record books. >> [ bleep ]. >> it is a troubling situation. i'm serious, it is. give him a shot. good morning, and welcome to "sunday today" , i'm willie geist. donald trump and hillary clinton in final preparations for tonight's second presidential debate, and the spotlight on trump will be white hot after the release friday from a tape from 2005 in which trump makes repeated, ugly, aggressively demeaning comments against women. so far 150 republican leaders have withdrawn their support from trump over the course of

more than 40 since friday when the tape was released. we'll hear from one man who abandoned trump and another who's sticking by his side. later, the man behind the music. ryan tedder and his band one republic have a long list of hits but tedder is the mace stroh called by the biggest stars in music when they need a hit of their own. >> why is it that taylor swift, adele, beyonce, all of these acts that are the biggest in the world, why do they call you? what is the ryan tedder that's specific to me is i have a certain emotional currency in the lyrics and melodies that i do. >> we'll talk to ryan in just a bit. let's begin this morning with the fallout from those tapes of donald trump first reported on friday by "the washington post." despite a growing list of republicans withdrawing their support and repeated calls for him to get out of the race, trump says he's not going anywhere. nbc's hallie jackson is in st. louis site of tonight's debate.

>> reporter: hey, willie, a big night. today the potential of more fallout. trump's team shaken and strategizing. the campaign manager and head of the party pulling out of shows. trump says he is sticking around. a defiant donald trump with a fist pump delighting his supporters outside trump tower, but inside what one source close to the campaign describes as paralysis. the gop, dozens of republican members of congress taking back support of their nominee, including all female republican senators except iowa's joni ernst. >> i am telling you who i'm not supporting and that's hillary clinton. >> reporter: the fallout coming after this recording surfaced from ""access hollywood"" a program owned by nbc universal. >> i don't even wait. and when you're a star, they let you do it.

grab them by the [ bleep ]. >> reporter: john mccain deciding trump's hot mike moment was too much. vulnerable senators like rob portman and kelly ayotte saying they will write in mike pence as they send a warning shot hinting how much rides on trump's debate performance tonight declining to appear at a wisconsin festival where house speaker paul ryan sent a signal of his own. >> let me start off by saying there is a bit of an the room. and it is a troubling situation. i'm serious, it is. >> reporter: trump's making clear he won't step down or back down from attacks against bill clinton retweeting juani juanit broadderick twice, the woman who accuses president clinton of raping her. >> bill clinton has abused women

his victims. we will discuss this morning in the coming days. see you at the debate on sunday. >> reporter: that, part of trump's 90 second video statement saying sorry to the public and to his wife apparently privately. melania trump saying she's accepted her husband's apology for comments she considered unacceptable and offensive even as already more controversial audio has been revealed like this older interview with howard stern. >> your daughter. >> she's bleep ]. >> trump's base of support unswayed. >> i just think we all need to stick together as republicans and we can't let hillary win, we just can't. >> reporter: tonight's debate set to cap one of the most extraordinary weekends of 2016. a campaign and a party in crisis. and this morning we're getting an early snapshot of what americans think donald trump should do.

find 45% of voters believe he should stay in the race, 39% think he should drop out. willie? >> hallie, the clinton campaign has been quiet. calling the statements horrific. snl imagined the campaign's reaction. >> it made me feel just horrible and very depressed. i'm sorry, brooke. i mean, it is a ve, day for our country and for all women, minus one. >> so, hallie, as you said in your piece there, the trump campaign obviously is going to go there on the past of president bill clinton. how does hillary clinton handle that in the debate tonight? >> reporter: the campaign has been strategizing about that. one source tells nbc that the campaign held a conference call with some outside allies in which they previewed their strategy, willie. it is essentially to not talk

essentially not put more in the words of one person, more spin on the ball, if you will, letting trump languish in this media cycle. there was a little bit of a hint as to how clinton will respond. in that video statement trump released he did not apologize to the women he was talking about or to women in general. that could be something we hear reflected from clinton tonight. >> hallie, thank you very much. debate taking place behind hallie a little bit later this evening. a lot of eye this. the revelations of the comments led more than 20 national republicans to say he should drop out of the race. steve cortez is a member of trump's hispanic advisory council and hugh hewett who pulled his support and called for trump to get out of the race. trump, good morning. >> good morning, willie. >> good morning, willie. >> i want to read for you a portion of john mccain's

concluding with the disclosure of his demeaning comments about women and his boyess of sexual assaults make it impossible to continue supporting his candidacy. hugh, why did you decide to pull your support and say that donald trump should get out of the race for the good of the country? >> i think it's in the best interests of the country, the campaign, the republican party all the way up and down the ticket and his own family and mr. trump to exit and do so in a way that will earn him some credit from not just the republican party but hi i think he suffered the most devastating political hit over the weekend since you'll remember the sports injury, joe theismann getting hit by lawrence taylor 31 years ago. everyone knew theismann couldn't finish the game. i think tonight will be cringe inducing if he brings up the infidelities of president clinton, which are so far beyond his own in the past that he bragged about on the tape, that that will be an explosive day. by tomorrow morning it will

there aren't many people willing to talk to you, much less come out and support zbyou. >> hugh, what was it about the comments? why wasn't it the fat shaming of a foreign miss universe, why did this change your opinion now and not those other things? >> there are a number of reasons behind that. first of all, the comments are objectively and unqualify bring disgusting. i cringe every time i hear them played because i know there are children around the room. that's unlike the other issue. there's always been a margin of error for mr. trump. you can always attribute to him when, for example, he came down the escalator. although those remarks have been misrepresented. what he said was among those mexican immigrants who are coming into the country are some rapists. there are ways to have given him the benefit of the doubt and he did win the republican nomination. it cannot be taken from him but i'll say this, willie, if this tape had surfaced before

nominee today. i hope he wants to salvage his family name, his business, his dignity and just get out. >> steve, you have stuck by donald trump through a lot of stories like this over the last 18 months or so. did you consider at any time in the last 36 hours pulling your support for donald trump? >> well, look, i think everyone has to at least consider it, right, in a moment like this? i have enormous respect for hugh hewett but i would have th he needs to speak directly to the american people. he needs to explain himself. i would also say i'm a believer in forgiveness and redemption. contrary to hillary clinton, we're not irredeemable. he gave a very unreserved apology which i'm glad and he needed to do. his remarks were absolutely unreprehensible. i'm a father of three daughters and i also cringe when i hear those kind of comments that he made on tape.

again. i also say this. we have two flawed candidates. two largely, incredibly disliked candidates. they have a starkly different vision for america and i believe the american people, given those two visions, status quo and growth and prosperity and security on donald trump's part, i believe that they are going to opt for donald trump's vision for america. clearly the onus is on him he has to make the case. >> you mentioned your daughters, your family, i'll ask. what were the conversations like in your house over the weekend y asked you how you continue to support donald trump after these comments were made public? >> right. thankfully they're all still enthusiastically supporting donald trump. all embarrassed. i talked to my oldest daughter on the phone on my way here. i don't want dad embarrassing her, right, on air? i don't want to do anything that would shame my family. they said, look, we have a very different vision for america than hillary clinton.

the status quo, which is slow growth and terror on the march. those are more important issues, this is from my teenage daughter, willie, into politics, i care more about the economy and isis than i do about donald trump talking crassly over a decade ago. >> steve cortez sticking at the side of donald trump. hugh hewett stepping away. let's bring in moderator of "meet the press," chuck todd. chuck, y night on "nightly news" that grabbed me. you said it's a 50-50 shot that donald trump shows up tonight. what did you mean by that? >> i mean just that. i think, look, it's clear this morning and people i've talked to, he's determined to go tonight. but you could easily make the calculation that there's nothing that he can say tonight that won't turn it into a debacle, that he is not prepared for this debate, he has not done -- look, he was not prepared for this debate before these revelations.

is he in a state of mind that won't send him to a point where he will do things even worse or say things even worse tonight that will cause even more problems? it won't surprise me if someone gives him the advice, take the hit for not showing up. it might be better than watching what happens in this 90 minutes tonight. i'll be honest with you, willie, we've never seen anything like this. >> yeah. >> we've never had a moment like >> do you think if he does show up, chuck, he's going to do what he threatened to do? even in his apology it's to, quote, go nuclear against hillary clinton? that means bringing up the past, bringing up bill clinton and his past. will that be the strategy? is that the way through this for donald trump? >> it's -- i -- he's a wounded animal. that's the way somebody described him. he's a wounded animal. i think anything is possible tonight.

behavior with women has been brought up in the past, he immediately pivots to this. i can't imagine that he won't do that tonight because he's done it before and he's threatened it before and he did it in that, you know, video. i think he's getting all the advice in the world to not do that, but what's the evidence that he won't? >> could be an ugly night in st. louis. chuck, we're going to check back in with you later in the show. we we'll be rudy giuliani and mike lee who has called for trump to get out of the race. we'll be streaming it on nbc.com and you can watch it on msnbc. our other big story this morning, the damage from what was hurricane matthew, the storm turning towards the atlantic. miguel almaguer is in wilmington, north carolina, where cleanup is underway. good morning. >> reporter: good morning.

even after hurricane matthew blew out to sea, it left behind plenty of misery. yesterday in this area there were nearly 600 water rescues. today unfortunately four people still remain missing. hundreds of rescuers remain in this area. they're scouring local neighborhoods. walking through flood water making sure everyone is okay. more than 11 inches of rain fell in this area. the hurricane responsible for 11 deaths here in the u.s. meantime, as you mentioned, that cleanup effort is unay between 4 to $6 billion. of course, this hurricane pummelled florida, the carolinas and georgia. all four of those states were in a state of emergency. the cleanup effort should take sefrt days -- several days if not weeks. officials are trying to clean the area. willie, the weather turning better but the cleanup is going to take quite some time.

miguel almaguer, thanks. we'll get dylon's forecast in a second. an armed suspect shot and killed two police officers and wounded another. the officers were called to the suspect's home for a domestic disturbance when he opened fire. police caught him 12 hours later. one of the officers was a 27-year-old woman who had just given birth four months ago. the other, a 35-year-old veteran of the force who was just months away from his in san francisco a scary scene when a recreational sailboat overturned spilling 30 people, including several children, into the frigid waters below. some of the victims were trapped under the sailboat. nearby boaters were able to jump in and get them to safety before rescuers arrived. two children were rushed to the hospital in critical condition. chicago cubs fans are cautiously dreaming of breaking the curse last year. last night's playoff game had

drive, had to leave the game. his replacement though, pitcher travis wood, later hit a home run. the first by a reliever since 1924. the cubs lead the giants by two games to none in the first round of the playoffs. as promised, dylann is here. >> we're seeing matthew wind down. it's no longer a tropical system, it's post tropical. we have rain from delaware. flash flood warnings across parts of north carolina and norfolk, virginia, picked up 7.5 inches of rain. it's post tropical at this point, but still has winds of 75 miles per hour. all that means is instead of gaining all of its energy from the ocean, it's more like a regular storm at this point. it will continue to move to the east. we're not expecting the full on loop back down into the bahamas. we have a cold front in the northeast drawing up the moisture from the tropical

new york, new jersey, long island. it will last into southeastern massachusetts until monday morning. once it clears out we'll see much better good sunday morning, off to a kind of jury start and will be that way unfortunate way for most of the day. and from boston south and east, rain is steady and will continue. north and mainly a cloud and that's your latest forecast. >> dylan, get you a chair. >> yeah, there has to be a chair somewhere. >> get the pregnant lady a chair. dylan is sticking around.

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she wanted to get arrested off her bucket list. the fine men and women at the st. louis pd were helped. as they placed her in the vehicle she asked, do you think you could put those handcuffs on me? >> did you enjoy your ride this morning? >> oh, yes. handcuffs and all. >> how great is edie simms. >> i feel like she brought them cookies. >> right off the bucket list. when you lose your lacrosse game to an intense game of rock, paper and scissors. they were tied when their game was called off because of lightning so how to determine a winner? how about a best of three series of rock, paper, scissors for all the marbles? >> rock, paper, scissors, shoot! >> oh. >> oh. >> so close. >> rock, paper, scissors, shoot!

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i would like to take this time to formally apologize. >> what? what are you saying? >> i deeply apologize. >> are you trying to say apologize? >> no, i would never do that. what to all the people who are offended by my statements, but more importantly to the people who were turned on by them. i hear it's really 50-50. >> apologize. joining strategery. they are not laughing at trump tower. they called on him to get out of the race. trump says that's not going to

during that hot mike moment in 2005 play at the second presidential debate. let's go back to nbc's hallie jackson in st. louis, site of tonight's debate. hallie, we talked a little bit in our last conversation about secretary clinton's strategy. what about donald trump's strategy? what is he going to do? is he going to go there, go nuclear on the past of bill clinton? >> reporter: you have to wonder, willie, every signal is yes, he will. you saw it in that video statement that came out early. into a hit on bill clinton. you saw it when he retweeted those messages from juanita broadderick overnight. every indication so far is it will be a factor in tonight's debate. hillary clinton's campaign is prepared for that. that's not what they're wanting to see. a lot of people are waiving him off the strategy or sending signals they will try to. as you see more and more republicans withdraw their

been a never trump guy, we're talking about mitt romney, listen. >> i want to express on behalf of myself and my party, how much we love all people in this country, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion. i was offended and dismayed by -- by what was said and done by mr. trump. i think it's degrading t granddaughters, to future generations. >> reporter: mitt romney speaking in nevada there, willey. >> hallie jackson in st. louis. we're a long way from 2012 when romney sought donald trump's endorsement. dylan now back with a check of the weather. taking a look at the week ahead where we are going to see matthew move eastward. we have rain through the mid-atlantic and into early

thunderstorms as a threat moves eastward. isolated severe storms. we have the system making its way into the pacific northwest. mountain snow. very cold in the rockies. we have a lot of rain expected from the western part of washington, oregon, down into northwestern california as well. temperature wise, unseasonably mild. down south and most of this week good sunday morning, off to a kind of jury start and will be that way unfortunate way for most of the day. and from boston south and east, rain is steady and will continue. north and east o

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hear on the radio. i dropped by where he was putting the finishing touches on a song for stevie wonder and arianna grande. >> cheers. thanks for having me over. >> ryan tedder, always is trying to get just the right flavor. >> cooking is probably my favorite thing to do other than music because you're engaged. >> tedder is perpetually as lead singer of his band one republic. ? ? >> and as the in demand producer behind some of the biggest hits of the last decade. ? rumor has it i'm the one you're leaving home ? >> he won a grammy with adele and another with taylor swift. ? ? >> he's put together hits for u2

>> why is it that taylor swift, adele, beyonce, all these acts that are the biggest in the world, why do they call you? what is the ryan tedder thing? >> because i smell so good. can you smell me? >> yes. >> i have a certain emotional currency in the lyrics and melodies that i do, so what i'm constantly chasing is li times. >> still finishing the album. >> for tedder it can strike in small spaces. >> i think recording in the least suspecting spaces is way more inspiring. your bedroom, an apartment, a hotel, you know, an airplane bathroom. i have all of these voices in my phone where you can hear the -- >> the road to becoming an

play music in a pentacostal home. >> was there always music in the house? >> there was. he was a gospel music songwriter. i started lessons when i was three on the piano. the music that was around when i was a kid was mostly gospel music or christian music. growing up i was surrounded by cowboys and pickup trucks and football, friday night lights and i was the guy that was like quietly lisni gabriel and import cds that i was getting from my uncle who lived in london. ? ? >> it was the back cover of one of those discs that gave tedder his first break. >> it's the back of every cd you buy or dvd there would be a number. i called the complain hotline. somebody would pick up eventually after 100 calls. how can i help you? i would say -- i'd say, oh, i'm

they misconnected me. >> crafty. >> i would literally work my way up. >> connecting you. >> they would keep -- oh, i'm sorry. they'd feel so bad. >> right. >> then they would connect me up to the -- eventually i'm talking with the head of hr of paramount pictures from a dorm room in tulsa. i got a call from green works one day, their nashville office. they had opened a record label and a publishing company. they're like, we want you to work for the publishing company of dream works through the nashville. >> that's unbelievable. >> while writing for other artists and for tv and movies, tedder never stopped thinking about his own music. ? ? >> in 2002 he reunited with an old high school buddy to form a band. in 2007 one republic had its first big hit. ? ?

remixed it. at the same time "apologize" was coming out under one republic, "leading love" was coming out and i had a single on j. lo and natasha. it all happened at the same time. >> the band's third album "native" went platinum spinning off hits like "counting stars." >> and this week the latest, "oh, my my." >> how are you describing this new album? >> we have features from peter gabriel, pharrell, songs that anybody that loves "apologize," "good life," the older stuff we've done will love it. then we shift gears. we're going to throw some people for sure. i'm constantly seeking out new sounds, new artists, new technology. technology is a huge catalyst.

same year tedder celebrates his tenth anniversary with wife genevieve. >> what are you doing? >> the parents of two young boys who met during their college years. >> back in college could you have imagined? did you see any of this coming? >> there were plenty of times where i think boldt of us were like, what are we doing? what is going to happen, you know? is this worth it? it was interesting to see everything and this unknown and a dream, i guess. and then to see it come fruition for me, pretty incredible. ? ? >> a climb together to the top of the music business that just may have been meant to be. >> it feels to me there was never a chance you were not going to be a musician in some form. >> i think so. for me it kind of became the self-evident path that i was supposed to be on. ?

>> tedder has produced songs for just about every big name you can think of but there is still one man he's dying to work with. paul mccartney. tedder told me he'd do anything mccartney wanted to do, cover of a mariah carey christmas song? or they could grab a cup of coffee and ryan could say he had collaborated with sir paul mccartney. to hear how ryan tedder puts together all of these hits check out our web extras at todd.com/sunday. the new album "oh, my my" is out now. next week, lindsey vaughan, the new life off the slopes hasn't always been comfortable for her. we'll talk with lindsey after she recovers from another injury. next on "sunday today" ryan

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half a million people got together on a dairy farm in woodstock. the who played a 25 song set that began at 5:00 in the morning. tonight, nearly half a century later, the who plays another festival along with another group of big-named bands with music nostalgia in a california desert. joe fryar takes us there. >> reporter: you'll find a show for the ages in the desert this weekend. especially the older ages. >> we're the young ones. ? start me up ? >> reporter: the rolling stones are one of the legendary acts performing at the desert trip music festival. it features bob dillon. paul mccartney. the who. and neil young. in fact, the average age of the headlining performers is 72.

>> reporter: which is why they've given this a new name, old chella. >> this is a once in a lifetime opportunity because anything can happen tomorrow to one of them. >> or to us. >> or to us. you never know. >> meter lisa gonzalez and kelly echollz. >> i have an 8 track and 4 track, that's how old i am? >> they had 4 tracks? >> yeah. >> they like to think this weekend be is their woodstock. >> i was 10 years old >> we missed woodstock. we don't want to miss the second one. >> woodstock is, of course, where it all started in 1969. three days of peace, love, rock and roll on a muddy dairy farm. in the years that followed it seemed like there was a festival for everyone. from farm aide to bands aide.

for the more eclectic touch there's bonnaru. >> reporter: after five decades they're going strong. a three-day pass to woodstock costs $18. for desert trip a weekend pass starts at $399. extra accommodations include glamorous lake side tepees and pricey four course meals. >> we put the kids through college, we've paid for weddings, we've done those things. >> reporter: truth be told oldchella is for boomers and babies. all generations are here. >> the first time she saw the stones live she was pregnant for me and the first time i saw them i was pregnant for this one. >> reporter: if it teaches us anything, it's that good music is ageless. >> looks like fun. joe fryar reporting from the desert. this week we highlight another life well lived.

you do ? ? that all your kids will disappear from view ? >> that is the voice of phyllis creore known as canteen girl. from 1942 until the end of the war in 1945 phyllis told stories and sang songs during a weekly 15-minute show that was broadcast to military bases in the united states and over short wave radio to troops serving in europe and the pacifi 26-year-old actress living in new york, pitched it to nbc and quickly began recording right here at "30 rock" fell ler plaza. for soldiers, canteen girl was a reminder of home. phyllis took song requests by mail and became something of a celebrity during the war. she kept every letter she

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but kelly ayotte voted to protect tax breaks for millionaires and big oil. that's what the koch brothers and big corporate interests wanted. they're spending millions supporting ayotte. kelly ayotte's not working for us. dscc is responsible for the content of this advertising. let's head back down to washington where chuck todd is getting ready for "meet the press." chuck, i know you're getting ready to talk with senator mike lee from utah. he's been never trump. yesterday he called for trump to get out of the race.

these senators starting with john mccain going down the list to congressmen, congress women in the republican party saying why not vote for him but he should get out of the race. does that matter? is his campaign so antiestablishment that he can brush that aside? >> well, he can hope to brush it aside. it does matter because, you know, they -- the reason they're saying this, they need to find their way to 50% to win re-election. that's why it matters. this is no longer about donald trump this is every republican for themselves and this is about their own survival. so the problem though, the line they're walking here is they still need trump supporters to show up because they need his votes to get to 50% but they also need the voters that are -- want to vote republican but are totally turned off by trump and i think that's their struggle here. that's why you've seen these odd denouncements, right? it's taken them forever to get

new hampshire trump has a strong base and so you don't want to alienate them but it's not enough to win. that's why this has been, i think, so tortuous for so many republicans. >> given the utter disaster that's been 48 hours for donald trump's campaign, is there anything he can do or say tonight to make things better? >> withdraw from the race. i think the best -- if he put -- if he said i'm putting the party above myself, i know it seems like a radical proposal and ther way to actually replace him on the ballot, but if he did that, that actually would be the most uniting moment for the party, a unifying moment. that's not donald trump. that's not who we've been covering for the last 15 years let alone the last 15 months. so i highly doubt it, but i think it's the only move he could make that would actually unify the party and perhaps save the party at least on the congressional level. >> that's been the suggestion that he step aside and let mike pence move to the top of the

as you say, donald trump has never done anything like that in his life. i don't see him doing it tonight. chuck, we'll be watching for you in a few minutes on "meet the press." a lot of material there. two of the guests include utah senator mike lee calling for him to drop out and rudy giuliani. you can watch the debate by streaming it live or tune in to msnbc. coverage begins at 9:00 eastern. the eyes of this country will be on st. louis for the debate tonight. thanks for spending p we'll see you right back here

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breaking news a child is shot. we have the latest. more fallout for donald trump. the list of republicans now denouncing the prepares to bait hillary clinton. >> and police working to find out if robberies connected in tingesboro. patriots taking on the browns. we're live in cleveland. it is 9:00 this morning. good morning we have those stories and more ahead.