heidi przybyla, tucker carlson, great to see you guys here in st. louis.on "mediabuzz," frank luntz on how the new trump and clinton bomb shells are changing the media climate and perhaps public opinion. [ crowd noise ] whoa. [ gears stopping ] when your pain reliever stops working, your whole day stops. try this. but just one aleve has the strength to stop pain for 12 hours. tylenol and advil can quit after 6. so live your whole day, not part... with 12 hour aleve. >>> when it comes to the fireworks we now expect at tonight's debate in st. louis, we turn to someone who has studied these things intensively, frank luntz. frank, this donald trump tape is very vulgar and very damaging and i don't think there's any debate about that, but does the tsunami of media stories, the endless replaying and reposting of the tape, does that amplify the impact on donald trump? >> it does, but this is what everyone is talking about, that if you take a look at twitter, if you look at facebook, google, instagram, everyone is talking about this presidential campaign. this is

. >> tonight im joined by nbc's andrea mitchell, and "usa today's" senior political reporter, heidi przybyla. andrea, give us a sense of this fight from both ends? >> reporter: first of all, the clinton team is feeling really energized. they're up in two polls now by nine and ten points in two separate polls in pennsylvania, which is their firewall. she's there today, appealing to suburban republican women in those bedroom suburbs of delaware county. and what they're going to try to do tonight is to have, excuse me, to have tim kaine go after mike pence on all of the things that donald trump has, they think, messed up on this week, opening up all of these issues, the taxes, as well as, of course, the women's issues. they think that he can, you know, prosecute that case against mike pence. pence, of course, they think, will be on the offensive, on the defensive, but pence is planning to go after clinton on her trust, on her reliability, and on those issues you heard donald trump bringing up today. so it's going to be quite a matchup, i think, these two very policy wonkish running mates, takin

joining us now, heidi przybyla, senior political reporter at usa today. guy benson, a fox news contributor, and krystal ball, a senior fellow at the new leaders council. these stories about trump and the women's accusations have utterly dominated the media. are news outlets going a bit overboard? >> there's no doubt we have gone full tabloid. i myself like a lot of americans thought i can't stand to watch that videotape one more time. the reason why is because the accounts of the women is almost hauntingly match what donald trump said he himself does to women, and also the sheer volume of the women who are now coming out. look, the american people -- >> trump, by the way, said it was locker room talk with billy bush 11 years ago. >> the american people say i want substance, a debate about the issues. i'm there with thel. i agree with them, but the problem is the history of our politics say we care about this stuff and care a laupt about it. i covered every gop campaign since 2000. if you ask gop voters what they hate most about the clintons. ritzit's the

heidi przybyla, interesting positions you're taking here. last night, trump fired up his base and did enough to stop the bleeding, i think, and clinton showed she can withstand trump's worst attacks. she was charming, she was happy, even when confronted with bill clinton's accusers. but a month ago before the election, it is a month after tomorrow, the race is very much hillary clinton's to lose. look at these numbers. plus, many women who watched last night's debate saw trump n engaging in the worst sort of gender politics, threatened to put her in jail, and fit into a larger pattern of punishing women. we just talked about that. cornell talked about those suburban women and how they're going to react to this punishing ordeal that hillary clinton's going through here. this is "hardball," the place for politics. g to make this as e as posblfor you. you can go ahead and stick with that complicated credit card that limits where you earn bus cash back. or... you can get the quicksilver card from capital one. quicksilver earns you unlimited 1.5%