>> when the audit is over my father will release it. >> gloria borger, let me bring you in and kudosfor grabbing him. and we'll get to the clip we played from your documentary in a moment but when you hear eric trump and when he says "no question about it, my dad paid those taxes and you'll see it once the audit is through." do you think there is this pressure? do you think there is any chance that we see taxes before november 8? >> i think slim to none. i think that seven out of 10 people in this country believe that your taxes ought to be produced if you're running for the presidency. eight out of the 10 people in this country think it's a civic duty to pay your taxes. i believe it's unlikely that donald trump is going to release taxes that go back in years. maybe there's a slim, slim chance that he would release his last year's taxes if those aren't under audit but i'd have to say i think it's highly unlikely. >> do you think it's possible his son don't know? >> i do. i do. i think his son is involved in a lot of businesses with him and i'm sure they're involved on the corporate s

. >>> may haeve reston is with us gloria borger and a.d. stoddard. the ladies' panel, thank you for being on with me. glor, yeah let's go back to the first beat, which is that jeff zeleny reporting on hillary clinton picking up the phone, calling members of congress, including republicans, essentially saying, i want to work with you, the presumption is, when i get elected. is that being prepared or is that being a little overconfident? >> i think what it is throwing a little shade. i think she's trying to kind -- i think she's trying to say to republicans whom she knows will talk about this, that i want to reach out to your people on your side of the aisle and it's a way to make that public without kind of going out there and saying, i'm going to win. so, i think it's -- i think it's kind of clever for her to do that. i think part of the bedrock of this campaign going forward will be that we're reaching out to republicans. if you're undecided right now, brooke, chances are that you would have liked to vote republican but you don't like hillary clinto

i want to go to gloria borger now, our chief analyst. debate is 48 hours from now. 48 hours from now, gloria, you're going to be in st. louis, you know, watching this debate. they're going to be onstage, the candidates are. this is going to be part of that night. donald trump, between now and then, is going to have to come up with some kind of explanation. >> well, and you bet he will. and i just want to point out that the trump campaign just released a statement about the paul ryan event tomorrow, which we've reported, he was disinvited from. he said, governor mike pence will be representing me tomorrow in wisconsin. and then he said, i will be spending the day in new york, in debate prep, with rnc chairman reince priebus, governor chris christie, and senator jeff sessions. and then flying to st. louis on sunday for the second presidential debate. so, now, donald trump is preparing for this town hall, because he understands the stakes, because they've just grown exponentially this evening. and one thing i want to add to the conversation

dana bash, our chief political correspondent, gloria borger, our chief political analyst, david nacamara, reporter for "the washington post" and carol lee, reporter for "the wall street journal." gloria, he wanted to have a little fun with his controversial comments last night when he refused to say he would accept results of the election so he opened up his remarks just a little while ago with what he thought was a joke. >> if i win, i'll accept results. well, it's not a joke. you know, this is something we have heard from donald trump since last may and i have something he said last may. he said, you've been hearing me say it's a rigged system but now i don't say it anymore because i won. it's true. and he said, you know, he said now i don't care, i don't care. the only way i won was i won by such a big margin because it is a rigged system. that is not the way we do politics. that is not what our constitution says. if there are election irregularities, the secretaries of state, of each state, have automatic recount rules. what happened in florida in the year 2000, it was half of 1%, au

i have gloria borger standing by, cnn chief political analyst. also lanhee chen and cnn's senior political reporter nia-malika henderson. awesome having you on. gloria, i want to stay on dana's trump interview and i want to ask you this. i know democrats are pouncing all over him today saying you know, look at you, free publicity, you get all this press for your hotel in d.c., look what you're doing, 13 days to go but, you know, he did make the point that he is outcome paining hillary clinton in terms of stops. he is about to head to north carolina and he said he's doing it for his family business. what do you say to that? >> i'd say fine, i'd say people think his time would be better spent not extolling the virtues of his family business but rather extolling the virtues of american business which is what mitt romney did today. you know, these guys, brook, were a mile apart. i was at the romney event while dana was at the trump event and romney had an elaborate ruse to avoid reporters, a decoy limousine included and did not want to talk to us at a

gloria borger, nia-malika henderson, susan page and jackie kucinich. also our senior white house correspondent jim acosta is there in west palm beach, florida. jim, he basically said the survival of the united states right now is at stake. this is the last chance to save it and that the clintons, he said, are criminals. what was the reaction where you ar are. >> donald trump basically put his arms around his supporters and said "it's us versus them." going after the media and the clinton campaign. he accused the media and clinton campaign of working in cahoots to stop his campaign to destroy it and time and again when he was going off and trashing the press i can tell you from standing inside the press pen at this event in palm beach county, that the crowd was essentially joining in, they were hurling insults at us, going off on us, demanding we tell the truth, demanding we investigate the clintons as much as we talk about donald trump so as donald trump was delivering this very personal point by point defense of his character and reputation saying the

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joining us again, cnn senior political reporter, nia-malika henderson, and i know political analyst, gloria borgeria, looking ahead to tomorrow, what do you think? >> i think -- >> what are you expecting? >> fireworks. and i think hillary clinton, in a way, has a tougher job than donald trump tomorrow night. because she has to come up with a better explanation for the e-mails. she has to continue to show that she has the temperament to be president. and she has to kind of attack at the same time and take down donald trump. it's not easy. and i think donald trump, on the other hand, just kind of has to prove that he can be in the oval office -- that people have to see him as somebody who can occupy the oval office. >> not the people that already see him that way -- >> and broaden -- >> it's really moderates. it's independent voters. it's college-educated voters of both races. it's older voters. these are all of the voters that hillary clinton is overperforming among. and donald trump is underperforming relative to mitt romney. and i think you're right. he's got to paycheck those people believe that

our chief political analyst gloria borger and senior political reporter nia-malika henderson. ne so gloria, we had the first presidential debate and trump went on the tirade against miss universe. after debate number two, it's not just all out war on speaker ryan but the entire party. >> because the party after the hot mike incident and the offensive predatory language he used it's about a third of republican senators have said unendorse which is a new verb in american politics and you know what happens with trump is when he's punched he punches back. for donald trump this is the proof that this election in his mind is not about the future of the republican party but is about him and his own future and those two things are officially and finally divorced because what paul ryan was doing and what donald trump objects to, paul ryan gave permission to every single republican to run their own race and run against donald trump if it works for them and run with donald trump if that works for them. and one cautionary note here, brooke. in the "wall street journal" poll yesterday, two-

. >> let's talk about all of this with cnn chief political analyst, gloria borger. susan page is also with us, now covering her tenth presidential campaign, and cnn reporter nia malik ya henderson. ladies, nice to have you on. gloria, to you first. let's begin with what we heard from donald trump today on the attack, declaring war on everyone. obviously he's frustrated. he says that these women's stories are false and that he has evidence to disprove. what's your reaction to how he responded? >> well, and he also called it slander and lies, and then, you know, brooke, he went to make the more global point about the campaign which is that there is a conspiracy against him, a conspiracy against his supporters, that is led by the establishment, by the media, by corporations. i think that what we see today is in this kind of apocalyptic vision of the campaign from donald trump's point of view which is that it's everybody against him and he is being lied about in the last 29 days. and so, we see his vision here which is trying to rally the base, trying to get out those su

back with me now, gloria borger, dana bash, and frank sesno.'s new mammoth poll out, that shows hillary clinton with a lead among likely voters, 44% to 42% for donald trump. was this a bad week? he was ahead. >> yeah, look i think in -- there have been more than two dozen polls taken since the last presidential debate in battleground states and hillary clinton's gone up in every single one of them except maybe one. she's leading except for this one and i think it shows that when these debates matter, and that when you rise in the polls nationally, the battleground states follow eventually and i think that's what we're seeing going on nationally. this was supposed to be a very good state for donald trump. we don't know if this is an outlier or not at this point. we should say another debate coming up on sunday. but it shows what you the stakes are. i mean, ohio and iowa have been two states that have been very kind of solid for donald trump and you know if i were in the trump campaign now i'd be looking at this and i'd be worried about it. >> da

i want to begin with gloria borger and maccroccennon. i hardly recognize him without a hat hat. let's discuss this. this is jessica leads accusing donald trump of sexual assault. >> he was grabbing my breasts and trying to turn me towards him and -- and kissing me and then after a bit, that's when his hands started going -- i was wearing a skirt and he -- his hands started going towards my knee and up my skirt and that's when i said, i don't need this, and i got up. >> so gloria, what she's describing is a scene in an airplane where donald trump attacked her more than 35 years ago, the trump people are flat out calling her a liar and he's saying the same thing, she's looking are fame. what's your impression? >> she's a reluctant witness. she watched the debate on sunday night, she heard anderson cooper repeatedly press donald trump about whether in fact he had ever behaved the way he bragged about behaving on that notorious videotape, and he said he didn't, and what she described is someone who just had held this and told some friends about it for decades and heard trump say tha

cnn's chief political correspondent gloria borger. and correspondent for the christian broadcasting network david brody. gloria, what do you make of this moment? we're waiting for trump to take the stage right now. >> well, we've heard him tweet about -- we read his tweets about these charges that came out overnight. we haven't heard him speak about it. and the question that i have is how directly is he going to address it and how directly then is he going to start deflecting all of this to bill clinton. we've heard from jim acosta they're going to start making charges about bill clinton. one would presume also hillary clinton. i presume also wikileaks and john po des ta's e-mail. i think this is -- the hints have been, and they've been strong hints, that what we're going to see for the next month is really a scorched earth strategy. his supporters, as you've heard, are not running away from donald trump. so if he is out there, what he is trying to do is get his base ginned up so they go out and vote. and the trump campaign believes th

and gloria borger. dana, what's going on inside trump tower right now. >> as you can imagine deaf con five would probably ban understatement. we only at this point have the statement which is a couple of sentence, which was referring to bill clinton and things that he allegedly said to donald trump on the golf course which he said are worse and so forth. we haven't heard from donald trump himself beyond that. and they are huddling right now inside trump tower trying to figure out whether he comes out and makes a statement tonight. if he comes out and makes a statement tonight. and if so, what form? so that all is being debated and deliberates as we speak i'm told. if he doesn't, obviously the question is whether or not he's going to let this just hang out there until he's on the debate stage with tens of millions of people watching, going up against a -- never mind the opponent for president, but somebody who wants to be the first woman president, who has already used this issue of the way he speaks to

to discuss with the panel, cnn political commentator and clinton supporter, patti solis doyle, gloria borgerrepublican strategist, kevin madness. gloria, as john pointed out, a 19-point difference in the gender gap in favor of hillary clinton. the increasing number of allegations likely just lead to that. >> sure. and think back to 2012. mitt romney lost the election and he had a gender gap of eight points. so now here you have donald trump with a gender gap of 19 points. and as john points out, it's all kinds of women. it's republican women, it's suburban women, it's college-educated white women. i don't know that there is much he can do at this point to sort of make up that gender gap, particularly in the way he's handling this kind of avalanche of allegations against him, because what he seems to be doing in dealing with this problem is making it worse, by saying, oh, by the way, look at these women, insinuating that they weren't pretty enough for him to sexually assault. that is not the way to win back women voters. i will tell you that. >> kevin, just in the last week, trump has lost te

dana bash, gloria borger, david gregory and zeke miller. the story sounds similar to others heard over the past few day days. >> it does and making it harder, talki talking about before we heard this on tape describe it. harder for the trump campaign to come out with evidence that all of these women are not telling the truth. it doesn't mean that -- that we are going to say that they are all 100%, you know, rock solid. we don't know that. but the fact that this woman in particular, as you were saying did have people who at the time she told. it makes it a little harder, a lot harder, for them, for the trump campaign to discredit and it's a snowball effect when it comes to these allegations. >> gloria, what -- >> not just a snowball. >> what further hurts donald trump is that he himself spoke about doing these kinds of things in that "access hollywood" miked interview with billy bush. he spoke about doing precisely these kinds of things. because he's a star, he can do whatever he wants. >> i can't help myself. i just go up to them and start

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wanna summers, k wanna -- juana summers and gloria borger, chief political analyst and brianna keilar political correspondent. gloria, what message does trump need to share with voters in new hampshire right now? >> look, i think he needs to stick on his message. which he's actually been doing more than we've seen in the past. these past couple of days. he's got to talk about hillary clinton, wikileaks, draining the swamp in washington, which is a message that's very resonant for him, that she is the status quo. that he represents change, and that, that if you elect hillary clinton it's going to be more of the same. i think these he's going to be -- going to be talking up wikileaks, and congressional investigations and continuing along that line. if he reverts back and starts talking about how he's going to sue nbc for the "access hollywood" tape or how he's going to sue these women who have come out and accused him of groping them, et cetera, then i think he's totally going off the rails again. >> juana, a lot people wonder why electoral -- four is a small number. it went for preside

and gloria borger also joins us. donald trump says hillary clinton isn't doing debate prep, she's just off the trail because she needs rest and then says he wants to keep the debate on policy, not get personal, how do you reconcile that? >> i think in the last debate, it was clear she was indeed, doing debate prep, because she was well prepared. she's going through the regimen you usually do. you prepare for weeks in advance and go into an intensive period before the debate where you do pock debates and so on. i wonder if his staff didn't put this on his schedule because they can't get him to prep and this was the closest thing they could do to get him to prep. if he goes into this debate like he did the last one and hasn't rigorously prepped, the result could be the same. >> he says he won the last debate, he said he didn't take any of the bait that hillary clinton dangled in front of him. but hard to imagine that he wouldn't kind of change something, no? >> i think that's what they were trying to do tonight. was to

joining us now, cnn's senior political commentator, david axelrod, and gloria borger.this point in the stage, donald trump's down in marble polls by 7 to 10 points, losing most key battleground states and the stories that are dominating the news are sexual assault cases against him. can the campaign get back on track? tonight, they clearly seem to be trying to move away from it and focus on, you know, what trump wants to talk about, on wikileaks, on hillary clinton e-mails, and on the issues. >> sure. look, i think it's very difficult. he would have to run the table and then some. anderson, i think we can safely say that it would be unprecedented for a candidate, 26 days out from the election, this far behind, to stage a comeback. and win. not impossible, but unprecedented. particularly if you look at the battleground states. you were just talking about. we got a poll tonight, for example, north carolina, hillary clinton has a five-point lead. that's a state that romney won just narrowly last time. pennsylvania, hillary's ahead. michigan, hillary clinton ahead. wiscons

joining me now, cnn political commentator, errol louis, "washington post" political reporter, gloria borgerd david gurden. david, it's interesting, hearing michael d'antonio talking about his perception of the man he spent thours interviewing donald trump for this biography, he called donald trump a bottomless pit of need. and a lot of people have talked about sort of a neediness that they have sensed in him. i'm wondering what your reaction is to that? >> i think that he's the most narcissistic political leader that i can remember in american politics. he does have an obsession with winning and being adored. he wants to be the center of attention. you know, teddy roosevelt had some of that quality. you know, he said of teddy, he wanted to be the groom at every wedding and the deceased at every funeral, in order to be celebrated. but he had all of these offsetting compensatory qualities that trump doesn't have. i tell you, anderson, what comes to me more than anything else is he's not a deeply anchored man. his value system is not deeply anchored. we look for in leaders in what we call the

gloria borger, your reaction? >> look, i agree with you, i think that however, when you look at this debate, where you -- you know, tim kaine did a good job for democratic voters. i don't think there's anything that tim kaine did that's going to dissuade anyone from voting for hillary clinton. and he took the case to mike pence. mike pence did not argue robustly on lots of things as he could have done, however, pence was smooth, pence was -- you could not ruffle pence at all, and pence was conservative, and if you were conservative and you were watching this debate you're saying to yourself, why haven't i heard donald trump talk about life this way, the issue of abortion? why haven't i heard donald trump talk about putin, or russia this way? why haven't i heard donald trump talk about the middle east in fact this way? so i think that pence may have helped trump to a degree, by helping him sort of broaden his base a little bit with those sort of doubting conservatives. >> these debates are not tag team affairs. it'

bryan sulter, mark preston, reberg aberg, kevin madden, david swerlick, dana bash, and gloria borger.loria, i have to and you, there's been in question how these tapes came out y the, why tapes came out. does it matter or that they're out there -- it's out there? >> i don't think it matters how or the timing of it. i think in a way people should be glad it came out before the election rather than after the election. we always like more information than less information about our presidential candidates. but i think what we've seen tonight is really the tipping point here. and what we saw in paul ryan apparently disinviting donald trump from a unity rally tomorrow, and his statement of blame and you know reince prieb priebus's statement, and he declared trump the victor of the primaries after indiana if you'll recall, with a tweet, and he's been at his side through thick and through thing, and tonight, he kind of left him out there dangling and what these republican leaders have done, is give republicans permission to wave good-bye to donald trump. and that is exactly what we saw from

consultant debate coach and communications strategist, bret o'donnell, and our chief political analyst, gloria borger. gloria, with paul ryan saying what he has said, is this just a sign he thinks it's impossible for donald trump to become president? >> i think it is. i think he's taking a look at the polls and you don't have to be a rocket scientist or speaker of the house to understand that this is all heading in a really bad direction for donald trump. and what he is doing and has been doing, quite frankly, is giving members permission to go their own way. because he doesn't want to lose control of the house, nor does he want republicans to lose control of the entire congress. and he got a little bit of push back on that from congressman in ruby red states, who feel like it's really in their benefit to be on the trump train, but i think it was very clear from what he was saying, it was like, each man for himself, here. you've got to do what you've got to do in order to save your own skin. >> james, if you look at the polling now, the first polls that have come out since the tape leaked on friday,

preston, and gloria borger with us. c corey this is a clip from 2014, by a reporter and trump biography, michael deantonio, audio obtained by cnn. >> i was a rebellious kind of person. i don't like to talk about it really. and a very set in my ways -- >> in eighth grade? >> i loved to fight. i always loved to fight. physical fight. >> arguments? >> all types of fights. i loved it, including fist fights. >> he's a fighter. we know that. he said he's a counter-puncher, but i'm wondering if that's a double-edge sword. he's been fighting with minorities, gold star parents, everyone s. th everyone. is that a double-edged sword? >> i want to fight for the underdog and make donald trump go out and make people proud again. what he's talked about is america first. let's have somebody fight for us for a change. >> my question, does he sometimes fight with the wrong people? you can't fight with everyone. >> you can't fight with everyone, but if he's elected president of the united states, i want him fighting putin, i want him figh

. >> joining me, phillip bumps, gloria borger and david gergen. >> he called donald trump a bottomlessked about a neediness they've sensed in him. i'm wondering what your reaction is to that. >> i think he's the most narcissistic political leader i can remember in american politics. he does have an obsession with winning and being adored. he wanted to be the center of attention. teddy roosevelt had some of that. they said of him in a he wanted to be the groom of a every wedding and deceased at every funeral. but he had all these compensatory qualities trump doesn't have. trump is not a deeply anchored man, we look for a sense of authenticity and values he's holds for a lifetime. i don't think he knows what his true north is. he's all sail and no anchor. >> gloria, you did a story on trump. trump's ex-wives said they're not sure if they even know the real trump. >> when i talk to people who have known him for 30 years and i would ask them who is donald trump's best friend and they would pause because they would never name themselves and they would pause and say to a person he doesn't ha

. >>> joining me now is gloria borger, associate editor and columnist for real clear politics ab stoddard and senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny. great to have all of you and and gloria i was watching you post game last night and in first with that suspense line from donald trump you said it. i thought you said it perfectly. it sounds like a game, like a reality tv producer would say, not something the man who wants to be the leader of the free world would say. >> >> it's about leadership and taking responsibility and -- for the outcome no matter what it is. sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. and i think donald trump today, brooke, tried to clean it up a little bit because -- first he made a joke and said i'll accept the outcome if i win but he also said i reserve the right to contest an election if the results are too close. well what happens in most states is that the secretary of states have a threshold and if it's less than that certain number in the state of florida in the year 2000, for example, it was less than -- it was a half percent and if it's within that range as

look, before gloria borger was saying the clinton advisors were going to add contacts to this, whichm going with they are probably accurate. she talks about free trade, more supportive of it than on the stump. talks more about wall street bankers than on the stump. does she need to address this tonight and how? >> i would expect that she will make her position, which is already clear. crystal clear. now based on new information, leaked documents, whatever the case will be. i can't imagine -- >> will she apologize? >> i don't know what she has to apologize for. >> for saying this to wall street and not to the people? >> you don't have the whole speech. listen tonight and you'll hear the whole thing. >> well, this also brings this up -- >> go to the website. >> do you hope that donald trump is someone different in private than he is in public? because if he is the same person from the tapes that just came out, that's a challenging picture. this gives you the hope of -- i think that obviously leads to -- nothing donald trump has done has cost american lives. we can't say that for hillar

gl gloria borger tells a story that has never been told before "almost president, the agony of defeatformer candidates, open up about their successes and failures in running for the highest office in the land. >> the governor, give us the word. >> what is difficult is going into a campaign and becoming extraordinarily focused day and day, speaking to large groups of people, getting to know individuals one-on-one, learning their experiences, dealing with the media. that's what is difficult. >> dealing with your mistakes. >> dealing with your mistakes. that's what is difficult. one of the interesting things about campaigns today, unlike probably 25 or 30 years ago, everything you say is being recorded. >> you try to become the perfect candidate. >> don't make any mistakes. be perfect. the funny thing, is everyonespo >> ds difficuit is difficult, ls an ordinary day. >> yeah, it is really hard for these candidates, because as mitt romney was saying, you're under the microscope every minute. and what was interesting to me was that all of these candidates in reflection were pretty honest ab

gloria borger finds out "the agony of defeat." >> poppy, hillary clinton and donald trump are lookingr. that's november 8th, election day. but for the one who loses, what happens the day after? just ask the romneys. >> all of the sudden, you're a joke. you're going to costco. >> costco is exactly where the romneys went. >> the refrigerator was bare. go to the market, get some food. >> there's a lot of tears. a lot of tears. >> it's very hard. it's a real heart wrenching experience to say, we didn't just get the job done. tens of thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people and you think, they cared. i wish we had succeeded for them and the country. >> i imagine hillary clinton or donald trump might feel the same way, although, poppy, i'm not sure i can picture either one of them in a costco parking lot. >> i was just going to say the same thing, gloria. watch it all tonight. 8:00 p.m. eastern right here. i'm poppy harlow in new york. i'll see you in an hour when donald trump is set to speak live in pennsylvania. we have a preview of what he's going to say. stay with us. smerco

chief political analyst gloria borger. our senior political analyst and former trump campaign manager. political analyst kirsten powers. andy dean and cnn political commentator. it is unusual for donald trump. he is now the underdog in the polls with this tape in every way. it's not situation that he is used to operating under. >> i think it's smart to come into these debates with surprises. something you say that's going to be, shape the commentary after the debate. from trump's point of view i would advise lihim to have a blanket apology not only for the tape but other things he will be nailed for. >> gloria was reporting if he apologizes for the tape, he'll bring up other issues. >> do it up front and cover all the things that may come that may reflect badly and talk about how he's changed man. obviously, she needs her chance to talk, but if she really wants focus on this, i'm going to bring up -- i don't want to bring it up but if she forces me i'm going to do it. >> so then it's okay. there's a scenario it's not bad t

let's talk a little bit about this with our political and legal analysts, starting with gloria borgerging could this be? >> well, politically, i think very damaging for hillary clinton, particularly at this late stage in the election for undecided voters who may be leaning republican but not so sure. but let's take a step back and try and understand what just happened here today. the fbi director set the house on fire and then walked out the front door without saying much of anything. and what he left in his trail were a lot of unanswered questions. if he had said in his original document, for example, that these e-mails came from huma abedin and did not come from hillary clinton, i wonder whether the explosion would have been as loud as it is right now. so what we're getting through evan and through pam are leaks saying yes, these weren't hillary clinton's e-mails, these were huma abedin's e-mails, clarifying a little bit. but i think what this begs is some kind of official notice from the fbi director about just what they know and what they don't know, because the rest is kind of ju

i also want to bring in our chief political analyst gloria borger and the polling institute patrick murray. a brand new monmouth national poll has just been released moments ago. hillary clinton widening her lead by 12 points among likely voters. patrick, how can trump close that gap nationally with, what, only 22 days to the election? >> yeah. i think the key we're seeing here with national polls coming out pup all conducted since the allegations from all of those women wednesday. the swing polls you talked about cnn just did, some of those interviews were done before that. polling out last week suggested that wednesday night was a real turning point. so those allegations i think have really given a lot of credence to what's going on here with what trump said in that tape. 62% of voters in our poll said that the allegations that these women are saying about donald trump are probably true, and i think that a lot of this has to go with a swing now that we're seeing in enthusiasm because of that. that the likely voter models are now starting to swing from helping donald trump to helping hill

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. >> gloria borger and mark preston, good evening. >> maybe the president will really say how he feels about donald trump. but welcome from las vegas. thank you so much, gloria. the debate is less than 24 hours away. donald trump is still talking about this rigged election. i want you to listen to him a short while ago at a rally in colorado. >> they even want to try and rig the election at the polling booths where so many cities are corrupt and vote are fraud is all too common and they say there's no voter fraud in our country. no, no, there's no voter fraud. take a look at st. louis, take a look at philadelphia, take a look at chicago. >> so gloria, he seems to be lumping -- first he said there is widespread voter fraud and critics are saying there is no voter fraud, but there's no evidence of wide scale voter fraud is the truth of it. it's just not true. why is he continuing to push this story and as the president is saying he's crying before he even finishes the game? >> well, you know, the rig the election has two-parts. first part is the media, which he says the media supports hi

joining me now, gloria borger, john king, and david gergen. er is designed to kind of be a break from the constant campaign back and forth for candidates. do you see that happening tonight, though? >> i sure hope so. i think we could all use it and i think they could use it if conversation this evening you've been having anderson, is very different from the conversations in the past. we're talking about, did they shake hands? we know they posed for pictures. but did they talk to each other? did they engage with each other? we haven't had those conversations in the past years, because it wasn't a question at all. and i think after last night's debate, in which donald trump called her, hillary clinton, a nasty woman and, you know, they got into it last night and she said, after the debate, that she was horrified about his charges that the election is rigged and that he might not accept the results. they have to sort of dig deep and get some great joke writers here to allow them to kind of get past that and show a little bit of humor. >> david, yo

we're here with gloria borger. events like this, the star power of michelle obama, is that what the clinton campaign needs right now to prevent complacency? >> absolutely. let's just say that michelle obama gets the surrogate of the year award, because she can bring out the crowds. it was a very big crowd there today. i think the first or second largest of the year. and she not only can get people motivated to vote, but her message today was very clear. she said, they are trying to convince you to stay home, that they are -- their strategy is to make this election so ugly that you won't want any part of it. so she kind of hit the voter suppression issue right on the head, and said to voters, in that important state, which is close, you cannot stay home anymore, and reminded people that in the year 2008, when her husband won that state, it was by 14,000 votes, which is two per district. so she can really drive that message home. and other surrogates can do the same. if hillary clinton doesn't get them enthused, they

back with us, gloria borger, david gergen. have you ever heard a candidate being booed at one of these? >> no, i've been trying to figure that out. have you ever heard booing at an al smith dinner, as we heard tonight, with donald trump? the answer is, i don't know for sure, but i don't think so. you know, at risk of sounding partisan, i must tell you, there was a real difference between the two. donald trump was very much himself, but he didn't seem to know the difference between being light-hearted and heavy-handed. and, you know, this is supposed to be a light-hearted kind of occasion. and he had several jokes that were sort of pretty tough jokes about her. you know, basically calling her corrupt, the e-mails shows that she pretends to like the catholic church and that sort of thing. he was -- i thought, particularly good when he talked about melania. that was very -- that was funny and humorous in the right spirit. but i think there was a reason the boos were there. and that was that he went over the line on several occasi

gloria borger is with us, and ryan liza is back, washington correspondent for "the new yorker." interesting to listen to jeff how hillary clinton is addressing it at the top of the rally. we also heard from josh earnest today, the press secretary at the white house. let me quote him. he says the president doesn't believe he, he, james comey, is secretly strategizing to benefit one candidate or one political party. he's in a tough spot. talk to me about the tough spot that the president's in because we know he's stumping four different times this week for hillary clinton. >> reporter: well, as josh earnest pointed out, there's a separation of powers here. and the president cannot tell somebody in the fbi or the justice department what to do. so, josh earnest was trying to thread the needle there. while he was saying they can't comment on it one way or another, he also made the point very deftly that there are certain norms they would hope are being adhered too. by certain norms, you know, reading into that, one of those norms would not be commenting on a political matter six days

with us gloria borger, and mark preston, executive eder of krp krn politics and ryan lizza and politicalmentator for the "new yorker" gloria, just there at this event, this luncheon event where he spoke. what emerged, bottom line, from what he had to say? >> not much. honestly, wolf. he was trying not to make news. they did an elaborate decoy, couldn't even grab him afterwards. interesting to me was that you've got these two ultimate universes here about a mile apart in washington. you have mitt romney talking to the chamber of commerce, which is not pro--trump. mitt romney being the original never trumper, extolling the virtue of american business and down the road at his own business at his new hotel at the post office you have donald trump talking about his business and himself and couldn't be two more different guys. before romney went onstage, about 15 or 20 minutes before he went onstage, he tweeted, be sure to head to the polls for republican senate and house and state houses. to advantage constitution conservati conservatism. he didn't say that on the stage to the house of commer

gloria borger and our panel, donald trump saying the election is rigged. dead people, undocumented immigrants are voting. how could this affect turnout? >> well, i think what he is trying to do is make his closing argument. and i think it is a strange one. but make his closing argument to his base of support. to get his supporters riled up that they need to get to the polls so that the election is not rigged against them. i think in another sense, what it could also do, and i think this worries the clinton campaign to some degree, is that it could affect their voters who might just say, the heck with this election. i am not going to go out and vote and brave polling places that might have some issues. and so you see that he has made a clear decision here, to appeal to his base and there is some feeling in the trump campaign that there are more people than we have polled and perhaps that could get him across the finish line. >> three weeks from today. we'll see. >> he also says, trump, and these are fighting words, that the election could be stolen in citie

gloria borger, 49% for hillary clinton, 44% for donald trump, can trump make it up over the next 14 days this election is not over. anything can happen. i think he needs -- it would be unprecedented in a way, but -- and he needs some kind of structural change to make this up. but there are a few things that caught my eye, wolf, in the internal of our polling. and these are his problems. temperament, 2-1 hillary clinton haste the temperament to be president. commander in chief question, who could be commander in chief, hillary clinton is up 15 points on the commander in chief. and then when you look at the demographics of the country, particularly college educated white voters, we've been talking about that a lot during this election. republicans have not lost with college educated white voters since 1956. keep that in mind. romney won those voters by six points. and trump is losing them by 11 points. so he's got to make in roads with college educated voters. and the way to do that is to talk about issues. not about himself so much. and his own problems about the issues, that might have s

i want to begin with gloria borger and mark mckinnon. i hard low recognize him without a hat. thank you both for joining us this even. let's cuss this. this is serious stuff. this is jessica leeds, accusing donald trump of assault. she was speaking to anderson cooper. >> he was grabbing my breast and trying to turn me towards him and kissing me. and then after a bit that's whene his hands started going -- i was wearing a skirt. and his hands started going towards my knee and up my skirt. and that's when i said i don't need this. and i got up. gloria, what she is describing is a scene in an airplane where donald trump allegedly attacked her 35 years ago. donald trump campaign calling her liar she is just looking for fame. what's your impression of her? >> my impression is she is a reluctant witnesses. she watched the debate on sunday night. she heard anderson cooper repeatedly press donald trump about the way he every behaved the way he bragged about may have beening on the notorious videotape and he said he didn't. what she describe is someone who held this and told some frien