sickened by what i heard today. women are to be championed and revered, not objectified. i hope mr. trump treats this situation with the seriousness it deserves is and works to demonstrate to the country that he has greater respect for women than this clip suggests. in the meantime, he's no longer attending tomorrow's event in wisconsin. the other thing that's happened since i started speaking at the top of the hour is that we've learned that donald trump will not be attending this event tomorrow with paul ryan in wisconsin. the reporter who broke this story joins us next. for lower back pain sufferers,

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look at the woman in the center of the photo. this woman so psyched to see president obama she is going to burst. at with his time in office coming to an end, you have to think voting for his successor must be a bittersweet thing for president obama today. but even bittersweet, it's still going to be a better time today than the day on the trail that this guy's had. >> did donald trump apologize for his inappropriate comments? >> governor, how can you avoid

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>> did donald trump apologize for his inappropriate comments? ♪ >> vice presidential candidate mike pence not taking questions tonight from reporters on his running mate's comments on the set of "access hollywood" in 2005. a tape of that being made public tonight. donald trump had been scheduled to do a campaign appearance tomorrow in wisconsin along with house speaker paul ryan. that has now been called off. donald j. trump has put out a statement, a written statement just within the last couple of minutes. quote, governor mike pence will be representing me tomorrow in wisconsin. i'll be spending the day in new york in debate prep with rnc chairman reince priebus,

governor jeff sessions and then flying to st. louis on sunday for the second president ap debate. hallie jackson has reported tonight that mike pence was expected to hear -- appear with trump tomorrow in wisconsin along with house speaker paul ryan and republican party chairman reince priebus. we know now that pence will be there, ryan will be there, but priebus and trump will be together in new york. a tough time for any republican right now to be standing up alongside their party's standardbearer especially now that donald trump has confirmed that that was him on the tape that was published tonight at the "post." reince priebus did put out this statement tonight in response to the tape. quote, no woman should ever be described in these terms the or talked about in this manner. ever. but his party's presidential candidate did talk about women that way, and now party chairman reince priebus will apparently be hunkering down and spending the day with donald trump tomorrow in order to get him ready for his sunday night

debate. people like reince priebus and house speaker paul ryan and presidential candidate mike pence and everybody other republican whose name will be on the ballot in any capacity this year, they now have to decide if they do want to share a stage with him. in some cases that's not a hypothetical, not something to wonder about, it's as soon as tomorrow. it's a question about how long that concern is going to continue to keep breaking like waves in the republican party. the man who broke the story tonight at "the washington post" is david farenthold. he's been doing incredible shoelshoe leather work. he's on to much seamier stuff. congratulations on the scoop. >> thank you. >> i know you won't tell me how you got it, but what can you tell me about how you got to this story. >> basically nothing. we obtained the tape, and then i can't say much about it.

>> nbc or "access hollywood" and nbc said they were working on their own version of this story. you certainly scooped them with their own tape. was there any difficulty, was there any question from the trump campaign as to whether or not they would confirm that this was trump? did they give you any pushback that maybe this wasn't him or this had somehow been mistaken? >> i september thent them, firs just a transcript of the tape. this is what we got off the tape. can you look at this and tell me it's authentic. it doesn't sound like mr. trump. can you send us the whole video? we sent them the whole video. and they pretty much got back to us pretty quickly in which donald trump said it was him and it was locker room banter and he's heard worse from president clinton. >> in terms of that reference to bill clinton saying that he's heard worse from bill clinton on the golf course, has the trump campaign put any meat on those bones? are they actually making a

counterclaim or some sort of specific allegation against bill clinton or is that as far as they've gone in terms of trying to turn this on to him? >> it's the most that i've seen, just that one statement. unless they're saying that donald trump learned these words in first place from bill clinton, i don't see how they can say that bill clinton caused this or was somehow responsible for what trump said on that bus. >> one of the reasons that this is red hot is -- i mean, not just because of what it is, itself, which i think is going to be a really big deal regardless of context. but part of the context here is this associated press story that came out on monday describing donald trump behaving on set repeatedly over a period of years at the "apprentice" at his reality tv show in ways that would seem consistent with what was on this tape. i don't know if you have any comment on that or if there's any sense from you as a reporter as to whether or not that associated press story, any tape

that might be associated with those allegations will ever make its way into the public view. >> that's a good question. i wrote a story about trump's time on the celebrity apprentice this summer where he promised to give people money from his own pocket and then gave them other people's money, then the experience as the one you just described, absolutely no response from mark burnett's production company that made "the apprentice." not a no comment but a lack of response at all. >> when you were asking them, did you have reason to believe that they would have relevant footage? part of what we're trying to find out if there's a bank of unused unbroadcast footage that would corroborate what people who worked on that show say. we're all presuming that the production company would have that. do we have any reason to know if that's true? >> i don't know. apparently nbc which broadcast the show, i thought they'd have

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imt automatically attract to beautiful -- i just start kissing them. like a magnet. and when you're a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. >> whatever you want. >> grab them by the [ bleep ]. do anything. >> the presidential campaign continues to be rocked tonight by this tape of donald trump that has surfaced at "the washington post," there are a couple of things that we can now report in this developing story both in terms of how the story came to be and the ongoing reaction to it. first, there's an interesting origins story from this tape. we just heard from david farenthold, the reporter that broke the story at "the washington post" that he can't talk about how he got the tape. we do know the tape was made during the production of a segment for "access hollywood." it was not nbc that released the tape. it did somehow make its way to david farenthold at "the washington post" and that story is yet to be told. "access hollywood" did do their own report on this tape tonight. and they included in their report some context of sort of

when and how, what was going on, when donald trump made these comments, who was around when he said these things. and also where the tape came from. watch. >> "access hollywood" has interviewed mr. trump hundreds of times over the past 20 years. in the course of reporting on mr. trump we have reviewed much of our own footage. in 2005 when donald trump came to los angeles for the emmy awards for his nominated show "the apprentice," he was also invited to spend the day as a soap opera star on "days of our lives." former anchor billy bush picked up mr. trump in hur bus at the beverly hills hotel. we brought him to meet up with one of the stars of the soap opera. during the trip to the lot, billy interviewed mr. trump about his role on the soap op rancht well, the people at nbc asked me to do it. i'm here in los angeles. it's fun to do. i didn't want to do it.

and then, you know, and i asked melania is it okay because the place is loaded up with beautiful women from what i understand. so she said, it's okay. >> what if she said it wasn't okay? >> i would have absolutely not done it. >> we tell you all the logistics so you understand the context. there were seven other people on the bus with mr. trump and billy bush at the time. they were the two-person camera crew, the bus driver, an "access hollywood" producer, a production assistant, mr. trump's security guard and a pr person. our camera crew was let off the bus so they could record mr. trump getting off and meeting the soap opera star. what you're about to hear is what mr. trump said about former "access hollywood" anchor nancy o'dell to billy bush. >> i moved on her, actually. she was down in palm beach. i moved on her and i failed, i'll admit it. she was married. >> then they played the whole tape, which you've now heard.

access hollywood saying in addition to the host, billy bush, to whom mr. trump was speaking, he was on a bus that had five other people on it. a bus driver, an access hollywood producer, a production assistant, a pr person and a security guard. access hollywood also gave us a statement tonight. they said, access hollywood, as they mentioned in the report there, has interviewed donald trump literally hundreds of times over 20 years. with mr. trump's nomination as presidential candidate, access hollywood reviewed its extensive library footage and discovered these comments. after access hollywood discovered these comments, it's still not clear how they got to "the washington post" before access hollywood could report them themselves. it's not clear if access hollywood has more of this material on trump or if anybody does. the production company that makes the apprentice, that i now under renewed pressure to

release their un-broadcast footage on that show after the allegation that he made repeated aggressive and lewd comments on camera on the set of that show about female cast members and even about one camera operator. a couple of things to tell you about the response to this tonight. the clinton campaign put out a written statement calling the tape horrific. we mentioned that earlier in the show. but i should also tell you that the clinton campaign has now put out a video. and at first, when you see they put out this video, it looks like them just repurposing the video from access hollywood and that's how it starts but they moved fast to cut these comments in among other things that donald trump has said. >> and when you're a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. there has to be some form of punishment. >> for the woman? >> yes. >> he shook his finger at me and he screamed you're disgusting and he ran out of there. >> i really think it's a bad

idea to put your wife working for you. i don't want my wife shouting at somebody like that. a softness disappeared. she became an executive, not a wife. a fat ugly face. >> roe versus wade and signed to the ash heap of history where it belongs. >> then i have days where i come home and dinner's not ready, i go through the roof. must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees. >> the clinton campaign tonight putting these new comments from donald trump just released at "the washington post" website tonight putting them against emages of women phone banking and volunteering to elect hillary clinton. former republican presidential nominee mitt romney said this tonight on twitter, hitting on married women, condoning assault? such vile degradations demean our wives and daughters and corrupt america's face to the world. another one-time republican presidential candidate jon huntsman saying tonight that this tape at "the washington

post" means that donald trump should drop out of the race. and that mike pence should take over the campaign. as i reported just moments ago, yamiche alcindor from "the new york times" says just within the last few minutes that a source has told her that republican party officials are meeting in d.c. to discuss what options the party has going forward in case donald trump is not the nominee, in case they remove him as their presidential candidate. yamiche alcindor from "the new york times" i believe we have her now, joins us. i appreciate this on short notice. >> heigi, how are you? >> what can you tell us about what's happening at the republican party and their reaction to this tape? >> the person i talked to said they were discussing options in case donald trump stepped down. the person who i talked to says there's nowhere in the rules that they would be removing donald trump. this is not saying that the rnc is somehow weighing whether they'd remove donald trump. this person saying in case he steps down, officials are

concerned how do they go forward? what does this mean for the party? from my understanding, the head of the rnc was talking to officials there trying to basically figure out what they would do. the mood there is very chaotic. people are nervous about what not only happened today but the fact that we have four more weeks in this election and they worry about whether there are other tapes that will come out. >> just to be clear, we all understand the rnc rules, there is no way for the party to oust him as their nominee because he is formally their nominee and they went through with that. but you're saying that they're in discussions for what to do in case he voluntarily elects to step down, he decides to step down on his own? >> yes. a source told me that in case he voltaiuntarily steps down, they trying to talk about what they're going to do, how they would handle that and whether this is something he would even want to consider. but this person has not talked to anyone within the trump campaign, this is not the rnc

going out and reaching out to the trump campaign and saying what are you going to do now? this person said he had no idea what was going on in trump tower, but at the rnc, they were preparing for the worst. >> if there's any discussion or if you've heard any discussion within the republican party that the rnc may formally ask him to step down as the party's nominee. obviously, it has to be his decision, but they could call for him to do so. >> i have not heard anything like that. to my understanding, the person i talked to did not at all say that they were preparing to ask him to do that or they would consider asking him to do that because obviously early voting has started. the party does not go out and ask him to step down. so from my understanding, that was not a discussion that they were having at this time. >> yamiche alcindor at "the new york times." thanks for calling in. i appreciate your reporting on this. >> okay, thanks. >> rnc officials discussing options in case donald trump

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