display. republican nominee for president going after the popular republican speaker of the house. one-time presidential nominee, conceding that donald trump already lost this thing but trump himself remains undeterred admitting it's a rocky race but confident his die-hard base can get him there. to motivate them? more red meat. >> you have people that can't fix a budget, but then they start talking about their nominee. if they want to release more tapes saying inappropriate things, we'll continue to talk about bill and hillary clinton. lock her up is right. i may be limping across the finish line, but we'll get across the finish line. >> hillary clinton drawing nearly 20,000 people at a rally in ohio state university. our new poll shows the democrat is now expanding her lead among likely voters nationwide. her winning strategy seems simple. eyes head, but mindful there's

still plenty of time to trip and fall. >> we know who donald trump is but the real question for us, is who are we? this election is our chance to show who we are. if he wants to talk about what we've been doing the last 30 years, bring it on. >> early voting is now under way in more than a dozen states. election day, believe it or not, exactly four weeks from today. the best political team in the business standing by for us this morning. let's start with kelly o'donnell. kelly, let me read what trump just tweeted a few moments ago. a very weak and ineffective leader. paul ryan had a bad conference call where his members went wild at his disloyalty. why do this now, kelly o.? >> reporter: yes, i copy you.

>> we may be having trouble with kelly o. do we have her there? >> reporter: i'm here with you, craig. just ran across the street because got off the phone with a source. >> that kelly o. what did they tell us? anything we can use? >> reporter: all right. yes, i have a new statement from a source close to house speaker paul ryan. and here's what he tells me. paul ryan is focusing the next month on defeating. boy, let me do that again. paul ryan is focusing the next month on defeating democrats and all republicans running for office should probably do the same. in talking with sources, i am told that paul ryan has not conceded that donald trump is going to lose the election. that is not the position where he is. he believes that he and others in leadership in the republican party have the best chance of making an impact by focusing on house races, senate races, things like that and then trump

doesn't really want their help and they feel that they can be most effective in a more traditional lane of trying to get out the vote, trying to get donors on board, trying to get their sort of grassroots energy mobilized toward keeping a republican majority in the house and the senate. we know that the house has a wider margin but people are concerned that in the wake of all of this crisis around donald trump, they could lose that. so basically, what paul ryan's team is telling me this morning is that his focus has to be on the thing that he is directly responsible for, and that is the house republican conference. so the key point, he's saying, not conceding that donald trump is going to lose. we all know they don't have a good relationship. we all know there is a sort of on paper endorsement, but without the kind of back-up and support you would typically see. so this kind of move prompts from donald trump a new twitter storm and basically what paul ryan's team is saying,

republicans should focus on defeating democrats, period, stop, end of story. that's where we are right now. >> a lesser reporter would have begged the control room for a few minutes, just to catch their breath and make some notes. >> i dodged a little traffic too, don't tell anybody. >> kelly o. could have got a jaywalking ticket in indianapolis as well. before i let you out of here, you covered john mccain for some time. one of trump's most prominent detractors, if you will. he is in that tough spot for reelection. he got to debate his opponent last night. out in arizona. he was asked about the election. what did he say? >> reporter: well, this is a case where john mccain, who has tried very hard to be the kind of chain of command. long time navy family, military sensibilities, and that the chain of command in the republican party is you stand by

your nominee. he tried to hold to that, all the things play out. at this point, he described having a strong wife and daughters and associates around him and that he's hearing from them and recognizes and agrees that this is a point that despite donald trump winning fair and square is not someone he can support. so he will write in lindsey graham, an early presidential candidate, a close friend of john mccain and it's just hard to really capture how difficult it is for someone who has been the nominee, to reject a current nominee. not an easy thing to do, especially unlike mitt romney, john mccain on the ballot in november trying to win another term in the senate. almost an impossible place to be. don't want to offend the voters, those that like trump and trying to say, i'm a part of an organization which is the republican party and also trying to say that is behavior that is unacceptable. so that's where he is at this point. >> one more here, kelly o.

during our conversation, we appeared to have found ourselves in the middle of a donald trump tweetstorm here this morning. he's just tweeted again. i don't know if we can even pull it up on the screen just yet. if we can, do so. here's the tweet here. it is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and i can now fight for america the way i want to. we've got a trump surrogate here in just a moment. i' ask her precisely. any idea what that might mean, kelly o.? is that another paul ryan swipe or what? >> reporter: my first reaction to that is that there has been a lot of pressure on donald trump to try to work in a coordinated way with the rnc, reince priebus and paul ryan as the highest ranking republican official and because we know the sort of punch, counterpunch, if you're not with me, you're against me kind of attitude that donald trump displayed on twitter and in public that if he feels paul ryan is somehow working against

him, then he does not feel bound by the trappings, the apparatus of the republican party. at the same time, we know that his campaign is relying very heavily on the work that the republican party has done over time to build a ground game and research, all those sorts of things. i'm sure he'll get criticism for using the term "shackles." he's incendiary almost at every turn and people can dissect that but it would strike me just hearing that for the first time he's trying to say if the republican party as an organization is not embracing me, then i'm on my own. and so that could suggest he will do even more volatile things if the times require them and at the same time, he is still arguing that he can be a better candidate by getting his message out to voters. i was at events for mike pence over the last couple of days. a lot of energy in smaller rooms. around mike pence and talking to those voters, they are not

swayed by what has happened. we've seen that before with the most ardent supporters of donald trump who will wait in line to go out and see either him or not the main event, as mike pence described himself. so trump is prepared to go to war with the party, apparently. that would be my interpretation of that tweet. >> kelly o. indianapolis, indiana. thank you so much for your hard, hard work this morning. i appreciate it. let's bring in msnbc political analyst, host of the hugh hewitt show on the salem network. let's start with what appears to, again, be another trump tweetstorm here. 28 days out from election day and decided to get into a back and forth with paul ryan. again, this most recent tweet up just a few moments ago. so nice that the shackles have been taken off me. i can now fight for america the way i want to. any idea what that could mean, hugh? >> yeah, and good morning, craig.

i was listening to kelly. she's a very fine reporter. there are two interpretations. one that he is going to go to war with the republican leadership, but the other one and i think more plausible is that he believes that the attacks on him launched by the result of the videotape coming out have encouraged him to do what he did on the debate night which is to bring forward bill clinton accusers and victims and hillary clinton accuser and to just, he feels, as he said at the end of the first debate, he felt restrained and no longer restrained. we'll find out. i still believe that vis-a-vis the republican party and speaker ryan, more of a trial separation as opposed to an ugly divorce because paul ryan is not going to lose much by this but donald trump could go from 42% to 43% to 40% if he loses hardcore republican members. i've been looking closely at the reports of dissension in the republican caucus over speaker

ryan's decision. it's overstated. one of the most prominent and vocal critics, a fella named dana rorbaker. he was a congressman and a friend of mine from orange county for many years. dana almost got primaried last year and he's afraid of a primary, a former state rep in 2014. he is going to get primaried in 2018. he did a tactical move for his own advantage, looking for a rough republican primary in 2018. this is all tall weed stuff. but most people don't understand who don't live in the conservative movement in the republican party but the opposition of speaker ryan is really quite minimal and what speaker ryan is doing what he's been doing from the beginning. an effective and strong leader. the conservative policy positions of jack kemp, the opportunity society, he's going to be the leader of the

republican party for 20, 30 years. i think we tend to overstate in the media that the spat with donald trump, whatever it is, even if the tweet goes there, is in fact the incendiary bomb some would make it out. >> you would concede that while he won't publicly admit it, paul ryan knows that the man at the top of the ticket can't win this thing. so he's cutting his losses, and playing long ball here. you would concede that. it sounds like you would concede that. >> i won't. paul ryan did not concede the election. in fact, i got, i'm fairly close to the staff. i went on the call, haven't talked to the speaker since that but did not concede and he explicitly did not unendorse but retains the option of not endorsing if other shoes fall. wonderful john dickerson thinks he may have the closet full of shoes that would fall. and if that's the case, every republican will desert him.

but paul ryan did not unendorse and not running against donald trump. he has great affection for and understands the plight of many people who have come to donald trump because of the way obamacare, for example, has ruined their life. not only do you not to get your doctor but your second doctor or second plan and aware of what hillary clinton will do to the supreme court, libya, syria, and the loss of iraq. he's aware of all of that. he's going to keep his house majority which is 247 to188 right now. they're ahead in every single republican district where an incumbent is running according to greg walden a week ago. but i think the good news about this is it happens to the republicans early in the cycle and able to adapt and move forward. >> hugh, before i let you get back to your radio program, mexicans being rapists or murderers, the comments about judge curiel or the khan family, the muslim ban, the wall. a lot of folks doing all that stuff but all of the sudden over

the weekend, this tape surfaces and yourself and others. for you guys, this was a tipping point. i haven't talked to you since friday. why was this so much more of a big deal than some of the other stuff? >> it's a great question, craig. this is actual what we call an admission against interest. you could give the benefit of the doubt to donald trump on almost everything except the p.o.w. comment about john mccain and senator mccain himself forgave him. you could have an explanation for a first time candidate and the khan family could be put down to just being tenured about the loss of a brave american warrior. when you have on audio and video an admission against interests owned by the candidate, that's very different. i tell everyone to watch the movie "all is lost" by robert redford. try to stay afloat, deal with every disaster possible and the ship goes down.

i wrote, i think it's in his best interest, the interest of the country especially, the party, his family that he withdraw and i hope he will continue to do and think about that because i think mike pence will beat hillary clinton. she is such a terrible candidate and the threat she poses in my view to american liberty, freedom, and the appropriate role of government in our lives. >> hugh hewitt. 2 million people listen to this show. thank you for carving out some time for us this morning. meanwhile, nbc's kristen welker covers the clinton campaign for us. she's near the headquarters in brooklyn, new york. it would seem as if hillary clinton has a choice here. hit your opponent when he's down to rally the base or use it as an opportunity to attract some of the disenfranchised republicans fed up with trump. which is she doing? >> reporter: right now, she's doing both. i think that their choices, they'll try to do both at the same time. yesterday, she was campaigning in ohio and michigan, really

trying to energize and rally her base, as you say. trying to capitalize on this latest controversy with donald trump, essentially slamming his apology and his excuse for his lewd comments about women back in 2005. donald trump said it's nothing more than locker room talk. secretary clinton essentially saying that excuse is not good enough and even some professional athletes have come forward and said, they've never heard locker room talk like that. really trying to focus on the fact that this is offensive to many women. at the same time, the campaign out with new ads, testimonials by republicans, long time republicans who say they are now voting for secretary clinton. so i think they're still trying to reach out to those disaffected republican voters. now today, craig, the focus is on expanding her support within the democratic party. she's going to be campaigning for the very first time with her husband's former vice president, al gore, in the battleground state of florida and a triple

threat because of his work on climate change. they believe he'll help to win over the all-important millennial voters but also voters who consider third party candidates as well as progressives and of course, no one knows the importance of florida better than al gore. you'll remember the recall there back in 2000. the recount, i should say, craig. >> we'll spend some time down in miami talking about al gore's debut, if you will, today. kristen welker for us in brooklyn, new york, thank you. four weeks left and the hunt is on for those missing tapes from trump's time on "the apprentice." the show's creator said he's legally restricted from releasing them or is he? that's next.

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the tweetstorm continues here. donald trump posting this one during the commercial break. with the exception of cheating bernie out of the nom, the dems have always proven to be much more loyal. we have a campaign surrogate from the trump folks going to help shed light on that in just a few moments and the other two tweets that have come out in the past 30 minutes as well. meanwhile, efforts intensifying to find more damaging tapes on donald trump. "the huffington post" reporting it's obtained a transcript of a 2010 tape of "the apprentice" in which trump criticizes the skin of a woman who appeared on the show. nbc news is not independently authenticated the alleged transcript of mark burnett, the producer of "the apprentice" and doesn't have the right to release the footage. ari melber, chief legal correspondent. anything that's really stopping that would really stop mark burnett from putting this out?

>> legally, maybe. with so many other stories about donald trump, he has not proven to be very transparent or provided much evidence. the claim is that they have standing contracts, mgm basically with mark burnett that might prevent them. you might sign a confidentiality agreement with mr. trump, of course, the star and executive involved in the show that wouldn't allow you to release that. this goes to a bigger question with donald trump as he runs for president, craig, something often called the jay-z test who famously said, i'm not a businessman. i'm a business, man. and that's certainly the case with donald trump. he is a businessman but he has the trump organization. it's business activities. it's tax structure. it's corporate subsidies. it's dealings for decades have been intermingled with his personal life, his personal tax status and in this case, the personal candidacy for president. >> only ari melber could work

that into a segment on this. i really appreciate that. >> and one more point for fairness. it is also true from the fact there may be legalarriers here that someone runs a business or office doesn't want to release every private thing that's happened. critics could say she's not releasing the outtakes from all the e-mails, only because someone forced her hand. transparency doesn't just matter on a question of the law but what are the norms and the norms, you have private e-mails, private video, you have stuff that didn't air. maybe it stays private. >> the statement got in from mgm and mark burnett with our viewers and listeners, here's the statement. it reads in part, quote, mgm owns mark burnett's production company and the apprentice is one of the properties. despite reports to the contrary, mark burnett does not have rights to release footage or other material. contractual and legal requirements also restricts mgm's ability to release such material. that's the statement. >> all the statement is saying,

we're claiming it's not up to us and we, as journalists, can't verify whether that's true or not. we can fairly report it and "the apprentice" we know did air on nbc and they have the footage but the larger question, what various legal obligations? donald trump himself is prese preventing release of the videos, if that's the case, are they allowed to do that? the fact someone doesn't want it released doesn't mean there's something wrong but there's not transparency around the "business" here. >> all right, ari melber. get the dirt off your shoulders. trump supporters promising political payback. one of the biggest supporters takes a swipe at his facebook apology.

when mr. trump attacks women and demeans the women in our nation and in our society, that

is a point where i just have to part company. i had to withdraw my support, just as i cannot support hillary clinton. >> there's senator john mccain saying he would be writing in his buddy's name, lindsey graham. the latest republican defection from donald trump after the raunchy "access hollywood" video. joined, sarah huckabee. always good to see you, especially in the flesh. thank you for being with me. >> great to be here. >> let's start with this tuesday morning tweetstorm that we apparently are finding ourselves in the midst of. i think we can pull up one or two of mr. trump's most recent tweets this morning. i believe we have them. here's one. this is, we're scrolling up there. with the exception of cheating bernie out of the nom, the dems have proven to be far more loyal than the republicans. before that, it is so nice that the shackles have been taken off

and i can now fight for america the way i want. he's put up a couple here in the last 34, 45 minutes. let's start with the shackles. what does he mean by that? the shackles are now off. i want fight the way i want. >> i think this election has been all about change since the very beginning. you've got the -- >> that's one of the things it's been about. >> the ultimate outsider in donald trump. nobody can argue that he's a conventional politician or that he's a politician at all. he's going to come in and shake up washington and i think that scares people on both sides of the aisle. we had a dominance between the washington to wall street access of power. hillary clinton is a completely owned subsidiary of the special interests. donald trump isn't and one of the first politicians in a long time to really shake up washington and again, i think that scares a lot of people. >> paul ryan did tweet about paul ryan and had a bad

conference call where his members went wild at his disloyalty. 28 days out. how much can donald trump afford to lose the support of high profile republicans like john mccain, paul ryan, and technically, donald trump is the leader of the republican party. notwithstanding. >> that's because millions and millions of americans from all across the country have come behind him that didn't happen for paul ryan but it has happened for donald trump. he is the nominee, the leader of the party. >> why take that support from millions of primary voters and continue to squander ito recklessly and shamelessly by engaging in, among other things, engaging in a tweet fight with the speaker of the house? >> i don't think he's squandering but standing up for those people. again, he's going to go in and shake up washington in a way that no one has done or even been able to do because he can

come in, not controlled by special interests. this is a new thing for politics. and we haven't seen anything like that in decades. that's why so many people have come on board and are supporting donald trump. it's why he won the primary and it's why he's going to win in november. >> the last 45 minutes, glenn beck, you know glenn beck, another conservative, prominent conservative. this is what he said on vice news. take a listen. >> to vote for hillary. it has crossed my mind. i think donald trump is so unstable, so dangerous, that it has crossed my mind. >> the republican party is in such bad shape. considered. >> i have considered. i'm not going to. i'll vote for, his name is daryl, he's in the constitutional party candidate. >> that's glenn beck. i mean, if donald trump, that's glenn beck. he's calling donald trump

dangerous and unstable. >> that's pretty rich for glenn beck to call anybody unstable. you know, he's not exactly who i would look to as the beacon and leader of stability by any stretch of the imagination. look, again, this campaign has been about a grassroots movement from the beginning. that hasn't changed. that's what we are continued to be focused on. we're not looking to garner the support from a handful of washington elites but from everyday americans. again, that's why donald trump won the primary and that's why he's going to win the general election. hillary clinton is so out of touch with those people, which she's admitted herself now that we've seen some of her e-mails. this is who america is and that's why donald trump is going to win in november. >> before i let you go, i haven't had an opportunity to talk you since friday. you are a woman of faith. you have three children. how can you stand by and support a candidate who says some of the things we heard on that tape, in

good faith? >> i think the comments were disgusting. i think they were horrible. and i think that's why it was so important that he came out and apologized, not once, but twice. specifically, in his own words on the big stage in the very first moments of the debate. and look, i'm not going to defend those comments. >> the man who made the comments, how is that not defending the comments? >> he's admitted he's wrong. >> but -- >> look, in contrast, donald trump has said terrible things. hillary clinton has done far worse. saying and doing are very different. >> sarah, i hear what you're saying but if you say one thing and you apologize, okay. contrition, i get it. you say two things and you apologize but if you say a duozn things largely offensive to large swaths of the country and then a tape that surfaces where he uses language that is

december p despicable and disgusting and then say i'm standing by the candidate, it defies logic. >> hillary clinton has said the single most offensive thing when she called people deplorable and ir redeemable, the word irredeemable, it means you can't be fixed. hillary clinton said that about millions of americans. that's the most offensive thing that anybody said in this campaign, but even more than what she said, it's what she's done. the mistakes and the things she's done have actually cost americans their lives in benghazi. she put her national security at risk. those are things that are far more dangerous and threatening to our country and what completely disqualifies her. >> i always admire the fact that you show up for work. you show up for work. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. the path to 270 electoral votes. where does each candidate stand with just four weeks to go?

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because no one kls germs better than clorox. hillary clinton and donald trump will both be in the battleground, the critical battleground state of florida, looking to win that state and 29 electoral votes. joined by nbc's steve kornacki with more on the path to 270. we're getting a new four-way poll. >> this basically shows you what the damage was over the weekend with friday. this was the 48 hours after that. what we're going to get, very shortly here, is what happened after the debate. did this number start to shrink a little bit? that's what it looks like, at least after the 48 hours from the tape coming out. >> this is where we stand right now. >> so you see hillary clinton is a race to 270. awfully close right now. trump has a lot of work to do. florida, that's sort of where the action is today.

any state that's gray is like a toss-up roughly speaking. all must-win for trump at this point. that's not what was supposed to happen there. you think i would be better by this now. this is the latest poll out of florida and the trend in florida over the last couple of weeks has favored hillary clinton. there have been polls showing donald trump polling ahead out there. she has polled ahead in the last few weeks and this does not measure. if there was a big fallout because of that video, this doesn't catch it. this was before that. that's a problem for ump. he's got to win in florida. he's got to win in these other states too. >> president obama, his second trip by himself campaigning for hillary clinton, another key battleground state. pennsylvania. there's a lot of talk about pennsylvania. how does pennsylvania look right now? >> it's slipping away from donald trump even as a plausible target. we have it in blue here. donald trump was there just the other day and made a lot of noise about pennsylvania. the problem in pennsylvania, can't really zoom in but down here. it's philadelphia and the

philadelphia suburbs and the suburbs are an area and as we see in a lot of states across the area, the suburbs are an area where republicans traditionally have been competitive. the most recent poll out of pennsylvania though, a 36 point lead for hillary clinton in the suburbs of philadelphia. that's like four times what obama got. so if that's the margin in the suburbs, trump's not winning the state. >> ohio, we know that john kasich not backing trump. word over the weekend that rob portman, the senate candidate there, no longer backing trump. how is trump looking in ohio? >> same story in florida. september, this was looking like it would be a trump state. it was looking like an obama state that donald trump was going to flip. the most recent polls have shown hillary clinton polling ahead and again, if that videotape causes long-term permanent damage to trump, this is another state to slip away. if you're donald trump, you've got to win. again, that wasn't supposed to happen. you've got to win florida, carolina, you've got to win ohio. you're still not there even with the three but they are must-win and even doing that, still got

to get iowa, still got to get nevada. still not there. you see, new hampshire would do it. you need one other state on top of it but even before the video came out on friday. he was a steep hill already. >> steve kornacki, you can, of course, catch steve here every afternoon at 4:00 and on "the today show." he doesn't sleep. >> none of us do. >> that's true. sanders, biden. which member of the clinton campaign called chelsea, quote, a spoiled brat? what we've learned from the latest wikileaks revelations, the guy who co-wrote the "new york times" article joining me on the other side of this break. hey look, it those guys.

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>> donald trump with some red meat there yesterday taking aim at hillary clinton over the wikileaks release of those hacked e-mails from the campaign manager, john podesta. wikileaks released the third installment of the e-mails and this one from may of 2015 has to do with the clinton e-mail controversy. campaign spokesman brian fallon, on our air, writing, quote, a reminder that doj will be making its latest filing in this case later today, proposing a revised schedule for producing the e-mails. this time on a rolling basis, in accordance with the judge's order. now, this is important because at one point, brian fallon worked for the doj. i'm joined by nick comfasori. does this e-mail raise questions about whether it was appropriate

for the campaign to be in touch with doj, which was actively involved in litigation about releasing the clinton e-mails? >> reporter: look, craig. it's possible this came out of discussions between counsel for the clinton campaign and the state department. not sure we know at the top if it's inappropriate or breaks any rules. certainly, it shows that it was not an arm's length relationship. certainly, it shows that the state department was keenly attuned, i think, to the political consequence to the probe for hillary clinton and raises a question as to whether they thought the chief responsibility was to her or the public or to congressional people overseeing the state department. >> i want to read another one. working on possible slogans to set up her candidacy. neither change nor continuity she champions with clear vision. build not the partisans ships but rather the ship of state

flying the american dream flag. what? >> i don't know. it was gibberish. possibly in colorado the time he wrote it, i don't get it. you see her staff, at least, if not hillary clinton struggling to articulate who she was about and what her message would be and if it was change or continuity or experience and it does get, i think, what a lot of voters sense is the hollowness at the core of american politics. what are the candidates' actual beliefs and passions? you don't see a discussion of that. what's her record, what's her past positions and what's best for the election? >> you scour these things. any bombshells in there? >> i haven't found any bombshells yet, really. i would just say it's an extraordinary insight into how a modern campaign operates. the layers of discussion, the endless and interminable

discussion over seemingly small matters and every joke on the campaign trail is pretty much debated by a dozen aides beforehand. >> it was a bit of drama, behind the scenes, apparently, bill clinton douglas said, quote, chelsea clinton is acting like a spoil brat kid who has nothing else to do. what's that all about? >> it dates back to a time whdo ban, a long time aide to bill clinton, a lot of overlaps from the foundation and clients of the consulting business and some concerns in the foundation that his clients were getting certain kinds of access to clinton foundation events and so there was a desire by some to kind of clean that up and professionalize the foundation and clearly, doug band saw it as a threat to him personally and it sparked this intense and bitter debate between, you know, a man who has been called a

surrogate son for bill clinton and his actual daughter, chelsea clinton. you see them breaking out in a nasty way there. >> fascinating piece there, thk you, sir. my next guest is a clinton supporter, former senator from a state that hillary clinton cannot afford to lose. she'll join me after the break. red 97! set! red 97! did you say 97? yes. you know, that reminds me of geico's 97% customer satisfaction ring. 97%? helped by geico's fast and friendly claims service. hu..%? oh yeah, baby. geico's as fast and friendly as it gets. woo! geico. expect great savings and a whollot more. [baby talk] [child giggling] child: look, ma. no hands.

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presses ahead with just four weeks to go, 28 days. kay hagan. good to see you, senator. thank you for being with me. >> my pleasure. good morning, craig. >> have you tweeted at all this morning? >> i've just been reading donald trump's. obviously, just consumed with himself. narcissistic and just thinks the world revolves around him. >> let's talk though about something that did come out yesterday. these wikileaks, a revelation. what about this notion that you can have a public side and a private side on an issue, something that was revealed in one of the wikileaks revelations, not the most recent but the one before? >> you know, i think hillary clinton answered that during the debate when she talked about, you know, looking at abraham lincoln, realizing he wanted to get congress to work with him on the 13th amendment. and, you know, that's what that's about. you know, beingure that you

can really convince certain people o certain issues depending on who they are. >> trump on the offense last night dismissed the comments from 2005, essentially, dared the clinton campaign to find more. here's what he said. >> locker room talk. whatever you want to call it. if they want to release more tapes, saying inappropriate things, we'll continue to talk about bill and hillary clinton talking about inappropriate things. there's so many of them folks. >> is there more stuff out there? >> i don't think there needs to be more stuff out there. i think knowing him as the man that he is, we all know there's more stuff out there. but we have seen the most foul, foul mouthed individual who really thinks it's okay to grope women, to grope them in elevators, on the street. i mean, this is something that is to women. we've all experienced this, i

can guarantee you that and the fact this is now locker room talk and certain elected officials are forgiving him, it is not their duty to forgive him. what they need to do is he needs to apologize directly to the women. he needs to apologize directly to miss universe. he needs to apologize to the individuals that he has done this to. he needs to apologize to the individual on the most recent tape. that's who he should apologize to. and i think it is just disastrozas disastrous for his campaign. >> i want to ask you about the aftermath of the hurricane there. folks in my state, in south carolina, deeply affected. folks in north carolina as well, also affected. there's a federal judge down in florida that extended voter registration there. he's extended the deadline until at least wednesday after governor scott declined to extend the deadline. any idea whether that's going to have an impact on registration in north carolina? >> we did get the fourth circuit

court of appeals and the supreme court to allow the terrible law that our republican legislature put forward to do away with same-day registration. you can now in north carolina register to vote when you go to the polling booth on the day of the election which will help but i tell you, when you look at the devastation, when people are out of their homes, when all of their belongings are drenched, when they've got to figure out where they're going to be living, how they're going to have their houses, their apartments, their trailers renovated, we've got to be sure that everybody has the time, the transportation, the ability for polls to stay an open and then an opportunity to actually go out there and vote. >> senator kay hagan, thank you so much for your time. >> my pleasure. >> we'll be right back after a quick break.

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now and own a samsung galaxy note 7. shut it down. that's the guidance from samsung and federal regulators as well following repeated instances of the note 7s overheating. they have permanently stopped producing the latest smartphone. this includes the replacement phone for the mel we called just last month because its batteries were catching fire. at&t, sprint, t-mobile and verizon say they've stopped selling or offering the new replacement galaxy note 7. that's going to do it for me this hour. i'm craig melvin. my colleague, tamron hall, picks things up right now. >> all right, craig, thank you very much. right now on msnbc, just four weeks until election day, hillary clinton holds a double digit lead in our new poll. her biggest lead yet. and the gop pivots from the white house to the down ballot races. this as donald trump continues his fight against speaker paul ryan, tweeting, just in the last

hour, trump saying, the shackles are off. high powered surrogates out with secretary clinton. president obama for the first time and al gore campaigning with clinton. go to north carolina's flood zone. declared a federal state of emergency as the entire towns are evacuated in the wake of hurricane matthew and waters expected to rise even more. i'm tamron hall coming to you live from our msnbc headquarters in new york. this morning, donald trump is on a twitter tirade blasting house speaker paul ryan and dozens of other republicans no longer supporting him in the wake of the 2005 tape that was released. among trump's tweets, it is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and i can now fight for america the way i want to. earlier this morning, despi