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deb fisher and bradley byrne also endorsed -- reverse their endorsements of trump.thers are sticking to their guns. i was the latest to hurdle off the train, quitting the party in protest of the nominee. of all the republicans that have forknced trump, there is a in the road. stay, re-endorse? where do they go? john: there should be a fork in the road. you said these things. the tapes came out. you said, this is disgusting and disgraceful, which it is. i am not going to endorse him. he has to get off the ticket. what has happened in the last 72 you6 hours that makes think, that whole thing, not a big deal? profiles in are anti-courage and also stupidity. it is not just they are being cowardly and timid, they are looking like goons. alex: they are revealing themselves to be politically , clearly a craven political decision. the idea you are going to say this is so wrong and morally reprehensible and within the same week say, i am not rescinding my endorsement seems flummoxed. john: i think it is going to happen again. i think you are going to see more of this. we do

deb fisher, the senator from nebraska again, as robert was saying, she backed away from donald trumpnd is now going back to donald trump. there are people suggesting that paul ryan, manu raju was reporting, congressmen saying they won't vote for paul ryan if ryan doesn't stand up for donald trump. what are these people seeing that are creating this backlash against the backlash? >> probably two things. one, the reaction from throughout the country of shock and horror at the things donald trump has said and done and also, shock and horror from their on base who support donald trump, want donald trump to win. but the challenge republicans face, what the chairman alluded to with this jousting between mccain and trump, that's not the jousting that any republican needs. we need to focus on hillary clinton. we need to focus on john mccain winning re-election. the great congresswoman from arizona, her winning. the challenge we see from what donald trump created, he's taking our eye off the ball in key states and we are not doing the job we need. in my state of north carolina, republicans ar

but to be fair, other members are doing it, like thune and deb fisher. and i think what happened here is that if you remember the exodus started after his comments on the "access hollywood" tape. then the first round of polling came in and just coincidentally the exodus stopped. why? >> and some of them reendorsed? >> because what we found out is that the electorate believes these things. it was already baked in the cake in terms of donald trump and they didn't see a wholesale shift away from him. the members are simply following the polls and the reality that one day this election will be over and they'll have the to reckon as well with this considerable new trumpian wing of the party. >> but i heard another person say that s that a lot of voters are keeping track of principle, as hard to find as it is these days and, for example, to name a name, a certain governor of ohio is getting a lot of credit. kasich, say what you will about him, has not wavered. >> he has not wavered and he's been consistent and it will be those who have been consistent who i th

some of those people have come back like senator deb fisher from nebraska and the republican nominee,orado. >> they realized. what are they going to do? vote for hillary in they need each other. that's what i want the party to get back to. they need candidate and they need down ballot candidates to help in the states. so i'm hoping it is a dust-up and we get back to attack hillary clinton. >> you are an articulate and compelling presence so we decided we needed to balance that out with the former governor of michigan who appears right next to on our wall. let me ask you. >> how much of a problem do you think it is? they're getting asked about them a lot. there's a lot of chatter about them. how big a threat do you think this is? >> i don't think it is, i mean, from what we've seen, this isn't much there, there. so there's not much to be worried about. it doesn't seem. from what has been released. i think the bigger concern is, why is wikileaks dripping this out so slowly if wikileaks is supposed to be the entity that releases everything to the public. what is going on with this slow d

senator deb fisher wanted trump to quit. >> i was disgusted by his comments as a woman and republicanit was very upsetting. >> but now. >> you're clarifying tonight you are voting -- you are voting for donald trump? >> of course i am. >> reporter: up in idaho, senator mike crapo did the same u-turn, and senator john thun, south dakota, was pretty to drop donald trump. >> i tend to support the member of our party and if anything changes i'll let you know, but -- but he's got a lot of work to do i think if he's going to have any hope of winning this election. >> and this is paul ryan, the embattled speaker of the house, and the latest scam focused almost entirely on the down-ballot races. the candidate calls all that relucta reluctance a sinister deal undermining his efforts. >> and especially when you have the leaders not putting their weight behind the people. >> reporter: but this assessment by "usa today" shows the turmoil, while hundreds of elected republicans have denounced trump's behavior, the great majority plan to vote for him nonetheless. >> we're in a fight and the only choi

i think deb fisher is a great study here.she came out that she was going to pull out and say that donald trump should step down and mike pence should be the nominee, this is again the senator from nebraska and then has reendorsed, if you will, donald trump. that suggests that either she's heard from constituents, she's seen polls or the tide has changed and we will see if he's anomaly or where the party starts heading. i think most of the republicans have kind of just stayed quiet. there's been about 30-plus who said that donald trump should step down. but he spent yesterday lambasting them on twitter, the ones who did and didn't really spend a lot of the day attacking hillary clinton's campaign. john: washington post argument that i alluded to earlier carries a quote from a trump campaign spokesman. he says, mr. trump's campaign has never been driven or fueled by washington. it's always been driven by the grassroots and will continue to be. what we want is everyone who wants to defeat hillary clinton to be on board. so if he

doug fisher and john -- deb fisher and john thune.them go for the very rare endorse, unendorse, endorse, unendorse. >> as a matter of personal and moral responsibility. they go no longer no longer no longer support donald trump. ridiculous. paul ryan invented a new category of thing called endorse but won't defend. like that's impressive. like that settles it, man. what are you doing? and i get all these people make excuses for paul ryan. he is in a difficult position. who cares? there's no excuse for supporting this person. he is terrible. he was terrible before a wave after wave of accusation of sexual assaults. what is going on? by the way, by the way, a lot of these people were like, i'm going on write in mike pence. i'm going to write in huckleberry finn. really make a point. okay. they were equally bad six months ago. and we haven't learned anything new about hillary clinton. who she is, that's baked into the stock price. every day with donald trump is a new horror and still they krnlt bring themselves to do right thing. i'm bot

i should have said this before, but deb fisher the nebraska senator who suggested she no longer wantsticket has since rescinded that and said she will vote for donald trump. there's backlash against backlash. >> meanwhile, the drip, drip, drip of the hacked e-mails. and the john podesta accusing the campaign being in league with basically julian assange and releasing this stuff. and you've got donald trump seizing on this as evidence of the collusion and criminality, really of the clinton team. do you think we're just going to have overload from these e-mails and this controversy right up to election day? >> well, i don't think there's been any sort of real smoking gun. there was the issue of brian fallon talking -- you know, former justice department guy working for the clinton campaign. saying he had heard things from people at the justice department about a foia lawsuit. it's kind of in the weeds, though. there hasn't been this sort of smoking gun from the podesta e-mails. that could still come. there is a very direct line. the u.s. government has essentially said it's russia who h

there was a herd mentality and people voted and some have come back like deb fisher from nebraska and the republican nominee in colorado. they realized when they bolted from trump, what did it mean? what were they going to do, vote for hillary? i think they're both realizing they need each other. and that's what i want the party to get back to, the down ballot candidates need a strong presidential candidate and that presidential candidate need those down battle candidate to help him in those states. in the end i hope this is a dustup that lasted a bit too long and we can get back to attacking hillary clinton and winning this race. john: compelling, persuasive, articulate presence and we decided we needed to balance you out with someone who is more compelling and articulate and persuasive, that would be governor, former governor of michigan jennifer granholm who now appears next to you on our wall. governor, let me ask you this question. how much of a problem do you think it is politically for the clinton campaign now these three days of wikileaks emails that have been dropped out of t

in the case of some, joe heck in nevada, deb fisher in nevada, in north dakota, the fourth highest rankingator for the republican party in washington, all said yes, we're going to support him, taking a step backward from what they said over the weekend. so i think what happens is they hear from some of their voters saying we want you to support the presidential nominee and we want you to run as a ticket. so but, look, donald trump just has to take his case directly to the voters, including states where the elected officials say they're not going to endorse him. >> woodruff: well, what we know has turned off not only republican elected officials but traditionally republican voters is that video-audiotape with access hollywood where we heard donald trump speaking of grabbing a woman sexually, we heard him speaking about trying to have sex with a married woman, about -- because you are a celebrity you can get away with it. you, kellyanne conway, have children yourself. were you offended by that? >> yes. it wouldn't matter if i have children or not or if i'm a woman or not. of course, i was of

deb fisher in nebraska also did this as well, sort of reendorsing after unendorsing. it shows you low much pressure there is to line up behind the republican nominee. in jason chaffetz' case, even in utah, which has been a very resistant state politically to trump. >> rick, pressure by whom? it doesn't seem like paul ryan has had any full-throated support of donald trump. who is putting all of this pressure on these republicans to get behind donald? it's making them look so skittish. >> well, it is, because if people are in tight races, they're going to try to measure, do i need donald trump's vote in my my district. kelly ayotte is facing that, and chaffetz is facing that in his house race. and so look, joe heck, you know, disendorsed donald, if you will, and he went down in the polls. so, you know, just pick a side and stay with it. but you can't keep going back and forth and back and forth. that's going to hurt you just as well. >> now, this is clearly been a very divisive election. we have seen extreme -- >> oh, no. >> behavior all the way to the right and the lef

i do think manu's piece before this segment should have mentioned that senator deb fisher from nebraska who was one of those republicans who said they wouldn't support donald trump has come back. the republican nominee in colorado has come back to supporting donald trump. i think there was a herd mentality we this tape came out and republicans got spooked and many of them started to bolt. and now they're realizing, days later, that what this election comes down to is an imperfect republican nominee, against a very radical democratic nominee. >> mm-hmm. >> and when you don't stand with the republican nominee you help the democratic nominee, allison. >> mm-hmm. >> it's kind of that simple in american politics. we try to make it more complicated. it really is that simple. the democrats i think sometimes get this better. they had a big primary and they came together because they didn't want to see the republican nominee get the white house. i wish republicans and conservatives would remember when they hurt their gop nominee, they're doing nothing but making it more inevitable that hillary c

when it comes to the fickleness of senators, senator deb fisher to called for trump to step aside a fewnforced him. we see this fickleness, he should be above it. we need to concentrate on hillary clinton, a new ad out that's very important and it's hard, but it's true. so, this is where i understand what he's doing, but we really need-- we've got 27 days. hillary clinton is the problem here. paul ryan will be put into his place by president trump, but we've got to get there first. stuart: and you really don't approve of being unshackled to attack republicans in the republican party. what you want is unshackled to attack hillary clinton. >> yeah, we all want him to be himself. i support him for the nature of his commitment to what he's doing. his commitment to us. but it is about a certain kind of discipline, about what americans are listening to. people are not going to run out and understand hillary and the problem that hillary is by us hearing more about paul ryan. we know there's an issue. he can blend it. he can complain about that, but the fact of the matter is our problem now is