that wraps us up for the hour of the week. i'm stephanie ruhle. be sure to join me on "weekend today" and this guy, my friend, craig melvin. >> thank you, stephanie, as always. coming up, breaking news this hour on msnbc. 25 days to go until the election and nbc political unit out with this new battleground map. the second presidential debate. look at where this race stands right now. the states in some shade of blue for hillary clinton, red for donald trump, orange for toss-up. hillary clinton, as you can see, 287 electoral votes, more than the 270 needed to win the white house and the reason? right here. georgia. utah. arizona.

all of them have been moved out of donald trump's column and into the toss-up column. meanwhile, new hampshire, north carolina, those are hillary clinton's now. what's causing this shift? for one, democrats and republicans agree on at least one thing. both sides insist america is at a moment of reckoning and the candidates and party leaders offering the starkest contrast to date. >> imagine how you'll feel if you stayed home or if you didn't do everything possible to elect hillary. >> don't act like this started with donald trump. i mean, he did take it to a whole new level. >> i know it's a campaign, but this isn't about politics. it's about basic human de seced. >> he didn't come out of nowhere. that's why we have to win this electi election. >> no one deserves the kind of abuse.

>> also this morning, donald trump promising to release evidence today, perhaps in a few hours, disproving those reports by seven women alleging inappropriate contact. >> the claims are preposterous and defied common sense and logic. i will not allow the clinton machine to turn our campaign into a discussion of their slanders and lies. we already have substantial evidence to dispute these lies, and it will be made public in an appropriate way and at an appropriate time, very soon. >> so two of the female accusers you'll remember told their story to "the new york times." trump's lawyers immediately fired off a letter demanding a retraction but "the times" responding, nothing in our article has had the slightest effect on the reputation of mr. trump, through his own words and

actions already created for himself. if mr. trump disagrees, we welcome the opportunity to have a court set him straight. another busy friday morning here. the best in the political busy ready to go. peter alexander is covering the trump campaign. peter, let me start with you. this evidence that trump says he has to debunk these accusers. what do we know about this evidence? >> reporter: let's start with the source of this information. right now, it's mike pence. not the source of how to debunk him but the source of the fact that's the strategy of this moment. he did the rounds on morning television including with us on nbc news, "the today show" and here's what fueled everybody's expectations and we'll hear more in the coming hours. take a listen. >> i think it's coming. and it's coming in, frankly, probably in a matter of hours. i know that melania trump through her attorneys reached

out to one of the you believe kag publications. >> it's showing us evidence. >> well, just, you know, stay tuned. there's more information coming forward. >> he said stay tuned and we wait for that new information as donald trump and mike pence just a short time ago left a fundraiser in new york city. they will campaign today but the reporting from the "wall street journal" may give us a preview of what the expected effort is today. they'll claim carlos slim part of the secret effort to dredge up these decades old allegations against donald trump that he touched women inappropriately. there you can see slim. he is a "new york times" shareholder and a clinton foundation donor. the thought being according to the journal's reporting from a trump advisor that slim, in effect, was trying to hurt donald trump and help his friend, hillary clinton here. the clinton campaign responded directly to the journalist's

reporting said it was a deranged right wing conspiracy theory. what's important to note, at this time, we wait to see what this announcement is that mike pence was, in effect, teeing up a little bit earlier but if it were to be about carlos slim accusing him of dredging up these things, he's generally viewed as a well respected international businessman but more importantly, it doesn't get to the heart of the accusations, the allegations them self and i think that's what people are waiting to hear as he tried to debunk those allegations at their root. >> slim telling "the wall street journal" a short time ago, perhaps it was late yesterday, he's not even involved in mexican politics. not even american politics. peter alexander, national correspondent for us in washington, dc on this friday morning, thanks as always, sir. let's turn to msnbc's political correspondent kasie hunt covering hillary clinton and the democrats for us, kasie. the first lady getting a lot of

attention for the speech thursday. beyond the speeches, how's the clinton campaign planning to use the first couple as we approach three weeks into the election now? >> reporter: even bill clinton suggesting that michelle obama's speech yesterday was the the best speech any democrat has given over the course of this campaign. you know, the clinton campaign, what happened with michelle obama yesterday, they didn't necessarily orchestrate it. clinton aides telling me that the interest in making a speech that was as personal as the one michelle obama gave really came from her herself. it was a statement that she felt she needed and wanted to make. of course, her husband as well on the campaign trail on thursday in ohio. he was campaigning for democratic senate candidate ted strickland who's running against rob portman, the republican senator from ohio. portman is very well ahead in

that race. so you asked, what does the first couple do going forward? i think for the president, protecting his legacy which is what he said multiple times is his goal here involves not just getting hillary clinton elected but also doing some work to try to put the senate in democratic hands because ultimately, they'll need that if they want to try and actually get things done going forward if a president hillary clinton is going to crack deals with capitol hill, they'll need more democratic senators and strickland is very far behind but at the same time, the president was out there saying, rob portman is a guy who stuck by donald trump until he said those things on that "access hollywood" tape in two2005 and you've seen a distinction made between trump and the republicans but now the president is making the argument. these guys stood by this man and it's only now they're rejecting him? >> hillary clinton got laughs on

ellen, talking about the second debate and one of the more awkward moments with donald trump. here's that clip from ellen. >> he was really trying to dominate and then literally stalked me around the stage and i would just feel this presence behind me. i thought, whoa, this is really weird. >> what do we know about how clinton is preparing for the final debate in las vegas? >> reporter: an interesting moment, one of the few times that hillary clinton has opened up a little bit about, you know, kind of the body language, sim bee yac simbiotics. we know she has put an incredible amount of time and energy into preparing for these debates. her team feels though it's paid off and she's going to be preparing some on sunday.

she doesn't have campaign events. we expect her to be hunkered down for that one and the format, of course, traditional for this debate. not the town hall setting we saw in the second one. we'll see them back, not necessarily physically interacting with each other the way she talked about in that clip on ellen. craig? >> kasie hunt for us there covering the clinton campaign in las vegas. kasie, thank you. another woman has come forward with allegations of inappropriate behavior by donald trump. her name is lisa, she's an entrepreneur and told "the huffington post" she was present as trump paraded women in front of their table, looked under women's skirts and commented on whether they were wearing underwear. trump spokesperson telling the huffington said the story was a fabrication and mr. trump never heard of this woman and would never do that. nbc news has also reached out for comment. we have not received a response just yet but i want to bring in

molly riley. deputy politics editor for "the huffington post." what can you tell us about these latest allegations? >> lisa reached out to me after the other allegations against donald trump and she recalled a dinner in 1996 in manhattan where donald trump and john cwet and requested the models walk across the table and according to bayne, he would glance up and comment on their underwear, things like that. and she became very uncomfortable and decided to leave the dinner at that point. and she told a couple people about this. at the time, she said she told her roommate, her sister, but she largely stayed quiet about it until this tape came out last week of the 2005 comments where he was boasting about sexual assault and kissing women without their consent and she felt compelled to speak out. >> why did she say that she was

coming forward now? is it just because she read the other articles that had been written? >> partially that and also, seeing the tape and donald trump's response during sunday's debate where he denied ever acting on the things he said in the tape, he said it was just locker room talk, chatter, he would never do those things and lisa and other women who have come forward since the debate said this is inconsistent with their experiences with mr. trump. so she felt that she needed to say something now, that she could help empower other women to come forward with similar experiences. >> did you talk to anyone else at the dinner? >> yes, i talked to sony morgan who confirmed he was at the dinner and people were on the tables but didn't remember anything untoward from donald trump. >> molly ryan, from the huffington post, thank you for coming on to share your reporting with us and again, we should note here, nbc news reached out to the trump campaign for comment about this

latest allegation. we have not heard back just yet. molly, thank you. about an hour from now, president obama will return to the campaign trail for hillary clinton. chris jansing's battleground america tour continues from what is probably one of her favorite cities in this country. cleveland, ohio, ahead of president obama's visit. she has an exclusive look this morning behind the scenes. chris, what are we expecting from the president this morning and where are you right now? >> reporter: fire. i'm on the shores of lake erie and the president is coming here because this is a key battleground state. they're running neck and neck here. you've seen the latest polls. and just a couple of weeks ago, there was talk about whether or not the clinton campaign would actually abandon ohio. now both the white house believes that they can help put her over the line and she believes she can win here. i'm standing in a place you usually don't get to see when we come to a presidential event.

this is where the press is going to come in when the president arrives in about 45 minutes from now, he'll be taking a motorcade in that direction and overnighted here after a speech in columbus yesterday. the tv cameras ready to go. if we could take a look up on the ridersers, you could see th local tv cameras here and somebody is going to have something else today. her name is jackie larkins, a local businesswoman. she owns a coffee shop, not far from here in south euclid and you are going to be introducing the president of the united states. >> amazing, right? >> reporter: what are you feeling like right now? >> i'm feeling a little nervous and sighted and very honored. >> reporter: you have a coffee shop to allow them to use it as a phone bank but what really precipitated, you think, iss an e-mail you wrote. >> i wrote an e-mail to the

campaign because i wanted to help and i simply said in the e-mail, i'm a woman. i'm african-american. i am a retired navy vet and i'm a small business owner and i'm with her and i want to help. >> reporter: have you met a president before? >> i met bill clinton at a book signing once. when he was here in cleveland several years ago when he released his book. >> reporter: what are you going to say to the president when you see him? >> i have no idea. i don't. i guess it will come to me, you know, in the spur of the moment, but i'm definitely going to tell him how honored i am to be a part of this whole thing. >> reporter: thank you very much, jackie. good luck. it was nice of her to come here because she's got to go backstage and prep for this. look, how is this affecting what we're going to see? this is all about get out the early vote. they're already voting here in cleveland and across ohio. as you know, craig. and there's a lot of anticipation that the first lady may come here as well because

she was, ohio was on an initial list of places that they thought they would have her come. obviously, that gets the crowds, that gets the democratic base really fired up and that enthusiasm that there was concern about, they believe they could bridge that gap and we're going to talk about it a little later. part of the exclusive access is going to be backstage with david semus after the president gives his talk here today about what's going to make a difference in this election. >> that should be interesting because david does not do a lot of television. chris jansing, thank you. jackie, thank you as well, and good luck to you. an unprecedented week in presidential politics, folks. 9,000 e-mails hacked and leaked from the clinton campaign. and the inappropriate conduct with a number of women. i'll talk to lisa bloom

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seven women have accused donald trump of inappropriate behavior since his lewd comments during the taping of the "access hollywood" segment that was made public literally one week ago today. donald trump and his campaign have denied the allegations. >> the claims are preposterous, ludicrous, and defy truth, common sense, and logic. we already have substantial evidence to dispute these lies and it will be made public in an appropriate way and at an appropriate time, very soon.

>> and again, we should note this promised evidence according to mike pence could be coming here in a few hours. attorney lisa bloom, the attorney for joe hearth who accused trump of unwanted advances in a 1997 lawsuit. it's always good to see you. thank you for coming by. >> good morning. >> let me start with your reaction to trump's comments there. >> it's very hurtful to jill hearth when he makes comments like that at a rally and the reason she came out publicly to tell her story, and the first woman to do that using her name and her face, talking about what had happened to her, it was because he had previously called her a liar in response to a "new york times" article that had run about her story. it's very, very hurtful to real people, to the women who have come out of the shadows and to those thinking about coming out of the shadows but afraid of this wealthy and powerful man with legions of followers.

>> in addition to representing jill hearth, i understand you're conferring with other women as well. is there anything you can tell us without violating privilege what these other women are saying? >> i have been happy to receive calls and e-mails from other women and we talk with them privately. we respect their privacy and the confidentiali confidentiality until they're ready to come out. it's scary enough to come out with a sexual harassment or assault allegation. multiply that times a million when we talk about donald trump and the weight of the world media descending upon you. so i do encourage women to come out. i encourage them to get a good lawyer and shore up family support before they do it, but it's definitely not for everyone. when you and i talk on tv every day, we're comfortable but most people are not comfortable being in the media glare. >> there are suggestions that the women who are accusing donald trump are not necessarily credible because they didn't

come forward close to the time of the alleged incident. is that a viable argument at all? >> first of all, my client, jill hearth, did. she filed a lawsuit in 1997. so that criticism does not apply to her and i don't think it's a viable claim. most women do not come forward, especially if we're talking about one incident. of course, they should. we would all prefer they do, but we could understand why they don't and look, we women endure a lot. find me a woman who has been working for a few years who hasn't endured some form of sexual harassment or groping. and are we going to spend our whole lives going to the police and reporting these things? some women will and they should, but not everybody does and we can understand why. >> attorney lisa bloom joining us from los angeles this morning. lisa, thank you, and enjoy the weekend. >> you too, craig. breaking battleground polling. everything you knew, everything you thought you knew about the

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breaking news. hillary clinton has dramatically expanded her lead over donald trump according to a brand new nbc news battleground map out in the past hour. let's get right to mark at the map here. senior political editor mark murray with new analysis. a big change in seven days here. >> a lot of big news but here's our new battleground map. new hampshire in hillary clinton's column. for her, that was toss-up just a week ago. the other big change, north carolina, also, in clinton's column. that brings her at 287 electoral

votes. you only need 270 for the white house. so things are looking good with more than three weeks before election day. the other interesting changes in the battleground map. utah in the toss-up column and arizona as well as georgia. these were states that were in donald trump's lean republican category. so when you look at everything actually happening and it's in hillary clinton's direction right now. >> utah? >> utah, and craig, there was a new poll that came out a day or two ago that had donald trump with just a 6 point lead in utah, one of the reasons why evan mcmullen that third party candidate getting a tremendous amount of support there and donald trump's lead is less than, we're later going to go into pennsylvania, less than what hillary clinton has but let's look at the new nbc "wall street journal" poll of ohio that ends up having donald trump with a 1 point lead. it's a tied race in just a head to head match-up. that's the good news for donald

trump in the new polling but when we turn to north carolina, you see why hillary clinton now, that state is leaning in a democratic category. she has a 4 point lead over donald trump in a two-person race. it's 5 points. let's end up going to the florida poll that came out a week ago that has hillary clinton with a 3 point lead in the sunshine state. and then we turn to pennsylvania where last week, hillary clinton has a 12 point lead over donald trump. good news for donald trump, he is ahead or tied in ohio. bad news, he has to win all four states that i just mentioned and either ahead or tied in just one of them. >> there's this fox news national poll as well that shows hillary clinton, i believe, with a 7 point lead over donald trump now. mark, do we know precisely where donald trump is losing support? >> yeah, craig. and it's really among women that's the big problem, the driver. you look at suburban women. a 10 point drop for donald trump. women 45 and older, 12 point

drop. this is the totality of what the last seven days, that "access hollywood" audio is really been a driver and made this race and moved it in hillary clinton's column with her now ahead 7 points according to this poll. >> the fox poll also checked on president obama's approval rating. how is he doing? >> well. 57% approval rating. every poll i've seen whether fox news or nbc "wall street journal" with president obama north of 50% and that's a very good place for democrats, particularly hits the campaign trail in cleveland, campaigning for hillary clinton in an hour from now. >> mark murray with the breaking news there. a new map out within the past hour. >> haunthank you. >> i want to bring in republican congresswoman, trump supporter, renee elmers. >> good to be with you. >> it would seem based on our

polling and fox news polling, it would seem that the path to victory has gotten even more narrow over the past seven days. would you concede that point? >> well, you're giving me the poll information, but i also understand that 76% of americans say this country is moving in the wrong direction. i also know that there are thousands and thousands and thousands that are showing up at trump rallies. so it really juxtaposes, the information you're giving me in the poll data. i know what you're saying. we've got three weeks out and quite frankly, the coverage has been, the majority of coverage has been dominated by this discussion of donald trump. we need to get to the points of facts. we need to talk about which candidate here is going to move this country forward. >> so you don't even think we should be talking about these women coming toward? >> no. this is something that needs to be discussed, but when we're talking about the next president of the united states, we need to

talk about the issues and policy. hillary clinton in the clinton camp want us talking about this information. i'm not going to say anything about the women who have come forward. i will say that i think it's a little curious timing three weeks before a presidential election. donald trump has been running for office for a year and a half. >> you were with us two weeks ago when the issue was donald trump tweeting at 3:00 a.m. about the former miss universe alicia machado and said at the time, the clinton campaign was trying to paint donald trump in a negative light. since then, we've heard him on that tape making the lewd comments. seven women who have come forward accusing him of inappropriate behavior. have any of those developments, any of those developments changed your vwchand your view the top of the ticket at all? >> let's talk about, as this is laid out in a timeline, first of all, he's already apologized for

that video. he has asked for forgiveness, embarrassed by that, now we have these women coming forward. let's talk about the wikileaks. >> congresswoman. would you just answer that question for me? it's a simple question. i'll repeat the question. have any of those things, the aforementioned things changed your view at all about the man at the top of the ticket? >> no, absolutely not. we've all known who donald trump is. this doesn't change anything. he never claimed to be a choir boy. he never claimed to be a saint. i'm not electing or trying to help get elected the next pope. i am trying to get elected the person who's going to go to washington and clean it up. and washington itself is scared to death of this man, so we have the media, we have washington. i do believe that this is a conjoined effort to keep this

man from being president of the united states. >> an effort that's, i guess, a conspiracy, and that conspiracy would consist of which parties? >> well, i think pretty much it's the establishment we're talking about. the thing of it is -- >> who's the establishment? am i the establishment? congresswom congresswoman, congresswoman. >> he doesn't just appeal to -- he appeals to every american. that's who donald trump is. >> if he appealed to every american, he would be doing better in the polls, first of all, but i want to go back to the conspiracy theory that there's some sort of grand effort to keep donald trump out of the white house. >> well, look at what we're talking about. i'm trying to steer this conversation to talking about the issues. let's talk about health care. let's talk about the fact that obamacare was hillarycare when her husband was in the presidency and it failed dramatically then. then president obama took it over. and now we have a democratic

governor from minnesota mark dayton said the affordable care act isn't affordable. her own husband said it's the craziest system he's seen. that there are people out there in small businesses who are killing themselves working 60 hours a week and their coverage is cut in half and premiums doubled. this is the real story we should be talking about. we're talking about women and issues that affect women, every issue affects women. women in the country want a health care plan that's appropriate for their families. >> congresswoman, congresswoman. it would seem to me, and you correct me if i'm wrong, it would seem to me you're saying even if what these women are alleging, even if those things are true, you're okay with that because -- >> but that's, what you're saying to me is exactly this. that they are alleging. how in three weeks before a presidential election? >> they've all made it up? >> i did not say that. what i'm saying is in this

country, this is a country of laws, and you are innocent until proven guilty. look at all of the things that have come out at hillary clinton which we still haven't gotten to the bottom of because we've got her and her campaign colluding with the fbi, with the department of justice. >> the fbi director was a republican, congresswoman. >> it doesn't matter. >> he's involved in the conspiracy as well because he's part of the establishment? >> this is a -- look, you can't deny there are four americans who were left in benghazi and died. radical islamic terrorists killed them and hillary clinton came to those families and told them it was based on a movie or video made. that's the thing. women in this country do not want to be led. women in this country do not want to be lied to. women in this country want the truth. i'm coming to you. >> i'm not a woman in this country. but i would argue that women don't want to be groped either.

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really believe that donald trump's qualified to be president. you know, i know because i talk to them. they're like, man, this is really bad. >> with me now, nbc news correspondent kelly o'donnell in wisconsin along with "new york times" reporter and msnbc contributor jerry peters at "the new york times." thank you for being with me. kelly, let me start with you. there seems to be a strategy shift. donald trump and mike pence to every single down ballot republican painted with the same brush now by democrats. what's behind this strategy shift? >> reporter: i think it is a function of timing and opportunity. timing, we've just got a few weeks to go and a time when the president had long put together in his calendar with the white house that he would be very available in october to do this

kind of campaigning. in earlier cycles, parts of this cycle, i should say, he obviously had to be closer to the white house doing the office of the president work and he didn't get a chance to make this argument in the kind of full throated way that we're seeing now. and then, of course, opportunity. there's more to work with. so what we would always expect is sort of super surrogate like the president of the united states would try to link those down ballot republicans to their nominee but never have we seen so much to work with. and the sort of last-minute flurry of the audio tape, these accusations really gives the president plenty of ground to work on as well as his own personal connection with the birther argument that donald trump had been such a champion of, then he rejected that saying the president wasn't born in the united states and there is a lot more president obama to use in a credible way against republicans and they have been in a

challenging and some cases, impossible situation. if you renounce trump as your nominee, you could offend the the voters as a republican candidate you need and if you do say you want to separate from him and then events change, that can be problematic too. in a state like ohio where ted strickland is running behind, it's a useful strategy to put rob portman in the trump box. >> let me bring you into the conversation here. early voting, as you know, started in 16 states. roughly 750,000 people have voted already either by mail or in person. you've done some reporting on what we can gleam from these early voting numbers. what have you found? >> what i've found, craig, is that if you look at the states where the presidential election is likely to be decided, florida and north carolina being the two prime examples, republicans are a little weaker than they should be. republicans traditionally dominate early voting in by mail.

it's democrats who do better in early voting many person, but by mail mail, democrats request far more ballots than they did in 2012 and they are returning ballots at about the same rate that republicans are. you wouldn't ordinarily see that. mitt romney won north carolina in 2012 because he built such a rock solid lead in the early mail-in voting. so that took north carolina off the table for obama. you're not seeing that. >> again, one of the stats that always jumps out to me is this idea of 40% of people in battleground states cast their ballot before election day. that's a staggering statistic. in terms of congress, jeremy, i know publicly, a number of democrats said we can win the house. is house the house is in play. are they saying that privately as well? >> it's a stretch. what has transpired over the last week with the repeated

cascade of revelations about donald trump's alleged improprieties with women. that sets the stage for the kind of dramatic wipeout on election night that would be the only case scenario in which democrats take the house. but what i think is not helping republicans is that you have a nominee and the leadership in the nominee's campaign is almost as dead set on crushing paul ryan and the quote, unquote, establishment as they are defeating hillary clinton. this is who they are. the people around the trump campaign have, they want to smash the establishment, and if that means taking out some republicans in the process, they're more than happy to do that. >> jeremy peters for us. thank you. kelly o., have a great weekend as well. thank you. >> thank you. three women who have accused former president bill clinton of sexual misconduct telling their stories to fox news last night. we'll take a look at the facts next. ♪ at walgreens, you're free-

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we want to update you now on a story that we reported at the top of the show here. trump campaign now directing us to the same statement they gave the hu"the huffington post" sai trump never heard of this woman and never would do that. this is the woman who claimed she had been at a dinner where donald trump and another man had asked models to walk on a table and were looking up their skirts. meanwhile, bill clinton's accusers taking to the air waves to detail their accusations against the former president. >> he pulled me up towards him and he was going to try to kiss on me. >> hillary is not for all women. she's for one woman and that's herself. >> his wife is covering for him. no champion of women attacks the

victim of sexual assault and rapes. >> my colleague, ari melber, is here with me to take a look at the facts next.

donald trump's running mate mike pence says the campaign will produce evidence within a matter of hours that he claims will refute those allegations from seven women who accuse donald trump of inappropriate touching. this new development as donald trump steps up his attacks on bill clinton's past. three of clinton's accusers talked to sean hannity. >> everybody in the mainstream press is calling all of bill clinton's infidelities. rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment are not infidelities. they are crimes and they are misdemeanors. his wife is covering for him.

>> especially the time that it was back in the '70s. it was very hard for someone to come forward. and so, yes, i did go to the trump debate. i thought that we might possibly be able to bring this out and influence people and be able to tell them that hillary is not for all women. >> i'm joined now by msnbc's chief legal correspondent ari melber. we heard from kathleen willie there and juanita brodrick. let's start with juanita brodrick and the accusations and what became of the accusation. >> she made the accusation that bill clinton raped her in a hotel room in 1978. for years, she said otherwise and indeed, in 1999, we could put this up on the screen, she swore under oath there was not that rape but in 1999, granted immunity in the special prosecution related to bill clinton's impeachment. she then did make that accusation. i will note two basic things

here. one, the fact that an accuser's story changes or delayed does not necessarily mean they aren't ultimately telling the the trru when they go public. that's a theme. two, this is the main accusation that has never been fully adjudicated by the time in 1998, 20 years old. she made the claim, forcefully denied them. didn't act on them. a lot we don't know. >> what was her claim? what became of it? >> this one is different. kathleen willie accuses then president clinton of groping her and sexual assault in the white house. this was fully investigated. lawyers would call this a contemporaneous investigation. this was dealt with at the time. the relevant witnesses and physical evidence was researched. you had a special prosecutor literally empowered to look at only these issues and he did not find enough evidence to move forward on this. so in this case, you could say

she's made her accusations, she has every right to be heard but they were investigated and fa fairly by all accounts, a special prosecutor did not find evidence to go forward. >> paula jones. bill clinton actually settled with paula jones. >> that's correct. settled and without any flippancy, we look at these cases, accusations, we take them seriously but a legal and factual matter to note the paula jones is the most litigated investigated of any such type of case, literally went all the way up to the supreme court and back. settled for $850,000 with no admission of wrongdoing and one of the problems with the paula jones accusations is even when she threw the case, got what she wanted, the offer of money, an attempt to continue the case, that suggested to many people either her or backers and lawyers wanted the politics of it more than the justice of it. that's a closed case, no admission of wrongdoing. >> chief legal correspondent ari melber walking us through the allegations. thank you for breaking it down, sir. when we come back, it's been

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>> that wraps up this hour of "msnbc live." craig melvin, here's tamron hall. you can do that. >> i'll teach you. it's friday. we'll practice. >> all right. >> get to the news. thank you, craig. good morning, everyone. i'm tam tron hall live from the msnbc headquarters in new york. we watch several major developing stories in the presidential race. right now, we wait for president obama to speak. look at this crowd waiting for him in cleveland, ohio. the critical battleground state where nbc news and the "wall street journal" mers poll shows a virtual dead heat and donald trump holds a single and gloria allred announced later this afternoon, yet another woman will come forward at a press conference to accuse donald trump of inappropriate sexual conduct and in a matter of hours, at least accor