i'm richard lui at msnbc headquarters in new york city. donald trump's busy day on the campaign trail. we are live in virginia beach. this is where donald trump will take the stage soon. it's the second of three rallies today. in three different states he's been from the east coast to midwest. earlier in gettysburg, pennsylvania, trump delivered a policy speech. he laid out the steps that he would take during his first 100 days if elected president. >> a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of congress. hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal work force through attrition.

exempting military public safety and public health. totally renegotiate nafta. one of the worse deals our country ever made. i will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion worth of job-producing american energy reserves. we will begin removing the more than 2 million criminal, illegal immigrants from the country. >> trump made other headlines as well. he said he will sue all the women who have accused him of unwanted sexual advances. >> every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign. total fabrication. the events never happened. never. all of these liars will be sued after the election is over. >> we have full team coverage on

this saturday for you. katy tur in virginia beach where trump will speak any moment. jacob rascon in cleveland where trump will be with mike pence later tonight. the trump campaign billing this speech as a positive policy speech. when we hear this vow he made, and it appeared to be on script. it appeared to be looking at his teleprompter when he mentioned this, that he will take legal action against the women accusing him, seems to overshadow perhaps what he was trying to accomplish. >> and that's what many gop operatives will tell you. why does he keep bringing up these controversies when he needs to focus on policy? it's what supporters will tell you. they want to hear donald trump talk about his ideas, how he's going to change the country. and less about him smacking back when he feels like he has been hit. but that is exactly what we saw in gettysburg. his 100 days address began with him saying he is going to sue

all these women. it will be 11 women today after another woman comes forward which we are expecting to hear from her in a few hours with gloria allred. think about these lawsuits. donald trump would need to be deposed in each one of these cases. also those around him. it would involve a great deal of discovery. things that could come out that they might not necessarily want out. if he is president of the united states, is he going to go through that process. even if he doesn't win, is he going to go through that process? that is a big question we heard him talk about how he is going to sue "the new york times." so far that lawsuit has not been filed. it's only been a threat, in addition to other threats of lawsuits out there. trump was trying to lay out his policy today once he got past that. he is talking about new mandatory prison sentences for illegal immigrants or undocumented immigrants if they leave this country and try to get back in, force prison

sentences if they do so. trying to end corruption. talking about term limits for congress. two terms for senators, three terms for representatives. these are ideas that a lot of his republican support eers, independents and some democrats want to hear about. they want to hear donald trump talk about how he is going to change things. so far we are 17 days until the end of this election and so far you even hear from those who like donald trump that they wish he would stick to the shes and stay away from the controversies that continue to dog him. >> katy tur following the trump campaign in virginia beach. thanks for that wrap-up. and jacob rascon in cleveland. you've been able to speak with many voters throughout the day. what are you hearing them tell

you? any reaction to his policy speech? >> none of the people i talked to here actually saw the policy speech since they were rushing to get in line. in talking with them, many say they do want to hear a positive vision for america. that second half of the speech, very policy specific. that's what they want to hear. let's talk to a couple of them which we just met in line. we have rosa, amica. talk to us about what you want donald trump to focus on during these next 16 days? >> probably focus on the wikileaks and the e-mails and her corruption with the clinton foundation. definitely on those he should be. >> we hear that sometimes. >> yeah. i agree with her, but i also would like him to reach more

into the latino community. i think if they do get to hear his message, then we turn around and vote for donald trump. latinos out there have to understand that having borders is a good thing because we don't want this country, our new country here, the united states, to become like venezuela, like mexico, like colombia. forget what he said or hasn't said about things. if we do look and see how many people get killed every day in venezuela and who is killing them, venezuelans are killing them. when you go to mexico, you're so afraid you're going to be killed, robbed and assaulted, and mexicans are killing mexicans. >> you think he's preventing the united states becoming like one of those countries what would, if you don't mind i ask, what would be something you hope trump does not do? sometimes his supporters give us

advice for him. we don't want him to do this for the next 16 days. >> i would say just don't engage in any of these new allegations about anything. don't focus on that. don't even fight it because we all know voters know and are well informed, we know that is just political strategy from the other side. >> if i were to tell you today he said he was going to sue the people who accused him of sexual misconduct, good idea or bad idea? >> i think he has to for now just let it go and just focus -- >> focus on the country. focus on what is wrong here. who cares about the allegations? >> right. >> he is down further than he's ever been in the polls that we're watching. he's up in a couple, but down overwhelmingly. can he come back? it would be an unprecedented political comeback. >> hey, they were down in

brexit, too, and they won, didn't they? >> they did though the polls are more even than now. what do you think the state of the race, can he come back? >> i think, yes, absolutely. he has to be focused. just focus and talk to the american people. talk to the borders, telling the border how he will make america great again and will protect us and build the borders to protect us and immigrants who are here. >> thank you, both, for your time. i hadn't met these women before, but those are two common takes we hear on the trail. >> great conversation there, getting a sense what they want to hear about in a state where it's a tie. when you look at recent polls. jacob rascon with some voters ahead of donald trump speaking later today. donald trump earlier on today did mention a rigged system.

he pointed to widespread voter fraud. he said it's evidence the election is rigged. earlier he said he would only accept election results if he won. joining me is former chief council for the republican national committee. great to have you here. thank you so much, mark, to get your perspective on this. you probably read this piece earlier today in the "new york times." they wrote and pointed to in pashgt a period right about after the 2000 election when republicans started to realize voter fraud claims could be used as a political strategy, but it was always on the fringe is what they were saying in this article. is it concerning to you when you look at this and you put it into history, recent history, that this is now entering the mainstream, the way donald trump is talking about it? >> i don't believe it's entering the mainstream. just because donald trump talks about it doesn't make it

mainstream. i don't believe our system is rigged and the vast majority who participate don't believe it. it doesn't mean it's run by angels, it's run by people. we have malfeasance and misfeesians but the system is not rigged. i don't believe there are many people who think, arguing that it's rigged is much of a political strategy. >> when you are looking at the election system and trying to ascribe it to the wider electorate when you're in those situations, how do you talk about that question? we are just looking at recent data from our nbc news survey monkey poll. it shows 45% republicans say they may not accept election results. how do you answer that when they have that concern? >> the first thing to realize is we don't have a national election system. our elections are run at the county level. the vast, vast, vast majority of our elections are run by people who are trying to do a good job,

and in fact do a good job. we have some occasional vote fraud, people who shouldn't vote vote. occasionally local elections are influenced by those illegal votes or bad counting or collusion polling places, but it happens. it's important to understand our system works very well and a democratic system is based upon the winners winning and the people who lose, the rational supporters accepting that loss. it's important for everyone who participate in this system who is involved in counting votes and watching polling places to stand up and say it works very well. >> the numbers, some of the statistics we were looking at out of that report, one in or one in one million or 10 million concerns questionable data, what if the trump campaign does

decide to challenge the outcome in a very tight race? we were just talking about ohio. what's the process he can undertake here? >> first of all, the notion that it's 1 in 10 million is a joke. there is election fraud in the united states. why anybody would think there isn't when people steal cars and steal money, why would you think people wouldn't attempt to steal elections i find to be foolish. it does occur. there have been plenty of examples you can point to. this notion it's rare is not true. it's just simply not possible to do it on a national level. it is possible to do it at a local level. there are some local problems. if you're talking about contesting an election or asking for a recount, you don't have to go back too far. bush-v-gore. that election was effectively challenged by al gore. it demanded a recount.

in fact demanded a much more extensive recount than was provided for in florida statute. if you're talking about someone who attacked the election process, gore absolutely did. the sad fact of the matter is defeated candidates are like jilted lovers. sometimes they don't have the best judgment as to what happened. >> mark braden, thank you for spending time with us. have a good saturday. >> thank you very much. coming up, the latest on that massive hack that brought the internet to a screeching halt yesterday. with just 17 days to go until the election, the candidates begin their closing arguments amid a last-minute push on the trail. liberty mutual stood with me when i was too busy with the kids to get a repair estimate. liberty did what? yeah, with liberty mutual all i

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every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign. total fabrication. the events never happened. never. all of these liars will be sued after the election is over. >> donald trump there lashing out at the 10 women already coming forward to accuse him of sexually assaulting them or accosting them. an 11th accuser expected to be revealed this afternoon. trump's speech in gettysburg was billed is a his closing arguments in 17 days left in the campaign. thank you all three. i want to start with this, if i

can. it may be surprising to many how trump spoke here at the side of abe lincoln's landmark gettysburg address, yet he took early time there to slam the nearly dozen female accusers as we heard from some of those key supporters even in ohio are saying, don't talk about that. talk about policy. what do you think about how he brought that up and he's going to sue these accusers? >> great to be with you. that's perhaps the biggest complaint we are hearing, whether from republican operatives or supporters of donald trump as we saw in this segment you did. they want to see him focus on the issues. certainly he talks about, he offered tough talk on immigration and trade policy. these are things that appeal to his base. but he continued to talk about a number of controversies that continue to dog his campaign in the final days before election day. whether that's claiming the election is rigged against him

without providing much evidence that that's the case or really engaging with these women who have come forward with allegations of sexual assault and threatening to sue them. >> say you are it's wise man and you are going to whisper in his ear coming to these topics. why is he doing this? what would you tell him? >> he's got some smart people working for him. he doesn't listen to them. you can't continue to step on your argument. he's trying to close a campaign and gain votes. donald continues to try to play offense, whether talking about the women, talking about his taxes, bringing things up that feed a, rightfully so, a media frenzy because he gets off message. he sometimes runs an insane campaign, but it's fun to watch. it's like a train wreck that comes along and you see things happen. donald had a really good message today then one more time he stepped on it bringing other things into it instead of talking about jobs, talking

about immigration, talking about first responders and a positive message. i think that's the competitor in him. also setting the narrative up in case he loses. >> it looked like he was looking at the prompter when discussing that point about suing those accusers. maybe it was written in. 28 policy points being made in that speech. this was a time billed as he was going to come down and deliver a nice meaty message about certain details of what he plans to do the first 100 days in the country. what stood out to you that you heard from his speech? >> it stood out that he threatened 10 women who accused him of sexual assault or harassment or accosting and it brings rape culture back into the forefront of his campaign. he's telling people, not only am i going to sue and finish these accusers for quote/unquote lying that offered no proof of that,

he's in the process of doing that, discouraging other women from reporting their assaults. he's discouraging other women from saying i was assaulted, i was raped, i was touched inappropriately. talking about things that happened to them. i can't tell you how many people told me, more women than men, have told me how traumatizing this election has been for them. it hasn't been all fun and games, hasn't been a reality show for them to watch. it's been traumatizing. >> i heard the same conversation being had as you have. i think all four of us have, unfortunately. your team at politico have new reporting on wikileaks on the clinton campaign's formerly toxic relationship with bernie sanders, documents there that nbc news has not verified. they show files in clinton's opposition research that say sanders can't work with other people. they say he has, quote, no accomplishments and quote, is not a good boss. will this throw a wrench into

what you're uniting of sanders and clinton going into election day? >> well, certainly we heard from progressives that the e-mails have continued to come out from wikileaks that they expressed concerns about some of the things revealed there. it's coming at a very inconvenient time for hillary clinton, bringing that to the forefront. conversations that would be private going back to the primaries, reenforcing folks to relitigate controversies there. her closing argument at this point is america is better than donald trump. she and all her surrogates are keeping their focus trained on this idea, differences aside whether it's with perhaps progressive activists or with moderate republicans, the biggest issue here in their view is stopping donald trump. i think that is sort of the overarching theme that you'll

continue to hear urging folks to look beyond any other differences there. >> katon, where and which republicans, whether the top of the ticket, on the state or local level, how can they leverage what is happening with the wikileaks dumps, if at all? >> what i found in talking to my friends and people working in other states is, right now the national message is leading the narrative. we are seeing a separation between national election and local elections. my friends and cohorts running in other states are talking about their elections, what they are doing in washington, what they are doing in their state houses. most are distancing themselves from donald trump. that's good advice. all politics are local. right now there is no big train to catch on to to get the coattails. hillary clinton has her flaws, donald trump has his flaws. i'm talking to people so worn out from this election, they are voting early.

somebody told me i went to vote to get it over with. i'm going to start watching football. >> it's a good weekend to do that. it doesn't seem to be dragging hillary clinton back, these wikileaks releases. >> no. i think she is focusing her last pitch on identity politics. this unapologetic embrace in the debate of abortion rights, meeting with campaign zero about police reform. making this ad about captain khan where she is saying, does my son, does this captain khan, would he have belonged in a trump america? that to me is all about identity politics and training people's focus on the real priority at hand which is stopping donald trump. >> stand by. we'll talk to you later in the hour. thank you for that. defense secretary ash carter in iraq on an unannounced visit as iraqi forces continue to advance on mosul. a live report from the ground

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here is a look at some of the stories we are following at half past the hour here on msnbc. donald trump expected to speak any minute from regent university in virginia beach. we are going to follow that for you. trump beginning the day in gettysburg, pennsylvania, where he laid out what he calls his contract with the american voter. a proposal for what he'd like to do the first 100 days of his administration. he also for the first time vowed to sue women accusing him of sexual misconduct. hillary clinton is spending this saturday in pennsylvania. she will campaign with running mate tim kaine in pittsburgh and philadelphia. it will be their first joint campaign appearance in six weeks. the fbi and homeland security are investigating who is behind the massive cyber attack that blanketed the united states friday. it is beginning to sound like

science fiction. cyber vandals, possibly hijacked millions of internet-connected devices and launching them into a cyber war against a number of major sites. >> reporter: the attacks came in three waves, taking down a long list of website giants like twitter, netflix, amazon, pay pal and more. how could so many companies go down? the answer found in a strategic target. hackers aiming their attack at a company called dyn that acts almost like the address book and switchboard operator of the internet. security experts say hackers deployed the latest weapon in cyber warfare, a virus that connects even baby monitors around turns them into cyber bot slaves and uses them to send so many information requests that a system like dyn is overwhelmed and crashes. >> it's crazy a baby monitor or

dvr could topple amazon or twitter, but that's what's happening here. they can assemble enough power to knock over some of the most important companies in the world. >> companies are manufacturing electronic devices with weak default passwords making them extremely vulnerable. >> the fact that companies can make hundreds of thousands of devices and put them on the internet and have their entire product line turn into a bot net and start attacking the united states is a problem. >> so far there is a lot of speculation on who is to blame, but a senior u.s. intelligence official now telling nbc news this is a classic case of internet vandalism and does not appear to be a state-sponsored attack. what is clear, a new weapon has been deployed as companies and countries try to prepare for the possibility of cyber war. secretary of defense ash

carter made an unannounced visit to iraq today and met with the prime minister in baghdad. he received an on the ground report there on the iraq and kurdish-led defenses. matt bradley has the latest for us live. how successful has this offensive been? >> well, there's rare positive news we can show you. some of these videos coming out from social media are showing church bells ringing for the first time in churches all around this region. as you can see in some of this, we can't verify these images, but these are church bells that laid silent the past two years as islamic state occupied this area all around us. this area contains a very large christian minority, a syrian christian minority. they number among a very large and very complex group of all sorts of other religious minorities who have been the

anvil to isis' hammer the past two years. so that is a positive moment we are seeing. some villages and towns liberated throughout this region. unfortunately, many of those towns are entirely void of civilians. all those people have fled because for many cases islamic state has targeted those minorities, especially those religious minorities for genocide, for mass killing. a lot of those people fled to cities like the one i'm in now. the battle has been going without the spector of civilians in the way. the islamic state has managed to fight back. that's what we saw the last two days in kirkuk. they managed to infiltrate this city, take over security establishments and kill as many as 80 people, according to the associated press. islamic state showing they have the capability to fend for themselves and fight back against overwhelming force. >> matt bradley for us live

there in iraq. next we'll turn back to the 2016 race, hillary clinton and tim kaine back on the trail the first time in six weeks. they have two events in pennsylvania today where clinton is polling comfortably ahead there. now the campaign is looking to expand that map and setting sights on traditional republican territory. anything meant to stand needs a stable foundation. a body without proper foot support can mean pain. the dr. scholl's kiosk maps your feet and recommends our custom fit orthotic to stabilize your foundation and relieve lower-back, knee or foot pain from being on your feet. find your nearest kiosk at drscholls.com. also available from dr. scholl's: heavy duty support for lower back pain, lightens the impact of every step.

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poll numbers, that gap is shrinking a bit. >> pennsylvania is often a tough fight for republicans who always say they want to take it on. hillary clinton is trying to blunt any kind of inroads there by the trump campaign. what we are seeing today in part is one of those unusual days where you have clinton and kaine appearing in the same state together. that doesn't happen all that often and drives the excitement. the clinton campaign looks at pennsylvania as a fire wall they believe they can win solidly there. they want to protect that. they are talking about key places where early voting is under way. they got star power on the trail with katy perry who has been working on behalf of hillary clinton for many months now and miley cyrus on the trail today. they've also been keeping tabs on what donald trump has been doing. as you reported on today, he gave his address about a first 100 days of a trump administration in gettysburg. the hillary clinton campaign put

out a response, talking about that in critical terms, as would you expect. saying donald trump's vision for 100 days is certainly a dark view. it says it was billed as a major closing argument speech and major new policy was to promise political and legal retribution against the women who accused him of groping them. like trump's campaign this speech gave us a troubling view as to what a trump state of the union would sound like, rambling, unfocused, full of conspiracy theories and attacks on the media and lacking in real answers for the american people. no hit was left unresponded to in that statement, trying to go after donald trump on something that has been very effective for the clinton campaign so far, and that is hitting him on issues that women are especially listening to. by bringing up those allegations, that's a point they are trying to drive home. >> giving it more breadth and life for the democrats by bringing it up. thank you, kelly o'donnell. first lady michelle obama hitting the trail for clinton in

arizona where only the second time since 1952 that state could turn blue. the arizona republics editorial board endorsed clinton, the first time in its 106-year history. next a member of the paper staff will give us the odds on whether she can pull off an upset. historically, white catholic voters tend to vote republican. experts are saying this year could be different what the latest polls tell us coming up next here on msnbc. everything well? this clean was like pow! it added this other level of clean to it. 6x cleaning* my teeth are glowing. they are so white. 6x whitening*á i actually really like the 2 steps. step 1, cleans. step 2, whitens. every time i used this together, it felt like leaving the dentist office. crest hd. 6x cleaning*, 6x whiteningá* i would switch to crest hd over what i was using before. crest. healthy, beautiful smiles for life.

when a presidential candidate threatens to ignore our voices and reject the outcome of this election, he is threatening the very idea of america itself, and we cannot stand for that. you do not keep american democracy in suspense. >> first lady michelle obama in

phoenix, arizona. they are trying to appeal to voters. except for bill clinton in 1996, that state has consistently voted republican in presidential elections since 1952. this year there are signs it could turn blue. for the first time in its 106-year history. there's this. the arizona republics editorial board endorsing a democrat. here's how one editor came to that decision. >> it came to me back in november when donald trump at a rally in birmingham, alabama, actually called on his supporters who had roughed up and beat up a black man, a black protester and actually called them to throw him the hell out of the building. then later on the sunday talk shows, he said maybe the man should have been roughed up. >> since that endorsement, the arizona republic and its staff have been bombarded with attacks and threats of violence, as well. joining me is political reporter

with "arizona republic." thanks for being here. how serious have the threats been? >> nobody likes to get threats for doing our job, but they have come into the office. we've not focused on them or let them distract us from doing our job. we've been carrying on as we would. obviously in the news business from time to time you do get threats, do you get people angry for something you've written or something you didn't write sometimes. i think in the newsroom beings it's been business as usual. >> has it affected your readership? has this endorsement alienated any of them? >> obviously, we were bombarded with calls. i'm sure, i don't know the numbers, i'm sure some people canceled their subscriptions. that's something you have to take into account. every time you write an editorial in a presidential race, you run the risk of angering a large number of your readers. >> along the way here, there's

the poll we were mentioning this hour. the latest poll by your newspaper has clinton with a slight lead. she is trending up from previous polls. trump was leading by one percentage point in a poll last month. you were writing about this as well. do these numbers surprise you at all? >> well, maybe not so much at this point. obviously, arizona's been a red state for so long, everyone thinks it's in the bag for the republican. probably would have been if it was almost any other nominee but donald trump. trump has never been able to put the state away. he's been here six times. after this week where we saw michelle obama, bernie sanders and chelsea clinton stumping in arizona, it's a sure bet trump will come back one more time before the election in arizona. it's unprecedented that a republican candidate has to put so much effort into nailing down a state that has gone democrat once since 1948. >> that's right. what i noticed in your writing

here, dan, this is the big if, the 20 plus percent that is still undecided you are telling us about. how does that compare to previous cycles? this large number 1-5 that have yet to break. >> right. it makes you wonder if you're not decided at this point, are you really going to vote or skip the top of the ticket and vote for the down ticket ballots? i do think it shows in arizona it's all about turnout. we had -- when trump was here in his last visit, he went up to prescott valley, which is about the reddest county in the red state. it's an area that would be expected to turn out well for trump under any circumstances. he's got to keep his troops mobilized. bernie sanders, for example, he was dispatched to flagstaff and tucson, two areas of the state that are most friendly to democrats. on both sides it's about getting

the turnout to the polls. that will decide arizona, i think. >> thank you so much. political reporter for. "arizona republic." as the clock ticks down to election day, we'll watch it. we are watching in-person early voting under way in several key states. we'll break down the numbers. what we know so far right now.

as are today, early vote be is under way. some states seeing voting surges as much as three times those than in 2012. it's estimated 46 million will vote before election day or as much as 40% of all votes. total votes cast as of recently, more than half of those are in a dozen battleground states. more democratic -- rather, more democratic affiliated voters

have cast early ballots in arizona, colorado, iowa, michigan, ohio, virginia and wisconsin. and more republican affiliated voters have cast their ballots so far in florida, georgia, north carolina, nevada and pennsylvania. joining me now, political reporter katie glick and katie dawson and be senior national correspondent for msnbc news. they rejoin us. what do you think, these numbers? >> you see a surge frankly because people, as mentioned earlier, are sick of this election and just want to move on. i think folks want to get out as on as they can and exercise their right to vote. there are republicans who may believe it's being stolen by democrats or some nefarious forces trump has yet to prove, but democrats know what voter suppression looks like, long lines we saw thursday in north carolina. where officials, you know, cut the polling places and also cut the early voting hours.

so you had hours and hours of long lines in the heat for people positive wait to vote nap is unacceptable and we understand what rigging an election actually looks like. >> katie, numbers are surging right now. the question is, is this in place of votes on election day, or are we going to see a large number of folks coming to the polls that we haven't necessarily seen in recent elections? >> well that is a good question. right? are we just seeing folks who would ordinarily come out on election day, trying to skip the lines and do it early? or are we going to see a massive turnout? one question to keep watching. the other thing to note diving into this map, not only who's up, who's down in terms of numbers and in person and vote by mail, you know, voting tallies, but you also have to look at the comparison to 2012. which, you know, allows us to get a little better since how

things are going in swing states, like ohio, north carolina. north carolina, for example, republicans traditionally do better with early vote by mail. democrats are actually overperforming by that measure from where they were in 2012, and you actually see a reverse story. better news for trump in places like iowa. another layer here. >> yes. they could be seeing a large victory. democrats are. because they are overpaerformin in early voting stats compared to 2012. kate, look at florida. the numbers i'm looking at come of our that state, 2008, early ballots for republicans versus democrats. that was 49 to 32%. this year we're seeing pretty much equal. 40% and 39%. the lack of a ground game showing here for donald trump? >> absolutely. two things. katie made a good point in early voting. absentee voting by mail what republicans do very, very well.

we've always spent a lot of money doing it. it's been very successful. a cost benefit to you. looking at those numbers and they're down a little bit. versus early walk-up voting like you have going on now in some of these states. richard, i want to pivot to you and notice the budgets and advertising budgets. the democratic party and team clinton saved their money and are out spending the republican party and trump in some areas as much as 20% in male broadcast television, cable television, social media. i think you're seeing a two-pronged campaign right now on moving these people to the polls early. >> right. >> i think the advantage is heading to the democratic party now. >> big coffers. jam jamil, not typical compared to recent elections. perhaps early voting may not be a good inkdicator?

>> trump encouraging you to show up at polls and make sure everything is going as planned you'll see a lot of people waiting for election day to make a statement. we really need to see, but i think it's hard to predict, as you say. >> up to the last minute for all. thank you so much, jamil, kate and katie as well. appreciate it. >> thank you. stay with us. coming up top of the hour, the latest on trump the contract with the american voter as he vows to sue all the women who accused him of sexual misconduct, and hillary clinton and tim kaine holding their first rally together in six weeks. we'll bring that to you live, all coming up right here on msnbc.

we will begin removing more than 2 million illegal immigrants from the country. >> trump promised a hard-chashging campaign schedule all the way to election day as well. the republican nominee visiting three battleground states just today. that's pennsylvania, virginia and ohio. trump today also vowing to sue the women accusing him of sexual miscondu.